That's Not Metal

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Feb 7, 2025 · 1 hr 22 min
Hyperblasts: Poisoned Ascendancy Sabbaganza
A bumper edition of Hyperblasts sees Trivium & Bullet for My Valentine embark on the Poisoned Ascendancy tour, Cattle Decapitation & Shadow of Intent also co-headline, Gojira win a Grammy, Courtney LaPlante wins the Grammys, and oh yeah Black...
Jan 31, 2025 · 34 min
Hyperblasts: The Sh*t ov Whom?
Some of 2025's first heavy hitting singles arrive all at once from Deafheaven, Behemoth, Poison the Well, & also Bring Me the Horizon cover Wonderwall for some reason. Releases: Dax Riggs - 7 Songs for Spiders Vukovi - My God Has Got a Gun...
Jan 25, 2025 · 2 hr 20 min
Fix Your Hearts or Die
Our first TNM reviews of 2025 hit the runway with The Night Flight Orchestra, Wardruna, The Halo Effect, The Great Old Ones, Trauma Bond, & Grief Ritual, and we pay tribute to one of the greatest left-field artists and dreamers of all time David...
Jan 21, 2025 · 3 hr 8 min
Album Club Pack January 2024
Album Club returns to start 2024 after a few months away with a bumper episode, setting the record straight on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Survival Horror, destroying orcs with 3 Inches of Blood's Advance and Vanquish, Joyce Manor's...
Jan 17, 2025 · 24 min
Hyperblasts: Exodus Swapping
Hints of a Nine Inch Nails world tour, uncertainty in the SeeYouSpaceCowboy camp, Exodus swap their old singers again, and SpiritWorld go full cowboy. Releases: Eidola - Mend Grave Digger - Bone Collector Tokyo Blade - Time is the Fire Trauma Bond -...
Jan 10, 2025 · 42 min
Hyperblasts: In Twenty Twenty Five
We're back for 2025 looking to our hopes and goals for the year ahead, announce our first 2025 special, get a first batch of promising to stupid new singles, and yet another reunion. Releases: Patriarkh - Prophet Ilja Paleface Swiss - Cursed...
Dec 21, 2024 · 4 hr 34 min
TNM Awards 2024
For our last show before Christmas we arrive at the TNM Awards for 2024, as we gather to end the year with the successes, stories, downfalls and villain arcs that defined the year in heavy: Most Improved Band Song of the Year Worst Song of the Year...
Dec 13, 2024 · 3 hr 9 min
TNM Albums of the Year 2024: Round 2
We round off the best rock and metal albums of 2024 with lists from Sam and Mark, plus the all important and really incredibly great this year listener poll from all of you to really see who gets crowned.
Dec 6, 2024 · 3 hr 6 min
TNM Albums of the Year 2024: Round 1
The That's Not Metal Albums of the Year for 2024 begins, with Perran and Elliot giving their lists of so much that the best in metal, the underground and beyond had to offer.
Nov 29, 2024 · 2 hr 53 min
Stop Yelling At Me
Our final reviews bag of 2024 happens to feature the biggest rock comebacks of the year and underground heroes, with Linkin Park, The Cure, Opeth, Better Lovers, Many Eyes, Tribulation & Neon Nightmare getting discussed. Linkin Park 31:45 The...
Nov 22, 2024 · 1 hr 4 min
Hyperblasts: Like It's Her Birthday
2025 singles really start coming with Spiritbox, Architects, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, and Coheed and Cambria, W.A.S.P. go full mental, and we talk the "bad" albums we got into bands on. Releases: Opeth - The Last Will and Testament Body Count...
Nov 15, 2024 · 1 hr 14 min
Hyperblasts: Sepultura's Last Dance, & Download Headliners
We hit that point of the year where we have Grammy nominations and Download headliners to either complain about or debunk complaints about, and a mega live review as Sepultura's farewell tour finally arrives on UK shores. Releases: Linkin Park - From...
Nov 8, 2024 · 2 hr 55 min
Hyperblasts: Damnation Festival 2024 Review
We once again convene for a review of the UK’s biggest underground event at Damnation Festival and witness legendary returns from Dragged Into Sunlight, Nails, Cradle of Filth, Bleeding Through, Inter Arma, and so many other TNM faves absolutely...
Nov 1, 2024 · 1 hr 7 min
Hyperblasts: Halloween Hangs
We convene on Halloween night to talk yet more big reunions at big American rock festivals, the news that Ithaca are calling it a day, and give the definitive answer on whether bands wearing their own shirts is cool or not and whether we're too...
Oct 28, 2024 · 2 hr 25 min
Album Club Pack August 2023
We face some of our toughest Album Club challenges yet: Matchbox 20's Ken anthems Yourself or Someone Like You, ponder how Attila's About That Life achieved some kind of longevity, cheer originality in hardcore on Twitching Tongues' In Love There is...
Oct 25, 2024 · 3 hr 34 min
Into the Stargate
We convene for conversations on 2024's most monolithic potential landmark records, reviewing Blood Incantation, Undeath, Balance and Composure, High Vis, Touché Amoré, Oranssi Pazuzu, and Chat Pile, as well as scratching our heads at festival clues...
Oct 19, 2024 · 2 hr 24 min
Album Club Pack October 2024: Damnation Special
On this Album Club episode we return to the scene of the crime to again preview some of the must-see sets at this year's Damnation Festival: Cradle of Filth's old school origins with The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, Ne Obliviscaris' Citadel,...
Oct 11, 2024 · 1 hr 24 min
Hyperblasts: John Lydon & the Rattlesnakes
We've got a big catch-up chat talking about Sam's trip to a Tokyo hardcore show, tours from Orange Goblin, Cannibal Corpse, and Frank Carter fronting the Sex Pistols, leading into a discussion of the surprising news around The Rattlesnakes calling a...
Oct 2, 2024 · 2 hr 53 min
The Kingston & Lennon Show
Autumn releases arrive with the album for the season, a huge return, and several much hyped debuts to assess, from Unto Others, The Black Dahlia Murder, Nightwish, Zetra, Heriot, Vended, Vicious Blade, & The Jesus Lizard. Unto Others 21:45 The...
Sep 29, 2024 · 2 hr 19 min
Album Club Pack July 2023
Album Club is back with Slayer's sunset on their imperial era Seasons in the Abyss, My Bloody Valentine's shoegaze starting gun Loveless, a comprehensive look back on the divisive effect of Cancer Bats' Searching for Zero, and Blood Incantation's...