Guess what this week's episode of the metal podcast is full of? Metal, that's what. And its coming from the US, UK, Russia, Germany, Norway, Canada, Siberia, Iran, Ukraine, Finland, Sweden, and the Netherlands so crank those speakers and give yourself tinnitus.

In case you miss the call-out at the end of the show, I'm always on the lookout for new metal to play, so if you're in a band with new music out in the last 2-3 months hit me up and I'll give it a listen to see if it's play-worthy.

Episode 62 Playlist:

Prospekt - Titan (0:54)

Celesterre - Endure the Cold (5:30)

IWKC - Five Big Chillums (11:01)

Brume - Harold (19:06)

Paganizer - The Insanity Never Stops (27:58)

Weapönizer - Rattenkrieg (31:20)

Bonehunter - Enter Satan’s Dimension (35:11)

SphereDemonis - Transeptum (40:21)

One Master - Death Resurrection (46:02)

Sentient Divide - Bloodgate (53:18)

Nucleus - Beacon (58:15)

Atriarch - Inferno (1:02:04)

Neverending Winter - Heeus (Хиус) (1:10:44)

Kval - Harhainen (1:16:56)

Eskapism - Chained with the Sorrow, Full of Despair (1:26:10)

Zurvan - Kafir (1:33:14)

Cytotoxin - Radiatus Generis (1:39:13)

Wilderness Dream - The Awakening (1:43:28)

Resurgence - In the Mirror (1:46:22)

Beyond Mara - Disease (1:51:06)

Ancalagon - Creations Thirst (1:55:15)

Zeit - Verzerrt (2:02:20)

Owlcrusher - Owlcrusher (2:06:59)

Weed Demon - Sigil of the Black Moon (2:18:28)

I hope you didn't mind the week off from the podcast, but we only get about 8 days of true summer here in the Pacific Northwest and I'll be damned if I'm going to miss 'em. But the show is back and this week's batch of ugly comes from the US, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Finland, Sweden, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Greece, and Texas (they appreciate being called a country).

Episode 61 Playlist:

Paganizer - Dehumanized (0:32)

Weapönizer - Hellbound (3:47)

Witch Vomit - Fevers of Torment (7:47)

Temple of Void - Graven Desires (12:23)

Tyrannosorceress - The Call to Chaos (20:32)

One Master - Will of the Shadow (27:35)

Nexul - Hexecration (32:08)

Zeit - Unten (37:24)

Circle - Saxo (43:17)

Rope Sect - Pretty Life (49:08)

Shroud Eater - Awaken Assassin (53:01)

Jaw Bones - Ego Tripper (58:58)

Ewigkeit - Death is the Portal (1:03:47)

Xaon - Zarathustra (1:11:55)

Odium - Blind (1:19:03)

Ill Temper - Unwelcome (1:24:07)

Fleshbore - Cold (1:28:10)

Loyal Until Death - The God to Your Repentance (1:34:15)

Moral Void - Prey (1:36:56)

El Camino - Cursed Congregation (1:40:36)

Nucleus - Fragment (1:47:05)

Macabra - Ellipses of Self (1:53:37)

Gravesite - Postmortem Fetal Extrusion (Coffin Birth) (1:58:31)

Moribundo - Luz (Ciego Color) (2:02:16)

Sixty is a big number isn't it? We'll just pretend that it is, even though I'm not doing anything special. I had been doing a sort of 'top picks' thing every twenty episodes, but since the whole point of the podcast is having new music every week I'm just going to stick with regular episodes instead of playing tracks you already heard five months ago.

This batch of new heavy metal comes from the US, UK, Italy, Finland, Switzerland, New Zealand, Sweden, Slovakia, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Ireland and Japan.

