Anointing The Sick

This week's Sonic Sermon begins with a plunge into the death metal filth pit, exposing Whore Of Bethlehem for the brutal harlot it is and ends with the random pick of Blood Of The Wolf. Showpiece track is 'Tears Never Here' by  Italian heavy psych band Rainbow Bridge. March's Doom Charts are represented by Mean Green, Rainbow Bridge and Acid King.Amplified Exorcizms are conducted by ~Whore Of BethlehemMean Green (#19 March's Doom Charts)AngerotMaze Of SothothDiscreationCatacombAcid King (#1 March's Doom Charts)Never RebornAvenger Of BloodReptalienThy LegionRainbow Bridge (#35 March's Doom Charts)RanzerVolumeBlood Of The Wolf

An unusual start to the show with two of the three opening tracks containing harmonica and saxaphone, however Embryo ensured that normal service was resumed with a blistering attack of melodic death.This week I plucked two bands from the filth pit, Expunged and Treedeon. The random pick is the grainy stoner doom of Leather LungOscillating in (dis)harmony ~Die Like GentlemenLords Of Altamont (Live)Ecstatic Vision (Live)EmbryoDesolate RealmUlfudRiffobiaCarbellionArtchOrdalieExpungedFour Days Of FuneralLivewireDamage SFPTreedeonPsythonLeather Lung

The stoner part of the underground metal scene made a welcome return to my 'Best Of' 2023 for March with six bands either lacing their doom with it, or just going all out with the fuzz.It was a really tough choice but I nailed my 'best of' down to twelve albums for MarchWITCH RIPPER - THE FLIGHT AFTER THE FALLStoner/SludgeSeattle/ USAMagnetic Eye Recordshttps://witchripper.bandcamp.com/album/the-flight-after-the-fall-2SANTO ROSTRO - DESPUÉS NO HABRÁ NADAStoner/DoomJaén, SpainDiscos Macarrashttps://discosmacarras.bandcamp.com/album/despu-s-no-habr-nadaDIRGE - DIRGESludge/DoomMumbai, IndiaImmersive Soundshttps://dirgeindia.bandcamp.com/album/dirge-2NEPENTHES - GRAND GUIGNOLDoomTokyo/JapanDaymare Recordings"Featuring ex Church Of Misery ex Coffins and G.A.T.E.S members. Heavily blues and stoner influenced doom, punctuated with chaotic solo's that only the japanese can pull off." ~ Deathrattle PodcastNo Bandcamp ACID MOTH - ACID MOTHStoner/DoomGatineau/CanadaSelf Releasedhttps://acidmoth1.bandcamp.com/album/acid-mothISOLE - ANESIDORAEpic Doom MetalGävle/SwedenHammerheart Records"The dual harsh and clean (mainly clean) vocals sets the tone for Isole's new album Anesidora an album that spans the full range of emotions dragging the listener from the depths of despair one moment to a rapturous sense of elation the next. It's like attending a wake yet leaving with a smile on your face. Isole doesn't need fuzz or effects to conjure an epic, aural funeral. Instead, this doom ceremony is sanctified by heavy, metallic crunchy guitars punctuated with solo's that sound like the anguished crying of a grieving widow.Bereavement has never been this glorious." ~ Deathrattle Podcasthttps://isolehhr.bandcamp.com/album/anesidoraTHE SOUTHERN ORACLE - THE MOST CORRUPTIBLE SOULSHardcore/Punk/ThrashBudapest/HungarySelf Releasedhttps://thesouthernoracle.bandcamp.com/album/the-most-corruptible-soulsTRIBE OF PAZUZU - BLASPHEMOUS PROPHECIESBlackened Death MetalCanadaVic Recordshttps://tribeofpazuzu.bandcamp.com/album/blasphemous-propheciesWYNDRYDER - WYNDRYDERStoner/doomTennessee/USASelf Releasedhttps://wyndrider.bandcamp.com/album/wyndriderTHE FALLEN PROPHETS - PERPETUAL DAMNATIONDeath MetalCape Town/South AfricaMMD Recordshttps://thefallenprophets.bandcamp.com/album/perpetual-damnationVISION DEPRIVED - SELF ELEVATING, DEEP INSIDE THE VOIDDeath MetalMilan, ItalySlaughterhouse Records"Unsettling Italian death metal that spits and snarls in your face in an unrelenting, frenzied attack. The riffs just keep coming, charged with adrenaline, like a serial killer stalking his next kill. Self Elevating, Deep Inside The Void, hurtles from one toxic tempo to another with crust armoured grind vying with mid paced crunch in a withering dance of ferocious extremity."~ Deathrattle Podcasthttps://slaughterhouserecords.bandcamp.com/album/self-elevating-deep-inside-the-voidCRATER - DEGENERATEDoom/SludgeShenzhen/ChinaSloomWeep Productions"Chinese doom/sludge heavy enough to make your eyeballs burst and your teeth rattle out of your skull. All the warmth and moisture you normally get from standard doom riffs have been sucked out and the fuzz sandblasted away to leave an arid musical wasteland of slow, hateful tempos. Salvation does lie within Degenerate  as there is a slight stoner element that resonates within the tide of toxic sludge dissonance that gives the album a remarkably accessible feel to it, but generally, the Eyehategod influenced doom leaves a debilitating sense of hopelesness and nausea for which there is no known antidote." ~ Deathrattle Podcasthttps://crater420.bandcamp.com/album/degenerate

