That's Not Metal

Tracks from Warning, Holding Absence, Health and more head up the week's music, and we announce our first massive band special for 2026.

Releases:
Bilmuri - Kinda Hard
Lord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 3
Truckfighters - Masterflow
As Everything Unfolds - DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE?
Tigercub - Nets to Catch the Wave
Love Rarely - Pain Travels
Bodysnatcher - Hell is Here, Hell is Home
Metal Church - Dead to Rights
Spirit Adrift - Infinite Illumination
The Melvins with Napalm Death - Savage Imperial Death March
Immolation - Descent
Archspire - Too Fast to Die
Vomitory - Death Throes
Uada - Interwoven
Blush Puppy - Here You Dream
Melechesh - Sentinels of Shamash
Cissné - Awake Children Under the Moon
JK Flesh / Monrella - Shouting the Odds

A lot of heavy feelings this week sadly, with the losses of Bo Lueders, James Lollar of Gost, and Ross the Boss. Elsewhere the Kreator/Carcass/Exodus/Nails package lights up the UK, Damnation 2026 unveil all their headliners, Converge unveil a second album, and another messed up story comes out of the world of hardcore so... yeah, one of those weeks.

Releases:
Don Broco - Nightmare Tripping
Black Label Society - Engines of Demolition
Myrath - Wilderness of Mirrors
Moodring - death fetish
Chamber - this is goodbye…
A Winter’s Remorse - The Day Our Gods Abandoned Us
Concealer - This Room Could Be Heaven
Divine Chaos - Hate Reactor
Zerre - Rotting on a Golden Throne
The Twilight Sad - It’s the Long Goodbye
Tigers Jaw - Lost on You
Free Throw - Moments Before the Wind
Winterfylleth - The Unyielding Season
Këkht Aräkh - Morning Star
Cruel Force - Haneda
Cryptworm - Infectious Pathological Waste
Growth - Under the Under
Enslaved & Storm Weather Shanty Choir - Enslaved & Storm Weather Shanty Choir
Corrosion of Conformity - Good God / Baad Man
Sunn O))) - Sunn O)))
Poison Ruïn - Hymns From the Hills
Lantlôs - Nowhere In Between Forever
Knumears - Directions
Masca - Love Letters
LavaLove - Tan Lines
Nervosa - Slave Machine
Commitment - Fear Of
Jarboe - Sightings
Angine de Poitrine - Vol.II

TNM March reviews bag just catches the most brain-breaking, beautiful return as Neurosis emerge with a whole new album, alongside another return from Poison the Well, Lamb of God, Gaerea, Hellripper, Aggressive Perfector, Mallavora, & Sweet Pill.

Neurosis 11:30
Poison the Well 56:10
Lamb of God 1:17:13
Gaerea 1:39:08
Hellripper 1:59:30
Aggressive Perfector 2:15:00
Mallavora 2:25:00
Sweet Pill 2:31:51

Muse beam back down to us with their new album announcement, along with music from Black Veil Brides, Stormkeep, and Dropkick Murphys/Haywire, there's a live report from deathcore central with Bodysnatcher, Ingested, Psycho-Frame and Big Ass Truck, and we pay tribute to Motörhead's second-longest serving member Phil Campbell.

Releases:
Poison the Well - Peace In Place
Exodus - Goliath
Gaerea - Loss
Filth is Eternal - Impossible World
Gladie - No Need to Be Lonely
Stainless - Lady of Lust and Steel
Egregore - It Echoes in the Wild
The Silver - Looking Glass Hymnal Blue
Gutvoid - Liminal Shrines
Mclusky - I Sure Am Getting Sick of this Bowling Alley
Annul Noir - Inexistence
Dropkick Murphys / Haywire - New England Forever

A curtain of biblical darkness falls upon Album Club in the unofficial Sabbath album The Devil You Know by Heaven & Hell, 16 Horsepower's dark country classic Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, Cave In's space rock leap Jupiter, and metalcore pioneers Integrity making their most no fucks given record Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume.

This episode was originally published March 2025 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.