After a week of exasperating and confusing news we discuss the unconfirmed firing of Sid Wilson by Slipknot and Merauder's absolutely bizarre crashout, as well as big live announcements from Wacken, Megadeth, Mick Gordon, and the potential dungeon synth takeover of hardcore.Releases:Electric Callboy - TanzneidJohn Carpenter - CathedralCancer Bats - Give Me DirtCitizen - Halcyon BluesJamie Lenman - PukeCeremony - Tell Me Your DreamPublic Opinion - The Curse of Public OpinionNegative Frame - Break the IceWealthy Women - ChildrenHulder - VerbolgenDymna Lotva - VyrajHorrifier - Revelations of Gore

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 in on Avenged Sevenfold's latest piece of craziness, and sadly speak to the passing of all time pillar of hardcore Lou Koller of Sick of It All.Releases:Waterparks - JinxNo Pressure - NP StyleThe Hu - HunMadball - Not Your KingdomREZN - Cycles in the Infinite DreamJordsjø - PestkrønikeneSallow Moth - Hydrophilous BroodLinnéa RK Olsson - Perfect WaveFive Finger Death Punch - LegacyDisfiguring the Goddess - BloomNothingness - GodslaughterAltarage - CogwheelLipoma - Infernal Wounds of Ravenous FleshJig-Ai - JigokuTaake - En skog av nidstangLong Goodbye - A Whispered Promise of FailureShearling - Don’t Look at Me the Way a Dog Might Look at Your Leg

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 Cure, and Arise From Worms are reviewed, along with speculation about the seemingly imminent return of Gallows.Loathe 37:32Muse 1:09:13The Menzingers 1:31:55The Xcerts 1:49:20Fuming Mouth 2:11:10No Cure 2:24:04Arise From Worms 2:33:29

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.Releases:Final Resting Place - Third World TribunalLoathe - A Stranger to YouMotionless In White - DecadesBoundaries - Yearning: The unbeautiful afterProtest the Hero - WithinAs It Is - As It IsThe Menzingers - Everything I Ever SawQuicksand - Bring on the PsychicsFuming Mouth - The Ringing BellFed Ash + HIRS - I AM BODY HORRORLeft to Die - Initium MortisPsycroptic - The Pulse of AnnihilationImperium - Exodus UnknownEmptiness - Nowhere SpeaksHaken - In a Fever DreamRed Method - As In Life

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 band of all Manowar's debut Battle Hymns, Turnover's mastering of emo dreampop on Peripheral Vision, and one of the 21st century's greatest and wickedest rock bands The Devil's Blood with The Time of Time No Evermore.This episode was originally published July 2025 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Both Metallica's No Repeats weekend and My Chemical Romance's 20th anniversary Black Parade musical theatre reimagining hit UK stadiums, plus Damon Albarn beefs with an unlikely underground metal target.Releases:Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings | RepentedThe Plot In You - The Plot In YouThe Xcerts - i think i want to go home nowShow Me the Body - Alone TogetherDevilDriver - Strike and KillNo Cure - It Is Going to Get DarkDaydream Plus - Second Last Day of SummerIf These Trees Could Talk - The Hidden HandArise From Worms - A Bleeding Tree Hanging Self DestructionMourir - Nous, le venin

Two hard and heavy events hit the UK heat this week, as Outbreak Festival brings Hatebreed, Converge, Alexisonfire, Basement, & loads more, and Acid Bath's mad reunion brings the swamp to town their first ever UK appearance.Releases:Muse - The WOW! SignalThe Pretty Reckless - Dear GodButthole Surfers - After the AstronautThe Dead Pioneers - Wagon BurnerTruck Violence - The Weathervane is My BodyJunius - SoteraPhantom - Not Midnight YetSpeedslut - Cimbrian RitesNunslaughter - Satanic Chaos LegionsAstriferous - Atavistic UnravelingNargaroth - Apocalyptic SteelForsmán - Brenndar Rústir & Fuðrandi FjörurMiracle - The Living Likeness of My Electric DaemonShane Embury - Bridge to ResolutionMortiis - Ghosts of EuropaFief - VIIArcane Roots - A Wave, Across the SeaFiddlehead - Baby I’ll ChangeDeep Purple - Splat!Dominum - Night is CallingMoonspell - Far From GodWitchsorrow - The Devil and All His WorksSoothsayer - The UnbindingMortem - Mørketid

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.Converge 26:04Marmozets 48:34Static Dress 1:15:35Turnover 1:30:00Guilt Trip 1:41:39Warning 1:53:38Stormkeep 2:20:01Funebrarum 2:38:26

Sam returns from Asia (and through a robo-mic, sorry about that) to talk about Japanese hardcore hijinks at Bloodaxe Festival, Voivod and Midnight speed through the UK together, and we unpack the news no one saw coming that Faith No More are returning in 2027.Releases:Warning - Rituals of ShameThere Were Wires - VesselChainlacing - MessuageIron Kobra - Eternal DaggerSaidan - Fangdriller: Scars Beneath Memory’s WristMork - MonolittEinherjer - LifebloodLiminal Sky - All Tomorrow’s Darkness

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 at their show, why the frustration and resentment towards meme behaviour and influencer culture exists at subcultural events, and whether this particular incident went too far.Releases:Sublime - Until the Sun ExplodesSleeping With Sirens - An Ending In ItselfPussy Riot - CYKAYes - AuroraTarja - Frisson NoirSwiss Army Wife - I Love You, But I Hate It HereKhemmis - KhemmisJoseph Tholl - It Might Be ArtNuclear Tomb - Epoch InhumaneGenghis Tron - Signal FireMONO - SnowdropBIG|BRAVE - In Grief or In HopeFleshcrawl - Epitome of CarnageFires in the Distance - Circadian PromiseDefiled - Altered StateStormkeep - The Nocturnes of IswylmVéhémence - Assiéges pour l’éternitéFyrnask - ÍosirIron Reagan - DemonetizationDevourment - Pious ImpietyStill Remains - Spirit BreakerMystifier / Craven Idol - Demystification of the Fallen Souls