Anointing The Sick

 'Anointed In Amplified Alchemy' opens in slightly different fashion this week with Hijss whose blend of grungy space rock entered the doom charts at no 36 in March 2024 along with other Doom Chart entries AcidSitter, Mountain Dust and more recently Kröwnn. There is a label spotlight this week shining on 3 bands from the Brutal Records stable, No Worth Of Man, Bent By Sorrow and Eternal Returns plus tracks from a couple of my Albums Of The Week by Vulgarian and Overtoun. The showpiece track of this weeks show is a 20 minute progressive psych mind bender from Onioroshi. Overall, there is a leaning toward heavy psych but fear not dear listeners for the sickness is still here with the usual dose of sludge, death and thrash. You can also download this show here https://www.anointingthesick.com/2026/03/anointing-sick-248-anointed-in.html

                                                                         
                                                                              ~Wallow In Sickness ~

Hijss / No Worth Of Man / Bent By Sorrow / Eternal Returns / CrusHuman / Invictus / Vulgarian / Supplices / Acid Death / Cathode U.L.T / AcidSitter / Overtoun / Onioroshi / Kröwnn / Mountain Dust / King Hobo / 

The Anointing The Sick Metal Blog presents another deathly sermon of exteme metal carnage. 30 death metal tracks of absolute annihilation. Non curated for maximum devastation. Bandcamp links for each band are here https://www.anointingthesick.com/2026/03/anointing-sick-dirty-30-death-metal-vol.html

~ Wallow In Sickness ~

Abscession / Batholith / Cancer Spreading / Darkrypt / Ekpyrosis / Farsoth / Genocide Pact / Haserot / Ilsa / Jesus Chrüsler Supercar / Kampvogn / Last Retch / Machetazo / Necrobastard / Obscure / Param - Nesia / Question / Rancorum / Sadist / Temple Of Dread / Unbounded Terror / Vastum / Wayward Dawn / Xul / YHWH / Zora / 1914 / The Absence / Battlestorm / Cancerbero

 'Soon It Will Be Over! What, the world?  The way things are panning out, maybe. 

Here's a soundtrack to it all. Sixteen bands celebrating carnage starting with the grinding doom death of Slimelord and ending with some ravenous death metal from Storm Upon The Masses. I have included a couple of bands that made my 'Best Of 2025' albums, Birds Of Nazca and Cryptic Process plus a couple of bands that if I were compiling a longer list, would surely have been featured, KLPS and Dark Indication. 

                                                                    ~ Wallow In Sickness ~

Slimelord
Cryptic Process
Beware Of Gods
Sons Of Hades
Neckbreaker
Emissary
Birds Of Nazca
Giant Lungs
KLPS
Dark Indication
Anti-Sapien
Weedow
Kitsa
Molten
Goat Major
Storm Upon The Masses

It's such a difficult task somehow choosing 20 exceptional albums from a vintage year of incredible extreme underground metal releases. I had a shortlist but the albums I chose could have filled a dozen 'Best of 2025' lists, so I had to be extra disciplined. Stoner in it's various forms dominated my most played but doom and sludge featured regularly also. The scene was saturated with some excellent new death metal albums and my podcast show has played a lot of tech death, however I've come up with three that, although not reinventing the wheel, once I'd finished playing their albums, I felt pretty satisfied with what the bands had acheived.

I'm happy with the top 20 I've ended up with and I hope there is something in here that helps you  discover a gem you may have missed. All Bandcamp links are listed on the Anointing The Sick Metal Blog https://www.anointingthesick.com/

Wallow in Sickness with albums by ~

Crimson Storm / Sweetbeast /  Klastos / Kiritsis / Burden Of Despair / Behölder / Birdwitch / The Chris Rolling Squad / Afghan Haze / Hibernaut / Heidrún / Birds Of Nazca / Black Charger / Pale Horse Ritual / Darah / Tria Prima / The Bateleurs / Turtle Skull / Cryptic Process / Azell

Here's something to evaporate any remaining festive cheer. 30 tracks from 30 death metal bands of all levels of depravity. Volume 4 contained a few melodic death metal songs but volume 5 is a full on relentless assault on your hearing. All of the available Bandcamp album links are on the Anointing The Sick Metal Blog Page here https://www.anointingthesick.com/2025/12/anointing-sick-dirty-30-death-metal.html. 

Download and take the pain!

