Here's episode 82 of Another Metal Podcast, discussion-free, commercial-free, and shitty music-free (probably debatable, but this is my podcast after all). Remember, if you're in a band and your music is both new and likewise unshitty send it my way and it may find it's way into an episode, no promises of course, but I'll at least listen to it.

This week's bands hail from: US, Hungary, Finland, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Poland, UK, Belgium, and Greece.

Episode 82 Playlist:

Green Druid - Rebirth (0:42)

On Thorns I Lay - Erevos (9:19)

Sixes - A Cross to Burn (14:39)

Soul Dissolution - Stardust (24:51)

Slugdge - Crop Killer (33:26)

As Oceans - Wanderer Above the Mist (39:44)

Voidhanger - High on Hate (43:51)

Demonical - Towards Greater Gods (47:16)

Gygax - Song of the Silverhands (52:38)

Owl Maker - Witches (57:00)

Black Wizard - Feast or Famine (1:01:18)

Slumlord - Total Nothing (1:06:13)

Howling Sycamore - Obstinate Pace (1:09:19)

Mile Marker Zero - Digital Warrior (1:14:56)

Structural Disorder - Nine Lies (1:22:21)

Chaos Invocation - The Search of Keys and Gates (1:27:55)

Golgothan Remains - From Chaos it has Come (1:33:51)

Thy Feeble Saviour - Torture Stake (1:37:48)

Noose Rot - Bound in a Dark House (1:39:08)

Slaves BC - Lightbearer (1:44:31)

Eagle Twin - Heavy Hoof (1:50:22)

Black Royal - Denial (1:57:42)

Bloodletter - Event Horizon (2:01:01)

Gyilkos - Only Evil Remains (2:03:32)

Here's a new episode, new music, and hopefully some new listeners as I slowly inch may way to the first hundred episodes. And so far I've only messed up a few times, so I'll cross my fingers for luck (sorry to Coffin Torture; I titled their track wrong last week so I'm playing it again to make it right).

Bands on this episode hail from the US, UK, Sweden, Israel, Peru, Canada, Brazil, Finland, Poland, France, Germany, Austria, and Scotland. Make sure to subscribe to the show on your podcast platform of choice, you can find links to many of them on the show's page, and please rate and review the show to help get more ears hearing these awesome bands.

Episode 81 Playlist:

Slugdge - The Spectral Burrows (0:38)

Scumpulse - King of Dogshit (6:28)

Avslut - Forlorad (11:15)

Chaos Invocation - Calling From Dudail (15:03)

Harakiri For The Sky - Fire, Walk With Me (20:02)

Horn - Retrograd (29:06)

Veiled - Luminous (35:03)

Lord of Pagathorn - Prayer of Desecration (42:33)

Apostle of Solitude - Ruination Be Thy Name (48:57)

River Cult - Likelihood of Confusion (55:34)

Sixes - Fogbreather (1:02:33)

Har - Conjure the Black Flame (1:08:40)

Chaos Echoes - Shine On, Obsidian! Ego! Ego! Echo Back To The Yearning Of The Self! (1:14:58)

Voidhanger - Death Wish (1:22:37)

Ossuarium - Chapel of Bone (1:26:01)

Necropanther - Hunter Seeker (1:33:36)

Mors Subita - Defeat (1:36:52)

Whipstriker - Calm After Destruction (1:41:30)

Antichrist - In the Dark and Mournful Corner of Memory (1:45:03)

Vile Creature - Water, Tinted Gold & Tainted Copper (1:56:54)

Coffin Torture - Dismal Planet (2:07:09)

Ilsa - Nasty, Brutish (2:14:22)

There's a lot of attention right now being given to old-guard hanging it up and announcing farewell tours, which is understandable, but I think it's also a symptom of some of the things holding metal back as an industry. Back in the eighties when the genre was a completely different business, the big-label architecture was designed for everything to rest on a few huge pillars ('tallica, Megadeth, Ozzy, etc.). But nowadays heavy music is much more diffuse stylistically and DIY business-wise, so it hurts the industry to rely on the fading big names rather than the underground. That's one of the main reasons I produce a heavy metal podcast that focuses exclusively on non major label bands, many of them purely independent; it's where the future is and these are the groups that need attention and opportunity, no bands that had their spotlight thirty years ago and already contributed their relevancy. Support the underground, because that's what metal is nowadays.

Bands on this week's episode hail from France, Canada, Israel, Sweden, US, Croatia, Norway, Singapore, Austria, Finland, Greece, Netherlands, Italy, and Germany.

