That's Not Metal

TNM considers and salutes the careers of departing bands Sum 41 and Dark Fortress, looks at new music from Queens of the Stone Age, Thy Art is Murder, and 30 Seconds to Mars, asks whether Billy Corgan paying a ransom was worth it, and takes a brief look at the rising trend of AI music in metal.

Releases:
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
The Acacia Strain - Failure Will Follow
The Acacia Strain - Step Into the Light
DevilDriver - Dealing With Demons Vol. II
Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch
The Amity Affliction - Not Without My Ghosts
Veil of Maya - [m]other
Left to Suffer - Feral
Black Spiders - Can’t Die, Won’t Die
De Forbandede - Menneske
Island of Love - Island of Love
Omnerod - The Amensal Rise
Ascended Dead - Evenfall of the Apocalypse
Impetuous Ritual - Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis
Esoctrilihum - Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac
Grave Desecrator - Immundissime Spiritus

Bring Me the Horizon are still making music for Emo Girls, we check out Metallica's opening setlists for their No Repeats tour, put some venues to the sword in order to save Brixton Academy, and take the moment to assess who the best live band in the world is in 2023.

Releases:
Drain - Living Proof
Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous
Therapy? - Hard Cold Fire
Dave Lombardo - Rites of Percussion
Currents - The Death We Seek
Death Goals - A Garden of Dead Flowers
Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain
Enforcer - Nostalgia
Haunt - Golden Arm
Herod - Iconoclast
Shit Present - What Still Gets Me
Teeth - A Biblical Worship of Violence

September's Album Clubs see Anthrax making the Big 4 with Among the Living, Taking Back Sunday's Louder Now explosion, one of hardcore's most underloved albums in Gallows' self-titled, and ahead of deploying it at Damnation Festival Pig Destroyer's psychotic masterpiece Prowler in the Yard.

This episode was originally published September 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Hyperblasts weighs in on the calls for Brixton Academy's license to be permanently revoked, the Trophy Eyes moshing debate, and a stinky Beartooth track, as well as a jubilant trip to Paramore's UK leg of the This is Way tour.

Releases:
Enforced - War Remains
Cradle of Filth - Trouble and Their Double Lives
Dangerface - Be Damned!
The Damned - Darkadelic
Crown the Empire - Dogma
Vamachara - No Roses On My Grave
Mat Kerekes - You Look Like a Stranger
Dave Hause - Drive It Like It’s Stolen
Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations
Austere - Corrosion of Hearts
Wallowing - Earth Reaper
Lucifuge - Monoliths of Wrath
Swollen Teeth - Swollen Teeth

We're joined by one man speed metal machine James McBain of Hellripper for an Album Roulette talking through his early thrash metal loves, nuclear post-punk, iconic Maiden live albums, and why the Red Hot Chili Peppers are kvlt.


Toxic Holocaust - Evil Never Dies


Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Whose Buying!


Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magick


Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague


Beastmilk - Climax


Iron Maiden - Live After Death

It's time for us to undertake our hour deep dive review into the brand new Metallica record 72 Seasons, on top of the new Every Time I Escape Plan music, Foo Fighters & others, a talk about the increase of festival cancellations in the UK, and a glut of Metallica-themed questions to seal the deal.

Releases:
Poison Ruin - Harvest
Overkill - Scorched
Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance
VoidCeremony - Threads of Unknowing
Sól Án Varma - Sól Án Varma
The Infinity Ring - Nemesis & Nativity
Enter Shikari - A Kiss for the Whole World
Grave Pleasures - Plagueboys
Bell Witch - Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate
Portrayal of Guilt - Devil Music
The Smashing Pumpkins - Atum: Act Three
The St. Pierre Snake Invasion - Galore
Angus McSix - Angus McSix and the Sword of Power
Dorthia Cortrell - Death Folk Country
Tanith - Voyage
Sign Language - Madison & Floral
Oath of Cranes - The Unsung Mantras
Dawn of Ouroboros - Velvet Incandescence
Predatory Void - Seven Keys to the Discomfort of Being
Birdflesh - Sickness in the North
As Everything Unfolds - Ultraviolet
Brand of Sacrifice - Between Death and Dreams

