Anointing The Sick

 ' Anointed In Amplified Alchemy' opens in slightly different fashion this week with Hijss whose blend of grungy space rock entered the doom charts at no 36 in March 2024 along with other Doom Chart entries AcidSitter, Mountain Dust and more recently Kröwnn. There is a label spotlight this week shining on 3 bands from the Brutal Records stable, No Worth Of Man, Bent By Sorrow and Eternal Returns p...

The Anointing The Sick Metal Blog presents another deathly sermon of exteme metal carnage. 30 death metal tracks of absolute annihilation. Non curated for maximum devastation. Bandcamp links for each band are here https://www.anointingthesick.com/2026/03/anointing-sick-dirty-30-death-metal-vol.html ~ Wallow In Sickness ~ Abscession / Batholith / Cancer Spreading / Darkrypt / Ekpyrosis / Farsoth /...

 '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...

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 excellen...

Here's something to evaporate any remaining festive cheer. 30 tracks from 30 death metal bands of all levels of depravity. Volume 4 contained a few melodic death metal songs but volume 5 is a full on relentless assault on your hearing. All of the available Bandcamp album links are on the Anointing The Sick Metal Blog Page here https://www.anointingthesick.com/2025/12/anointing-sick-dirty-30-death-...

Underground metal mayhem in the latest Anointing The Sick Metal Blog show 'Lying Under The Shadow Of The Tombstone' starting with the epic traditional doom of Astral Sleep and ending with a further two doom tracks from Pale Horse Ritual and Isole. This weeks 'Dose Of Death' features 3 tracks of quite different death metal bands Demiurgus, Acid Death and Tria Prima. *Edit* Heartfelt sympathy to the...

Another non curated playlist to tickle your tinnitus and fry your senses. This time its 30 stoner bands so expect plenty of fuzz, wah and endless jams. As usual I've tried to keep it original with plenty of bands that you may not be familiar with. I took a lot of pleasure compiling this list and I hope you get a lot of pleasure listening to it. You can download it for free. ~ Wallow In Sickness ~...

There's a place even deeper than The Ninth Circle of Hell and it's called the Anointing The Sick Metal Blog and what could be more apt than opening the show with a band called Horrible with a track off their album 'Filth then following up with some nihilistic party slop from deathsters Trunk, both albums can be purchased for NYP on Bandcamp. There's a heavy stoner/doom/psych presence this week inc...

Time for another 'Dirty 30' Playlist and this time around it's a Doom one. Here you have slow doom (obviously) fast doom, jolly, jaunty doom and nasty black doom. Some of these bands fell to dust many years ago but others are very much alive. It's in two parts. Feel free to download it and I hope you enjoy listening to these tracks as much as I enjoyed putting them together Pt 2 Pale Divine Qattar...

Time for another 'Dirty 30' Playlist and this time around it's a Doom one. Here you have slow doom (obviously) fast doom, jolly, jaunty doom and nasty black doom. Some of these bands fell to dust many years ago but others are very much alive. It's in two parts. Feel free to download them and I hope you enjoy listening to these tracks as much as I enjoyed putting them together Pt 1 Abrahma Bahboon...

Imagination holds no bounds when you listen to an Anointing The Sick Metal Blog show and its a particularly sick one this week, opening  with a track off the incoming sludge monster 'Astralis' by Azell. There's lots of doom, death and general carnage and the filth pit has been very bountiful this week. There are tracks from new albums that have been a highlight for me over the last couple of weeks...