Hold onto your breeches because The Anointing The Sick Show #237 is now available to stream or download. Opening with the folky, doomy tones of Distorted Reflection and bleeding out with the Italian jams of Rainbow Bridge inbetween is a cacophony of thrash, death, doom and a lengthy section of stoner sounds. The filth pit has spewed forth a track off the new Holy Death album 'Paradice' while another of the heavy newies 'Buena Muerte' by Ocultum also crushes all in its path on this show.

~Embrace The Sickness~

Distorted Reflection
Emergency Rule
Bird                                              NYP Bandcamp
Necrowretch
Tim's Favourite
Exa
Jaggu
Astral Wizard                               Doom Charts Aug '23
Pander
Easy Death
Cactus Cathedral
Foetal Juice
Ocultum                                        Doom Charts Feb '25
Holy Death
Rainbow Bridge

Who needs a defibrillator when you have the latest Anointing The Sick Show delivering a high energy shock to the heart. 16 tracks to get the blood racing through your veins starting with the hardcore stomp of  Lockdown and ending with the heavily blues infused stoner doom of Witch Mountain.. The filth pit  overflows with the putrid nectar of Spectral Voice, Hulder, Petrification and Yersin and I'm highlighting recent mandatory purchases from Red Eye Acid Magus and a beastly split from Seum and Temple of the Fuzz Witch

~Embrace The Sickness ~

Lockdown
Morbid Saint
In Vain
Spectral Voice
Hulder
Petrification
Night Slasher
The Devils
Deadpeach                                   #6 Feb 2024 Doom Charts
Yersin
Birdwitch
Seum
Temple Of The Fuzz Witch
Red Eye                                           #6 Feb 2025 Doom Charts
Acid Magus                                    BC Name Your Price
Witch Mountain

#235 'Diced, Sliced and and Spliced the latest episode of aural torture from Anointing The Sick is now available to download. Kicking off with one of last years entries into the Doom Charts, the doomgaze of Troy The Band and finishing with stoners Snowburner. In between there are plenty of Name Your Price albums you can pick up from bandcamp, a bountiful harvest from the metal filth pit and a highlight of the year so far from sludgsters Negative 13.

~Embrace The Sickness of ~

Troy The Band              #13 Feb 2024 Doom Charts
Striker
Sinistrum
Ratten
Ghoul
Las Trumien
Pissing Razors
Negative 13
Wildweed                        NYP Bandcamp
Junior Bruce                   NYP Bandcamp
Sun Preachers                NYP Bandcamp
Warpflesh                       NYP Bandcamp
Rot Away                         NYP Bandcamp
Blind Effect                     NYP Bandcamp
Eartheater                       NYP Bandcamp
Snowburner

Anointing The Sick has unearthed another unholy batch of songs to tickle your tinnitus in todays new show 'Oscillation Devastation' Opening with the stoner psych grooves of Tex, I'm continuing to feature bands that made an impression on me last year and you may have missed. The filth pit has spewed forth a bounty of horrors and I'll be highlighting some doom charters and albums that are NYP on Bandcamp until closing with the showpiece track from funeral doomdeath band Aphonic Threnody.

~ Embrace The Sickness~

Tex                                         #36 Jan Doom Charts 2023
Acerus
Deus Ex Machina
Sea Of Consciousness
Byron
Black Groove
Epitaph
Mary Bell
Tumour                                   NYP Bandcamp
Bardo                                      NYP Bandcamp
Moonbather
Chief Of Smoke
Black Magic Rites
Joe Davis Band
Aphonic Threnody

Bandcamp Links to all of the bands plus full reviews are here  https://www.anointingthesick.com/

It's difficult to shoehorn a whole years music into a two hour 'Best Of' Playlist but you have to draw the line somewhere so here's 16 bands whose new albums caused such a stir that it prompted me to review them. There are a couple of anomalies. Fireblood feature twice due to the band releasing 2 EP's in a year and Atomic Hand is actually a two band project Iglesia Atomica and Out Of Hand. Unusually one band plays psych jams the other brutal deathgrind. Both sides of this live album are great! 

~ Embrace The Sickness ~

Black Groove
"Contains seven tracks of sluggish, de tuned, sludge caked hatred"

Cannabus
The fuzz is still thick  but edged with barbs, pierced by blazing reverb and wah both shrieking in agony.

Fireblood
"The no frills, hard hitting, clunky riffs easily loosen the neck muscles, enabling the listener to bang their head with wild abandon to the sludge leaden groove."

Sun Moon Holy Cult
"Citing influences from bands such as Black Sabbath, WitchFinder General, Acid King and Belzebong"

Severed Arm
"A purulent discharge of infected blackened sludge doom"

Demon & Eleven Children
"Riffs are mighty, and the multitude of jams have been dipped in the same vat of acid"

Wormthrone
"Here lurks a suffocating, toxic album, spewing forth sulphurous riffs from a fermenting tarpit."

Bleed This Earth
"Straddling the the various emotions of despair between My Dying Bride and Mournful Congregation"

Sangria
"'Esclavo de la Ira' has a darker, enraged sound to it, reminding me of Triptykon in parts."

