That's Not Metal

Sam catches a double helping of Better Lovers, and Sick New World announces its lineup for 2024. Releases: Creeper - Sanguivore The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True Beartooth - The Surface Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. Twin Temple...

This week we review two new albums from bands who have changed the modern sonic make-up of hardcore in Harm's Way's industrial brutality Common Suffering, and Code Orange's latest (divisive as always) piece of their ongoing conceptual evolution as...

Our September Album Club Pack is a Damnation Fest special as we look at four diverse records from heavy history being showcased at this event: Leprous' prog majesty Coal, Unearth's Oncoming Storm, Deadguy's deranged Fixation on a Coworker, and...

Some weeks just get overrun by drama: Thy Art is Murder's quite unbelievable decision to replace the vocals on their album in a week has the extended discussion that such a subject warrants, Bloodstock complete their 2023 headliners, and there's an...

In the busiest month of the year TNM reviews Corey Taylor, Baroness, Sylosis, Blood Command, Kvelertak, Empire State Bastard, Cannibal Corpse, & Hexvessel, toast the achievements of the departing Dawn Ray'd, and ask... WHO did Stef Carpenter tell...

Nickelback and Massacre both draw conversational lines in the sand, and While She Sleeps release a new track that goes full... something. Releases: 30 Seconds to Mars - It’s the End of the World But It’s a Beautiful Day Corey Taylor - CMF2 Baroness -...

Sleep Token have to call out impersonators and we call out "presidential bid" publicity stunts. Also a week of gig reports from Hot Mulligan/Spanish Love Songs, The Story So Far, Dawn Ray'd, and Full of Hell/Antichrist Siege Machine. Releases:...

The Album Club Pack is back for a second year as we look at Linkin Park's experimental A Thousand Suns, Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese, the sleeper crossover influence of Iron Age's The Sleeping Eye, and cower beneath the unreachable pinnacle of...

Job for a Cowboy finally release new music, Trivium hit the UK for their second tour of the year highlighting cuts from Shogun, and we talk the completed Damnation Festival bill and the bands we'd pay the most for. Releases: Holding Absence - The...

Some of the leaders in alt rock top reviews with Spanish Love Songs, The Xcerts, and Teenage Wrist, as well as new Skindred, Urne, Spirit Adrift, Horrendous, Celestial Sanctuary, and a conversation addressing recent comments from CJ McMahon. Spanish...