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We listened to a ton of death & black metal in April & May 2026! We talk about our favourite 29 or so favourite releases!

Archspire - Too Fast to Die
Immolation - Descent
Inferi - Heaven Wept
Skaphos - The Descent
Cognizance - In Light, No Shape
Mylingar - Út
Devenial Verdict - Old Blood Fresh Wounds
Reeking Aura - On the Promise of the Moon
At The Gates - The Ghost of a Future Dead
Candarian - Trepanacion
Defect Designer - Depressants
Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy - Fugue Gnawed from the Scabbed God Cerebrum
Lago - Vigil
Unearthly Rites - Tortural Symphony Of The Flesh
Drain of Impurity - The Dark Ascension of the Supreme Prometheus Gods
Towering - The Oblation of Man
Vomitory - In Death Throes
Nequient - Avarice
Frozen Soul - No Place of Warmth
Ordh - Blind in Abyssal Realms
Infestuous - Unfathomable Mutagenic Abominations
Hrob - Brána Chladu
Pissrot - Absolute Form
Pharmacist - Vertebrae After Vertebrae
Ingested - Denigration
Vile Desolation - Annihilating The Consciousness
Volcandra - Beyond The Will Of Mortals
Vitrified Entity - Imum
The Scalar Process - Agnomysticism

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We listened to a metric-fuck-ton of tunes in March 2026! Here's everything else that we listened to, outside of Death/Black Metal! Feel free to check out the March 2026 Best of Death/Black Metal video as well!

1. No/Más — No Peace 00:02:22:27
1. Bitter Branches — Let’s Give The Land Back To The Animals 00:05:07:20
2. Neurosis — An Undying Love for a Burning World 00:09:39:05
2. Presser — Voluntary Grief 00:14:40:17
3. Poison The Well — Peace In Place 00:19:07:20
3. Mordeo — Mordeo 00:24:01:18
4. World I Hate — Total Nuclear Annihilation 00:28:16:07
4. Pipe Bomb — Hell Hole 00:31:27:25
5. Lamb of God — Into Oblivion 00:36:45:14
5. Chamber — this is goodbye… 00:40:20:05
6. Magnitudo — Materialism 00:45:27:06
6. Votive — An Infinite Capacity For Joy 00:48:42:16
7. Grave Disgrace — Helldiver 00:52:16:10
7. Crouch — Breaking the Catatonic State 00:55:16:28
8. Black Label Society — Engines of Demolition 00:59:54:20
8. ufoufoufo — COFFEA ALCHEMICA 01:03:44:09
9. A Winter’s Remorse — The Day Our Gods Abandoned Us 01:09:35:20
9. Microwaves — Temporal Shifter 01:12:45:12
10. Bosse-de-Nage — Hidden Fires Burn Hottest 01:16:16:10
10. Hindsight — Some Things Never Change 01:19:12:28
11. Monosphere — Amnesia 01:21:48:10
11. Catapult the Sun — MARTYRDOM 01:24:57:13
12. Desert Storm — Buried Under The Weight Of Reason 01:28:34:18
12. Blunt Knife Castration — Blood & Oil 01:31:56:24
13. Oolith — By Ways Unknown 01:35:34:18
13. Tombweed — Burned Down 01:38:03:23
14. Aggressive Perfector — Come Creeping Fiends 01:40:41:01
14. Blunt — Cycles 01:43:44:15
15. Desert Collider — Generation Ship: Endless Drift Through Infinity 01:47:59:03
15. Irreversible — Vessel 01:51:33:28
16. Incendiary — Product of New York 01:55:37:06
16. Great Falls — Conscription 01:58:28:24

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MARCH 2026: BEST DEATH/BLACK METAL!

Growth — Under The Under 00:00:57:24
Xenobiotic — Dante 00:04:23:00
Foetorem — Incongruous Forms of Evergrowing Rot 00:08:46:23
Gutvoid — Liminal Shrines 00:12:48:04
Subcutaneous Exsanguination — Eradication Fascination 00:18:17:09
Insect Inside — Reborn In Blight 00:21:21:04
Melting Rot — INFATUATION WITH PREMEDITATION 00:25:45:20
Rivers Ablaze — Inexternal Dread 00:28:47:23
Winterfylleth — The Unyielding Season 00:32:54:15
Barn — Crucibles 00:39:08:27
Hellripper — Coronach 00:44:14:07
Bekor Qilish — Consecrated Abysses of Dread 00:47:50:03
Teratoma — Longing Voracity 00:52:59:17
Cryptworm — Infectious Pathological Waste 00:55:33:17
Delirious Compulsion — Erratum Of Dysphoria 00:58:50:14
Casket Mush — Evocation of Paranoia 01:01:35:02
Moros — Cemetery Hallucinations 01:06:21:28
Virodh — Harvest Of Desolation 01:08:49:00
Decipher — Thelema 01:11:42:28
ZERRE — Rotting on a Golden Throne 01:14:08:20
Temple of Void — The Crawl 01:18:12:04
ROSA FAENSKAP — Ingenting Forblir 01:21:17:18
Monstrosity — Screams from Beneath the Surface 01:25:38:03
Nociception — Cognitive Dismemberment 01:28:36:22
Necrogore — Ectoplasmic Rape Phenomena 01:31:14:06
The Silver — Looking Glass Hymnal Blue 01:33:24:22
Acranius — Whiteout 01:36:46:08
Egregore — It Echoes In The Wild 01:39:02:21
Protrusion — The Last Suppuration 01:43:19:13
Voidstar Nocturnal — Nexus Teleport Fracture 01:46:48:17

