Aug 7 2025 - Incinerated, Executed, Lobotomized (in that order)

 

Did I overdress?

I signed up for a metal radio show, but my true listening habits tend to reflect maybe only 50-60% metal, the rest being a mix of a bit of everything else. Or, not everything but you know - ambient, experimental, idm, oi!, jazz, prog, art rock, cock rock, butt rock, etc etc. This show doesn't need to be some kind of accurate reflection of my taste, and frankly I find there to be some hubris in expecting that people will want to tune into hear my taste. I'm not Andy Warhol, I don't work for Vogue in the 90s, I'm not a tastemaker. 

That said though, there's some kind of theme or greater sensibility I'm trying to tap into. I felt it when I used to shop at Aquarius Records (RIP). Even if there was no explicit cohesion in their selection of music (they had everything from strange low print run black metal, to random world music, to non-music oddball records), it felt like they had created a wavelength for its community to tap into. You didn't always know what you were going to get from them but you knew it would be interesting and catered to niche sensibilities. That's something like what I'd like to achieve here. But for fear of being too fruity about it, I'll stop there.

This week, Tour-de-Garde surprise published the new Runeboy album on their YT channel and it's pretty incredible stuff. Just a rough and sloppy mix of oi!, neofolk, off-key rock, sound collage, and noise. Probably the best thing I've heard this year. I peppered in some outsider black metal in the form of Trörkrvisätänsrökrëh (LLN-esque blown out stuff with goregrind vocals), Gauhaert (one-off folk metal side project from Urfaust), and Nogbold's Palace (completely enveloping and obscure raw gothic black metal). Pásmo from Czechia is a really cool contemporary band merging post-punk Soviet block sounds with heavy metal; their newest is also quickly becoming a favorite this year. Classics from Akercocke, Necromantia, and Deicide rounded things out. 

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Artist	Song	Album	Timecode
Necromantia	Pretender to the Throne (Opus I: The Usurper's Spawn)	Scarlet Evil Witching Black	0:00:00
Voice Break			0:05:25
Runeboy	English Rain Part. III	Call for the Countryside	0:09:09
Skuggeheim	Andakt	Samlede verker	0:15:17
Cauterized Torso	Track 1	Painless Disfigurement	0:20:21
Akercocke	Marguerite & Gretchen (Live)	Decades of Devil Worship	0:23:15
Incinerated	Executed	Lobotomise	0:29:12
Voice Break			0:31:32
Sanitys Dawn	Maggotfarm	Fuck... I'm Dead / Sanitys Dawn	0:36:36
Trörkrvisätänsrökrëh	Kwäntralh Prarüsatl Laarshreh Söhnk Thrörbre	Khr'iirëëh Zÿsthlkonr Tsavlr Kélsäth Trörkrvisätäns	0:38:43
Gauhaert	De grote drooglegging	Ygwaet Gwyr Gwynn Novi	0:41:56
Ildjarn-Nidhogg	Daybreak	Hardangervidda	0:46:15
Noctuary	The Once Forgotten Past	For Salvation	0:51:36
Voice Break			0:54:41
Nogbold's Palace	Thou Art Lord	Dark Agony	1:00:54
English Dogs	Middle Earth	Where Legend Began	1:06:06
Pásmo	Kolej Kajícníka	Vakace	1:11:14
Deicide	Revocate the Agitator	Legion	1:14:48
Sarcastic	Stomach Full of Carrion	Macabre Human Mutilation	1:17:34
Voice Break			1:20:18
Soulreaper	Life Erazer	Life Erazer	1:28:17
Hecate Enthroned	Forever in Ebony Drowning	Dark Requiems and Unsilent Massacres	1:32:25
Death in June	The Honour of Silence	Nada!	1:38:17
Thoth	From the Abyss of Dungeons of Darkness	From the Abyss of Dungeons of Darkness	1:41:35
Voice Break			1:46:22
Houre	Suden tunti	Riitti II	1:51:08
Thomas Ligotti	No One Knows the Big News	The Unholy City	1:55:10

Crying that he's on the horrible reissue cover