That's Not Metal

This week we look back on a historic moment of live music for our podcast in our combined Big Goth Weekend with a run of shows from The Cure, Outbreak/All Points East with an epochal headlining set from Deftones, and our AFI watch finally being brought to an end with their first UK headline shows in 16 years.

Releases:
Mastodon - Marrow Deep
Beartooth - Pure Ecstasy
In This Moment - Witch
Dinosaur Jr. - There Near
Kamelot - Dark Asylum
Flotsam and Jetsam - Rats in the Temple
Exumer - Death Mask Messiah
Ninth Realm - Damnation’s Veil
Russian Circles - Nine
Kulk - Choosing to Die
Rat Cage - Not Asking for Much
Static Abyss - The Dying Hunt
Gorod - The Ember Gone
Epicardiectomy - Dismal Landscapes of Voluptuous Pustular Cadaverosis
Turn of Phrase - Out in the Water 
President - Blood of Your Empire
Showing Teeth - A Fate Worse Than Loneliness
Gradience - Anomaly
Airbourne - Airbourne
Audrey Horne - Achilles
156/Silence - From a Distance
Judiciary - Stalagmite Angels
Movements - Happier Now
Sleep - Hempispheres
Chat Pile - Who Loves the Sun
Arab Strap - Half-Told Tales
Sigh - Goh-ka
Devil Master - Bloody Dreams
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex
Tales of Perdition - The Theatre of Existence
Behemoth - I, Scvlptor

Rivers Cuomo's QR code woes, some goth-pop flourish and questioning what even is an album lead the way for TNM reviews this time with Weezer's Gold Album, Chelsea Wolfe, Electric Callboy, Living Weapon, The Night Eternal, and Zorn going under the magnifying glass.

Weezer 30:05
Chelsea Wolfe 1:07:20
Electric Callboy 1:34:27
Living Weapon 1:58:41
The Night Eternal 2:14:36
Zorn 2:25:33

Chelsea Wolfe's new album release show and Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American set arrive for a lucky few in the UK, there's new music from Haywire, God's Hate, and Down, the sad news of the passing of legendary ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard, extreme legend Justin Broadrick's appearance on the new Phoebe Bridgers album, and the craziest stadium support act announcement of all time.

Releases:
Weezer - Weezer (The Gold Album)
Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark
The Night Eternal - Cold Velvet
Fen - Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth
Azatoth - Carnal Lust of Blasphemy
God’s Hate - Won’t Be Disgraced
Dark Funeral - A Beast to Praise

This week we discuss how Bloodstock's 2027 announcement doubles down on a new direction, and pull out some of the lesser discussed gems within the line-up.

Releases:
Various Artists - A Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins: Sending Hearts to All My Dearies
Dead Tired - Hornets of Fall
Living Weapon - Death in the Family
Sweeping Promises - You Say I Romanticize
Invocation Ritual - Altered Reality
Holissstik - Chapter 1: This Endless Solitude

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 - Tanzneid
John Carpenter - Cathedral
Cancer Bats - Give Me Dirt
Citizen - Halcyon Blues
Jamie Lenman - Puke
Ceremony - Tell Me Your Dream
Public Opinion - The Curse of Public Opinion
Negative Frame - Break the Ice
Wealthy Women - Children
Hulder - Verbolgen
Dymna Lotva - Vyraj
Horrifier - Revelations of Gore