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This is 'Liberation through Amplification.'
Another couple of months
are behind us, and as we close the book on October and November, it’s time for
my latest recap of the incredible music that landed during this stretch — my
Top 10 Records from the past two months, otherwise known as our essential Sonic Selections (((o))). In October, I clocked up
7360 minutes of listening — over 122 hours — spanning 69 artists and 487
individual tracks. November was a much
quieter month, but still full of quality: I listened to 3487 minutes of music,
explored 36 artists, and played through 212 tracks. Across the two months
combined, I dug into 126 albums — 87 in October and 39 in November — before
narrowing the field down to the 10 new releases that made the final cut for
this feature. The standard was so consistently high that choosing just ten felt
almost cruel. From a personal
standpoint, October and November delivered a phenomenal run of new music. I
hope you’ll dive into my favourite albums below and discover something that
hits you just as hard. When the releases are this good, who even needs words to
review them? See you next month — and
don’t forget to check out my weekly playlists and essential records of the
week, which I share regularly.
⚔️ Artist: Oromet 🩸 Title: “The Sinking Isle” ⚔️ Release date: November 7th, 2025
🩸 genre/tags: atmospheric doom, funeral doom
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⚔️ Artist: Blindfolded and Led to the Woods 🩸 Title:“The Hardest Thing About
Being a God is that No One Believes Me” ⚔️ Release date: October 10th, 2025
🩸 genre/tags: progressive death metal, technical
death metal
1). 🏆
⚔️ Artist: The Acacia Strain 🩸 Title: “You Are Safe From God
Here” ⚔️ Release date: October 24th, 2025
🩸 genre/tags: metalcore, deathcore, post metal, sludge, doom
⚔️🩸 My favourite track (s) & artist (s) from November
2025
⚔️ Total streams: 800 ↓
47% vs. last month 🩸 Total
Artists streamed: 35 ↓ 50% ⚔️ Total Albums
streamed: 39 ↓ 56% 🩸 New Tracks
streamed: 227 ↓ 55% ⚔️ Total Listening Time: 2 days, 19
hours ↓ 49% 🩸 Average Streams: 27 per day ↓
44% ⚔️ Most Active Streaming Day: 83 on 14th
Nov ↓ 30%
Top Artist: The Acacia Strain(143 streams)
🩸 Top Album: The Acacia Strain– “You Are
Safe From God Here” (130 streams)
⚔️ Top Track: The Acacia Strain– “A Call
Beyond” (12 streams)
⚔️🩸 My biggest tracks from October 31st,
2025 to November 6th, 2025
⚔️ Total streams: 213 ↓ 23% vs. last week 🩸Total Artists streamed: 7 ↓ 54% ⚔️ Total Albums streamed: 7 ↓ 57% 🩸New Tracks streamed: 60 ↓ 32% ⚔️ Top Artist: The Acacia Strain(62 streams)
🩸Top Album: The
Acacia Strain– “You
Are Safe From God Here” (62 streams)
⚔️ Top Track: Conjurer– “Hang Them In Your Head” (10
streams)
Week 45 is here, and THE SLUDGELORD’sweekly selection of
Essential Albums brings you seven crushing releases from the underground. Each
record offers its own unique vision of heaviness—ready to shake foundations and
melt speakers. Kicking things off was an
easy pick for my Album of the Week: The Acacia Strainreturn with arguably their best and heaviest record to date. Since
the release of 2019’s “It Comes in Waves”, The Acacia Strainhave absolutely crushed
me—and this album is no different. Psychonautstrike
the perfect balance between sprawling, kaleidoscopic psychedelia and monolithic
doom, while Old Yearemerge as one of the doom
genre’s most exciting discoveries, offering a dissonant and bleak template of
riffs reminiscent of genre heavyweights Primitive Man. Soulfly continue their sonic
onslaught with a succinct yet lethal injection of groove-ridden noise and a
rather surprising blackened edge Meanwhile, Drofnosuraliterally blew my mind
with their new album. Arguably more restrained compared to my other picks and
yet they deliver something with immense weight and ferocity, interspersed with grunge
soaked vocals, making this one an auditory synesthesia. Bonginatorbring chaos and I shit you
know, they play a wild mix of death metal fused with 80s action flicks, horror
vibes, and retro video game aesthetics. Finally, Scorching Tombunleash a blistering blend of old-school death
metal injected with hardcore intensity—a true throwback with teeth. This is THE SLUDGELORD’sEssential Albums of the
Week, WK45. Plug in and black out. The ‘Lord has spoken.
⚔️🩸Album of the week:
#310
⚔️ Artist: The Acacia Strain 🩸 Title: “You
Are Safe From God Here” ⚔️ Release
date: October 24th, 2025
🩸 Genre/tags: metalcore, deathcore, post metal, sludge,
doom