PLAYLIST: 🩸 THE NEW FLESH INDEX #1 - MONTHLY ROTATION - January 2026

 

My Top January 2026 compiled by Deezer
 
⚔️ Total minutes streamed: 6147
🩸  Total Artists streamed: 54
⚔️ Total Tracks streamed: 352
 
🩸  Top 10 Artists (minutes streamed): 
 
1). Will Haven (916 minutes)
2). The Ruins of Beverast (361 minutes)
3). Megadeth (330 minutes)
4). Vesseles (290 Minutes)
5). Null Existence (265 minutes)
6). Death Cult (251 minutes)
7). Ov Sulfur (227 minutes)
8). Pict (205 minutes)
9). Kreator (196 minutes)
10). Vermocracy (190 minutes)
 
⚔️ Top Tracks (most streamed)
 
1). Gravity Chasm – “Decompiled” (25 times)
2). Pict – “III.Searching” (11 times)
3). Pict – IV. The Nomad (10 times)
4). Pict – “II. Condemned” (10 times)
5). Redivider – “Bask in the Rot” (10 times”
6). Redivider – “Quartred & Devoured” (10 times)
7). Deadwood – “Tales of Massacre” (10 times)
8). Vesseles – “Perpetual Chasm of Black Mirrors” (9 times”
9). Semper Acerbus – “One Day At A Time” (9 times”
10. B e s o t – “feral escalation” (9 times”
 
🩸  The New Flesh Index Monthly (Jan 2026) 49 tracks, 3hrs 31mins of music featuring, Pict, Redivider, Semper Acerbus, b e s o t, Lionheart, Deadwood, Death Cult, Will Haven, Denominate, Kreator, Force Carrier, Viserion, Bite Down, Megadeth, Aendsnigh, The Ruins of Beverast, Vesseles, Null Existence, Carrion Vael, Blanket.

ESSENTIAL METAL RELEASE(S): WK #2 Monday, January 5th, 2026 to Sunday, January 11th, 2026

 

Week 2 of THE SLUDGELORD’s Essential Albums brings six uncompromising releases from across the underground, each one demanding attention in its own distinct and punishing way.

The Album of the Week goes to Redivider with “Sounds of Malice”, a debut full‑length that channels the ferocity of 90s Florida death metal while delivering it with modern precision and a striking sense of narrative weight. The promo accompanying the release states that “from the first note to the last, Redivider seeks to overwhelm the listener with stories of death, decay, addiction, ritual, and myth,” and that intent bleeds through every suffocating moment. The result is an album rooted in death metal tradition yet sharpened for the present—tightly constructed, immersive, and impossible to ignore.

Force Carrier follow with “Intranuclear”, a dense, irradiated surge of technical and progressive death metal. The band navigate spiralling structures and high‑pressure riffing with precision, creating a record that feels both cerebral and crushing. It’s a release built for deep immersion, revealing new layers each time you return to it.

B e s o t deliver “Beneath Creation”, an uncompromising slab of dissonant sludge that moves with the force of something ancient and unyielding. The album unfolds with tectonic heaviness—gnarled riffs, oppressive atmosphere, and a sense of looming dread that never loosens its grip. It’s a record built on tension and abrasion, ritualistic in pacing and utterly consuming in tone, the kind of release that drags you under rather than inviting you in.

With “The Nomad”, Pict offer a bleak and wandering vision of extremity. The band describe their sound as blending Black, Death, Doom, and Sludge into a uniquely miserable strain, and that ethos saturates every moment of the record. Raw aggression collides with bleak atmosphere and a sense of restless movement, pulling the listener through desolate, wind‑scoured terrain. It’s harsh, mythic, and steeped in a gloom that feels both ancient and immediate.

Voidhammer unleash “Noxious Emissions”, a filthy collision of OSDM grit and suffocating doom. The record lurches between cavernous, old‑school death metal weight and slower, crushing passages that feel designed to smother the listener. It’s raw, hostile, and steeped in decay—an album that revels in heaviness without sacrificing momentum, delivering a sound that’s both primitive and punishing.
Closing out the week, Lionheart return with “Valley of Death II”, a bruising sequel steeped in metallic hardcore swagger. The band double down on their signature blend of anthemic aggression and thick, street‑level crunch, delivering a record built for impact and immediacy. Confident, punishing, and unmistakably Lionheart.

