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Armchair rhetoric on extreme metal

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Best of 2025 | The Hate Meditations Podcast Episode XI

The podcast is back and catching up on some of our top picks for 2025. Carry on.

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February 6, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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How not to criticise Sleep Token

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How not to criticise Sleep Token
The other day this landed on my desk: I’ve gone to great lengths in avoiding the Sleep Token. Mentally consigning them to the “none of my fucking business” folder. But this video of the Guardian’s …
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February 5, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Beats and yelling: Oraculum

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#oraculum #invictusproductions
Beats and yelling: Oraculum
Hybris DivinaOut 9th January on Invictus Productions Dark, imposing death metal reaches for a sharp juxtaposition between the superhuman and the horrendously surreal. The bludgeoning simplicity of …
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February 3, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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Spanish translation of my article on Mefitis, more to follow soon hopefully.

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Emberdawn de Mefitis, siete años después (traducción) – El Negro Metal
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February 1, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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On the cost of data collection, how streaming is polarising our definition of music, and why you're probably already doing the right thing to prevent it from getting worse.

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What we get wrong about streaming
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January 31, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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Beats and yelling: Mutiilation

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#mutiilation #osmoseproductions
Beats and yelling: Mutiilation
Pandemonium of EgregoresOut 26th December on Osmose Productions I’ll happily eat a hat or two if I made the wrong call, as it seems I did in writing off Mayhna’ch after the middle age tantrum that …
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January 23, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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Messagate and the dark art of playlist metal

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Messagate and the dark art of playlist metal
Metal Archives got itself into a bit of a state recently over its poll for album of 2025, seeing an Italian goth/prog/yacht rock/grunge album make the top spot by quite a significant margin. Many w…
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January 19, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 16th January 26

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#supuration #lacavernarecords #mortefrance #antiqrecords #noirsuaire #osmoseproductions #ectovoid #everlastingspew #voidmonuments #bloodharvestrecords #ligation #personalrecords
Beats and yelling shorts, 16th January 26
Supuration: Sultry ObsessionOut 27th November on La Caverna records (originally released in 1990) By 1993, Supuration had developed a unique voice within death metal, bridging the richly textured g…
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January 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Well, that was a year. Got sued for a book review. Got divorced. And I think underground metal had one of its best years in quite a while.

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There were beats and there was yelling
2025 audit of the year Well, that was a year. Got sued for a book review. Got divorced. And I think underground metal had one of its best years in quite a while. It’s fair to say I’ve been on a jou…
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December 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Bracing, fluid death metal achieves a sense of power through ambient riffing that weaponizes repetition as a tool of malevolence.

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#tenebro #timetokillrecords
Beats and yelling: Tenebro
Una Lama D’ArgentoOut 12th December on Time to Kill Records Bracing, fluid death metal achieves a sense of power through ambient riffing that weaponizes repetition as a tool of malevolence. The alb…
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December 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Beats and yelling: Cryoxyd

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#cryoxyd #doloremrecords
Beats and yelling: Cryoxyd
This World we Live in…Out 12th December on Dolorem Records Mechanical death metal combines elements of clinical industrialism and prog informalities paced out in oddly pulsing sequences. Cryoxyd le…
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December 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 23rd December 25

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#beithíoch #internaldecay #vicrecords #darkdivination #signalrex #fleshvessel #ivoidhangerrecords #parasito #joyless #atmfrecords
Beats and yelling shorts, 23rd December 25
Beithioch: A Cold Eye on Life and DeathOut 14th November, self-released After the barbaric primitivism of the ‘Beowulf’ EP back in 2023, this latest single sees Beithioch reach for a richer, expres…
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December 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Beats and yelling: Sodality

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#sodality #noevdiarecords
Beats and yelling: Sodality
Benediction, Part IIOut 5th December on NoEvDia The second instalment of the Benediction series sees this Polish entity expand on their torturous, laboured brand of black metal ritualism, pitching …
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December 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Beats and yelling: Perdition Temple

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#perditiontemple #hellsheadbangers
Beats and yelling: Perdition Temple
Malign ApotheosisOut 28th November on Hells Headbangers What ‘Malign Apotheosis’ lacks in fresh ideas it makes up for in just how tight and focused the music is. Vintage Tampa style riffing – most …
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December 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 18th December 25

