May Contain Metal

Comedy metal podcast (maybe) bringing you slightly daft reviews of all the best new releases from bands you love and bands you’ve never heard of plus lots of other funny, metal related stuff. Put up your feet and put on the kettle, it’s May Contain Metal.

S5E4: Like Eating a Small Fake Shop

Protosequence, Frail Body, Horndal, Ingested, Ever Forthright, Contention, Love Sex Machine, Candy. Plus the incomprehensible witterings of a couple of silly old madmen.

04-12
51:32

S5E3: Under the Running order

Job for a Cowboy, Kollapse, Cell Press, Weston Super Maim, The Sawtooth Grin, Earthtone9, Exist and God Mother. PLUS we get a voice note from Cancer Christ and we discuss the kind of jobs that might be suitable for a half-cow half-boy hybrid. Thanks.

03-25
01:02:44

S5E2: Gotta Wash That Lid

Refore, Bokassa, Ihsahn, FHORCE, Protosequence, Imminence, Vulture, Kittie and LOADS MORE. Tell a friend.

02-23
37:56

S5E1: ATRACTABAT

Drown in Sulphur, Yersin, Cancer Christ, Cariosus, Worse than Death, Wasp Mother, Divided, Kollapse PLUS LOADS MORE STUFF!

01-26
50:48

S4E14: Album of the Year 2023

Join us on a metal journey (sort of) through last year as we take you through our top 10 albums of last year! We also tell you what wasn’t very good which is fun too.

01-15
58:55

S4E13: Let it Sleigh

Merry Metalmas! Matt plays an incredibly well executed metal Christmas mash up game. We talk new releases from Full of Hell & Nothing, Panopticon, Lies!, Oro, Comeback Kid, Capsule, Thoughtcrimes and Utopia.

12-22
46:43

S4E12: Metal Adjacent

End, Ex Everything, Laang, Horsewhip, Texas in July, Enterprise Earth, Better Lovers, Drown in Sulphur. Also some great chat about Taiwanese duos and St.Ives.

11-30
35:49

S4E11: Divorce Papers

Crosses, Vertebra Atlantis, Dreamwell, VCTMS, Many Eyes, Abattoir, Static Dress, Splitknuckle aaaaaaand lots of GREAT CHAT!

10-27
40:44

S4E10: The MEGASODE!

It’s been a while! We catch up on gigs we’ve been to. Race through 6 albums we loved that came out in August/early September but didn’t make it into a show because there wasn’t one. Then we take you through some notable newer releases as per usual. All in that same jaunty but incredibly slick May Contain Metal style that you know and love so dearly. TELL A FRIEND.

10-13
01:00:52

S4E9: The Road to ArcTanGent 2023

We’re going to ArcTanGent! 6 bands we didn’t know but now are bang up for. 6 we already knew and are also bang up for aaaaand we discuss some VERY SERIOUS FESTIVAL CLASHES that we need to work through. See you there?

08-11
41:39

S4E8: Episode Nan

Will Haven, Radiant Knife, Nuclear Dudes, Johnny Booth, Better Lovers, Capra, Hazing Over and Dreamwell all get the May Contain Metal treatment plus lots of stupid chat as is customary. Tell a friend!

07-28
44:37

S4E7: Approach Cautiously

Lots of references to the number 69, and also Soulkeeper, Grant the Sun, Queens of the Stone Age, TAKACS, Knocked Loose, The Motion Mosaic, Mutoid Man & Baroness. PLUS Matt’s been to Download AND Glastonbury since the last episode…did he survive? Yes he did. We also got a bunch of messages! Go us!

06-30
59:34

S4E6 : Scrooge McDrunk

Olkoth, Pupil Slicer, Blindfolded and Led to the Woods, Tortured Daemon, Koningsor, Empire State Bastard, Evile and Sylosis. We attempt to steal someone’s identity live on air (sort of) and find out who Matt’s going to see at Download! Tell a friend!

06-09
57:49

S4E5 : Goth Cereal

Here we bloody go! This time we talk festivals then it’s Nightmarer, The Ocean, Herod, Unearth, In Mourning, Will Haven, Pallid Veil and URNE that get the May Contain Metal treatment. We also get a message (lucky us). It’s time to put up your feet and put on the kettle, it’s May Contain Metal.

05-26
43:01

S4E4: Come See Doodleskull

Lurk, Lo!, Jesus Piece, Metallica, Vertex, Better Lovers, Koningsor, Cattle Decapitation AND MORE. OK not more really but also some lame chat and great times. LISTEN! It’s time to put up your feet and put on the kettle, it’s May Contain Metal.

05-06
49:01

S4E3: Fixin’ for a Vixen

This week you get our expert (lol) opinion on new music from Steel Panther, Judiciary, Dissentient, Suicide Silence, Fit For An Autopsy, DRAIN, Over Kill and Common Wounds. Then one gets the Album of the Week title aaand that’s actually about it aside from all the nonsense chat in between! It’s time to put up your feet and put on the kettle, it’s May Contain Metal.

03-18
46:09

S4E2: Take a Picture of your Gran (xenarthran mammal)

This week we talk about new releases from EYES, Mithridatum, In Flames, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Lo!, Megadeth, The Acacia Strain, Periphery. We crown one album of the week aaaaand that’s sort of it actually. It’s funny though too, so, you know…listen to it, yeah? It’s time to put up your feet and put on the kettle, it’s May Contain Metal.

02-22
42:32

S4E1: Print Something off, Put it on your Fridge

New year new us, but largely similar content. This week we discuss new releases from Tidal Waves, Polar, Turbid North, Kollaps\e, Tan and Handsome, Chelsea Grin, Periphery and The Ocean. We crown one Album of the Week aaaand that’s it! We might have binned off Band Name Generator…oops! It’s time to put up your feet and put on the kettle, it’s May Contain Metal.

01-23
33:18

S3E14: Album of the Year 2022

Which band will win the highest accolade in metal?! The May Contain Metal Album of the Year! GOD IT’S SO EXCITING!

01-13
41:43

S3E13: Axe Cult War

We get a message from a record label. We talk about Christmas a tiny bit. We discuss new music from Elder, Blame Kandinsky, Colonial Wound, 16, Doomsday, Metallica, Atrocity and Silent Civilain. We crown one Album of the Week. Then we gloat about our Spotify Wrapped podcast stats and theeen a small Christmas treat (sort of). MERRY CHRISTMAS YA FILTH…you get the idea.

12-23
56:19

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