That's Not Metal Pod

News, reviews & laughs from the world of rock & metal with @AbysmiOs and @TrueZero_. PodBible award-winner, every week on podcast apps and Patreon.

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This is hilarious. Massive, inexplicable thanks to everyone who voted - as we used to say, our show is your show. Heavy metal!

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Pod Bible Poll Winners 2023!

BEST MUSIC PODCAST

Winner: @NotMetalPod

2nd: Before They Knew Better (@diymagazine)

3rd: @rockonteurs

Read more about our winners - https://t.co/teJ0ReD2MP

#podcastsoftheyear

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Fortress Festival returns bringing worldwide black metal exclusives to the British seaside, with Gallowbraid, Old Man's Child, Dødheimsgard, Misþyrming, A Forest of Stars & more darkening the skies over the 2026 bill.

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It's all about vaporwave prog, French oi, and choo choo train black metal as a whip round the underground picks up Basement, Frozen Soul, Haggard Cat, Fire-Toolz, Prisonnier du temps, A Forest of Stars, Panopticon, & Scimitar.

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In Pt 2, nu metal goes supernova. Korn put the challenge to the scene that's copied them, change metal's fashion and look, Woodstock '99 melts down, and make the most expensive, culturally dominant albums of their career. It's all in the family.

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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.

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Count your blessings, as Album Club assesses 20 years of Bring Me the Horizon's often maligned debut, Municipal Waste's thrash slammer The Art of Partying, Rolo Tomassi's debut Hysterics, and the dungeon-exploring classic Caladan Brood's Echoes of Battle.
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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!

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Our next band special finally tackles nu metal's godfathers Korn, entering an unprepared world with a sound so fuelled by formative pain that their debut releases still provoke and challenge to this day. The world of heavy is set on a new course forever.

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Album Club returns to unpack Bullet for My Valentine's Temper Temper and the death of the 00s metalcore dream, Blue Öyster Cult's Fire of Unknown Origin, Gorilla Biscuits' youth crew milestone Start Today, and Skinless' Foreshadowing Our Demise.

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Excellent in-depth review of the new @hellrippermetal from @NotMetalPod 🐐

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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.

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It's splatstick and gunge time on TNM Does Horror as we toast the modern greatness of Sam Raimi, with the Evil Dead master's 21st century black comedy bangers Drag Me to Hell and Send Help. Hail to the king.

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Our 1997 retrospective reaches the end with the ultra diverse state of metal's underground, with melodeath's glory age, goth-doom's pop boom, and black metal reinventing itself for the future, and finishes with our own AOTY picks for this landmark year.

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This month brings us one of the most daunting, monolithic, and outlandish reviews bags we've ever had, as we tackle Converge, Sylosis, Mayhem, Worm, Pony, Cryptic Shift, Hällas, and Killing Pace. Slap on your spacesuit, we're adventure rocking.

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Our retrospective 1997 special turns to a time of massive turnover in alternative rock and punk, as Britpop wanes, Britrock thrives, emo and post-rock fortify, pop punk sets its sights bigger than ever and colossal genre crossovers forever change the game

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Our horror episode takes a road trip to the town of Silent Hill to look at a movie series that has truly shown us the good, the bad, and the ugly of video game adaptation.

Listen at https://t.co/O2pZOgXDeS

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Looking back at the records January gave us we give an honest assessment of the final album from Megadeth, alongside Kreator, Urne, Møl, Joyce Manor, The Ruins of Beverast, and Backengrillen. Thanks for all the riffs, MegaDave.

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As the new year starts we turn back the clock to 1997 to the nu wave of metal cresting, a vast landscape of industrial and funk madness, the mixed fortune of metal's old guard, hardcore undergoing a darker revolution, and power metal staging a comeback.

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Right before Christmas our last bash for 2025 is the TNM Awards looking back over the highs and lows, the stories, the icons, the presidents, and the circuses that made the year in rock music what it was.

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Our second go of albums of the year for 2025 with Sam and Mark celebrating records from hair metal to hardcore, and your results for the TNM listener poll as we see who's bringing it home in a year filled with past winners and big dog contenders.

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2025 Album of the Year time begins on That's Not Metal, with our first lists from Perran and Elliot celebrating everything from synth-punk to goth-doom, power-goregrind to jazz-death, post-metal to metalcore bands that this year gave us.

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