Harsh Vocals

I can’t believe it’s been two years since we started this journey with Harsh Vocals! To celebrate, we’ve revamped the website and updated our logo, hopefully you all like it! For our Forty-Ninth episode, we discuss the highs and lows of 2025, and deep dive on both of our top30 albums for the year. Of course there is a little overlap, but there’s a few surprises too! It’s a very long episode, but there are a lot of laughs and some great discussion. We hope you’ll stick around until the end. We also want to thank everyone who has supported us by visiting the site, checking out the podcast, and leaving us reviews. Every message, comment, and review means so much to us, and makes us feel like we’re really doing something to help promote this amazing music we love so much. We have so much to look forward to in 2026, so we hope you’ll all stick around and see what’s in store! If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, TikTok, X, Threads, Bluesky, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Graveripper – Bring Upon Pain Mystic Circle – Luciferian Starer – Song of the Harper Bliss of Flesh – Martyr Condition Critical – Wretched Aggression Thormesis – Am Morgen, wenn die Sonne untrgeht

For our forty-eighth episode, we decided to discuss ourselves and our passions outside of Metal. You’ve been listening to us for two years now, so we felt it was time to talk about who we are! Of course, we also discuss our favorite six albums from the past two weeks, as well as a ton of honorable mentions. It was another great cycle! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Massachusetts based Punk/Thrash Metal band, “Death Ray Vision”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://deathrayvision.bandcamp.com If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Sterbhaus – Death Bu Wolfe Depravity – Call to the Fallen Nokk – All the Pretty Things Bore – Hoof & Feather Morbikon – Ghoul Infested Mausoleum Lamp of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy, Pt. 1 – Moondance Death Ray Vision – From the Rafters Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Ash Return – Defy and Conquer Mezzrow – Embrace the Awakening Olde Throne – Megalith Outlying – Oblivisci The Halo Effect – We are Shadows Speedclaw – Stardust Frozen Land – Icemelter Bloodhound – Field of Swords Darktribe – Forgotten Reveries Mytherine – Lord of Mountains Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Valpur – With Ire Ablazes the Stone Devouring Famine – A Man Whispering with the Dead Demon King – Death Knell 1914 – Viribus Unitis Halmad – When Night Rode Across the Earth Karu – Perdition Spleen Flipper – Through the Ashes of Mankind

For our forty-seventh episode, we decided to do another “More Music” episode, featuring an even lengthier discussion about our favorite albums of the past two weeks, rather than a topic! We did this because there were simply too many great albums released through this cycle! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Las Vegas based Black/Death Metal band, “Scathen”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://scathen.bandcamp.com/track/fecal-filled-host If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Avernal – Arconte Egregor Ophidian Memory – Cenotaph Faust – To The Fire, To The Death Outlaw – Through the Infinite Darkness Ovader – Ymir’s Tale Mystic Circle – The Scarlet Queen of Harlots Thron – One Truth, One Light Bliss of Flesh – The Awakening Scathen – Fecal-Filled Host Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Burned in Effigy – Tyrannus Aeternum Canvas of Silence – As the World Tree Fell Defecto – Echoes of Isolation Tapeworm Electric – Moonshine Aria – ? Agnostic Front – Echoes in Eternity Centinex – With Guts and Glory Insidius – Vulgus Illustrata Omnium Gatherum – May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way Soulfracture – The Leader of the Exploited Malakhim – And in our Hearts, the Devil Sings Misanthropic Might – Qualzucht Glorious Depravity – Death Never Sleeps Ildaruni – Divinum Sanguinem Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: One of Nine – Dawn of the Iron Shadow Nyrak – Phoenix Mortis Krahenfeld – …Vom Ruf der Leere Warfield Within – Rise of Independence Godark – Omniscience Pedestal for Leviathan – Enter: Vampyric Manifestation Embraced by Darkness – Ex Inferis Miasmata – Subterrania Flesia – Achterbahnekstase

