That's Not Metal

It's the week where br00tal returned (and football season is over), as we make our way to Bring Me the Horizon's Count Your Blessings | Repented shows and into the re-recorded album for the biggest event in 2006 deathcore since... 2006.

Releases:
Final Resting Place - Third World Tribunal
Loathe - A Stranger to You
Motionless In White - Decades
Boundaries - Yearning: The unbeautiful after
Protest the Hero - Within
As It Is - As It Is
The Menzingers - Everything I Ever Saw
Quicksand - Bring on the Psychics
Fuming Mouth - The Ringing Bell
Fed Ash + HIRS - I AM BODY HORROR
Left to Die - Initium Mortis
Psycroptic - The Pulse of Annihilation
Imperium - Exodus Unknown
Emptiness - Nowhere Speaks
Haken - In a Fever Dream
Red Method - As In Life

Sound the charge, into glory ride, as Album Clubs look at the maddening effect Twenty One Pilots' ragga-pop Blurryface had on rock, the most metal band of all Manowar's debut Battle Hymns, Turnover's mastering of emo dreampop on Peripheral Vision, and one of the 21st century's greatest and wickedest rock bands The Devil's Blood with The Time of Time No Evermore.

This episode was originally published July 2025 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Both Metallica's No Repeats weekend and My Chemical Romance's 20th anniversary Black Parade musical theatre reimagining hit UK stadiums, plus Damon Albarn beefs with an unlikely underground metal target.

Releases:
Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings | Repented
The Plot In You - The Plot In You
The Xcerts - i think i want to go home now
Show Me the Body - Alone Together
DevilDriver - Strike and Kill
No Cure - It Is Going to Get Dark
Daydream Plus - Second Last Day of Summer
If These Trees Could Talk - The Hidden Hand
Arise From Worms - A Bleeding Tree Hanging Self Destruction
Mourir - Nous, le venin

Two hard and heavy events hit the UK heat this week, as Outbreak Festival brings Hatebreed, Converge, Alexisonfire, Basement, & loads more, and Acid Bath's mad reunion brings the swamp to town their first ever UK appearance.

Releases:
Muse - The WOW! Signal
The Pretty Reckless - Dear God
Butthole Surfers - After the Astronaut
The Dead Pioneers - Wagon Burner
Truck Violence - The Weathervane is My Body
Junius - Sotera
Phantom - Not Midnight Yet
Speedslut - Cimbrian Rites
Nunslaughter - Satanic Chaos Legions
Astriferous - Atavistic Unraveling
Nargaroth - Apocalyptic Steel
Forsmán - Brenndar Rústir & Fuðrandi Fjörur
Miracle - The Living Likeness of My Electric Daemon
Shane Embury - Bridge to Resolution
Mortiis - Ghosts of Europa
Fief - VII
Arcane Roots - A Wave, Across the Sea
Fiddlehead - Baby I’ll Change
Deep Purple - Splat!
Dominum - Night is Calling
Moonspell - Far From God
Witchsorrow - The Devil and All His Works
Soothsayer - The Unbinding
Mortem - Mørketid

From twenty year waits to four month breaks, we mop up some of the biggest heavy records of the last few weeks reviewing Converge's second album of 2026, Marmozets, Static Dress, Turnover, Guilt Trip, Warning, Stormkeep, & Funebrarum.

Converge 26:04
Marmozets 48:34
Static Dress 1:15:35
Turnover 1:30:00
Guilt Trip 1:41:39
Warning 1:53:38
Stormkeep 2:20:01
Funebrarum 2:38:26