Episodes

  • Album Club Pack August 2024

    Album Club Pack August 2024
    Aug 26 2025
    End of summer Album Clubs are the sleaze and scandal of W.A.S.P.'s debut, The Distillers' perfect punk rock Sing Sing Death House, Japandroid's celebrated Celebration Rock, and Watain split black metal opinion on The Wild Hunt.

    This episode was originally published August 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.
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    2 hrs and 22 mins
  • Hyperblasts: The Last Baron

    Hyperblasts: The Last Baron
    Aug 22 2025
    Sam reports from a hardcore fireworks show underneath a bridge in London, there's tracks from Joyce Manor, Conjurer, and Gaerea's continued surprising swerves into pop black metal, and we respond to the awful news of Brent Hinds' death. Hearts Alive, forever.

    Releases:
    Rise Against - Ricochet
    Joey Valance & Brae - HYPERYOUTH
    Justice for the Damned - Stay Relentless
    Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done
    Kerosene Heights - Blame It On The Weather
    Unleashed - Fire Upon Your Lands
    Baest - Colossal
    Castrator - Coronation of the Grotesque
    Panopticon - Laurentian Blue
    Panopticon - Songs of Hiraeth
    Phosphorus - Frail Grasp of Broken Hands
    Fell Omen - Caelid Dog Summer
    Firestarter - Still Holding On…
    Cult of Luna - Beyond III, IV, V
    Deftones - Private Music
    Pendulum - Inertia
    Three Days Grace - Alienation
    We Came as Romans - All is Beautiful… Because We’re Doomed
    Hot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still
    Dinosaur Pile-Up - I’ve Felt Better
    The World is a Beautiful Place & I’m No Longer Afraid to Die - Dreams of Being Dust
    really big really clever - …huh?
    Faced Out - At Eternity’s Edge
    Feuerschwanz - Knightclub
    Burning Witches - Inquisition
    Signs of the Swarm - To Rid Myself of Truth
    Arcadea - The Exodus of Gravity
    Malevich - Under a Gilded Sun
    Desaster - Kill All Idols
    Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence
    Zetra - Believe
    Fates Messenger - Eternal War
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Bloodstock Festival 2025 Review

    Bloodstock Festival 2025 Review
    Aug 15 2025
    TNM returns to a monster edition of Bloodstock Festival where Trivium, Machine Head, Gojira, Mastodon, Emperor, Nailbomb, Ministry, & more bring heavy metal to the fields of England once again.
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    3 hrs and 18 mins
  • Hyperblasts: The Fabulous Gruffalo

    Hyperblasts: The Fabulous Gruffalo
    Aug 7 2025
    There's gothy new AFI and even more dramatically new Davey Havok facial hair as we wonder who is really under there, and pay our respects to the sadly passed Erik Wunder behind the revolutionary USBM outlaws Cobalt.

    Releases:
    Babymetal - Metal Forth
    Halestorm - Everest
    Good Charlotte - Motel Du Cap
    Lord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 1
    As December Falls - Everything’s On Fire But I’m Fine
    Firstborne - Lucky
    Attack Attack! - Attack Attack! II
    Blackbraid - Blackbraid III
    Sinsaenum - In Devastation
    Asunojokei - Think of You
    Malthusian - The Summoning Bell
    Crypt Sermon - Saturnian Apprentices
    Aversions Crown - A Voice From the Outer Dark
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    34 mins
  • Hyperblasts: The Drummer Transfer Window

    Hyperblasts: The Drummer Transfer Window
    Jul 31 2025
    Musical drum stools strikes again, Dying Wish and Fleshwater set new records for the autumn, and the Poisoned Ascendancy shadiness raises its sassy head once again.

    Releases:
    Alice Cooper - The Revenge of Alice Cooper
    Post Animal - Iron
    Scalp - Not Worthy of Human Compassion
    Kontusion - Insatiable Lust for Death
    Nuovo Testamento - Trouble
    Fit for a King - Lonely God
    The Armed - The Future is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
    Fox Lake - New World Heat
    Hammer - Trapped
    Hedonist - Scapulimancy
    Kayo Dot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason
    Car Bomb - Tiles Whisper Dreams
    Saphir Levi - Follow Your Shadow
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    37 mins
  • Goodbye to Romance

    Goodbye to Romance
    Jul 24 2025
    We shake up the reviews with looks at plenty of smaller newcomer bands with TNM fave The Dirty Nil plus Blood Vulture, Psycho-Frame, Blind Equation, Crown of Anguish, Stangarigel, & Nuvolascura, and of course we do our best this week to speak to the seismic passing of the Prince of Darkness, heavy metal's hugest figure, Ozzy Osbourne.

    The Dirty Nil 46:49
    Blood Vulture 1:04:23
    Psycho-Frame 1:20:14
    Blind Equation 1:32:06
    Crown of Anguish 1:45:16
    Stangarigel 1:55:58
    Nuvolascura 2:05:20
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    2 hrs and 15 mins
  • Hyperblasts: 2000 Trees 2025 Review (& The Paul Ledney Glitterbomb)

    Hyperblasts: 2000 Trees 2025 Review (& The Paul Ledney Glitterbomb)
    Jul 18 2025
    TNM makes a long overdue return to 2000 Trees Festival to see Alexisonfire, Coheed and Cambria, the return of letlive., a massively contested slot from Kneecap, plenty more from punk rock spectrum, and in the same episode somehow, we face the great Profanatica jar controversy.

    Releases:
    Bring Me the Horizon - Lo-files
    Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway - Addicted to the Violence
    Bush - I Beat Loneliness
    Zac Farro - Operator
    Laura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes - Adventure Club
    Panic Shack - Panic Shack
    Blind Equation - A Funeral In Purgatory
    Stomach - Low Demon
    Ba’al - The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here
    Entrails - Grip of Ancient Evil
    Abigail Williams - A Void Within Existence
    Haunter / Cape of Bats - Black Magick Metal Punk
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    2 hrs and 49 mins
  • Hyperblasts: Back to the Beginning

    Hyperblasts: Back to the Beginning
    Jul 10 2025
    The biggest metal weekend of all time maybe arrives, with our impressions of Black Sabbath's Back to the Beginning and Ozzy's retirement party, plus trips to the return of Slayer in the UK.

    Releases:
    Split Chain - motionblur
    Calva Louise - Edge of the Abyss
    dead7 - Love What You Can While You’ve Still Got Something Left to Love
    Ward XVI - ID3NTITY
    Born of Osiris - Through Shadows
    Margarita Witch Cult - Strung Out In Hell
    Floating - Hesitating Lights
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    1 hr and 8 mins