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If you thought yesterday's list was good, you're going to find that this one is even better!
Ft. the likes of Cryptopsy, Doomsday, Cwfen, Monolith, Dormant Ordeal, The Ominous Circle, Arkhaaik, Massa Nera, Calva Louise, it's a who's who of the best of 2025!
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Ft. the likes of Cryptopsy, Doomsday, Cwfen, Monolith, Dormant Ordeal, The Ominous Circle, Arkhaaik, Massa Nera, Calva Louise, it's a who's who of the best of 2025!
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2025 - A YEAR IN REVIEW(S): THE GREAT - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn continues his ongoing round-up of the year with his selections for the top tier albums) Like I said yesterday (you have read yesterday’s wide-ranging round-up of all the “Good” albums, righ...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you thought yesterday's list was good, you're going to find that this one is even better!
Ft. the likes of Cryptopsy, Doomsday, Cwfen, Monolith, Dormant Ordeal, The Ominous Circle, Arkhaaik, Massa Nera, Calva Louise, it's a who's who of the best of 2025!
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/10/2...
Ft. the likes of Cryptopsy, Doomsday, Cwfen, Monolith, Dormant Ordeal, The Ominous Circle, Arkhaaik, Massa Nera, Calva Louise, it's a who's who of the best of 2025!
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/10/2...
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We're getting deep into it today with the first part of Andy Synn's absolutely MAMMOTH round-up of "The Year In Review(s)". Go check it out and prepare yourself to (hopefully) discover an awesome amount of new music from the last year. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/09/2...
2025 - A YEAR IN REVIEW(S): THE GOOD - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Today we have Andy Synn‘s mammoth second article rounding up the year that was 2025) As we get into the real meat of “List Week” it’s probably worth stating a few things up front, for the sake of cla...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We're getting deep into it today with the first part of Andy Synn's absolutely MAMMOTH round-up of "The Year In Review(s)". Go check it out and prepare yourself to (hopefully) discover an awesome amount of new music from the last year. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/09/2...
We're getting deep into it today with the first part of Andy Synn's absolutely MAMMOTH round-up of "The Year In Review(s)". Go check it out and prepare yourself to (hopefully) discover an awesome amount of new music from the last year. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/09/2...
2025 - A YEAR IN REVIEW(S): THE GOOD - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Today we have Andy Synn‘s mammoth second article rounding up the year that was 2025) As we get into the real meat of “List Week” it’s probably worth stating a few things up front, for the sake of cla...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We're getting deep into it today with the first part of Andy Synn's absolutely MAMMOTH round-up of "The Year In Review(s)". Go check it out and prepare yourself to (hopefully) discover an awesome amount of new music from the last year. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/09/2...
As a preview of next week's round-up of the year Andy Synn presents a collection (with links) of all the EPs he was lucky enough to hear - including Transgressive, Krallice, Soulfracture, Godeater, Suffering Hour, Splitjaw, & Sallow Moth - plus his top ten! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/05/2...
2025 - A YEAR IN REVIEW(S): SHORT BUT SWEET - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn kicks off “List Week” a little early with a round-up of all the EPs he’s checked out this year) All going to plan today is Friday 05 December, which means that tomorrow I’m heading to Switzerland for a mini-honeymoon (the proper one will be sometime next year). Don’t fret though, as while I [...]
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December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
As a preview of next week's round-up of the year Andy Synn presents a collection (with links) of all the EPs he was lucky enough to hear - including Transgressive, Krallice, Soulfracture, Godeater, Suffering Hour, Splitjaw, & Sallow Moth - plus his top ten! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/05/2...
"A vision of fire that will soon burn itself into your brain... the band prove to be masters of both melody and anti-melody, exploiting the tension between the two in a manner which immediately sets them apart from both their past and their peers." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/03/m...
MARTRÖÐ - DRAUMSÝNIR ELDSINS - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn sneaks in one last review just under the wire before drawing a line under the year) With this being my last review prior to next week’s take-over of the site for my annual round-up of “A Year In Review(s)”, I knew it had to be something special. And what better than the long-gestating, [...]
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December 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"A vision of fire that will soon burn itself into your brain... the band prove to be masters of both melody and anti-melody, exploiting the tension between the two in a manner which immediately sets them apart from both their past and their peers." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/03/m...