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WOOP WOOP! We listened to a butt-load of tunes in February 2026! Here's everything else that we listened to, outside of Death/Black Metal! Feel free to check out the Feb 2026 Best of Death/Black Metal video as well!

Heres what we were rocking in February: 

Karnivool — IN VERSES — 00:02:20:25
UNCULTIVATES — This Will Become Clear Later, Like The French Revolution — 00:05:50:17
Sun Guts — Kilonova — 00:09:32:20
Converge — Love Is Not Enough — 00:12:16:14
Hoaxed — Death Knocks — 00:19:55:16
Killing Pace — HCPM — 00:22:56:07
Wazzara — Arbor — 00:26:52:29
Nail In Your Coffin — MAUL. DISMEMBER. DEVOUR. — 00:30:43:03
Purple Lung — Mystic Vision — 00:33:54:01
Giallo — Tenebrarum — 00:37:01:10
The Absolute Worst or The Absolute Worst — calculus_ — 00:40:33:24
LILA — The Mountains Are Calling And I Must Go — 00:45:38:17
Mirrorcell — Long Nights In Lovescape — 00:55:19:04
parapariah - Whispers in the Dark — 00:59:56:23
Sylosis — The New Flesh — 01:04:09:10
Divine Threat — Pillar of Agony — 01:06:42:23
Worm Shepherd — Dawn Of The Iconoclast — 01:10:12:16
Final Gasp — New Day Symptoms — 01:13:50:06
Belzebong — The End Is High — 01:17:24:10
Skeletizer - Sounds From The Doomshed — 01:20:07:23
Oath — UNTEACH — 01:23:34:00
Sundecay — The Blood Lives Again — 01:26:19:02
Sleeping Giant — The Beauty of Obliteration — 01:30:24:05
Matador — Above, Below and So — 01:33:18:06
Varials — WHERE THE LIGHT LEAVES — 01:36:29:12
Above, Below — I Guess It Was Nowhere — 01:40:14:14
Indigo Ice — No Closure — 01:44:34:17
MERIT -Sweetness Fades — 01:47:16:29
Palaces — Sunhunting — 01:49:43:03
Limbs — Like A Poet, Keen to the Rustle of Leaves — 01:52:32:26

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We listened to an ungodly amount of Death & Black Metal in FEB 2026!! 
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Here were our favourite Albums of FEB 2026 & the timestamps:

Worm — Necropalace — 00:01:58:00
Yaldabaoth — Profane Shadow — 00:05:46:25
HAMARR — Necrotic Rituals — 00:10:44:02
Paganizer — As Mankind Rots — 00:13:45:10
Cryptic Shift — Overspace & Supertime — 00:16:19:22
Fossilization — Advent of Wounds — 00:20:04:01
Mors Verum — Mors Verum — 00:25:14:09
Cemetery Reign — Confined to Time — 00:28:48:18
Exhumed — Red Asphalt — 00:31:15:13
Nullingroots — Fourth Dimensional Dreamscape — 00:35:53:08
Holotropic — individual — 00:41:05:21
Coscradh — Carving the Causeway to the... — 00:44:19:20
BURIED — Imagined Deformation — 00:53:45:19
Mayhem — Liturgy of Death — 00:56:23:12
Ensanguinate — Death Saturnalia — 01:00:49:06
Impious Throne — Sadism — 01:04:11:10
Incandescence — Hors Temps — 01:08:13:23
Drawn into Descent — Onrust — 01:10:54:17
Bizarrekult — Alt Som Finnes — 01:16:35:12
Strup — Abyssurge — 01:19:39:17
Embittered — Archatron — 01:22:59:06
Codex Crudelitas — Incongruent Vacant Forms — 01:26:03:00
Diva Karr — Call me Nothing, the Absence — 01:29:33:16
Farson — Ein Stumpfes Instrument — 01:31:57:06
Muertissima — Prophecy — 01:34:27:20
Mastication of Brutality Uncontrolled — The Epoch... — 01:37:41:18
PHASMA — Purgatory — 01:41:18:11
Mädätys — Kuoleman Ulottuvuudet — 01:44:17:16

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Fuck man, we listened to alot of tunes in January 2026! 

