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It's a huge week as Enter Shikari return with a barn stormer of an album, there's discussion on who is the best band in the world right now and more in your letters, lolz aplenty with Puddle Of Mudd's Nirvana impression and our Album Club goes back to 1995 for Skunk Anansie's Paranoid And Sunburnt.

We chat about what we want from Download festival in 2021 and more in your letters, Nightwish, Testament and Demonic Death Judge have their latest albums reviewed and Sublime's self-titled is featured in this week's Album Club.

It's a stir crazy week where we talk about Drag Race, Godzilla and leprechauns in the absence of actual news, your letters defend Smash Mouth and things get back on track with Nine Inch Nails, Me And That Man and All Time Low have their new album reviews and there's an Album Club for the ages on Motorhead's Ace Of Spades. Everything Louder Than Everything Else.

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Back once again for the renegade quizmaster! Enjoy part 1 of the 2nd ever TNM Quarantine quiz. We've dropped the price on annual subscriptions to £20 so to get the rest of this special as well as over 200 hours of premium podcasts, head to thatsnotmetal.net and get TNM Premium.

Bizarrely, it's a massive week for TNM with new albums to review from Pearl Jam, Milk Teeth and one of the best new metal bands to debut in ages from Irist. We deal with the sad news that there will be no Download festival this year, there are returns from Trivium, Nine Inch Nails, Jamie Lenman, a bumper mailbag and The Ghost Inside's Dear Youth features on Album Club.

The final free round of the first ever TNM Pub Quiz is here for your enjoyment.Get the full quiz by subscribing at thatsnotmetal.net. Premium episodes are all available with subscription on the That's Not Metal App.

Round 2 of the first ever TNM Pub Quiz is here for your enjoyment.Get the full quiz by subscribing at thatsnotmetal.net. Premium episodes are all available with subscription on the That's Not Metal App.

Round 1 of the first ever TNM Pub Quiz is here for your enjoyment. Get the full quiz by subscribing at thatsnotmetal.net. Premium episodes are all available with subscription on the That's Not Metal App/

Two thirds of the TNM team decide to drink their way through the apocalype as we bring you a bumper mailbag, some of the year's most ridiculous news from Jared Leto in the desert to Trapt, reviews on the new In This Moment, Myrkur and Hyborian and there's a celebration of alll things Wildhearts as Endless Nameless gets the Album Club treatment.

We've had the tagline "support the things you love" since our inception and there has never been a more appropriate time to repeat that mantra. This special look at the realities facing the music that you love. We get the perspective of some folks on the frontline as we check in with Dylan from Spanish Love Songs and esteemed music managers Matt Hughes (Black Peaks, Jamie Lenman) and Mike Mowery (Ice Nine Kills). We'll be back on Friday with our regular programming. Stay safe and stay home.

We try to keep things upbeat as we discuss the very real implications of the Coronavirus on the music we love, we discuss the biggest album of the year so far in Code Orange's Underneath as well as new albums from Body Count and Video Nasties.If you want to help support bands effected by the Coronavirus, please click this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lVjdd-66y2D_DrsRuXUwNUz8KB_mx7R-cmMh1WwBQrI/edit?usp=sharing

Ghost have a brand new Papa, there's new music from Neck Deep, Creeper, Greg Puciato and more, we discuss bands that we thought would be massive but were not and round up some of the best albums of 2020 that we haven't covered on the show so far.

The TNM gang return with a look at new albums from Five Finger Death Punch, Intronaut and System Of A Down's John Dolmayan, Trivium return with a vengeance, it's been a hell of a week for The Used and our Album Club is on Muse's Absolution.

Ozzy returns with his first album in 10 years, Biffy Clyro and Machine Head return, we discuss what metalcore band would work best with a symphony orchestra, a look at the new Polaris and Starbenders albums and Album Club involves Ryan stitching the team up with one of the worst albums in existence - Crazy Town's The Gift Of Game.

So, Ryan sounded like a robot on the podcast we recorded so here's a brief summary of this week's Rage Against The Machine news and the album we all loved and an inside look at our premium podcasts. Available at thatsnotmetal.net, we are currently podcasting the entire career of Nine Inch Nails and here, for free, is the first hour of Part 1. Part 2 is also available at the site and Part 3 is coming this wednesday so, if you aren't part of TNM Premium, now is the time to sign up.

It's a massive week at TNM as we discuss the new Green Day album, an early Album Of The Year contender in Spanish Love Songs, rising British mob Loathe and returning metal lords Sylosis, there's Knotfest, new Lamb Of God and Black Dahlia Murder, discussion on rock stereotypes that drive us mad and much, much more.

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There's new music to discuss from Pearl Jam, Hayley Williams, Creeper and more, Disturbed's The Sickness causes an outright LOLocaust in Album Club, there's reviews on the new albums from Higher Power, Oberst and Midnight and all manner of rock related shenanigans.

This week’s TNM features chat on NIN going into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, new music from Avenged Sevenfold, Code Orange and Bury Tomorrow, Justin Hawkins appearing in The Masked Singer, reviews on the new releases from Dragged Under and The Hell and finally Beez, Perran and Ryan bringing you a bunch of smaller bands to keep an eye out for this year.