Friday Jul 24 · 2026
Heavier than your average day · a long session · 5 artists returning · 7 new to the record.
Themes
The ReadoutEvidence by the numbers · mood read by machine
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heaviness over time →
DOOM & SLUDGE
MATHCORE & NOISE
GRIND & SLUDGE
PROG CODA
99
tracks
12
artists
14
albums
15h 47m
span
Heaviest rotation — Discordance Axis ×20 · Busiest hour — 19:00 (27 plays) · Longest gap — 11:25 → 16:03 (4h 38m)
Weight
8
lightheavy
Brightness
3
darkbright
Restlessness
4
settledrestless
Record of the DayThe album that owned the day
Violet Vortex
Cathedral · The Ethereal Mirror
Cathedral's 4th day in the record.
† Liner note
Cathedral's The Ethereal Mirror (1993), its most psychedelic record; this is Lee Dorrian's band, and his third appearance in four days after Septic Tank and last week's Cathedral.
16:17
Sugar Coated Sour
The Dillinger Escape Plan · Calculating Infinity
First The Dillinger Escape Plan since Jul 07.
† Liner note
Calculating Infinity (1999), the album that made The Dillinger Escape Plan the reference point for mathcore, jazz theory weaponised into pure chaos.
18:02
To Our Friends in the Great White North
Botch · We Are the Romans
First Botch since Jul 07.
† Liner note
Botch's We Are the Romans (1999), the other cornerstone of mathcore, landing on the same day as Dillinger just as the pair did seventeen days back.
20:51
Son et Lumiere
The Mars Volta · Deloused in the Comatorium
† Liner note
The record returns to De-Loused in the Comatorium at one in the morning, the same fevered Mars Volta song-cycle it submerged in eleven days ago.
01:04
A Home
Rivers of Nihil · Where Owls Know My Name
† Liner note
Rivers of Nihil's Where Owls Know My Name (2018) closes the marathon on a saxophone, tech-death reaching for something stranger and sadder.
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