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- Harsh Vocals – Episode 69 – Fantasy and Black Metal
For our sixty-ninth episode, we’re joined by fellow HarshVocals.com writer, Bri Mcintosh! She brought us a great topic of Fantasy and Black Metal, and we had a blast discussing how deeply connected the two things are! Of course, we also had another stellar two weeks of music, and highlighted more bands than usual!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Indonesian black metal band, Finsmoonth! They released an album earlier this year called “Chrysalis of Astral Tears”. Give it a listen!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://finsmoonth.bandcamp.com/album/chrysalis-of-astral-tears
If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!
We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!
Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!
Songs in this Episode:
- Dumal – The Alberta Cost
- Methane – I Fuck for Beer
- Einvigi – Leviathan
- Scheiterhaufen – Rotting Mouth
- Servant – Hypnos I See You
- Trebuchet SDG – Wycliffe’s Legacy
- Draugroth Gol – Fear / Violence / Guilt
- Spere – When at High Speed
- Werewolves – So Say All of Us
- Finsmoonth – Embers at Ethereal Dawn
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Razorvoid – Into the Void
- Haunt – Setting Course
- Hatesphere – Guillotine
- Hellucination – Penumbral
- Signum Regis – Beyond Spacetime
- Eternal – Conspiracy of Warheads
- Leper Colony – Back to the Primal Sludge
- Wraithstorm – Revenant
Bri’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Striga – Upon Stygian Winds
- Sorcery – The Immaculate Sin
- Divine Bloodline – Wintertide
- Enterre Vivant – Kurogoku
- Temair – The Patience of Decay
- Monstrum Dei – The Vatican Beast
- Marea – A Caress of Autumn for all the Lost
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Eremos IX – Foregone
- Ominous Covenant – Legacy of the Dead God
- In This Hell – Bliss
- Eoront – “Songs of the In-Between World”
- Marcation – Ruler of the Ruins
- SRPNTS – Second Shape
- Firtan – Helios
2 hr 14 min - Harsh Vocals – Episode 68 – More Music 9
For our sixty-eighth episode, we had another incredibly strong two weeks, so we decided to do another “More Music” episode. There was just too much great music to cover!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Italian black metal band, Oscura Metrica! They released an album earlier this year called “Obnubilatio Psycasthenica”, and Fugit, the creative force behind the project has another new album coming out later in October called “Fugit – Where Foxes Say Goodnight”. Make sure to check out both!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://oscurametrica.bandcamp.com/album/obnubilatio-psychasthenica
If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!
We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!
Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!
Songs in this Episode:
- Noctule – “O’Death” and “Become My Blade Once More”
- Autumnfall – Pulse
- Taskforce Toxicator – Countdown to Death
- The Noctambulant – Bring the Sorrow
- Theosophy – Shadows on the Earth
- Plèvre – Asbestose
- Miasmes – Decheance
- Nail by Nail – Into the Dragon’s Mouth
- Oscura Metrica – Otocolobus
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Hard Bone – Hard Beat
- The Bites – The Bites
- The Bleeding – Godless Communion
- Flame – Ignis Draconis Daemonium
- Invincia – Echoes from the Past
- Metalite – Discovery
- Skumstrike – Flawless Intrigue From Hell
- Stellar Rot – Where the Formless Ones Dwell
- Uberchriist – Daemonic Apotheosis
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Blodtar – Monark
- Hanging Garden – Dream Death
- Novae Militiae – Apocryphon of Unborn Light
- Old Ruins – Mount Arreat
- Burner – No One is Coming to Save Us
- Bloodmother – Militant Black Magic
- Victims of Contagion – Egregore
- Haenesy – Essentia
- Barron – Verderf
1 hr 34 min - Harsh Vocals – Episode 67 – More Music 8
For our sixty-seventh episode, we had two of the strongest weeks in 2026, so we decided to do another “More Music” episode. There was so much great music to cover!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Croatian black metal band, TRIVAN! They have a new single out called “Abyss of Crawling Shadows” and are planning a full album release in early 2027!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://trivan.bandcamp.com
If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!
We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!
Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!
