Brutal death metal might be the greatest genre ever. Presented in all of its diverse, fearless and punishing forms here.Playlist: DJINN-GHUL - PSEUDOSAPIENPosthuman Abomination - SubdermalDeformatory - CorpsebornDisentomb - Drear PropheciesVirologist - Opprobrium TransmogrificationTheurgy - The Path to InitiationEffluence - NecrotogenWORMED - AUTOMATON VIRTULAGUEInfibulated - Unholy Enmity (feat. Matt from Excresence)Cadavoracity - ParalyticusAnguine - Shroud of BloomUlcerate - The Dawn Is Hollow
Playlist: Mycorrhizae - Burning UndergroundYellow Eyes - StillicideErraunt - Emerald VisionsVestigio - ResquicioChaos Moon - To Transcend the SpineDressed in Streams - Vande Mataram (Mother, I Bow to Thee!)Eos - Sommeil
Playlist: Gatecreeper - Caught in the TreadsBolt Thrower - Powder BurnsApparition - Imminent Expanse of Silence and Not (or Not)Incantation - United in RepugnanceSlimelord - Splayed MudscapeObituary - Cause of DeathCiverous - Geryon (The Plummet)Swallowed - Reverence Through Darkness
Playlist: Replicant - The FrailEffluence - Projected HostilityUrushiol - Pillars of Red SmokeMyrkskog - Discipline MisanthropyYattering - Unnormally ZoneNear Death Condition - Orgasm Through AutophagyCarthage - Crossing the AlpsDefacement - ShatteredDiskord - Bionic Tomb EternalLye By Mistake - 900 Seconds In Search of Jerry
Visiting professor emeritus of all things evil and putrid STEPHEN is back to teach us in the ways of ignorant slammery.Playlist: Ergosphere - 5019019050140309010120Malignancy - Purity of PurposeGorgasm - CorpsefiendDisgorge - I Watch Myself RotDehumanized - Fade into ObscurityHuman Filleted - Kept Alive for TortureNuclear Remains - Sickening DepravityXenomorphic Contamination - Onset of InfectionCelestial Bifurication - Insufferable Telekinetic DisimpactionMetharoma - Spray and PrayGangrenous Flesh Consumption - Putrefying Intestinal SpewageDesecation - Inducing Cognitive ParalysisDecapitated - The Fury
Sampling some of the different flavours of black metal this weekPlaylist: Gorrch - ISacrificial Vein - Throne of PerversionScarcity - In the Basin of Alkaline GriefCastevet - As Fathomed by Beggars and VictimsGeryon - The Great SuppurationHeafodban - Spears of Eternitytrha - Danë‡i
Exploring a little more of the wonderful world of early 2000's death-grind.Playlist: Vitrified Entity - Hyaline WormholeRorigore - MoonscorchedTerminally Your Aborted Ghost - Undying Corpses of JoyPillory - Imbeciles in DefianceHarlots - In One Day Her Plagues Will Over Take erLethargy - CreateVirulence - Evolutionary MasqueradeHuman Remains - Weeding Out the ThornsCommit Suicide - ResonanceThe Senseless - Anywhere But HereGraven - Backwards to Oblivion
SOCAN Monitoring week means Canadian metal only, this time of the black metal persuasion.Playlist: R'luhh - UndoingR'luhh - MoonhuskR'luhh - Synthetic ApparitionSpectral Wound - Soul Destroying Black DebaucheryLiminal Shroud - HypoxicBasalte - Nous sommes lesionAbject Failure - Entrenched in Stone, The Screen Flickers A Lifeless Message of StaticGevurah - Black Sun Thaumiel
Odes to the mighty Shai Hulud (not the band)Playlist: Sandworm - Traveling TowardsSiberian Hell Sounds - A Cult Will RiseTriumvir Foul - Endless Spiritual ViolenceInfernal Coil - Bodies Set in Ashen DeathHissing - Identical to HungerHeresiarch - Gloryless ExecutionDiocletian - Zealot's PoisonConvulsing - shattered templesTeeth - The Fog of FutilityPortal - Transcending a Mere MultiverseSutekh Hexen - ...of Emanation
Doomy death metal to warm your cavernous heartsPlaylist: Gath Smane - Capillaries of AuguryDead Congregation - Quintessence MalignedAdharcail - The East Fills ItAphotic - Spectral DegradationSLIMELORD - Tidal SlaughtermarshRitual Necromancy - Cymbellum EosphorousThe Ominous Circle - A Gray Outcast