Episode 60 Playlist:

Witch Vomit - Doomed in the Realm of the Dead (0:26)

Barbarian - Simulacra of the Ageless Need (4:10)

Tyrannosorceress - The Angles Nine (8:14)

Slægt - I Smell Blood (13:13)

Five Horse Johnson - Magic Man (20:17)

Sapata - Sex Magic (24:31)

Smoke Mountain - Demon (29:22)

Shroud Eater - Iron Mountain (33:56)

Slow Death - Vacant Lots (41:21)

Heaven in Her Arms - Forgivable Drown (43:16)

BOG - Fellow Traveler (49:04)

A Stick and a Stone - Arrow (57:22)

Helslave - Desecration (1:05:11)

Temple of Void - Wretched Banquet (1:09:44)

Profundis Tenebrarum - Beyond this Tormenting Life (1:16:23)

Krolok - Flying Above Ancient Ruins (1:21:06)

Soijl - Death Do Us Part (1:29:10)

Death the Leveller - A Call to Men of Noble Blood (1:37:42)

Progenie Terrestre Pura - [.Pianeta.Zero.] (1:46:48)

Xaon - On the Nature of Flights (1:54:42)

Beyond Grace - Black Math Ritual (2:00:35)

Black Royal - Dying Star (2:06:36)

Darkreverie - Lupus (Hymn to a Wolf Goddess) (2:12:40)

Vesicant - Blood Miller (2:18:36)

Here's this week's batch of new heavy metal, representing the US, Japan, Lebanon, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Austria, Spain, Australia, Serbia, Scotland, Czechia, China, and Canada. If you like what you hear use the playlist below to find links to the bands, along with cover art to the releases. To help bring these underground bands to more speakers and ears you can rate and review the show, or simply spread the good word to your metalhead friends.

Episode 59 Playlist:

Cave of Swimmers - The Sun (0:21)

Sapata - Gobi (6:08)

Trigger - Dead Sun (10:23)

Final Coil - Alone (15:39)

Wode - Chaosspell (22:47)

Kafirun - Eschaton (32:02)

Totengott - Delusion of Negation (38:10)

Kosmogyr - Quiescent (46:52)

Wolves Attack!! - Pack to the Future (53:58)

Nadimač -  U Podrumu Žute Kuce (Organ Market Basement) (56:09)

Seed of Sorrow - Death Fuck Ritual (59:56)

Gravemind - Anaesthesia (1:03:56)

Anhedonic - Stargazer (1:07:19)

Laser Flames on the Great Big News - Lashes (1:13:13)

Kabbalah - Phantasmal Planetoid (1:21:08)

Moon Rats - Heroic Dose (1:25:50)

BOG - Spare (1:30:16)

Rimruna - In Ewigkeit versunken (1:37:01)

Rienaus - Saatanalle (1:49:46)

Slægt - Egovore (1:55:06)

Moonaadem - Désolation et folie noire (2:03:08)

Heaven in Her Arms - Glare of the End (2:07:53)

INTRCPTR - Sandstorms (2:15:35)

A Stick and a Stone - Erosion (2:20:40)

I don't know if I've ever mentioned it, but the reason these heavy metal podcast episodes come out on Mondays is to give everyone some brutal new music to start their week off with. I've had listeners tell me they listen to the show at work, which is where I get most of my music listening in as well, so I like giving metalheads something to help make the work week more bearable. Somehow though, I doubt these people work in retail or customer service, but if you do blast this heaviness where innocent bystanders are exposed to it then horns up to you.

This week's ugliness comes by way of the US, UK, Lebanon, Sweden, Australia, Netherlands, France, Finland, Germany, and Portugal.

Episode 58 Playlist:

Wode - Celestial Dagger (0:29)

Nekrocraft - Worship (5:23)

Vulpus - Like Troxler’s Fading (8:47)

Rimruna - Der Hatz entronnen (14:31) 

Skelethal - Pantheon of the Abyss (28:37)

Necrot - Beneath (32:49)

Burning Hatred - Religious Insanity (37:48)

Ashcloud - Dansa par Krossade Skallar (feat. David Nilsson of Feral) (42:32)

Trigger - Upon the Forge of Hephaestus (47:23)

Venomous Maximus - Return of the Witch (51:42)

Selcouth - Below Hope (57:28)

Gold - No Shadow (1:01:50)

The Cold Stares - Neighbor Blues (1:06:36)

Laser Flames on the Great Big News - 31 Years (1:11:08) 

The Orphan - Gutters (1:15:21)

Cognizant - Oppression (1:17:04)

Enfold Darkness - Terror of a Perilous Quest (1:19:55)

Transcend the Realm - Conscious Void (1:24:25)

Veldtchasm - Hastily Buried in Shallow Graves (1:27:33)

