Episodes

  • Last Ride At the Gates

    Last Ride At the Gates
    Apr 26 2026
    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
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    3 hrs and 8 mins
  • Album Club Pack April 2025

    Album Club Pack April 2025
    Apr 19 2026
    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.
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    2 hrs and 50 mins
  • Hyperblasts: Recount Your Blessings

    Hyperblasts: Recount Your Blessings
    Apr 16 2026
    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
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    55 mins
  • Hyperblasts: 40 Squat Sun

    Hyperblasts: 40 Squat Sun
    Apr 9 2026
    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
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    42 mins
  • Hyperblasts: Krushing On Tour

    Hyperblasts: Krushing On Tour
    Apr 2 2026
    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
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • NeurIsis Lives

    NeurIsis Lives
    Mar 27 2026
    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
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    2 hrs and 40 mins
  • Hyperblasts: Big Ass WOW!

    Hyperblasts: Big Ass WOW!
    Mar 20 2026
    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
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    52 mins
  • Album Club Pack March 2025

    Album Club Pack March 2025
    Mar 17 2026
    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.
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    2 hrs and 52 mins