For our forty-sixth episode, we decided to talk about the different streaming platform options, and the recent mass-exodus from certain ones due to unsavory ads. Of course we also talk about the best albums from yet another incredibly strong two week cycle! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the English Progressive Death Metal band, “Soulfracture”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://soulfracture.bandcamp.com/album/the-leader-of-the-exploited If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Soul Grinder – Malevolent Reality Scorching Tomb – Skullcrush Coroner – Symmetry Darah – Futility Graveripper – New Gods, New Masters Impermanence – From Mirage to Lust Soulfracture – The Leader of the Exploited Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Blindman – After Rain Anthology – Frozen Sun Monolyth – Seeds of Perserverance Victimarum – Seitseman Soihdun Valossa Afsky – Faellesskab Battle Beast – Steelbound Hellbearer – Darker Fates Sabaton – Legends Glasya – Fear Fatal Portrait – An Illusive Instinct for Lascivia Redux Sintage – Unbound Triumph Inlimine – Inveteratus Jet Jaguar – Severance Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: UAAR – Galger Og Brann Tribal Gaze – Inveighing Brilliance Argesk – Moonlight Pyromancy Wretched – Decay Aurora Ortis – Against Ourselves IRR – Remains Remain Bonginator – Retrodeath

For our forty-fifth episode, we decided to talk about theatrics and the role they play in metal performances. We discuss shocking performances and some unusual things we’ve personally seen, as well as how the general population views Metal. Of course we also talk about the best albums from yet another incredibly strong two week cycle! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Portland, Oregon Blackened Melodic Death Metal band, “These Cursed Hands”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://thesecursedhands.bandcamp.com If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Turn Cold – Dog Bite Torture Machine – A Call From the Void Angrrsth – Prog Enragement – Abyssal Hellscapes Thorondir – Blut Und Ruhm Les Batards Du Roi – L’Ame sans repos These Cursed Hands – Extermination Revelation Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Voragoth – Storm Obey No Masters Cruentus – End Without End Horror Within – Soul Awakening Necrotic Woods – Committed on Flesh Ofermod – Drakosophia Testament – Para Bellum Ultra Raptor – Fossilized Dead Heat – Process of Elimination Haeresis – Si Vis Parem Para Bellum Pandemic Outbreak – Torment Beyond Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Zero Degree – What We Become Lycantrophilia – The Tyranny of Decay Frosted Undergrowth – Unchained Galge – D0DELIG Terzij De Horde – Our Breath is Not Ours Alone Scalding – Nuclear Winter Spell Starer – Ancient Monuments and Modern Sadness Wode – Uncrossing the Keys Katakomba – The Second Death Vials of Wrath – Remnants for Remembrance

On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Konstantin and Andy from the German Post-Black Metal band, Thormesis! Currently, their latest album “Nevertheless” sits at the top of our Album of the Year list, and we are very excited to get to know the band better and learn more about what went into making it! Thormesis has been around for decades and is one of the most unique and talented bands making emotionally-driven black metal today. If you haven’t heard their latest album, check it out at the link below! https://thormesis.de Listen at the end of the podcast to hear the track “Entzweit”! Also, Follow us on Facebook, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

For our forty-fourth episode, we both got sick! Due to illness wrecking our voices, we had to postpone recording, so rather than a two week cycle of music, you’re all getting the best of three weeks instead! Due to having more music, we decided to forgo a topic on this episode, so just enjoy the extra tunes and our discussion on all the incredible albums that came out over this incredibly strong cycle! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Portland, Oregon Blackened Doom/Death/Sludge band “Mind Prisoner”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://mindprisoner.bandcamp.com/album/less-faith If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Overt Enemy – Psychotic Episode Moribund Oblivion – Deceptive Portals Vittra – Reign Supreme Frost – In The Rotten Hands of Time Krigsgrav – Ghosts Wounds of Recollection – Everyone I Love Will Someday Die Brotthogg – Mare Thormesis – Made of Nothing Mind Prisoner – Years Gone