If you're not all on Metallica... Toasting Balance and Composure's return, and reviews debate Enter Shikari, Bury Tomorrow, Grave Pleasures, a hardcore gauntlet of Jesus Piece, Enforced, & The Hirs Collective, and black metal opuses from Lamp of Murmuur and Dødheimsgard.

Enter Shikari 20:32
Bury Tomorrow 43:27
Grave Pleasures 1:09:07
Jesus Piece 1:29:24
Enforced 1:40:53
The Hirs Collective 1:49:57
Lamp of Murmuur 2:07:59
Dødheimsgard 2:24:08

Hyperblasts reviews new EPs from Scowl, Tribulation, and the split from Fit for an Autopsy, Thy Art is Murder, and Malevolence, and takes in news of Motley Crue's lawsuit, petty KISS drama, and Josh Klinghoffer's sky high self-confidence.

Releases:
Scowl - Psychic Dance Routine
Tribulation - Hamartia
Fit for an Autopsy/Thy Art is Murder/Malevolence - The Aggression Sessions
Powerwolf - Interludium
Rise of the Northstar - Showdown
The Nightmares - Séance
Mudhoney - Plastic Eternity
Worriers - Warm Blanket
healthyliving - Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief
Understand - Real Food At Last
Anthropophagous - Abuse of a Corpse
Midnight Betrothed - Death…My Faithful Bride
Sunrot - The Unfailing Rope
Lo! - The Gleaners

We've got a double review on Hyperblasts with the verdict on Fall Out Boy's supposed return to form So Much (for) Stardust and Depeche Mode's poignant Memento Mori, along with new music from Empire State Bastard and Portrayal of Guilt among others and totally topical hot button questions.

Releases:
Lamp of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm
OHHMS - Rot
Bury Tomorrow - The Seventh Sun
Gel - Only Constant
Lordi - Screem Writers Guild
City and Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near
Foxteeth - Through the Blue
Samiam - Stowaway
The Ongoing Concept - Again
Kingsmen - Bones Don’t Lie
Dead Lakes - Daydreamer
The Last In Line - Jericho
Demonstealer - The Propaganda Machine
Rotten Sound - Apocalypse
Allfather - A Violent Truth
Spirit Possession - Of the Sign…
Kommand - Death Age
Vredensdal - Sonic Devotion to Darkness
Aara - Triade III: Nyx
Attack Attack! - Dark Waves

The State of Unrest Tour with Lamb of God and Kreator finally gets done and dusted, as well as an arena show for Beartooth and a 40th anniversary blast for W.A.S.P., hip-hop delivers two very different takes on heavy metal, and we talk the worst festivals we've been to.

Releases:
Night Demon - Outsider
Kruelty - Untopia
Skourge - Torrential Torment
Foretoken - Triumphs
Verminous Serpent - The Malign Covenant
Hyperdontia - Deranged
Downfall of Gaia - Silhouettes of Disgust
Kamelot - The Awakening
Babymetal - The Other One
Dawn Ray’d - To Know the Light
Fall Out Boy - So Much (for) Stardust
Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
August Burns Red - Death Below
Ov Sulfur - The Burden ov Faith
The Bouncing Souls - Ten Stories High
The Hirs Collective - We’re Still Here
Gatekeeper - From Western Shores
Saxon - More Inspirations
Acid King - Beyond Vision
Liturgy - 93696
Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
Keep of Kalessin - Katharsis
Mork - Dypet
Shores of Null - The Loss of Beauty
Cruachan - The Living and the Dead
Ihsahn - Fascination Street Sessions
Softcult - See You in the Dark