Weeeeek. Killer new death metal from Belexum 🇺🇸 (DM, amazing debut EP). Caught up with Neurosis 🇺🇸, Hellripper 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (speed), Sacral 🇺🇸 (RABM allsorts) and Bronze Hall 🇫🇮 (black metal). New wax from Panopticon/Uprising 🇺🇸🇩🇪 AOTW is Reeking Aura - On the Promise of the Moon 🇺🇸 (death metal) #metalsky

After a brief hiatus we did a pod in which we discuss some records we enjoyed from the first 3 months of this year. Special thanks to Cemetery Piss for letting us feature their new song in this episode! Check it out wherever you get your pods #metalsky

The 🐐 hip hop album imo

The new Reeking Aura is splendiferous

This IS definitive post-metal Bass drops Polyrhythm/awkward time sigs Ambient soundscapes Cleans and roars Djenty chugs They set the standard. I have been missing Loic for so long already youtu.be/WfrX1HiRgPA?...

Week thing. New techdeath from Archspire 🇨🇦 and Inferi 🇺🇸 and a killer new EP from blackthrashers Melechesh 🇮🇱🇩🇪. Caught up with incredible speed/thrash from Cruel Force 🇩🇪 AOTW was never in doubt, though. My favorite death metal band have DONE IT AGAIN: Immolation - Descent 🇺🇸 #metalsky

It’s an increasingly rare techdeath day here at Chateau le Wibbs. Archspire hit the spot and now jamming the new Inferi. Man, these dudes (in both bands) can play

Our Derek: “Immolation casually putting out one of their best albums 35 years into their career. Fucked up.” Cannot argue

Week thing. Not much new. Sick, ripping black metal from Blasart 🇨🇱 is so fucking good, this would be AOTW on any normal week BUT Ultha - A Light So Dim 🇩🇪 These guys are the kings of trance-inducing, hypnotically immersive black metal and this is 74 minutes of their glory. Possible AOTY #metalsky

#nowspinning #newvinyl Immolation - Descent 🇺🇸 (2026) It is nice to know, that even now, after 35 years and now 12 albums, these guys can still bowl me over. This fucking rules. All hail 🙌 #metalsky

#nowspinning Dephosphorus - Sublimation 🇬🇷 (2020) Named for Iain M. Banks’ concept of enlightened cultural transcendence from the physical plane - something we could all use right now - this slaps #metalsky #astrogrind

#nowspinning Nechochwen / Panopticon - Split LP 🇺🇸 (2020) I wanna do a podcast about Panopticon’s SPLITS. So many of them are so good! The Mingling Waters is prob my fave Aaron song and Rune’s Heart is up there for Austin #metalsky

For shame, this #letterboxdfriday I have only 3 new ones The Battle of Algiers - the classic anticolonial docudrama Key Largo - Bacall and Bogie stuck in a hurricane Ponyo - magical marine mindblowing Ghibi

#nowspinning No warning or fanfare, and just like that we have another epic, hypnotic and utterly captivating album from ULTHA. This band is so fucking good. #metalsky #aoty ultha.bandcamp.com/album/a-ligh...

Week thing. New brutal death metal from Protrusion 🇺🇸 and Conan-themed deathgrind from Barbaric Oath 🇩🇪. New black metal from Abkehr 🇩🇪. New vinyl arrivals from Panopticon 🇺🇸 and Nasum 🇸🇪 AOTW is Chalk Hands - The Line That Shapes the Coast of Us 🇬🇧 (scramz/post-hardcore) #metalsky #scramzsky

Just in random convo with homeys on the strange and transitional year 2000. My favorite grind (Human 2.0) and punk (Versus God) albums both from that year. Hip Hop was moving into a new phase but still major bangers. Weakling created the USBM 🐐 Year 2000? Good or a bag of suck?

Pennsylvania’s first ever record of Virginia’s Warbler, a bird of the deep southwest and Mexico. Celebrity mega rarity here in Montgomery County this morning #lifer #birdsseenin2026

The new Chalk Hands is some absolute AOTY shit. Probably the best album I’ve heard so far this year #scramzsky chalkhands.bandcamp.com/album/the-li...

Week thing. New post/sludge from Farseer 🇺🇸, scramz from Stormo 🇮🇹, grind from No/Más 🇺🇸, proggy deathy stuff from Egregore 🇨🇦 and The Silver 🇺🇸 and black metal from Iron Firmament 🇺🇸* and Fire Magic 🇺🇸 AOTW is Speglas - Endarkenment, Being & Death 🇸🇪 (black/death feat 2/3 of Sweven) *Last week's AOTW

Red-breasted Nuthatch and Savannah Sparrow in Chester County, Pennsylvania for #birdsseenin2026

I couldn’t get one song through the new Gaerea 🤢

My 2025 #AOTY Vinyl Edition vid is up, somewhat belatedly #metalsky youtu.be/fhV2lcABwMY?...

