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We 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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

Amidst the trenches of the current day metalcore wars we embark on a special on one of its most pivotal bands as Poison the Well bring new drama, romance, and the most kickass mosh parts on genre-definers The Opposite of December and Tear from the Red. At patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

More than 15 years without an album, still the band at the centre of every "real metalcore" debate, the business

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

TNM's 2025 festival summer begins with Incineration for extreme metal sets from the likes of Lamp of Murmuur, Blackbraid, Spectral Wound, Blood Incantation debuting Absolute Elsewhere in the UK, & a mountain-moving Celtic Frost performance by Triptykon. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

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

Corrosion of Conformity, Napalm Death, Amenra, Castle Rat and Ted Maul (yes, from the past...) added to this year's party. damnationfestival.co.uk/tickets

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

Poison the Well may be metalcore purist favs but in the second half of their career they keep evolving. As we look into this underrated side of the PTW canon, we consider maybe what the "real metalcore" spirit is all along. Available at patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

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

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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

Sound the charge, into glory ride, as Album Clubs look at the effect Twenty One Pilot's ragga-pop Blurryface had on rock, Manowar's debut Battle Hymns, Turnover's Peripheral Vision, and The Devil's Blood with The Time of Time No Evermore. Available at patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

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

TNM makes a long overdue return to 2000 Trees Festival to see Alexisonfire, the return of letlive., a contested slot from Kneecap, plenty more from punk rock spectrum, and in the same episode somehow, we face the great Profanatica jar controversy. linktr.ee/notmetalpod