That's Not Metal

It's a rock show extravaganza as we chat about one of the highest profile weeks for live heavy music in the UK ever with Deftones, Linkin Park, King Diamond, and Iron Maiden, as well as a sobering discussion of the fallout of Bob Vylan's appearance at Glastonbury and removal from Radar Festival. Releases: Higher Power - There’s Love In This World If You Want It Pig Pen - Mental Madness Dropkick Murphys - For the People Wytch Hazel - V: Lamentations We Lost the Sea - A Single Flower Stygian - Dreadlands Gaupa - Fyr

Outbreak returns in 2025 in a different guise, with a new site in London for a different kind of mass hardcore experience with sets from Turnstile, Sunny Day Real Estate, Speed, Model/Actriz, plus bonus appearances from Deafheaven and God's Hate. Releases: Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence Helms Deep - Chasing the Dragon Haggus - Destination Extinction Witherer - Shadow Without a Horizon Upon Stone - End Time Lightning Valdrin - Apex Violator Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services Heaven Shall Burn - Heimat Sodom - The Arsonist Blood Vulture - Die Close Johan Langquist - The Castle - Johan Langquist - The Castle King Witch - III Fer de Lance - Fires on the Mountainside Killing of a Sacred Deer - A Visage of a Mangled Body Greet Death - Die In Love All Men Unto Me - Requiem Inhuman Condition - Mind Trap Lord Belial - Unholy Trinity Shining - Divided You’ll Stand and United You’ll Fall Cosmic Joke - Forced Perspective Botch - 061524 Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums

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.