Picking two hours worth of new heavy metal is a double edged sword; the kind of sword Cirith Ungol and Manilla Road sing about. On one hand it's a great excuse to spend my free time listening to truck-loads of new music, on the other hand I have to spend my time listening to truck-loads of new music. I miss you Cirith Ungol and Manilla Road...

Said new music this week comes from the distant lands of Ireland, Canada, Netherlands, Spain, US, India, Sweden, Finland, Catalonia, Romania, UK, Greece, and, by coincidence, an extra helping from Denmark.

Now on to the music!

Episode 53 Playlist:

Ajattara - Sinä (0:35)

Marthyrium - Abominations (5:16)

Inhumation - Dormant Fires (11:10)

Plague Throat - Fallible Transgression (15:24)

Akerbeltz - A Deed Without a Name (22:24)

Gravstenad - Lust Och Fägring (25:51)

Saudade - Black Death (30:17)

Blackhand - 5th Night (33:34)

The Thirteenth Sun - The Fabric of Time (37:19)

Isbjörg - Glacier (44:38)

Summoner - The Huntress (51:53)

Stone Cadaver - Sccum (57:27)

Divine Element - Call of the Blade (1:04:17)

Pictura Poesis - The Paralytic Child (1:10:48)

Lying Figures - The Mirror (1:14:14)

The Hallowed Catharsis - Phototaxic (1:19:25)

Ensnared - Antiprophet (1:25:21)

Horrid - The Eyes of Terror (1:30:06)

Suffering Hour - Devouring Shapeless Void (1:35:06)

Strangle Wire - The Narcissist (1:39:19)

A Flourishing Scourge - Tidal Waves (1:45:18)

Mountains Crave - Arise O Magnificent Sun (1:55:09)

Sunken - Departure (2:01:45)

Aetheric - Irreparable Trauma (2:13:11)

It's episode 52 for this heavy metal podcast, and even though this is a weekly show it's actually been going for a bit more than a year; the first couple of months were bi-weekly and I have of course missed a few weeks here and there for. But let's just go ahead and say it's been a year of spotlighting new underground heaviness since I never properly celebrated that milestone.

This week's batch of brutality hails from the reaches of Sweden, UK, US, Greece, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Romania, Canada, Norway, and Denmark.

Episode 52 Playlist:

Burning Shadows - Southwind (0:23)

Divine Element - Beyond This Sea (6:28)

Nighon - The Dirge (11:10)

The Thirteenth Sun - Pathways (15:50)

Havukruunu - Verikuu (23:16)

Nargaroth - Whither Goest Thou (29:33)

Obscura Amentia - Agony (35:50)

Corpus Christii - I See, I Become (41:50)

Cadaver Disposal - Seven Seals Unveiled (47:31)

Of Fire - The Shrine (51:21)

Crypt Rot - Coffin Birth: Post Mortal Fetal Extrusion (56:42)

Ensnared - Apostles of Dismay (1:00:26)

Woodhawk - The High Priest (1:07:53)

Jukebox Monkey - Crawling as the Crow Flies (1:12:36)

Summoner - New Sun (1:20:23)

The Ditch And The Delta - Hives in Decline (1:24:34)

Enisum - Dead Star (1:32:34)

Dødsritual - Venomtongue (1:41:07)

Imindain - A Paean to the Vermin (1:45:09)

Fin - Stings of Discourse (1:53:11)

Resist the Ocean - Cauterize (1:57:15)

Void Cruiser - Seven Years Late (2:00:37)

Mountains Crave - Istigkeit (We Saw Them of Old) (2:07:01)

Hexis - Ritualis (2:12:33)

Welcome to this week's roundup of new heavy metal. This week's bunch hails from the US, UK, Slovenia, Sweden, Singapore, Finland, Poland, Portugal Italy, Greece, Spain, Mexico, Canada, Ukraine, and Germany. Check out the playlist for links to the bands and make sure to pick up some of their music and merch. Support underground!

Episode 51 Playlist:

Eruption - Drones (0:21)

Cult of Eibon - Wolfblood Communion (5:34)

Dante’s Theory - Iron Coffin (12:40)

Assault - Ghettos (ft. Fufu of NOTHNEGAL) (15:02)

Corpus Christii - Become the Wolf (19:51)

Highland - Abu Sindi (24:30)

Havukruunu - Vainovalkeat (28:12)

Lava Invocator - Totemkampf (33:44)

Tetrafusion - The Void (39:33)

Kenoma - 33rd Parallel (44:39)

Jukebox Monkey - Death on Mars (55:20)

The Wizards - Calliope (Cosmic Revelations) (59:36)

Helsott - Astralive (1:06:08)

Of Fire - Straight From the Grave (1:10:54)

Murderline - Bloodswamp (1:13:43)

Martyrdoom - Bloody Incarnations (1:17:16)

Longhouse - No Name, No Marker (1:22:11)

Gurt - Battlepants (1:30:06)

Isenordal - To Tear the Veil of Dreams (1:34:19)

Sarkrista - Black Devouring Flames (1:42:02)

Aversio Humanitatis - The Everyshifting Path (1:48:09)

Enisum - Seasons...of Desolation (1:53:39)

Saule - II (2:03:56)

Arkheron - Spiritum Viridis (2:09:54)

Here's the big five oh. Fifty episodes of this little heavy metal podcast, and it's going strong with no midlife crisis in sight. Many hails to all the regular listeners that have signed on to the weekly cacophony; it's good to know the bands that I play on every episode, many of whom are unsigned and unplayed, are getting some exposure. That is what the show is all about, after all.

Episode 50 Playlist:

Netherbird - Abysmal Allure (0:27)

Highland - Towards the Absolute (5:29)

Bloodgod - 't Schrickelik Tempeest (10:25)

Sigil - Even the Gods Will Burn (14:09)

Eruption - Sanity Ascend (18:44)

Al-Namrood - Halak (23:26)

The Sarcophagus - Reign of Chaos (26:40)

Sacrament ov Impurity - A Time of Darkness and Decay (31:59)

Somnium Nox - Transcendental Dysphoria (39:45)

Ghost Horizon - This Forever Flow (48:48)

Caoimhin - Víðarr (53:47)

Alunah - Lugh’s Assembly (1:05:19)

Dante’s Theory - Dethroned the Purist (1:14:23)

Time Walk - Temple of the Forbidden (1:17:47)

Goresoerd - Antikeha (1:21:18)

Assault - The Fallen Reich (1:24:45)

Kömmand - Nekrö Kömmandö Attack! (1:29:04)

Opposer - Osiris Land (1:32:35)

Necromutilator - Unholy Semen of Doom (1:37:32)

Veldraveth - Void of Divinity (1:40:38)

Soulrot - This Putrid Canvas (1:48:16)

Lunatic Hooker - Embracing the Filth (1:52:44)

Ulvegr - Throne Among the Void (1:55:51)

Isenordal - Pyres at Nightfall (2:00:43)

If you're a metalhead, then you've heard the question, "Are you angry?" when your music is overheard by 'normals' at least 243,198 times in your life. And we all know it's not the music that makes us angry; it's the asshat asking the question that fuels the fury of anyone who grew up at odds with a world that simply doesn't understand why Vader is the sickest sh*t on the planet.

So let's help make is easy for people to make us angry and listen to some nifty tunes from bands coming from places like the US, UK, Quebec, Finland, Russia, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Turkey, Ukraine, and a first for the show, Saudi Arabia,

Episode 49 Playlist:

Satan’s Hallow - Still Alive (0:22)

Deathwish - Rock and Roll is One Hell of a Drug (5:23)

Sigil - Strange Aeons (9:52)

Appalling - Secrets of the Adept (14:45) 4:04

Buckshot Facelift - Ascend to Descend (19:40)

Basement Torture Killings - There’s Something About Beryl (22:26)

Pyriphlegethon - Funeral Bells (26:56)

Drug Honkey - Sickening Wastoid (31:02)

Azarath - Let My Blood Become His Flesh (38:41)

Nox Vorago - Elenu Tiamtu (41:59)

Orm - Ancient Echoes (48:47)

First Martyr - Image of Dying Victims, Mournful Plea of Helplessness (55:42)

The Riven - One Last Time (1:03:40)

Mexican Chili Funeral Party - Power of Love (1:08:56)

Season of Arrows - Farewell to the Horsemen (1:12:48)

Alunah - Feast of Torches (1:19:19)

Katakomb - Chained to a Wolf (1:27:21)

Sacrament ov Impurity - Sepulture of Modern Man (1:33:46)

Barathrum - Hellspawn (1:42:02)

A Lie Nation - Shooting the Messenger (1:46:02)

Al-Namrood - Nabth (1:51:54)

The Sarcophagus - The Profanity Rites (1:55:49)

Hellfire - Hellmas Attack (2:02:36)

Blessed Curse - Sent to Die (2:05:17)

Welcome to this week's edition of the little heavy metal podcast that could. It's got lots of brutal new music from lots of different places, like Sweden, US, UK, Poland, Denmark, China, Columbia, Belgium, Catalonia, Scotland, and Brazil. Give it a listen.

