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For our fifty-first episode, we decided to discuss metal festivals, including ones we’ve been to, ones we’d love to go to, and what our own personal dream one would look like! Of course we also highlight the six best albums from the past two weeks as well! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the American Grindcore band, Aberrant Extermination Impulsion. They released two new EPs earlier in 2026, called “Annihilate” and “Exterminate”. Both are excellent, and if you like Grindcore, you’ll definitely dig them! Check out their bandcamp: https://grindcoreisdeadlonglivegrindcore.bandcamp.com If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Archvile King – L’Excuse Carrion Vael – Truth or Consequence Furi Helium – Tidal Disruption Juodvarnis – Laikui Varvant Kreator – Psychotic Imperator Moon Wisdom – As Rain Aberrant Extermination Impulsion – You Best Not Miss Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Genus Ordini Dei – The Land East of Eden Gluecifer – Same Drug New High Hellrazer – Serve the Machine Megadeth – Megadeth Deathraiser – Forged in Hatred Asaru – V.O.I.D. Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Vesselles – Home Blade and Bath – Brutal Fantasies Schattenfall – Zwischen Erde Und Schatten Handul of Hate – Soulless Abominations Sukkubys – Eternal Damnation Sleep Throne – In the Quiet Hours Darghl – Systemic Violence

Welcome to 2026! For our fiftieth episode, we cover everything from the past six weeks, from November 28th through January 9th! There were a lot of great releases at the end of 2025, but this year is definitely off to a slow start! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the American Black Metal band Ashenheart. They are releasing a new single on January 26th called “Stars Wept to the Sea” in memory of the main guitarist’s wife passing away from cancer. All proceeds from the bandcamp sale will be donated to the American Cancer Society, so please visit at the link below and donate if you can! Check out their bandcamp: https://ashenheart.bandcamp.com/album/stars-wept-to-the-sea-single If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Enshine – Reignite Fullmoon Rite – Geisterwald Akt II (Im Bann des Teufelsvogels) Struck a Nerve – The Knife Scrapes the Bone Arcane Frost – Withering Decay EverRise – Melody of Death Jours Pales – Cineraire Blood Red Throne – On These Bones Bloedmaan – What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse Ashenheart – Stars Wept to the Sea Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Death From Above – Reckoning of the Damned Trigger – The Waking Beast Tumulo – Evangelho do Canhoto Streams of Blood – Vermaledeit Consumer – Consumer Society Bullet – Kickstarter Carnal Savagery – Crypt of Decay Thy Disease – United We Fall Munt – The World is Not Yours Galloglaigh – Upon Silent Waters Blizzen – Metaelectric Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Avdagata – The Apocalyptic Aeon Malefic Throne – The Conquering Darkness Infyrna – WeltSchmertz Czernina – Oszukac Listopad Yardfield Colony – The Doomestication XIV Dark Centuries – Aus uralter Zeit Revasseur – Reaper’s Gale Hierophany – Tenebrario Woe – Legacies of Human Frailty

On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Brendon Small, the creator of Dethklok and Metalocalypse! Dethklok is about to embark on tour across the US with Amon Amarth and Castle Rat this April! Get your tickets at the link below: https://www.amonklok.com Thanks to Brendon for taking the time to talk with us and go in-depth about Metalocalypse, touring, and his growth as a musician. We had a blast getting to know him, and despite a few small technical issues, I think we had a great interview! We hope you enjoy it too. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

I can’t believe it’s been two years since we started this journey with Harsh Vocals! To celebrate, we’ve revamped the website and updated our logo, hopefully you all like it! For our Forty-Ninth episode, we discuss the highs and lows of 2025, and deep dive on both of our top30 albums for the year. Of course there is a little overlap, but there’s a few surprises too! It’s a very long episode, but there are a lot of laughs and some great discussion. We hope you’ll stick around until the end. We also want to thank everyone who has supported us by visiting the site, checking out the podcast, and leaving us reviews. Every message, comment, and review means so much to us, and makes us feel like we’re really doing something to help promote this amazing music we love so much. We have so much to look forward to in 2026, so we hope you’ll all stick around and see what’s in store! If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, TikTok, X, Threads, Bluesky, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Graveripper – Bring Upon Pain Mystic Circle – Luciferian Starer – Song of the Harper Bliss of Flesh – Martyr Condition Critical – Wretched Aggression Thormesis – Am Morgen, wenn die Sonne untrgeht