If you're looking to catch-up on what you might have missed last month, then check out Andy Synn's latest quartet of reviews for EXCIDE, PRIMAL SCOURGE, SKEKSIS, and WAYD. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/02/t...
THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED (BUT SHOULDN'T) - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn is hoping to cover as many in as possible before “List Week”… so here’s four you may not have checked out) As the last edition of “Things You May Have Missed” before my epic, week-long roun...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If you're looking to catch-up on what you might have missed last month, then check out Andy Synn's latest quartet of reviews for EXCIDE, PRIMAL SCOURGE, SKEKSIS, and WAYD. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/02/t...
Recommended for fans of Shining, Maladie, and Der Weg Einer Freiheit, this month's edition of THE SYNN REPORT takes a look at the back-catalogue of guitar-heavy Polish Black Metallers CZERNINA. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/01/t...
THE SYNN REPORT (PART 189): CZERNINA - NO CLEAN SINGING
Recommended for fans of: Shining, Maladie, Der Weg Einer Freiheit It was just last year when I stumbled across Polish Black Metal madmen Czernina for the first time, and quickly fell in love with thei...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Recommended for fans of Shining, Maladie, and Der Weg Einer Freiheit, this month's edition of THE SYNN REPORT takes a look at the back-catalogue of guitar-heavy Polish Black Metallers CZERNINA. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/01/t...
"The song’s freezing funeral doom evokes an image of something that is both cold, alien, and indifferent to human existence. Meanwhile, the glacier abides, oblivious to human struggles." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/28/a...
AN NCS PREMIERE: VIN DE MIA TRIX - "EXIT GLACIER" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) We last considered the music of the Ukrainian progressive doom band Vin de Mia Trix in 2017, the occasion being the release that year of their second album Palimpsests. They now have a third one on the way, eight years and a Russian invasion after the last one. The title of the [...]
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November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"The song’s freezing funeral doom evokes an image of something that is both cold, alien, and indifferent to human existence. Meanwhile, the glacier abides, oblivious to human struggles." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/28/a...
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Check out our exclusive premiere of the new OMEGAVORTEX album, out December 05 on Third Eye Temple.
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AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): OMEGAVORTEX - "DIABOLIC MESSIAH OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) We might think of the varying genres of extreme metal as a branching warren of subterranean caverns, all of them connected but some very far away from others. Some are oppressive...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Check out our exclusive premiere of the new OMEGAVORTEX album, out December 05 on Third Eye Temple.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/26/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/26/a...
If you want to give thanks for something today... why not make it our premiere of the new album from MIND PRISONER (out tomorrow)? www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/27/a...
AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): MIND PRISONER - "LESS FAITH" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) Mind Prisoner came together in Portland, Oregon, but their members are now continentally separated between Oregon and South Carolina. Following a handful of demos and an EP, the band released their debut album The Color of Ruin almost exactly one year ago. Our Andy Synn wrote here that it “made one hell [...]
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November 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If you want to give thanks for something today... why not make it our premiere of the new album from MIND PRISONER (out tomorrow)? www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/27/a...
Check out our exclusive premiere of the new OMEGAVORTEX album, out December 05 on Third Eye Temple.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/26/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/26/a...
AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): OMEGAVORTEX - "DIABOLIC MESSIAH OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) We might think of the varying genres of extreme metal as a branching warren of subterranean caverns, all of them connected but some very far away from others. Some are oppressive...
www.nocleansinging.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Check out our exclusive premiere of the new OMEGAVORTEX album, out December 05 on Third Eye Temple.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/26/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/26/a...
Dropping references to the likes of Black Breath, Goatwhore, and Tombs, Andy Synn says that the upcoming new album from HVRT (out 05 December) is a dark horse contender that will likely throw a last-minute wrench into your "Best of 2025" lists!
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HVRT - CANCERBLOOM - NO CLEAN SINGING
(The new album from Hvrt comes out Dec 05… and Andy Synn says you won’t have to wait, or weep, much longer) I don’t know if I’ve ever told you this, but I’ve often thought about starting a more Black ...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Dropping references to the likes of Black Breath, Goatwhore, and Tombs, Andy Synn says that the upcoming new album from HVRT (out 05 December) is a dark horse contender that will likely throw a last-minute wrench into your "Best of 2025" lists!
