Harsh Vocals

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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 ... more

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June 01, 2026Harsh Vocals – Episode 59 – Cleans
For our fifty-ninth episode, we return to our cycle of discussing our top vocalists, and this time we discuss our favorites who sing cleans! Of course there’s a ton of incredible music to hear as well!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Canadian Death Metal band, Defenestration! Their new EP, “Rotting Antefix” releases on June 12, 2026!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://defenestration204.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:
Conjuring – Rituale
Tyrannus – Orbus Non Sufficit
Electric Sun Defence – Estuary
Aghalmar – The Mellow Soliloquoy
Torchia – Black Cat
Galibot – Penitent
Defenestration – Rotting Antefix
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Yoth Iria – Gone With the Devil
Draconian – In Somnolent Ruin
Howler – Beyond Mortal Control
Arroganz – Death Doom Punks
Atavistia – Old Gods Awaken
Enthraced – Constellation Zero
Acolythus – Unearthly Kingdoms ‘Neath Lifeless Stara
Eradikated – Wiring of Violence
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Old Moon – Home to Nowhere
Saasta – Cesspool
Wormgod – Choices
LaCasta – Olibanvm
IATT – Etheric Realms of the Night
Harms – Rebirth of the Cold
Jungle Rot – Cruel Face of War
Sangkal – Niskalafana
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1h 49min
May 19, 2026Harsh Vocals – Episode 58 – Shouts
For our fifty-Eighth episode, we return to our cycle of discussing our top vocalists, and this time we discuss our favorites who shout! Of course there’s a ton of incredible music to hear as well!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Chicago based Melodic Death Metal band, Vow! They just released their debut EP, “Death Will Be My Bridge” this past week!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://vowdeath.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:
Witherhoard – Another Sun
Corrosive Agent – Carcass Country
Archaic Oath – Forest of Horrors
Efflore – Liu’s Haunted House
In Malice’s Wake – Beyond Death
Xorcist – Souls to Mourn
Vow – Death Will Be My Bridge
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Cnoc An Tursa – A Cry for the Slain
Poseydon -Time is a River and the Waters Run Red
At the Gates – The Ghose of a Future Dead
Elegant Weapons – Evolution
Whirlwind – 1640
Aeonik – The Roamer of Heaven and Hell
Vrad – Anthropic Genetic Involution
RIverflame – Lunar Crusades
Volcandra – Beyond the Will of Mortals
Undercroft – The Killer Sword
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Eveale – Enter the Woodland Realm
Malorshiga – Vento
Wandar – Tiefe Erde
Sacriversum – Before the Birth of Light
Grond – The Temple
Necrotted – We Are the Gods Who Tear Ourselves Apart
Resurrected – Perpetual
Pig’s Blood – Destroying the Spirit
Orbis Daemonium – Onirografo
Aversio Humanititis – To Become the Endless Static
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1h 36min
May 15, 2026 Harsh Vocals – An Interview with The Biscuit Merchant
On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Justin Lawnchair, the man behind the progressive death metal band, “The Biscuit Merchant” – the latest album Golden Age is the eleventh entry in his Alphabet cycle, which will eventually contain 26 full albums as a complete concept! We are very excited to get to know Justin better and learn more about what went into his albums and the overall story idea! Unfortunately, Christian’s microphone had some technical difficulties, so the episode ended up a little shorter than intended, but we still all had a great time. Check out the Biscuit Merchant bandcamp below:
https://thebiscuitmerchant.bandcamp.com
Listen at the end of the podcast to hear the track “Paradox Bomb”!
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55min
May 02, 2026Harsh Vocals – Episode 57 – More Music 6
For our fifty-seventh episode, we had another incredible cycle with way too many albums to discuss! Of course we had to do another More Music episode!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Swedish Black Metal band, Myrdinger! They released their debut album “Wrath’s Obliteration” in 2025!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://myrdinger.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:
Northern Graves – Lanterns
Doedsvangr – Black Sun Disssolution
Immolation – The Ephemeral Curse
Tethys – Dream State
Reeking Aura – What Only Worms Witness
Anifernyen – Fortuna
Inferi – Atonement Denied
Silaera – From Entropic Dust
Myrdinger – Agonizing Volition
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Beyond Purgatory – Of the Depths
Metal Church – Dead to Rights
Nukem – The Grave Remains
Thunderkill – Global Cataclysm
Warsenal – Endless Beginnings
Rise of Kronos – Slaves of Time
Doodswens – Doodswens