Deathrattle Podcast has conjured a despicable entity this week with the longest show for many months. Two of my potential picks for March's Doom Charts open the show and elsewhere I have included more stoner influenced bands than of late. The filth pith has been bountiful with brutal tracks from Blood Soaked and Murder Method. This weeks showpiece track is 'Malignant' by Dirge and the random pick closing the show is an earlier track from Earth Ship. Summoned this week~ISOLEDIRGEBASTARD GRAVETHE ATOMIC BITCHWAXHANDGAMENGSACRIFICIUMCARACARAHOLYROLLERCAVEM3NDESERT SUNSTEMPTRESSRAW PAIN DOWNENDLEVELSTRAIGHT HATEICE AGEBLOOD SOAKEDJENNERMURDER METHODCANNABUSUFOMAMMUTAXEHEARTASPHAGORSONAMBULAFUGITIVETUIMA TUULISANTO ROSTROEARTH SHIP

**The latest Deathrattle Podcast is now available to download**Opening up with some oppressive sludgedoom fuzz by Mammoth Caravan and keeping the immense doom pressure on with new songs by 71Tonman and Witchthroat Serpent. The Filth Pit has revealed the bloated carcass of Carrion, surely Wormhole Death's most brutal band on their roster. The random pick ends the show with a song from Gang who include  Bernie Torme's Son Eric and I couldn't resist linking a track from Bernie (ex Gillan Band, Ozzy Osbourne)R.I.PThe 'Aura Of Neglect' edition includes songs by ~Mammoth Caravan71TonmanWitchthroat SerpentSortilegeMajestiesHaradwaithWitch RipperDismindedCarrion (Bel)Fvzz PoplviAittalaOl Time Moonshine ( #13 Doom Charts Aug '22)Sleeping ChildSunrunnerSandriderNecropantherDescent Of ManGangBernie Torme

**The latest Deathrattle Podcast is now available to download**Opening up with some oppressive sludgedoom fuzz by Mammoth Caravan and keeping the immense doom pressure on with new songs by 71Tonman and Witchthroat Serpent. The Filth Pit has revealed the bloated carcass of Carrion, surely Wormhole Death's most brutal band on their roster. The random pick ends the show with a song from Gang who include  Bernie Torme's Son Eric and I couldn't resist linking a track from Bernie (ex Gillan Band, Ozzy Osbourne)R.I.PThe 'Aura Of Neglect' edition includes songs by ~Mammoth Caravan71TonmanWitchthroat SerpentSortilegeMajestiesHaradwaithWitch RipperDismindedCarrion (Bel)Fvzz PoplviAittalaOl Time Moonshine ( #13 Doom Charts Aug '22)Sleeping ChildSunrunnerSandriderNecropantherDescent Of ManGangBernie Torme