For our forty-eighth episode, we decided to discuss ourselves and our passions outside of Metal. You’ve been listening to us for two years now, so we felt it was time to talk about who we are! Of course, we also discuss our favorite six albums from the past two weeks, as well as a ton of honorable mentions. It was another great cycle! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Massachusetts based Punk/Thrash Metal band, “Death Ray Vision”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://deathrayvision.bandcamp.com If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Sterbhaus – Death Bu Wolfe Depravity – Call to the Fallen Nokk – All the Pretty Things Bore – Hoof & Feather Morbikon – Ghoul Infested Mausoleum Lamp of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy, Pt. 1 – Moondance Death Ray Vision – From the Rafters Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Ash Return – Defy and Conquer Mezzrow – Embrace the Awakening Olde Throne – Megalith Outlying – Oblivisci The Halo Effect – We are Shadows Speedclaw – Stardust Frozen Land – Icemelter Bloodhound – Field of Swords Darktribe – Forgotten Reveries Mytherine – Lord of Mountains Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Valpur – With Ire Ablazes the Stone Devouring Famine – A Man Whispering with the Dead Demon King – Death Knell 1914 – Viribus Unitis Halmad – When Night Rode Across the Earth Karu – Perdition Spleen Flipper – Through the Ashes of Mankind

For our forty-seventh episode, we decided to do another “More Music” episode, featuring an even lengthier discussion about our favorite albums of the past two weeks, rather than a topic! We did this because there were simply too many great albums released through this cycle! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Las Vegas based Black/Death Metal band, “Scathen”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://scathen.bandcamp.com/track/fecal-filled-host If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Avernal – Arconte Egregor Ophidian Memory – Cenotaph Faust – To The Fire, To The Death Outlaw – Through the Infinite Darkness Ovader – Ymir’s Tale Mystic Circle – The Scarlet Queen of Harlots Thron – One Truth, One Light Bliss of Flesh – The Awakening Scathen – Fecal-Filled Host Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Burned in Effigy – Tyrannus Aeternum Canvas of Silence – As the World Tree Fell Defecto – Echoes of Isolation Tapeworm Electric – Moonshine Aria – ? Agnostic Front – Echoes in Eternity Centinex – With Guts and Glory Insidius – Vulgus Illustrata Omnium Gatherum – May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way Soulfracture – The Leader of the Exploited Malakhim – And in our Hearts, the Devil Sings Misanthropic Might – Qualzucht Glorious Depravity – Death Never Sleeps Ildaruni – Divinum Sanguinem Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: One of Nine – Dawn of the Iron Shadow Nyrak – Phoenix Mortis Krahenfeld – …Vom Ruf der Leere Warfield Within – Rise of Independence Godark – Omniscience Pedestal for Leviathan – Enter: Vampyric Manifestation Embraced by Darkness – Ex Inferis Miasmata – Subterrania Flesia – Achterbahnekstase

For our forty-sixth episode, we decided to talk about the different streaming platform options, and the recent mass-exodus from certain ones due to unsavory ads. Of course we also talk about the best albums from yet another incredibly strong two week cycle! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the English Progressive Death Metal band, “Soulfracture”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://soulfracture.bandcamp.com/album/the-leader-of-the-exploited If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Soul Grinder – Malevolent Reality Scorching Tomb – Skullcrush Coroner – Symmetry Darah – Futility Graveripper – New Gods, New Masters Impermanence – From Mirage to Lust Soulfracture – The Leader of the Exploited Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Blindman – After Rain Anthology – Frozen Sun Monolyth – Seeds of Perserverance Victimarum – Seitseman Soihdun Valossa Afsky – Faellesskab Battle Beast – Steelbound Hellbearer – Darker Fates Sabaton – Legends Glasya – Fear Fatal Portrait – An Illusive Instinct for Lascivia Redux Sintage – Unbound Triumph Inlimine – Inveteratus Jet Jaguar – Severance Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: UAAR – Galger Og Brann Tribal Gaze – Inveighing Brilliance Argesk – Moonlight Pyromancy Wretched – Decay Aurora Ortis – Against Ourselves IRR – Remains Remain Bonginator – Retrodeath

For our forty-fifth episode, we decided to talk about theatrics and the role they play in metal performances. We discuss shocking performances and some unusual things we’ve personally seen, as well as how the general population views Metal. Of course we also talk about the best albums from yet another incredibly strong two week cycle! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Portland, Oregon Blackened Melodic Death Metal band, “These Cursed Hands”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://thesecursedhands.bandcamp.com If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Turn Cold – Dog Bite Torture Machine – A Call From the Void Angrrsth – Prog Enragement – Abyssal Hellscapes Thorondir – Blut Und Ruhm Les Batards Du Roi – L’Ame sans repos These Cursed Hands – Extermination Revelation Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Voragoth – Storm Obey No Masters Cruentus – End Without End Horror Within – Soul Awakening Necrotic Woods – Committed on Flesh Ofermod – Drakosophia Testament – Para Bellum Ultra Raptor – Fossilized Dead Heat – Process of Elimination Haeresis – Si Vis Parem Para Bellum Pandemic Outbreak – Torment Beyond Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Zero Degree – What We Become Lycantrophilia – The Tyranny of Decay Frosted Undergrowth – Unchained Galge – D0DELIG Terzij De Horde – Our Breath is Not Ours Alone Scalding – Nuclear Winter Spell Starer – Ancient Monuments and Modern Sadness Wode – Uncrossing the Keys Katakomba – The Second Death Vials of Wrath – Remnants for Remembrance