Episode 48 Playlist:

Appalling - Satan’s Shaman (0:26)

Possession - Infestation - Manifestation (3:35)

Lucifera - Los Demonios de Loudun (9:05)

Orm - Blood of Your Blood (13:31)

Sloth Herder - Inner Dissolution (21:49)

Deathwish - Unleash Hell (25:11)

Substratum - To Nothing, To None (28:07)

Tumourboy - Chernobyl Devastation (33:38)

Azarath - At the Gates of Understanding (37:55)

Blood Feast - The Underling (42:06)

Hellripper - Bastards of Hades (48:33)

Pain Tank - When Integrity Means Death (51:06)

In the Company of Serpents - Crucible (54:44)

Season of Arrows - The Bridge (1:04:17)

Sail - Old Tom (1:10:54)

Alastor - Nothing to Fear (1:17:02)

Wormwood - Godless Serenade (1:25:28)

Saille - Before the Crawling Chaos (1:30:45)

Varmia - Slava! (1:37:42)

The Crawling - An Immaculate Deception (1:43:16)

Coldfells - The Sea Inside (1:50:00)

Falls of Rauros - Impermanence Streakt Through Marble (1:58:17)

Morbid Flesh - The Circle Cursed (2:08:28)

Carpatus - Flames to Eternity (2:14:08)

If there's one thing that can be respected about heavy metal, it's the honesty. Just like how the tracks on this week's episode are honestly pretty brutal. Just like how I honestly love putting these together each week because it gives me an excuse to drown my brain in a constant onslaught of loud, horrific-sounding cacophony. Just like how I'm honestly going to cleanse my palate after posting this by watching a Depeche Mode concert on blu-ray. Don't worry, I'll turn in my metal card on my way out the door.

Anyway, here's your weekly batch of new heaviness coming from the US, Austria, Finland, Canada, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Romania, the Czech Republic, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, and Belgium. Enjoy.

Episode 47 Playlist:

Blood Feast - Off With Their Heads (0:27) 4:40

Venereal Baptism - The Winds of Nulification (5:07) 4:35

Saille - Blôt (9:42) 4:44

Hammerdrone - Ancestral Weight (14:26) 3:51

Substratum - Rough Rider (19:26) 4:31

Godstopper - Down Here for Long (23:56) 2:32

Grizzlor - Are You Doing Your Job (26:28) 7:00

In the Company of Serpents - Middle Pillar (28:56) 8:12

Daemoniac - Spawn of the Fallen (38:13) 5:00

Nasty Surgeons - The Resurrectionists (43:10) 5:18

Uerberos - Destroy the Enemy (48:28) 4:58

Necroblood - Glorification Through Destruction (53:26) 4:17

Altar of Betelgeuze - The Offering (58:42)) 5:17

Woe - Drown Us With Greatness (1:03:59) 5:17

Entartung - Vices of the Prophet (1:09:12) 8:32

Acrimonious - The Northern Portal (1:17:41) 5:31

Anomalie - The Wanderer (1:23:57) 6:02

Corpus Diavolis - The Ardent Jewel of His Presence (1:29:57) 5:52

Inferno - Innermost Disillusion (1:35:48) 7:43

Venenum - Merging Nebular Drapes (1:43:28) 8:50

Netra - Jusqu'au-boutiste (1:53:23) 5:54

Funeral Baptism - Drowned (1:59:19) 3:11

Black Urn - The Spirituality of Elephant Bones (2:02:25) 7:55

Moros - Corrosive Existence (2:10:16) 3:47

If you can think of a better way to start off the week than with a giant block of new heavy metal, don't tell me about it because I like having an excuse to produce this ugly little duckling of a podcast. And besides, for some reason this is one of the few music-only heavy metal podcasts out there that doesn't do talk or interviews, which means I can tell myself that I'm doing some kind of service to the community. Let me have my ego trip.

This week's featured bands hail from the US, UK, Australia, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Ireland, Québec, India, Canada, Spain, Austria, Greece, Germany, Poland, Chile, and Slovenia, making it even more well rounded than usual in terms of global representation.

