That's Not Metal Pod

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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. patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

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. patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

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 patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

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 patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

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. patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

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. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

On our horror podcast series we look at the monster so hard it considers Arnie prey, as we dive into the unforgiving and morally murky jungles of some of the greatest action-horror hybrids of all time with Predator, Prey, & Predator: Badlands. Available at patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

2025's final reviews is a crazy bag of disco mania with Creeper's Sanguivore II, Pupil Slicer, Drain, Astronoid, Home Front, Lamp of Murmuur, and Master's Hammer, farewell to Svalbard on tour, new Converge, and cartwheels at the reunion of Black Breath. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

The UK's biggest extreme music fest at Damnation Festival goes big for its 20th anniversary with a bonkers two day line-up featuring Corrosion of Conformity, Napalm Death, Deafheaven, Anaal Nathrakh, Castle Rat, and so many more to crack our skulls. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

Our special on NOLA sludge tracks its journey into the 21st century as the city and its bands are beset by disaster and tragedy but leave a wealth of inspiration and cement their scene as metal's truest embodiment of great American blues. Available @ patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

With autumn chill in the air we plunge into a stacked October reviews bunch of new AFI, Thrice, Miltarie Gun, Conjurer, Perturbator, Sanguisugabogg, Tribal Gaze, & Agriculture. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

We hop on a river cruise down the bayou as we start our special waist-deep dive into the NOLA sludge scene, tracking its origins, local character, touring the catalogues of titans & more to seek out the fattest and nastiest Money Riff. Available at patreon.com/thatsnotmetal

For this week's show Album Club returns with an eye once again on this year's Damnation Festival with Warning's Watching from a Distance, Wormrot's Dirge, Devil Sold His Soul's A Fragile Hope, and Code's Resplendent Grotesque. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

An awesome review for the new #scorpionmilk album on @PeacevilleRecs courtesy of @NotMetalPod

Lorna Shore, Fleshwater, Scorpion Milk, La Dispute, Modern Life is War, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, & Die Spitz albums get tackled, but with another crushing blow to metal we also try to find words for one of the underground's truest heroes Tomas Lindberg. linktr.ee/notmetalpod

TNM Does Horror looks at the two smashes to end 2025's summer, peering into the abyss of suburban anxiety and darkness that is Zach Cregger's Weapons, and the record-smashing finale to The Conjuring series Last Rites. Available at patreon.com/thatsnotmetal