On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Konstantin and Andy from the German Post-Black Metal band, Thormesis! Currently, their latest album “Nevertheless” sits at the top of our Album of the Year list, and we are very excited to get to know the band better and learn more about what went into making it! Thormesis has been around for decades and is one of the most unique and talented bands making emotionally-driven black metal today. If you haven’t heard their latest album, check it out at the link below! https://thormesis.de Listen at the end of the podcast to hear the track “Entzweit”! Also, Follow us on Facebook, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

For our forty-fourth episode, we both got sick! Due to illness wrecking our voices, we had to postpone recording, so rather than a two week cycle of music, you’re all getting the best of three weeks instead! Due to having more music, we decided to forgo a topic on this episode, so just enjoy the extra tunes and our discussion on all the incredible albums that came out over this incredibly strong cycle! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Portland, Oregon Blackened Doom/Death/Sludge band “Mind Prisoner”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://mindprisoner.bandcamp.com/album/less-faith If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Overt Enemy – Psychotic Episode Moribund Oblivion – Deceptive Portals Vittra – Reign Supreme Frost – In The Rotten Hands of Time Krigsgrav – Ghosts Wounds of Recollection – Everyone I Love Will Someday Die Brotthogg – Mare Thormesis – Made of Nothing Mind Prisoner – Years Gone

For our forty-third episode, we decided to talk about bands crossing over into the mainstream, and some of the changes in sound that can lead to fallout. Is it natural, or forced? Has a band truly become a sellout, or are they just softening their sound and gaining mass appeal? We have thoughts! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Spanish black metal band “Path of Redemption”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://pathofredemption.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-from-the-depths If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Violator – Destroy the Altar Autrest – Forsaken Electrocutioner – Final Prophet Progeny of Sun – Worldstone Condition Critical – Incubation Disposal In Mourning – Silver Crescent Path of Redemption – Where Broken Spirits Lie

For our forty-second episode, we decided to discuss some current events, as there has been an abundance of band drama circulating on the Metal News sites over the past few weeks. Most notably with Cradle of Filth. We have some thoughts! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Houston Progressive Death/Thrash band, “KHEPERA”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://kheperaband.bandcamp.com/album/foreword If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: BAEST – Misfortunate Son Ashen – Ancestral Gate Warmen – Dethroned Corridoré – This Great Demise Vindicator – Ripper Attack Inpathos – Grand Design KHEPERA – Wendigo

For our forty-first episode we decided to talk about our all-time favorite vocalists! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Croatian Melodic Black Metal band “Voragoth” Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://voragoth.bandcamp.com/track/renegades If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Sinsaenum – In Devastation Terror Society – My Last Days Finistère – Hartwarden Harvested – Designed Dilemma Asunojokei – Angel Blackbraid – The Dying of a Sacred Stag Voragoth – Renegades

For our fortieth episode we decided to talk about all the things we hear in music that we don’t enjoy, as well as the things we see at concerts and online that negatively impact us. Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the German Death Metal band “Monstrum” Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://monstrum666.bandcamp.com/album/mental-demolition If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Oskoreien – To Kiss the Viper’s Fang Recorruptor – Insidious Rot Abyssery – Interminable End Abigail Williams – Talk to Your Sleep Jordfäst – Dit gudarna trälar är Pt 2 Ba’al – Floral Cairn Monstrum – Beyond the Stars

For our thirty-ninth episode, we decided to discuss some of the more unusual things we’ve seen at merch tables while attending concerts. We also scoured the internet for other people’s strangest items, and we found quite a few entertaining ones! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the USBM project “Kriyul”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://kriyul.bandcamp.com If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out! We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music! Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! Songs in this Episode: Anger Machine – Parasite Stygian – Death Rite Anheim – Ascheschrein Imperial Crystalline Entombment (I.C.E.) – Phantoms of Ice Sarastus – From Pride, To Shame, To Misery Weald & Woe – Brought to Ruin Kriyul – Unrighteous