Antrisch (amazing nautical black metal from Germany) sign to AOP and will drop eagerly awaited Expedition III 😱

Spanish screamo heroes Boneflower are breaking up 😭 #scramzsky

A bit all over the map this week, but astute observers may be able to figure out what our next pod is about. Not much new stuff here apart from wonderful Ruins of Beverast - Tempelschlaf 🇩🇪 and this week's AOTW: Ellende - Zerfall 🇦🇹

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#nowplaying Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb 🇺🇸 (2007) Absolute RIFFS on this thing. We are due a new one #metalsky

Jan 30th on @vendettarecords.bsky.social hieron.bandcamp.com/album/from-t...

The 2026 Waiting-to-be-Read pile. Gonna try to concentrate on bashing through these and not buying any new books rofl like that’s gonna happen

My little boy comes in and says “Daddy why are you laughing?” And I said “because I’m happy” and he said “why are you happy?” And I said “Music” youtu.be/qiv-2YdXENc?...

We are listening to Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn just because

Themed Week 1. Was fun to listen to mix it up a bit; rediscovered Drouth and went back to Kassad's bleak urban blackgaze. The 2024 Put P​ù​rana / Tromblon Split is absolute 🔥🔥🔥 Listened to two different band called Morrow. Human 2.0 might be best metal album ever so that's my AOTW #metalsky

And Guitarists Iommi Mikael Akerfeld Chuck Schuldiner Phil Tougas Marty Friedman Muhammed Suiçmez Robert Vigna Austin Lunn Scott Hull Paul Waggoner #metalsky

Getting in on the 10 Favs thing Drummers Bill Ward Martin Lopez Kiddie Kearns Austin Lunn Tobias Schuler George Kollias Hannes Grossmann Ray Capizzo Alexander von Meilenwald Dave Lombardo #metalsky

Mist, pines and sunlight at one of my fave birding spots this morning

#nowplaying Kassad - London Orbital 🇬🇧 (2020) Haunting blackgaze / DSBM with a focus on urban isolation and loneliness. The cover art plus song titles like 'The Concrete' and 'The Hopeless' give you the flavor you can expect hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/london...

#nowplaying Drouth - Excerpts From A Dread Liturgy 🇺🇸 (2020) I had completely forgotten how much this album slays. PNW black metal with hints of Opeth and some beautiful lead playing. And they released an album last year I never got to. FOR SHAME! drouth.bandcamp.com/album/excerp...

Delighted to find Luke on here. His sketchbook is the primo resource on the subject. I have it on speed dial and refer to it constantly

I failed to maintain stats properly in 2025 so less detail than normal, but I do know I listened to 681 different releases. Most listened release was Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power. Most listened band was a tie: Immolation x Panopticon. Most listened genre was Black metal wouldyabelieve it

Oh snap @artofalexcf.bsky.social is gonna be on the new Panopticon album holy shitballs could I be any more excited for that record

All of Albums of the Week for 2025, of which there are 54 for reasons #metalsky

The last week of 2025. New atmoblack from Nemorous 🇬🇧 and screamo from sans visage 🇯🇵 Some of my fave EPs of the year from Lagrimas 🇺🇸, Sadness 🇺🇸, Teardrinker 🇧🇪 and Isleptonthmoon et al 🇺🇸 New vinyl from Starer 🇺🇸, Immolation 🇺🇸 and Decapitated 🇵🇱 AOTW is Weft - The Splintered Oar 🇺🇸 (atmoblack)

My friend Rich - also of death metal band Bloodrust - has released a dark and evil old skool black metal record that y’all should check out feralwinter1.bandcamp.com/album/the-re...

#nowplaying sans visage - drowned / resistance 🇯🇵 (2025) Very sick Japanese screamo from a couple weeks back. NYP on @bandcamp.com, tapes with @zegemabeachrecords.bsky.social #scramzsky sansvisage.bandcamp.com/album/drowne...

#nowspinning Ellende - Ellenbogengesellschaft 🇦🇹 (2022) 4th full length from LG. Absolutely killer cover art painted by the man himself #metalsky

Killa beeeeeeeeez youtu.be/cPRKsKwEdUQ?...

