ESSENTIAL METAL ALBUM (s): #WK39 Monday, September 22, 2025 to Sunday, September 28, 2025

 

⚔️ 🩸 Album of the week:

#275

⚔️ Artist: Revocation
🩸  Title: “New Gods, New Masters”
⚔️ Release date: September 25th, 2025
 
Genre/tag: technical death metal, death metal, thrash metal

🩸 Essential Release (s)
 
 
#269

⚔️ Artist: Sunniva
🩸  Title: “Hypostasis”
⚔️ Release date: September 19th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: doom, sludge, post metal

#270
 
⚔️ Artist: Paradise Lost
🩸  Title: “Ascension”
⚔️ Release date: September 19th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: goth doom, melodic death doom

#271
 
⚔️ Artist: Tithe
🩸  Title: “Communion In Anguish”
⚔️ Release date: September 119th, 2025 genre
 
🩸 Genre/tags: black metal, death metal, grindcore, sludge

#272
 
⚔️ Artist: Novembers Doom
🩸  Title: “Mercy”
⚔️ Release date: September 19th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: doom, death metal

#273
 
⚔️ Artist: Deaf club
🩸  Title: “We Demand A Permanent State of Happiness”
⚔️ Release date: September 19th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: grindcore, hardcore punk, power violence

#274
 
⚔️ Artist: viile
🩸  Title: “A Bottomless Curse, A Bottomless Sea”
⚔️ Release date: September 19th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: progressive death metal, technical death metal, metalcore, deathcore

PLAYLIST: The Sludgelord's Weekly Hitlist #WK38, Friday, September 19th, 2025 to Thursday, September 25th, 2025

⚔️Total streams: 451
🩸 Top Artist: Death 125
⚔️Top Album: Novembers Doom – “Major Arcana” 56
🩸 Top Track: Mother Knife  – “Fix Your Heart or Die”  8
⚔️Artist(s): 19
🩸 Albums: 26
⚔️Tracks: 170
 

My biggest tracks from Friday, September 19^th, 2025 to Thursday, September 25^th, 2025

1).
⚔️ Song: “Fix Your Heart or Die”
🩸  Artist: Mother Knife
2).
⚔️ Song: “Regicide”
🩸  Artist: Mother Knife
3).
⚔️Song: “Mercy”
🩸  Artist: Novembers Doom
4).
⚔️Song: “At The Altar of Starving Childen”
🩸 Artist: Tithe
5).
⚔️Song: “Infected Blood”
🩸 Artist: Tithe
6).
⚔️Song: “Ostiary”
🩸 Artist: Tithe
7).
⚔️Song: “The Fruits of Spiritual Aparthied”
🩸 Artist: Tithe
8).
⚔️Song: “Weaponized Goodwill”
🩸 Artist: Motherless
9).
⚔️Song: “Bleed Static”
🩸 Artist: Novembers Doom
10).
⚔️Song: “Chatter”
🩸 Artist: Novembers Doom
11).
⚔️Song: “Major Arcana”
🩸 Artist: Novembers Doom
12).
⚔️Song: “Ravenous”
🩸 Artist: Novembers Doom
13).
⚔️Song: “The Dance”
🩸 Artist: Novembers Doom
14).
⚔️Song: “The Fool”
🩸 Artist: Novembers Doom
15).
⚔️Song: “Burn The Throne of God”
🩸 Artist: Tithe
16).
⚔️Song: “Shallow Grave of Karmic Retribution”
🩸 Artist: Tithe
17).
⚔️Song: “See Through Dreams
🩸 Artist: Death
18).
⚔️Song: “Symbolic”
🩸 Artist: Death
19).
⚔️Song: “Zero Tolerance”
🩸 Artist: Death
20).
⚔️Song: “Abrupt Violence
🩸 Artist: Motherless
21).
⚔️Song: “Christian Math”
🩸 Artist: Motherless
22).
⚔️Song: “Darling, You Don’t Look Well”
🩸 Artist: Motherless
23).
⚔️Song: “Insect Politics”
🩸 Artist: Motherless
24).
⚔️Song: “Reptile Dysfunction”
🩸 Artist: Motherless
25).
⚔️Song: “The New Romance”
🩸 Artist: Motherless
26).
⚔️Song: “You See So Damn Sure”
🩸 Artist: Motherless
27).
⚔️Song: “Dusking Day”
🩸 Artist: Novembers Doom
28).
⚔️Song: “XXII”
🩸 Artist: Novembers Doom
29).
⚔️Song: “Deceivers”
🩸 Artist: Paradise Lost
30).
⚔️Song: “Diluvium”
🩸 Artist: Paradise Lost
 

