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

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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...

The LIST is now out and I'm as happy as I can be with it, really, but also really want to say more generally that people that post shit like "OH SHIT LOOK WHAT ALBUM DROPPED I GUESS YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE YOUR LIST!" + any other list complaining are in my top 5 most annoying person on earth LIST.

List season is upon us, and your trve doom overlords Tar Pit's album "Scrying the Angel Gate" are blessed with a spot on Machine Music's iconic EOY rankings! machinemusic.net/2025/12/18/m...

what a work of art this list is hahahaha beyond grateful to be included here twice. hails to you @machinemusic.bsky.social please set aside a few minutes and give your attention to this. I promise it'll be better than scrolling a little more

The list of lists. aka the list to rule them all, aka the king of lists.

maybe the best categories for a music list ever?

Here we go machinemusic.net/2025/12/18/m...

Late-year, best-album-list delirium, often brings me to the brink of the edge of sanity and thus more prone for the regrettable "hot take." And since that delirium has taken hold on me, and since the list has broken me: Bell Witch have been pretty consistently half assing it since Four Phantoms

List about done. Most recurring labels (from least to most): Amor Fati Productions Nuclear Winter Records Me Saco Un Ojo Sentient Ruin Laboratories Avantgardge Music Relapse The Flenser Fiadh Dark Descent Profound Lore I, Voidhanger Independent (over twice as many as second place)

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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

If there's one album that makes me happy I haven't gotten my list out it's probably this one fleshvesseldm.bandcamp.com/album/obstin...

Listening to Kali Malone while also having YouTube shorts with the sound on makes the whole thing sound exactly like a prototypical sound installation, sound-art piece. And a good one, too.

Oorlijstje! En een nieuwtje: in januari stap ik over naar de wetenschapsredactie van NRC. Ze vroegen me en na een jaar of tien over muziek schrijven is het fijn en ook wel gezond om de rest van de wereld te ontdekken. Ik blijf bij Zes Losse Tanden, dus ik laat muziek niet helemaal los! :) 🤖🪐☢️🦾

It would appear the writing of "the list" has begun

My last night before the great trek back home. Getting to hear one of my favorite albums of the year (or at least chunks of it) isn't a bad way to go out

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If anyone out there is: 1. Spontaneous 2. In SF 3. Wants to see Boris for free tonight DM me and I'll send a ticket

New (short) airport post feat.: Ch'ahom / State Faults @deathwishinc.bsky.social / Drowned in Silver / Faith Coloccia and Daniel Menche / Dead and Dripping @transcendingobs.bsky.social / Myrdød + INFO ON Warning, Devoid of Thought and bonus parenting tips. machinemusic.net/2025/11/16/s...

Give me a random descriptor/sentence and I will give you the best album

Inter Arma doing the Cavern, Billy Woods, Kowloon Walled City, Prostitue, Unsane, Warning. I hate not going to Roadburn every year, but I REALLY hate it this year. Jesus. @roadburnfest.bsky.social

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Wonderful new post wonderful music from @uboatheflesh.bsky.social, Qrixkuor, The Ruins of Beverast, @chatpileband.bsky.social + Hayden Pedigo, Uamh @fiadh.bsky.social, Genevieve, Vitki, Sedna, Orm and info on some more stuff. Keep safe. machinemusic.net/2025/11/09/s...

This year is too good kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/p-li-n...

Yellow Eyes' Confusion Gate is officially my most listened to album of the year, and it's been out for less than a week

@clppng.bsky.social are everything art must be www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-k...

What is even going on theruinsofbeverast.bandcamp.com/album/tempel...

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Imagine releasing an incredible black metal album the same year Yellow Eyes release one of the best modern black metal albums in existence.

New stacked post with: Krallice, Yellow Eyes, Gloombound, 夢遊病者, Keys To The Astral Gates And Mystic Doors, Martröð, Skin Tension, Thanargonauts, and Auriferous Flame @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social along with INFO ON: Unmaking, Tribal Gaze & more. Keep safe. machinemusic.net/2025/11/01/a...

My favorite words in the English language: New Yellow Eyes. yelloweyes.bandcamp.com/album/confus...

I think this is going to be Funeral Mist day. Apologies.

Might the new Sleepwalker/夢遊病者 album just dropped and might it be their best? Yes. vnkv.bandcamp.com/album/30011922

Been a hot minute since an album grabbed me like this lucernehammer.bandcamp.com/album/vermil...

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too nice of words written here about vermilion pyre. thank you a vermillion times over

Stoked to see @mossknightcometh.bsky.social and @terzijdehorde.bsky.social in this lovely feature from @machinemusic.bsky.social Two excellent albums! (And both released by @fiadh.bsky.social 😁)

New post with Lucerne Hammer @fiadh.bsky.social, Tombs, @clairemsinger.bsky.social, @terzijdehorde.bsky.social, Fed Ash, Vatican Shadow, Abraham, Wren, Terror Corpse + INFO ON Coroner, Oromet, BALTTW and more. Listen to Gates of Dawn. machinemusic.net/2025/10/19/a...

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New post that has only Yellow Eyes because it's the only thing that makes sense to me now + some info with other new music. Keep safe machinemusic.net/2025/10/10/a...