February Album Clubs look at Fall Out Boy's initial send-off Folie a Deux, Kreator's proto-extreme masterpiece Pleasure to Kill, the oft brushed over Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent from Refused, and a decade of Beastmilk's last post-punk party at the end of the world Climax.

This episode was originally published February 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

February reviews on TNM pop the hell off with Chelsea Wolfe, Alkaline Trio, Ihsahn, Job for a Cowboy, Darkest Hour, Spectral Voice, Hulder & Slope, and reactions to the bamboozling news of Slayer's return and Ascendancy + The Poison tours.

Chelsea Wolfe 57:00
Alkaline Trio 1:23:40
Ihsahn 1:39:18
Job for a Cowboy 2:01:12
Darkest Hour 2:19:57
Spectral Voice 2:35:21
Hulder 2:55:38
Slope 3:09:25

Hyperblasts checks out the new single from Pearl Jam, tours from Malevolence and The Menzingers, and very exciting headliner announcements from Outbreak and Damnation.

Releases:
Idles - Tangk
Blackberry Smoke - Be Right Here
Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head
Ihsahn - Ihsahn
Bokassa - All Out of Dreams
Profiler - A Digital Nowhere
Shooting Daggers - Love & Rage
GVLLOW - Twin Flames
The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow
Praise the Plague - Suffocating in the Current of Time
Darkspace - Dark Space -II
Pestilength - Solar Clorex

Kerry King is back on the scene with all of the details surrounding his first album since Slayer, as well as some spicy interview snippets, and there's huge tours on both sides of the Atlantic. The Grammys also exist.

Releases:
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Yellowcard + Hammock - A Hopeful Sign
The Chisel - What a F*cking Nightmare
The Pineapple Thief - It Leads to This
The Last Ten Seconds of Life - No Name Graves
Haystack - Doomsday Goes Away
Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell
Spectral Voice - Sparagmos
Hulder - Verses In Oath
Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light
Petrification - Sever Sacred Light
Zwielicht - The Aphotic Embrace
Theophonos - Ashes in the Huron River
Hannes Grossmann - Echoes of Eternity

A mega edition of Hyperblasts finds TNM conducting a critical reflection on the legacy of YMAS with the news of their impending farewell, a moment you either feared would come or never come. There's also crazy new music in the form of Kaonashi's new EP, and some crazy choices in the form of Download's stage splits.

Releases:
Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - Dark Rainbow
Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
The Infernal Sea - Hellfenlic
Olhava - Sacrifice
Unsouling - Vampiric Spiritual Drain
Knoll - As Spoken
Eye Flys - Eye Flys
Junta - Junta
Death Killer - Total Destruction of the Entire Universe
Mountain Caller - Chronicle II: Hypergenesis
GUHTS - Regeneration
Slower - Slower
Caligula’s Horse - Charcoal Grace
Madder Mortem - Old Eyes, New Heart
Vitriol - Suffer & Become
Cognizance - Phantazein
Whitechapel - Live in the Valley
Dream State - Still Dreaming
Kaonashi - The 3 Faces of Beauty: A Violent Misinterpretation of Morgan Montgomery
Militarie Gun - Life Under the Sun
Jesu - Hard to Reach
Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology
Being as an Ocean - Death Can Wait
Reconciler - Art for Our Sake
meth. - Shame
Utopia - Shame
Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize
Myrath - Karma
Striker - Overpower
Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal
Dwarrowdelf - The Fallen Leaves
Stages of Decomposition - Raptures of Psychopathy
Ghoul - Noxious Concoctions
Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I

One of the most farcical yet often great review gauntlets opens TNM 2024, with efforts from Green Day, Neck Deep, Saxon, Lucifer, Upon Stone, Rough Justice... and Lord of the Lost's 90 minute cover album.

Green Day 3:35
Neck Deep 34:19
Lord of the Lost 52:08
Saxon 1:18:19
Lucifer 1:41:15
Upon Stone 1:55:35
Rough Justice 2:13:36

New Year Hyperblasts continue with an in-depth report from Bring Me the Horizon's Nex Gen tour with Bad Omens, Cassyette, and Static Dress, representing a state of the address at the start of 2024.

Releases:
Green Day - Saviors
Neck Deep - Neck Deep
Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation
Upon Stone - Dead Mother Moon
Lord Dying - Clandestine Transcendence
Slift - Ilion
Kontact - Full Contact
Master - Saints Dispelled
Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory
Vemod - The Deepening
Sexual Perverts - Sex Maniac…Forever
Heavy Sentence - Warriors of Madness

That's Not Metal is back for the first episode of 2024 covering the big news from the beginning of the year, announcement straight away of the year's first special, plus a big thank you.

Releases:
Peyton Parrish - Soul
Sprints - Letter to Self
Gray State - Under the Wheels of Progress
Haywire 617 - Conditioned for Demolition
Rejoice - All of Heaven’s Luck
Cancer Christ - God is Violence
Svdestada - Candela
Casey - How to Disappear
Rough Justice - Faith In Vain
Ryujin - Ryujin
Neal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph: Part Two
Alluvial - Death is but a Door
Lifesick - Love and Other Lies
Extinction A.D. - Ruthless Intent
Escuela Grind - DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL

Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the house... The TNM Awards hit back crowning the heroes and villains, menaces and marvels of 2023:
Most Improved Band
Song of the Year
Worst Song of the Year
Hero of the Year
Villain of the Year
Best New Band
Biggest Disappointment
Gig of the Year
EP of the Year
Artwork of the Year
Movie of the Year
Comeback of the Year
Surprise of the Year
Outstanding Achievement
Worst Band of the Year
Unsung Heroes
Story of the Year
Band of the Year

The second load of That's Not Metal Albums of the Year come from Mark and Sam, and crucially in a year of some of the most divisive albums we announce the results of the listener AOTY poll.