Why now? The Monsignor of Heavy, @jjkoczan.bsky.social has been running through Fu Manchu's discography, and made the point I made above far more expansively and elegantly here: theobelisk.net/obelisk/2026... /11

New Buzzard single and b/side premiere up now thanks to @jjkoczan.bsky.social Hear here: #metalsky theobelisk.net/obelisk/2026...

@jjkoczan.bsky.social at The Obelisk has the low-down on @novemberfiretheband's new single "Abigail", out May 8th! The Obelisk will be hosting the single's premiere May 7th. Stay tuned for psychedelic sludge and sci-fi madness theobelisk.net/obelisk/2026...

First proper album review for Shapes Unravel over at The Obelisk! JJ at the Obelisk is the only writer who has written a review for every one of our albums. Thanks @jjkoczan.bsky.social ! theobelisk.net/obelisk/2026...

@jjkoczan.bsky.social at The Obelisk has the scoop on the whole shebang of Deathbird Earth material heading to planet earth over the next couple months on SRA Records @bruce-howze.bsky.social theobelisk.net/obelisk/2026...

Bronco Forte (All Hail the Yeti, Batillus members) share 1st single from upcoming album Lightning Scars via @jjkoczan.bsky.social usthemgroup.blogspot.com/2026/01/bron...

It's a doom folk kind of year, and no finer support than @jjkoczan.bsky.social at The Obelisk is here to tell you so. @buzzarddoomfolk.bsky.social's "Everything Is Not Going To Be Alright" is Short Release of the Year, and "Satiricus Doomicus Americus" is #8 AOTY! theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

Liam Neeson is Curzon Dax in a show about Federation diplomacy and political intrigue during the TOS era, and he drinks and carouses and is also brilliant. We see Klingons of the day and Romulans and others, meet a young Ensign Sisko at the end of season 1, and find the gold heart beneath it all.

Rolls the River's debut single featured on @jjkoczan.bsky.social's The Obelisk Quarterly Review! "...a sub-five-minute cosmic reachout, obviously schooled in where it’s coming from — that is to say, one doesn’t krautrock by accident; it is a form to adopt and refine" theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

@jjkoczan.bsky.social at The Obelisk has the skinny on Rolls The River debut track "Love of Driving", out this Friday! Krautrock? Check. Psych? Check. Name that river? 🕵️ theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE! ABANAMAT's new album is streaming now, only on The Obelisk thanks to @jjkoczan.bsky.social "Abominat" is out this Friday on Interstellar Smoke Records theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

@jjkoczan.bsky.social at The Obelisk has the dirt on the new ABANAMAT album, out October 17 on Interstellar Smoke Records! "...a progressive twist on heavy exploration...sinewy Earthless twisting" theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

@jjkoczan.bsky.social shares the details on the upcoming release of Wolvennest... Read the full article here: theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025... @consouling.bsky.social #musicpr #publicrelations #DisciplinePR

There's a cool blog feature on Ampwall, so I just posted a bunch of words about the song "Doom Folk Fury," which is streaming at the Obelisk now. So come follow Buzzard on Ampwall (link here) and follow the Obelisk (link in comments) @jjkoczan.bsky.social @ampwall.com ampwall.com/a/buzzarddoo...

Thanks to @jjkoczan.bsky.social at The Obelisk for sharing the scoop on the new @november-fire.bsky.social two-songer! "... swirling darksludge... Imagine you’re at a gig and somebody hands you this tape. Right on." Nuff said. "2025" drops September 19th theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

Excited to share new music soon, but in the meantime here are some words of mine courtesy of the Obelisk Questionnaire and @jjkoczan.bsky.social theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

"Doomsday Profit is less a vision of a better future than a glimpse of the cold realities under the microplastic’ed sheen of today." Hugest thanks to @jjkoczan.bsky.social for a detailed & thoughtful album review, as well as a premiere of the video for "Sin Eater"! theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

Thanks @jjkoczan.bsky.social for the thoughts on "Mount Din," a new song with lyric video, available on the Sixth Configuration from Santa Sangre. Eventually the song will be on streaming or vinyl bonus track or something. #metalsky #doommetal #lyricvideo #doommetalsky theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

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In a different timeline, I have preorders in on all of these.

The thing about Ozzy dying is that it's a tragedy and he had such an amazing life and his work impacted so many people and Donald Trump is in the Epstein files.