ESSENTIAL METAL ALBUM (s): WK #38 September 15th, 2025 to Sunday, September 21st, 2025

 

⚔️ 🩸 Album of the week:

#263

⚔️ Artist: Crippling Alcoholism
🩸  Title: “Camgirl”
⚔️ Release date: September 12th, 2025
 
Genre/tag: noise rock, goth rock, synth rock, new wave

🩸 Essential Release (s)
 
#263

⚔️ Artist: Intercourse
🩸  Title: “How I Fell in Love with the Void”
⚔️ Release date: September 12th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: noise rock, hardcore, sludge

#264.
 
⚔️ Artist: Still In Love
🩸  Title: ““Recovery Language””
⚔️ Release date: September 5th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: metallic hardcore, punk, hardcore 

⚔️ Artist: Lunar Blood
🩸  Title: “Ithil”
⚔️ Release date: September 11th, 2025 genre
 
🩸 Genre/tags: black metal, death metal, deathgrind

⚔️ Artist: Motherless
🩸  Title: “Do you Feel Safe”
⚔️ Release date: September 11th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: black metal, experimental metal, doom, sludge

⚔️ Artist: Ritual Mass
🩸  Title: ““Cascading Miser”
⚔️ Release date: September 5th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: death metal, doom

⚔️ Artist: Mother Knife
🩸  Title: “Fix Your Heart or Die”
⚔️ Release date: September 12th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: atmospheric black metal, sludge, doom 

PLAYLIST: The Sludgelord wkly hit list (12th - 18th 2025)

 

⚔️Total streams: 312
🩸 Top Artist: Gojira 118
⚔️Top Album: “Camgirl” 54
🩸 Top Track: “Bedsore” by Crippling Alcoholism 6
⚔️Artists: 12
🩸 Albums: 20
⚔️Tracks: 144

Check out my most played tracks over the last 7 days and if you use Deezer, you can find the link HERE.  You can click on the band name(s) for links to their bandcamp page(s) 

1).
⚔️ Song: “Bedrot”
🩸  Artist: Crippling Alcoholism

2).
⚔️ Song: “LADIES' NIGHT”
🩸  Artist: Crippling Alcoholism

3).
⚔️Song: “Pay Pigs”
🩸  Artist: Crippling Alcoholism

4).
⚔️Song: “Family Suicide Gun”
🩸 Artist: Intercourse

5).
⚔️Song: “MONET”
🩸 Artist: Crippling Alcoholism

6).
⚔️Song: “Pretty in Pink”
🩸 Artist: Crippling Alcoholism

7).
⚔️Song: “Saran Wrapped Cash”
🩸 Artist: Crippling Alcoholism

8).
⚔️Song: “Pain Is a Master”
🩸 Artist: Gojira

9).
⚔️Song: “Planned Obsolescence”
🩸 Artist: Gojira

10).
⚔️Song: “Another Song About The Sun”
🩸 Artist: Intercourse
11).
⚔️Song: “Cadaver Resume”
🩸 Artist: Intercourse

12).
⚔️Song: “Cryptid Divorce Court”
🩸 Artist: Intercourse

13).
⚔️Song: “I'm Very Tired Please Let Me Die”
🩸 Artist: Intercourse

14).
⚔️Song: “Running a Cemetery Without a License”
🩸 Artist: Intercourse

15).
⚔️Song: “Slightly Less Than A Feeling”
🩸 Artist: Intercourse

16).
⚔️Song: “Unsuccessfully Attempting to Parse Nightmare From Reality”
🩸 Artist: Intercourse
 
