That's Not Metal

September gets us all sludgy as reviews pore over new Mastodon, Green Lung, Anthrax, Chat Pile, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Sleep, Devil Master, & Wrong Man, Evanescence playing the UK's biggest arena, and Tony Iommi being the boss yet again.Mastodon 38:10Green Lung 1:22:40Anthrax 1:48:34Chat Pile 2:07:25Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats 2:26:18Sleep 2:42:26Devil Master 2:52:30Wrong Man 3:10:13

First and foremost, we try to speak to the awful loss of Every Time I Die legend Andy Williams. From there we tackle new singles from Slipknot and Spiritbox, the hallucinatory hellscape stories related to Muse's Meta troubles and Breaking Benjamin's modder feud tirades, and put our tin foil hats to theorise that SURELY the Gallows teasing can't just be for vinyl reissues...Releases:Green Lung - NecropolitanBrian Fallon - Not Bad for New JerseyThe Meffs - BusinessWrong Man - Here’s That FeelingKilling of a Sacred Deer - Encephalic AngelsHarlott - ExsequiisDreadnought - Wars of Spirit // Wards of LightArchgoat - Nightbringer, LightbringerFluisteraars - Jacht der MysterienEpitaphe - III

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 DeepBeartooth - Pure EcstasyIn This Moment - WitchDinosaur Jr. - There NearKamelot - Dark AsylumFlotsam and Jetsam - Rats in the TempleExumer - Death Mask MessiahNinth Realm - Damnation’s VeilRussian Circles - NineKulk - Choosing to DieRat Cage - Not Asking for MuchStatic Abyss - The Dying HuntGorod - The Ember GoneEpicardiectomy - Dismal Landscapes of Voluptuous Pustular CadaverosisTurn of Phrase - Out in the Water President - Blood of Your EmpireShowing Teeth - A Fate Worse Than LonelinessGradience - AnomalyAirbourne - AirbourneAudrey Horne - Achilles156/Silence - From a DistanceJudiciary - Stalagmite AngelsMovements - Happier NowSleep - HempispheresChat Pile - Who Loves the SunArab Strap - Half-Told TalesSigh - Goh-kaDevil Master - Bloody DreamsGreen Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah ComplexTales of Perdition - The Theatre of ExistenceBehemoth - 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 30:05Chelsea Wolfe 1:07:20Electric Callboy 1:34:27Living Weapon 1:58:41The Night Eternal 2:14:36Zorn 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 DarkThe Night Eternal - Cold VelvetFen - Elemental Part One: Mourning EarthAzatoth - Carnal Lust of BlasphemyGod’s Hate - Won’t Be DisgracedDark Funeral - A Beast to Praise