For our forty-third episode, we decided to talk about bands crossing over into the mainstream, and some of the changes in sound that can lead to fallout. Is it natural, or forced? Has a band truly become a sellout, or are they just softening their sound and gaining mass appeal? We have thoughts! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Spanish black metal band “Path of Redemption”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://pathofredemption.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-from-the-depths If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Violator – Destroy the Altar Autrest – Forsaken Electrocutioner – Final Prophet Progeny of Sun – Worldstone Condition Critical – Incubation Disposal In Mourning – Silver Crescent Path of Redemption – Where Broken Spirits Lie

For our forty-second episode, we decided to discuss some current events, as there has been an abundance of band drama circulating on the Metal News sites over the past few weeks. Most notably with Cradle of Filth. We have some thoughts! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Houston Progressive Death/Thrash band, “KHEPERA”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://kheperaband.bandcamp.com/album/foreword If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: BAEST – Misfortunate Son Ashen – Ancestral Gate Warmen – Dethroned Corridoré – This Great Demise Vindicator – Ripper Attack Inpathos – Grand Design KHEPERA – Wendigo

For our forty-first episode we decided to talk about our all-time favorite vocalists! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Croatian Melodic Black Metal band “Voragoth” Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://voragoth.bandcamp.com/track/renegades If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Sinsaenum – In Devastation Terror Society – My Last Days Finistère – Hartwarden Harvested – Designed Dilemma Asunojokei – Angel Blackbraid – The Dying of a Sacred Stag Voragoth – Renegades

For our fortieth episode we decided to talk about all the things we hear in music that we don’t enjoy, as well as the things we see at concerts and online that negatively impact us. Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the German Death Metal band “Monstrum” Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://monstrum666.bandcamp.com/album/mental-demolition If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Oskoreien – To Kiss the Viper’s Fang Recorruptor – Insidious Rot Abyssery – Interminable End Abigail Williams – Talk to Your Sleep Jordfäst – Dit gudarna trälar är Pt 2 Ba’al – Floral Cairn Monstrum – Beyond the Stars

For our thirty-ninth episode, we decided to discuss some of the more unusual things we’ve seen at merch tables while attending concerts. We also scoured the internet for other people’s strangest items, and we found quite a few entertaining ones! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the USBM project “Kriyul”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://kriyul.bandcamp.com If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Anger Machine – Parasite Stygian – Death Rite Anheim – Ascheschrein Imperial Crystalline Entombment (I.C.E.) – Phantoms of Ice Sarastus – From Pride, To Shame, To Misery Weald & Woe – Brought to Ruin Kriyul – Unrighteous

For our thirty-eighth episode, we decided to look back at our formative years and the albums that made us realize our passion for music and how those albums have impacted us over the years. Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the USBM project “Mycorrhizae”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://bigbovine.bandcamp.com/album/mycorrhizae If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Indemon – Abuse Lord Belial – Serpent’s Feast Inhuman Condition – Mind – Tool – Weapon Cryptopsy – Our Great Deception Skjolden – Keeper of the Silent Heart Helheim – Sorg er dødens spade Mycorrhizae – Strength in Space

For our thirty-seventh episode, We discuss our current top 10 lists from 2025 so far! There’s been a lot of great releases, and enough variety that there isn’t much overlap between Justin and Christian’s lists! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Italian Black Metal project “Hell Winter”. Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://hellwinter.bandcamp.com/album/painting-in-black If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Death Reapers – Enemy Refusal – Dehumanize Lacabra – Devil’s Mechanic Nightbearer – Reign Supreme View from the Soyuz – Black Roses Outergods – The Sleepless Malice Hell Winter – Shadows of the Fjord