Atomic Hand ( Iglesia Atomica & Out Of Hand)
Iglesia Atomica ~A constant chatter of barbed jams squeal and shriek from the speakers. Out Of Hand ~ "spits deathgrind of the most poisonous kind."

Vulgarian
"Hateful sludge bloated with the DNA of slow, stagnant doom"

Harsh Realm
"A coagulate of unemotional death doom encapsulated in a bloody crust."

Volume
"Joy of Navigation' is the band's latest album and contains five songs of immersive psychedelic stoner."

Sea Of Snakes
"There is an abundance of riffs, huge and full of depth for the listener to revel in."

Pyrogaric
"Pyrogaric is back with more Welsh stoner doom Druidry"

Monolithic Architecture
"a raw and devastating bombardment of drone infused doom"

Download the final Anointing The Sick Show of 2024 and immerse yourselves in some of the finest heavy sounds of the year. Opening with the Barbarian track from the Celtic Frost compilation 'Mesmerized' released early this year and closing with the random pick, a psych, heavy blues track from the Netherlands in the form of Brahm. The filth Pit has been bountiful with contributions from Dripping Decay and Junta. As always I've included bands that made this years Doom Charts and a couple of tracks from recent releases by Fireblood and Okktli.

~ Embrace The Sickness ~

Barbarian
Blood Red Throne
Guhts                                      No 31 Jan Doom Charts
Mega Colossus
Drowned
Jenner
Junta
Ancient VVisdom                No 25 Jan Doom Charts
Greengoat                              No 13 Jan Doom Charts
Sinnery
Dripping Decay
Novichok
Miscellen                                 Bandcamp NYP
Fireblood
Okktli
Brahm

Today we're crossing a bridge into oblivion with the latest instalment of Anointing The Sick. It's a bumpy ride starting with the showpiece track from A Storm Of Light. After a brutal Death Metal segment, I have a US 80's style metal track before pulling Methedrine and Wasp Mother from the D-Beat / Powerviolence filth pit. From there old school Indian thrash rears its ugly head before a couple of stoner tracks get a look in. After that wallow in heavy psych ambrosia before the prog'ish segment kicks in. The prolific Rogga Johanssen is back with Ribspreader sounding more brutal than ever. Recent discovery Monolithic Architecture provides a sample of raw doom/drone before I finish off the show with a final blast of dirty death metal.

~ Embrace The Sickness ~

A Storm Of Light
The Scum
Resin Tomb
Master
The Rods
Methedrine
Wasp Mother
Sabotage
The Vice
Fuzz Forward
U.S Christmas
Lord Dying                              #14 Jan 2024 Doom Charts
Final Coil
Ribspreader
Monolithic Architect
Sentient Divide

The third death metal playlist is now available to download. Expect a blastbeating blitzkrieg with tracks by ~

Abnormality
Barbarity
CÆLIBATUS
Damien
Echoes Of Death
Fall Of Serenity
Garoted
Hanging Fortress
Icon Of Evil
Jungle Rot
Kaamos
Lady Carnage
Macabre Decay
Near Death Condition
Obituary
Paladin
Rabid
Sacramental Blood
Teeth
Unbidden
Vainaja
Warp Chamber
Xibalba
Off Silence
72 Legions
Aborigen
Barren Earth
Caffa
Damned To Downfall
Eciton

Tickle your tinnitus with the latest offering from Anointing The Sick. Starting with a dose of Death metal with Saevus Finis and ending with some U.S  grindcore in the form of Phobia. Inbetween there is a big stoner /doom section, some doom chart entries and name your price albums. I've assailed my nostrils with the stench of the the filth pit and drawn out slimy and wriggling, tracks from Iron Front and Vulgarian. This weeks showpiece track is by Black Sheep Wall.

~Embrace The Sickness~

Saevus Finis
Cariosus
Mourning Dawn
The Awesome Machine
The Clamps                        #6 Jan Doom Charts
Arteaga
Iron Front
Black Sheep Wall              BC Nyp
Kayleth                               #11 May Doom Charts
Hatred Reigns
Volume
Doomsday Profit              #13 Oct Doom Charts
Smoke                                 #13 Oct Doom Charts
Vulgarian
Sea Of Snakes
Pyrogaric
Phobia

Another psychotic episode of pharmacological torture from The Anointing The Sick Show, hosted by Halo Of The Goat Radio. It will soon be the 'Best Of' season with many Blogs etc publishing their top albums for 2024. I'll be doing the same myself but first I'm highlighting some of my last years Dirty Dozen which was represented  by the Doom Charts including bands such as Ceased Sunfire, Divinist, Adversvm, Cannabus, Dread Witch and Spawn Of Evil, just incase anyone missed these fine albums.

~ Embrace The Sickness ~

Into The Deep
Svdestada
Vorvan
Ceased Sunfire
Divinist
Adversvm
Cannabus
Dread Witch
Spawn Of Evil
Architecture of Aggression
Bloodbeast
Nethervault
Bocc
Sonic Moon
Doomsday Dementia
Dragonbreed