That's Not Metal

With a heavy heart, Hill and Beez try to come to terms with the news of letlive’s split. There’s better news with Napalm Death and Earache Records invading Glastonbury and Zakk Wylde’s return to Ozzy Osborne’s band, we discuss the returns of both Rancid and Pvris, there’s album reviews on the new releases from At The Drive-In, Motionless In White, Gnarwolves and Full Of Hell and our Album Club comes on Beartooth’s debut album, Disgusting.

Stephen Hill chats to Mina Caputo and Alan Robert of Life Of Agony about their incredible journey, both personal and musical, the stories behind that journey and an insight into one of the most criminally underrated bands of the past 25 years.

Hill and Beez go tropical on today’s episode and discuss the new songs from Stone Sour and Fall Out Boy and Ivan Moody leaves and returns to Five Finger Death Punch within 24 hours, there’s live reports from Mastodon and Rise Against, discussion on band set lists and more, album reviews on New Found Glory, Life Of Agony, Blood Command and Daisyhead and cover Muse’s Black Holes and Revelations in this week’s Album Club. All this and more laughs than you can shake a coconut bra at on today’s laugh a minute That’s Not Metal.

Hill & Beez discuss the festivals in depth and how things outside of just bands being booked can effect our festival going experience. Can the future of festivals be helped by more than just the bands being booked? A lot of intense discussion before we bring in the expert, Mr Clay Busch of Danny Wimmer Presents who works on some of America’s biggest festivals such as Rock On The Range, Chicago Open Air and more.

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Hill and Beez discuss Mark Morton from Lamb Of God's solo album, Korn's 12 year old bassist, our imaginary Netflix series starring Scott Stapp and Wes Scantlin, how the charts are impacted by streaming and play a WORLD EXCLUSIVE new track from Gnarwolves' forthcoming album, Outsiders. There are album reviews on some of the best releases we've missed this year including Within The Ruins, Vein, Royal Thunder and The Smith Street Band, live reports from Parkway Drive in the UK and Dreamcar, Thursday and When We Were Young festival and our Album Club is on Bring Me The Horizon's Sempiternal.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

After releasing one of the most groundbreaking albums in the recent history of rock music, Beez sits down with Caro Tanghe of Oathbreaker to discuss their landmark album, Rheia, just how far a person is willing to push themselves physically and mentally for their art and how you difficult it is to take art that delves into the darkest parts of your emotions on the road and onto the stage. This is an interview not to be missed.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

Hill and Beez laugh in the face of criticisms of this year's Bloodstock festival and the NME's Mastodon 'review', there are album reviews from Falling In Reverse, Jacob Bannon of Converge's Wear Your Wounds project and The Flatliners, a report from Creeper's TNM associated headline tour and our Album Club is on one of the 90s most decadent and brilliant albums, Monster Magnet's Power Trip.

Beez catches up with Bill and Brann from Mastodon to talk about their quite frankly incredible new album, Emperor Of Sand. The concepts, the inspirations and the full story behind one of the year's best albums. Dive right in.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

It's a huge week with Hill and Beez reviewing the new Mastodon album, Ghost and Suicide Silence line in the UK, Biffy Clyro and Oathbreaker live in the US, more album reviews from Ice T's Body Count, Brutality Will Prevail and Sumo Cyco, our wrestling theme tunes and an Album Club on Alexisonfire's Old Crows/Young Cardinals. Oh and it turns out that cats quite like prawns.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

Stephen Hill catches up with Nergal (you'll know him from Behemoth) and British songwriter John Porter to chat in-depth about their new project, Me And That Man. What do an extreme metal artist and a folk songwriter have in common? How did this project come to pass? How do they define their new album, Songs Of Love And Death? All of this plus a few tasty morsels about Behemoth's follow up to The Satanist, only on today's TNM Extra.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

Hill and Beez have a bumper week where they reveal the launch of That's Not Metal Radio, discuss the controversial Warped Tour line-up for 2017, there's the review of Creeper's Eternity In Your Arms, Northlane's surprise album drop Mesmer and the new albums from Pallbearer and Nergal from Behemoth's new project, Me And That Man. Throw in a very special Album Club on Coheed & Cambria's Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness and a whole host of lols and you have one hell of a That's Not Metal.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

We have no idea how many questions we asked (it’s just a good title) as Hill & Beez travel back in time to tackle one of those old school MySpace quizzes in what is one of the all-time greatest podcasts we’ve ever recorded. What’s their favourite chocolate bar? When was the last time they cried? Why are goats such massive pricks? This is one of those specials where you’re going to get funny looks when you start cracking up whether at home or in public. Hill & Beez on the form of their life. Enjoy, apologies about the Steel Panther interview but we are certain that you’ll agree that this more than makes up for it.

Hill and Beez get into the raging argument on Metallica's ticket prices, new tracks from Weezer and Blink 182, the ultimate summer bands, new albums from Steel Panther, Sorority Noise and Fit For An Autopsy, there's gig reviews from Gojira/Code Orange/Car Bomb and Helmet in the UK and Enter Shikari, The Menzingers, Darkest Hour and Paul Stanley's Soul Station in the States and our Album Club is on CKY's Infiltrate.Rebuild.Destroy. Yup, this show is stacked and it'll make you never look at your parents in the same way again.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

As Enter Shikari rampage around planet earth celebrating the 10th Anniversary of their debut album, Take To The Skies, Beez sits down for a chat with Rou Reynolds to talk about the band's early days, the album itself and what to expect from this tour and their headline dates at Slam Dunk Festival. There's also talk on their new hardback book, Dear Future Historians, a chat about how the new album is shaping up, how being politically active is shaping the words for that new album and just what is his beef with Sorry, You're Not A Winner? All that and more in this exclusive TNM chat.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

Hill and Beez answer your excellent questions in the aftermath of last week's Great Metal Summit, chat about Eddie Vedder's expensive tickets and the week's rock and metal news, review the new albums from Darkest Hour, Havok and Can't Swim and, after the news that they are to split following a farewell tour, there's a bittersweet look at HIM's Venus Doom in Album Club.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones, travel speakers and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

TNM Extra welcomes frontman of extreme metal pioneers Napalm Death, Barney Greenway.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones, travel speakers and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

Hill and Beez are joined by Metal Hammer editor, Merlin Alderslade, and our very own extreme metal expert Tom Dare to discuss all of the big issues surrounding metal in 2017. Is metal in a good place creatively? Can metal ever be a force in the mainstream again? Which bands can spearhead a metal revolution? All of this and much, much more in one of our best episodes to date. Do not miss this.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones, travel speakers and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

The most talked about band of the moment comes to talk to the most talked about podcast in metal. Eddie Hermida talks to Stephen Hill about Suicide Silence's controversial self-titled album, the genius of Ross Robinson, taking on the internet, being a true artist and sticking to your guns. Whether you love or loathe their new album, this chat provides a metric shit tonne of content for the album itself. Do not miss this one.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones, travel speakers and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

Hill and Beez bring you a super exciting week of music. Seriously, this is one of THOSE weeks. This weeks show contains the TNM verdict on the controversial new Suicide Silence album and new music from Emmure, Power Trip and Zeal & Ardor, there's talk about metal at the BRIT Awards, is Grime the new punk and our Album Club comes in the shape of The Damned Things' debut opus.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones, travel speakers and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic