The Purgatory Aftershow
@purgatorymetal.bsky.social
Brand New Extreme Metal Podcast from the UK, USA and Brazil, based out of Pennsylvania. Wibbs, Derek & Mauricio /,,/
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We did another pod, this time about the quirky British death metal scene. Some real classics covered in this episode! Check it out wherever you get your pods /,,/
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New black metal from Aaron Charles (Falls of Rauros, Rhûn)
NYP #metalsky
lunar-amulet.bandcamp.com/album/lunar-...
NYP #metalsky
lunar-amulet.bandcamp.com/album/lunar-...
Lunar Amulet, by Lunar Amulet
7 track album
lunar-amulet.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New black metal from Aaron Charles (Falls of Rauros, Rhûn)
NYP #metalsky
lunar-amulet.bandcamp.com/album/lunar-...
NYP #metalsky
lunar-amulet.bandcamp.com/album/lunar-...
Tom Schaar's "Curtains" Part
YouTube video by ThrasherMagazine
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Another ‘Year in Review’ post
By my standards I have read a veritable shit ton of books this year. Toll’s Pacific Trilogy is some of the best WWII stuff I’ve read. Labatut is wonderfully weird and thought provoking. Snyder is essential for our times, as is Maya Angelou (obvs)
#booksky
By my standards I have read a veritable shit ton of books this year. Toll’s Pacific Trilogy is some of the best WWII stuff I’ve read. Labatut is wonderfully weird and thought provoking. Snyder is essential for our times, as is Maya Angelou (obvs)
#booksky
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Another ‘Year in Review’ post
By my standards I have read a veritable shit ton of books this year. Toll’s Pacific Trilogy is some of the best WWII stuff I’ve read. Labatut is wonderfully weird and thought provoking. Snyder is essential for our times, as is Maya Angelou (obvs)
#booksky
By my standards I have read a veritable shit ton of books this year. Toll’s Pacific Trilogy is some of the best WWII stuff I’ve read. Labatut is wonderfully weird and thought provoking. Snyder is essential for our times, as is Maya Angelou (obvs)
#booksky
#nowspinning
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure 🇺🇦 (2019)
Black metal as experienced at 3am in an underground jazz club through a haze of cigarette smoke
#metalsky
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure 🇺🇦 (2019)
Black metal as experienced at 3am in an underground jazz club through a haze of cigarette smoke
#metalsky
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#nowspinning
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure 🇺🇦 (2019)
Black metal as experienced at 3am in an underground jazz club through a haze of cigarette smoke
#metalsky
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure 🇺🇦 (2019)
Black metal as experienced at 3am in an underground jazz club through a haze of cigarette smoke
#metalsky
#nowspinning
Opeth - Blackwater Park 🇸🇪 (2001)
No introduction required #classics #halloffame
#metalsky
Opeth - Blackwater Park 🇸🇪 (2001)
No introduction required #classics #halloffame
#metalsky
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
#nowspinning
Opeth - Blackwater Park 🇸🇪 (2001)
No introduction required #classics #halloffame
#metalsky
Opeth - Blackwater Park 🇸🇪 (2001)
No introduction required #classics #halloffame
#metalsky
#nowspinning
I think I’m done with the 2025 list now so gonna wrap myself in my favorite comfort blankets for a bit
Dödsrit - Mortal Coil 🇸🇪 (2021)
#metalsky
I think I’m done with the 2025 list now so gonna wrap myself in my favorite comfort blankets for a bit
Dödsrit - Mortal Coil 🇸🇪 (2021)
#metalsky
December 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
#nowspinning
I think I’m done with the 2025 list now so gonna wrap myself in my favorite comfort blankets for a bit
Dödsrit - Mortal Coil 🇸🇪 (2021)
#metalsky
I think I’m done with the 2025 list now so gonna wrap myself in my favorite comfort blankets for a bit
Dödsrit - Mortal Coil 🇸🇪 (2021)
#metalsky
December 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Most listened albums of 2025 not from 2025
Skagos - Chariot Sun Blazing
Laudare - Requiem
Viva Belgrado - Flores, Carne
Aara - Eiger
chivàla - Boato
Aquilus - Bellum II
Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe
Spectral Lore - III
Tyler Childers - Purgatory
What did you go back to #metalsky?
Skagos - Chariot Sun Blazing
Laudare - Requiem
Viva Belgrado - Flores, Carne
Aara - Eiger
chivàla - Boato
Aquilus - Bellum II
Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe
Spectral Lore - III
Tyler Childers - Purgatory
What did you go back to #metalsky?
