Thursday Sep 17 · 2026

[ 42 TRACKS ]

10:42 – 22:51

Machine Note

Another day that will not settle, and it burrows deeper than the one before. Where Wednesday toured the black metal canon and its famous names, Thursday's long afternoon disappears into the genre's obscure edges: better than two dozen atmospheric black metal projects, most of them one-man and barely known, out of Iceland and Switzerland and Australia and Finland, each given a single track before the next. It is spelunking more than listening, a walk along the far wall of the library where the winter-and-forest bands and the cosmic ones and the occult ones all sit unheard by almost everyone. Then at night the volume drops and the genres scatter, Deftones and Alice in Chains and Steven Wilson and Soundgarden, softer and more familiar. But the subject does not lift with the sound. Down in a Hole, Momento Mori, Graves in the Sky, Fell on Black Days: the come-down keeps circling lowness and endings even as it eases off the throat, and the day closes on Chris Cornell singing about a darkness that arrives for no reason.

— The Machine · filed 08:20

Heavier than your average day · 12 artists returning · 29 new to the record.

Themes the occult the wild death melancholy dread

The ReadoutEvidence by the numbers · mood read by machine

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heaviness over time →

a scattered heavy morning

a deep dive through atmospheric black metal

a softer cross-genre come-down

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tracks

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artists

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albums

12h 09m

span

Heaviest rotation — Godflesh ×2 · Busiest hour — 16:00 (10 plays) · Longest gap — 17:03 → 21:53 (4h 50m)

Weight

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Brightness

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Restlessness

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settledrestless

Record of the DayThe album that owned the day

Master and Slave

Godflesh · 2 plays

Only Godflesh gets a second play, and by two songs early it technically leads a day nothing led. The afternoon was two dozen atmospheric black metal projects touched once each, none of them given the room to own anything.

Master and Slave

Godflesh · Master and Slave

10:42

Living/Ending

Godflesh · Master and Slave

10:47

Let's Get Drugs

Hellripper · Let's Get Drugs / Mainline

10:48

Electrifyed

Tygers Of Pan Tang · Electrifyed

11:58

Shrouded in Blinding Light

Almyrkvi · Pupil of the Searing Maelstrom

13:56

Djävulens Ande

Ondskapt · Dödens Evangelium

14:04

The Forest of My Soul

Marrasmieli · Martaiden Mailta

14:14

Osteopenia

Mesarthim · Isolate

First Mesarthim since Aug 20.

† Liner note

Mesarthim are an anonymous Australian duo who fuse black metal with synth and deep-space, cosmic themes.

14:26

Thirst

Lustre · A Thirst for Summer Rain

14:34

Cult of Starry Wisdom

Sulphur Aeon · The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos

† Liner note

Sulphur Aeon are a German death metal band whose records are given over wholesale to Lovecraft and the cult of Cthulhu.

14:40

The Magic of Nature

Elderwind · The Magic of Nature

14:47

Wretched Sons

Diocletian · Gesundrian

First Diocletian since Jul 17.

14:51

Dis Manibvs

Imperium Dekadenz · Dis Manibvs

14:58

Cave of the Dark Dreams

Behexen · The Poisonous Path

15:02

Lucifer Breath of Fire

Acherontas · Malocchio - The Seven Tongues of Daemon

15:10

Eishalle

Paysage D'Hiver · Die Festung

First Paysage D'Hiver since Jul 27.

† Liner note

Paysage d'Hiver is the Swiss one-man project of Wintherr, lo-fi black metal built entirely around winter and landscape.

15:24

Spiritual Architecture

Ashbringer · Absolution

15:34

Condemned to a Life of Grief

Tómarúm · Ash in Realms of Stone Icons

15:44

Burial

Ghost Bath · Funeral

15:53

The Escape

Hermóðr · What Once was Beautiful

15:56

Behind the Eye

Temple of Void · Summoning the Slayer

16:01

Averroes' Search

Spectral Lore · Gnosis

16:09

Cells of Nonbeing

Hissing · Hypervirulence Architecture

16:13

Spectre de la Rébellion

Forteresse · Thèmes pour la Rébellion

16:19

Blood and Smoke

Vital Spirit · Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind

16:23

Open The Noxious Veins

Sarastus · The Deceased Dwell In Darkness

16:27

Sepulchre of Shattered Saints

Verberis · Adumbration of the Veiled Logos

16:36

Only True Believers

Armagedda · Only True Believers

16:40

De Wolf vo Ringgebärg

Ungfell · De Wolf vo Ringgebärg

16:46

Diablerie

Mortuus · Diablerie

16:57

Trance V: Cerulean Sun

Anomalie · Tranceformation

17:03

Entombed

Deftones · Koi No Yokan

Deftones's 3rd day in the record.

21:53

Ciel

Plini · An Unnameable Desire

First Plini since Aug 24.

21:56

Down In A Hole (2022 Remaster)

Alice In Chains · Dirt (2022 Remaster)

First Alice In Chains since Sep 03.

22:02

Together in Death

Green Lung · Necropolitan

First Green Lung since Sep 03.

22:06

Requiem for a Village

Steven Wilson · Requiem for a Village

22:14

Barbarians Blood

Mastodon · Marrow Deep

Mastodon, two days running.

22:19

Momento Mori

ANTEMASQUE · ANTEMASQUE

↑ ANTEMASQUE last heard Sep 10

22:22

Queen

Melvins · Stoner Witch

First Melvins since Sep 04.

22:25

To Build a Mountain

Crowbar · Sonic Excess In Its Purest Form

First Crowbar since Sep 04.

22:29

Graves In The Sky

Silvertomb · Graves In The Sky

22:35

Fell On Black Days

Soundgarden · Superunknown (20th Anniversary)

First Soundgarden since Sep 03.

† Liner note

The day closes on Fell on Black Days, Chris Cornell's song about a low mood that arrives for no reason.

22:51