rotting christ time

just, like, listen to metal if you want to get into it.

this is it. people want to like metal really badly to the point where anything mildly metallic becomes paramount to the genre in their eyes, and then when you point that out you're an odious gatekeeper.

grenadier time

feels boring to talk about how good A Blaze in the Northern Sky is but it is perfect

Listened to the old demo. Yeah it's still good as fuck www.youtube.com/watch?v=m21s...

dimmu borgir time

i challenge anyone to name a single website worse than Goodreads

My AOTY video celebrating my 5 favorite albums of 2025 #Metalsky

sharing this again to celebrate the anniversary of me having the dumbest idea for a piece and going through 3 months of hell for it www.invisibleoranges.com/meshuggah-wo...

16 horsepower time

91. british lads hit each other with a chair

moby dick time (again)

a few days ago, i posted my top 10 albums of 2025. talk about foreplay! here’s the rest of the best (along with @pyramidmaster.bsky.social ‘s fave metal records of the year) consequence.net/2025/12/mini...

nice argument. unfortunately for you i have already portrayed you as the passed out and drooling sleeptime bear and me as the alert, confident and powerful throat cooler koala

deafheaven’s and agriculture’s placement in non-metal year end lists tells me that most people** who listened to them don’t like metal very much **=people who don’t follow metal

how did i miss Veytik this year? what a sick record. castle metal where the castle is made from spikes (also, a different colin did this convo. it ain’t me)

posted my year end list** on Invisible Oranges! we’ve run EOY lists for the past week and a half, amassing a grab bag of weird ahh metal. so don’t just check out my list, ponder the other orbs www.invisibleoranges.com/colin-dempse...

I'm still thinking about the absolutely wild intro to this LeBron fancam I found last night

Releasing Spectrum on January 3 was particularly fun because I got to ride the album for an entire calendar year! Shout out to @dempseyc.bsky.social & huge thanks for doing this insanely thoughtful interview / article! It was a true highlight of 2025 for me www.invisibleoranges.com/am-i-in-trou...

cum metal is set to return soon, read my review at @treblezine.bsky.social about its last major release

reading Moby Dick

@slneechski.bsky.social wrote this piece for invisible oranges a while back and it’s one of the best things we ran (in my opinion).

took a trip to detroit last month (actually just outside it) to see some good ass dungeon synth. i wrote about my time there, as did fest organizer @weregnomerecords.bsky.social www.invisibleoranges.com/the-magic-th...

fka twigs just released her second album this year? whatever, @avantdumb.bsky.social put out three, all with different bands, and he spoke to me about them all: www.invisibleoranges.com/doug-never-s...

arckanum time

new lamp of murmuur has me thinking th at bands could learn more by correcting dimmu borgir’s missteps

mountain goats time

This reads like a blurb on The Onion but it's real.

Listen to the new Kostnatění ahead of its release this Friday and read about why he put nu-metal in his black metal! www.invisibleoranges.com/kostnateni-p...

blut aus nord time

if i’m keeping it real, id rather replay DS2 and wander around drangleic than replay Elden Ring

“what if Symbolic-era Death played black metal”

NEW YELLOW EYES JUST DROPPED and I spoke with them about it! www.invisibleoranges.com/yellow-eyes-...

alex chan knocked this one outta the park. covering the release of (not gridlink) barren path and chatting with the band to see how their vision has changed in the new group! www.invisibleoranges.com/barren-path-...

Early album stream at Invisible Oranges, thank you Colin! www.invisibleoranges.com/pedestal-for... #metalsky #deathmetalsky #blackmetalsky #deathmetal #blackmetal

Games used to do this kinda shit all the time

Enslaved time

Glorious Depravity time

Woe time

New Sabaton (among other releases, but I know that's all anyone cares about) covered in this week's UMR! www.invisibleoranges.com/upcoming-met...

Me when Red Hot Chili Peppers comes on

A look back at a pivotal album for death metal www.treblezine.com/a...

Alex Chan added a new entry to the most economically-friendly column on the internet, Cheap Thrills! this month features, among other things, 3 different grindcore releases www.invisibleoranges.com/cheap-thrill...

continuing the Blue Oyster Cult retrospective over on Invisible Oranges, we have Cultosaurus Erectus, a perfectly named album. does it hold up? read William Pauper's great piece on it here: www.invisibleoranges.com/second-wind-...

"The heart-on-the-sleeve black metal here is based on the premise that screamo's energy can be reconstituted into tremolo riffs. That the urgency and conviction of hardcore punk can uplift black metal." www.invisibleoranges.com/upcoming-met...

had a buddy who did this with true detective. watched the first season 12 times and half of those time were with spanish subtitles on (he doesn’t speak spanish)

after seeing blackbraid last night im thinking i wrote them off too early. except that 13 minute song…needed another editor to trim that shit

Super excited to share my new Lucerne Hammer album today, Vermilion Pyre! I owe a great deal of thanks to a lot of folks I've met here for their championing of this project. I'm really proud of how these songs came out and I sincerely hope you enjoy them.

www.invisibleoranges.com/upcoming-met... goddamn is there a lot of good shit coming out this week. fuck