Episode 80 Playlist:

Agrimonia - Foreshadowed (0:34)

Usurpress - The Iron Gates Will Melt (9:17)

Insect Ark - In the Nest (14:26)

Treedeon - Breathing a Vein (18:40)

Hammr - Satanic Raid (25:25)

Demonomancy - The Day of the Lord (28:52)

Funeral Winds - Cursed is this Pantheon of Flesh (34:45)

Elegiac - Beyond the Physical Realm (38:41)

Novareign - Heavy Heart (46:02)

Necrosexual - Dead Sexy (51:10)

Centuries - Soil (54:14)

Greber - Backhanded Interest (56:26)

Ocean of Grief - Fiend of the Overlord (1:01:32)

Coffin Torture - Gustave (1:06:50)

Harakiri For The Sky - Tomb Omina (1:14:02)

Funerary Bell - Goat of Mendes (1:22:07) 4:34

Dante’s Theory - Deconstruct (1:27:53)

Dominant - Servants of Damnation (1:33:28)

Astrakhan - A Change Begins (1:37:24)

Asheraah - Fade (1:43:09)

Avslut - Deceptis (1:50:36)

Zigurat - Summoning the Giant Serpent (1:54:23)

Rites of Thy Degringolade - The Final Laceration (1:59:15)

Chaos Echoes - Embodied by Perfidious Curls in the Innervated Flux (2:04:20)

I realize a while ago that I essentially do this podcast so other people can be lazy. I go through mountains of sonic turds to find choice new music from around the globe, all so listeners can skip the digging and enjoy the good without (most of) the bad. I'm okay with that though; if I'm anything it's a humble servant in the metal community. You can feel free to thank me with whiskey and cookies though, or just Paypal me money so I can buy the whiskey and cookies myself.

This week's batch of new heavy metal comes from the US, UK, Spain, Australia, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Scotland, Canada, Finland, India.

Episode 79 Playlist:

King Witch - Beneath the Waves (0:24)

Clamfight - Selkie (5:42)

Substratum - Cemetery of State (13:55)

Necrosexual - Bottomless Pit (20:58)

Rotting Kingdom - Adrift in a Sea of Souls (27:32) 8:04

Ataraxy - One Last Certainty (35:35)

Faceless Burial - Unrelenting Member (41:01)

Druid Lord - Black Candle Seance (43:15)

PostNatura - Gagarin (49:26) 6:00

Usurpress - In Books Without Pages (55:24)

My Silent Wake - Walls Within Walls (1:00:17)

Grafvitnir - Vargavinter (1:05:57)

Spite - Vision of the Merkabah (1:12:30)

Demonomancy - The Last Hymn to Eschaton (1:16:05)

Throaat - Alive Inside of the Pentagram (1:21:33)

Malformity - Unraveling (1:25:47)

Handsome Prick - Alopecia Support Group (1:31:04)

Wake - Misery Rites (1:33:28)

Year of the Coyote - Yet We Persist (1:35:38)

Astrakhan - Dominion (1:39:57)

Revenger - Anti-Life (1:46:18)

Xenosis - Delerium (Death of a God) (1:50:04)

Khiral - Ultraviolent (1:55:37)

Chronic Xorn - Justice by the Act of Violence (1:59:24)

Every once in a while I end up with an episode that is almost completely non-stop brutal from front to back without even meaning to. Usually I have a set or two in the playlist of 'breathing room', ie. some lighter stoner rock and/or prog, but with the exception of some excellent new music from Somali Yacht Club this is one of those non-stop rides of growling aural torture. Have fun.

Band on this episode hail from UK, US, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Australia, Poland, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and France.

Episode 78 Playlist:

Bind Torture Kill - Nourrir le Singe (0:30)

Sect - Open Grave (4:04)

Ghastly Sound - Sink (5:22)

Somali Yacht Club - Blood Leave a Trail (7:47)

Throaat - The Light (15:16)

Vhorthax - Thy Foul Graal (20:04)

UR - Black Spark (23:21)

Malakhim - The Golden Shrines (27:25)

Negative Symbols - Caput (33:26)

Nova - Crolla L’Empireo (38:47)

Spite - The Shield of Abraham (42:38)

Untervoid - Messer (47:44)

Druid Lord - Night Gallery (54:33)

Old Thunder - Threshold (1:02:11)

Ofdrykkja - Generations of Hurt (1:06:36)

Grethor - The Last Manifesto (1:17:24)

Rise of Avernus - Tempest (1:21:50)

