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"Each hymn stands as a testament to struggle transformed into art, a ritual carved from shadows and despair. In the end, music itself becomes the therapeutic method."

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El Muerto — Lost and Amsterdamned Review | Athenaeum Of Sin
El Muerto conjures dissonant riffs, vocals laments seep through fog‑choked alleys, relentless percussion pounds like chains against stone.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣: THE UPCOMING TERROR ⚔️
➡️January 30th, 2026⬅️

SHINE - Wrathcult 🇵🇱💠

Debut album from Płock, Polish Death Metal outfit💠

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December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The latest cinematic showcase from NYC's Blackened Caribbean Doom trio, PRECIOUS BLOOD, is out now. "Old Man Abaddon" is the third song from False Prophets: Visual Album to receive the official music video treatment.
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Precious Blood - "Old Man Abaddon" (Official Video)
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December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Death Metal Album of the Year FACT
Have you picked up the vinyl release of Learning the Secrets of Acid by Umulamahri yet?

The new band fronted by the prolific @avantdumb.bsky.social is available on Blue/Green or Orange vinyl via Ordovician Records

Get it on @ampwall.com ⬇️

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Learning the Secrets of Acid vinyl LP from Umulamahri
Pressed at Outta Wax in Minneapolis, MN
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December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the 1st ever LP pressing of the now classic NO/MÁS debut album, Raíz Del Mal, on December 19th!
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No Más - "Victim Of Circumstance" (from Raíz Del Mal LP)
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December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Have you picked up the vinyl release of Learning the Secrets of Acid by Umulamahri yet?

The new band fronted by the prolific @avantdumb.bsky.social is available on Blue/Green or Orange vinyl via Ordovician Records

Get it on @ampwall.com ⬇️

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Learning the Secrets of Acid vinyl LP from Umulamahri
Pressed at Outta Wax in Minneapolis, MN
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December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Our picks for November's best metal albums: heavymusichq.com/november-202... #metalsky #bestheavymetal
November 2025 Best Heavy Metal Albums - Heavy Music HQ
November 2025's best heavy metal albums, from Heavy Music HQ.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Watch the full 'Like A Geyser Ever Erupting' one-take drum playthrough now on YouTube! See Isak Nilsson masterfully blast his way through our heaviest, most technical song to date.

🔗https://youtu.be/WkTkSyO6BuI
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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🎶 PHOBOCOSM 🇨🇦 « Gateway »

This dark corridor is the gateway to one of the heaviest DM albums of the year. Massive, oppressive, impressive.
A Monster.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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This will be the last weekly Top 5 Best New Metal Albums show of 2025. We're transitioning into AOTY season, but we're doing it with a bang!! Giveaways, crushing number 1, and awards stuff. Link in replies!

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November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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TABARNAC MONTREAL ON S'EN VIENT!

Psyched to make our North American debut at ProgStorm 2026, and honored to be the first band announced for this exciting festival.

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November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Happy #Saturday! Time for the final edition of Harbinger's Killer Picks for 2025, with my Top 5 albums this month: harbingerofdoom1.blogspot.com #KISS #KISSArmy #Metallica #CheapTrick @clawhammerpr.bsky.social #Metal #HeavyMetal #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #WeekendVibes #Music #NewMusic #RippleMusic
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Some BTS pics from the drum recording of 'The Sleeping City' at Top Floor Studios in Gothenburg May 2024 together with Jakob Herrmann.

Who's interested in some one-take, no samples, no edits drum playthroughs from Isak? We might have some coming...

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November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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FULL FORCE FRIDAY:🆕November 28th1⃣🎧

PHOBOCOSM - Gateway 🇨🇦💠

4th album from Montréal, Quebec, Canadian Death Metal outfit💠

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November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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So, what does the quintessential Phobocosm release sound like? Dark, deep, and death fuelled.
Album Review: Phobocosm – Gateway (Dark Descent Records)
Montréal’s Phobocosm return with ‘Gateway’, an eldritch death metal opus that seals one chapter while unveiling the next. It will be released on November 28th, 2025, via Dark Descent Records.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Interview Alert! "Charlie Anderson, widely recognized as the violinist for atmospheric black metal outfit Panopticon, has crafted his debut solo album under the name Weft as a musical quilt." - @newnoisemagazine.bsky.social

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Interview: Charlie Anderson Discusses Weft – New Noise Magazine
Weft's 'The Splintered Oar' by Charlie Anderson is a masterful blend of black metal and progressive rock. Drops on December 19, 2025
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November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Texas Death Metal? Yes please! First full-length from Terror Corpse - ‘Ash Eclipse Flesh’ is a banger! Really good potential here and my first listen has perked my interest! This furiously grinds you down!! #DeathMetalSky