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/26/h...
'Ethereal Horizons' finds the band reaching for something greater... and while sometimes their reach exceeds their grasp... there are more than enough moments of musical magic to suggest this is simply the first step on the next stage of their journey. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/25/b...
BLUT AUS NORD - ETHEREAL HORIZONS - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn ventures towards new horizons with Blut Aus Nord, whose new album is out on Friday) Although it often seems like we spend most of our time here at NCS playing catch-up… and that’s because w...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
'Ethereal Horizons' finds the band reaching for something greater... and while sometimes their reach exceeds their grasp... there are more than enough moments of musical magic to suggest this is simply the first step on the next stage of their journey. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/25/b...
"On this new song BLACK HILL COVE throw a lot of thrilling and chilling sensations at listeners, a dark stylistic amalgam that’s viscerally groovesome, authentically angry, but also melodically atmospheric in ways that are bleak and haunting." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/25/a...
AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: BLACK HILL COVE - "INTO THE ABYSS" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) Last year the Portuguese metal band Black Hill Cove released their second full-length, Ex Tenebris Vita, on Raging Planet Records, and now they’re following that up with a new single named “Into the Abyss”, which we’re premiering today along with its accompanying video. On this new song the band collaborated with Norwegian [...]
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November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"On this new song BLACK HILL COVE throw a lot of thrilling and chilling sensations at listeners, a dark stylistic amalgam that’s viscerally groovesome, authentically angry, but also melodically atmospheric in ways that are bleak and haunting." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/25/a...
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The days are growing darker and the nights are growing longer... so what better time than now for Andy Synn to catch up with some of the year's doomier offerings, courtesy of LERA, ONEIRONOIA, and SUN OF THE DYING. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/24/t...
THE END APPROACHES - NO CLEAN SINGING
(The days are growing darker… which means it’s the perfect time for Andy Synn to get doomy and gloomy) Last week I received my first promo for a 2026 release… which I guess means it’s time to start thinking about wrapping up 2025? Don’t worry, I’m not going to be stopping writing about releases from this [...]
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November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The days are growing darker and the nights are growing longer... so what better time than now for Andy Synn to catch up with some of the year's doomier offerings, courtesy of LERA, ONEIRONOIA, and SUN OF THE DYING. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/24/t...
The days are growing darker and the nights are growing longer... so what better time than now for Andy Synn to catch up with some of the year's doomier offerings, courtesy of LERA, ONEIRONOIA, and SUN OF THE DYING. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/24/t...
THE END APPROACHES - NO CLEAN SINGING
(The days are growing darker… which means it’s the perfect time for Andy Synn to get doomy and gloomy) Last week I received my first promo for a 2026 release… which I guess means it’s time to start thinking about wrapping up 2025? Don’t worry, I’m not going to be stopping writing about releases from this [...]
www.nocleansinging.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The days are growing darker and the nights are growing longer... so what better time than now for Andy Synn to catch up with some of the year's doomier offerings, courtesy of LERA, ONEIRONOIA, and SUN OF THE DYING. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/24/t...
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It's our birthday... which means it's time for us to say THANK YOU to all of you (yes, even you) who have supported what we do over the years! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/21/h...
HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY TO US! - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) For another year, our 16th overall, we’ve raced through the ongoing firestorms of heavy new music without being thrown off and trampled, and so it’s time to celebrate survival ag...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It's our birthday... which means it's time for us to say THANK YOU to all of you (yes, even you) who have supported what we do over the years! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/21/h...
It's our birthday... which means it's time for us to say THANK YOU to all of you (yes, even you) who have supported what we do over the years! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/21/h...
HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY TO US! - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) For another year, our 16th overall, we’ve raced through the ongoing firestorms of heavy new music without being thrown off and trampled, and so it’s time to celebrate survival ag...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It's our birthday... which means it's time for us to say THANK YOU to all of you (yes, even you) who have supported what we do over the years! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/21/h...
The end of the year may be getting closer and closer, but that isn't stopping Andy Synn from highlighting three more examples of the "Best of British" courtesy of ASIRA, FALSE REALITY, and GNASCH.
