Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
Latest blackened sludge metal tracks
Cave Sermon - Beyond Recognition
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “We’re back, baby. The end of year bonanza is fun as hell but always takes a lot out of yours…” on Feb 15th →
Cave Sermon - The Paint of an Invader
Machine MusicFollow “Yada, yada, yada, metal. Keep safe. As always, check out my various interview projects and other cool shit. And if…” on Jan 27th →
Ghorot - Dredge
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Doomsday - surprise, the albums this month go slow, they go low, and the go loud. Shocker, right? Seriously though,…” on Oct 31st, 2023 →
Witching - Incendium
BrooklynVeganFollow “Philly heavy band Witching will follow their 2020 debut LP Vernal (and their standalone 2021 single “A Piece Of My…” on Oct 24th, 2023 →
Noctomb - Zombie Fungus
No Clean SingingFollow “I woke up at 2:30 a.m. this morning. No fucking idea why. I was wiped out last night and fell…” on Aug 26th, 2023 →
Ghorot - Dead Gods
The ObeliskFollow “You’ll forgive me if I’m late posting these Ghorot tour dates. The Boise-based deathbringers will issue their second album, titled…” on Aug 17th, 2023 →
It Is Dead - Black Swarm
Invisible OrangesFollow “Extreme sounds for extreme expressions. Stream this blackened death-sludge meets blackened crust split here before it releases next month. Continue…” on Jan 27th, 2023 →
It Is Dead - Womb
Invisible OrangesFollow “We stopped at McHenry's Epic Deli for a nourishing show of everything from post-metal to crossover thrash-check out a live…” on Oct 10th, 2022 →
Lord Mantis - Demonic Transference
Machine MusicFollow “Hey! Barely Hanging on! YEAH! keep safe. And much thanks to all Patreon people. Huge promise will send way too…” on Jul 9th, 2022 →
Flood Peak - Feral Wraiths
No Clean SingingFollow “(Next week Andy Synn begins his annual roll-out of year-end lists as part of his ongoing attempt to cover as…” on Dec 10th, 2021 →
Take Over And Destroy - Anything Else
Consequence of SoundFollow “Mining Metal is a monthly column from Heavy Consequence writers Joseph Schafer and Langdon Hickman. The focus is on noteworthy…” on Jun 25th, 2021 →
Venus Star - Witch Gaze
I Like My Metal BlackFollow “venus star [finland] // doomy black metal. “witch gaze” is from the album “calling all lokas”, released via terratur possessions…” on Nov 19th, 2020 →
Vous Autres - Vesuve
Invisible OrangesFollow “All the new metal releasing between September 20th and September 26th, 2020 -- spin (or skip) new music from The…” on Sep 22nd, 2020 →
Baerus - Denial
No Clean SingingFollow “Avernal (Andy Synn wrote the following six brief reviews, and of course speaks solely for himself in the first sentence…” on Sep 11th, 2020 →
Witching - ROSES
No Clean SingingFollow “(Accompanied by the following review written by Andy Synn, we present the premiere stream of Vernal, the new album by…” on Jun 3rd, 2020 →
KEVERRA - Albion
Everything Is NoiseFollow “Keverra‘s self-titled debut album is a fully realized, arcane descent into a sonic nightmare world, and a masterclass in sludge…” on May 27th, 2020 →
Black Royal - Pagan Saviour
No Clean SingingFollow “(Andy Synn reviews the new album by Finland’s Black Royal, which was released by Suicide Records on February 14th.) Maybe…” on Feb 26th, 2020 →
Forest Of Tygers - I Will Die of Violence
Everything Is NoiseFollow “‘Anxiety and energy. Dread and catharsis. Tension and release.‘ I asked Jim Valosik of Forest of Tygers what he hoped…” on Jan 6th, 2020 →