first DS Sunday of the year is up now, starting with the latest Wych Elm demo to mark its special cassette release through @realmandritual.bsky.social - two special Wych Elm tapes, in fact! youtu.be/Nwpx0od9210

it should surprise no one, but Lila's new Ardente EP is awesome. perfect celestial atmospheric black metal in 'Ma Lame, Ma Volonté...' lilastarless.bandcamp.com/album/aux-po...

c.mon, do it! I can see Ilfracombe from my house *just* over the Bristol channel, but it will take ~4 hours to drive there.

New Snowspire! ❄️❄️❄️ Sinking into this now on my slowly winding path to sleep snowspire.bandcamp.com/album/where-...

Today I bring you 'If Blood Is to Spill... Make It an Ocean' – the first new Wraithlord album since Phantasmal Warfare in 2024, and as I will say with every release from this band, you need to be paying attention to them. youtu.be/bormM5l_tVU

the facebook black metal groups are discussing the Lords of Chaos film again - and even though I don't think it is especially great, they always discuss it so badly and wrong that I can't help defend it.

I have recently been listening back through my boxes of minidiscs of gig recordings from 2000-2010. Some proper desk recordings, but most just clip mic or headphones in the input. Some fantastic nostalgia bumps.

Why does almost every news headline or strapline use the word ‘surge’ now? It’s the new ‘delve’

Can tell i had a good amount of time off working, because by thumb is cramping up after 2 days back at it. Someone weird sensation, but nice to know my body is actually capable of rejecting the grind.

Didn’t realise The Abyss was here. Give them a follow if the sound of the cosmos collapsing to splintering blast beats is your thing.

Changed my picture to the new logo.

new Winselmutter track, in advance of a forthcoming EP winselmutter.bandcamp.com/album/ketzer...

New year, new logo! I’ve been sat on this for too long waiting to use it, and today is the day! Thanks to Thaumaturge Artworks for another masterpiece, seeing through my inept ideas into what I actually wanted; something gnarled, antiquated and rustic with an element of light. +

First video of the year is up now, with a new logo! Will make a separate post about that later, for now, please enjoy this fantastic split of folklore-themed atmospheric BM between Ascalapha and Ithildra. Does what great splits should, and ties the theme across both sides. youtu.be/Lxtp_2Hv6tA

My most listened albums - from Bandcamp and files on my computer, since nothing else scrobbles. I thought Spotify was as it’s in my sources, but it isn’t working. Anyway. Here’s most of my most played year in music.

And some coal

My wife got me lots of interesting coffees for Christmas. Trying out the Kopi Luwak. These Coffee Bean Shop bags with the tasting note chart are nice too.

New Olhava coming, 27th February. Marvellous news. One track up now. 20 minutes of post-black majesty olhava.bandcamp.com/album/memorial

One of my favourite finds from year-end lists (CVLTNation alt rock/grunge) earthy grungy melancholia that pulls hard on the nostalgia heartstrings (especially if you were there). A rich raw voice enveloped in a music of energy-matched hypnotic resonance. vulturefeather.bandcamp.com/album/it-wil...

journey into the lore of ancient gods and heroes, through gently psychedelic dark atmospheric musics that subtly fray the edges of perception until the threads of your mind are loosed and unravelling into realms beyond their imagining. youtu.be/v_8rorr3jP4

It is time

New Moonless is out now too. Digital first, tapes coming on Waldrausch next year moonlessnight.bandcamp.com/album/under-...

I’m side-eyeing the slop-vibes of that artwork…..but surprise new Ebony Pendant is more than welcome ebonypendant.bandcamp.com/album/threno...

Must be about time to bust out my Christmas song I dedicated this to my aunt who had passed away a couple of weeks before. My mum repeatedly said to me ‘if you want to be in a band you need a Christmas song’ Perhaps next year I’ll make one in memory of her meatbreak.bandcamp.com/album/meatbr...

Aight, queued up the last videos of the year in the channel. Will have a break after DS Sunday this week until the new year Might try some new things next year, but exactly what remains to be seen. Pretty sure I said the same thing 12 months ago to little effect.

Make space on your year end lists for this. youtu.be/GzILsd7yZZg

a unique theme, and very excellent album

I do love list season. I missed there was a new Bootblacks album out. It's nice. bootblacks.bandcamp.com/album/paradise

On the channel today: Cryptic Elegy - The Heretical Architecture of Man New two-track ep of raw blackened punk from the side-project of Devouring Famine youtu.be/N13qqupFA7A

It's a very real thing that as soon as i find out someone uses GenAI to produce anything i lose complete interest. I am vey sad this has happened at the leadership level of the Association I am part of. Had a chat with the Presi. about it, and it only made things worse. One more loss this year 😔

My daughter bought her first record in the summer - Sombr album, 1st press cherry red 😉 - and she listens to it. Even if she bought it just to look at it and own a piece of an artist she loves it would be still be a great thing. I also approve of Sombr.

Please enjoy this excellent single of doomy atmospheric post-black metal from Polish one-man band Miasme Also enjoy the especially great artwork youtu.be/TNjiNddNKds

Are we at war yet? Fighter planes have been going over my house all day Very unusual

The Placebo cover at the end of this (awesome) album is just 👌🏽 Thank you @fiadh.bsky.social fiadh.bandcamp.com/album/violes...

This week’s poll is inspired by me doing me year-end albums. I haven’t necessarily got very far, but I am stuck on Abduction – so for this week’s Friday/weekend poll, we are going with the Derby-based band’s four most recent albums youtube.com/post/Ugkxv1t...

Deep Christ the new iOS is awful wtf?!!!???

Yoooo, this arrived a month earlier than I was expecting. Nice

even Disney can't bail open ai out of their financial hole. only another 20 billion or so to go before yr in the black, eh botslopper? jokes aside, this is fucking awful, and I cannot fathom why disney are engaging in it.

I don’t know about that chief

while all you nabs are working on your lists for this year, I'm planning my 2027 bests

this track is absolutely stacked with sick riffs Whole split is great barbelith.bandcamp.com/track/g-s-mh...

my daughter's favourite film

Yeh. This poll got taken down. Should have thought about that really. Results were close 40/40 between Goat and Chronzon, and 10% to the other two. Had some good comments too. Well, I tried.

Almost missed posting the Friday poll on Friday. Styled it out by calling it the weekend poll instead. It’s possible this one might get shadowed because of the bad words and boobies. Let’s see! It’s Akercocke youtube.com/post/Ugkx8uV...

this is a very powerful and moving album of melancholy ambience Honoured to feature it on the channel for DS Sunday this weekend

‘Fury, Bloodlust and Hatred filled’ black metal that gives me some Ebony Pendant feels, with atmosphere, riffs and emotively primitive acoustic guitar and ambient synth. youtu.be/yFynO2bZLvw

Guess I’m a die hard Emperor fan now

This is the way

Is that a bubble popping I hear?

on the channel today, the imposing widlerness of Uamh's atmospheric black metal. released to tape by @fiadh.bsky.social youtu.be/WYTQU6nFY6w