5 JUL 2024 · Outbreak Festival goes outdoors for an even bigger event, with sets from Have Heart, Basement, American Football, Thursday, Balance and Composure, The Hotelier, Poison the Well, & more. Releases: Scene Queen - Hot Singles In Your Area Crossfaith - ARK 200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures Anvil - One and Only Wraith - Fueled by Fear Love Letter - Everyone Wants Something Beautiful Pijn - On Low Beams of Hope Limbonic Art - Opus Daemoniacal Enter Shikari - Dancing on the Frontline Visions of Atlantis - Pirates II - Armada Orden Ogan - The Order of Fear Wormed - Omegon Vulvodynia - Entabeni Krallice - Inorganic Rites Xasthur - Disharmonic Variations

27 JUN 2024 · We catch up to give our take on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Nex Gen, albums from The Story So Far, Joey Valance & Brae, Candy, Umbra Vitae, Rotting Christ, & Julie Christmas, and take a trip to the movies for Ghost's Rite Here Rite Now film. Ghost 1:59 Bring Me the Horizon 31:08 The Story So Far 1:15:50 Joey Valance & Brae 1:29:47 Candy 1:43:00 Umbra Vitae 1:53:47 Rotting Christ 2:05:56 Julie Christmas 2:20:37

21 JUN 2024 · A huge live music summer continues with gigs galore but also the reports of drama, mismanagement, and poisoning coming out of Download Festival 2024. Releases: The Story So Far - I Want to Disappear Wage War - Stigma Kittie - Fire Alcest - Les Chants De l’Aurore earthtone9 - In Resonance Nexus Foreign Hands - What’s Left Unsaid Calcine - Common Love Common Nausea The Dangerous Summer - Gravity Sumac - The Healer Portrait - The Host Hyperdontia - Harvest of Malevolence Sarke - Endo Feight Kvaen - The Formless Fires Cavalera Conspiracy - Schizophrenia Black Veil Brides - Bleeders

14 JUN 2024 · The season of the big rock shows begins with Paramore supporting at The Eras Tour, double Metallica, Weezer + Pumpkins, as well as tonnes of new singles including big returns for Nails and The Black Dahlia Murder, and discussion of the Barclay's Boycott at Download Festival. Releases: Black Country Communion - V The Early November - Self-Titled Fu Manchu - The Return of Tomorrow Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose Lucifer’s Hammer - Be and Exist Rezn - Burden Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God Downfall of Mankind - Purgatory Malignancy - …Discontinued Embryonic Autopsy - Origins of the Deformed Groin - Paid In Flesh Fellwarden - Legend: Forged In Defiance

6 JUN 2024 · After last week's trip to Slam Dunk, we hop to the other side of the UK festival spectrum to the upcoming black metal event Fortress Festival, headlined by Triptykon and Wolves in the Throne Room and setting black metal at the beach. Releases: Bon Jovi - Forever Royal Republic - LoveCop Apocalyptica - Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2 Evergrey - Theories of Emptiness Joey Valance & Brae - No Hands Sect - Plagues Upon Plagues Candy - It’s Inside You Umbra Vitae - Light of Death Severe Torture - Torn from the Jaws of Death Torturers’ Lobby - Deadened Nerves Dysrhythmia - Coffin of Conviction Hippotraktor - Stasis Gurt - Satan Etc Ernte - Weltenzerstorer

31 MAY 2024 · We take a trip to 2024's Slam Dunk event, and Nile come out with the song title of the year. Releases: Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou Spiter - Enter the Gates of Fucking Hell Thou - Umbilical CHVE - Kalvarie Four Stroke Baron - Data Diamond The Hope Conspiracy - Tools of Oppression / Rule by Deception Rhapsody of Fire - Challenge the Wind Saltatio Mortis - Finsterwacht Cloven Hoof - Heathen Cross Bad Nerves - Still Nervous Bad Breeding - Contempt Hellbutcher - Hellbutcher Troops of Doom - A Mass to the Grotesque Shrapnel - In Gravity House by the Cemetery - The Mortuary Hauntings Haunted Plasma - I Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt Wormwood - The Star Graywave - Dancing in the Dust Exodus - British Disaster: The Battle of ‘89 (Live at the Astoria) Black Sabbath - Anno Domini 1989-1995

30 MAY 2024 · Def Leppard signal the dawn of the pop metal age with Pyromania, we evaluate if Fightstar's Grand Unification holds up, Comeback Kid make a modern hardcore classic Wake the Dead, and Autopsy set a bar for freakish death metal Mental Funeral. This episode was originally published April 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

27 MAY 2024 · May brings some of the biggest event releases in metal as we review Knocked Loose, Kerry King, Gatecreeper, Pallbearer, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, One Step Closer, Folterkammer, & Antichrist Siege Machine. 27:35 Knocked Loose 58:48 Kerry King 1:21:36 Gatecreeper 1:41:10 Pallbearer 2:00:36 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats 2:24:26 One Step Closer 2:39:41 Folterkammer 3:06:16 Antichrist Siege Machine

16 MAY 2024 · Live trips to Sick of It All and Green Lung, big new additions to Outbreak and Damnation's schedules, reactions to news of a certain controversial label signing, and more Steve Albini worship. Releases: Missiles - Weaponize Tomorrow Markgraf - Hohenbaden Kerry King - From Hell I Rise Gatecreeper - Darker Superstition Jasta - …And Jasta for All Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive Shellac - To All Trains One Step Closer - All You Embrace Rope Sect - Estrangement Nocturnus A.D. - Unicursal Pathology - Unholy Descent Tzompantli - Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force Bat - Under the Crooked Claw Goden - Vale of the Fallen Ufomammut - Hidden Botanist - Paleobotany Softcult - Heaven Civil Elegies - No Life

9 MAY 2024 · Today's episode is dedicated to Steve Albini, the patron saint of alternative music, architect of the 90s, engineer of some of our greatest works of art across five different decades, and one of TNM's true heroes. Releases: Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To Like Moths to Flames - The Cycles of Trying to Cope Powerman 5000 - Abandon Ship Kill II This - Variant Hot Water Music - Vows Indoor Pets - Pathetic Apathetic Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Nell’ Ora Blu Unleash the Archers - Phantoma Freedom Call - Silver Romance Anette Olzon - Rapture Sebastian Bach - Child Within the Man Arab Strap - I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍 Riot V - Mean Streets Flamekeeper - Flamekeeper Take Offense - T.O.tality Six Feet Under - Killing for Revenge Necrophagia - Moribundis Grim Red Rot - Borders of Mania