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That"s Not Metal

That"s Not Metal

Your favourite rock & metal podcast bringing you all the latest news, opinions, honest reviews and laughs every Friday. 100% passion, 100% honesty, 100% of the time. Join us.@notmetalpod on Twitter & Instagram. Come join the discussion with a likeminded community of music fans on the That"s Not Metal Facebook Focus Group www.facebook.com/groups/TNMFocus/.

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61:54

Hyperblasts: Watching Videodrome and Listening to...

That"s Not Metal ·

2025/04/24

On the single biggest release week of the year we head down to Ghost kicking off the Skeletour here in the UK, Charli XCX officially declares it a Turnstile Summer, the original Alice Cooper band reunites after 52 years, and there's important updates about last week's Weezer movie announcement.Releases:Superheaven - SuperheavenMelvins - ThunderballLik - NecroAncient Death - Ego DissolutionTribunal - In Penitence and RuinHeaven’s Gate - Tales from a Blistering ParadiseZeicrydeus - La Grande

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139:21

Magic Virgin Music

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2025/04/20

Reviews really hot up with some of the most hyped and acclaimed records of the year, some experiments from familiar faces, and some real underground crushers with Deafheaven, Scowl, Employed to Serve, Inhuman Nature, Messa, & Final Dose.Deafheaven 25:41Scowl 57:31Employed to Serve 1:20:33Inhuman Nature 1:43:08Messa 1:52:32Final Dose 2:07:53

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172:43

Album Club Pack March 2024

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2025/04/19

We cover some of the biggest, baddest, craziest Album Clubs there is: Thin Lizzy go studs and leather on Thunder and Lightning, Wintersun undergo an epic, farcical saga to create Time I, Palm Reader's raise UK hardcore's ambition on Beside the Ones We Love, and Agoraphobic Nosebleed's hellish 99 song chemical digi-grind Altered States of America.This episode was originally published March 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

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82:17

Hyperblasts: A Fifty Pound Farewell

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2025/04/10

The time comes to hold a funeral for one of our podcast's greatest villains You Me At Six as their reign of tyranny comes to an end assessing their end and legacy, Turnstile hit us with their first track of Never Enough, a bumper questions section talking the best metal solo artists and two album wonders, and announcing a particularly crunchy band special.Releases:Epica - AspiralCabal - Everything RotsTeen Mortgage - Devil Ultrasonic DreamMessa - The SpinIdle Heirs - Life is ViolenceBenthos - From

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41:12

Hyperblasts: The Emptiness Stadium

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2025/04/03

Linkin Park release a new single but downgrade shows, Evanescence release 2025's hottest AMV, Midnight write an anthem for Cleveland Metal, and Danzig's in hot water for far right dogwhistles on merch.Releases:Scowl - Are We All AngelsBleed From Within - ZenithThornhill - BodiesPigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death HilariousBenediction - Ravage of EmpiresTómarúm - Beyond Obsidian EuphoriaAllegaeon - The Ossuary LensRotting Christ - 35 Years of Evil Existence - Live in LycabettusBalmora -

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52:57

Hyperblasts: Getting Knocked Loose in the UK

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2025/03/28

Sam and Perran sit down to talk about Knocked Loose's recent massive headline tour in the UK bringing Basement, Harms Way, & Pest Control into massive Academy venues, as well as Powerwolf announcing a UK arena and Download booking the Vengaboys, and a mega end of month release round-up.Releases:Ophicvs - Steel BeastCradle of Filth - The Screaming of the ValkyriesBloodywood - Nu DelhiLordi - Limited DeaditionSecret Cutter - ///Stormo - Tagli/TaleeUrsa - Call of the InfiniteNoisepicker - The Earth

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204:29

The Metalcore Address - A Parade of Curry's Screensavers

That"s Not Metal ·

2025/03/21

In our new reviews show we stop to take stock of the state of some of our most popular heavy bands with Architects, Spiritbox, & A Day to Remember, as well as Whitechapel, Spiritworld, Warbringer, Imperial Triumphant, & Rwake. More hardcore bands imploding over idiocy too.Architects 27:10Spiritbox 1:05:56A Day to Remember 1:30:17Whitechapel 1:46:14Spiritworld 2:08:37Warbringer 2:25:29Imperial Triumphant 2:39:08Rwake 3:03:49

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85:03

Hyperblasts: Adieu, Mr Hinds

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2025/03/14

Napalm Death's 2025 edition of the Campaign for Musical Destruction (Bollocks) rolls around, Tool are being sued by their fans over setlist controversy, and we give our take on the ground-shaking moment when a member of Mastodon departs the band.Releases:Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make BelieveSteven Wilson - The Overviewclipping. - Dead Channel SkyWarbringer - Wrath and RuinNite - Cult of the Serpent SunRwake - The Return of MagicThe Body / Intensive Care - Was I Good

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175:40

Album Club Pack February 2024

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2025/03/11

We really cover ground on this one: prog goes pop on Rush's Power Windows, 2010s Britrock goes horribly wrong when The Blackout Start the Party, American Football reinvent emo on LP1, and black metal's most comforting album in Agalloch's The Mantle.This episode was originally published February 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