Songs in this Episode:
- Godslave – Reset, Rebuild, Reclaim
- Devil Master – You Worms’ Vain Delusions
- Sworn – A Cosmic Storm
- Sardonic Witchery – Dark Moon Slaughter
- Harlott – Kleptogenesis
- Whispered – Where the Spirits Thrive
- Vingulmork – Svart Time
- Boötes Void – Panta Rhei
- Trivan – Abyss of Crawling Shadows
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- King Crown – Moonfall
- One Way Terror – Class Axe
- Pyroclast – Fractured State
- Vanessa Funke – Aura
- Cartilage – Operation Alter
- Everything Decays – Requiem II: We Will Slaughter the Lambs
- Lysis – At the Edge of Existence
- Space Chaser – Razorblade Bay
- Xion – When Stars Collide
- In Eclipse – Penumbral
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Skuggor – The Expanse
- Behemoth – I, Scvlptor
- Februus – Constitution of Conflict
- Wince and Frisson – Tumult
- Godslut – The Art of Deconstruction
- Fluisteraars – Jacht Der Mysterien
- Terrestrial Hospice – Omnicide – Chapter 1
- Clamosum – Gnosis Absolute
- Winds of Winter – A Choir for the End
- Stabbing Westward – Wither ReWired
1 hr 33 min - Harsh Vocals – Episode 66 – The Future of Black Metal
For our sixty-sixth episode, we are joined by a longtime friend and writer for the site, Brent Bailey! He brings the discussion topic of the future of black metal! Of course, we also talk about the incredible new releases from the past two weeks!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Chilean Black/Death metal band Phosgene! They have a new single called “Infeccion” out now!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://phosgene1.bandcamp.com/track/infeccion-2026
If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!
We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!
Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!
Songs in this Episode:
- State Power – Gnaw
- Djevelsort – Escape
- Street Tombs – Systematic Suffering
- Nekrodawn – Liberty’s Pyre
- Martyrium – Expand Your Shadow
- Xenith – Arteries
- Azaghast – Address to the Moon
- Phosgene – Infeccion
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Svorght – Svart Lerret
- Noveria – Becoming After
- Rebels Opera – Call of the Night
- Speed Stroke – Damage Control
- Exumer – Death Mask Messiah
- Flotsam & Jetsam – Rats in the Temple
- Eviscerize – Bound in Flesh
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Jotungrav – Elegi
- Nethergate – Sanguivoria
- Carniwar – When Language Fails
- Gorod – The Ember Gone
- Hesperia – Picenum (True Marchigian Black Metal)
- Triosphere – Oceans Above, Stars Below
- Veneficus Sarcina – Veni Regina Mea
- Morgued – Ordnance Obscenum
2 hr 19 min - Harsh Vocals – Episode 65 – Our Most Listened Albums
For our sixty-fifth episode, we discuss our most-listened to albums of all time! Of course, we also talk about the incredible new releases from the past two weeks!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the awesome German Black/Death metal band HKSPK! They have a new album called “Heimkehr” releasing on September 11, 2026, and asked us to feature their latest single, Rot in Despair!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://hkspk.bandcamp.com
If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!
We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!
Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!
Songs in this Episode:
- SAROF – The Pit
- Gleichmacher – Palingenese
- Megascavenger – Heading for the Furnace
- Temple of Dread – Dreadspawn Dominion
- Bloody Cumshot – Devastating Bukkake
- Aspen Sanctum – Pillars
- HKSPK – Rot in Despair
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Violence System – The Hollowing
- Deceased – Last Stand
- Coma Control – Shed the Sleep
- BrainBath – Head Hunted
- IronFlame – Worlds to Conquer
- Hulder – Verbolgen
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Dark Plague – Masquerade
- Graf – Call of the Blood
- The Absolution Sequence – Dread Cycle
- Suffocate the Skies – Obsidian Shores
- Invocation Ritual – Altered Reality
- SoulRazer – Noxious Creation
1 hr 41 min - Harsh Vocals – Episode 64 – Innovation
For our sixty-fourth episode, we discuss Innovation in metal, looking back at past acts, current acts, and where we think the future is headed. We also play some killer music from the best releases of the past two weeks!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the all-girl Punk/Metal group, Gunk! They have an album out called FEMICIDE, and are releasing copies on vinyl at the end of August, along with a new music video!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://gunkpunkmusic.bandcamp.com
If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!
We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!
Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!
Songs in this Episode:
- Ripper – Towards Rebirth
- Aenigmatum – Inseverable
- Antipeewee – Ivory Throne
- CHAMBER OF UNLIGHT – The Dagger
- Litosth – Abyss
- Faustian – Broken Better
- Gunk! – FLESH DUST
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Sinner – Boom Bang Goodbye
- Sellsword – …With Might and Vengeance
- Complexant – Apex
- Slaughtered Cadaver – Welcome
- Profane Burial – Desolate Echoes of Turmoil
- Daskra – Mountains Bleed in Autumn’s Fire
- Veil of Visions – Empty Forms
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Into Darkness – Route to the Other Side
- Caelestia – Revelations in Black
- Bryan Eckermann – Return to Helmbrook
- Finsterforst – Still
- Nothingness – Godslaughter
- Cairiss – Wilderness
- Lipoma – Infernal Wounds of Ravenous Flesh
- The Red Mass Ritual – Cervine
1 hr 37 min - Harsh Vocals – Episode 63 – Underappreciated Albums
For our sixty-third episode, we discuss each of our five favorite underrated albums! We also polled our friends and followers and got a ton of great recommendations as well. Regarding new music, we covered three weeks instead of the usual two, simply because the first in the cycle was the weakest week since starting the show. Luckily, weeks two and three yielded some awesome albums, so we hope you enjoy our picks!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the American Blackened Technical Death Metal band, Ethereal Rot! They just released their self-titled debut on July 17th, 2026,! If you dig the track, support the band via their bandcamp!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://etherealrot.bandcamp.com
If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!
