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March 27 · 2 hr 39 min
NeurIsis Lives
TNM March reviews bag just catches the most brain-breaking, beautiful return as Neurosis emerge with a whole new album, alongside another return from Poison the Well, Lamb of God, Gaerea, Hellripper, Aggressive Perfector, Mallavora, & Sweet Pill....
March 20 · 51 min
Hyperblasts: Big Ass WOW!
Muse beam back down to us with their new album announcement, along with music from Black Veil Brides, Stormkeep, and Dropkick Murphys/Haywire, there's a live report from deathcore central with Bodysnatcher, Ingested, Psycho-Frame and Big Ass Truck,...
March 17 · 2 hr 51 min
Album Club Pack March 2025
A curtain of biblical darkness falls upon Album Club in the unofficial Sabbath album The Devil You Know by Heaven & Hell, 16 Horsepower's dark country classic Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, Cave In's space rock leap Jupiter, and metalcore pioneers Integrity...
March 13 · 50 min
Hyperblasts: Eternal Synth Champions
New singles from the likes of Gouge Away, Drug Church, and Devin Townsend hit our ears, epic metal heroes Eternal Champion surprise drop a bold and ambitious new EP, and there's hardcore drama cause when is there not? Releases: Lamb of God - Into...
March 6 · 1 hr 4 min
Hyperblasts: Godspeed, Godflesh
Basement, Blackbraid, and Portrayal of Guilt give us a diverse pack of new songs to chew in, questions on what is the greatest musical city and generationally phased out songs, and we respond to the news that industrial giants Godflesh are hanging up...
February 28 · 2 hr 39 min
Caped Cryptic Cosmic Adventure Rock
This month brings us one of the most daunting, monolithic, and outlandish reviews bags we've ever had, as we tackle Converge, Sylosis, Mayhem, Worm, Pony, Cryptic Shift, Hällas, and Killing Pace. Slap on your spacesuit, we're adventure rocking....
February 20 · 53 min
Hyperblasts: AFI Watch... Is Over?
Party time at TNM: the mythical drought comes to an end, alongside new tracks from the Foo Fighters and Don Broco/Nickelback and grand line-up unveilings from Arch Enemy and Nevermore. Releases: Sylosis - The New Flesh New Found Glory - Listen Up!...
February 13 · 1 hr 9 min
Hyperblasts: The Fate of the Sleeps
Hyperblasts is back to cover what we missed from the Grammys, UK live shows from Home Front to Korpiklaani, Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry's collab single, and the discussion around While She Sleeps' video announcement for their stepping back from...
February 2 · 2 hr 25 min
Explosion on Blue Planet
Looking back at the records January gave us we give an honest assessment of the final album from Megadeth, alongside Kreator, Urne, Møl, Joyce Manor, The Ruins of Beverast, and Backengrillen. Thanks for all the riffs, MegaDave. Megadeth 20:11 Kreator...
January 23 · 42 min
Hyperblasts: None So Vile as the Leppard
TNM talks bands we would have introduced to ourselves at an earlier age, a breadth of new tracks from Def Leppard, Exodus, Immolation and Haggard Cat, and Cryptopsy take to the UK with 200 Stab Wounds for 30 years of None So Vile. Releases: Megadeth...
January 20 · 2 hr 40 min
Album Club Pack January 2025
2025 Album Clubs come from the land where the mullet attacks: Sabaton's Swedish concept album Carolus Rex, Hatebreed's hardcore benchmark Satisfaction is the Death of Desire, Visigoth's dungeon-keeping The Revenant King, and Family Force 5 give us...
January 16 · 46 min
Hyperblasts: Gorerotting the Well
New album singles from Poison the Well, Lamb of God, and Static Dress keep 2026 starting up, along with a killer first band announcement from Damnation Festival, and announcement of our first Patreon special for 2026. Releases: Kreator - Krushers of...
January 9 · 39 min
Hyperblasts: 2026, Let's Cook
TNM usher in the new year with hopes, questions and predictions for 2026, and some familiar faces already poking their heads above the parapets for the year ahead. Releases: Ulver - Neverland Fuath - III Woe - Legacies of Human Frailty Paleface Swiss...
Dec 23, 2025 · 4 hr 48 min
TNM Awards 2025
Right before Christmas our last bash for 2025 is TNM Awards looking back over the highs and lows, the stories, the icons, the presidents, and the circuses that made the year in rock music what it was: Most Improved Band Song of the Year Worst Song of...
Dec 16, 2025 · 3 hr 41 min
TNM Albums of the Year 2025: Round 2
Our second go of albums of the year for 2025 with Sam and Mark celebrating records from hair metal to hardcore, and your results for the TNM listener poll as we see who's bringing it home in a year filled with past winners and big dog contenders.
Dec 8, 2025 · 3 hr 10 min
TNM Albums of the Year 2025: Round 1
2025 Album of the Year time begins on That's Not Metal, with our first lists from Perran and Elliot celebrating everything from synth-punk to goth-doom, power-goregrind to jazz-death, post-metal to metalcore, legendary rock icons to grimy dungeon...
Nov 28, 2025 · 45 min
Hyperblasts: A Blast of Bloody Valentine
This week we've got reports from My Bloody Valentine's first shows since 2018 as we see one of the loudest bands in the world, reaction to Alissa White-Gluz being out of Arch Enemy, and we tell you how to get involved in our 2025 end of year shows....
Nov 22, 2025 · 2 hr 37 min
Vamping at the Disco
2025's final reviews is a crazy bag of disco mania with Creeper's Sanguivore II, Pupil Slicer, Drain, Astronoid, Home Front, Lamp of Murmuur, and Master's Hammer, bid farewell to Svalbard on tour, a new single from Converge, and about half an hour...
Nov 14, 2025 · 3 hr 13 min
Damnation Festival 2025 Review
The UK's biggest dedicated extreme music fest at Damnation Festival goes bigger than ever for its 20th anniversary with a bonkers two day line-up featuring Corrosion of Conformity, Napalm Death, Deafheaven, Perturbator, Anaal Nathrakh, Amenra,...
Nov 7, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min
Hyperblasts: Monster Mashing Marmozets
It's that week in November where every big festival announces their lineup so we assess the bills of Download, Outbreak, 2000 Trees, & Slam Dunk 2026, Turnstile come through Ally Pally, and finally one of the UK's great rock bands Marmozets return...