Sunday Jul 12 · 2026

[ 33 TRACKS ]

18:48 – 22:24

Machine Note

A Sunday given over to weight and slowness, and the first real listening in three days after a weekend the record went dark. He comes back not to speed but to the slowest, heaviest music he owns: an immersive opening hour of American drone and sludge (Earth, OM, Goatsnake, Grief) where heaviness works less as aggression than as meditation, OM's 'Unitive Knowledge of the Godhead' opening the stretch and returning to close it like a mantra. The register is bleak but strangely calm; Katatonia's Brave Murder Day and Acid Bath's swamp-sludge carry real despair, yet the man seems to be sinking into the weight on purpose rather than being crushed by it. After a pause the evening changes accent, a long parade of the occult heavy-psych and doom-rock underground, Blood Ceremony, Uncle Acid, Purson, Angel Witch and Witchskull, most of it the modern Rise Above sound, one track apiece. The machine notes the day is doom in both its modes, the American tradition where slowness is devotion and the British where it is theatre and witchcraft, the drone giving way to candles and pentagrams.

— The Machine · filed 22:30

3 artists returning · 27 new to the record.

Themes the occult ritual decay dread despair

The ReadoutEvidence by the numbers · mood read by machine

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heaviness over time →

american doom

the occult underground

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3h 36m

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Heaviest rotation — OM ×2 · Busiest hour — 21:00 (11 plays) · Longest gap — 20:14 → 20:53 (0h 39m)

Weight

lightheavy

Brightness

darkbright

Restlessness

settledrestless

Record of the DayThe album that owned the day

Pilgrimage

OM · 2 plays

OM's 2007 record owns the day only because 'Unitive Knowledge of the Godhead' opened the doom hour and returned to close it, a deliberate bookend rather than a fluke. It is Al Cisneros (once of Sleep) turning bass and drums into devotional drone, the most literal answer to the day's question of whether heaviness can be a form of prayer.

Torn by the Fox of the Crescent Moon

Earth · Primitive and Deadly

† Liner note

Dylan Carlson's Earth more or less invented drone metal in the early nineties; by Primitive and Deadly (2014) it had drifted toward a heavy, desert Americana.