That's Not Metal

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.