This is a special bonus episode of the podcast that acts as a companion piece to the interview I have with Oliver Dahlback, the founder of Black Lion Records, an underground heavy metal label from Sweden. You can read the interview on the website (anothermetalreviewblog.com or anothermetalpodcast.com), and it's recommended you listen to this episode while checking it out; it features songs from the label's back catalog along with brand-new releases.

Here's this week's batch of new metal from the global underground. It's pretty heavy on the death and black, but there's definitely some curve-balls thrown in for good measure, like some stoner tunes and a little prog rock. Countries represented this week include the US, Finland, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Scotland, Poland, Ukraine, and France.

Use the playlist on the site to get the cover art and links to all the music played, and speaking of cover art I've started an Instagram for the podcast to basically stream the album covers of each band played every week. So if you're an album art junkie make sure to follow it.

Episode 43 Playlist:

White Death - Immortal Hunter of the Moon (0:20)

Tomb Mold - Bereavement of Flesh (4:30)

Haxxan - Babalon (8:08)

The Vomiting Dinosaurs - Circumbinary (13:19)

Midnight - Who Gives a Fuck (16:51)

Lucifer’s Fall - (Fuck You) We’re Lucifer’s Fall (19:47)

Coldborn - In Solitude (22:57)

Skeletal - Sewers of this World (31:36)

Frowning - Nocturnal Void (37:46)

Gloson - Prowler (47:22)

Draugsól - Váboðans Vals (55:32)

Shaarimoth - Lord of Putrefaction (1:00:27)

Henry Kane - Bön för bön (1:06:55)

Axis of Despair - Enclave (1:08:35)

Vorzug - Under a Dying Sun (1:09:55)

Terrifier - Bestial Tyranny (1:14:19)

Dryland - Second Hand Smoke (1:21:34)

Bantha Rider - Sandcrawler (1:27:10)

Riviẽre - New Cancer (1:33:29)

I AM - Sacred Cries (1:41:59)

Thormesis - Waheelas Fährter (1:46:28)

Sons ov Omega - Quetzalcoatl (1:54:09)

A Cunning Man - Honorius & The Choral Forecast (2:00:16)

Sanatana - Mukti (2:04:16)

Here's your 2-hour lump of new underground metal for this week. And when I say underground, I really do mean it; this stuff is dug up from some awfully obscure parts of the metal world at large. Said parts including the likes of the US, Spain, Germany, Italy, Chile, Finland, Iceland, Canada, UK, France, Hungary, and Australia.

The playlist is on the site, make sure to check out the bands that get your neck cracking and pick up some of their music and merch. If you're not already subscribed to the show, click that button and think about giving it a rating or review; it really helps spread the word on these bands.

Episode 42 Playlist:

Call of the Void - Are You Fucking Kidding Me (0:18)

Dead War - A Sinister Process (2:02)

Code - Affliction (3:49)

Cranial - Lights (7:14)

Malämmar - III (18:07)

The Ossuary - Blood on the Hill (25:14)

Substratum - By Any Means (29:22)

Lucifer’s Fall - Cursed Priestess (35:23)

Thunder and Lightning - Silent Watcher (43:03)

Krullur - Your Worst Enemy (49:22)

Tomb Mold - Merciless Watcher (52:27)

Gutted - Consuming Life (56:14)

Infamovs - Call Upon Blasphemovs (59:02)

Draugsól - Formæling (1:03:12)

Horn - Turn am Hang (1:08:07)

The Flight of Sleipner - Earthen Shroud (1:13:12)

Mustan Kunn Lapset - Kuolemanvirta (1:21:48)

IC Rex - Melek-Taus (1:28:36)

Ekpyrosis - Obsessive Christendom (1:35:02)

Quintessenz - The Claws of Nosferatu (1:38:21)

Aksaya - Fractale (1:42:37)

Andhera - Refluence (1:47:14)

Centrate - Soul Collector (1:51:36)

Terrifier - Deceiver (1:56:52)

Rückwater - No Gain (2:02:08)

Hope everyone got some good headbanging in with last week's twenty-episode round-up, I like doing those extra sized ones. Which is why the new show length is a regular two hours, up from a measly one. Double the time = double the new underground heavy fucking metal to play. This will give the show a bit more meat for chewing since it's only weekly, and it will give me some more space to play with when sequencing the playlists (proper DJing is a lost craft in modern times and I like to think the show is somewhat unique for having flowing tracklists).

