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Jan 12, 2024 · 58 min
Hyperblasts: Baring All In 2024
That's Not Metal is back for the first episode of 2024 covering the big news from the beginning of the year, announcement straight away of the year's first special, plus a big thank you. Releases: Peyton Parrish - Soul Sprints - Letter to Self Gray...
Dec 24, 2023 · 4 hr 28 min
TNM Awards 2023
Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the house... The TNM Awards hit back crowning the heroes and villains, menaces and marvels of 2023: Most Improved Band Song of the Year Worst Song of the Year Hero of the Year Villain of the Year Best...
Dec 18, 2023 · 3 hr 30 min
TNM Albums of the Year: Round 2
The second load of That's Not Metal Albums of the Year come from Mark and Sam, and crucially in a year of some of the most divisive albums we announce the results of the listener AOTY poll.
Dec 10, 2023 · 3 hr 15 min
TNM Albums of the Year: Round 1
The end of the year at TNM is nigh; it's time to cut the ribbon and begin crowning our top 20 albums, as Perran and Elliot start off with all of the great musical colour and invention that has graced our ears in 2023.
Nov 30, 2023 · 52 min
Hyperblasts: Death Rider at the Table of Turkey
News show close for 2023 with acknowledgement of the passing of Killing Joke's Geordie Walker, before turning to more new music from ex-Black Peaks members and Video Nasties, and some very exciting Glenn Danzig news. Releases: Future Static -...
Nov 24, 2023 · 3 hr
Blasted Caskets & Fallon Gallons
The final reviews bag of 2023 is a brilliant one, with loads of late year contenders: The Gaslight Anthem, Green Lung, Dying Wish, NOBRO, Autopsy, Wayfarer, Underdark, & Malokarpatan. The Gaslight Anthem 24:45 Green Lung 50:42 Dying Wish 1:11:20...
Nov 17, 2023 · 55 min
Hyperblasts: When We Were What Are You Doing
When We Were Young pulls an insane choice, Slipknot drummer rumours abound, and live reports from Creeper and future Download headliners Queens of the Stone Age among others. Releases: Dolly Parton - Rock Star High Spirits - Safe on the Other Side...
Nov 13, 2023 · 3 hr 4 min
Hyperblasts: Damnation Festival 2023 Review
We were fully back on the ground for this year's Damnation Festival (41:12) to see sets from Anaal Nathrakh, Electric Wizard, Enslaved, Akercocke, and many more of the best in underground and extreme. Bonus on Download and Grammys whinging. Releases:...
Nov 3, 2023 · 43 min
Hyperblasts: Magic the Blathering
Spiritbox release their new Fear of Fear EP, and there are conundrums about the ethics of contriving "viral moments" at shows with Frozen Soul's Magic the Gathering pit and Blink-182 recreating the Denny's hardcore meme Releases: Green Lung - This...
Oct 27, 2023 · 1 hr
Hyperblasts: MorticTok
Green Day threaten us with a new album, there's the out of nowhere news of Mike Portnoy's return to Dream Theater, and Mortician become the unlikeliest social media stars of all time. We TOLD you. Releases: Within Temptation - Bleed Out Myrkur -...
Oct 23, 2023 · 3 hr 17 min
Horny Girl Destruction World Stuff
This month we feast upon the new albums from Creeper, The Menzingers, Blink-182's nostalgic reunion, Svalbard, Kristin Hayter, Primordial, Maggot Heart... and Roger Waters redoing Dark Side of the Moon. Creeper 26:20 The Menzingers 1:01:40 Blink-182...
Oct 12, 2023 · 37 min
Hyperblasts: Many Lovers
Sam catches a double helping of Better Lovers, and Sick New World announces its lineup for 2024. Releases: Creeper - Sanguivore The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True Beartooth - The Surface Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. Twin Temple...
Oct 5, 2023 · 1 hr 37 min
Hyperblasts: Code Orange The Above and Harms Way Common Suffering Reviews
This week we review two new albums from bands who have changed the modern sonic make-up of hardcore in Harm's Way's industrial brutality Common Suffering, and Code Orange's latest (divisive as always) piece of their ongoing conceptual evolution as...
Oct 1, 2023 · 2 hr 9 min
Album Club Pack September 2023: Damnation Special
Our September Album Club Pack is a Damnation Fest special as we look at four diverse records from heavy history being showcased at this event: Leprous' prog majesty Coal, Unearth's Oncoming Storm, Deadguy's deranged Fixation on a Coworker, and...
Sep 29, 2023 · 1 hr 12 min
Hyperblasts: Nothing Can Ever Just Be Nice
Some weeks just get overrun by drama: Thy Art is Murder's quite unbelievable decision to replace the vocals on their album in a week has the extended discussion that such a subject warrants, Bloodstock complete their 2023 headliners, and there's an...
Sep 22, 2023 · 3 hr 13 min
Rainforest Corey
In the busiest month of the year TNM reviews Corey Taylor, Baroness, Sylosis, Blood Command, Kvelertak, Empire State Bastard, Cannibal Corpse, & Hexvessel, toast the achievements of the departing Dawn Ray'd, and ask... WHO did Stef Carpenter tell...
Sep 15, 2023 · 48 min
Hyperblasts: Nickelback-Massacre Alliance
Nickelback and Massacre both draw conversational lines in the sand, and While She Sleeps release a new track that goes full... something. Releases: 30 Seconds to Mars - It’s the End of the World But It’s a Beautiful Day Corey Taylor - CMF2 Baroness -...
Sep 8, 2023 · 44 min
Hyperblasts: A Fronzilla Moratorium
Sleep Token have to call out impersonators and we call out "presidential bid" publicity stunts. Also a week of gig reports from Hot Mulligan/Spanish Love Songs, The Story So Far, Dawn Ray'd, and Full of Hell/Antichrist Siege Machine. Releases:...
Sep 4, 2023 · 2 hr 15 min
Album Club Pack January 2023
The Album Club Pack is back for a second year as we look at Linkin Park's experimental A Thousand Suns, Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese, the sleeper crossover influence of Iron Age's The Sleeping Eye, and cower beneath the unreachable pinnacle of...
Sep 1, 2023 · 1 hr 2 min
Hyperblasts: Goblins & Cowboys
Job for a Cowboy finally release new music, Trivium hit the UK for their second tour of the year highlighting cuts from Shogun, and we talk the completed Damnation Festival bill and the bands we'd pay the most for. Releases: Holding Absence - The...