Essential New Releases ~ 16th August / 22nd August 2025

 And so the extreme metal cauldron keeps bubbling over with exceptional new albums various forms of thrash being particularly strong. These are some of the ones that have captivated me over the last couple of weeks.

Castrator

https://castrator.bandcamp.com/album/coronation-of-the-grotesque

Incinerated

https://blackseedprod.bandcamp.com/album/the-epitome-of-transgression

Treasondom

https://treasondom.bandcamp.com/album/the-flesh-consumes-the-mind

Baest

https://baestband.bandcamp.com/album/colossal-24-bit-hd-audio

Vago Sagrado

https://vagosagrado.bandcamp.com/album/vermin

Supernaughty

https://supernaughty.bandcamp.com/album/apocalypso

Sadistic Force

https://sadisticforce.bandcamp.com/album/morbid-odyssey

Cruel Bomb

https://cruelbomb570.bandcamp.com/album/cruel-bomb

Witchrider

https://fuzzoramarecords1.bandcamp.com/album/metamorph

Anthrodynia

https://anthrodynia.bandcamp.com/album/unspeakable-horrors-emanating-from-within

Burning Witches

https://burningwitches.bandcamp.com/album/inquisition

Crop

https://legalizecrop.bandcamp.com/album/s-s-r-i

Innumerable Forms

https://innumerableforms.bandcamp.com/album/pain-effulgence

Desaster

https://desaster.bandcamp.com/album/kill-all-idols

The Final Witness

https://thefinalwitnessrr.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-altar

Malthusian

https://malthusian.bandcamp.com/album/the-summoning-bell-2

The Big Rip

https://thebigrip1.bandcamp.com/album/olympus-mons

Panzerchrist

https://panzerchrist.bandcamp.com/album/maleficium-part-2

Astral Nomad

https://astralnomad420.bandcamp.com/album/nomad-2

Grand Cadaver

https://grandcadaver.bandcamp.com/album/the-rot-beneath

Bask

https://basknc.bandcamp.com/album/the-turning

Martyr

https://martyronline.bandcamp.com/album/dark-believer

Constrict

https://783label.bandcamp.com/album/kadavergehorsam

Hog

https://hogpdx.bandcamp.com/album/blackhole

Gods Funeral

https://meusemusicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gods-funeral-el-despertar-dels-morts-mmr063

Borracho

https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/ouroboros

Retching

https://retching-label.bandcamp.com/album/charming-the-decomposed

ANOINTING THE SICK #243 ~ We Are The Fallen

Show #243 We Are The Fallen is now available to download or generally piss off Granny. This is the most extreme show I've done in a while courtesy of Haepethral records and aided and abetted by the ugly sounds of some of my favourite new releases from False Gods, Afghan Haze, Tar Pit, Mud Valley alongside new groove laden thrash tunes from Silius.  Speaking of thrash, I'm playing Messiah for the first time in a while and a new thrash discovery for me, Drain Down as well as Sentry. Doom Charts is represented by Kitsa from last year. This show opens with a nasty dose of doomy tunes by PVRS and there's a filthy full stop with Mexican deathsters Cathartic. Among all this carnage I've ladled even more doom with a track by We Follow The Earth and added some stoner acid from Space Coke. A modicum of sanity is offered by a savage brand of grunge from Fuzz Forward.

~ Wallow In Sickness ~

PVRS

Kitsa

Space Coke

Fuzz Forward

Demonic Possessor

Drain Down

Qaalm

Messiah

We Follow The Earth

Sentry

Mud Valley

False Gods

Silius

Afghan Haze

Tar Pit

Cathartic

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ESSENTIAL NEW RELEASES ~ 27th July -10th August 2025

I keep hearing that great music is harder to find these days and it's true that a lot of it is average at best. But take some time to sift through the mundane and you'll always find gems to unearth such as these albums released over the last week or so.

Hedonist

https://hedonistsl.bandcamp.com/album/scapulimancy

No Shelter

https://noshelter.bandcamp.com/album/remission-resolve

Ever Age

https://everageband.bandcamp.com/album/ever-age

Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean

https://chainedtothebottomoftheocean.bandcamp.com/album/i-tried-catching-you-but-you-fell-through-me-consumed-by-the-vitriol-of-life