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Archspire – Faster than Death
Vomitory – In Death Throes
Skaphos – The Descent
Scion of Darkness – Horns of the Apocalypse
Daemonium Regni – Daemonium Regni
Pilori – Sans Adieu
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1h 42min
April 18, 2026Harsh Vocals – Episode 56 – More Music 5
For our fifty-sixth episode, we had another incredible cycle with way too many albums to discuss! Of course we had to do another More Music episode!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the California-Based Black Metal band, Ucalegon! They have their first single, “Chatelaine” available now!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://ucalegons.bandcamp.com/track/chatelaine
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:
Apolaustic – Fragments of a Misty Journey
Aldheorte – The Wild Divine
Zerre – Rotting on a Golden Throne
Defacing God – Transition
Vanir – Against the Storm
Hexenhorde – Wraith of the Blackthorne Pyre
Hellripper – Blakk Satanik Fvkkstorm
Bedrangnis – Echo der Schopfung
Ucalegon – Chatelaine
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Power Paladin – Beyond the Reach of Enchantment
Myrath – Wilderness of Mirrors
Tommorrow’s Outlook – Black Waves
Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis
Malauriu – The Third Nail
Nervosa – Slave Machine
Non Est Deus – Blessings and Curses
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Rivers Ablaze – Inexternal Dread
Winterfylleth – The Unyielding Season
Antrisch – Expedition III: Renitenzpfad
Growth – Under the Under
AsylumTX – Cultus Ignoxia
Pauldron – Too Ancient to Be Holy
Fathomless – II: Thy Desolation
Malum – From the Void
Nykteria – Henosis
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1h 35min
April 13, 2026Harsh Vocals – Episode 55 – Shrieks & Screams
I want to apologize for the delay in getting this episode released. We recorded a couple of weeks ago, but the audio for one of the tracks became corrupted, and then on top of that, I got sick for a week, so we had to postpone re-recording. Expect two episodes to be released this week due to it!
For our fifty-fifth episode, we had another incredible cycle with some albums that we’re certain will make it into our top30 for the year, and even an AOTY candidate for Justin! Of course we also have Shrieks and Screams as our topic, so we discuss our top five black metal vocalists and why!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Austrian Heavy/Black/Thrash band Irkalla! They just released an incredible new album called “Skyshatter” on March 13th! Check it out on any streaming platform!
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:
Persecutor – Iron Tide of Nassau
Gluttony – A Face Devoured by Rats
Alkhemia – Prekonition
The Silver – When the Moon is Three
SoulinPain – Mental Intoxication
Graufar – Heralds of Doom
Irkalla – Darkreign
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Wolfbastard – Satanic Scum Punks
Surturian – II – Hessian Spears
Messticator – Total Mastery
Transilvania – Magia Posthuma
Exodus – Goliath
Dragsholm – From the Bloodlines of Bram
Monstrosity – Screams from Beneath the Surface
Skull Altar – Diabolical
Lamb of God – Into Oblivion
Gaerea – Loss
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
A Somber Funeral – Since You Left These Shores
Deadvoid, Inc. – Chapters
Aberrant Extermination Impulsion – Grindcore is Dead…Long Live Grindcore
Morbid Death – Veil of Ashes
Fading Aeon – Fading Aeon
Decipher – Thelema
Hanging Garden – Isle of Bliss
Gutvoid – Liminal Shrines
Nifrost – Briseld
Dawn of Ashes – Anatomy of Suffering
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1h 49min
March 24, 2026Harsh Vocals – Episode 54 – More Music 4
For our fifty-fourth episode, we had another incredible cycle with nearly 50 albums that were Honorable mention worthy or better! Of course we had to do another More Music episode!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the US-Based Black/Death Metal band, Fathomless! They have their first single, “Honor and Glory” available now, and their full album “II: Thy Desolation”, will be releasing on April 4th, 2026!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://fathomlessmetal.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:
Announce The Apocalypse – Terror From the Void
Funeral Pile – The Ghost of Orion
Harrowed – Bayonet
Lomsk – Stare Into the Void
Chaingun – Conflagration
Fire Magic – Leave Me Where I Fall
Ossomancer – Sobek – Cosmic Vibrations Devoured
Toward the Throne – Forge Ahead
Fathomless – Honor and Glory
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
A Goat as Our Shepherd – Man Proposes, Earth Disposes
Black Swan – Paralyzed
Divine Threat – Pillar of Agony
Karelian Warcry – Veripellot
Vreid – The Skies Turn Black
Myvalyir – The Past Tales
Epigram – Obsolescent
Nerve Star – White Hot
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Marlugubre – Per Amor Nymphae