This episode of Deathrattle Podcast has a full payload of nasties to drop on your heads, starting with the psych stoner doom of Merlock and ending with the hardcore/punkish tones of Cliterati. In between I'm featuring more bands whose albums were chosen for Februaries Doom Charts plus one or two serious contenders for March's. The filth pit has, as usual, proven to be bountiful spewing forth some Japanese goregrind from Festerdecay.Munitions supplied by ~Merlock ( #26 Feb Doom Charts )SarcoptesWretched FateThey GrieveAir RaidSlumbering Sun (#20 Feb Doom Charts)FesterdecayWolves In Winter ( #25 Feb Doom Charts )OntborgCoffinbornKing AbyssVittraSatanico PandemoniumWoodcreeperBlood Of The WolfWiderSin10,000 YearsOld Mine Universe ( #22 Feb Doom Charts )PilgrimageVictims Of CreationHemplifierDivinistOkktli ( #41 Feb Doom Charts)Cliterati

The twelve albums  I contributed to the Doom Charts as my 'best of' list. As usual the 'Dirtry Dozen was mainly dominated by doom and death metal but this month had more of an influx of stoner albums and even a couple of hard/heavy rock releases. The Filth Pit also provided me with one of my albums of the month 'Repulsie Post Mortem by PutridBONE WEAPON - Thrive Or Starve"Death/doom that never deviates from its sole purpose of asphyxiation by claustrophobic filth"~ Deathrattle Podcasthttps://transylvaniantapes.bandcamp.com/album/bone-weapon-thrive-or-starveWARP - Bound By Gravity (#11 Feb Doom Charts)"Colossal  stoner/doom aided by a fantastic mix that swells the sound like a dying sun. Deep, sonorous riffs are lacerated by crystalline licks." ~ Deathrattle Podcasthttps://warptlv.bandcamp.com/album/bound-by-gravityTRAMALIZER - Fumes Of Funeral Pyres"There's no room to breathe with this rabid slice of Finnish death metal. Devastating death metal filled with churning riffs and wailing leadwork thats sounds like a spoiled brat clinging to its mothers skirt tails."~ Deathrattle Podcasthttps://tramalizer.bandcamp.com/album/fumes-of-funeral-pyresPÉ ROTO - Tormento"Destructive Portuguese doom/sludge with added dissonance to the riffs for maximum aural distress. Tormento is an album swollen with bloat, (very) slowly decomposing as you listen to a heaving groove struggling under its own obese weight. The sludge laden depth of these songs are boundless in their extremity, remorseless in their depravity, colossal shambling structures of doom."~ Deathrattle Podcasthttps://pe-roto.bandcamp.com/album/tormentoDRUG MOTHER - Rise Witch (#32 Feb Doom Charts)"We're a down tempo'd stoner rock band from Newcastle Australia."https://drugmotherband.bandcamp.com/album/rise-witchSTREET TOMBS - Reclusive Decay"Reclusive Decay" features six tracks of thrashing Death Metal / Punk freshly ripped from the gravehttps://carbonizedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/reclusive-decayOLD MINE UNIVERSE - This Vast Array (#22 Feb Doom Charts)"This is a fantastic album from a band with hard rock in its heart and stoner blues in its soul." ~ Deathrattle Podcasthttps://oldmineuniverse.bandcamp.com/album/this-vast-arrayJUST BEFORE DAWN - Battle Sight Zeroing"Mid Tempo destruction is our middle name!"https://justbeforedawn1.bandcamp.com/album/battle-sight-zeroingPUTRED - Repulsie Post - Mortem"Death Metal band from Transylvania, Romania."https://putred.bandcamp.com/album/repulsie-post-mortemATOMWINTER - Sakrilege"It's the same crusty doom/death grisliness as previous releases but this time it's all about the death metal riff. Brutality and filth still prevails but Sakrileg is the fastest album the band has yet written despite being weighed down with pustules and scabs.This album will make even the leprous headbang. " ~ Deathrattle Podcasthttps://atomwinter.bandcamp.com/album/sakrileg-2ETA LUX - High And Low (#7 Feb Doom Charts)"High And Low, the third full-length album from these four-piece, North German sandstorm riders, is an absolute treat for longing craving stoner-rock souls from back then as well as today!" ~ Sunday's Heavy Tuneshttps://eta-lux.bandcamp.com/album/high-and-lowBLACKWULF - Thieves And Liars (#9 Feb Doom Charts)"I don’t always need crazy experimentation or mold breaking on all my records; sometimes I just want straight ahead heaviness with riffs for days, killer guitar work, and just a kick ass rock swagger that oozes with its pores, like what we get from Thieves and Liars. You get all of that plus their greatest song yet, Psychonaut Edge Of Light, making this the band’s best album till date." ~ Musipedia Of Metalhttps://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/thieves-and-liars