Paula Fayerman forever.Playlist: Effluence - MinceMeticulous Butchery - Induced Serotenergic DespoliationNeural Indent - Stretched Skin InvsionaryPortal - CurtainCabinet - Hydrolysated OrdinationChloroma - Akceate (Live)Encenathrakh - IcthkethtekhtclFawn Limbs, Nadja - Distilled in ObservanceEhnahre - Part I
Some special Valentines day metal, thankfully being a day late to Valentines has never had negative repercussions.Playlist: Carcass - HeartworkThe Black Dahlia Murder - Deathmask DivineTomb Mold - Servants of PossibilityPig Destroyer - HypervioletAstronoid - AirLiturgy - GOD OF LOVEENDON - Torch Your HouseHum - Apollo
A deep dive into the flavours of Quebec tech-thrash and it's compatriotsPlaylist: Quo Vadis - In ContemptMartyr - Virtual EmotionsNeuraxis - FractionizedHellwitch - Sentient TransmographyCoroner - Son of LilithAnata - Better Grieved than FooledDissimulator - Outer PhaseReplicant - Acid Mirror
Departing from the 90's of last week to more modern black metal from all over the world.Playlist: Serpent Column - Each and Every TempleZhrine - UnorthetaUnyielding Love - Joy of MagickChaos Moon - The Pillar, the Fall and the Key IEntheos - ContinentCastevet - The CurveCave Sermon - Liquid Gold
90's euro black metal exhibition. And also Curta'n Wall I can't explain that.Playlist: Necrophobic - Nailing the Holy OneDissection - Night's BloodOdium - Palace of Forgotten DreamsDimmu Borgir - Blessings Upon the Throne of TyrannyValdrin - Golden Walls of AusadjurBloody Keep - Werewolf's TaleCurta'n Wall - Wiz'rd's HatDawn - The Knell and the World
Brutal death metal of all varieties, though supposedly inspired by the incredible Disgorge (the Mexican one, though in my opinion this should be the original Disgorge, and we should call the other one Disgorge Cali)Playlist: Dick Pill Overdose - Thick Blue LinesCarcass - Ruptured in PurulenceDisgorge - Rancid Bowel SarcomaMiasmatic Necrosis - Septic Expulsion of a Collapsed CavityLast Days of Humanity - IntoxicatedDisgorge - Pest.Blood.MetalPerverted Dexterity - The Imminent AbsurdityDegrade - United In BrutalityBrodequin - Of Pillars and TreesDevourment - Profane ContagionSeminal Embalmment - Divine Agony
Excerpt from an interview with Trey Azagthoth of Morbid Angel on http://angemorbide.free.fr/interview24.html : Smother: Explain the concept of lava to us. Trey: Lava is just something funny. It's just talking about an abundant flow of energy. A vibrant flow of energy. Smother: Where did you derive that idea? Trey: Just because I'm silly. I like to have fun. I believe in being serious and still having fun at the same time.Playlist: Hate Eternal - The Obscure TerrorOrigin - Wrath of VishnuUnmerciful - Cast to FlamesMyrkskog - Utter Human MurderNile - User Maat ReRebaelliun - Bringer of WarIntonate - SeverMorbid Angel - Nothing But FearHeaving Earth - Nailed to Perpetual Anguish
Taking a look at the music that the Prisoner's Dilemma is most excited to hear in the year 2024. I had given up on the idea of a new Sarpanitum release, I need Leon Macey double bass like I need air.Playlist: Defeated Sanity - Into the SoilSarpanitum - Glorification Upon the Powdered Bones of the DeadVitriol - Shame and It's AfterbirthKnoll - As SpokenTheophonos - No ReprieveChapel of Disease - A Death Though No LossHull of Light - SunYellow Eyes - One Rock for the Wild Dog
Album of the Year roundup!Playlist: Nithing - Of Those Immortal, Longing for DeceaseAltarage - Case Full of Putrid StarsAcausal Intrusion - Pillar of RationalityTorture Chain - Red VardarBrii - Ecos De ImaginacaoTomb Mold - Fate's Tangled ThreadWorm - Sea of Sorrow
Some of the music that I listened to the most this year, not limited to 2023.Playlist: Pyrrhon - Idiot CirclesThe Black Dahlia Murder - Moonlight EquilibriumThe Black Dahlia Murder - On Stirring Seas of Salted BloodOuter Heaven - Unspeakable Aura100 gecs - Hollywood BabyWorm - Midwinter TearsHum - Iron Clad LouHum - Little DipperHum - The Scientists