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 Fragile Hope, and Code's bizarro black metal genius on Resplendent Grotesque.

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 disbandment.

Releases:
Nine Inch Nails - TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Paradise Lost - Ascension
Castle Rat - The Bestiary
Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World
Greywind - Severed Heart City
Cardiacs - LSD
Total Wife - Come Back Down
C4 - Payback’s a Bitch
Igorrr - Amen
Werewolves - The Ugliest of All
Novembers Doom - Major Arcana
Heretoir - Solastalgia
Amnio - Psalms of Immortality
Firmament - For Centuries Alive
Secret World - Tomorrow is a Mystery to Me
Missing Link - Miracle Smile
The Starting Line - Eternal Youth
Sprints - All That is Over
Dave Hause - …And the Mermaid
Amorphis - Borderland
Revocation - New Gods, New Masters
Vintersorg - Vattenkrafternas Spel
Mors Principium Est - Darkness Invisible
Esses - Pain at the Altar of Jest
President - King of Terrors
PeelingFlesh - PF Radio 2
Elder - Liminality / Dream State Return
Tetragrammacide - Cyber-Tantric Paradigm of Radical Sri-Vidya

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 find words for one of the underground's truest heroes Tomas Lindberg. RIP King Tompa.

Lorna Shore 42:50
Fleshwater 1:06:56
Scorpion Milk 1:21:44
La Dispute 1:38:16
Modern Life is War 1:52:16
Der Weg Einer Freiheit 2:01:20
Die Spitz 2:11:20

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 Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me
Between the Buried and Me - The Blue Nowhere
Spinal Tap - The End Continues
Silverstein - Pink Moon
I See Stars - The Wheel
The Rasmus - Weirdo
The Chameleons - Arctic Moon
Ho99o9 - Tomorrow We Escape
Not Enough Space - Weaponize Your Rage
Spite House - Desertion
Maruja - Pain to Power
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Innern
Year of the Goat - Alucarda
Crippling Alcoholism - Camgirl
Intercourse - How I Fell in Love With the Void
Slomatics - Atomicult
Jo Quail - Notan
Barrens - Corpse Lights
Heruvim - Mercator
Caesarean - Wretched Decrepitude

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 these bands. Thank you for 10 years of support - you've not let us down, so we're still here. To TNM, and to you.

Releases:
Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
Nova Twins - Parasites & Butterflies
End It - Wrong Side of Heaven
Helloween - Giants & Monsters
Slow Crush - Thirst
Adur - We Fail to Love Ourselves
In Mourning - The Immortal
Månegarm - Edsvuren
Void - Forbidden Morals
Deathhammer - Crimson Dawn
Proscription - Desolate Divine
Torso - Annihilation Day
Death Goals - Survival Is An Act Of Defiance
withpaperwings - Six Thousand Days
Fleshwater - 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky
Tallah - Primeval: Obsession // Detachment
blessthefall - Gallows
La Dispute - No One Was Driving the Car
Modern Life is War - Life on the Moon
Still In Love - Recovery Language
Glenn Hughes - Chosen
Dark Angel - Extinction Level Event
Primal Fear - Domination
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores of Melancholia
Faetooth - Labyrinthine

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.

Deftones 24:30
Dinosaur Pile-Up 1:1:29
The World is a Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid to Die 1:14:36
Feuerschwanz 1:29:53
Pool Kids 1:48:13
Malthusian 1:56:18
Faced Out: 2:14:25

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 originally published August 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

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, forever.

Releases:
Rise Against - Ricochet
Joey Valance & Brae - HYPERYOUTH
Justice for the Damned - Stay Relentless
Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done
Kerosene Heights - Blame It On The Weather
Unleashed - Fire Upon Your Lands
Baest - Colossal
Castrator - Coronation of the Grotesque
Panopticon - Laurentian Blue
Panopticon - Songs of Hiraeth
Phosphorus - Frail Grasp of Broken Hands
Fell Omen - Caelid Dog Summer
Firestarter - Still Holding On…
Cult of Luna - Beyond III, IV, V
Deftones - Private Music
Pendulum - Inertia
Three Days Grace - Alienation
We Came as Romans - All is Beautiful… Because We’re Doomed
Hot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still
Dinosaur Pile-Up - I’ve Felt Better
The World is a Beautiful Place & I’m No Longer Afraid to Die - Dreams of Being Dust
really big really clever - …huh?
Faced Out - At Eternity’s Edge
Feuerschwanz - Knightclub
Burning Witches - Inquisition
Signs of the Swarm - To Rid Myself of Truth
Arcadea - The Exodus of Gravity
Malevich - Under a Gilded Sun
Desaster - Kill All Idols
Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence
Zetra - Believe
Fates Messenger - Eternal War

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.

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
Halestorm - Everest
Good Charlotte - Motel Du Cap
Lord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 1
As December Falls - Everything’s On Fire But I’m Fine
Firstborne - Lucky
Attack Attack! - Attack Attack! II
Blackbraid - Blackbraid III
Sinsaenum - In Devastation
Asunojokei - Think of You
Malthusian - The Summoning Bell
Crypt Sermon - Saturnian Apprentices
Aversions Crown - A Voice From the Outer Dark

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 Worthy of Human Compassion
Kontusion - Insatiable Lust for Death
Nuovo Testamento - Trouble
Fit for a King - Lonely God
The Armed - The Future is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
Fox Lake - New World Heat
Hammer - Trapped
Hedonist - Scapulimancy
Kayo Dot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason
Car Bomb - Tiles Whisper Dreams
Saphir Levi - Follow Your Shadow

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 the seismic passing of the Prince of Darkness, heavy metal's hugest figure, Ozzy Osbourne.

The Dirty Nil 46:49
Blood Vulture 1:04:23
Psycho-Frame 1:20:14
Blind Equation 1:32:06
Crown of Anguish 1:45:16
Stangarigel 1:55:58
Nuvolascura 2:05:20

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 Profanatica jar controversy.

Releases:
Bring Me the Horizon - Lo-files
Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway - Addicted to the Violence
Bush - I Beat Loneliness
Zac Farro - Operator
Laura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes - Adventure Club
Panic Shack - Panic Shack
Blind Equation - A Funeral In Purgatory
Stomach - Low Demon
Ba’al - The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here
Entrails - Grip of Ancient Evil
Abigail Williams - A Void Within Existence
Haunter / Cape of Bats - Black Magick Metal Punk

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 the Abyss
dead7 - Love What You Can While You’ve Still Got Something Left to Love
Ward XVI - ID3NTITY
Born of Osiris - Through Shadows
Margarita Witch Cult - Strung Out In Hell
Floating - Hesitating Lights

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 Glastonbury and removal from Radar Festival.

Releases:
Higher Power - There’s Love In This World If You Want It
Pig Pen - Mental Madness
Dropkick Murphys - For the People
Wytch Hazel - V: Lamentations
We Lost the Sea - A Single Flower
Stygian - Dreadlands
Gaupa - Fyr

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.

Releases:
Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence
Helms Deep - Chasing the Dragon
Haggus - Destination Extinction
Witherer - Shadow Without a Horizon
Upon Stone - End Time Lightning
Valdrin - Apex Violator
Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services
Heaven Shall Burn - Heimat
Sodom - The Arsonist
Blood Vulture - Die Close
Johan Langquist - The Castle - Johan Langquist - The Castle
King Witch - III
Fer de Lance - Fires on the Mountainside
Killing of a Sacred Deer - A Visage of a Mangled Body
Greet Death - Die In Love
All Men Unto Me - Requiem
Inhuman Condition - Mind Trap
Lord Belial - Unholy Trinity
Shining - Divided You’ll Stand and United You’ll Fall
Cosmic Joke - Forced Perspective
Botch - 061524
Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums

A glut of huge hardcore storms TNM reviews with albums from Turnstile, Malevolence, Stray from the Path, Kaonashi, Deadguy (& Hexvessel, not very hardcore), and Nine Inch Nails kick off their incredible Peel It Back arena production.

Turnstile 34:18
Malevolence 1:18:45
Stray from the Path 1:39:00
Kaonashi 1:57:44
Deadguy 2:18:16
Hexvessel 2:35:50

TNM returns from a week off with a cross continent double fest report as we hit up Yorkshire's Fortress and Poland's Mystic Festival, seeing every band under the sun from Agalloch to Ulcerate, W.A.S.P. to King Diamond, Bullet to Beherit.

Releases:
Turnstile - Never Enough
Volbeat - God of Angels Trust
Kaonashi - I Want to Go Home
Orthodox - A Door Left Open
View From the Soyuz - Ubiquitous
Katatonia - Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State
King Parrot - A Young Persons Guide To
Gruesome - Silent Echoes
Gaahl’s Wyrd - Braiding the Stories
Autumn Nostalgie - Metanoia
Austere - The Stillness of Dissolution
Dimscûa - Dust Eater
Buckcherry - Roar Like Thunder
Fallujah - Xenotaph
Hexvessel - Nocturne
Dolven - In My Grave…Silence
letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful Revisited
Sigh - I Saw the World’s End - Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV
The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World
Queens of the Stone Age - Alive in the Catacombs
Metallica - Load (Remastered)

A bumper Album Club dissection as Mötley Crüe go horribly wrong on Generation Swine. Crossfaith's electronicore captures a moment on Zion, Have Heart's melodic hardcore landmark Songs to Scream at the Sun, and Suffocation invent/perfect brutal death metal with Effigy of the Forgotten. Brandon. We love you.

This episode was originally published May 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Sam is lured back to the UK's pop punk home for Slam Dunk 2025 and has to think long and hard about Electric Callboy, and we doff our caps to Svalbard's decision to drop the curtain on a decade plus career as one of the UK's favourite heavy bands.

Releases:
Skunk Anansie - The Painful Truth
Midnight - Steel, Rust and Disgust
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time for Others’ Harm
Home Is Where - Hunting Season
Witchcraft - Idag
Witchrot - Soul Cellar
Year of No Light - Les Maitres Fous
Hellcrash - Inferno Crematorio
Sexmag - Sexorczym
Chepang - Jhyappa
Ossuary - Abhorrent Worship
…And Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary
Magus Lord - In the Company of Champions
House of Protection - Outrun You All
MSPAINT - No Separation
Crowquill - Crowquill
Swans - Birthing
Garbage - Let All That We Imagine Be the Light
Stray from the Path - Clockworked
Desolated - Finding Peace
The Haunted - Songs of Last Resort
Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil
Vildhjarta - Där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar
KUSANAGI - Paramnesia
Planning for Burial - It’s Closeness, It’s Easy
Cwfen - Sorrows
Grin - Acid Gods
Coltsblood - Obscured Into Nebulous Dusk
Trivax - The Great Satan
Svartsyn - Vortex of the Destroyer
Obsidian Tongue - Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn
Lord Vigo - Walk the Shadows
Vader - Humanihility
Wormrot - TNT