Here's everything other than Death Metal that we rocked out/cocked out to in January! (CHECK OUT OUR BEST OF JANUARY DEATH METAL VIDEO AS WELL)

Doom / Sludge / Shoegaze

• Giant – Beneath the Mountains
• Remote – Parish
• Smoke Rites – Eager Eyes of Talion
• Temptress – Hear
• Blanket – True Blue
• Blackwater Holylight – Not Here Not Gone

Black-gaze / Black Metal

• Miasme – Keep Them at a Distance
• Turpitude – Mordoré
• MOL – DREAMCRUSH
• Funeral Dancer – Inner Gate

Hardcore / Post-Hardcore / Screamo / Metalcore / Djent / Grind

• Gylt – In 1000 Agonies, I Exist
• Crush Your Soul – Ice Water
• Funeral Language – Thank You For the Dead Body
• Toothless – Past Futures
• Semper Acerbus – Following Omens
• Youth Novel – I Went Through This Experience Smiling
• Kip Dynamite – Eluding Cosmic Destruction
• Calm & Secure – Glass In The Mouth Of The Sun
• Symmetry Was Never an Option – Darker Grey
• Sear – O Merciful
• Lay Waste – Lay Waste

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We listened to an ungodly amount of Death Metal in January 2026!! 

Here were our favourite Death Metal Albums:

Gorrch - Stillamentum 
Inborn Tendency - Let There Be
Eximperitus - Meritoriousness of Equanimity
Orcaculum - Hybris Divina
Invictus - Nocturnal Visions
Stabbing - Eon of Obscenity
Ectovoid - In Unreality’s Coffin
Carrion Vael - Slay Utterly
Feed Them Broken Teeth - Poison Of The Masses
Subjugated - Inherent Belligerence
Luminesce - Like Crushed Violets and Linen
Malignant Aura - Where All of Worth Comes to Wither
Skulld - Abyss Calls to Abyss
Tombseeker - Tombseeker
Vertebrae Fetish Totem - Transmogrification
Profane Elegy - Herezjarcha
Pillar Amongst Willows - Kindred Odyssey
Degenerate Synapse - Battle For The Mind
Frigid - Contempt of Decay
Concrete - Absent Mortality
Gibbeting - Execution Rampage

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Check out our awesome conversation with Jesse & Dakota of "From Beneath", a Canadian Death Metal/Deathcore band hailing from Winnipeg & Calgary! 

Consisting of members of Perlocution, Tyrants Demise, & Book of Ghosts - From Beneath is the perfect combination of modern-era progressive & melodic death metal with a deathcore flare that will be sure to pulverize you into the pavement! 

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Here is part 3 of 3 of James & Rhett's albums of the year for 2025! 

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James' Top 10 Albums for 2025:

10: Pillars of Cacophony - Paralipomena
9: Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings
8: Defacement - Doomed
7: Noise Trail Immersion - Tutta la morte in un solo punto
6: Fallujah - Xenotaph
5: Putridity - Morbid Ataraxia
4: Blindfolded & Led To The Woods - The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me
3: Cross Bringer - Healismus Aeternus
2: Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence
1: Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar

Rhett's Top 10 Albums for 2025:

10: Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
9: Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence
8: Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings
7: Deliquesce - Saviour/Enslaver
6: Primitive Man - Observance
5: Dormant Ordeal - Tooth & Nail
4: Haxprocess - Beyond What Eyes Can See
3: Blindfolded & Led To The Woods - The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me
2: The Acacia Strain - You Are Safe From God Here
1: Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar

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Here is part 2 of 3 of James & Rhett's albums of the year! 

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James’ Top 20 (20-11) Albums:

20. Acacia Strain - You Are Safe From God Here
19. Ritual Mass - Cascading Misery
18. Blood Monolith – The Calling of Fire
17. Hedonist – Scapulimancy
16. ByoNoiseGenerator - Subnormal Dives
15. Light Dweller - The Subjugate
14. Martröd - Draumsynir eldsins
13. The Ominous Circle - Cloven Tongues of Fire
12. Dormant Ordeal - Tooth & Nail
11. Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath

Rhett’s Top 20 (20-11) Albums:

20. Scour - Gold
19. Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens
18. Celestial Scourge - Observers of the Inevitable 
17. Depravity - Bestial Possession
16. Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath
15. Whitechapel - Hymns in Dissonance
14. Conjurer - Unself
13. Greyhaven - Keep It Quiet
12. Fallujah - Xenotaph
11. Fleshbore - Painted Paradise