2025 Anniversary Series 106: Anathema - The Silent Enigma #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/2...

2025 Anniversary Series 105: Abscess - Urine Junkies #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/2...

Review: Glorior Belli - Glorior Belli #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/r...

2025 Anniversary Series 104: Dio - Sacred Heart #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/2...

Review: The Sorrow of Being Immaculate - Suicide Forest #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/r...

Review: Kal-El - Astral Voyager Vol.1 #metalsky @majesticmountain.bsky.social thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/r...

Live Review: Blood Incantation/Oranssi Pazuzu (09/10/25) #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/l...

Man, that Andrew Lee video about metal and white supremacy really riled up the internet didn't it? Look, he is more than entitled to his opinions based on his experiences, and you can have contrary opinions if you feel like it. We don't all have to react to EVERYTHING online

Oranssi Pazuzu are fucking intense

Review: Loathfinder - Broken Branches and Torn Roots #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/r...

2025 Anniversary Series 103: Krisiun - Black Force Domain #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/2...

Review: Last Retch - Abject Cruelty #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r...

If you chainsawed Refused directly in half, you'd have The Dillinger Escape Plan and The Hives

"if you think trans people are the problem, if you think immigrants are the problem, you are the fucking problem!" Refused radicalising me on their final tour

Review: Robes of Snow - Sylvan Lands of Shiver @fiadh.bsky.social thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/r...

Posted an actual letter today from the world's oldest continually working post office, an over three hundred year old business. That's heritage

2025 Anniversary Series 102: Chimaira - Chimaira #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/2...

Review: Cacotopia - Cacotopia #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/r...

2025 Anniversary Series 101: Benediction - The Dreams You Dread #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/2...

Review: Verminizer - Scythe of Scorn #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/r...

2025 Anniversary Series 100: Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/2...

Review: Ultra Raptor - Fossilized #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/r...

Review: Species - Changelings #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/r...

2025 Anniversary Series 099: Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Bestial Machinery #metalsky #grindsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/2...

I don't know if BlueSky knows the famous Scots folk song of a man with a false leg, climbing a wall, but it is familiar... youtu.be/_Wa2FOco0xg?...

Look what I just found at a car boot sale!?

2025 Anniversary Series 098: Iron Angel - Hellish Crossfire #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/20/2...

Review: Heruvim - Mercator #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/r...

Review: Panzerkrieg 666 - Day of Genocide #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/r...

cant believe I sat and listened through an ENTIRE three and a half hour podcast about fucking Bubsy 3D and it wasn't a joke. Was this your idea @x-pert74.bsky.social !?

2025 Anniversary Series 097: Black Sabbath - Sabotage #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/2...

I spent a week listening to nothing but Sabbath and Ozzy. I spent a week listening to nothing but Mastodon. Guess I'm now spending a week listening to nothing but At the Gates. Fuck. 2025 has been brutal and not in the good way

Review: Thorn - Nebulous Womb of Eternity @transcendingobs.bsky.social #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/r...

2025 Anniversary Series 096: Witchcraft - Firewood #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/2...

Oh FUCK lads!

I'm terrible for having more than one book on the go in my house, but tonight I realised I have Jack Kerouac on the sofa, Machiavelli on the bedside table and Lao Tsu in the bathroom... What is wrong with me?

Review: Helms Deep - Chasing the Dragon @namelessgraverec.bsky.social thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/r...

Review: Retching - Charming the Decomposed @transcendingobs.bsky.social #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/r...

This might be one of my favourite songs ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDML...

So I think my book is going to be called 'From the Past Come the Storms: How History Has Inspired Heavy Metal' What do we think?

2025 Anniversary Series 095: Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/2...

Review: Grave Infestation - Carnage Gathers @darkdescentrecords.bsky.social #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/r...

Review: Nightbearer - Defiance #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/r...

Review: Serpent Corpse - Retaliate @transcendingobs.bsky.social #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/r...

Review: Temptress - Catch the Endless Dawn #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/r...

We've recently passed 1000 followers on Facebook, which for a small blog is just huge for us. Just want to say thank you to anyone who has followed us there, or any of our other places. We can't do what we do without you

2025 Anniversary Series 094: Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/2...

Review: KHNVM - Cosmocrator #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/r...

Review: Plague of Carcosa - In the Dreamless Deep @fiadh.bsky.social #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/r...

Review: Ribspreader - As Gods Devour #metalsky thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/r...