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Ash Eclipses Flesh
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November 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Angry Metal Guy 🤘 Phobocosm – Gateway Review: Well, lookee who just oozed in! Phobocosm, Canada’s infamous cavern creepers and dealers of oppressive death metal, return to shove a lump of revolting slime-scuzz in everyone’s stocking with fourth… LinkInBio for More 🤘 #AngryMetalGuy #HeavyMetal #Metal
Phobocosm – Gateway Review
Well, lookee who just oozed in! Phobocosm, Canada’s infamous cavern creepers and dealers of oppressive death metal, return to shove a lump of revolting slime-scuzz in everyone’s stocking with fourth album, Gateway. When last we heard from them on 2023s Foreordained, they were continuing to tweak and refine their revolting mash-up of Incantation, Immolation, Ulcerate, doom and vaguely pos-metal-y bits with an emphasis on the ominous, unsettling and atonal. When all the gears lock in for Phobocosm, they’re capable of inspiring a real sense of existential dread and unease. They’ve always crafted their music to achieve this effect and conjure dark, unpleasant atmospheres through crushing heaviness. Foreordained nailed the formula, making for a dense, harrowing listen. Gateway mines the same toxic waste pits, searching for the next eldritch nightmare, but takes a somewhat different path there this time. Can they regurgitate as many repellent sounds as before and continue their stellar track record? We’ll need to do some DEEP spelunking to get answers. It’s immediately apparent that Phobocosm made some changes at the writing table this time. Instead of burying the listener with 6-7 long-form assaults on your calm, Gateway features only 4 proper songs with 3 interludes stitching them together. Opener “Deathless” sounds just as a Phobocosm fan would expect, with buzzing, nerve-jangling riffs emerging like locust hordes as a growing sense of unease and danger is conveyed. It’s unhurried as dark moods are slowly crafted with anticipation and dread rising. When the chaos kicks off, it’s mid-tempo death-doom, grinding and heavy as fuck. Riffs slither everywhere, and death vocals bubble up from some bottomless chasm. There’s a lot of Immolation here, but it never feels like a clone by-product. It’s nasty, satisfying, and creepy. “Unbound” dials up the aggression and urgency with vicious blastbeats and insanity-inducing riffs scorching your brain and sense of safety. It’s 6-plus minutes, but the vibe is so impactful and extreme that you want it to be longer to prolong the glorious punishment. Some of the leads and flourishes are very memorable and appear at just the right moment to really pop. There’s a mood here that’s hard to describe, but it’s highly immersive and ugly down to the fucking bone marrow. “Sempiternal Penance” keeps the winning streak going with another massive abomination loaded with guttural vocals and tremendously chaotic, deranged riffs. At times, it sounds like an unholy ritual is underway, but something dark and malevolent is starting to take control, and it’s high time to get the fuck out. “Beyond the Threshold of Flesh” is the longest cut at 8:27, and Phobocosm excel at making these kinds of tracks work to their benefit as they escalate and deescalate the sense of fear and danger, but never let you off the meat hook. Rather than feeling like an effort to endure, the track sucks you into a cloud of grasping horrors, chews you up, and vomits out your maimed remains before you even know you’re on the menu. That’s a success in my book. What are the downsides? The presence of the three interludes. While they track the style of the main cuts and effectively maintain tension, it’s really the 4 main set pieces that are the most interesting. That means you get about 9 minutes of good but less essential musical grout between those high points, and it feels like they’re padding out an EP. At 35-plus minutes, Gateway doesn’t feel overly long. The production is perfect for what Phobocosm do, with layers of murk and reverb creating the death cavern. The mix grants the guitars exactly the frightening, intimidating presence this style of death needs. Gateway sees former guitarist Rob Milly back for the first time since 2016s Bringer of Drought, and his work alongside Samuel Dufour’s excellently unnatural playing leaves no one safe. The riffs and “harmonies” these two conceive are nasty, putrid, and grotesque with bloody roots in death, doom and black metal. This is the reason Phobocosm’s sound packs so much raw venom, and the tandem’s dissonant maelstroms leave behind plenty of little details to unearth with subsequent spins. Once again, Etienne Bayard blows the doors off the crypt with massive death vocals. He’s a superb croaker and makes everything considerably more menacing and horrible. Basically, he’s the very Mouth of Madness. Phobocosm are one of the most reliable death metal monstrosities out there, and Gateway is another ruthless sucker punch to the epiglottis. While I fear this is dropping too late in the year to get the attention and end-of-year list space it deserves, Gateway definitely has my full attention as 2025 winds down. This is another high-quality dose of excessive extremity that deserves to be heard and marinated deeply within. Take my advice and follow Gateway into lunacy before it becomes another thing you foolishly missed.  --- Rating: 3.5/5.0 DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3 Label: Dark Descent Websites: darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/phobocosm | instagram.com/phobocosm Releases Worldwide: November 28th, 2025 The post Phobocosm – Gateway Review appeared first on Angry Metal Guy.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Interview Alert! "Charlie Anderson, widely recognized as the violinist for atmospheric black metal outfit Panopticon, has crafted his debut solo album under the name Weft as a musical quilt." - @newnoisemagazine.bsky.social

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Interview: Charlie Anderson Discusses Weft – New Noise Magazine
Weft's 'The Splintered Oar' by Charlie Anderson is a masterful blend of black metal and progressive rock. Drops on December 19, 2025
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November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM