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. Listen at linktr.ee/notmetalpod

We get into one of our giddiest album clubs on Megadeth's Rust In Peace, the suffocating anger of Killing Joke 2003, the emo launchpad in Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary, and Gorguts again upping the death metal game with Colored Sands. Available At patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

Posting Vampyros Lesbos on main Didn't see Sinners in one of these fancy chosen one screens but it did rock nonetheless

TNM Does Horror deep dives into the cultural vampirism and music celebration of one of the year's biggest movie events Ryan Coogler's Sinners, and then just a tad less prestige with the new video game adaptation Until Dawn. Available At patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

In a mega month that saw two no. 1 metal albums, we go through 2025's biggest reviews gauntlet with Ghost, Machine Head, Behemoth, PUP, The Callous Daoboys, Model/Actriz, Age of Apocalypse, & Sijjin. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

We went to Poland's biggest metal festival Mystic - this is what it was like loudersound.com/bands-artists/…

TNM returns from a week off with a cross continent double fest report as we hit up Yorkshire's Fortress Festival 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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

Saw so much damn heavy metal this week it's crazy

As we all welt and melt the Summer Album Roulette is back as we blitz through Southern rock from both sides of the Atlantic, blistering hot Middle Eastern metal, London oi's golden hour, and the return of our favourite born again horny devil. Available at patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

The sun, the moon, the stars all bear my seal.

This piece is so good. Metal as public display, and reclamation, of human decay.

We shake up reviews with plenty of smaller new bands with The Dirty Nil, 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 Ozzy Osbourne. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

Movies that rewrote my DNA and I'm chuffed they're still doing it

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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

Their day in court has come, as we put three eras of cultural dominance in metal in the dock and decide through an arbitrary system of rules and hilarious mismatches which out of hair, nu, and metalcore truly did the most for us. Available at patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

Very fulfilling writing this piece about one of the craziest box-breaking moments for black metal ever, and an absolute all time walloper

It's our birthday! This week That's Not Metal turns 10, so we dial it back 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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

We're going swamp-diving