That's Not Metal

We're at August Album Clubs with an early 2010s selection of The Gaslight Anthem's derided Get Hurt, Sylosis' thrash ambition on Edge of the Earth, Trap Them defining Entombedcore on Darker Handcraft, and assessing the impact of Infant Annihilator's meme deathcore The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution.

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

Avenged Sevenfold finally break their musical silence, we dissect Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Metal Songs list, and reviews tackle Babymetal, Zulu, Periphery, Suicide Silence, Judiciary, Dawn Ray'd, and OHHMS.

Babymetal 49:48
Zulu 1:07:24
Periphery 1:28:08
Suicide Silence 1:48:51
Judiciary 2:11:13
Dawn Ray'd 2:22:30
OHHMS 2:39:13

The electronicore scene is fractured by Blessed by a Broken Heart dramatically returning to the scene calling out Electric Callboy for supposedly stealing their sound. Who will prevail?! We also saw Napalm Death with Barney (slightly) consigned to a chair, talk our dalliances with the slam scene, and about Funeral for a Friend doing a Casually Dressed tour, again.

Releases:
Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
Periphery - Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre
Suicide Silence - Remember… You Must Die
Judiciary - Flesh + Blood
Meet Me @ The Altar - Past // Present // Future
Manchester Orchestra - The Valley of Vision
Story of the Year - Tear Me to Pieces
Nanowar of Steel - Dislike to False Metal
Gorod - The Orb
Fluisteraars - De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel - I - Harslo

New music from Svalbard and Cradle of Filth, Avenged Sevenfold teasing through social media "hacks", a trip to Obituary and Conjurer's London show, and trying to pick four of the deathcore new breed.

Releases:
Can’t Swim - Thanks But No Thanks
Zulu - A New Tomorrow
Enslaved - Heimdal
Haken - Fauna
Full of Hell & Primitive Man - Suffocating Hallucination
Viscera - Carcinogenesis
Entheos - Time Will Take Us All
Necropanther - Betrayal
Sortilège - Apocalypso
Fake Names - Expendables
.gif from god - Digital Red

Architects call for a band strike on venue merch cuts, Frozen Soul release their first Matt Heafy-produced cut, and a lengthy report on Gojira's arena tour with Alien Weaponry and Employed to Serve and theorising on how far they might go.

Releases:
Avatar - Dance Devil Dance
Graphic Nature - A Man Waiting to Die
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land of Sleeper
Man Must Die - The Pain Behind It All
Ulthar - Anthronomicon / Helionomicon
Cult of Fire - Om Kali Maha Kali
Host - IX
Naut - Hunt
Going Off - What Makes You Tick?
Hundred Reasons - Glorious Sunset
Godsmack - Lighting Up the Sky
Dope - Lovesong
Steel Panther - On the Prowl
Insomnium - Anno 1696
Lovebites - Judgement Day
Megaton Sword - Might & Power
Big|Brave - Nature Morte
Death Pill - Death Pill
Venomous Concept - The Good Ship Lollipop

July Album Clubs look at the victory of one of heavy metal's patron saints Dio's Holy Diver, the most ripped off pop punk album of the decade Under Soil and Dirt by The Story So Far, the psychological horror metalcore splurge of Norma Jean's Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child, and examines bluegrass and worker's solidarity in black metal with Panopticon's Kentucky.

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

The superb new Paramore record tops February reviews with In Flames, Hellripper, Sanguisugabogg, Narrow Head, Naut, Host, and Going Off in tow, as well as Unto Others b-sides, lost Linkin Park songs, and Code Orange's ARG remix album.

Paramore 37:30
In Flames 59:54
Hellripper 1:16:12
Sanguisugabogg 1:27:06
Narrow Head 1:41:38
Naut 1:51:52
Host 2:00:02
Going Off 2:11:16

The results of the 2023 Grammys are discussed with a particularly poor showing for Rock & Metal, with the problems of treating categories like lifetime achievement awards and valueing genre tourism over homegrown acts, and we pay respects to one of our favourite alt punk bands Camp Cope.

Releases:
Paramore - This is Why
You Me At Six - Truth Decay
Pierce the Veil - The Jaws of Life
Narrow Head - Moments of Clarity
Delain - Dark Waters
Klone - Meanwhile
Stormo - Endocannibalismo
Frozen Dawn - The Decline of the Enlightened Gods
Oak - Disintegrate

The Prince of Darkness announces his touring retirement, Slipknot and Year of the Knife surprise drop new music on us, Zara Larsson pulls an oopsie! with her choice of questionable band merch, and we try to drill into the intrinsic appeal of a skeleton.

Releases:
In Flames - Foregone
Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy
Memoriam - Rise to Power
Fvnerals - Let the Earth Be Silent
Calderum - Lord Cramridor
Torso - A Crash Course In Terror

News absolutely boots off with discussion of Pantera being removed from various festival lineups in Europe, Panic! At the Disco calling it quits, and a barrage of bizarre and questionable new music arrives from The Xcerts, Ghost ft Joe Elliot, power metallers dropping diss tracks, and... David Ellefson and Violent J covering Faith No More. Give us strength.

Releases:
Maneskin - Rush
New Found Glory - Make the Most of It
Riverside - ID.Entity
Tidal Wave - The Lord Knows
Imperium Dekadenz - Into Sorrow Evermore
Nothingness - Supraliminal
Deiquisitor - Apotheosis
Tribunal - The Weight of Remembrance
Dryad - The Abyssal Plain
Grief Symposium - …In the Absence of Light
Fucked Up - One Day
White Reaper - Asking for a Ride
Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar
Oozing Wound - We Cater to Cowards
…And Oceans - As in Gardens, So in Tombs
Bizarrekvlt - Den Tatpe Krigen
Trastorned - Into the Void
Freeroad - Do What You Feel!
The Lucid - Saddle Up and Ride