That's Not Metal

A glut of huge hardcore storms TNM reviews with albums from Turnstile, Malevolence, Stray from the Path, Kaonashi, Deadguy (& Hexvessel, not very hardcore), and Nine Inch Nails kick off their incredible Peel It Back arena production. Turnstile 34:18 Malevolence 1:18:45 Stray from the Path 1:39:00 Kaonashi 1:57:44 Deadguy 2:18:16 Hexvessel 2:35:50

TNM returns from a week off with a cross continent double fest report as we hit up Yorkshire's Fortress and Poland's Mystic Festival, seeing every band under the sun from Agalloch to Ulcerate, W.A.S.P. to King Diamond, Bullet to Beherit. Releases: Turnstile - Never Enough Volbeat - God of Angels Trust Kaonashi - I Want to Go Home Orthodox - A Door Left Open View From the Soyuz - Ubiquitous Katatonia - Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State King Parrot - A Young Persons Guide To Gruesome - Silent Echoes Gaahl’s Wyrd - Braiding the Stories Autumn Nostalgie - Metanoia Austere - The Stillness of Dissolution Dimscûa - Dust Eater Buckcherry - Roar Like Thunder Fallujah - Xenotaph Hexvessel - Nocturne Dolven - In My Grave…Silence letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful Revisited Sigh - I Saw the World’s End - Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World Queens of the Stone Age - Alive in the Catacombs Metallica - Load (Remastered)

A bumper Album Club dissection as Mötley Crüe go horribly wrong on Generation Swine. Crossfaith's electronicore captures a moment on Zion, Have Heart's melodic hardcore landmark Songs to Scream at the Sun, and Suffocation invent/perfect brutal death metal with Effigy of the Forgotten. Brandon. We love you. This episode was originally published May 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Sam is lured back to the UK's pop punk home for Slam Dunk 2025 and has to think long and hard about Electric Callboy, and we doff our caps to Svalbard's decision to drop the curtain on a decade plus career as one of the UK's favourite heavy bands. Releases: Skunk Anansie - The Painful Truth Midnight - Steel, Rust and Disgust Thus Spoke Zarathustra - I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time for Others’ Harm Home Is Where - Hunting Season Witchcraft - Idag Witchrot - Soul Cellar Year of No Light - Les Maitres Fous Hellcrash - Inferno Crematorio Sexmag - Sexorczym Chepang - Jhyappa Ossuary - Abhorrent Worship …And Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary Magus Lord - In the Company of Champions House of Protection - Outrun You All MSPAINT - No Separation Crowquill - Crowquill Swans - Birthing Garbage - Let All That We Imagine Be the Light Stray from the Path - Clockworked Desolated - Finding Peace The Haunted - Songs of Last Resort Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil Vildhjarta - Där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar KUSANAGI - Paramnesia Planning for Burial - It’s Closeness, It’s Easy Cwfen - Sorrows Grin - Acid Gods Coltsblood - Obscured Into Nebulous Dusk Trivax - The Great Satan Svartsyn - Vortex of the Destroyer Obsidian Tongue - Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn Lord Vigo - Walk the Shadows Vader - Humanihility Wormrot - TNT

In a month that saw two no. 1 metal albums, we go through 2025's biggest reviews gauntlet with Ghost, Machine Head, Behemoth, PUP, The Callous Daoboys, Model/Actriz, Age of Apocalypse, & Sijjin. Ghost 30:52 Machine Head 1:17:32 Behemoth 1:42:36 PUP 2:06:43 The Callous Daoboys 2:21:42 Model/Actriz 2:47:50 Age of Apocalypse 3:00:55 Sijjin 3:14:07