Alongside these new releases, I’ve also been revisiting the back catalogue of Will Haven—a reminder of just how enduring, atmospheric, and emotionally volatile their body of work remains.
This is THE SLUDGELORD’s Essential Albums of the Week #2. Plug in and black out. The ‘Lord has spoken.

 

⚔️ 🩸 Album of the week:
 
#15
 
⚔️ Artist: Redivider 
🩸  Title: “Sounds of Malice”
⚔️ Release date: January 9th, 2026

🩸 Genre/tags: atmospheric death metal 

🩸 Essential Release (s)
 
#9  
 
⚔️ Artist:  Force Carrier
🩸  Title: ““Intranuclear”
⚔️ Release date: January 2nd, 2026

🩸 Genre/tags: progressive metal, sci fi, instrumental 

#10
 
⚔️ Artist:  B e s o t
🩸  Title: “beneath creation”
⚔️ Release date: January 1st, 2026

🩸 Genre/tags: sludge, dissonant 

#13
 
⚔️ Artist:  Pict 
🩸  Title: “The Nomad” 
⚔️ Release date: January 5th, 2026 

🩸 Genre/tags: black metal, post metal, sludge, progressive metal 

#16

⚔️ Artist: Voidhammer 
🩸  Title: “Noxious Emissions”
⚔️ Release date: January 9th, 2026 

🩸 Genre/tags:  osdm , doom 

#18

⚔️ Artist: Lionheart 
🩸  Title: “Valley of Death II”
⚔️ Release date: January 9th, 2026

🩸 Genre/tags:  hardcore, metalcore 

PLAYLIST: 🩸 THE NEW FLESH INDEX — WEEKLY ROTATION #2 January 2nd to January 8th, 2026

January 2nd → January 8th, 2026
 
A curated descent into the tracks that shaped my week: the most vital, corrosive, forward‑leaning new metal, stitched together with a few choice relics from the vault. This rotation drags through the sounds that actually left a mark — the ones that scraped bone, rewired pulse, or refused to loosen their grip once they sank in.
 
This week’s choice cuts move from the bleak, melodic crush of PICT — blending Black, Death, Doom and Sludge into a uniquely miserable strain — into the old‑school brutality of Redivider, whose debut full‑length channels 90s Florida death metal with modern precision and narrative weight. b e s o t drag the rotation into industrialised dissonant sludge, while Force Carrier launch it outward with instrumental, sci‑fi‑infused progressive death metal. Semper Acerbus bring the serrated urgency of 00s metalcore, Denominate spiral into progressive death metal shaped by Opeth, Ne Obliviscaris, In Mourning and Black Crown Initiate, and Abysm scorch the edges with a blast of blackened thrash.
 
Rounding out the descent is the unmistakable heft of Will Haven — a band whose sound remains a singular force in post‑hardcore and noise‑laden heaviness. Their trademark blend of suffocating atmosphere, bruised‑knuckle groove, and emotional abrasion adds a different kind of gravity to the rotation: less cosmic, less technical, but raw, human, and punishing in a way only Will Haven can deliver.
 
A clean incision to open 2026 — and the flesh only gets stranger from here.

⚔️ Total streams: 350 ↑ 48% vs. last week

🩸  Total Artists streamed: 12 ↓ 8%

⚔️ Total Albums streamed: 20 ↑ 18%
🩸  New Tracks streamed: 93 ↓ 12%
⚔️ Total Listening Time: 1 day, 1 hour ↑ 63%
🩸  Average Streams: 50 per day ↑ 48%
⚔️ Most Active Streaming Day: 103 on January 2^nd, 2026 ↑ 19%

⚔️ Top Artist: Will Haven  (158 streams)

🩸  Top Album: Will Haven – “Open the Mind to Discomfort” (48 streams)

⚔️ Top Track: Pict – “III. Searching” (9 streams)

🩸  The New Flesh Index Playlist #1 (January 2nd to January 8th, 2026)