Mourning the loss of metal's greatest frontman. theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

@jjkoczan.bsky.social at The Obelisk has the scoop on the new Tar Pit album and its devilish doom set to arrive Aug 1st on Transylvanian Recordings! The first single & music video "Coven Vespers" lands this Thursday. Invoke the rites and ready the sacrifices theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

Thanks @jjkoczan.bsky.social for the reflections and insights regarding Buzzard generally and specifically "Fever Breaks," which is available exclusively here for purchase to benefit Palestinians: songsofresistance.bandcamp.com/album/songs-... #metalsky #protestsongs theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

RELEASE DAY! Psalm's new EP "In Darkness... Have Mercy" is out now and streaming everywhere. Dig it and be doomed: theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

I did a Quarterly Review this week, which is this silly thing where I take 50 releases and break it down to writing about 10 per day, Monday to Friday, so it all gets covered. If you check any of it out, I hope you find something you like. Thanks. theobelisk.net/obelisk/tag/...

Bifter's "First Impressions of Hell" featured on @jjkoczan.bsky.social's The Obelisk's Summer Quarterly Review! "...a torrential, ferocious offering that hits you on multiple levels before you even realize what’s happened" theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

in this house of mourning featured on The Obelisk, where @jjkoczan.bsky.social will be hosting an exclusive premiere of the album's first single "Scent" this Friday! The new album "Enlèvement" drops Aug 8, a punishing vision of extreme metal, death doom, and more theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

We've been coming to the same party for 25 years and in most ways is that depressing. Not in this way though. theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

'I’m saying now is a time to get weirder, not quieter. This should help'. Big thank you to JJ Koczan and The Obelisk for the video premiere of 'Necrotic Prayer' by Nyte Vypr, who released their monolithic album 'Plutonic' on Owlripper last month. @jjkoczan.bsky.social theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

Here's me doing that thing where I like a record and I'm like hey I like this record maybe you should too blah blah blah. If you listen to the album, I hope you dig it. theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

Thanks to @goodboypr.bsky.social and @jjkoczan.bsky.social for this fine recommendation. Great work of Hexecutioner! The mix of the smashing drums, the grooving bass, these awesome guitar riffs and tone is: boooom! 🚀 and the vocals make me shiver slightly and enchants me! Fav track: Rogue.

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE! Hexecutioner's new album Tornit is streaming now at The Obelisk ahead of its release, get your hands on some filthy riffs and dig @jjkoczan.bsky.social's excellent review! Tornit lands everywhere tomorrow theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

Feels good to like a Witchcraft record. theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

Slumbering Sun share official video for "Together Forever" via @jjkoczan.bsky.social & The Obelisk. US tour starts May 30th: usthemgroup.blogspot.com/2025/05/slum...

So it goes. theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

Just posted a review of the new @pelicansong.bsky.social album 'Flickering Resonance,' which is out now. theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

I'm 'don't feel the need to couch being happy for and proud of my friends in critical pretense' years old. theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

Hear our new single "In Too Deep" a day early in this article by @jjkoczan.bsky.social ! theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025... #newsingle #newmusic #psychedelicrock #psychrock #acidrock #shoegaze #heavypsych #premiere #spiralelectric

I was so, so happy to get to do this announcement. It was like a reaffirmation of my nerd-dom. The album is great and hits hard. theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

I wrote about this.

Lord Buffalo's drummer got snatched before they could get over to Europe to tour. A legal resident. The cruelty is the point. theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

I really like this one. Like I've been hearing these songs in my sleep. turtleskullmusic.bandcamp.com/album/being-...

Maryland Doom Fest pulling the plug makes me feel old.

It's not that it NEVER happens, but I like to note when it does. Here's a band I've never written about before. theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...

I was thinking of kind of quietly setting up a thing on the site where I read the review as part of the post. Not making a big deal of it, not doing 'content' filler. Maybe I miss doing radio?

100 extra emails this morning can only mean it's Bandcamp Friday. This is NYP.

RELEASE DAY! @slowdrawmusic.bsky.social's "The People's Department of Governmental Checks & Balances" is out now and streaming everywhere, and on CD and cassette to boot! @jjkoczan.bsky.social - "...like a garage-psych dispatch from the apocalyptic now" slowdraw.bandcamp.com/album/the-pe...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE! @slowdrawmusic.bsky.social's new album is streaming in full over at The Obelisk ahead of its release tomorrow! Thanks to @jjkoczan.bsky.social for the premiere and stellar review "...like a garage-psych dispatch from the apocalyptic now" theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025...