18 APR 2024 · Prayers are answered as news hits of letlive. returning to play a round of shows, Thursday release their first song in 13 years, Frank Turner attempts the impossible, and live reports from Blind Guardian and Midnight. Releases: Pearl Jam - Dark Matter The Ghost Inside - Searching for Solace SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup de Grace NOFX - Half Album Cloud Nothings - Final Summer High On Fire - Cometh the Storm My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding Melvins - Tarantula Heart Dvne - Voidkind Bongripper - Empty Big | Brave - A Chaos of Flowers Dool - The Shape of Fluidity Henrik Palm - Nerd Icon Haust - Negative Music Couch Slut - You Could Do It Tonight Nuclear Tomb - Terror Labyrinthian Antichrist Siege Machine - Vengeance of Eternal Fire Folterkammer - Weibermacht Hekseblad - Kaer Morhen unpeople - unpeople

11 APR 2024 · Architects release a new single in collaboration with Jordan Fish, but there is also an elephant in the room we have to discuss. Elsewhere Bloodywood get a big movie moment, music from Century Media's new signing Sonja, and questions on negative review pushback and our favourite foot in mouth band moments. Releases: Blue Öyster Cult - Ghost Stories Castle Rat - Into the Realm Týr - Battle Ballads Riot V - Mean Streets Vulture - Sentinels Heavy Temple - Garden of Heathens Tarot - Glimpse of the Dawn Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers Heavenly Blue - We Have the Answer Whores. - War. Love Sex Machine - Trve Necrot - Lifeless Birth Benighted - Ekbom Exist - Hijacking the Zeitgeist Replicant - Infinite Mortality Heresiarch - Edifice Northlane - Mirror’s Edge

4 APR 2024 · We polish off March's releases with a bonus review ep covering While She Sleeps' continued bizarre choices of experimentation in Self Hell and Sum 41's parting note of a double album Heaven :x: Hell. Releases: Bob Vylan - Humble as the Sun Feeder - Black/Red Alpha Wolf - Half Living Things ERRA - Cure Filth - Southern Hostility Strung Out - Dead Rebellion Bayside - There are Worse Things Than Being Alive Cock Sparrer - Hand On Heart Korpiklaani - Rankarumpu Ingested - The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams Hour of Penance - Devotion Iron Monkey - Spleen & Goad Friends of Hell - God Damned You to Hell Destroyer of Light - Degradation Years Horndal - Head Hammer Man Attic - Return of the Witchfinder Witch Vomit - Funeral Sanctum Funeral Leech - The Illusion of Time Diabolic Oath - Oracular Hexations Locrian - End Terrain Austere - Beneath the Threshold The Good The Bad and the Zugly - Decade of Regression Dreamcar - Dream

2 APR 2024 · Album Club toasts 20 years of AFI's goth punk masterpiece Sing the Sorrow, revisits one of the last big supergroups and the era it ended with Axewound's Vultures, and celebrates two underground punk and grind gems with Fall of Efrafa's Owsla and Genghis Tron's Dead Mountain Mouth. This episode was originally published March 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

29 MAR 2024 · We scheme the best ways to survive being a member of Slipknot and FMK with baddiecore, as the Summer Slaughter is confirmed to return, and Botch's reunion/final shows hit the UK in mindblowing style. Releases: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night Crushed By Waves - More to Life Blanket - Ceremonia Restorations - Restorations Mastiff - Deprecipice BRAT - Social Grace Zombi - Direct Inject Hamferd - Men Guds hond er sterk Khold - Du dommes til Dod Brodequin - Harbinger of Woe Hideous Divinity - Unextinct Apparition - Disgraced Emanations from a Tranquil State Civerous - Maze Envy Aberration - Refracture Sylvaine - Eg Er Framand While She Sleeps - Self Hell Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell Boundaries - Death is Little More Wristmeetrazor - Degeneration Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet Vial - Burnout Teens In Trouble - What’s Mine Coffin Storm - Arcana Rising Mutiilation - Black Metal Cult Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star Verwoed - The Mother Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness Darkestrah - Nomad Coffins - Sinister Oath Hate Force - Systems of Terror Septage - Septic Worship (Intolerant Spree of Infesting Forms)

22 MAR 2024 · That's Not Metal reviews for March are in absolute guitar heaven, and maybe hell, with Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Midnight, Gouge Away, Chapel of Disease, & Dödsrit. Judas Priest 23:30 Bruce Dickinson 55:35 Midnight 1:24:56 Gouge Away 1:40:20 Chapel of Disease 1:58:20 Dödsrit 2:23:24

15 MAR 2024 · One of the biggest weeks for heavy touring in the UK peaks with a podcast-wide trip to Napalm Death's Campaign for Musical Destruction with Pig Destroyer, Primitive Man, and Wormrot, coming with sadly some sombre news from the PD camp. Releases: Kid Kapichi - There Goes the Neighbourhood Scott Stapp - Higher Power The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards Gouge Away - Deep Sage Bleak - My Body is Not Where I Belong DragonForce - Warp Speed Warriors Savage Oath - Divine Battle Vltimas - Epic Aborted - Vault of Horrors Necrophobic - Into the Twilight Grey Udåd -  Udåd O ZORN! - Vermillion Haze Greywind - Antidote Comeback Kid - Trouble

8 MAR 2024 · Hyperblasts brings a report from London's Celestial Darkness Festival checking out rare bookings in the worlds of black, doom, & goth and sets from the likes of Primordial, Tribulation, & Ihsahn, and salute a formative band for TNM as Palm Reader announce their farewell. Releases: Judas Priest - Invincible Shield Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond Myrath - Karma Kill the Lights - Death Melodies Midnight - Hellish Expectations Gost - Prophecy Exhorder - Defectum Omnium Skeletal Remains - Fragments of the Ageless Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished Merrimack - Of Gravity and Grace Isenordal - Requiem for Eirênê

1 MAR 2024 · The biggest piece of Slipknot drummer rumouring yet, some absolutely blistering tracks from Knocked Loose and Inter Arma, and probably the maddest band drama ever to unfold. We've all done it. Releases: Mick Mars - The Other Side of Mars Ace Frehley - 10,000 Volts Amigo the Devil - Yours Until the War is Over Amaranthe - The Catalyst Glitterer - Rationale Shoreline - To Figure Out Timelost - Drained Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human Being The Body/Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile Heaven Traveler - Prequel to Madness Borknagar - Fall Stygian Crown - Funeral for a King Morta Skuld - Creation Undone Vircolac - Veneration Guiltless - Thorns Paledusk - PALEHELL Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project Zakk Sabbath - Doomed Forever Forever Doomed Ministry - Hopiumforthemasses New Years Day - Half Black Heart Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced Firewind - Stand United Suicidal Angels - Profane Prayer Haunt - Dreamers Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites Sentry - Sentry Messiah - Christus Hypercubus Devastator - Conjurers of Cruelty Saturnalia Temple - Paradigm Call Celestial Sword - Nocturnal Divinity Kontravoid - Detachment

26 FEB 2024 · February Album Clubs look at Fall Out Boy's initial send-off Folie a Deux, Kreator's proto-extreme masterpiece Pleasure to Kill, the oft brushed over Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent from Refused, and a decade of Beastmilk's last post-punk party at the end of the world Climax. This episode was originally published February 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.