Abrasive /Bastard Priest / Cambion / Dark Reflection /Ectoplasma/ False Leaders / The Generals / Harsh Realm / Ill Reasoning / Just Before Dawn / Kaligula / Larvae ( U.S ) / Maceration / Necro Chaos / Obscene / Pandrador / Question / Rageful / Sadism / Temple Of Dagon / Unborn Prophecy / Vallenfyre / Warside / Xoth / Yatra / Zealot Cult / Abscess / Bastard Son / Camera Obscura Two / Darkapathy

Underground metal mayhem in the latest Anointing The Sick Metal Blog show 'Lying Under The Shadow Of The Tombstone' starting with the epic traditional doom of Astral Sleep and ending with a further two doom tracks from Pale Horse Ritual and Isole. This weeks 'Dose Of Death' features 3 tracks of quite different death metal bands Demiurgus, Acid Death and Tria Prima.

*Edit*

Heartfelt sympathy to the guys of Kelevra who have recently lost a much loved band member Adrienne Mahoney R.I.P

Astral Sleep
Novichok
Mutilated By Zombies
Kollapse
Kelevra
Cell Press
Black Charger
Pesta
Darath
Octotanker
Dead Hits                       * Free Download (BC)
Demiurgus
Acid Death
Tria Prima
Pale Horse Ritual
Isole

Another non curated playlist to tickle your tinnitus and fry your senses. This time its 30 stoner bands so expect plenty of fuzz, wah and endless jams. As usual I've tried to keep it original with plenty of bands that you may not be familiar with. I took a lot of pleasure compiling this list and I hope you get a lot of pleasure listening to it. You can download it for free.

~ Wallow In Sickness ~

Abramis Brama       
Bala                     
Cairo Son               
Damned To Earth     
Ecstatic Vision       
Feuerzeug  
Galápagos            
Hair Of The Dog       
Iglesia Atomica       
Jaggu                   
Kaihoro                 
Ladies Of Leisure     
Madmess               
Narcosis                 
Obscura Insania      
Pantano                 
Queen Beast           
Sahara Surfers        
Tar Pit                   
The Unbeheld         
Velvet Elevator         
Warp                     
Yeti Ender               
Zintnieks               
Achachak                 
Baläte                     
Calamus
Dark Shaman             
Eem           

There's a place even deeper than The Ninth Circle of Hell and it's called the Anointing The Sick Metal Blog and what could be more apt than opening the show with a band called Horrible with a track off their album 'Filth then following up with some nihilistic party slop from deathsters Trunk, both albums can be purchased for NYP on Bandcamp. There's a heavy stoner/doom/psych presence this week including albums from Dusted Angel and Stone Machine Electric that entered September's Doom Charts. The random pick this week and also the showpiece track is the immense sludge of Sea Bastard. I saw them a couple of times in Manchester years ago supporting the likes of Graves at Sea and Sourvein and I never recovered.

~ Wallow In Sickness ~

Horrible                                     NYP - Bandcamp
Trunk                                          NYP - Bandcamp
Thorndale
Dusted Angel                           #14 Sept 2025 Doom Charts
Godzilla Was Too Drunk To Destroy Tokyo
Atomic Saman
Stone Machine Electric         #27 Sept 2025 Doom Charts
The Bateleurs
Birds Of Nazca
Beneath The Kudzu
Vovk
Birdwitch
Azell
Protocol F40.1
Anomic
Sea Bastard

Time for another 'Dirty 30' Playlist and this time around it's a Doom one. Here you have slow doom (obviously) fast doom, jolly, jaunty doom and nasty black doom. Some of these bands fell to dust many years ago but others are very much alive. It's in two parts. Feel free to download it and I hope you enjoy listening to these tracks as much as I enjoyed putting them together

Pt 2

Pale Divine
Qattara Depression
Rainbows Are Free
Sabel
Tar Pond
Ultralord
Vega
Warchetype
Xatatax
Year Zero
Zolfo
The 11th Hour
609
71Tonman
Absent

Time for another 'Dirty 30' Playlist and this time around it's a Doom one. Here you have slow doom (obviously) fast doom, jolly, jaunty doom and nasty black doom. Some of these bands fell to dust many years ago but others are very much alive. It's in two parts. Feel free to download them and I hope you enjoy listening to these tracks as much as I enjoyed putting them together

Pt 1

Abrahma
Bahboon
Capilla Ardiente
Damn The Gods
Early Moods
Fading Bliss
Gangrened
Hands Of Orlac
Ice Howl
John The Baptist
Kalibos
LáGoon
Magic Circle
Nathr
Oaks Crown