Through the Moonless Night

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Sep 11 and 18 2025 - Wowaweewah 2 whole shows

Onwards Ho's

Backlogged! September 11th's show featured a block of newer stuff in the form of Destruction Ritual, a creation off of Norma Evangelion Diaboli featuring at least one member from Antaneus, and some really great throwback extreme metal from Siege Column and Deathhammer, off NWN! and HHR respectively. Some Hate Forest-intensity came from Canada's Heilig Vuur, and a track from HF themselves off their new pissed-off album. I also peppered in some classic Bal-Sagoth off their disney metal masterpiece Battle Magic.

This past week's surprise publish of Volahn's long-awaited 'Popol Vuh' had me do a mini-tribute to Mesoamerican black metal, playing some other lesser-heard stuff from the broader scene. I also unleashed some Burning Winds upon my show's airwaves, whose shitstained sloppy black metal might have permanently lowered the bar of entry for bands I play (in the best way possible). Truly one of the best albums of the year - we need this kind of outsider shit in the scene.

9/11 Show STREAM HERE

9/18 Show STREAM HERE

9/11
Artist	Song / Album	Format	Style	Timecode
Marduk	Everything Bleeds / Plague Angel	CD	Relentless Blasting Marduk	0:00:00
Voice Break				0:03:33
Blut Aus Nord	Shadows Breathe First / Ethereal Horizons	Digital	Spacey Melodic BAS	0:07:06
Bal-Sagoth	Battle Magic+Naked Steel / Battle Magic	CD	Disney Metal	0:14:16
Destruction Ritual	Providence / Providence	Digital	French Black	0:21:43
Deathhammer	Into the Blackness of Hell / Crimson Dawn	Digital	Satanic Black Thrash	0:27:05
Voice Break				0:34:21
Siege Column	Dungeon Spiritus / Sulphur Omega	Digital	Old School Death	0:39:31
Deceased...	The Shivers / Ghostly White	LP	Up the Tombstones!!	0:44:25
Heilig Vuur	Undefeated Sun / Dance of Stone Silhouettes	Digital	Hate Forest Styled	0:50:23
Ordalie	Pillars of Creation / Indifferent Universe	Digital	Spacey Groovy Black	0:54:35
Iconoclast Contra	Wolf Sect: Profane / Combat Is the Voice of the Heathen	CD	War-y Militant Stuff	0:59:14
Voice Break				1:03:23
Devourment	Sculpted in Tyranny / Obscene Majesty	LP	Wall of Heaviness BDM	1:09:45
.357 Homicide	Cyanide Paradise / Immutable Lethality	Digital	Minimalist Slam	1:15:58
Mortician	Necrocannibal / Hacked Up For Barbeque	CD	Uh it's Mortician	1:19:21
Voice Break				1:23:17
Temple of Hyperborea	The Sound of Crashing Thunder / Engraved From the Cemetery Gates	Digital	Off-kilter Raw Black	1:28:35
Hate Forest	Ukrainian Thermopylae / Against All Odds	Digital	Angry War Torn Black	1:33:10
Occult Order	Temple of the Overworld / Occult Order	Digital	Groovy Post Punk Black	1:37:46
Svart Grav	Den eviga gläntan / Där dödens vindar vina	Digital	Raw and Sad Black	1:43:55
Voice Break				1:50:53
Current 93	When the May Rain Comes / Thunder Perfect Mind	CD	Neo-Folk	1:51:38

9/18
Artist	Song / Album	Format	Style	Timecode
Burial	Pale Shade of Humanity / Enlightened With Pain	Digital	OS Brutal Death	0:00:00
Voice Break				0:03:33
Burning Winds	Powers of Madness / Hell and Damnation	Digital	Shit Ass Outsider Black	0:07:06
Incinerated	Table Manners + Low in the Food Chain / Eaten Raw	Digital	Mortician Blown out BDM	0:14:16
Shitstorm	First 5 tracks / Shitstorm	Digital	Furious Grind	0:21:43
Flesh Grinder	Chronic And Recurrent Regurgitant Lung Disease / S.P.L.A.T.T.E.R.	CD	Deathgrind/Gore	0:27:05
Voice Break				0:34:21
Volahn	Dualidad Cósmica + Outro / Popol Vuh	Digital	Spirited Mesoamerican BM	0:39:31
Kukulcan	Toci / Cacaxtla	CD	Spirited Mesoamerican BM	0:44:25
Eztlacuani	Yaoyoctl / Mitotilli Ica Huitzilopochtli	CD	Spirited Mesoamerican BM	0:50:23
Universe	Question of Time / Universe	Digital	Anthemic Goofy heavy metal	0:54:35
Voice Break				0:59:14
Eastern Youth	飼い主を噛み殺せ / Eastern Youth	Digital	Emo Oi!	1:03:23
Armoured Angel	Beyond The Sacrament / Stigmartyr	Digital	Warm Blanket Bolt Thrower	1:09:45
Bathory	Side B / Bathory	Digital	Ripped from the original tape	1:15:58
Botulistum	Vliegenvoer / Botulistum	CD	Nasty Buzzing BM	1:19:21
Voice Break				1:23:17
Grenadier	Migrants of Al-Sham / Wolves of the Trench	Digital	Argho.... I mean, totally unique death metal	1:28:35
Proclamation	Regurgitated Bibles / Nether Tombs of Abbadon	CD	Vomited black death	1:33:10
Disciples of Mockery	Literal Upheaval of Earth / Prelude to Apocalypse	Digital	Onwards to Golgotha Part 2	1:37:46
Ad Nauseum	Inexorably Ousted Sente / Imperative Imperceptible Impulse	CD	Spiraling Technical Death	1:43:55
Voice Break				1:50:53
Fear Factory	Empty Vision / Transgression	Digital	Y2K metal	1:51:38

Friday, August 29, 2025

Aug 28 2025 - Brazen Blazes and Close Shaves

Shield your eyes, cover your ears, it's another episode of Through the Moonless Night!

