That's Not Metal

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Oct 31, 2025 · 1 hr 23 min
Hyperblasts: Halloween Hagar Horror
For Halloween we take the time for some horror movie questions including our pitch for a 2025 Freddy vs Jason, discuss Dogma's fracturing and Megadeth choosing to cover Metallica on their final album, live trips to Common Thread and Igorrr with...
Oct 23, 2025 · 2 hr 5 min
Post-Black Mahna Mahna
With autumn chill in the air we plunge into a stacked October reviews bunch of new AFI, Thrice, Miltarie Gun, Conjurer, Perturbator, Sanguisugabogg, Tribal Gaze, & Agriculture. AFI 24:01 Thrice 47:28 Militarie Gun 59:04 Conjurer 1:11:12...
Oct 17, 2025 · 1 hr 16 min
Hyperblasts: Parkway Incantation Take the World
Perran and Mark catch up to talk about some of 2025's massive event tours with both Parkway Drive and Blood Incantation blazing trails to put on some of modern metal's most ambitious shows. Releases: All Time Low - Everyone’s Talking! Sabaton -...
Oct 9, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
Hyperblasts: Quizzing with Megadave
We're drowning in news with Oathbreaker and Rush both coming back, Alex Bent stepping out of Trivium, Bleeding Through & Darkest Hour hitting the UK, and a slew of new metal songs from Lamb of God, Ice Nine Kills, and Megadeth revealing their...
Oct 3, 2025 · 2 hr 7 min
Album Club Pack October 2025: Damnation Special
For this week's show Album Club returns with an eye once again on this year's Damnation Festival with Warning's monument of misery Watching from a Distance, Wormrot's early 10s grind detonation Dirge, Devil Sold His Soul's innovative post-metalcore A...
Sep 25, 2025 · 1 hr 24 min
Hyperblasts: Biffy Clyro Futique and Dying Wish Flesh Stays Together Reviews
This week we top up our last reviews show with Biffy Clyro's first album in four years Futique and Dying Wish's bleaker kind of metalcore Flesh Stays Together, along with a trip to Brighton's D.I.E. Fest and discussion of Watain's three year plan of...
Sep 19, 2025 · 2 hr 19 min
Under a Serpent Sun
Lorna Shore, Fleshwater, Scorpion Milk, La Dispute, Modern Life is War, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, & Die Spitz albums get tackled, Jupiter and The Opposite of December get toured across the UK, but with another crushing blow to metal we also try to...
Sep 11, 2025 · 35 min
Hyperblasts: Systems, Queens & Baths
Turnover's 10 Years of Peripheral Vision tour hits the UK, Poppy, Amy Lee, & Courtney LaPlante put out "Lady Marmalade for goths", and System of a Down unveil one hell of a stadium run with a particular choice of opener. Releases: Lorna Shore - I...
Sep 4, 2025 · 2 hr 38 min
10 Years Of TNM, What Are The Chances
It's our birthday! This week That's Not Metal turns 10, and to celebrate this crazy crazy milestone, we get misty-eyed dialling it back to the first ever episodes of TNM to look at the albums that launched this podcast and track our decade through...
Aug 28, 2025 · 2 hr 23 min
Private Music in the Drunken Dragon
In our end of summer reviews we give the verdict on new albums from Deftones, Dinosaur Pile-Up, The World is a Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid to Die, Pool Kids, Malthusian, Faced Out, and brave a trip into the Knightclub with Feuerschwanz....
Aug 26, 2025 · 2 hr 22 min
Album Club Pack August 2024
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...
Aug 22, 2025 · 1 hr 14 min
Hyperblasts: The Last Baron
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,...
Aug 15, 2025 · 3 hr 18 min
Bloodstock Festival 2025 Review
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.
Aug 7, 2025 · 34 min
Hyperblasts: The Fabulous Gruffalo
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...
Jul 31, 2025 · 36 min
Hyperblasts: The Drummer Transfer Window
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...
Jul 24, 2025 · 2 hr 15 min
Goodbye to Romance
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...
Jul 18, 2025 · 2 hr 48 min
Hyperblasts: 2000 Trees 2025 Review (& The Paul Ledney Glitterbomb)
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...
Jul 10, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
Hyperblasts: Back to the Beginning
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...
Jul 4, 2025 · 1 hr 50 min
Hyperblasts: Revenge of the Stoff
It's a rock show extravaganza as we chat about one of the highest profile weeks for live heavy music in the UK ever with Deftones, Linkin Park, King Diamond, and Iron Maiden, as well as a sobering discussion of the fallout of Bob Vylan's appearance at...
Jun 26, 2025 · 1 hr 35 min
Hyperblasts: Outbreak Festival 2025 Review
Outbreak returns in 2025 in a different guise, with a new site in London for a different kind of mass hardcore experience with sets from Turnstile, Sunny Day Real Estate, Speed, Model/Actriz, plus bonus appearances from Deafheaven and God's Hate....