Wednesday Aug 19 · 2026
Heavier than your average day · 11 artists returning · 3 new to the record.
Themes
The ReadoutEvidence by the numbers · mood read by machine
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heaviness over time →
DOOM & METAL
BLACK METAL
BLACK METAL REPRISE
41
tracks
14
artists
29
albums
14h 08m
span
Heaviest rotation — Paradise Lost ×8 · Busiest hour — 17:00 (10 plays) · Longest gap — 17:58 → 23:34 (5h 36m)
Weight
8
lightheavy
Brightness
2
darkbright
Restlessness
5
settledrestless
Record of the DayThe album that owned the day
Small Town Boy
Paradise Lost · Symbol Of Life
First Paradise Lost since Jul 28.
† Liner note
Paradise Lost, the Halifax band who helped invent gothic death-doom; the eight tracks here trace their long arc from doom through gothic rock and back.
10:24
11:05
Evil
Mercyful Fate · Melissa
† Liner note
Mercyful Fate's Melissa (1983), King Diamond's falsetto and occult theatrics a heavy influence on the black metal to come.
11:10
Naught but Death
Funeral Mist · Hekatomb
First Funeral Mist since Jul 06.
† Liner note
Funeral Mist, the project of Arioch, also the voice of Marduk, among the most extreme of the Swedish black metal bands.
15:59
Withstand The Fall Of Time
Immortal · At The Heart Of Winter
First Immortal since Jul 19.
† Liner note
Immortal, whose songs are set in the frozen fictional realm of Blashyrkh, black metal as pure winter.
16:45
