the occult

Tuesday Sep 29 · 2026 [ 11 TRACKS ] · 11:40 – 22:09 A short Tuesday that goes looking at what is new. → Friday Sep 18 · 2026 [ 59 TRACKS ] · 09:48 – 00:02 A Friday that runs the whole fortnight's two habits back to back. → Thursday Sep 17 · 2026 [ 42 TRACKS ] · 10:42 – 22:51 Another day that will not settle, and it burrows deeper than the one before. → Wednesday Sep 16 · 2026 [ 23 TRACKS ] · 07:51 – 23:03 For the first time in a fortnight, a day that refuses to settle on anything. → Tuesday Sep 08 · 2026 [ 56 TRACKS ] · 18:06 – 01:24 A Tuesday given almost entirely to two records, decades and genres apart, both pointed away from the human. → Friday Aug 21 · 2026 [ 30 TRACKS ] · 16:35 – 22:52 Friday goes to space and stays there. → Thursday Aug 20 · 2026 [ 83 TRACKS ] · 07:43 – 22:57 Thursday is three days in one, and the first is all Dissection. → Wednesday Aug 19 · 2026 [ 41 TRACKS ] · 10:24 – 00:32 Wednesday goes from the gothic to the frozen. → Friday Aug 14 · 2026 [ 19 TRACKS ] · 14:23 – 23:34 Friday belongs almost entirely to Morbid Angel. → Wednesday Aug 12 · 2026 [ 7 TRACKS ] · 22:01 – 23:12 Wednesday is another single late hour, and it goes cold. → Thursday Aug 06 · 2026 [ 48 TRACKS ] · 14:28 – 23:20 Thursday runs the whole history of heavy metal backwards and forwards in a single afternoon. → Wednesday Aug 05 · 2026 [ 34 TRACKS ] · 06:00 – 00:55 It begins with one Cathedral track at six in the morning, the last drop of yesterday's day-long binge, and then the man goes looking for where all of it came from. → Tuesday Aug 04 · 2026 [ 51 TRACKS ] · 11:06 – 23:50 Tuesday opens scattered and mean, a dozen tracks of extreme hardcore thrown down almost at random: Nails and ACxDC at powerviolence speed, the blackened thrash of Toxic Holocaust and Demiser, Anti Cimex and Driller Killer carrying over from last night's crust. → Sunday Aug 02 · 2026 [ 10 TRACKS ] · 22:15 – 23:20 After a week that ran to three and four hundred tracks, Sunday is barely an hour: ten songs, nine bands, one or two apiece, and every one of them a foundation stone. → Saturday Aug 01 · 2026 [ 98 TRACKS ] · 13:35 – 19:59 Ninety-eight tracks, nine bands, and very nearly one man. → Thursday Jul 23 · 2026 [ 14 TRACKS ] · 20:56 – 02:03 For the first time in the record's memory, the machine does not recognise a single name on the page. → Tuesday Jul 21 · 2026 [ 30 TRACKS ] · 09:29 – 20:41 It starts with a single Watain track at half past nine in the morning, like a warning shot, and then goes quiet for five hours. → Sunday Jul 19 · 2026 [ 28 TRACKS ] · 19:49 – 22:02 Yesterday was one disciple. → Saturday Jul 18 · 2026 [ 7 TRACKS ] · 20:30 – 22:54 Seven songs, one band, no one else invited. → Friday Jul 17 · 2026 [ 29 TRACKS ] · 18:13 – 23:03 Last night was two dozen bands, one track apiece. → Thursday Jul 16 · 2026 [ 30 TRACKS ] · 17:55 – 19:47 A short Thursday evening spent almost entirely inside death metal, and treated as a survey rather than a sitting: some twenty-four bands in eighty minutes, one track apiece, a deliberate core-sample of the genre rather than a wallow in any one record. → Tuesday Jul 14 · 2026 [ 14 TRACKS ] · 17:34 – 19:44 A short Tuesday evening, barely two hours, but built as a clean descent from the cosmos into the crypt. → Sunday Jul 12 · 2026 [ 33 TRACKS ] · 18:48 – 22:24 A Sunday given over to weight and slowness, and the first real listening in three days after a weekend the record went dark. → Wednesday Jul 08 · 2026 [ 107 TRACKS ] · 10:22 – 23:48 A Wednesday spent as a musicologist rather than a listener, tracing by ear the hidden line that runs from extreme metal back through the whole progressive tradition. → Sunday Jul 05 · 2026 [ 50 TRACKS ] · 15:05 – 23:12 A Sunday built as a controlled descent, from the cool detachment of post-punk down into the most extreme and occult metal the catalogue holds. → Saturday Jul 04 · 2026 [ 50 TRACKS ] · 15:47 – 22:10 A Saturday that reads, start to finish, as one long meditation on death and the occult, approached from every angle a record collection allows. →