#nowspinning Totaled - Lament (2019) Revisiting this absolute banger. Lone album from anonymous creators, this is rampaging HM2 d-beat black metal with shredding solos. Total rager, all killer no filler. Will they ever do another one? 🤞 #metalsky profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/lament

#nowspinning #newvinyl Yellow Eyes - Confusion Gate 🇺🇸 (2025) My #1 black metal album of last year FINALLY arrived. Have been putting off returning to it while waiting for this to get here and yeah, it’s still incredible #metalsky

#nowspinning Enslaved - Heimdal 🇳🇴 (2023) Enslaved - the band that can do no wrong - are teasing new music. I am very excite. Heimdal was absolutely brilliant, of course. We are inured to their greatness #metalsky

Been a minute since I made any updates to this vest but just had to make some alterations to fit in this pimpin old skool Skagos patch from Bindrune Recordings #metalsky #battlejacket

Week thing. Did not listen to much. Really liked the new Invictus 🇯🇵, which is very riffy, thrashy death metal AOTW, though, is a no brainer: Cryptic Shift - Overspace & Supertime 🇬🇧 (78 mins of cosmic deaththrash) #metalsky

Panopticon coming to our hood in October 🙌

Happy Cryptic Shift Day to those who celebrate cryptic-shift.bandcamp.com/album/oversp...

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched Glorious antifa Ghibli Wong Kar Wai’s masterpiece Unwatchable greenscreen turd Classic 80s anime #filmsky

Week! New scramz from Vibora 🇪🇸 and Astre 🇫🇷. Black metal from Diabolus, Mecum Semperterne! 🇳🇴, Petrale 🇭🇷, Unmother 🇬🇧 and Bizarrekult 🇷🇺. Death metal from Phasma 🇬🇷 🇺🇸, Ectovoid 🇺🇸 and Glassbone 🇫🇷. Trad/doom from Exxûl 🇨🇦 and thrash from The Recreant 🇺🇸 AOTW is Misotheist - De Pinte 🇳🇴 (BM)

Finally got around to ‘In The Mood For Love’ (2000) by Wong Kar Wai, starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung. A special, special movie, one of the most lush and gorgeous I’ve seen. Worth the long wait and deserving of all the hype #filmsky

#nowspinning #newvinyl Lagrimas - i’m not strong enough for this / like when i was a kid 🇺🇸 (2026) Two EPs from the unparalleled neocrust quartet from LA, on the equally wonderful @fiadh.bsky.social #scramzsky

GO BUY SOME RECORDS FROM THE LEGENDARY ZEGEMA BEACH www.zegemabeachrecords.com

#nowspinning Opeth - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 🇸🇪 (2010) Beautiful package care of @burningshed.com. I had the enormous privilege of attending this show. 2nd photo is mine, almost replicated in inner sleeve. One of the best shows I’ve attended, this vinyl fills a void on my collection #metalsky

Week thing. New shit from Fossilization 🇧🇷 (death metal), Malignant Aura 🇦🇺 (deathdoom) and Converge 🇺🇸 (metalcore). Trying to slowly work my way through a Spectral Lore 🇬🇷 discog run AOTW is Worm - Necropalace 🇺🇸 (shredding blackened doom) #metalsky

Generally try to avoid shameless self promotion here but we didn't get whole lot of traction with this one, so I have a genuine question: Would you rather hear pods about stuff you already know and like? Shit you never heard of? New stuff only? Not sure we'll change, lol, but welcome feedback 🤘

Black Vulture and Turkey Vulture, seen today in Pennsylvania USA for #birdsseenin2026

The joys of being a birder, to wit hanging out at rubbish dumps staring through a telescope at seagulls. But we do it for those wonderful moments when you see something different: Iceland Gull (kumlieni), Chesco, Pennsylvania, USA for #birdsseenin2026 #lifer ebird.org/tripreport/4...

Having a little cry at the end of the Thrasher doc about Phil Shao, legendary skateboarder who died in 1998. Always an inspiration. Rest in Power youtu.be/2qLOZlyq9VY?...

Very cooperative male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker seen today in Southeastern Pennsylvania for #birdsseenin2026

A week. New death metal from Eximperitus 🇧🇾, atmoblack from Mossgiver 🇸🇮, and blastbeat black metal from Gorrch 🇮🇹 AOTW is Ensanguinate - Death Saturnalia 🇸🇮 (death metal) Two new albums from Slovenia. Huh. #metalsky

Two thirds of the pod caught Opeth in Philly last night. With tracks like Godhead’s Lament and The Drapery Falls this tour features the best setlist Opeth have put together since they turned prog 15 years ago

#nowspinning Opeth - Still Life 🇸🇪 (1999) Some of my favorite Opeth songs (Moonlapse Vertigo in particular) but the production just feels kinda thin to me. Can’t quite put my finger on it. #4 in my Opeth ranking. Where do you have it? #metalsky

Hey #metalsky this #bandcampfriday please go out and grab this compilation in aid of Palestine Children's Relief Fund featuring @mastiffhchc.bsky.social and friends of the pod Row of Ashes and Urzah, plus many, many more hungercompuk.bandcamp.com/album/seven-...

A week. Newish stuff from Hieron 🇩🇪 (black metal), VRDRBR 🇩🇪 (DSPunkMetal), Turpitude 🇨🇦 (queer black metal) and Limbs 🇵🇭 (post-metal/screamo). Pale 🇯🇵 (post-black / scramz / shoegaze) is from Jan 2025 and couldawouldashoulda been my AOTY had I heard it earlier AOTW is Spectral Lore - IV (Demo) 🇬🇷

Depart from metal perhaps, as this would be too easy by picking something by Nile ‘Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On’ by Funkadelic

#nowspinning Vemod - The Deepening 🇳🇴 (2024) My #2 Album of 2024. Stunning atmospheric black metal. Really one of the best records of the decade so far imo #metalsky

This fuckin movie absolutely rips Leon aka The Professional, Luc Besson,1994 “It reminds me of Beethoven”

#nowspinning and gosh this album is just perfection