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A guide to the Top Albums of 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqtjr4Jtvb4 Nick analyzes his favorite releases of 2025 and shares his thoughts on the current state of underground metal Intro 0:00 SPECIAL ENTRY: Gridlink - Perfect Amber 06:51 10. Hersir…

By hessianfirm January 14, 2026Analysis, Review

Review

Thaumaturgy – Pestilential Hymns(2025)

Thaumaturgy is a curious case, beginning as a minimalistic one-man doom metal project with USBM influences before violently shedding that style in favor of narrative death metal. With two added…

By Nicholas Mkhl January 12, 2026Review

Review

Mütiilation – Pandemonium of Egregores(2026)

Just 13 months after emerging from a 17-year silence, Mütiilation's Meyhna'ch has delivered the rarest artifact in black metal: an album that confronts what three decades of uncompromising darkness actually…

By Nicholas Mkhl January 11, 2026Review

Podcast

Hessian Scrum: Antonio Espinosa (Cóndor, Siete Lagunas)

https://youtu.be/s3DJZYGU9RE Nick is joined by Antonio of Cóndor and Siete Lagunas to discuss Cóndor's latest album Aurë Entuluva, the songwriting process, the change to more professional production, the difficulties of…

By hessianfirm January 8, 2026Podcast

Podcast

Hessian Scrum: KT(Thaumaturgy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6kR7McJC-8 KT, mastermind behind Thaumaturgy, joins us to discuss the band's latest album Pestilential Hymns. The conversation explores his evolution from doom metal to complex, labyrinthine death metal, how he…

By hessianfirm January 4, 2026Podcast

Review

Cóndor – Aurë Entuluva(2025)

Colombian folk/death/doom practitioners Cóndor return from extended silence with Aurë Entuluva, bypassing the power metal detour of El Valle Del Cóndor to resume the ambitious trajectory established on Sangreal. These…

By Nicholas Mkhl December 29, 2025Review

Label News

Trails of Anguish Return with New Single “Frozen Lusters of Shattered Purity”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opLOsvPlWKk&list=RDopLOsvPlWKk&start_radio=1 Black metal duo Trails of Anguish return with their first new song "Frozen Lusters of Shattered Purity" in twenty-two years and while it represents a stylistic shift from their…

By hessianfirm December 26, 2025Label News

Podcast

Hessian Scrum Special: Jay Fernandez(Brutality, ex-Monstrosity)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Dn9FBGPMw Jay Fernandez of iconic Florida death metal band Brutality breaks down what made Screams of Anguish such a powerful record and how it captured the essence of the Florida…

By hessianfirm December 4, 2025Podcast

Review

Paimon Gate – Advanced Satanic Witchcraft(2025)

Paimon Gate is Jake Kohn of Prosanctus Inferi's solo project. The band's first full-length sees them perfecting the esoteric brand of American black metal hinted at on the first two…

By Nicholas Mkhl November 23, 2025Review

Interview

Interview: Laibach

Throughout the years Laibach have forged a legacy that extends beyond music (as one of the most influential acts in the industrial genre and its many derivations), constituting no less…

By Raphael Alecto November 4, 2025Interview