Bands this week hail from the US, Sweden, Chile, Finland, Germany, Spain, Armenia, Canada, Italy, Indonesia, Germany, and Australia. Browse the playlist for all the pretty cover art and links, if you like a track make sure to head over to the band's site and pick up some merch.

Episode 41 Playlist:

Substratum - Who Am I (0:24)

Thunder and Lightning - Eternally Awake (4:48)

Ravenous - Into the Abyss (9:36)

Krullur - Blown to Oblivion (13:37)

Scalpture - Lead From Ahead (17:04)

Wormlight - The Bloodfields (20:57)

Panzerfaust - Axis Mundi (25:31)

gnis Gehenna - Edict of Blood (29:24)

Acranius - Built on Tradition (40:33)

Technikill - Hellskull Valley (43:52)

Devation - Wake Up (47:25)

Call of the Void - On and On (52:03)

Angela Martyr - Deathwish (55:46)

Dawnbringer - North By North (1:00:45)

Diablerie - Rabid (Dogs of Church and State) (1:07:50)

Teramobil - Thanatonaut (1:11:38)

Temple of Demigod - The Awakening of A Mighty One (1:19:18)

This Eternal Cold - Souleater (1:24:25)

Malämmar - I (1:29:43)

Condenados - Burn (1:34:38) 5:15

Ketch - En Nomine Eius (1:40:32) 6:47

Herem - Drowning Steed (1:47:19) 6:43

Lascar - Regions of Light (1:54:00) 7:38

Nachzeit - Där Allting Har Sin Början (2:01:37)

If you caught episode 20 of this little heavy metal podcast, you'll remember I tried out an extended recap format where I picked some of my favorite tracks of the first twenty episodes. Well, we're twenty deep again with episode 40, so this week is another 2-hour compilation of my top picks since then. If you want to browse through the old playlists and listen to the episodes where these tracks originally aired head over to the show's main page, or you can access them all from the main podcast distributors (iTunes, Stitcher, Player.FM, etc.). As usual, please check out any band that strikes your interest and support 'em by picking up their music and merch.

Episode 40 Playlist:

A Sense of Gravity - Artificially Ever After (0:32)

Obscure Sphinx - Sepulchre (6:39)

MOASE (Memoirs of a Secret Empire) - Whorl (12:20)

Adaestuo - The Abyss (21:32)

Far Beyond - The Song Remains the Same (27:18)

Mavradoxa - Tempest of Dreams (35:48)

The Exiled Martyr - Vexatious Cognition (44:15)

Nukem - Evelyn’s Awakening (48:13)

Bewitcher - Speed ‘Til You Bleed (52:24)

Hobbs’ Angel of Death - Walk My Path (54:45)

Barbarian Swords - Outcast Warlords (1:0:03)

Darkrypt - Chasm of Death (1:06:12)

Altar of Oblivion - State of Decay (1:12:11)

Clouds Taste Satanic - Retribution (1:17:11)

Cross Vault - A Hand Moving Mountains (1:23:53)

Trees of Eternity - My Requiem (1:31:34)

Vanha - Reaching the End (1:37:32)

Colosso - Of Hollow Judgments (1:42:42)

Mare Cognitum - Aether Wind (1:48:15)

Murg - Djupt ner, där frosten inte biter (1:56:35)

Netherbird - Pillars of the Sky (2:01:53)

Profanal - Burn the Altar (2:09:11)

Brutally Deceased - Hostile Earth (2:13:19)

Wastewalker - The Consumption (2:16:43)

Nothing will warm you up in these frigid days like some good ol' brutal heavy metal. And this week is pretty brutal too, not much clean material and when it does show up it definitely keeps the right mood going. This batch of heaviness comes from the US, Ukraine, Sweden, Netherlands, Brazil, Switzerland, Spain, Finland, and France. Check out the bands, their links are in the playlist, and for god's (or satan's) sake pick up some of their music!

