That's Not Metal

Muse beam back down to us with their new album announcement, along with music from Black Veil Brides, Stormkeep, and Dropkick Murphys/Haywire, there's a live report from deathcore central with Bodysnatcher, Ingested, Psycho-Frame and Big Ass Truck, and we pay tribute to Motörhead's second-longest serving member Phil Campbell.

Releases:
Poison the Well - Peace In Place
Exodus - Goliath
Gaerea - Loss
Filth is Eternal - Impossible World
Gladie - No Need to Be Lonely
Stainless - Lady of Lust and Steel
Egregore - It Echoes in the Wild
The Silver - Looking Glass Hymnal Blue
Gutvoid - Liminal Shrines
Mclusky - I Sure Am Getting Sick of this Bowling Alley
Annul Noir - Inexistence
Dropkick Murphys / Haywire - New England Forever

A curtain of biblical darkness falls upon Album Club in the unofficial Sabbath album The Devil You Know by Heaven & Hell, 16 Horsepower's dark country classic Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, Cave In's space rock leap Jupiter, and metalcore pioneers Integrity making their most no fucks given record Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume.

This episode was originally published March 2025 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

New singles from the likes of Gouge Away, Drug Church, and Devin Townsend hit our ears, epic metal heroes Eternal Champion surprise drop a bold and ambitious new EP, and there's hardcore drama cause when is there not?

Releases:
Lamb of God - Into Oblivion
Angus McSix - Angus McSix and the All-Seeing Astral Eye
Sweet Pill - Still There’s a Glow
Shoreline - Is This the Low Point or the Moment After?
UnityTX - Somewhere, In Between
Gong - Bright Spirit
Monstrosity - Screams from Beneath the Surface
No/Más - No Peace
Wolfbastard - Satanic Scum Punks
Transilvania - Magic Posthuma
Witchcraft - A Sinner’s Child
Eternal Champion - Friend of War

Basement, Blackbraid, and Portrayal of Guilt give us a diverse pack of new songs to chew in, questions on what is the greatest musical city and generationally phased out songs, and we respond to the news that industrial giants Godflesh are hanging up their live instruments for good.

Releases:
Rob Zombie - The Great Satan
Carpenter Brut - Leather Temple
The Gloom in the Corner - Royal Discordance
Nothing - A Short History of Decay
Final Gasp - New Day Symptoms
Matador - Above, Below and So
Harrowed - The Eternal Hunger
Possession - The Mother of Darkness
Necrofier - Transcend Into Oblivion
Erra - silence outlives the earth
Lost Society - Hell is a State of Mind
Whiplash - Thrashquake
Surfbort - Reality Star
Temple of Void - The Crawl
Bosse-de-Nage - Hidden Fires Burn Hottest
Vreid - The Skies Turn Black
Blackbraid - Nocturnal Womb
Black Stone Cherry - Celebrate
Moon Tooth - Bastard
Nailed Shut MA - A Promise Made, A Promise Kept

This month brings us one of the most daunting, monolithic, and outlandish reviews bags we've ever had, as we tackle Converge, Sylosis, Mayhem, Worm, Pony, Cryptic Shift, Hällas, and Killing Pace. Slap on your spacesuit, we're adventure rocking.

Converge 27:36
Sylosis 56:02
Mayhem 1:12:56
Worm 1:30:33
Pony 1:43:00
Cryptic Shift 1:52:40
Hällas 2:12:10
Killing Pace 2:30:20

Party time at TNM: the mythical drought comes to an end, alongside new tracks from the Foo Fighters and Don Broco/Nickelback and grand line-up unveilings from Arch Enemy and Nevermore.

Releases:
Sylosis - The New Flesh
New Found Glory - Listen Up!
Killing Pace - HCPM
Exhumed - Red Asphalt
Coscradh - Carving the Causeway to the Otherworld
The Magus - Daemonosophia
Lead Injector - Witching Attack

Hyperblasts is back to cover what we missed from the Grammys, UK live shows from Home Front to Korpiklaani, Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry's collab single, and the discussion around While She Sleeps' video announcement for their stepping back from touring.

Releases:
Hällas - Panorama
Softcult - When a Flower Doesn’t Grow
Karnivool - In Veses
Puscifer - Normal Isn’t
Tailgunner - Midnight Blitz
Tumour - Human Salvage
Uncultivates - This Will Become Clear Later, Like the French Revolution
Mayhem - Liturgy of Death
Night of the Vampire - The Enchanting Winds of the Dreamweaving Masquerade
Kanonenfieber - Soldatenschicksale
Power Snatch - EP1
Afraid to Die - Hell is a Place In My Mind
Predatory Void - Atoned In Metamorphosis
Infinite Misery - Altar of Extracted Teeth
Converge - Love is Not Enough
TX2 - End of Us
Angel Du$t - COLD 2 THE TOUCH
Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx IV
Pony - Clearly Cursed
Yakkie - Kill The Cop Inside Your Head
Worm - Necropalace
Fossilization - Advent of Wounds
Guilt Trip - God Forgives

Looking back at the records January gave us we give an honest assessment of the final album from Megadeth, alongside Kreator, Urne, Møl, Joyce Manor, The Ruins of Beverast, and Backengrillen. Thanks for all the riffs, MegaDave.

Megadeth 20:11
Kreator 1:06:31
Urne 1:22:47
Møl 1:38:35
Joyce Manor 1:49:44
The Ruins of Beverast 2:02:15
Backengrillen 2:14:11

TNM talks bands we would have introduced to ourselves at an earlier age, a breadth of new tracks from Def Leppard, Exodus, Immolation and Haggard Cat, and Cryptopsy take to the UK with 200 Stab Wounds for 30 years of None So Vile.

Releases:
Megadeth - Megadeth
Poppy - Empty Hands
Crystal Lake - The Weight of Sound
Textures - Genotype
The Damned - Not Like Everybody Else
Backengrillen - Backengrillen
Barbarian - Reek of God
Ligation - After Gods

2025 Album Clubs come from the land where the mullet attacks: Sabaton's Swedish concept album Carolus Rex, Hatebreed's hardcore benchmark Satisfaction is the Death of Desire, Visigoth's dungeon-keeping The Revenant King, and Family Force 5 give us Business Up Front/Party in the Back.

This episode was originally published January 2025 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.