17).
⚔️Song: “Zoloft and Blow”
🩸 Artist: Intercourse

18).
⚔️Song: “Do Not Fear, For I Have Redeemed You”
🩸 Artist: Lunar Blood

19).
⚔️Song: “No Flesh Shall Be Spared”
🩸 Artist: Lunar Blood

20).
⚔️Song: “No Weapon Fashioned Against You Shall Succeed”
🩸 Artist: Lunar Blood

21).
⚔️Song: “Feathered Nest”
🩸 Artist: Still In Love

22).
⚔️Song: “Inherit”
🩸 Artist: Still In Love

23).
⚔️Song: “Nervous Impulse”
🩸 Artist: Still In Love

24).
⚔️Song: “Pillar Of Strength”
🩸 Artist: Still In Love

25).
⚔️Song: “Preserve Cherish”
🩸 Artist: Still In Love

26).
⚔️Song: “The State Of Things To Come”
🩸 Artist: Still In Love

27).
⚔️Song: “You Have To Let It Go”
🩸 Artist: Still In Love

28).
⚔️Song: “Camgirl”
🩸 Artist: Crippling Alcoholism

29).
⚔️Song: “Despair”
🩸 Artist: Crippling Alcoholism

30).
⚔️Song: “I Have a Key To Your House”
🩸 Artist: Crippling Alcoholism

DISCOG DISSECTION: Gojira - "The Evolution of a French Metal Titan"

Whilst admittedly, I am not the greatest fan of their output over the last decade, Gojira (hailing from Bayonne, France),  certainly carved a lasting impression upon my metal DNA during their 3 album run of “From Mars to Sirius”, “The way of all flesh” and “L’Enfant Sauvage”.  Indeed, over the subsequent years, Gojira have forged an amazing career for themselves, carving a unique niche in the world of heavy metal since their formation in 1996 and are arguably France’s greatest musical export.

As my musical tastes shifted, Gojira’s evolution and artistic ambition grew. Once revered for their intricate musicianship, environmentally conscious lyrics, and progressive style, over the last decade, we have seen Gojira shed their death metal skin in favour of melody and even accessibility, resulting in  what we see today, “The Evolution of a French metal Titan”. 

Check out my favourite Gojira albums below, let me know your thoughts, do you agree and how would you rate them?

7).

⚔️ “Fortitude” issued April 30, 2021

🩸 Stand out track(s) “Born For One Thing”, “Another World”, “New Found”, “Sphinx”, “Into The Storm”

6).
 
⚔️ “Terra Incognito” issued March 19th, 2001

 
🩸 Stand out track(s) “Clone”, “Lizard Skin”, “Deliverance”, “Rise”, “Fire is Everything”, “Love”

5).
 
⚔️ “Magma” issued June 17, 2016

🩸 Stand out track(s) “The Shooting Star”, “Silvera”, “The Cell”, “Stranded”, “Pray”, “Only Pain”

4).
 
⚔️ “The Link”, issued 18th April, 2003

 
🩸 Stand out track(s) “The Link”, “Death of Me”, “Remembrance”, “Embrace The World”, “Inward Movement”

3).
 
⚔️ “L’Enfant Sauvage” issued June 26, 2012

🩸 Stand out track(s) “Explosia”, “L’Enfant Sauvage”, “The Axe”, “Planned Obsolescence”, “Mouth of Kala”, “The Gift of Guilt”, “Pain Is a Master”

2).
 
⚔️ “The Way of all flesh” issued 10th June, 2008

🩸 Stand out track(s): “Ouroboros”, “Toxic Garbage Island”, “A Sight To Behold”, “Yama’s Messengers”, “All The Tears”, “Adoration of None”, “The Art of Dying”, “Esoteric Surgery”, “Vacuity”, “Wolf down the Earth”, “The way of all flesh”,

1).
 
⚔️ “From Mars to Sirius”, issued 27th September, 2005

🩸 Stand out track(s) “Ocean Planet”, “Backbone”, “From The Sky”, “Where Dragons Dwell”, “The Heaviest Matter of the Universe” “Flying Whales”, “In The Wilderness”, “To Sirius”