That's Not Metal

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Aug 24, 2022 · 2 hr 3 min
Album Club Pack February 2022
Album Club Pack returns for Round 2, landing a hard rocking grunge classic in Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, The Defiled's independent industrial metalcore debut Grave Times, a 2010s alt rock cornerstone in Basement's Colourmeinkindness, and an extreme...
Aug 22, 2022 · 2 hr 34 min
Bloodstock Festival 2022 Review
A lot later than intended due to the small matter of needing a whole new microphone, but finally the That's Not Metal review of Bloodstock Festival 2022 is here! Perran is joined by Elliot Paisley to talk the UK heavy metal event headlined by...
Aug 12, 2022 · 33 min
Hyperblasts: Mille Palmeri
The first new music from Fugitive featuring members of Power Trip and Creeping Death is here, with Ozzy and Iommi appearing at the Commonwealth games, and trying to reach for what are the worst albums we still secretly love. Releases: Arch Enemy -...
Aug 5, 2022 · 45 min
Hyperblasts: Botch Please
There's festival news around the world from Music Midtown's gun-caused cancellation to theorising on the identity of Bloodstock's first ever secret band, picking what bands would be on a TNM tour in 2022, and we cast our eyes over the clues that...
Aug 2, 2022 · 1 hr 44 min
Oceans of Slumber Album Roulette
On the eve of their new album release we're joined by Cammie Gilbert of Oceans of Slumber to talk about Louisiana sludge, classic Seattle, turbulent Americana and Scandinavian folk-pop. Agents of Oblivion - Agents of Oblivion Alice In Chains -...
Jul 29, 2022 · 29 min
Hyperblasts: Curse of the Chilis
A heavy rock band are actually up for the Mercury Music Prize for once, we pick the best riffs of 2022 and the best songs to test your headphones with, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are back at it again. Releases: Ithaca - They Fear Us Dune Rats...
Jul 22, 2022 · 56 min
Hyperblasts: The Bedazzled Knot
It's time for one of modern metal's great traditions, the lowdown on a full new Slipknot era with reactions to new album, new songs and new masks. There's also a contentious new A Day to Remember single coming out of the You're Welcome cycle, as well...
Jul 19, 2022 · 2 hr 30 min
Album Club Pack January 2022
Album Club has a brand new home, giving you a month's worth of classic records in one swoop as our first episode positions Enter Shikari's A Flash Flood of Colour as the springboard for their next ten years, unearths Porcupine Tree's information age...
Jul 15, 2022 · 2 hr 58 min
TNP (That's Not Pantera)
Incredibly dense and rich albums populate reviews with a returning Porcupine Tree, Conjurer, Greg Puciato, Ithaca, Imperial Triumphant, Blood Command, Wormrot, and Oceans of Slumber, but news that Pantera are "reuniting" seems maddest of all....
Jul 8, 2022 · 37 min
Hyperblasts: The Munson Effect
Having made Kate Bush the most popular artist on planet Earth, we talk about the Stranger Things train lifting Metallica's Master of Puppets to similar heights, as well as the best metalhead character in popular media in years. Releases: Wormrot -...
Jul 1, 2022 · 1 hr 51 min
Hyperblasts: Outbreak Festival 2022 Review
This week's Hyperblasts also sees a full review of last weekend's Outbreak Festival, where an arena-sized crowd signed mosh waivers to leap off stages for the likes of Turnstile, Knocked Loose, Deafheaven, & Vein.fm in what turned out to be a landmark...
Jun 24, 2022 · 48 min
Hyperblasts: The Fast Volta
Reports from the first Nine Inch Nails UK shows in 4 years as well as SeeYouSpaceCowboy..., the first new music in a decade from The Mars Volta, new Megadeth, and a surprise Spiritbox banger heading up a wealth of new music, and one of the most...
Jun 17, 2022 · 46 min
Hyperblasts: What's the Point of Steve Aoki?
Perran and Mark consider the news of a four day Download next year, the loss of The Pit/Lock Up stage at Reading & Leeds, the pros and cons of growling kids on talent shows, and a bunch of new tracks including a return to form In Flames and Steve Aoki...
Jun 10, 2022 · 2 hr 3 min
On & On & On & On
Returning from Slam Dunk weekend, Alexisonfire's comeback album and another stormer from Kreator head up reviews with Bleed From Within, Coheed and Cambria, Joyce Manor, Final Light, Astronoid, & Nervus. Alexisonfire 22:31 Kreator 41:38 Bleed...
Jun 3, 2022 · 37 min
Hyperblasts: The Autopsy Pit
Perran's joined by guest Mark Sandison to talk about the feral action going down at Maryland Deathfest, Bring Me the Horizon's throwback Malta set, new tunes from Amon Amarth and Panic! At the Disco, but mainly the feral action going down at Maryland...
May 26, 2022 · 44 min
Hyperblasts: Go Forth and Furby Flip
Milton Keynes' transport network is sent into meltdown by a bunch of emos as My Chemical Romance, Mayhem, and Elton John (not on the same bill) saw a crazy Saturday night. With this episode though we salute Alec Chillingworth, who takes his leave from...
May 20, 2022 · 46 min
Hyperblasts: MCR Did It The Madmen
As My Chemical Romance surprise us with their first new song, there's more talk of deathcore bands sneaking in Euro-metal with Lorna Shore's new track, charlatans selling the wrong rock artists at the Eurovision Song Contest, attempts to dodge flying...
May 13, 2022 · 2 hr 17 min
Try to Be As Cool As Trevor Strnad Was
Some potential break-out records and long-awaited works populate May reviews with Ibaraki, Malevolence, Static Dress, Cave In, Puppy, Septicflesh, and Casket Feeder, but first, after the heartbreaking news we remember the wonderful Trevor Strnad....
May 6, 2022 · 42 min
Hyperblasts: Literal Tool Watching
The mystery of Rammstein's possible fake tour dates has us scratching our heads, Suicide Silence make a blast return to their roots, and we talk about versatile vocalists, our personal most important hardcore bands, and question what it could take to...
Apr 28, 2022 · 1 hr
Hyperblasts: Rammstein Zeit Review
This week's Hyperblasts sees our review of Rammstein's dramatic and diverse new album Zeit swiftly coming through the pandemic with more actual music, along with all the usual news antics. Releases: Watain - The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain Devil...