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Most listened albums of 2025 not from 2025
Skagos - Chariot Sun Blazing
Laudare - Requiem
Viva Belgrado - Flores, Carne
Aara - Eiger
chivàla - Boato
Aquilus - Bellum II
Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe
Spectral Lore - III
Tyler Childers - Purgatory
What did you go back to #metalsky?
Skagos - Chariot Sun Blazing
Laudare - Requiem
Viva Belgrado - Flores, Carne
Aara - Eiger
chivàla - Boato
Aquilus - Bellum II
Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe
Spectral Lore - III
Tyler Childers - Purgatory
What did you go back to #metalsky?
As far as actual listening goes my most listened bands of 2025 were:
Immolation
Panopticon
Alcest
Deafheaven
Ancst
At the Gates
Dephosphorus
Noctambulist
Waldgeflüster
Dying Fetus
The Great Old Ones
Viva Belgrado
Which seems about right and more or less the same as any other year
Immolation
Panopticon
Alcest
Deafheaven
Ancst
At the Gates
Dephosphorus
Noctambulist
Waldgeflüster
Dying Fetus
The Great Old Ones
Viva Belgrado
Which seems about right and more or less the same as any other year
December 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As far as actual listening goes my most listened bands of 2025 were:
Immolation
Panopticon
Alcest
Deafheaven
Ancst
At the Gates
Dephosphorus
Noctambulist
Waldgeflüster
Dying Fetus
The Great Old Ones
Viva Belgrado
Which seems about right and more or less the same as any other year
Immolation
Panopticon
Alcest
Deafheaven
Ancst
At the Gates
Dephosphorus
Noctambulist
Waldgeflüster
Dying Fetus
The Great Old Ones
Viva Belgrado
Which seems about right and more or less the same as any other year
Got me a new spinny player thing
First spin goes to the wonderful Wounds of Recollection
First spin goes to the wonderful Wounds of Recollection
December 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Got me a new spinny player thing
First spin goes to the wonderful Wounds of Recollection
First spin goes to the wonderful Wounds of Recollection
We did another pod, this time about the quirky British death metal scene. Some real classics covered in this episode! Check it out wherever you get your pods /,,/
linktr.ee/thepurgatory...
linktr.ee/thepurgatory...
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
We did another pod, this time about the quirky British death metal scene. Some real classics covered in this episode! Check it out wherever you get your pods /,,/
linktr.ee/thepurgatory...
linktr.ee/thepurgatory...
Blut Aus Nord rudely inserting itself into my AOTY conversation
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Blut Aus Nord rudely inserting itself into my AOTY conversation
Two weeks worth of Week Thing as I forgot last week.
It's list season and I'm doing some revisiting...
Album of the Two Weeks is Lamp or Murmur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
#metalsky
It's list season and I'm doing some revisiting...
Album of the Two Weeks is Lamp or Murmur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
#metalsky
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Two weeks worth of Week Thing as I forgot last week.
It's list season and I'm doing some revisiting...
Album of the Two Weeks is Lamp or Murmur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
#metalsky
It's list season and I'm doing some revisiting...
Album of the Two Weeks is Lamp or Murmur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
#metalsky
This is a superb AOTY list
The best metal of 2025 as selected by Spyros and me for @popmatters.com.
Banger list all around ft Antiversum, @allieinchains.bsky.social, Mendoza/fluke-mogul/Pérez (@burningambulance.bsky.social), @gonemage.bsky.social, OvO, Retromorphosis, Stygian Ruin...
🔗 www.popmatters.com/best-metal-a...
Banger list all around ft Antiversum, @allieinchains.bsky.social, Mendoza/fluke-mogul/Pérez (@burningambulance.bsky.social), @gonemage.bsky.social, OvO, Retromorphosis, Stygian Ruin...
🔗 www.popmatters.com/best-metal-a...
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This is a superb AOTY list
Missed new Thanatophobia 🇷🇺🇧🇾 in March. Big mistake. This is probably my favorite contemporary brutal death metal project. Utterly pulverizing but with touches of melodicism and cosmic progginess
#metalsky
lordofthesickrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/twilig...
#metalsky
lordofthesickrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/twilig...
Twilight Space Theatre, by THANATOPHOBIA
8 track album
lordofthesickrecordings.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Missed new Thanatophobia 🇷🇺🇧🇾 in March. Big mistake. This is probably my favorite contemporary brutal death metal project. Utterly pulverizing but with touches of melodicism and cosmic progginess
#metalsky
lordofthesickrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/twilig...