Episode 39 Playlist:

In Shadows and Dust - Hatred (0:24)

The Lifted Veil - End of the Age (3:48)

Id - Moth (9:03)

Barbarian Swords - Outcast Warlords (13:27

To the Victor - Comfort and Hope (Feat. Ken Wolcott) (20:35)

Hypocras - Implosive Absolution (24:49)

Jason Aaron Wood - Upon Desolate Sands (29:25)

Erasy - Dawn of Time (34:37)

Gravehill - By the Edge of Our Knives (40:39)

Laster - De Roes Na (45:30)

Vanha - Into the Cold Light (55:35)

Greyablaze - IV (1:02:02)

One of the web's few music-only shows for new heavy metal (it's true, look it up) took the holiday weekend off, so metal Christmas is coming late kids. And Satan's version of Santa really does get around the world because this week's music is coming from the US, Finland, El Salvador, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, France, Sweden, and Switzerland. The full playlist is on the site, replete with cover art and links to the bands and labels. If you like something you hear, check out the band and be sure to spread the word to your metal brethren.

Episode 38 Playlist:

Voodoo Terror Tribe - Cell (0:23)

Satan’s Fall - The Beast Rises (4:59)

Conceived by Hate - Crossroad of Fire (9:03)

Morbitory - Angelgrinder (13:36)

Sonus Mortis - No Escape (18:35)

The Lifted Veil - Everything Burns (23:40)

Mordskog - Mors Est Vitae Essentia (26:27)

Murg - Vargens ständiga vakan (30:37)

Khaos Dei - A L’enfant du Diable (37:46)

Bölzer - Hero (42:32)

Liminal - Walls of Sound (49:59)

Vanha - Reaching the End (57:44)

This week's episode of new heavy metal is equal parts black, death, and doom/stoner with a little curve ball from Brazil thrown in for good measure. Other bands hail from Poland, USA, Iran, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and the UK. You can see all the pretty cover art for all this music on the site, along with links to the band's music, website, social media, etc. This is all new music as usual, so go ahead and get inspired to ruin your wallet on Bandcamp.

Episode 37 Playlist:

Caligram - Drowned (0:18) 4:42

Bölzer - The Archer (4:59) 6:12

Murg - Djupt ner, där frosten inte biter (11:09)

Crimson Moon - Molding of a Spell (16:29)

Renascent - Apocalyptic Terror (23:08)

Misanthropia - 230 Park Avenue (27:03)

Azooma - Act 2: Umbra of Mirth (30:53)

Dixie Heaven - Riding the Thunder (38:37)

Dusks Embrace - Winter’s Epitaph (43:38)

Goat Wizard - Straight to Hell (50:13)

Palm Desert - Fleeting Dusk (54:06)

Bearstorm - Biophobia (58:04)

New week, new dose of underground metal from around the globe. And when I say underground, I really do mean it, AMP only plays unsigned or small-label bands (so if you're in one, go ahead and let me know). Said bands on this episode hail from the US, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Australia, Paraguay, and Germany. Cruise to the playlist on the site for links and cover art to everything you hear.

Episode 36 Playlist:

J.D. Overdrive - Secrets (0:22)

Leather Lung - Shadow of the Scythe (5:34)

Goat Wizard - Devil’s Claw (10:00)

Soothsayer - Locust and Moths (14:00)

Trees of Eternity - My Requiem (23:19)

Aberrant Phase - Anodyne (29:18)

Chiral - Part I (The Gazer) (34:38)

Convulsing - Altered (49:24)

Renascent - In the Shadow of the Almighty (55:11)

Master of Cruelty - Archaic Visions of the Underworld (59:58)

KOILE - The Cult (1:05:30)

Hazzard’s Cure - Sirens Wail (1:13:18)

In the coldness of winter, a trick for raising body heat is to headbang to heavy metal. True story, it's why so much metal comes out of Scandinavia; there's a constant demand for fresh neck wrecking music. Good thing this episode has some Swedish representatives in it, along with Russia, Germany, USA, Australia, and Finland. Cruise through the playlist on the site for cover art and links to all the bands played.

Episode 35 Playlist:

Trees of Eternity - A Million Tears (0:16)

Spiritus Mortis - Babalon Working (7:26)

Heavydeath - Bleak Future (14:26)

Cokegoat - The Ruiner (21:22)

A Sense of Gravity - Artificially Ever After (29:18)

Unprocessed - Death. An Epilogue of Life (35:27)

KOILE - Hindsight (40:50)

Karma Rassa - Red Corridors (49:44)

The Loom of Time - Ashes of Your Fall (55:22)

Ctulu - Dämmerung (1:02:00)

Frozen Realm - The Endless One (1:06:17)

L’Homme Absurde - Villians (1:10:51)