Grafvitnir - Keys to the Mysteries Beyond (1:26:39)

Hellish God - Anti-Cosmic Decree (1:31:03)

Perpetratör - Extreme Barbarity (1:35:25)

Rapture - Thriving on Atrocity (1:38:03)

Ectoplasma - Seized in Cimmerian Darkness (1:42:38)

Scaphism - The Feaster from the Stars (1:47:15)

Infected Dead - Resurrectionist (1:51:57)

I'm back from my short holiday respite and hope everyone had a brutally joyous New Year. Despite many a tired and crusty metal blogger claiming 2017 was a boring year for heavy music I personally think it was a solid year, it just didn't have strong trends in any single genre (you can see what my thoughts were in detail on my Top Albums List), and besides, if it sucked how did I find so much great stuff to play for the entire year on this here podcast?

But a new year means plenty of new music to play, and with that let's get it started on this episode with bands hailing from Norway, Sweden, Finland, US, Serbia, Poland, New Zealand, Greece, UK, Russia, Italy, Netherlands, and Columbia.

Episode 77 Playlist:

Sar Isatum - Gormandizer (0:32)

Ignis Haereticum - Mors Mystica (6:05)

Morvigor - No Repentance (11:40)

The Clearing Path - The Pillars of Creation (18:40)

Grethor - Embracing Oblivion (25:14)

Engulf - Graviton (31:34)

Dropzone - Enslaved Forever (36:04)

Sect - Day for Night (38:28)

Labyrinth Entrance - Canto III (41:00)

Lorelei - Shadows of October (49:33)

Monolith Cult - Kings of All That’s Lost (54:58)

Ghastly Sound - The Bottom (1:02:13)

Old Thunder - Stone and Ink (1:05:57)

Khoraja - Beneath the Waves (1:11:38)

Barshasketh - Being (1:16:46)

Outre - Time (1:24:27)

Over the Voids… - Ghosts Lay Eggs (1:31:05)

Wending Tide - The Painter (1:37:04)

Jarun - Jesień wieczności (1:41:55)

The Stone - Mrtvog Negativ (1:47:11)

Haunt - As Fire Burns (1:53:54)

Mangoo - Diefication (1:57:46)

Dreadful Fate - Tormentor (2:02:30)

Brotthogg - The Last Traveler (2:05:44)

Santa may have the market cornered on bringing presents and Christmas cheer to everyone across the globe, but you can consider me the Santa of heavy fuckin' metal because I've got a digital sack full of the stuff for everyone. And I bring it around a couple times a month, not once a year. Eat it, fat man.

This episode's gifts come from the US, Bangladesh, Finland, Germany, UK, Latvia, Columbia, Sweden, Poland, Japan, Greece, Australia, and Denmark.

Episode 76 Playlist:

The Last of Lucy - Chapter III: Ashvattha Awaits (0:22)

Nero Doctrine - Plague (7:09)

Asphodelos - Carnage (10:46)

Exarsis - General Guidance (14:26)

Kroh - Moriah (20:11)

Monolith Cult - Gospel of Despair (27:19)

Eschatos - Luminary Eye Against the Sky (33:35 8:30

Midnight - Rabid! (42:51)

Beastiality - Riders of Imminent Death (46:14)

H2SO4 - The Bengal Holocaust (50:12)

Kohti Tuhoa - Saatanan Iampaat (54:35)

Tongues - Theophagous Wounds of Earth (56:57)

Greytomb - Antimeta (1:03:44)

Ignis Haereticum - Atonement of the Faithful (1:10:18)

Domgård - Töckenhöljt (1:17:10)

Friendship - Corrupt (1:21:55)

Malefic Levitation - Black Forest Worship (1:25:15)

Abhordium - Asebeia (1:29:48)

Engulf - Aeons of Hate (1:33:36)

Halphas - Through the Forest (1:38:55)

Over the Voids… - Prophet of the Winter (1:45:00)

Valdur - Seething Disgust (1:51:00)

Another two hours of brand-new brutality coming in hot! Heavy metal Santa is coming early with grimy gifts from Norway, Poland, Ukraine, US, UK, Germany, Belarus, Denmark, Australia, Finland, and Northern Ireland. And speaking of Christmas, I'll be briefly returning to a weekly schedule for the next two weeks so I can take the holiday weekend off and be back bi-weekly after that. But that's then and this is now, so crank it up and hurt your neck!

