Friday Oct 16 · 2026
Heavier than your average day · 19 artists returning · 6 new to the record.
Themes
The ReadoutEvidence by the numbers · mood read by machine
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heaviness over time →
doom on rotation, the slowest music there is
grindcore after midnight, the fastest
38
tracks
25
artists
33
albums
14h 29m
span
Heaviest rotation — Cathedral ×3 · Busiest hour — 00:00 (16 plays) · Longest gap — 12:20 → 00:02 (11h 42m)
Weight
8
lightheavy
Brightness
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darkbright
Restlessness
7
settledrestless
Record of the DayThe album that owned the day
A Funeral Request
Cathedral · Forest Of Equilibrium
First Cathedral since Sep 03.
† Liner note
Cathedral's debut, Forest of Equilibrium (1991), slowed doom almost to a stop. Its singer, Lee Dorrian, had left Napalm Death to make it.
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Footprints
Warning · Watching from a Distance
Warning's 5th day in the record.
† Liner note
From Watching from a Distance (2006), Warning's most celebrated record.
11:06
Life and Limb
Napalm Death · Time Waits for No Slave
First Napalm Death since Sep 01.
† Liner note
Napalm Death, the band Lee Dorrian sang for before he left to form Cathedral, whose doom opened this day.
00:13
The Stench of Burning Death
Repulsion · Horrified
First Repulsion since Aug 07.
† Liner note
Repulsion's Horrified, recorded in the mid-1980s and released in 1989, is one of the founding records of grindcore.
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