Monday Jul 06 · 2026
Heavier than your average day · a long session · 7 artists returning · 40 new to the record.
Themes
The ReadoutEvidence by the numbers · mood read by machine
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heaviness over time →
DISSONANT DEATH
THE GOTH HOUR
DEATH METAL CANON
HARDCORE
GRIND
149
tracks
47
artists
67
albums
15h 12m
span
Heaviest rotation — Fields Of The Nephilim ×15 · Busiest hour — 23:00 (22 plays) · Longest gap — 19:03 → 22:29 (3h 26m)
Weight
8
lightheavy
Brightness
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darkbright
Restlessness
8
settledrestless
Record of the DayThe album that owned the day
A Devourer Of Flitting Shades Who Dwells In Rays Of Light
Ingurgitating Oblivion · Vision Wallows In Symphonies Of Light
10:51
Left Hand Path
Entombed · Left Hand Path
† Liner note
The title track of Entombed's 1990 debut, and the record that fixed the Swedish death metal sound: guitars run through a Boss HM-2 pedal with the knobs maxed, the buzzsaw tone the whole scene chased. It closes by quoting the theme from the horror film Phantasm.
14:33
Incarnated Solvent Abuse
Carcass · Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
† Liner note
From Necroticism, the Liverpool band drifting toward melody. Carcass built their early lyrics almost entirely from a medical dictionary, gore rendered in clinical Latin.
14:43
Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve Its Possessor Against Attacks from He Who Is in the Water
Nile · Ithyphallic
† Liner note
Nile assemble death metal out of ancient Egyptian and Lovecraftian lore; this title, from 2007's Ithyphallic, is one of the longer inscriptions in a catalogue that treats song titles as engravings.
15:56
Rise Above
Black Flag · Damaged
† Liner note
The opener of Damaged, Henry Rollins's first album with Black Flag. The distributor MCA refused to ship it, its president calling it an anti-parent record; SST released it regardless.
22:29
Banned in D.C.
Bad Brains · Bad Brains
† Liner note
The title is literal: barred from playing the capital, the band decamped to New York. Four Black musicians playing the fastest hardcore of the era, later folding dub and reggae into the same set.
23:09
Protest and Survive
Discharge · Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
† Liner note
From Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, 1982. The drum pattern Discharge built their sound on is still called the d-beat after them; Napalm Death and Metallica both trace a line back to it.
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