Æra - An Affirmation of Forsworn Vows (1:32:43)

Fellwarden - In Death, Valliant (1:39:33)

Mavradoxa - From Fog (1:46:24)

Kassad - Void (1:57:16)

Moonaadem - Malaise Astral (2:04:22)

I hope everyone liked the change-up last week with the Hypnotic Dirge showcase taking the place of a regular episode of the show; it's good to mix things up every once in a while and I have more of those Moving Metal interviews/showcases in the works with other labels. But this week I'm back to business as usual with a two hour block of brand-new brutality. And this one's a beast too; it's mostly death metal with a helping of grind (something I don't play enough of), and even the doom set is on the blackened-sludgey side of things.

Bands this week hail from the lands of the US, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Austria, India, France, Spain, and Canada.

Skelethal - Chaotic Deviance (0:50)

Aposento - Wishing Hell (4:54)

In Reverence - Jahiliah (8:28)

Necrot - Rather Be Dead (12:39)

Legacy of Emptiness - There was a Man (18:35)

Soulbrud - Besat af Mørke (24:25)

Triumvir Foul - Entranced by Filth (33:09)

Deity - Sacrificium (37:19)

Space Witch - Hex Solaris (43:10)

TarLung - Beyond the Black Pyramid (52:35)

Black Urn - My Strength Lies Within Heavenless Plains (1:00:03)

Demon Head - Gallows Omen (1:09:17)

Birdflesh - Dead is Alive (1:17:22)

Organ Dealer - An Ending (1:19:19)

Grid - Constant Defeat (1:20:41)

Chaos - All Against All (1:21:57)

Knogjärn - När Vi Faller (1:24:33)

Welp… - Wave Rider (1:27:29)

Cold Insight - Above (1:30:51)

Cryptic Wanderings - ...A Herald of Atrocities (1:36:49)

Terralith - The Infidel (1:41:50)

Selcouth - Querencia (1:45:10)

Fellwarden - Guardian Unbound (1:50:30)

Mavradoxa - Across the Nival Grove (1:58:51)

Welcome to a special showcase episode where I spotlight past and current releases from Hypnotic Dirge Records. This is a companion episode to my interview with Nicolas Skog on the website, he's the founder and head of Hypnotic Dirge Records, a cornerstone label for underground black, doom, and experimental metal. It is part of my ongoing Moving Metal interview series, and you might remember a similar showcase for Black Lion Records a few months ago.

Playlist:

Orphans of Dusk - Nibelheim (1:15)

The Foetal Mind - The Big Crunch (7:51)

Thrawsunblat - She, Arboreal (13:59)

Aerial Ruin - Burn the Season (19:03)

Dolven - Inhale (23:02)

Netra - Everything’s Fine (29:00)

Subterranean Disposition - Embittered (34:18)

None - Wither (44:16)

Mavradoxa - Across the Nival Grove (54:29)

I should make it a habit of coining new genres based on these playlists... Or not, definitely not. But I will still bring you beautiful people some killer new underground heavy metal every week, just like this new batch coming from Canada, US, UK (including Scotland), Finland, Sweden, Greece, Norway, Chile, Australia, Poland, France, Russia, Germany, and Spain.

Remember to give the show a rating and review; it really helps get these bands more exposure, and that makes you a good metalhead.

Dark Matter Secret - Organic Nucleation (0:29)

Legerity - Above the Sky (7:57)

Cold Insight - The Light We Are (12:24) 5:32

Infinight - For the Crown (17:54)

Unausprechlichen Kulten - Dentro del Circulo (25:25)

Aposento - Portrait of a Killer (29:57)

Appalic - Masked Insanity (33:03)

Cemetery Urn - Weakened Mortals Bleed (39:36)

Hive - Acephalite (45:03) 3:49

Anthesis - Where’s the Dignity? (48:53)

Satanarchist - Be At Peace (50:45)

Kalopsia - Not Peace but Pestilence (55:26)

Pyreship - Machine Men (1:00:23)

WhiteNails - Dead in Time (feat. Gabrielle Shonk) (1:07:21)

Space Witch - Astro Genocide (1:12:30)

Roctum - We Want More (1:18:34)

Red Moon Architect - Return of the Black Butterflies (1:22:37)

