ESSENTIAL NEW RELEASES ~ 29th June / 9th July

 Exceptional albums released over the last few days with a sweet last minute surprise from Void Emperor

Mortual ( Death Metal)

https://nuclearwinterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/altar-of-brutality

Gaupa ( Psychedelic Doom/Stoner Metal/Rock )

https://gaupaband.bandcamp.com/album/fyr

Wytch Hazel ( Hard Rock/Heavy Metal )

https://wytchhazel.bandcamp.com/album/v-lamentations

Three Towers ( Stoner Metal/Crossover )

https://wetrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ties-that-bind

Hard Fortune ( Classic Rock / Psychedelic Rock )

https://hardfortune.bandcamp.com/album/fortunes

Akouphenom ( Black / Death Metal )

https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/connections-to-the-erebus

Cronos Compulsion ( Death Metal )

https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/lawgiver

Void Emperor ( Doom/Sludge/Stoner Metal )

https://voidemperor.bandcamp.com/album/marauders-2

ANOINTING THE SICK #241 ~ The Wounds I Bear

Its time for more purulent discharge in the form of another Anointing The Sick Show highlighting the very best in extreme metal. There is a heavy doom chart prescence this week with the show kicking off with Italian stoners Rhino. Much of this episode contains stoner doom bands but the filth pit has spewed forth some inpenetrable blackened deathgrind in the form of Maurda. As usual, I've highlighted some albums you may have missed last year but the second part of the show gives a taste of what has been on offer over the last few weeks and are highly recommended by the Blog. The show closes  with a killer song from 2014 from stoner doomsters Let It Breathe.

~ Embrace The Sickness ~

Rhino                                           #15 Doom Charts Feb 2024

Lucifer                                          #7 Doom Charts Jan 2024

Maurda

Decrowned

Apotropaico

Job For A Cowboy

Black Helium                                 #13 Doom Charts Jun 2025

Holyroller                                      #11 Doom Charts Jun 2025

Doomsday Profit

Mckenzie Hills

Hypoxia

Life Cycles

King Potenaz                                   #3 Doom Charts Jun 2025

Pilotos Del Tiempo                          #39 Doom Charts Jun 2025

Spider Kitten                                    #21 Doom Charts jun 2025

Let It Breathe

ESSENTIAL NEW RELEASES ~ 22-28 June 2025

 

The very best new album releases from the last week or so.

Beyond Mortal Dreams

https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/devastation-hymns

Da Captain Trips

https://dacaptaintrips.bandcamp.com/album/in-between

Kill Frenzy

https://killfrenzy1.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-blasphemy

Gravered  

https://ironbloodanddeath.bandcamp.com/album/classic-cult-to-death

Domkraft

https://domkraft.bandcamp.com/album/domkraft-2 

Electric Citizen

https://heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/electric-citizen-ec4 

Payback 

https://paybackbr.bandcamp.com/album/rataria

Spider Kitten 

https://spiderkitten.bandcamp.com/album/the-truth-is-caustic-to-love-2

King Witch 

https://listenable-records.bandcamp.com/album/iii-3 

Rupe 

https://rupeband.bandcamp.com/album/sirente

Organic Destruction  

https://organicdestruction.bandcamp.com/album/prophets-of-cthulhu

Belzebitch

https://violenceintheveins.bandcamp.com/album/serpent-moon 

Cryptopsy

https://cryptopsyofficial.bandcamp.com/album/an-insatiable-violence  

King Potenaz  

https://kingpotenaz.bandcamp.com/album/arcane-desert-rituals-vol-1

Rainbow Bridge 

https://therainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/soundtrack-of-a-silent-land

Drawn And Quartered 

https://nuclearwinterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lord-of-two-horns

Goat Shaman

https://goatshaman.bandcamp.com/album/monkey-palace  

The Bleak Picture 

https://arduamusic.bandcamp.com/album/shades-of-life

Serpent Corpse 

https://serpentcorpse-label.bandcamp.com/album/retaliate

Dii Minores  

https://diiminoresofficial.bandcamp.com/album/march-of-the-fallen

Inhuman Condition 

https://inhumancondition.bandcamp.com/album/mind-trap 

Pilotos Del Tiempo

https://pilotosdeltiempo.bandcamp.com/album/ecos-de-un-ambiente-devastado

THE CHRIS ROLLING SQUAD - Damn You All To...Hell

 BIO ~ " Raw Rock ‘N’ Roll power-trio. Hard Rock riffing, Punk wildness, Psychobilly voodoo rhythm with wide and edgy backing vocals. The missing link between Bo Diddley and Slayer !!!"