Here's the full Top 100 #AOTY adjusting for a couple very late entries via Bindrune Recordings

I’ve been remiss in posting this but here is the #AOTY list from our very own @derekpetersen.bsky.social aka Deathdoom Derek #metalsky Check out our EOY episodes wherever you get your pods 🤘

My bff @donomite.bsky.social already evangelized on this one but woah, this is seriously fucking good. It’s definitely ffo Panopticon but is way more progressive, at times borrowing heavily from classic era Opeth bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-sp...

The amazing thing about Barnegat Lighthouse SP in New Jersey is not just the awesome wildlife, it’s how close you can get to it. You’re practically tripping over these obstinate little Purple Sandpipers

Every year it's a week off metal around this time. This year (like usual) it was 90s-ish Hip Hop week. Back to the metal starting tomorrow ngl I was kinda ashamed I had no non-metal picks this year outside of screamo which is basically metal-adjacent anyway

Just finished reading Blood Meridian Fuuuuuuuuck. An absolutely earth shattering novel

Ok you crazy kids here is my #AOTY for 2025. Keeping it to 49 for sake of brevity but there are many deserving albums just outside. Thought it was a really good year for the A-tier but the S-tier was a little limited. All Hail Takafumi Matsubara /,,/ #metalsky

Which punk rock album is the perfect top-notch record from start to finish? Bad Religion - Suffer (1988) Absolutely pivotal release in my personal punk rock and broader musical journey

Our second EOY episode is now ONLINE wherever you get your pods and in the interest of list season our Mauricio decided to share his whole KILLER list so here it is! Will post mine and Derek’s at some point soon #metalsky #aoty

The biggest and baddest battleships ever created were the Yamato and the Musashi Guess where they are now Battleships have been obsolete since 1941

Yeeeeeaaaaaah the third installment of @dancarlin.bsky.social's Alexander the Great series 'Mania For Subjugation' is finally out just in time for my long ass drive through the Pine Barrens tomorrow

The first of our two EOY episodes is up wherever you get your pods. Mauricio, Derek and Wibbs drop numbers 10 thru 6 in our AOTY lists. Check it out and holla back linktr.ee/thepurgatory... #metalsky

Inching closer to completing my Immolation discog collection What bands with 4 plus albums do you have the complete set? I have all the albums by A Tribe Called Quest, Death, Dödsrit, Envy, Gaerea, Panopticon, Pig Destroyer & Tomb Mold Plus all the Opeth death metal albums

The final whimper of the Duckett Crawley opening experiment ends with the gentlest offering of catching practice to the Australian slip cordon Two more tests of this, my god

My guy Phil has issued forth a mighty list of

Dear Me, Merry Christmas, Love, Me

Week thing. Kauan 🇫🇮 (post-metal) was one I missed, as was Chepang 🇳🇵 (grind), for shame. New black metal from Martröð 🇺🇸🇮🇸 and Morbonoct 🇺🇦 is the good shit. All added to list. AOTW is Rotten Sound - Mass Extinction 🇫🇮 (grindcore) #metalsky

Having a beer, watching The Ashes, editing the pod /,,/

My boy Dono with the 🔥🔥🔥 list

The lineup is pretty fun this year, not that it impacts whether I go or not... Anyone else still having trouble accepting the idea of Power Trip without Riley Gale?

While we wait for the Purgatory Aftershow AOTY list releases I think ima do a 2025 birding thread for the real who recognize real Huge highlight of my birding this year was finding Mr (left) and Mrs (right) Peregrine hanging out together while on my lunch break last week #birds

My vinyl acquisitions continue to slow year over year. The huge increase in cost of importing from Europe had me clicking buy and then backing out on multiple occasions when the shipping cost more than the record... Still, was able to bag a few bangers old and new

We spent 4 hours recording our two AOTY episodes last night. So many killer clips and some lovely banter. Will try to get at least the first episode up over the next few days /,,/

You could argue Joslin’s El Toro tre for TOTY but SOTY feels a bit much. Tom Schaar delivered two truly historic parts this year but I guess they don’t count because it’s not street skating? Gimme a break

#nowplaying Friisk - …un Torügg Bleev Blot Sand 🇩🇪 (2021) Frosty riffs and blasts for a frigid snow day here in SEPA ffo Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Aara, Vendetta Records #metalsky

Spent some chill time last night watching TNF and editing AOTY clips for our EOY episode we’re recording Sunday. I look at my list and I’m kind of meh tbh but when I listened to the clips I was like nah this shit is 🔥🔥🔥