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

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We've got a reviews bag full of mavericks and outsiders making some big crazy choices with their records this month as we look at albums from Haywire, unpeople, New World Man, Wolves in the Throne Room, Noctule, Godflesh, Smoulder, & Bombstrap.

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With Zach Cregger's Resident Evil making a bloody splash (and upsetting gamer babies) we face our most terrifying challenge yet: the entire crazed history of the live action Resident Evil movies. Fortify your intelligence: it's all going to die down here.

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We've arrived at our annual Damnation Festival preview Album Club pack as we pull out Cult of Luna's Somewhere Along the Highway, Walls of Jericho's The American Dream, Weekend Nachos' Worthless, and The Berzerker's Dissimulate.

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We embark on our Rush band special as Canada's finest unite the tribes of heavy rock and prog, attract fans from working men to philosophy students, and build their way to conceptual highs with one of the great underdog stories in rock history.

Listen at https://t.co/xP2zEo7wIg

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September gets us all sludgy as reviews pore over new Mastodon, Green Lung, Anthrax, Chat Pile, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Sleep, Devil Master, & Wrong Man, Evanescence playing the UK's biggest arena, and Tony Iommi being the boss yet again.

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Rivers Cuomo's QR code woes, goth-pop, and questioning what even is an album lead the way for TNM reviews this time with Weezer's Gold Album, Chelsea Wolfe, Electric Callboy, Living Weapon, The Night Eternal, and Zorn going under the magnifying glass.

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This time we reassess the catalogue of one of the sickest heavy bands of the last 20 years in the newly reunited Black Breath, who brought swaggering hardcore punk and buzzsaw death metal together on a trio of kickass albums ripe for rediscovery.

Hear at https://t.co/xP2zEo7wIg

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TNM Does Horror returns to look back at horror's watershed summer of 2026 with the record-breaking sensation of Obsession, touching on the parallel phenomenon of Backrooms, and checking on Evil Dead's more divisive than usual new offering Burn.

Listen at https://t.co/O2pZOgXDeS

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We enter a funhouse Album Club with Faith No More's oddball opus Angel Dust, Dead Can Dance's darkwave mysticism on Within the Realm of a Dying Sun, Social Distortion's self-titled cowpunk classic, and Ulver's baroque 'n' roll death trip Blood Inside.

At https://t.co/O2pZOgXDeS

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This humid summer gets that bit muckier as we check out the UK's growing brutal death metal event at Offal Fest, as well as check in on Avenged Sevenfold's latest craziness, and sadly speak to the passing of all time pillar of hardcore Lou Koller of SOIA.

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At least one of the most anticipated heavy albums this decade hits this month as Loathe, Muse, The Menzingers, The Xcerts, Fuming Mouth, No Cure, and Arise From Worms are reviewed, along with speculation about the seemingly imminent return of Gallows.

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In the finale of our Korn special, the band reconnect with themselves, stare deep into the nothing to create late career highs, and as new generations come reclaim their place at the top as the band who changed everything.

Available at https://t.co/O2pZOgXDeS

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It's the week where br00tal returned (and football season is over), as we make our way to Bring Me the Horizon's Count Your Blessings | Repented shows and into the re-recorded album for the biggest event in 2006 deathcore since... 2006.

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Two hard and heavy events hit the UK heat this week, as @OutbreakFest brings Hatebreed, Converge, Alexisonfire, Basement, & loads more, and Acid Bath's mad reunion brings the swamp to town their first ever UK appearance.

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From twenty year waits to four month breaks, we mop up some of the biggest heavy records of the last few weeks reviewing Converge's second album of 2026, Marmozets, Static Dress, Turnover, Guilt Trip, Warning, Stormkeep, & Funebrarum.

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The four-piece line-up of Korn adapt to their loss by trying just about anything: working with pop producers, going Unplugged, returning to the past, and embracing a divisive new form of EDM. We investigate how much of it is good.

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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.

At https://t.co/O2pZOgXDeS

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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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