Drawn into Descent – Onrust
Rotten Soil – I Worship Death
Miserere Luminis – Sidera
Lightlorn – The Ebb and Flow of Galactic Tides
Xenobiotic – Dante
From Ashes Reborn – Chasing Utopia
Tanin’iver – Save the Rest for the Wicked
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1h 42min
March 08, 2026Harsh Vocals – Episode 53 – Growls
For our fifty-third episode, we decided to discuss our top five growlers, as well as give a brief tutorial on how growlers achieve their sound. Of course we also covered the best new releases from the past two week cycle!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the US-Based Dissonant Black/Death Metal band, Wince and Frison! They have their first single, “Kärrhäxan” available now!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://winceandfrisson.bandcamp.com/album/k-rrh-xan-single
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:
Lead Injector – Pest Thrash
Galibot – Les Nords
Daidalos – Dis
Winter Eternal – Omen of the Cosmic Order
AmongRuins – Red Divine
Nazghor – A Once Starless Oath
Wince and Frisson – Kärrhäxan
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Greyhawk – Warriors of Greyhawk
Temple Balls – Temple Balls
Malefic – Impermanence
Archaeic – Hades Gigas
Exhumed – Red Asphault
Flowerleaf – Dreamerie
Incandescence – Hors Temps
The Magus – Daemonosophia
Serpent Gates – The Veil of Darkness
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Worm – Necropalace
Ernte – Der Schwarzen Flamme Vermachtnis
Frozen Ocean – Askdrommar
Wazzara – Arbor
Darklore – The Great Elven War
Defaced – Icon
Blood Red – Colours of Pain
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1h 28min
February 20, 2026Harsh Vocals – Episode 52 – More Music 3
For our fifty-second episode, there was yet another incredible cycle that had more great music than usual. We decided to forgo a topic, and instead focus on the eight best albums of this two week period!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the German Melodic Death Metal band, Serpent Icon! They have their debut EP “Tombstone Stories” coming out on March 6th, 2026! If you dig the track, purchase a copy when it releases via their bandcamp!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://serpenticon.bandcamp.com/album/tombstone-stories-ep
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:
Vaulderie – Nocturnal Hound
Shine – Kneel Before the Serpent
Lomor – Meet Your Meat
Skulld – Mother Death
Sidious – Rotborn Terror
Profane Elegy – Herezjarcha
Circular Ruin – The Storm I Keep Within
MØL – A Former Blueprint
Serpent Icon – Sirens and Sinners
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Fortress – Death is Your Master
Teutonic Slaughter – Cheap Food
Vandor – The Ember Eye Pt 2
Ashes Awaken – Rise
Bitterness – Hallowed Be the Game
Induction – Love Kills!
Mayhem – Liturgy of Death
Tailgunner – Midnight Blitz
Paganizer – As Mankind Dies
In Aeturnum – Of Death and Fire
Malignant Aura – Where All of Worth Comes to Wither
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Buried – Imagined Deformation
Incarcerated – Necrosphere
Obscurity – Ascheregen
For Ruin – Painted in the Colours of War
Kanonenfieber – Soldatenschicksale
Through Void – Forsaken
Sagenbringer – Zwischen den Welten
Kosuke Hashida – Moment of Silence
Urne – Setting Fire to the Sky
...more
1h 40min
February 10, 2026Harsh Vocals – Episode 51 – Festivals
For our fifty-first episode, we decided to discuss metal festivals, including ones we’ve been to, ones we’d love to go to, and what our own personal dream one would look like! Of course we also highlight the six best albums from the past two weeks as well!
We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the American Grindcore band, Aberrant Extermination Impulsion. They released two new EPs earlier in 2026, called “Annihilate” and “Exterminate”. Both are excellent, and if you like Grindcore, you’ll definitely dig them!
Check out their bandcamp:
https://grindcoreisdeadlonglivegrindcore.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:
Archvile King – L’Excuse
Carrion Vael – Truth or Consequence
Furi Helium – Tidal Disruption
Juodvarnis – Laikui Varvant
Kreator – Psychotic Imperator
Moon Wisdom – As Rain
Aberrant Extermination Impulsion – You Best Not Miss
Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Genus Ordini Dei – The Land East of Eden
Gluecifer – Same Drug New High
Hellrazer – Serve the Machine
Megadeth – Megadeth
Deathraiser – Forged in Hatred
Asaru – V.O.I.D.
Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:
Vesselles – Home
Blade and Bath – Brutal Fantasies
Schattenfall – Zwischen Erde Und Schatten
Handul of Hate – Soulless Abominations
Sukkubys – Eternal Damnation
Sleep Throne – In the Quiet Hours
Darghl – Systemic Violence
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1h 45min

FAQs about Harsh Vocals:

How many episodes does Harsh Vocals have?

The podcast currently has 71 episodes available.