Episode 75 Playlist:

Midnight - Crushed by Demons (0:28)

Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Fever Upon the Firmament (6:54)

Daeva - Clenched Fist of the Beast (12:27)

Drakonis - Let Us Pray (15:23)

All Pigs Must Die - Blood Wet Teeth (22:27)

Kohti Tuhoa - Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta (24:59)

Exarsis - The Underground (27:13)

Groke’s Clan - Voyeur (30:52)

Daxma - Birth (36:00)

Kroh - Nemertean Girl (46:51)

Nupraptor - Through the Smoke (52:24)

Pale Horseman - Gnashing of Teeth (59:00)

Rites of Daath - Sepulchral Phantom (1:05:35)

Blood Freak - Filthworm (1:09:35)

Oblivion - Concrete Thrones (1:12:00)

Signs of the Swarm - Cowards Deathbed (1:15:16)

Desolate Shrine - The Primordial One (1:20:41)

Greytomb - Force Majeure (1:26:51)

Tongues - ...And the Ever Watchful Clouds (1:34:25)

Khandra - Where Death Has Settled in Life (1:40:18)

Dreamshift - Flowers (1:47:30)

Three Eyes of the Void - The Eyes to See (1:53:11)

Black Altar - Winds of Decay (1:58:49)

Beastcraft - Blackwinged Messiah (2:03:47)

Here's your heavy metal slop for the week, you filthy animals. At least it's well sourced slop from countries like Canada, Italy, UK, US, Poland, Greece, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Chile, and Austria so your diet of brutality is well-rounded. Make sure to check out the playlist on the site to get links to the bands played on the episode.

Episode 74 Playlist:

Threat Signal - Exit the Matrix (0:32)

The Modern Age Slavery - The Hollow Men (4:50)

Forgotten Tomb - We Owe You Nothing (8:24)

Cryptic Fog - The Grand Berator Walks Amongst the Hall of Misery (17:04)

Inconcessus Lux Lucis - At the Behest of the Sinister Impulse (25:55)

Blaze of Perdition - Weight of the Shadow (31:27)

Natvre’s - Night of the Sun (39:24)

Pale Mare - Carthage (45:23)

Year of the Cobra - Cold (51:00)

Amenra - Children of the Eye (57:20)

All Pigs Must Die - End Without End (1:07:17)

Marginal - Leech Invader (1:13:04)

Blood Freak - The Bizarre Hallucinations of a Twisted Mind (1:15:11)

Goatpenis - Krieg und Frieden (1:18:55)

Desolate Shrine - The Waters of Man (1:23:20)

Thantifaxath - Ocean of Screaming Spheres (1:28:33)

Unreqvited - The Autumn Fire (1:37:36)

Lucifer’s Hammer - The Valley of the Shadow of Death (1:45:26)

A Pale December - Arboreal Sanctuary (1:50:33)

Stahlsarg - Far Beyond the Dragons Teeth (1:58:02)

The Negative Bias - The Golden Key to a Pandemonium Kingdom (2:04:43)

I don't know if it was my mood lately, the time of year, or just pure happenstance but this episode turned out pretty damn ugly. But in a good way, because I'm talking about the abrasive, vile, and caustic music and not the production of the show (that's always been complete shit). There's not a clean sounding song on this one and it and the blocks of songs alternate between blackened brutality and sonic sludge. Just what the metal doctor ordered.

Episode 73 Playlist:

Retortion Terror - Trench (0:39)

Invidiosus - From the 16th Floor (1:49)

Gutslit - Brazen Bull (3:34)

Nihil Eyes - True Nihilist (6:35)

Hexis - Famelicus (10:55)

Devlsy - Hatching Tomb (14:45)

Dom Zły - Tramp (20:09)

Caïnan Dawn - Mara (23:33)

Year of the Cobra - And They Sang... (30:38)

Pale Mare - Descolada (34:08)

Boson - Mass of the Phoenix (39:52)

Primitive Man - Sterility (44:13)

Cryptic Fog - Cursed Oil Upon the Abhorrent Ido (50:52)

Malleus - The Wolf (57:17)

Sacroscum - Gutter.Moloch.God (100:37)

Kawir - Oedipus (1:04:01)

Somnuri - Pulling Teeth (1:11:49)

Prostitution - Hypergiant (1:16:45)

A Pale December - Cimmerian Veil (1:23:21)

Jupiterian - Unearthly Glow (1:30:02)

Ah Ciliz - Cascadia (1:38:58)

Chiral - A Feeble Glare of Autumn (1:45:43)

Las Casas Viejas - Klaustrophobie (1:49:25)

Zgard - Confession of Voiceless (1:55:47)