For this week's episode , I sit down to talk about six new albums I listened to this week; " Celebrate" from Blackstone Cherry, "Whiteout" from Acranius, " I Don't Feel You Here Anymore" from Hourhouse, " Silence Outlives The Earth" from Erra, " Act II: Of Iron And Blood " from Lomsk and " The Crawl " from Temple Of Void

For this week's episode , I sit down to talk about " The Way Of All Flesh" from Gojira, "Twilight Of The Thunder God " from Amon Amarth, " Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood " from Volbeat , " All Hope Is Gone " from Slipknot , " Melancholie" from Coldworld and " Suicide Season " from Bring Me The Horizon

For this week's episode z I sit down to talk about some of the new albums I listened to that were released this week, which includes " Love Is Not Enough " from Converge, " Skin Cage" from Diskust, " Temple Balls" from Temple Balls, "Necropalace" from Worm, " A.R.S.O.N" from Story Of The Year and " Brutality Is Supremacy" from Skin Stripper

As promised , I actually managed to pump out a regular segment for you guys this week , and sit down to talk about six albums that are turning eighteen this year . " Changes " from For The Fallen Dreams, " Horror " from With Blood Comes Cleansing , " Bury Your Dead " from Bury Your Dead " Til Death Do Us Part " from Deicide, " Scars & Souvenirs" from Theory Of A Deadman and " The Respect Issue" from Emmure.

For the first proper episode of the year, I talk about the newest albums I listened to this week, which includes " Empty Hands* from Poppy, " Bleed///Reboot" from Dagger Threat, " Reek Of God " from Barbarian, " Descending " from Elwood Stray and " The Weight Of Sound " from Crystal Lake

After somehow losing my god damn notes ( hey, it happens ) I decided to change gears just for this episode and talk about the three main reasons why I think today's metal bands suck

Yeah yeah the final episode of the year ( and season ) should be longer, but I didn't wanna keep boring you guys with my top 100 albums of the year. So I decided to record a holiday message instead.

BLAR will return the second Saturday of January 2026

Still going on with this needlessly long list, I cover albums 73-83

Closer still.to the end of this huge list , I cover albums 58-72 of my top albums for the year