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Useless new post featuring some stuff from: Predatory Void / Funelore / Dwellnought / Foetorem / Sanguine Wound / Ligation / Janvier / Scythe / Ossification + INFO on some stuff. machinemusic.net/2026/02/14/w...

The album The Eternal Resonance by the band Sweven

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New weekly post feat. @ominess.bsky.social / Backengrillen / Ziege / Ectovoid / Gutvoid / Enisum / Putrefecal / Final Dose / A Colossal Hand / Mayhem + INFO ON: @ultha.bsky.social, @locrianofficial.bsky.social, Petyaev-Petyaev and more. Keep safe machinemusic.net/2026/02/08/d...

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New year, new album-of-the-month thread. May it not suck. First monthly post (for January) is a reply to this one.

André Foisy and Terence Hannum of Locrian composed the soundtrack for The Harvest King, a new short folk-horror film directed by John Bradburn.

New post feat. cool shit from Nuée Ardente, Lucerne Hammer @mossknightcometh.bsky.social, Bergtagent, Ashbringer, Toska, This Morn' Omnia, WSTRĘT, Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean, Unearthly Rites, Grim Knife + INFO ON Hemotoxin, Rekcrucify, Këkht Aräkh and more. machinemusic.net/2026/01/31/s...

A decade of Chthe'ilist's masterful Le dernier crépuscule. A good time to take it in and while you're at it read ny interview with them about it from a few years back machinemusic.net/2023/01/22/m...

New sludging grossness from Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean @redscroll.bsky.social chainedtothebottomoftheocean.bandcamp.com/album/let-us...

New Këkht Aräkh album incoming. First single out. kekhtarakh.bandcamp.com/album/mornin...

Writing my book, doing some research, and coming upon an old friend

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I'd just like to point out that I've been harassing Phil Tougas about how much his lead playing reminds me of Marty Friedman for years now, as well as asking him about it in our interview. So, now that Worm and Phil have a track with Marty I feel vindicated. wormgloom.bandcamp.com/track/witchm...

New post (yay) feat. The Silver, Ultima, Sight Welder, Kratt, Blade and Bath, Telos, Lepra, Aftoktonia/αυτοκτονία, and Hagetisse + INFO ON @pelicansong.bsky.social, Krosscythe, Ingrina and more. Keep safe. machinemusic.net/2026/01/25/g...

Not a die on that hill person, but will die on the Antics>Turn on the Bright Lights hill every day? Any day. Perfect album.

Maurice de Jong is like no one. No one is like Maurice de Jong. A treat to be alive in the same time as this genius. New The Black Mysteries is out, and it's perfect. gnawtheirtongues.bandcamp.com/album/these-...

Perfection deathcabforcutie.bandcamp.com/album/transa...

Welp

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Incredible track serpentcolumn.bandcamp.com/track/prayer...

Eagerly awaiting for the Jewish mysticism period period of Liturgy's discography, and especially the three-album opus dealing with the philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig

Another week of mining rust feat: Bosse-de-nage @theflenser.bsky.social, Cryptic Shift @metalbladerecords.bsky.social, Grey Malkin + @maudthemoth.bsky.social, Bone Weapon, Sanctvs, Exxûl, Snaga, Immolation Sunfuneral, Shearling+ INFO: Sunn O))), Pict, & more machinemusic.net/2026/01/17/t...

Not an album I noticed in 2025, but one I am noticing right now. Noticing a lot. A fantastic blend of war-metal vibes and brutal death metal execution. If you like that description, boy oh boy will you like this music sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/rivalr...

What the actual fuck

Thinking of setting up a novel therapy method based solely on listening to Satyricon and making faces

I don't know how long I'll still be doing "this," but whenever this entity finds its fitting death this here might remain the pinnacle

Is it a coincidence that I finally met @theflenser.bsky.social and Bryan a few months ago and now Bosse-de-Nage are releasing a new album? I don't think so.

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Starspawn is still the best Blood Incantation album

New weekly post with POWER from D.E.R., Krvuspára, @planningforburial.bsky.social @theflenser.bsky.social, Stephen O'Malley, Fossilization, Gyldensterna, Voidhämmer, Dreichmere, Scorche, Aun + INFO ON Emptiness, Deha, and more. machinemusic.net/2026/01/10/d...

LET'S FUCKING GO

Happy The Ruins of Beverast day

Not positive this is a perfect analogy, but part of me thinks that doing reviews of "classic" albums is kind of like an architectural critic writing a review of the Parthenon. Empty calories.

It is a privilege to be able to experience new, exciting, wonderful music. It never isn't a privilege.

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I think it's safe to say I just transferred the last bit from the MILIM KASHOT funds to @wck.org. All in all around $850 donated. Could have done better, could have done worse. I hope it helps in some conceivable way. machinemusic1981.bandcamp.com/album/milim-...

New post with powerful music from Mors Verum @transcendingobs.bsky.social, Spectral Lore @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social, Olhava, Apovrasma, @nadjaluv.bsky.social + Tim Wyskida + Beck, Nemorous, Invictus, Rigorous Instituion, Harrowed + INFO: Sanctvs, Ligation etc. machinemusic.net/2026/01/04/m...

"2026 AOTY charts opening feverishly" @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social spectrallore.bandcamp.com/album/iv-par...

Black metal customer service at its best

It's a huge honour to have five of our releases on @machinemusic.bsky.social's best albums of 2025 list, with the #Floating release as a shared #1 album of the year! The others are #Drofnosura, #GloriousDepravity, #DeadandDripping, and #Veilburner! Feature link - machinemusic.net/2025/12/18/m...

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Sometimes you just need THAT energy rigorous-institution.bandcamp.com/album/cainsm...

Wrote about being graced by a new Gorrch album, found the album's promo in my inbox. I bid you farewell.

New weekly JAM-TOAST weekly post feat. Serpent Column, Speglas, Low Beherion, Worm, Wounds of Recollection, Smiqra, Gorrch, Stärker, Miserere Luminis + INFO ON Teardrinker, @gonemage.bsky.social Nightmarer, Fyrnask and more. Keep safe. machinemusic.net/2025/12/27/v...

With the closing of another year, let's all come together in prayer and wish for that one thing we all need in this torn and wretched world: A new Mylingar album. Amen.

Call me nostalgic, call me Ron, but this might still be my favorite from them defacementofficial.bandcamp.com/album/deviant

Every year has its "oh shit what the hell is this" album drop sometime toward late December, and I guess this might be it for 2025. If you like Panopticon and Bindrune fare more generally, that this should be a priority (+Austin Lunn on drums) bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-sp...