The French extreme music scene has come on leaps and bounds since I first heard a French band called Trust. After their 1980 album 'Repression' was released Trust were touted as the next big thing and the band that would put French extreme music on the map, the song 'Paris Is Still Burning' still gets a regular airing on the show even after all these years. Alas, for one reason or another, Trust never really made it but one band that is certainly carrying the mantle is The Chris Rolling Squad. Their latest album 'Damn You All To... Hell' has now been released and it's ferocious. Abrasive punk rock and roll riffs spraying spittle in your face have scoured away most of the predominantly blues based sounds of earlier albums and a metal undercurrent intensifies the anger, giving a much heavier feel to the mix. The recording is pretty spot on. You can taste the sleaze and feel it oozing through your fingers all awhile the collection of  songs rampage through your hearing like a gang of cutthroats.

NEW RELEASES ~ 6 - 21stJune 2025

 Some of the essential premiere new releases from the last couple of weeks. I've checked them all out and everyones's a banger! 

Doom/Death/Thrash/Prog/Sludge/Stoner/ Rock ~ All of the bases are covered

Halfaya https://halfaya.bandcamp.com/album/kryptoniter

Wrath Of Belial https://wrathofbelial.bandcamp.com/album/embers-of-dead-empires

Dig Me No Grave https://satanath.bandcamp.com/album/sat396-dig-me-no-grave-necrocosmic-ceremony-20

 The Howling Eye https://interstellarsmokerecords1.bandcamp.com/album/erf

 Katatonia https://katatonia.bandcamp.com/album/nightmares-as-extensions-of-the-waking-state

 Deathgoat https://xtreemmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dragged-into-realms-below

Joe la Truite https://joelatruite.bandcamp.com/album/ultimate-ninja-storm-2-full-zguen

 Outergods https://outergodsuk.bandcamp.com/album/dethroned-devoured

Vinnum Sabbathi https://vinnumsabbathi.bandcamp.com/album/intersatelital

 Knub  https://hexrecords.bandcamp.com/album/knub-crub

Sleeping Mountain https://sleepingmountainband.bandcamp.com/album/sleeping-mo

 McKenzie Hills https://mckenziehills.bandcamp.com/album/ice-crossing

 Mooch https://moochmusicofficial.bandcamp.com/album/kin

 Gruesome https://gruesomedeathmetal.bandcamp.com/album/silent-echoes

 Black Helium https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-animals-are-coming

 Barren Altar https://barrenaltar.bandcamp.com/album/bound-by-impermanence

Helms Deep https://helmsdeep666.bandcamp.com/album/chasing-the-dragon

 Alkemia https://chaos-records.bandcamp.com/album/depulsus

1968 https://1968band.bandcamp.com/album/royal-bastards

 Mantra https://mantrafr.bandcamp.com/album/celestial

 Holyroller https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/rat-king

Ravine https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-and-catastrophes

 Rifle  https://rifleheavytrip.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-paranoia

ANOINTING THE SICK #240 ~ Ride The Crazy Train To Pain

 All aboard hahahahahaha!! It's destination pain on today's Anointing The Sick Show right down to the final track from funeral doom death band Wastes. As usual I've got you covered for albums you may have missed last year that you should be listening to as well as a couple of tracks from recent releases that have well and truly hit the mark with the blog from Fuzzriders and Vaneno. I don't often play singles but am excited to feature a song off the incoming new album Black Static from Boneyard. Jams are supplied by Cannabus with an instrumental that sounds like Tia Carrera on steroids

~Embrace The Sickness ~

Disastroid                                     #14 Feb Doom Charts 2024

Counting Hours

Vincent Crowley

Stygian Crown                              #27  Feb Doom Charts 2024

Thorndale

Vircolac

Dust Bolt

Anubis

The Wizards

Boneyard

Cannabus

Kiritsis

Fireblood

Fuzzriders

Vaneno

Wastes

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BLIND MESS ~ The Storm Within (2025)

 Modern sounding stoner with attitude foregoing traditional  fuzz, instead fuelled from a high octane QOTSA like power source. With 'The Storm Within' Blind Mess has effectively blended delightful melodies with prominent punk angst wrapped in tight metallic riffs swept along on a wave of good 'ol gutsy Rock n Roll.