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This is 'Liberation through Amplification.'
⚔️🩸 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)
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
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