26 December 2023: The Third Day of Riffmass - Atmospheric Black Metal/DSBM and Ayyyy, Political Artistic Endeavors

I hope everyone's full of holiday cheer and too much food! I've a perfect pairing of lists for Boxing Day, first, some spectacular Atmospheric Black Metal/DSBM to help you digest real smooth, soothe your hangovers and give whatever activities you've got planned for the day a little kick of ragged melancholy. Next up, if you need the fuel and fire to win any family arguments with that cousin, my favourite politically charged drops of the year to help you keep your flag flying (assuming that flag is red or black).

3 December 2023

Oops, All Black Metal Edition! To bring balance to things, the wonderful Magpie returns to grace us with some recommendations of her own to balance things out! ...including yet more Black Metal. Romantic Black Metal though!

26 November 2023

Oh yeaaaaah! It's that time again! Once again a nice lean list for y'all, with a choice selection of this weeks finest releases! I'm working on a Fortress Festival guide now we've got the last headliner announced, and this absolutely lovely poster, so look out for that, but for now, enjoy this selection of absolute bangers.

12 November 2023

Back again, and entirely recovered from Friday's shenannigans, and do I have a list for you! Supecharged with some I missed from last week and fresh releases, I've an absolutely bumper crop of bangers for y'all to pick over today. Crust, Sludge, Death and so much Black Metal I've even given it it's own section. Also, I don't really comment on cover art much, but some absolutely gorgeous work on display on some cuts this week, but I'll leave that for y'all to discover. ENJOY!

29 October 2023

Happy spook-o-ween, Boils, Ghouls and Non-Boonary creatures of the night! I've got a whole bag of tricks and treats prepared for you once again this Sunday, so tie back your hair, and get bobbing for these apples...

22 October 2023

Do I have an absolute JUICER of a list for y'all today, we've got weird, we've got wild, we've got avant-garde, we've got strange esoteric gems from across the metal world! A really excellent week, I've got 9(!) amazing drops for y'all, with a plethora of genres represented, but some real treats for any of you who like things a bit experimental, or for any Blackened Death fans out there.

8 October 2023

Brain not work good today sorry. 

Here are recommendations. Good music! Very good music! Enjoy! 

1 October 2023

Wow. What a week. What a month! Genuinely possibly the best month of releases this year, and we end on a real bang! Various flavours of Black Metal fusion (including a Magpie Corner for the new WITTR!), SLUDGE, Gothic doom, and much much more! Well, some more. Actually, I lied, that's basically everything. Or is it? Only one way to find out! 

21 September 2023 - Magpie Corner: Italian Speciale

It's Magpie Corner time! Since me and the fabulous hair gentleman are in pizza land, I'm bringing to you  3 exclusive Italian recommendations 🍕

17 September 2023

I hope everyone is nice and recovering from the Freshers Crawl/Sonic Dissonance, and didn't have too much fun without me! Well goddamn, what a fucking nutty week for releases though. An absolutely bumper crop spanning from proggy death, several flavours of Black, Sludge, Hardcore and even a goddamn Baroness album! Take your pick from this week's finest:

13 August 2023

It's recommendin' time! Plenty of Death Metal from all over the spectrum this week, plus some choice cuts from other genres (including a strong contender for my end of year list!). Dig in! 

2 July 2023

It's Sunday Funday, and some real killer cuts this week to pick from! Nice mix of genres too, bit of something for everybody, providing 'every' means 'cool' and 'body' means 'people who like metal'

25 June 2023

Sunday, lovely Sunday. Hope everyone's been enjoying the sun, here's a handpicked selection of prime cuts from the last week or so to pair perfectly with mildly-roasted metalhead!

11 June 2023 - Fortress Special!

Not much new music this week, so I'm cheating by shouting out a tonne of highlights from Fortress Festival! Some classic stuff mixed in this week, in case anyone needed an excuse to finally getting around to checking some of these artists out!

16 April 2023

It's unsolicitedrecommendation Sunday!

7 April 2023

It's Bandcamp Friday so I'm gonna drop some recs from this month absolutely nobody asked for!