Prepare to be double tapped by the latest Anointing The Sick Metal Blog Show 'High Velocity Impact.' Levels of depravity are varied with a post sludge opener from Guiltless and a flagellating close from arch rip fiends Graveripper. Inbetween I've highlighted tracks from recently released albums that have shaken the Anointing The Sick Metal Blog fou…

Its tiome for more purulent discharge in the form of another Anointing The Sick Show highlighting the very best in extreme metal. There is a heavy doom chart prescence this week with the show kicking off with Italian stoners Rhino. Much of this episode contains stner doom bands but the filth pit has spewed forth some inpenetrable blackened deathgri…

All aboard hahahahahaha!! It's destination pain on today's Anointing The Sick Show right down to the final track from funeral doom death band Wastes. As usual I've got you covered for albums you may have missed last year that you should be listening to as well as a couple of tracks from recent releases that have well and truly hit the mark with the…

Hallelujah! The Anointing The Sick show is back! Starting with a crust / punk classic and ending with a dose of pummelling sludge. I haven't done a label feature in a while so this week a spotlight falls on Drowning In Chaos Records with three brutal death and black metal bands from that stable Cryptic Process, Fadeaux and Obsidyen. Reecent release…

Go planet hopping courtesy of The Anointing The Sick Metal Blog with its latest non curated fun themed playlist. Due to the subject matter expect more heavy psych jams than usual. ~Embrace The Sickness~ Pools Of Mercury / Veus Blue / Barren Earth / Mars / Jupiter / High Priest Of Saturn / Destroy Uranus / Neptune Is Dead /…

The latest Anointing The Sick Show is here to delight and scare you in equal measure. Opening with a monster doom track from Morpholith and closing with obscure sludgsters Shaitan. Inbetween there are tracks from albums that have made an impression on the blog so far this year from Kiritsis, Tria Prima, Beholder, Nomadic Rituals and Burden Of Despa…

The first playlist of 2025 is armed and ready to be downloaded. It's non-curated so there's over 2 hours of the (im)purest sludge to dissect and consume. ~ Embrace The Sickness ~ The Abominable Iron Sloth / Bardo / Canyon Of The Crescent Moon / Darkmysticwoods / Egeria / Fange / Garadama / Hairy Mary Caterpillar / Icos / James Brown Gang / Kantamus…

Hold onto your breeches because The Anointing The Sick Show #237 is now available to stream or download. Opening with the folky, doomy tones of Distorted Reflection and bleeding out with the Italian jams of Rainbow Bridge inbetween is a cacophony of thrash, death, doom and a lengthy section of stoner sounds. The filth pit has spewed forth a track o…

Who needs a defibrillator when you have the latest Anointing The Sick Show delivering a high energy shock to the heart. 16 tracks to get the blood racing through your veins starting with the hardcore stomp of Lockdown and ending with the heavily blues infused stoner doom of Witch Mountain.. The filth pit overflows with the putrid nectar of Spectral…

#235 'Diced, Sliced and and Spliced the latest episode of aural torture from Anointing The Sick is now available to download. Kicking off with one of last years entries into the Doom Charts, the doomgaze of Troy The Band and finishing with stoners Snowburner. In between there are plenty of Name Your Price albums you can pick up from bandcamp, a bou…

Anointing The Sick has unearthed another unholy batch of songs to tickle your tinnitus in todays new show 'Oscillation Devastation' Opening with the stoner psych grooves of Tex, I'm continuing to feature bands that made an impression on me last year and you may have missed. The filth pit has spewed forth a bounty of horrors and I'll be highlighting…

Bandcamp Links to all of the bands plus full reviews are here https://www.anointingthesick.com/ It's difficult to shoehorn a whole years music into a two hour 'Best Of' Playlist but you have to draw the line somewhere so here's 16 bands whose new albums caused such a stir that it prompted me to review them. There are a couple of anomalies. Firebloo…

Download the final Anointing The Sick Show of 2024 and immerse yourselves in some of the finest heavy sounds of the year. Opening with the Barbarian track from the Celtic Frost compilation 'Mesmerized' released early this year and closing with the random pick, a psych, heavy blues track from the Netherlands in the form of Brahm. The filth Pit has b…

Today we're crossing a bridge into oblivion with the latest instalment of Anointing The Sick. It's a bumpy ride starting with the showpiece track from A Storm Of Light. After a brutal Death Metal segment, I have a US 80's style metal track before pulling Methedrine and Wasp Mother from the D-Beat / Powerviolence filth pit. From there old school Ind…

The third death metal playlist is now available to download. Expect a blastbeating blitzkrieg with tracks by ~ Abnormality Barbarity CÆLIBATUS Damien Echoes Of Death Fall Of Serenity Garoted Hanging Fortress Icon Of Evil Jungle Rot Kaamos Lady Carnage Macabre Decay Near Death Condition Obituary Paladin Rabid Sacramental Blood Teeth Unbidden Vainaja…