Another teeth rattling show is available to download. Covering most if not all the essential underground metal genres. The latest Podcast opens with the brutal death of Spectral Souls and ends with the random pick of Swiss post - doom band Preamp Disaster with lots of awesome sounds inbetween.This show features ~Spectral SoulsTramalizerLast LegionGrandma's Ashes (Feb Doom Charts #12)Hail The Void (Feb Doom Charts #1)Child (Swe)SepolcralKromheimDespisedMolosser CrudeStreet TombsSigns PreyerBetelzeusCimineroMordkaulFateful FinalityFinis HominisMartiriaKyningProphecyTyrant (US)I AmMagma HazePreamp Disaster

Volume 1 of the Deathrattle Podcast Stoner Playlist to download and enjoy. Expect extensive use of the wah pedal, fuzz occasionally laced with doom and psych and overly long jams!!AATHMA - Mah (Avesta 2017)BAARDVADER - Walking On The Moon ( Baardvader 2020)CABESAURIO - Gerli Valley ( Gerli Valley 2017)DAEVAR - Leviathan (Delirious Rites 2023)EARTH WITCH - Green Torch ( Out Of The Shallow2017)FABRICANTES - El Mago Del Desierto/Hormigon Armado ( La Selva Incrustada 2016)GAIA - Desolution (Reality Field 2014)HAAZE - Acid Queen (HAAZE 2017)I, CAPTAIN - Stugon Pt II (Mantras For Mindlessness 2016)JACK HARLON & THE DEAD CROWS - The Tale Of ( The Magnetic Ridge 2021)K2 - Nuevo Mutro ( At Mini P's 2014 )LA IGLESIA ATOMICA - Hijo Del Sol ( Gran Muro de Sol 2018)THE MACHINE - First Unique Prime ( Drie 2010)THE NAKED HIGH - Moon Turns Red (Tap Into The Evil 2020)OAK - Smoke (Oak II 2016)PALACE IN THUNDERLAND - The Word Unspoken ( The King Of The Empty Aeon 2019)RAIKINAS - Rokka - ( Arcadia 2016)SAADE - Coming Home (You Are Coming Home 2010)T.H.U.M.B - Wasted Worlds ( Lunar Flight 2004)US CHRISTMAS - In The Night ( Run Thick In The Night 2010)V-8 COMPRESSOR - Don't Break My Fuzz (Don't Break My Fuzz 2017)WAINGRO - Mercury Six ( Mt Hood 2015)YAJAIRA - Atormentándonos (Post Tenebras Lux 2017)Z28 - Race With The Devil ( Mach II 2022)10000 YEARS - Dark Side Of The Earth (II 2021)1000 MODS - Into The Spell ( Repeated Exposure to. 2016)1782 - Priestess Of Death ( From The Graveyard 2021)18 SPEED TRANNY - Stoner Rock Chick ( Fluid 2003)1968 - War Dogs (Fortune Havana 2017)2 HEADED DOGS - Fly With Me ( 2 HEADED DOGS 2016)