Loathfinder - Feast on My Entrails (1:29:11)

Svartsyn - Seven Headed Snake (1:35:59)

Prometheus - Hand of War (1:43:23)

Legacy of Emptiness - Despair (1:50:17)

In Reverence - The Selected Breed (1:54:49)

Bloodthread - ...for I am the Butcher (1:58:40)

Tsar Stangra - Obesvaneto na Vasil Levski (2:05:36)

I mentioned last week something about the stronger showing of stoner metal and hard rock, genres I usually have at least one full segment of on each episode. Well, somehow I seem to have gone completely in the opposite direction this week; this is almost a uniformly brutal and vile collection of death, black, and doom metal. There is some breathing room though, with a set of very solid hazy-metal. Remember to rate and review the show if you like what it offers, it really helps get a bigger audience hearing these underground bands and that's the whole point of doing this noisy train-wreck of a heavy metal podcast in the first place.

Said brutality on this episode comes from the lands of the US, UK, Greece, German, Chile, Australia, Sweden, France, Québec, Finland, and Serbia.

Episode 55 Playlist:

Tsar Stangra - Suniat na Geroya (0:43)

Jordablod - En Route to the Unknown (4:31)

Klabautamann - Enemies Blood (10:18)

Caïna - Rhosneigr (15:28)

Sacrificial Slaughter - Systematic Genocide (23:17)

Soulskinner - Soul of Death (26:10)

Cemetery Urn - A Requiem for Servants Aflame (30:50)

Contaminated - Boneless Mass (34:10)

A Trust Unclean - Exonerate (38:03)

Archivist - Birth of Ire (41:35)

Final Words of Sorrow - Birth (48:16)

Warcrab - Destroyer of Worlds (53:06)

Monobrow - The First Vague Rumblings of Impending Revolution (58:52)

Pyreship - When Leaves Turn to Blood (1:04:17)

Morass of Molasses - Wrath of Aphrodite (1:10:33)

WhiteNails - Done and Gone (1:17:27)

Dråp - Ärrvävnad (1:23:57)

Tuhonsiemen - Marttyyrit (1:28:35)

Vehementer - The Black Spectrumfest (1:33:03)

Norse - Drowned by Hope (1:36:27)

Nekroptikon - Grind the Black Stone (1:41:50)

Morgon - Antagonist (1:46:37)

Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Sabbatical Offering (1:51:49)

Atrexial - Catharsis Through Torment (1:56:21)

The title for this week is a bit cheeky; this episode's playlist seems to be pretty heavy on stoner/doom and death metal. Which makes for a nice change from the black/death mix that I've been leaning towards for a while now. Regardless, it's a brutal set of music as usual, so strap in and crank those speakers.

This week's batch comes to us from the US, UK, Spain, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Greece, Canada, India, Germany, and Catalonia.

Episode 54 Playlist:

Bury the Machines - A Victim’s Tears (0:31)

Morass of Molasses - My Leviathan (6:38)

Kreyskull - Lord of the Zorg (11:53)

Diarchy - Gunpowder (18:00)

Soulskinner - The Dead Have Ravished (25:01)

Carnal Garden - Crushing Skulls (29:25)

Gathering Darkness - Infernus Terra Est (32:31)

Sacrificial Slaughter - Bodies in the Basement (36:16)

Akerbeltz - Beyond the Reflections (40:00)

Meatwound - Pigs (43:45)

Sydrømes - Death Games (46:47)

Archivist - The Negotiation (49:15)

A Flourishing Scourge - Solace (56:28)

The Hallowed Catharsis - Jabberwocky (1:05:40)

Mirrors of Obsidian - Close to Interception (1:11:49)

Aetheric - Within Withered Veins (1:16:05)

Ajattara - Saatanan Sinetti (1:21:01)

Acherontas - I-AM Ness, the Tradition of EYE (1:24:08)

Cara Neir - Stained Grey Bones (1:28:26)

Desekryptor - Chasm of Rot (1:31:59)

Skallbank - Divinum Dictatura (1:37:56)

Obelyskkh - Raving Ones (1:41:43)

Godhunter - Like Glass Under Black Fingernails (1:48:54)

Dö - Astral Death (1:54:46)