#metalsky
lordofthesickrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/twilig...
Zak Fucking Crawley ffs
Happy First Day of the First Test of The Ashes, to all who celebrate
This will be fun for about five minutes until the wickets start falling
This will be fun for about five minutes until the wickets start falling
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Zak Fucking Crawley ffs
Happy First Day of the First Test of The Ashes, to all who celebrate
This will be fun for about five minutes until the wickets start falling
This will be fun for about five minutes until the wickets start falling
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Happy First Day of the First Test of The Ashes, to all who celebrate
This will be fun for about five minutes until the wickets start falling
This will be fun for about five minutes until the wickets start falling
Marc Johnson - 411VM Best of #4 (1997)
YouTube video by PristineParts
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Week thing. Double bill of Teutonic sadness from Waldgeflüster 🇩🇪, thrash from Transgressive 🇺🇸, heavy metal dreampop from Astronoid 🇺🇸 and black metal from Auriferous Flame 🇬🇷
Elsewhere, favorites old and new
AOTW is Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork 🇬🇧 (mathcore)
#metalsky
Elsewhere, favorites old and new
AOTW is Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork 🇬🇧 (mathcore)
#metalsky
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Week thing. Double bill of Teutonic sadness from Waldgeflüster 🇩🇪, thrash from Transgressive 🇺🇸, heavy metal dreampop from Astronoid 🇺🇸 and black metal from Auriferous Flame 🇬🇷
Elsewhere, favorites old and new
AOTW is Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork 🇬🇧 (mathcore)
#metalsky
Elsewhere, favorites old and new
AOTW is Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork 🇬🇧 (mathcore)
#metalsky
Happy Waldgeflüster Day to those who celebrate!
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Happy Waldgeflüster Day to those who celebrate!
What a week for black metal!!! Orm 🇩🇰 , Yellow Eyes and One of Nine 🇺🇸, Robes of Snow and Unholy Altar 🇺🇸 , Aduanten 🇺🇸 and Rå 🇧🇪, plus HÆRESIS, VÅILD and Nimbifer 🇩🇪 (@vendettarecords.bsky.social)
Teardrinker 🇳🇱 for scramz EPOTY
AOTW is Barren Path - Grieving 🇺🇸🇯🇵 (Grindcore, Willowtip)
#metalsky
Teardrinker 🇳🇱 for scramz EPOTY
AOTW is Barren Path - Grieving 🇺🇸🇯🇵 (Grindcore, Willowtip)
#metalsky
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
What a week for black metal!!! Orm 🇩🇰 , Yellow Eyes and One of Nine 🇺🇸, Robes of Snow and Unholy Altar 🇺🇸 , Aduanten 🇺🇸 and Rå 🇧🇪, plus HÆRESIS, VÅILD and Nimbifer 🇩🇪 (@vendettarecords.bsky.social)
Teardrinker 🇳🇱 for scramz EPOTY
AOTW is Barren Path - Grieving 🇺🇸🇯🇵 (Grindcore, Willowtip)
#metalsky
Teardrinker 🇳🇱 for scramz EPOTY
AOTW is Barren Path - Grieving 🇺🇸🇯🇵 (Grindcore, Willowtip)
#metalsky
We have a new podcast out in which we talk about metal from our home state of Pennsylvania. Check it out wherever you get ya pods 🤘
#metalsky
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#metalsky
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November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We have a new podcast out in which we talk about metal from our home state of Pennsylvania. Check it out wherever you get ya pods 🤘
#metalsky
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#metalsky
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The Kevin Baekkel part at 19 minutes is utterly fucked youtu.be/6FmNP5SolaY?...
SEVER | A Short Film by Creature Skateboards
YouTube video by Creature Skateboards
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The Kevin Baekkel part at 19 minutes is utterly fucked youtu.be/6FmNP5SolaY?...
A reminder for everyone that this incredible album, like all new @vendettarecords.bsky.social releases, is available on wax in the US from Meteor Gem meteor-gem.com
@purgatorymetal.bsky.social was pumping this album up and gaddamn, if he isn't correct on this one (not that I'm surprised. He's usually right). Outstanding post-black metal.
haeresis.bandcamp.com/album/si-vis...
haeresis.bandcamp.com/album/si-vis...
Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum, by Hæresis
4 track album
haeresis.bandcamp.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A reminder for everyone that this incredible album, like all new @vendettarecords.bsky.social releases, is available on wax in the US from Meteor Gem meteor-gem.com