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#elsinore #caligarirecords #omegavortex #thirdeyetemple #greve #puritythroughfire #velmorth #astralspear #signalrex #azketem #darknessshallriseproductions
Beats and yelling shorts, 18th December 25
Elsinore: The Vengeful Ghost/Tombstone HexOut 5th December on Caligari Records Brief but tight EP that reminds us that death metal, even in its germinal form, was always melodic in some sense. Expl…
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December 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Beats and yelling: Cóndor

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#condorband #lacavernarecords
Beats and yelling: Cóndor
Aurë EntuluvaOut 27th November on La Caverna Records It’s been a while for Cóndor, but I feel that with album number five this Colombian outfit have finally made a listener friendly album. Cóndor a…
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December 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Beyond the off-the-shelf clickbait title, the liberal conclusions drawn from limited data, the laziness and the tired, speculative “the kids are doing it wrong” talking points. No, the real problem with this video is that Beato is onto something here.

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The Beato trap: when clickbait works
Good clickbait draws in an audience even when they know they’re being baited. Rick Beato recently did this to me with his ‘Is metal dead?’ thumbnail. As an experienced Youtuber with an audience in …
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December 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Beats and yelling: Malefic Throne

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#maleficthrone #agoniarecords
Beats and yelling: Malefic Throne
The Conquering DarknessOut 28th November on Agonia Records Tampa death metal super group emerge with a continuity debut following their blue collar self titled EP back in 2022. What’s perhaps most …
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December 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Beats and yelling: Letalis

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#letalis
Beats and yelling: Letalis
Verdadero PoderOut 19th November, self-released The second offering from this Chilean powerhouse of speed metal smooths off the rougher edges of the debut, seeing a more focused, weighty, yet no le…
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December 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 12th December 25

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#fessus #darknessshallriseproductions #deathyell #hellsheadbangers #summoninghellgates #osmoseproductions #theominouscircle #darvaza #terraturproductions #burningdeath #caligarirecords
Beats and yelling shorts, 12th December 25
Fessus: Subcutaneous TombOut 26th November on Darkness Shall Rise Productions Competent if unremarkable OSDM apes the playful bounce of Autopsy alongside the heavier malevolence of Incantation. As …
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December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Beats and yelling: Tempestuous Fall

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#tempestuousfall #ivoidhangerrecords
Beats and yelling: Tempestuous Fall
The Descent of Mortals PastOut 14th November on I, Voidhanger Records Following the outpouring of material from the Midnight Odyssey camp in recent years it’s probably about time Dis Pater took his…
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December 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 9th December 25

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#gloombound #gruesomerecords #terrorcorpse #darkdescentrecords #locustsandhoney #distantvoices #hyver #antiqrecords #infernalpresence #darknessshallriseproductions #puritanbone #intoendlesschaosrecords
Beats and yelling shorts, 9th December 25
Gloombound: Dreaming DelusionOut 21st November on Gruesome Records Scrapes together the more downbeat elements of death/doom as a means of conjuring up a foundation for self-indulgent, achingly ted…
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December 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Beats and yelling: Kostnatění

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#kostnatění #willowtiprecords
Beats and yelling: Kostnatění
Přílišnost (Excess)Out 7th November on Willowtip Records Coming off the back of the adventurous ‘Úpal’ in 2023, the latest offering from Kostnatění is a case study in growing pains. Today’s release…
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December 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Summer 2025 was not kind to metal.

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#blacksabbath #atthegates #bethlehem
The noise diaries XVIII
Death Summer 2025 was not kind to metal. The death of Ozzy was every bit as a dramatic and stage managed as expected. Somehow surprising us all despite the very literal realisation of the inevitabl…
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December 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Beats and yelling: Bretwaldas of Heathen Doom

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#bretwaldasofheathendoom #caligarirecords
Beats and yelling: Bretwaldas of Heathen Doom
Seven Bloodied RampartsOut 14th November on Caligari Records (originally released in 2010) This reissue of British crust oddity Bretwaldas of Heathen Doom gives us the opportunity to scrutinise wha…
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December 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM