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Your favourite rock & metal podcast bringing you all the latest news, opinions, honest reviews and laughs every Friday. 100% passion, 100% honesty, 100% of the time. Join us.@notmetalpod on Twitter & Instagram. Come join the discussion with a likeminded community of music fans on the That's...
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Hyperblasts: Wading in at Offal Fest 2026
This humid summer gets that bit muckier as we check out the UK's growing slam, brutal death metal, and goregrind event at Offal Fest, as well as check...
Loathe to Say
At least one of the most anticipated heavy albums this decade hits our radars this month as Loathe, Muse, The Menzingers, The Xcerts, Fuming Mouth, No...
Hyperblasts: Count Your Blessings Repented (Football Season is Over)
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...
Album Club Pack July 2025
Sound the charge, into glory ride, as Album Clubs look at the maddening effect Twenty One Pilots' ragga-pop Blurryface had on rock, the most metal ban...
Hyperblasts: MCR and Metallica Stadium Extravaganza
Both Metallica's No Repeats weekend and My Chemical Romance's 20th anniversary Black Parade musical theatre reimagining hit UK stadiums, plus Damon Al...
Hyperblasts: Outbreak Festival 2026, and Acid Bath Arrive
Two hard and heavy events hit the UK heat this week, as Outbreak Festival brings Hatebreed, Converge, Alexisonfire, Basement, & loads more, and Acid B...
Kurt Ballou Déjà Vu
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 20...
Hyperblasts: Bloodaxe Ninja Flips
Sam returns from Asia (and through a robo-mic, sorry about that) to talk about Japanese hardcore hijinks at Bloodaxe Festival, Voivod and Midnight spe...
Hyperblasts: The Week Bananas Tore Hardcore Apart
On top of a stream of new music from across the heavy spectrum, we weigh in on the debate following End It's targeting of the man in a banana costume...
Hyperblasts: Fortress Festival 2026 Review
Fortress Festival returns bringing worldwide black metal exclusives to the British seaside, with Gallowbraid, Old Man's Child, Dødheimsgard, Misþyrmin...
Steady Away Boys! Poop Poop!
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,...
Hyperblasts: Anthrax Splashback
Anthrax's first single in ten years leads us to consider the thrash legends' creative relevancy in 2026, and Avenged Sevenfold going fully indepedent...
Hyperblasts: Burning Ambition
Iron Maiden's brand new documentary Burning Ambition hits cinema screens, and there's new singles from Green Lung announcing their new album Necropoli...
Hyperblasts: Incineration Festival 2026 Review
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 Dr...
Hyperblasts: The Sangui-Tour
Creeper's vampire extravaganza Sangui-Tour hits small venues in the UK for a full celebration of blooddrinking and leather.
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Last Ride At the Gates
Viral microtonal aliens, surprise drops, and defiant, powerful final bows rule the month with At the Gates, Enter Shikari, Corrosion of Conformity, Sp...
Album Club Pack April 2025
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...
Hyperblasts: Recount Your Blessings
Bring Me the Horizon make the genuinely absurd announcement of Count Your Blessings 20th anniversary celebrations, Nine Inch Noize owns Coachella, and...
Hyperblasts: 40 Squat Sun
Tracks from Warning, Holding Absence, Health and more head up the week's music, and we announce our first massive band special for 2026.
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Hyperblasts: Krushing On Tour
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/...
NeurIsis Lives
TNM March reviews bag just catches the most brain-breaking, beautiful return as Neurosis emerge with a whole new album, alongside another return from...
Hyperblasts: Big Ass WOW!
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...
Album Club Pack March 2025
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...
Hyperblasts: Eternal Synth Champions
New singles from the likes of Gouge Away, Drug Church, and Devin Townsend hit our ears, epic metal heroes Eternal Champion surprise drop a bold and am...
Hyperblasts: Godspeed, Godflesh
Basement, Blackbraid, and Portrayal of Guilt give us a diverse pack of new songs to chew in, questions on what is the greatest musical city and genera...
Caped Cryptic Cosmic Adventure Rock
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, P...
Hyperblasts: AFI Watch... Is Over?
Party time at TNM: the mythical drought comes to an end, alongside new tracks from the Foo Fighters and Don Broco/Nickelback and grand line-up unveili...
Hyperblasts: The Fate of the Sleeps
Hyperblasts is back to cover what we missed from the Grammys, UK live shows from Home Front to Korpiklaani, Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry's collab si...
Explosion on Blue Planet
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,...
Hyperblasts: None So Vile as the Leppard
TNM talks bands we would have introduced to ourselves at an earlier age, a breadth of new tracks from Def Leppard, Exodus, Immolation and Haggard Cat,...
Album Club Pack January 2025
2025 Album Clubs come from the land where the mullet attacks: Sabaton's Swedish concept album Carolus Rex, Hatebreed's hardcore benchmark Satisfaction...
Hyperblasts: Gorerotting the Well
New album singles from Poison the Well, Lamb of God, and Static Dress keep 2026 starting up, along with a killer first band announcement from Damnatio...
Hyperblasts: 2026, Let's Cook
TNM usher in the new year with hopes, questions and predictions for 2026, and some familiar faces already poking their heads above the parapets for th...
TNM Awards 2025
Right before Christmas our last bash for 2025 is TNM Awards looking back over the highs and lows, the stories, the icons, the presidents, and the circ...
TNM Albums of the Year 2025: Round 2
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...
TNM Albums of the Year 2025: Round 1
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-doo...
Hyperblasts: A Blast of Bloody Valentine
This week we've got reports from My Bloody Valentine's first shows since 2018 as we see one of the loudest bands in the world, reaction to Alissa Whit...
Vamping at the Disco
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 Mast...
Damnation Festival 2025 Review
The UK's biggest dedicated extreme music fest at Damnation Festival goes bigger than ever for its 20th anniversary with a bonkers two day line-up feat...
Hyperblasts: Monster Mashing Marmozets
It's that week in November where every big festival announces their lineup so we assess the bills of Download, Outbreak, 2000 Trees, & Slam Dunk 2026,...