That's Not Metal

On the single biggest release week of the year we head down to Ghost kicking off the Skeletour here in the UK, Charli XCX officially declares it a Turnstile Summer, the original Alice Cooper band reunites after 52 years, and there's important updates about last week's Weezer movie announcement. Releases: Superheaven - Superheaven Melvins - Thunderball Lik - Necro Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution Tribunal - In Penitence and Ruin Heaven’s Gate - Tales from a Blistering Paradise Zeicrydeus - La Grande Heresie Ungraven - Hollows Made Homes In Their Sunken Cheeks XweaponX - Weapon X Demo 2 Employed to Serve - Fallen Star Inhuman Nature - Greater Than Death Ghost - Skeletá Machine Head - Unatoned Landmvrks - The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been Caliban - Back From Hell Wednesday 13 - Mid Death Crisis H.E.A.T. - Welcome to the Future Heart Attack Man - Joyride the Pale Horse Eluveitie - Anv Pagan Altar - Never Quite Dead Conan - Violence Dimension Sumac / Moor Mother - The Film BRUIT < - The Age of Ephemerality Cancer - Inverted World Caustic Wound - Grinding Mechanism of Torment Kardashev - Alunea Phantom - Tyrants of Wrath Venator - Psychodrome Hyena - About Rock and Roll Big Boy - Love Songs Profanatica - Wreathed In Dead Angels David Eugene Edwards & Al Cisneros - Pillar of Fire/Capernaum Cirith Ungol - Live at the Roxy

Reviews really hot up with some of the most hyped and acclaimed records of the year, some experiments from familiar faces, and some real underground crushers with Deafheaven, Scowl, Employed to Serve, Inhuman Nature, Messa, & Final Dose. Deafheaven 25:41 Scowl 57:31 Employed to Serve 1:20:33 Inhuman Nature 1:43:08 Messa 1:52:32 Final Dose 2:07:53

We cover some of the biggest, baddest, craziest Album Clubs there is: Thin Lizzy go studs and leather on Thunder and Lightning, Wintersun undergo an epic, farcical saga to create Time I, Palm Reader's raise UK hardcore's ambition on Beside the Ones We Love, and Agoraphobic Nosebleed's hellish 99 song chemical digi-grind Altered States of America. This episode was originally published March 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

The time comes to hold a funeral for one of our podcast's greatest villains You Me At Six as their reign of tyranny comes to an end assessing their end and legacy, Turnstile hit us with their first track of Never Enough, a bumper questions section talking the best metal solo artists and two album wonders, and announcing a particularly crunchy band special. Releases: Epica - Aspiral Cabal - Everything Rots Teen Mortgage - Devil Ultrasonic Dream Messa - The Spin Idle Heirs - Life is Violence Benthos - From Nothing In the Woods… - Otra Malphas - Extinct Final Dose - Under the Eternal Shadow Putrid Offal - Obliterated Life Ryoji Shinomoto - Children of Bushido The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades CBZK - Dybuctwo Angell - Veiled by Woe

Linkin Park release a new single but downgrade shows, Evanescence release 2025's hottest AMV, Midnight write an anthem for Cleveland Metal, and Danzig's in hot water for far right dogwhistles on merch. Releases: Scowl - Are We All Angels Bleed From Within - Zenith Thornhill - Bodies Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious Benediction - Ravage of Empires Tómarúm - Beyond Obsidian Euphoria Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens Rotting Christ - 35 Years of Evil Existence - Live in Lycabettus Balmora - Prologue Dynamite - Settle the Score Not Without Punishment - Blood Runs Cold