We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!
Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!
Songs in this Episode:
- Lost Vital Spark – Anthem
- Apogean – White Trees, Black Leaves
- Iron Slaught – Ghastly Obsession
- Fuming Mouth – Barbarian Scourge
- Sigyn – A New Nation
- Niveous – Frostborne Resistance
- Ethereal Rot – Ophidian Womb
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- DevilDriver – Strike and Kill
- Undertaker – Global Dominion
- Solaris – Of Sin and Ruin
- Lucid Dreaming – Upon the Barricades
- Hellionight – Witches’ Sabbat
- Night Path – The Night’s Path
- Psycroptic – The Pulse of Annihilation
- Haserot – Advent of Suffering
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Mylingen – Det Inre Morket
- Ravaged by the Yeti – Snowbound Horror
- Mortem – Morketid
- Dysgnostic – End Whispers
- Emptiness – Nowhere Speaks
- Lord Gryphus – Summoning the King of Death
- Eaten by Sharks – The Undertow of Hate
- Eutonazia Kordax – Ominous Portents
1 hr 48 min - Harsh Vocals – Episode 62 – More Music 7
For our sixty-second episode, we had four weeks of material to cover, so we opted for another “More Music” episode. There were a ton of great releases over the past month, and our picks as well as our honorable mentions are worth checking out!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Indonesian Melodic Death Metal band, Narva! They have their debut album “AnvilHeart” out now on Underrated Records. It was released on June 6th, 2026, but we somehow missed it! If you dig the track, support the band via their bandcamp!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://narvaofficial.bandcamp.com/album/anvilheart
If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!
We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!
Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!
Songs in this Episode:
- ZØRZA – Stormspell
- Shroud – Death Blows Over
- Astral Alchemy – Bathing in the Sap of the Moonflower
- Bloody Falls – I Am the Devil
- Stormkeep – The Taste of Immortal Blood
- Fires in the Distance – By This Time Tomorrow
- Inherits the Void – A World Unmade
- Saidan – Immersed by Eternity’s Blade
- Narva – Of Watchtower & Beacons
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Cornucopia – Cosmic Consciousness
- Revolting – Supernatural Anthems
- Seven Metal Sins – Legacy of Chaos
- Edoma – Hymns of the Ice Kingdom
- Lex Legion – Lex Legion
- Green Desert Water – Eerie Meadows
- WoeWarden – The Roots of My Neglect
- Flykt – Sinister Strain
- Mork – Monolit
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
- Together to the Stars – Irridescence
- Horn – Apokalyps 1618
- Grim Prophecy – Grim Prophecy
- Malist – Eternal Echo of the Fall
- Walg – VI
- Balashtoth – Equation II: The Antithesis of Life and Free Will
- Art | Est – Evil Embodiment
- One Day in Pain – Devouring the Gods
- Avarice – Perpetual Ruin
- Monument of Misanthropy – Washington State Charm
2 hr 3 min - Harsh Vocals – Episode 61 – The Best of 2026 So Far
For our sixty first episode, We discuss our current top 10 lists from 2026 so far! There’s been a lot of great releases, and while there is some overlap in our lists, there’s also a few surprises!
There is no submission track for this episode, but if you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!
We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!
Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!
Songs in this Episode:
- In Malice’s Wake – By Tongues of Demons
- Nazghor – Cursed and Unblessed
- Inherits the Void – Wrath of the Endless Sea
- Xorsist – Of Where I Reside
- Hellripper – Sculptor’s Cave
- Together to the Stars – Mourner
- Saidan – Beat to Death
1 hr 42 min - Harsh Vocals – An Interview with Steve Wiener (Eveale, Am I In Trouble, Ashenheart, Negative Bliss)
On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Steve Wiener, a longtime friend of the show, and a prolific musician – working on several bands, including Eveale, Am I In Trouble, Negative Bliss, Ashenheart, and Wince & Frisson! His latest release is from Am I In Trouble, and it’s a remix album called “Facets”! We had a great time getting to know Steve a little more and figuring out how he manages to work on so many different projects. This one was a lot of fun!
Check out Steve’s Ampwall page below:
https://steve.ampwall.com
Listen at the end of the podcast to hear the collaboration track with Gonemage, called “Cobalt”!
Also, Follow us on Facebook, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!
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The Harsh Vocals podcast is a celebration of extreme metal music, with minimal clean singing! Every two weeks, Justin and Christian each bring three of their favorite new albums to discuss as well as…
a new episodic topic! They also do regular reviews and occasional interviews on their site – Harshvocals.com!