That's Not Metal

We discuss Download Pilot, genre purity, and fictional universes, reviews are of Rise Against, Red Fang's noisy new record and Boss Keloid's odd prog, and Album Club is on one of the most individual metal bands of the 2000s with Nevermore's This Godless Endeavour.

New music from Turnstile, Times of Grace & more, the news that David Ellefson is out of Megadeth, and it's a bumper reviews week racing from punk to black metal to darkwave to deathcore with Noctule, Perturbator, Kaonashi, Fiddlehead, Dödsrit and Mental Cruelty.

UK metal upstarts Vexed, The Devil Wears Prada's Zombie II and Jess & the Ancient Ones are reviewed, there's new Green Day and discussion of how music livestreams might persevere, and an extended edition Album Club goes into Entombed's debut classic Left Hand Path.

Reviews plug into the scene with SeeYouSpaceCowboy and If I Die First's split, Manchester Orchestra and Bala, questions on affectionate blind spots for insufferable artists, and Album Club is Slash's rock jukebox with his first solo album.

TNM glams up for a review of the legend Van Weezer, plus Salem II and Evile, questions hair metal's legacy in rock's mainstream credibility and what it means to be dated, and examines another insane glam genre crossover with Blessed by a Broken Heart's Pedal to the Metal.

The long-awaited return of Gojira is here, along with reviews of Royal Blood and Capra, Album Club is swallowed up by Neurosis' legendary Through Silver In Blood, and minds are lost at Darkthrone calling an album "Eternal Hails......"

It's a bumper reviews week hitting every emotion, tackling Greta van Fleet, The Offspring, a sonic revolt from The Armed and a stirring swansong from Bodom After Midnight, Mudvayne reunite, and Weezer play their orchestral OK Human show.

The week's reviews are While She Sleeps, Holding Absence and Amigo the Devil, there's new Salem and a consideration of the news that Faust will be performing with Emperor again, Album Club is Cobalt's drunken Americana rage with Gin, and Dave Grohl helps out the elderly.

Cannibal Corpse continue to blow our minds with Violence Unimagined, fellow reviews are for Devil Sold His Soul and GHLOW, it's a packed questions week, and Album Club recognises 10 years of the Foo Fighters' Wasting Light.

Architects get orchestral, releases from Citizen, Wode and Godspeed You! Black Emperor get reviewed, and Album Club weighs up where .5: The Gray Chapter fits into Slipknot's sound in a post-WANYK world.