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52:24

Hyperblasts: Satanized

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2025/03/07

Ghost unveil all things Skeletá, Slayer add yet another mega-show onto the UK summer, and Bobby Liebling is being seen by more people than should ever see Bobby Liebling.Releases:Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All BetweenOversize - Vital SignsCloakroom - Last Leg of the Human TableAvantasia - Here Be DragonsDirkschneider - Balls to the Wall ReloadedStress Test - Stress TestHavukruunu - TavastlandGrima - NightsideEffluence - Pianistic DismembermentSleep Paralysis - Sleep ParalysisGrave

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179:20

LaBrie Paralysis

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2025/02/28

We close out February with reviews of some of our boldest and sloppiest with Killswitch Engage, Bleeding Through, Winona Fighter, Pissgrave, Vacuous, & Gràb, Green Lung & Unto Others' recent Heathen Neverland trip across Europe, and yes, Sam finally reviews a Dream Theater album.Killswitch Engage 40:37Bleeding Through 1:06:01Dream Theater 1:31:51Winona Fighter 1:56:08Pissgrave 2:10:38Vacuous 2:31:42Gràb 2:43:22

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50:25

Hyperblasts: Chad Face McKinnon

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2025/02/21

There's reports from High Vis and Tribulation both hitting headline tours around the UK, A Day to Remember bring news of their surprise album and its promised big ole volumes, and Parkway Drive stake a claim on the Sydney Opera House.Releases:Killswitch Engage - This ConsequenceSilverstein - AntibloomAnxious - BambiTo Obey a Tyrant - Frigore InferniWren - Black Rain FallsHirax - Faster Than DeathMorax - The AmuletPissgrave - Malignant WorthlessnessGràb - KremessAbduction - ExistentialismusGod

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53:05

Hyperblasts: letliving it up in the UK

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2025/02/14

letlive. finally break the seal on their UK return dates, Death Grips seem to disband again, and there's questions on the misconceptions that surround some of rock's most underrated, misunderstood bands.Releases:Bleeding Through - NineLacuna Coil - Sleepless EmpireLove is Noise - To live in a different wayWinona Fighter - My Apologies to the ChefThe Nightmares - Fire In HeavenHangman’s Chair - SaddictionPothamus - AburMantar - Post Apocalyptic DepressionSavage Lands - Army of the TreesFell Omen -

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82:14

Hyperblasts: Poisoned Ascendancy Sabbaganza

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2025/02/07

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 Sabbath?! Lot to cover in this one.Releases:Dream Theater - ParasomniaJinjer - DuelMarko Hietala - Roses from the DeepMajestica - Power TrainObscura - A SonicationPhrenelith - Ashen Womb16 - Guides for the MisguidedMorast - FentanylSaor - Amidst the

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34:30

Hyperblasts: The Sh*t ov Whom?

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2025/01/31

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 SpidersVukovi - My God Has Got a GunCentury - Sign of the StormAvatarium - Between You, God, The Devil and the DeadNegative 13 - Recover What You CanHarakiri for the Sky - Scorched EarthSunrot - PassagesThe Night Flight Orchestra - Give Us the MoonGrief Ritual - CollapseL.S. Dunes - VioletTayne -

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140:15

Fix Your Hearts or Die

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2025/01/25

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 Lynch.The Night Flight Orchestra 45:00Wardruna 1:07:53The Halo Effect 1:28:45The Great Old Ones 1:44:48Trauma Bond 2:00:34Grief Ritual 2:10:30

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188:48

Album Club Pack January 2024

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2025/01/21

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 micro-classic Never Hungover Again, and Reign Supreme with #WhyNotDyingFetusThis episode was originally published January 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

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24:05

Hyperblasts: Exodus Swapping

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2025/01/17

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 - MendGrave Digger - Bone CollectorTokyo Blade - Time is the FireTrauma Bond - Summer Ends. Some Are Long Gone.Sarcator - Swarming Angels & FliesNecrodeath - ArimortisNecromaniac - Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites AbominableOnirophagus - Revelations from the VoidHierarchies - HierarchiesDay By Day - Dust and AshesDark Fortress -

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42:45

Hyperblasts: In Twenty Twenty Five

That"s Not Metal ·

2025/01/10

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 IljaPaleface Swiss - CursedMutagenic Host - The Diseased MachineEthel Cain - PervertsStick to Your Guns - Keep Planting FlowersLambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs OutTremonti - The End Will Show Us HowThe Halo Effect - March of the UnheardThe Cimmerian - An Age Undreamed OfHaunted Horses -

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274:49

TNM Awards 2024

That"s Not Metal ·

2024/12/21

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 BandSong of the YearWorst Song of the YearHero of the YearVillain of the YearBest New BandBiggest DisappointmentGig of the YearEP of the YearArtwork of the YearMovie of the YearComeback of the YearSurprise of the YearOutstanding AchievementWorst Band of the YearUnsung HeroesStory of the YearBand of

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