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.

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)

ALBUM REVIEW: Will Haven, "Muerte"

By: Charlie Butler

Album Type: Full Length

Date Released: 23/03/2018

Label: Minus Head Records

 “Muerte” is a glorious affirmation of Will Haven's greatness and raises the bar for heavy music in 2018, an awesome awe inspiring achievement for a band 23 years into their existence.

“Muerte” CD//DD//LP track listing:

1. Hewed With the Brand
2. Winds of Change
3. Kinney
4. The Son
5. 43
6. No Escape (feat. Mike Scheidt of YOB)
7. Unit K
8. Ladwig No. 949
9. Bootstraps
10. Now in the Ashes
11. El Sol (feat. Stephen Carpenter)

The Review:

Hopes of heavy veterans returning with an album that rivals their finest early work are rarely realised. Sacramento hellraisers Will Haven gave a timely reminder of their potent racket on 2011 LP “Voir Dire”. After a lengthy break the band now return with the awe-inspiring “Muerte”, a massive record that gives “Carpe Diem” a run for its money as their finest hour.

The quiet ambience of “Hewed With The Brand” is soon shattered by Grady Avenell’s glass gargling bark which heralds an earth-shaking explosion of riffage. Straight away the band lock into their trademark staccato assault, sounding bigger, heavier and uglier than ever before. The material here strikes a perfect balance between maintaining Will Haven’s crushing sonic palette while adding new layers of songwriting complexity. Will Haven have always had a penchant for hypnotic, effects-heavy interludes of calm in amongst the mayhem but now these sections have been incorporated into more challenging, dynamic compositions like “The Son” and “Now In The Ashes”. Key to this epic, immersive sound is the more prominent use of keyboards. When they were first introduced on “Voir Dire” they added a welcome subtle texture to the bands rumbling sludge. Now they have evolved into an all-encompassing wash of ethereal noise that lends these tracks a rich, unique atmosphere.  

“No Escape” provides a powerful centrepiece to the album bolstered by a stunning guest vocal performance by YOB’s Mike Scheidt. A typically brutal lumbering explodes into a slow-motion lament with Scheidt’s timeless croon really hammering home the emotion. The melancholic doom of the outro is strangely beautiful with wordless howls conveying an aching sadness.

Deftones’ Stephen Carpenter joins the fray for the massive finale of “El Sol”. This track is a perfect celebration of the friendship between these two hugely influential bands and demonstration of what both are capable of at the peak of their powers.

The possibility of Will Haven delivering one of the albums of 2018 seemed minimal at the start of the year. “Muerte” is a glorious affirmation of their greatness and raises the bar for heavy music in 2018, an awesome achievement for a band 23 years into their existence.

“Muerte” is available here

Band info: bandcamp || facebook