Tuesday, February 3, 2026

ANOINTING THE SICK #247 ~ Soon It Will Be Over


 'Soon It Will Be Over! What, the world?  The way things are panning out, maybe. 

Here's a soundtrack to it all. Sixteen bands celebrating carnage starting with the grinding doom death of Slimelord and ending with some ravenous death metal from Storm Upon The Masses. I have included a couple of bands that made my 'Best Of 2025' albums, Birds Of Nazca and Cryptic Process plus a couple of bands that if I were compiling a longer list, would surely have been featured, KLPS and Dark Indication. 

                                                  ~ Wallow In Sickness ~

Slimelord ~ 'Tidal Slaughtermarsh'

Cryptic Process ~ 'Nychtemeral Ordeal'


Beware Of Gods ~ 'D.I.E Sect' 

Sons Of Hades ~ 'Salems Lot'

Neckbreaker ~ 'Rats'

Emissary ~ 'Eternity Bound'

Birds Of Nazca ~ 'Incahuasi'

Giant Lungs ~ 'Aces'

KLPS ~ 'Undertow'

Dark Indication ~ 'Suppressed Horror'

Anti-Sapien ~ 'At The Mercy Of The Merciless'

Goat Major ~ 'Snakes (Godess Of Serpent)'
                     https://anti-sapien.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-mercy-of-the-merciless
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Saturday, January 17, 2026

ESSENTIAL NEW RELEASES ~ 4/1/26 to 15/1/26


 2025 was a vintage year for new underground metal albums plus some classic reissues and the ripples are still washing up against the dank charnel walls of the Anointing The Sick Metal Blog ramparts. But you daren't relax for a minute because 2026 has already exploded into life with tons of new releases already and plenty of incomings ready to detonate onto the scene. Death metal has dominated this first batch of newies, particularly the most brutal kind!

Here are some of the bangers that are making my ears ring and bleed!

~ Wallow In Sickness ~

Giant ~ Beneath The Mountains


Carrion Vael ~ Slay Utterly


Quaoar - Five Friends Floating



Hyperion ~ Cybergenesis

Swarm ~ Air

Bound To Prevail ~ Enthroned in Torment

Deadwood ~ Rituals Of A Dying Light

Nighnacht ~ Limb Service
 
Halflighted ~ Terra Morta


Stranguliatorius ~ Flies Don't Lie

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Monday, January 12, 2026

ANOINTING THE SICK ~ Top 20 Releases in 2025

 


It's such a difficult task somehow choosing 20 exceptional albums from a vintage year of incredible extreme underground metal releases. I had a shortlist but the albums I chose could have filled a dozen 'Best of 2025' lists, so I had to be extra disciplined. Stoner in it's various forms dominated my most played but doom and sludge featured regularly also. The scene was saturated with some excellent new death metal albums and my podcast show has played a lot of tech death, however I've come up with three that, although not reinventing the wheel, once I'd finished playing their albums, I felt pretty satisfied with what the bands had acheived.

I'm happy with the top 20 I've ended up with and I hope there is something in here that helps you  discover a gem you may have missed.

CRIMSON STORM ~ Livin' on the Bad Side
SWEETBEAST ~ Illusions
KLASTOS ~ Born to Ruin
KIRITSIS ~ Kiritsis
BURDEN OF DESPAIR ~ Confutatis

 Behölder ~  In The Temple Of The Tyrant
https://beholderdoom.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-temple-of-the-tyrant

BIRDWITCH ~ bless the spark that found its home
THE CHRIS ROLLING SQUAD ~ Damn You All To...Hell
AFGHAN HAZE ~ Sermons of Filth and Disgust
HIBERNAUT ~ Obsidian Eye
Heidrún ~ Entropía
BIRDS OF NAZCA ~ Pangaea
BLACK CHARGER ~ Small Town
PALE HORSE RITUAL ~ Diabolic Formation
DARAH ~ Holier Than Thou
TRIA PRIMA ~ The Mortificatio
THE BATELEURS - A Light In The Darkness
TURTLE SKULL ~ Being Here
CRYPTIC PROCESS ~ Gulps
AZELL ~ Astralis



You can download and check each band out here

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