Episode 46 Playlist:

Woe - No Blood Has Honor (0:25)

Délétère - Horae Leprae (6:39)

Harvest Gulgaltha - Serpentine Path (13:13)

Apostate Viaticum - Moloch the Sanguinary (17:40)

Light of the Morning Star - Coffinwood (24:39)

Bathsheba - The Sleepless Gods (28:06)

Altar of Betelgeuze - No Return (35:21)

Illimitable Dolor - Comet Dies or Shines (43:44) 9:09

Demonic Resurrection - Vamana (The Dwarf) (54:08)

Hammerdrone - Karakoram (59:32)

Katharos - Thy Fortress of Regrets (1:04:09)

Holycide - Eager to Take Control (1:10:21)

Poison Rites - Everything I Love (1:14:32)

Prowl - Warfare’s Pace (1:17:47)

Dark Horse - To Hell With It (1:22:17)

Black Reaper - Nuclear Strike (1:24:47)

Allochiria - Counting Fives (1:29:11)

Locust Leaves - Light (Fos) (1:35:59)

Anomalie - Starless Nights (1:44:20)

Front Beast - Swallowed by Night (1:49:30)

Cosmogonic - Soltar y recibir (1:55:56)

Shadow Limb - Blood at Sea (2:01:04)

Stone Lotus - Mountain of Filth (2:06:02)

Aberrancy - Consequence (2:11:43)

If you're back for more of what I shovel at your ears every week that means you're a real glutton for sonic punishment, considering the black/death rabbit hole I've been wandering down lately. As the show has gone on it seems the average songs I pick just get nastier and more unforgiving, not unlike a junkie needing a stronger dose for each spike. And more people listen each week, which just means we're all just a bunch of heavy metal junkies, eh?

Well, here's your poison, so tie off and enjoy the ride because we're travelling to Finland, Australia, UK, US, Québec, Belgium, South Africa, Poland, Chile, Brazil, and India. Make sure to follow the show and site on Facebook and Twitter for updates, and on Instagram for all the awesome cover art from the albums played each week.

Episode 45 Playlist:

Xibalba - Con Amor (0:24)

The Day of the Beast - Black Earth Coffins (3:25)

Grave Plague - Arise the Infected (7:09)

Insidious Reign - Fictitious Obsession (10:40)

Rozamov - Wind Scorpion (15:46)

Horseneck - P.A.G. (24:35)

Radien - Vimmeinen (28:38)

Prowl - Momentum of Death (41:18)

Pillorian - A Stygian Pyre (46:41)

Bathsheba - Ain Soph (51:48)

Miserist - VIII (57:30)

The Throne - Self Harm (1:01:51) 4:15

Light of the Morning Star - Crescentlight (1:07:26)

Cataleptic - Ancient Might (1:11:06)

Cold Fell - Spleen i. (In Vino Veritas) (1:20:08)

Tanakh - Nocturnus Infernus (1:25:46)

Samskaras - Conqueror (1:32:01)

Sunless - The Ancient Ones (1:36:15)

Demonic Resurrection - Matsya (The Fish) (1:39:53)

Ymir’s Blood - Origin of Iron (1:46:32)

Blood Region - New Rising (1:54:57)

Solitary - Architects of Shame (1:59:52)

Crime - We Shall Destroy (2:03:34)

Holocausto - Massacre (2:07:27)

I'm convinced that heavy metal is good for the soul, even if that soul is damned to eternal hellfire for listening to metal in the first place. Which is why I do this podcast every week; to make you feel good while sending you straight to Satan's mosh pit. The bands helping me do that this week hail from Sweden, Denmark, America, South Africa, Germany, Finland, Paraguay, Québec, and the UK.

The playlist on the site has links and cover art to all the music played, make sure to support the bands you like by picking up some of their music, merch, and maybe catch them on the road if you're able. And speaking of cover art, make sure to follow the show's new Instagram (@podcastofmetal) to add some beautifully brutal heavy metal album covers to your day.

Episode 44 Playlist:

Horseneck - Bobby Brown (0:24)

Dryland - Last Man on the Sun (3:36)

Evil Force - Southern Armageddon (8:58)

Event Horizon - First World Phenomenon (13:04)

Pillorian - Archaen Divinity (20:25)

Thormesis - In Stille Wachen die Toten (27:07)

Skogen - Genom Svarta Vatten (33;00)

Thron - Purified in Fire (40:39)

Gloson - Cringe (46:44)

Hymn - Serpent (57:08)

Henry Kane - Svarta tankar (1:04:38)

Defiatory - Metatron (1:05:52)

Sunless - Born of Clay (1:10:43)

Samskaras - Separate (1:16:40)

Insidious Reign - The Vile Maxim (1:20:47)

Conscript - I’ll See You Burn (1:24:37)

Palace of Worms - The Lost (1:29:19)

Ecferus - Ritual Calamity (1:33:17)

Plaugues - Ascension (1:39:27)

Fides Inversa - Rite of Inverse Incarnation (1:43:59)

Streams of Blood - Corrosion (1:53:53)

Tyrannosatan - Permafrost (1:57:28)

Insanity Cult - Seeds of Lesser Gods (2:00:55)

Nord - Rosehip Garden (2:07:50)