That's Not Metal

Hill and Beez tackle the return of Joey Jordison, the new tracks from Blink 182 and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, discussion on the new albums from Andy Black, Hatebreed and Kvelertak, who would you put in a metal Come Dine With Me and an extensive look at the Smashing Pumpkins double disc album, Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness.

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Hill and Beez are joined by Gojira to talk about Sepultura's Chaos AD in Album Club and chat about their new album, Magma. The boys also pay tribute to Prince, there's chat about the Axl/DC situation, Iron Maiden literally climbing like monkeys, a few of TNM's favourite new bands are brought in to the reviews and we look at the new album from Aborted.

Hill and Beez mourn the death of Hevy fest and discuss The Story So Far selfie storm, there’s a rundown of this year’s TNM friendly Record Store Day releases and chat of Guns N Roses return. There’s also reviews of the new albums from Ihsahn, Zak Wylde, Blakq Audio and Cult Of Luna albums, a report from Converge’s unique Blood Moon show and our Album Club comes courtesy of Airbourne’s Runnin’ Wild.

It's one of the best weeks for music there will be in 2016 as Hill and Beez go in on the new albums from Deftones, Black Stone Cherry, Black Peaks and Plague Vendor and a new letlive. track, there's a clip from our Premium Metallica special that pits Master of Puppets against Reign In Blood and live reviews of BABYMETAL and Weezer. OOF!

It's a bumper week as Hill and Beez discuss how punk David Draiman is, will Axl Rose seriously front AC/DC?, Bring Me The Horizon at Glastonbury and more, BABYMETAL, Weezer, Tombs and Vredehammer make up this week's live reviews, A Perfect Circle's Mer De Noms is this week's Album Club and we cast our eyes over Refused live.

Beez chats to Warped Tour founder and booker Kevin Lyman in this in depth look at the growth of Warped Tour, the musical policy of the festival and a very interesting discussion on metal festivals and their future.

Hill and Beez recreate some famous metal intros and Tim Armstrong pops in to sing a few famous hits*, there’s much lolz at the thought of Axl Rose in AC/DC, a look at the new Biffy Clyro and Andy Black songs, album reviews on Asking Alexandria, Amon Amarth and Walls of Jericho with Trivium’s The Crusade taking centre stage in this week’s Album Club. *This podcast does not contain the real Tim Armstrong…though it really sounds like it does.

The dark heart of That’s Not Metal, Mr Stephen Hill, picks a selection of albums at random for discussion with Beez to showcase the Premium specials available to our members at thatsnotmetal.net. As eclectic as you’d expect, Steve’s Album Roulette picks are:1. Sublime - 40oz To Freedom2. U2 - Zooropa3. Fugazi - The Argument4. Kerbdog - On The Turn5. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet6. Heights - Dead EndYour subscriptions keep this podcast alive. Keep supporting us at thatsnotmetal.net.

Hill and Beez are destroyed by the new Reckless Love album and it's not pretty. There's chat on the new Metallica and Suicide Silence albums, Placebo's 20th Anniversary, Tool's writers block, album reviews include the recent Iggy Pop and Josh Homme, Marudergrind and Hands Like Houses and we are honoured to be joined by David from the legendary Refused to discuss one of the starting points for European death metal, Entombed's Left Hand Path.

A three sheets to the wind Hill and Beez get serious to review the new Killswitch Engage album, BABYMETAL's UK publicist joins us to answer your tough questions, we discuss AC/DC's new found problems, check out the new albums from Heck, Brian Fallon and After The Burial and NOFX's legendary Punk In Drublic is this week's Album Club. Be excellent to each other.

To give you a peak behind the curtain at what our thatsnotmetal.net subscribers enjoy, we bring you an Album Roulette special with Beez where he simply picks 7 albums and talks about them. Today's Album Roulette is1. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life2. Hazen Street - Hazen Street3. Nickelback - All The Right Reasons (lol)4. Mudvayne - LD505. Morrissey - Vauxhall & I6. The Vandals - Hitler Bad, Vandals Good7. Machine Head - Unto The LocustSubscribe to thatsnotmetal.net for 20+ hours more podcasts.

Hill & Beez discuss this week's Reading & Leeds announcement including the Biffy Clyro and Fall Out Boy controversy, there's live reviews of Ghost, Enter Shikari and Creeper, album reviews on the new Tonight Alive, Hacktivist, Yashin and Oceans Of Slumber and the Bury Tomorrow boys pop in to discuss Atreyu's classic 'The Curse' in this week's Album Club.

It’s a bumper week on TNM as Hill and Beez discuss the new BABYMETAL track and Josh Homme/Iggy Pop collaboration, the upcoming Deftones album and guitarist Steph Carpenter’s controversial comments about it, there’s album reviews from Anthrax, From Ashes To New, The Dirty Nil and a Simple Plan album review that simply has to be heard to be believed as well as a look at the new names for Slam Dunk and Hevy festivals and Biffy Clyro's Only Revolutions in Album Club. WARNING: You will laugh if you listen to this in public. You have been warned.

Hill and Beez marvel at the outrage of Oli Sykes standing on a table, there's a report of Parkway Drive's UK tour, reviews come in the shape of The King Blues, Creeper, Abbath and The King Is Blind, there's discussion on great albums with booty artwork and Album Club is Killswitch Engage's Alive Or Just Breathing. Vote President Frog!

Join Hill and Beez for a brill time discussing the 36 new bands announced for Download including NOFX, Jane's Addiction and Bury Tomorrow, this week's UK Slipknot tour and last week's Coheed/Glassjaw shows, there's albums from Black Tusk and more and letlive's Fake History is this week's Album Club.

Hill and Beez get bummed out by Phil Anselmo, discuss Kerrang!’s Top 50 metal albums, there’s reviews on Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Roam, Toothgrinder and Prong, Danny Worsnop and Asking Alexandria’s situations, we give you a taster of our member's Pantera special with Cowboys From Hell in Album Club. We also give the advice to never, ever, ever get caught doing naughty things with pies. Mmmm, tasty.

Hill and Beez are joined by Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage, discuss the crushing Anselmo racism accusations and review new albums by Dream Theater, Milk teeth, Bury Tomorrow, Basement and The Dillinger Escape Plan's Greg Puciato's new project, The Black Queen. All of this and then Trevor from The Black Dahlia Murder joins us for Album Club on Cannibal Corpse's Tomb Of The Mutilated.

Hill and Beez are back with an epic Steve rant on the BRIT Awards, there's chat on At The Drive-In and Mudvayne's returns, phones at shows, reviews on the new Panic! At The Disco and Megadeth albums, our first killer new band of 2016 and Architects frontman Sam Carter joins Album Club to talk about the untouchable White Pony.

This week Beez and Hill are joined by Liam from Cancer Bats talking about his work for charity and the possible return of Axewound (!), there's chat on Of Mice & Men, Red Fang, Steel Panther and Lemmy's Memorial Service, reviews of the new Ignite, Enter Shikari and Brand New and Will from Creeper joins us to celebrate David Bowie in this week's Album Club.