That's Not Metal

This week we make our way back to Incineration to once again kick off the festival season with a scorching of black and death metal as the likes of Dragged Into Sunlight, Of Feather and Bone, Tomb Mold and Scimitar rip it up across London stages.

Releases:
Black Veil Brides - Vindicate
Basement - WIRED
Koyo - Barely Here
Social Distortion - Born to Kill
The Flatliners - Cold World
Haggard Cat - The Pain That Orbits Life
Geoff Tate - Operation: Mindcrime III
Frozen Soul - No Place of Warmth
Ingested- Denigration
Darkthrone - Pre-Historic Metal
Panopticon - Det hjemsøkte hjertet
Yoth Iria - Gone with the Devil
A Forest of Stars - Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface
Draconian - In Somnolent Ruin
Forced Order - Undying Spirit
Crowquill - Erase The File
Scarab - Transmutation of Fate
Gadget - Coerced

Creeper's vampire extravaganza Sangui-Tour hits small venues in the UK for a full celebration of blooddrinking and leather.

Releases:
Foo Fighters - Your Favorite Toy
The Amity Affliction - House of Cards
Atreyu - The End is Not the End
Failure - Location Lost
Terror - Still Suffer
Roman Candle - Unadulterated
Armed for Apocalypse - The Earth is Breathing Beneath Me
Plini - An Unnameable Desire
Einar Solberg - Vox Occulta
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - The Trouble With the Shovell
Demon Spell - Blessed Be the Dark
Six Feet Under - Next to Die
Scimitar - Scimitarium II
Cnoc An Tursa - A Cry for the Slain
Blood Countess - Imperatrix Sanguinis
Sepultura - The Cloud of Unknowing
Vomit Forth - In the Name of the Father
American Football - American Football (LP4)
Kneecap - Fenian
Sevendust - One
Cage Fight - Exuvia
Venom - Into Oblivion
Spell - Wretched Heart
Black Cilice - Votive Fire
Effluence - Anticholinergic Derangement
Infected Death - Invicta

Viral microtonal aliens, surprise drops, and defiant, powerful final bows rule the month with At the Gates, Enter Shikari, Corrosion of Conformity, Spirit Adrift, Angine de Poitrine, Portrayal of Guilt, Poison Ruïn, and Immolation. One last time: Go!

At the Gates 18:20
Enter Shikari 49:18
Corrosion of Conformity 1:18:23
Spirit Adrift 1:33:43
Angine de Poitrine 1:49:00
Portrayal of Guilt 2:14:02
Poison Ruïn 2:30:48
Immolation 2:51:47

We launch the polaris and get into one of our giddiest ever album clubs on Megadeth's delirious Rust In Peace, the suffocating global anger of Killing Joke 2003, the launchpad for second wave emo in Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary, and Gorguts returning to once again up the game for avant-garde death metal with Colored Sands.

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

Bring Me the Horizon make the genuinely absurd announcement of Count Your Blessings 20th anniversary celebrations, Nine Inch Noize owns Coachella, and Evanescence lead the singles in their team-up with the Fish.

Releases:
Nine Inch Noize - Nine Inch Noize
Skindred - You Got This
.gif from god - Dissimulation
The Last Ten Seconds of Life - The Dead Ones
Prince Daddy & the Hyena - Hotwire Trip Switch
Hold My Own - Pay No Mind
Mat McNerney - The Bones of the Dead, or Three Turns Counterclockwise
Crippled Black Phoenix - Sceaduhelm
Leila Abdul-Rauf - Andros Insidium
Ordh - Blind In Abyssal Realms
Reeking Aura - On the Promise of the Moon
Pissrot - Absolute Form
Muerto - Eclipsed Realms
Nekrogoblikon - The Boiling Sea
Gout - Actual Bastard