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BEST OF BRITISH: ASIRA / FALSE REALITY / GNASCH - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn presents another terrific trio of albums from the UK underground) I’m going to level with you, I’m running out of time… I’ve got recording to finish off, my annual work review coming up, an...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The end of the year may be getting closer and closer, but that isn't stopping Andy Synn from highlighting three more examples of the "Best of British" courtesy of ASIRA, FALSE REALITY, and GNASCH.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/20/b...
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"Braiding together ingredients of black metal, post-metal, and sludge, while also making room for gentle acoustic instrumentation and emanations of gossamer lightness, the band are capable of creating visions of catastrophic upheaval and spiritual uplift." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/a...
AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): SEDNA - "SILA NUNA" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) Based on photographs, Cesena looks like a pretty place. A small city of roughly 100,000 people, it’s near the Apennine Mountains in Italy and about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from t...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"Braiding together ingredients of black metal, post-metal, and sludge, while also making room for gentle acoustic instrumentation and emanations of gossamer lightness, the band are capable of creating visions of catastrophic upheaval and spiritual uplift." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/a...
"Braiding together ingredients of black metal, post-metal, and sludge, while also making room for gentle acoustic instrumentation and emanations of gossamer lightness, the band are capable of creating visions of catastrophic upheaval and spiritual uplift." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/a...
AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): SEDNA - "SILA NUNA" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) Based on photographs, Cesena looks like a pretty place. A small city of roughly 100,000 people, it’s near the Apennine Mountains in Italy and about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from t...
www.nocleansinging.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"Braiding together ingredients of black metal, post-metal, and sludge, while also making room for gentle acoustic instrumentation and emanations of gossamer lightness, the band are capable of creating visions of catastrophic upheaval and spiritual uplift." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/a...
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"There’s only so much I can do with words to get across how scorchingly visceral, how thrillingly vital, how searingly venomous this album is… think bands like Deadguy and Botch, Imprint-era V.O.D. and late-90s Zao... you really need to hear it for yourselves." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/b...
BORE - FERAL - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn has gone Feral… and thinks you should too) My love of Hardcore (mostly of the more “Metallic” variety) has been well-documented by now. After all, many of my earliest, and longest-lasting, ...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"There’s only so much I can do with words to get across how scorchingly visceral, how thrillingly vital, how searingly venomous this album is… think bands like Deadguy and Botch, Imprint-era V.O.D. and late-90s Zao... you really need to hear it for yourselves." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/b...
"There’s only so much I can do with words to get across how scorchingly visceral, how thrillingly vital, how searingly venomous this album is… think bands like Deadguy and Botch, Imprint-era V.O.D. and late-90s Zao... you really need to hear it for yourselves." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/b...
BORE - FERAL - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn has gone Feral… and thinks you should too) My love of Hardcore (mostly of the more “Metallic” variety) has been well-documented by now. After all, many of my earliest, and longest-lasting, ...
www.nocleansinging.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"There’s only so much I can do with words to get across how scorchingly visceral, how thrillingly vital, how searingly venomous this album is… think bands like Deadguy and Botch, Imprint-era V.O.D. and late-90s Zao... you really need to hear it for yourselves." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/b...
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"Phobocosm have clearly embraced, in a very specific way, the axiom that “less is more” by packing all their biggest riffs and best songwriting tricks into an even more compact collection of some of the most crushingly compelling tracks of their career." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/18/p...
PHOBOCOSM - GATEWAY - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn enters the gateway… and likes what he finds there) One of the biggest issues, for any band at any level, is finding a way to stand out from the crowd. I’m not saying that every band has to ...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Phobocosm have clearly embraced, in a very specific way, the axiom that “less is more” by packing all their biggest riffs and best songwriting tricks into an even more compact collection of some of the most crushingly compelling tracks of their career." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/18/p...
"Phobocosm have clearly embraced, in a very specific way, the axiom that “less is more” by packing all their biggest riffs and best songwriting tricks into an even more compact collection of some of the most crushingly compelling tracks of their career." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/18/p...
PHOBOCOSM - GATEWAY - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn enters the gateway… and likes what he finds there) One of the biggest issues, for any band at any level, is finding a way to stand out from the crowd. I’m not saying that every band has to ...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Phobocosm have clearly embraced, in a very specific way, the axiom that “less is more” by packing all their biggest riffs and best songwriting tricks into an even more compact collection of some of the most crushingly compelling tracks of their career." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/18/p...