For our thirty-sixth episode, We decided to talk about record labels and their value in modern metal. Recently Archspire dropped their label and crowdfunded their next album, and the metal community has a lot of opinions about the move. We discuss that and more! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the new USBM project “Eveale”! Check out their Ampwall at the link below: https://ampwall.com/a/eveale If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Reject the Sickness – When I Become You Crust – Premeditation of Evils …And Oceans – The Fire in Which We Burn The Haunted – Unbound Walg – Zielsalleen Puteraeon – Gods of Unhallowed Space Eveale – The Enemy

For our thirty-fifth episode, We decided to play a new game, where Christian has created a list of real and fake bands, along with songs and backstories. Justin has to guess which are real and which are fake. There’s a lot of surprises, and definitely some clever titles from both the real and fake options! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Portugese Solo Black Metal project – Sardonic Witchery! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://sardonicwitchery.bandcamp.com If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Ondfodt – Grymhejtins Ansikt AntropomorphiA – Devoid of Light Exilium Noctis – Priest of Blasphemy Pandemia – Heights of Your Fear Sphere – Canto III: Gula Jade – Darkness in Movement Sardonic Witchery – Lusitanian Wolf (Viriathus)

For our thirty-fourth episode, We decided to discuss our takes on censorship. What level is acceptable? Who should decide what should or shouldn’t be censored? Are there any positives? Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Greek Gothic/Black Metal band – Mournful Moon Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://mournfulmoon.bandcamp.com/music If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Amalekim – Chant VI: Tisha Daltot Coffin Feeder – Love at First Death Labyrinthus Stellarum – Cosmic Plague Dispyt – Fran melankoli till meningsloshet Misfire – Left For Dead Cogas – Autopsy of An Hollow Mournful Moon – Theatre Phantom

On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Carl Skildum, the man behind several of our favorite projects, including Antiverse, Inexorum, and Majesties! We talk about his latest project Skjolden, as well as his creative process, influences, touring, and more! Of course we also ask some deep dive questions about his upcoming Skjolden album – Insoucient Metaphysical Grandeur. Since recording, we’ve had the opportunity to hear the album in it’s entirety, and it’s fantastic! It was an absolute blast to get to know Carl, and we’re excited for everyone to hear his new project! Listen at the end of the podcast to hear the title track “Insoucient Metaphysical Grandeur”! Check out Insoucient Metaphysical Grandeur when it drops on June 20th 2025, via bandcamp: https://skjolden.bandcamp.com/album/insouciant-metaphysical-grandeur Also, Follow us on Facebook, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

For our thirty-third episode, We decided to reminisce about our favorite concerts we’ve been to. Most of them have some sentimental value, and others are just incredible performances. We’ve both attended hundreds of shows, and these are the ones that mattered the most! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Iowa based Death/Thrash band “Diezeleater”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://diezeleater.bandcamp.com If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Inherited – Spiritual Butcher Destinity – Everdark Infernal Deceit – The Primordial Maze and the Crawling Chaos Sumerian Tombs – Age of Eternal Night Lik – Deceased Dormant Ordeal – Orphans Diezeleater – Flames Ov Fury

On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Kyle Walburn, Brandon Iacovella, and Matthew Longerbeam, the guitarists and vocalists behind behind progressive black metal band “Tómarúm”. We talk about Tómarúm’s creative process, influences, touring, and more! Of course we also ask some deep dive questions about their latest album – Beyond Obsidian Euphoria. It’s an incredibly dense and challenging listen, but one that greatly rewards repeat visits, and will likely end up high on our end of year lists! It was an absolute blast to get to know the guys from Tómarúm, and hopefully we’ll get the chance to see them on tour later this year! Listen at the end of the podcast to hear the track they chose which best highlights the album “Halcyon Memory: Dreamscapes Across the Blue” Order a copy of Beyond Obsidian Euphoria on their bandcamp here: https://tomarum.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-obsidian-euphoria Also, Follow us on Facebook, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!