That's Not Metal

2025 singles really start coming with Spiritbox, Architects, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, and Coheed and Cambria, W.A.S.P. go full mental, and we talk the "bad" albums we got into bands on.Releases:Opeth - The Last Will and TestamentBody Count - MercilessKim Deal - Nobody Loves You MoreOcean Grove - OddworldPolar - NovaFellowship - The Skies Above EternityCoilguns - Odd LoveMúr - MúrDefeated Sanity - Chronicles of LunacyGutless - High Impact ViolenceAnte-Inferno - Death’s SoliloquyPanzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow ZionKruelty - Profane UsurpationMallavora - EchoesDoro - Rock ‘N’ Roll Xmas Party

We hit that point of the year where we have Grammy nominations and Download headliners to either complain about or debunk complaints about, and a mega live review as Sepultura's farewell tour finally arrives on UK shores.Releases:Linkin Park - From ZeroAs I Lay Dying - Through Storms AheadPoppy - Negative SpacesFull of Hell / Andrew Nolan - Scraping the DivinePrimal Code - Opaque FixationThy Catafalque - XII: A Gyönyörü Álmok Ezután JönnekSpider God - Possess the DevilChelsea Wolfe - UnboundLess Than Jake - UnchartedMammoth Grinder - Undying Spectral ResonanceDeadbody / Tribal Gaze - Deadbody / Tribal GazeRefused - The Shape of Punk to Come Obliterated

We once again convene for a review of the UK’s biggest underground event at Damnation Festival and witness legendary returns from Dragged Into Sunlight, Nails, Cradle of Filth, Bleeding Through, Inter Arma, and so many other TNM faves absolutely tearing it up.Elliot's audio is beaming in through the internet on this one, but we'll be back sounding proper soon.Releases:Make Them Suffer - Make Them SufferSólstafir - Hin helga kvolState Champs - State ChampsThe Arrival Note - …Home is So Far From HereThe Body - The Crying Out of ThingsThank - I Have A Physical Body That Can Be HarmedKlone - The UnseenMassacre - NecrolutionYoth Iria - Blazing InfernoPaysage d’Hiver - Die BergeCounterparts - Heaven Let Them Die

We convene on Halloween night to talk yet more big reunions at big American rock festivals, the news that Ithaca are calling it a day, and give the definitive answer on whether bands wearing their own shirts is cool or not and whether we're too focused on the size of bands in appreciating their art.Releases:Jerry Cantrell - I Want BloodJapandroids - Fate & AlcoholPinhead Gunpowder - UntGrand Magus - SunravenEnsiferum - Winter StormSwallow the Sun - ShiningHarvestman - Triptych: Part ThreeSerpent Column - Tassel of AresBetter Lovers - Highly IrresponsibleDevin Townsend - PowerNerdPixies - The Night the Zombies CameKids In Glass Houses - Pigs In Glass HousesAmyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon DarknessMeryl Streek - Songs for the DeceasedPom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without MeFit for an Autopsy - The Nothing That IsPøltergeist - NachtmusikButcher - On Fowl of Tyrant WingGaerea - ComaSchammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Old OceanBlack Curse - Burning In Celestial PoisonLiving Gate - Suffer As OneBunuel - MansuetudeBehemoth - XXX Years Ov BlasphemyEnforced - A Leap Into the DarkPest Control - Year of the PestFifteen Rhema - Drawing Upon Lost TimeA Year Ago Today - A Year Ago TodayThe Cure - Songs of a Lost WorldCane Hill - a piece of me i never let you findPlanes Mistaken for Stars - Do You Still Love Me?Thirdface - Ministerial CafeteriaTribulation - Sub Rosa In AeternumNeon Nightmare - Faded DreamBombus - Your BloodNachtmystium - Blight PrivilegeNew Skeletal Faces - Until the NightMitochondrion - Vitriseptome