#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

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#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

#nowplaying Dormant Ordeal - The Grand Scheme of Things 🇵🇱 (2021) Blackened death metal of the absolute highest order. Technical without being wanky, melodic without being cheesy, punishing without being overwhelming. Always relentless. dormantordeal.bandcamp.com/album/the-gr...

#nowplaying VRDRBR - Mono | Tod 🇩🇪 (2025) I missed this one last year but highly recommend now. Depressive-suicidal-black-metal-punk on antifash label Fucking Kill Records vrdrbr.bandcamp.com/album/mono-tod

Out now: HIERON "From the Temple to the Grave" LP/CD a lamentation leading into a vortex of doubt, hopelessness, and madness - through fog, past old forgotten graves, through cold stone walls and vaults, toward a purifying fire and vast nothingness, where salvation never comes. links in comments.

#nowspinning Aristarchos - Martyr of Star and Fire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (2024) Four songs of blistering yet atmospheric Scottish black metal with some really polished guitar work and relentless drums @vendettarecords.bsky.social #metalsky

#nowspinning Blut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons 🇫🇷 (2025) This came out a little too late for my list but woulda cracked the Top 10 had it been earlier. Absolutely pimpin vinyl from Debemur Morti #metalsky

Also for #birdsseenin2026 a lovely female Purple Finch here in Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA

Week thing. Double dipped on Artificial Brain. Bit of a Japan rabbit hole with Pale, Daemonian, Naha, Souvenirs to Forget and Necronomidol. AOTW is Mordant Etch - Sequencing Hellish Cataclysm 🇦🇺 Death/war metal from my buddy Dane (Reekmind) #metalsky

Chester County, Pennsylvania's winter stopover Rufous Hummingbird seen yesterday where it continues to endure sub zero temperatures and a foot of snow thanks to tireless efforts of heroic homeowners. Tough little cookie and good people #birdsseenin2026

Yooooo #metalsky we have a new episode out and it's a humdinger. We dive into the metal of our very own Mauricio's home country: BRAZIL 🇧🇷 Yeah there is a fair bit of deaththrash but we uncovered some odd hidden gems and a couple of grind classics. This one was fun, check it where you get your pods

#nowplaying Asarhaddon - Reysa 🇩🇪 (2020) Debut album from the crust-influenced black metallers from Thuringia. Savage female crust vocals from Anna Nihil #metalsky

#nowplaying Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines 🇺🇸 (2002) Brutal #metalsky

#nowplaying Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade 🇬🇧 (1992) I was just reading about the story of the Fourth (IVth) Crusade and it's so wild I thought it worth recounting at a high level here. A #metalsky history thread 1/

My pal Dane from down unda just dropped this new hotness. Grinding riffy war-like death metal. Get it. mordantetch.bandcamp.com/album/sequen...

Week thing. AOTW is Darkat Yuuyamihn - eu sou a vítima e o carrasco 🇧🇷 (2024), simply because it has been occupying significant headspace recently and Yuuyami's BC recommendations prompted spinning amazing records by Envy, Heaven In Her Arms and Malikliya #metalsky

#nowplaying Noctule - Wretched Abyss 🇬🇧 (2021) Serena Cherry of Svalbard fame delivered this wonderfully evocative Skyrim-themed meloblack record and I’m just dying for her to do another one #metalsky

#nowplaying Firtan - Marter 🇩🇪 (2022) 3rd album from Lörrach quintet. Riffs, blasts and violin. Really nice melodic black metal on AOP

Spent a happy MLK Day driving around in the Pennsylvania snow, listening to Panopticon, and looking for birds. Horned Lark and Swamp Sparrow for #birdsseenin2026 ebird.org/tripreport/4...

#nowplaying Heaven In Her Arms - White Halo 🇯🇵 (2017) Post-hardcore meets blackened progressive metal in this sensational modern classic ffo Envy, White Ward

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...