Had to rush this week's playlist due to total lack of time, and ended up having one of my favorite sets yet. I didn't try too hard this week to find new stuff, though I did end up featuring two brand new tracks. One from the mighty Coroner, whose comeback album is releasing extremely soon. I say mighty Coroner as though I'm a long time fan...is this the moment where I admit this single is the first time I've ever listened to them? For some reason, I thought they were a NWOBHM band all along and avoided them thinking it'd be some third rate Maiden (a band I already don't hold a lot of love for). Hearing the single and finding that it was weird and thrashy and kinda off kilter got me researching into their past and realizing how wrong I was. Whoops

I also featured a track from an album that's becoming another favorite of the year - Brazen Horde - whose stuff sounds like Immortal, Hate Forest and Bathory united and merged all their best attributes. I also dipped back into some favorites from recent years from Revororum ib Malacht, Clandestine Blaze, and Deathspell Omega. Also took some trips down memory lane with early Ensiferum making an appearance. Paid tribute to Jürgen Bartsch from Bethlehem too. RIP.

STREAM HERE

Artist	Song / Album	Format	Style	Timecode
Gorgoroth	Gorgoroth / Antichrist	CD	True Norwegian Black	0:00:00
Voice Break				0:05:34
Brazen Horde	Ritterbruder's Dissent / Behold! The Ashen Cross	Digital	Icy and Thunderous Black	0:10:13
I	Far Beyond the Quiet / Between Two Worlds	CD	Epic Bathory Black/Death	0:15:33
Summoning	Bauglir / Oathbound	CD	Goofy Middle-Earth Nerd Sounds	0:22:44
Ensiferum	Windrider / Ensiferum	CD	Noodly Folk Metal	0:25:37
Mefisto	Missing in Action / Megalomania + The Puzzle...	LP	First Wave Black	0:31:15
Voice Break				0:36:29
Bethlehem	Als ich noch Caulerpa Taxifolia erbrach / Sardonischer Untergang im Zeichen irreligiöser Darbietung	Digital	Dark Psychotic Metal	0:41:24
Close Shave	We're Coming Back / Hard as Nails	Digital	Triumphant Oi!	0:45:58
Nartvind	The End Of Another Human Life / Until Their Ruin	Digital	Straightforward Raw Black	0:50:15
maudlin of the Well	They Aren't All Beautiful / Bath	CD	Avant-Death	0:56:42
Voice Break				1:02:13
Coroner	Renewal / Dissonance Theory	Digital	Techy Groovy Thrash	1:07:05
Deathspell Omega	The Long Defeat / The Long Defeat	LP	Progressive Apocalytic Black	1:12:29
Intestine Baalism	The Genuine Tone / Banquet in the Darkness	CD	Melodic BDM	1:20:59
Voice Break				1:25:44
Revororum ib Malacht	Pilgrim på jorden / Martyrium Matrimonii: Sacrificium Christi	LP	Dark Choral Black	1:31:54
Clandestine Blaze	Resacralize The Unknown / Resacralize the Unknown	CD	Sinister and Mean Black	1:39:56
Horna	Baphometin siunaus / Sanojesi äärelle	CD	Finnish Blasting	1:44:38
Kły	Jasienie / Chen	CD	Post Punk / Neo Folk	1:53:14

RIP

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Aug 14 2025 - Strange Loops and Incantations

Mam, this is a Wendy's

Things have been a bit hellish the past few weeks. Between this radio show prep, and my normal 9-5 which has been extra busy, I'm also part of a film crew for a relatively complicated horror film. Every moment not spent at work or passively choosing music for the coming week's show is spent with production and prop planning, puppetry building, and prosthetic casting/painting. It'll be cool as fuck when it comes out, and I think we're doing some pretty incredible 70s-80s exploitation levels of depravity. Excited for people to watch and be grossed out. In the meantime...stress.

This week, I had to play some recent brutal death and slam favorites in the form of Kill Everything, a band which reps some former members of Devourment, and Putridity- Italian tech-brutallers who took a decade between releases. Both are crazy good and should scratch the itch for any fan of their respective styles.

I also wanted to highlight some of my personal favorite bands which I feel aren't spoken about nearly enough in everyday UG metal. Darvulia, who crafted some of the most dissonant and yet groovy black metal, are almost never raised in the same conversations as bands like Ved Buens Ende or Deathspell Omega. And while it's understandable in the context of Darvulia not being nearly as overtly avant-garde as those bands, there is something about their dissonant but clean sound, their ability to slow things down and play some tilted rock music before diving back into an assault. It's all so novel and unique. A real shame we only got 3 albums from them. I also highlighted some favorites from some other bands which feel are a bit underrated - Antediluvian and their soupy primordial bizareness, and Mithras, whose cosmic death metal is unlike anyone else.