Leafblower

https://leafbloweratl.bandcamp.com/album/low-heaven

Cancer Void

https://cancervoid.bandcamp.com/album/first-metastasis

Moths

https://mothspr.bandcamp.com/album/septem

Sageness

https://sageness.bandcamp.com/album/inner-empires

Derro

https://derroband.bandcamp.com/album/halcyon

Hemelbestormer

https://hemelbestormer.bandcamp.com/album/the-radiant-veil

Cerebral Curse

https://cerebralcurse.bandcamp.com/album/promo-25

Barbarous

https://barbarousband.bandcamp.com/album/initium-mors

Silius

https://silius.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-flesh

Tar Pit

https://tarpitdoom.bandcamp.com/album/scrying-the-angel-gate

Paralysis

https://paralysisthrash.bandcamp.com/album/spiral-of-suffering

Anchorite

https://anchoritedoom.bandcamp.com/album/realm-of-ruin

Circling Over

https://circlingover.bandcamp.com/album/amends

Harvested

https://harvested.bandcamp.com/album/dysthymia

Afghan Haze

https://afghanhaze.bandcamp.com/album/sermons-of-filth-and-disgust

Terrordome

https://terrordome.bandcamp.com/album/plagued-with-violence

Desmaldo

https://desalmado.bandcamp.com/album/monopoly-of-violence

Cemetery

https://cemeterydeathmetal.bandcamp.com/album/thoughts-on-life-and-death

ANOINTING THE SICK DIRTY 30 ~ Death Metal Volume 4

Over 2 hours of unrelenting and uninterrupted death metal to download. This playlist is a serpent with many heads and highlights  how diverse the genre actually is with elements of thrash, grind, doom, sludge, crust and even prog. I hope you enjoy the selection of songs as much as I enjoyed compiling them . All the tracks are from my own collection and hated with a passion by my wife!

~ Wallow in Sickness ~

Aborted Fetus 

https://abortedfetus.bandcamp.com/track/02-earths-bloody-punishmen

Basement Torture Killings 

https://basementtorturekillings.bandcamp.com/track/the-pen-is-mightier-than-another-splayed-corpse

Caligo

 Dark Millennium 

https://darkmillennium.bandcamp.com/track/beyond-the-dragons-eye

Ecliptic Vision 

https://eclipticvision.bandcamp.com/track/lobotomizer

The Fallen Prophets  

https://thefallenprophets.bandcamp.com/track/the-beast-ft-justen-hosken

Gatecreeper  

https://gatecreeper.bandcamp.com/track/in-chains

Harm 

https://finalgaterecords.bandcamp.com/track/panzer-apocalypse

Ignivomous

https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/track/seventh-seal-gnosis  

Just Art Dead 

https://justartdead.bandcamp.com/track/matter

Kalahari 

https://kalahariofficial.bandcamp.com/track/the-ivory-tower

Languish 

https://languish.bandcamp.com/track/poisoned-chalice

Macabre Eternal 

https://macabreeternal1.bandcamp.com/track/death-parade

Necare 

https://necare.bandcamp.com/track/desire-the-dawn-the-chrysalis

Obliteration 

https://obliteration.bandcamp.com/track/nekropsalms-evoke-the-frozen-age

Pandemic Outbreak

https://awakeningrecordscn.bandcamp.com/track/along-the-stream 

Quinta Essentia 

https://quintaessentiaband.bandcamp.com/track/the-stone-as-a-key

Rabid Dogs 

https://rabiddogs.bandcamp.com/track/charlie-lucky

Sacrificium 

https://nordicmission.bandcamp.com/track/eye-for-an-eye

The Temple

https://thetemplenz.bandcamp.com/track/martyr-of-the-tyrant  

Unblessed Divine 

Valgrind 

https://valgrindband.bandcamp.com/track/speech-of-the-flame

Warpflesh 

https://warpflesh.bandcamp.com/track/half-life

Xorsist 

https://xorsist.bandcamp.com/track/grace

Yashira 

https://yashira.bandcamp.com/track/surmise-descend-2

Abramelin  

https://abramelin1.bandcamp.com/track/last-rite

Bastard Grave 

https://bastardgrave.bandcamp.com/track/profana-vesperam

Calliophis

https://calliophis.bandcamp.com/track/munk-warm-heart 

Dark Redeemer 

Ecocide  

https://ecocide-official.bandcamp.com/track/transcendence-of-the-mind

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HIBERNAUT ~ Obsidian Eye (2025)

 BIO

Hibernaut is a heavy hybrid of doom, stoner, and sludge metal hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah. The band formed in 2021 when guitarist/vocalist Dave Jones (Subrosa, Dwellers, Oxcross) and drummer Zach Hatsis (Subrosa, Dwellers) reconnected creatively after years of collaboration. Joined by bassist Josh Dupree and, later, lead guitarist Matt Miller (Thunderfist, Oldtimer),

Their 2023 debut album Ingress was recorded with producer Andy Patterson and landed at #15 on The Doom Charts, with tracks like “Lantern Eyed” and “Spherical” praised for their crushing weight and psychedelic depth. Now, the band is set to release their second full-length record, Obsidian Eye, on July 11, 2025—an even darker, more expansive chapter in the Hibernaut saga. With a growing live presence and deep roots in the underground, Hibernaut continues to evolve, building a reputation as one of the West’s most promising heavy bands.

For fans of: High On Fire, YOB, Mastodon, SLEEP, Neurosis

FFO: Doom metal, Sludge, Stoner rock, Psychedelic heaviness

Review

A momentary howl of granular feedback with the subsequent shock wave of hulking doom sets the tone for one of the highlights of the stoner / doom scene so far this year. An added outpouring of aural molten sludge straight to the brain would likely induce a catatonic state if it wasn't for the remarkable increases in tempo of the tracks 'Pestiferous' 'Obsidian Eye' and 'Revenants' adding an element of spite to the sound particularly when solos pierce the leaden grooves spiked with vitriol rather than reverb.

I do love this genre but after many years of listening to and reviewing it, I often feel it's like slipping on a well worn pair of comfortable slippers but the record 'Obsidian Eye' has an edge to it. Fuzz has been largely stripped away leaving each track sounding fresh, hungry and engorged with immense power and heaviness. 

A richly deserved #7 in July's Doom Charts

ESSENTIAL NEW RELEASES ~ 17th July - 26th July 2025

Essential new albums to recently released and a must for any underground metal afficionado.

Malformed

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/confinement-of-flesh

Stomach

https://stomachdoom.bandcamp.com/album/low-demon

Gloombound

https://gloomboundband.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-delusion

Filth

https://rottedlife.bandcamp.com/album/time-to-rot

Droid

https://droiddoom.bandcamp.com/album/eroded-forms

Shadecrown

https://shadecrown.bandcamp.com/album/0

Sorcerot

https://sorcerot.bandcamp.com/album/rotten-magick

Ba'al

https://baalbanduk.bandcamp.com/album/the-fine-line-between-heaven-and-here

False Gods

https://falsegods1.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-darkness-and-distance

The Society Of Bandits

https://thesocietyofbandits.bandcamp.com/album/jeff

Re Buried

https://re-buried.bandcamp.com/album/flesh-mourning

Bloodletter

https://bloodlettermetal.bandcamp.com/album/leave-the-light-behind

Exaust

https://exaustthrash.bandcamp.com/album/abysmal-earth

Dephosphorous

https://dephosphorus.bandcamp.com/album/planetoktonos

Steinsopp

https://steinsopp.bandcamp.com/album/goloka-sessions

Recorruptor

https://recorruptor.bandcamp.com/album/sorrow-will-drown-us-all

Atomic Witch

https://atomicwitch.bandcamp.com/album/death-etiquette

Foot

https://copperfeastrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hammer

Eternal Darkness

https://pulverised.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-darkness

Starlit Pyre

https://starlitpyre.bandcamp.com/album/veins-of-sulfur

Haxprocess

https://haxprocess-label.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-what-eyes-can-see

Mass Deception

https://gruesomerecords.bandcamp.com/album/resurrections-2025

Scalp

https://scalpoc.bandcamp.com/album/not-worthy-of-human-compassion

Hebi Katana

https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/imperfection

Marasme

https://discosmacarras.bandcamp.com/album/fel

Demonsmoke

https://transylvanianrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/demonsmoke-resin-wrought

Kontusion

https://kontusionkontusion.bandcamp.com/album/insatiable-lust-for-death

Goblinsmoker

https://goblinsmoker.bandcamp.com/album/the-kings-eternal-throne

Mud valley 

https://mudvalley.bandcamp.com/album/mud-valley

Phobetor

https://phobetoruk.bandcamp.com/album/a-solitary-vigil

ANOINTING THE SICK #242 ~ High Velocity Impact

Prepare to be double tapped by the latest Anointing The Sick Metal Blog Show 'High Velocity Impact.' Levels of depravity are varied with a post sludge opener from Guiltless and a flagellating close from arch rip fiends Graveripper. Inbetween I've highlighted tracks from recently released albums that have shaken the Anointing The Sick Metal Blog foundations from Hibernaut, Red Vinter, Three Towers and The Bonnevilles as well as songs from highly recommended albums released last year. The showpiece track is a droning sludgy doom  monster from Azimut while the filth pit dredged up El Cerdo all slimy and dripping!

~ Embrace The Sickness ~

Guiltless

Cutthroat

Scarefield

Pissing Razors

Korrosive

Slaughterror

El Cerdo

Freya

Azimut

Sutratma

Yore

Hibernaut

Red Vinter

Three Towers

The Bonnevilles

Graveripper

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