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www.nocleansinging.com 31/08/2026

SEEN AND HEARD ON A SATURDAY: MANNVEIRA, LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT, MORGUE, BEATEN TO DEATH, NO GRAVE, CASA DE PIQUE, FLAGELO, FEAR FACTORY - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) This happened to be a week when I paid a lot of attention to the emergence of new songs and videos. In my case, what that means is saving links and making lists instead of actually listening and watching. I don’t know why I do t

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www.nocleansinging.com 31/08/2026

SHADES OF BLACK: KOSTNICA, LAUGH TRACK, OAKENTHRONE, I HELVETE, THERMIDOR, HALO OF TEETH - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) As I did yesterday morning, I began today by again bleakly staring at my enormous list of links for new music. I could hear the list chortling at me. “You fool,” it muttered in between cackles, “you won’t even scratch the surfac

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www.nocleansinging.com 17/08/2026

SHADES OF BLACK: DARK PLAGUE, PYRE OF DESCENT, LA BESTIA DE GEVAUDAN, MATAVITATAU, SPIRIT POSSESSION, SKELETAL SERPENT - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) As many of you will know, I usually post a column at NCS on Sundays with recommendations in the expanding orbit of black metal. I wasn’t able to do that last Sunday due to leaving home on the early side of the day for what turne

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www.nocleansinging.com 12/08/2026

AN NCS PREMIERE: CELOPHYS - "MAMMOTH MARCH" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) At this site we try to range widely in our listening and in the music we choose to share, to range widely in both geography and in the stylistic character of what we recommend. We also intentionally spend more time delving into

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www.nocleansinging.com 06/08/2026

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): STYGIAN - "DREADLANDS" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) Dreadlands is the debut album of the Italian band Stygian, which will be released on July 4th by Time To Kill Records. In its thematic conception and its lyrical expression, it reflects serious thought, scorching insight, and ho

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www.nocleansinging.com 06/08/2026

AN NCS PREMIERE: STYGIAN - "HUNT THE DIVINE" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) Last summer we had the pleasure of premiering and reviewing Dreadlands, the debut album from Ravenna-based Stygian. As we wrote then, the music was “an intersection or fusion of two worlds, a hybrid of crust punk and black metal

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www.nocleansinging.com 31/07/2026

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: TEMPLE WITCH - "MAKER'S BREATH" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) We are very happy to welcome the doom metal band Temple Witch to our pages for the first time (and we think you’ll be happy about it too). They’re a trio based in Kent, Ohio and have released two albums so far, 2021’s Hand in Ha

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www.nocleansinging.com 31/07/2026

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: VEILCASTE - "EMBEDDED" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Todd Manning) “If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?”- Charles Fort The Midwest’s best-kept secret is Indianapolis’s doom/sludge juggernaut, Veilcaste. Every time they hit the studio, their sound grows, the space between the star

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www.nocleansinging.com 31/07/2026

AN NCS PREMIERE: VEILCASTE - "CHAINS" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) The Indianapolis doom/sludge band Veilcaste took shape in 2010 under the name Conjurer, adopted their current name in 2020, and continued surging forward on their mission to crush the life out of listeners. With two albums relea

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www.nocleansinging.com 24/07/2026

SEEN AND HEARD: MISERY INDEX, FEARTILIZER 1492, VENOMOUS ECHOES, THE ABSOLUTION SEQUENCE - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) I woke up at 4 a.m. this morning. I wake up early every morning, mainly because of this blog, but not that early. No idea why I opened my eyes then but I couldn’t go back to sleep. The only silver lining to that unfortunate clou

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www.nocleansinging.com 18/07/2026

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: FEARTHROPOD - "LESSER CARNIVORA" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) Today we’re announcing that on November 11th Satanath Records (Georgia) and Bajo Tierra Records (Mexico) will co-release the third album from the Mexican death metal band Feathropod, which is a solo project founded in Querétaro

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www.nocleansinging.com 18/07/2026

SEEN AND HEARD ON A SATURDAY: BEYOND GRACE, ENTHEOS, HÄMND, SEV LEZU, BOÖTES VOID, HAIL CONJURER - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) I did enough listening over the last couple of days to make the usual difficult choices for this Saturday roundup, but other activities prevented me from getting a head-start on the writing. Those same activities last night caus

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www.nocleansinging.com 13/07/2026

SHADES OF BLACK: LABOR OF THE NEGATIVE, AURI, TEARS OF NEMAN & СХИЗМА, MIASMES, HAMMERFILOSOFI, DRAPE, ORANSSI PAZUZU - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) As you can see, I have a lot of new music to recommend today. I hope the volume won’t deter you from investigating each entry. I will say that I’ve arranged the selections in a way that my cause your head to whirl around as you

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www.nocleansinging.com 13/07/2026

AN NCS PREMIERE: INVOCATION RITUAL - "THREAT BY EXAMPLE" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) Last summer the Seattle-based death metal band Invocation Ritual self-released a two-song debut demo, and now they’re following that with a debut album named Altered Reality which Iron Fortress Records will release on August 14t

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www.nocleansinging.com 08/07/2026

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): DEHUMANIZING ITATRAIN WORSHIP - "2D COMPLEX" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) The best anime death metal from China! That sounds like a narrow niche, doesn’t it? It’s also a description that leaves some big unanswered questions about what the music sounds like – questions we will help answer today. But fi

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www.nocleansinging.com 03/07/2026

OUR LIST OF 2025’S MOST INFECTIOUS EXTREME METAL SONGS (PART 11): RIVERS OF NIHIL, FIMBUL WINTER, GRAVETAKER - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) After today there will be 10 days left to complete this series before I stop at the end of January (unless I panic and post a segment on a weekend). I’m guessing some of you are wondering when I’m going to include more of the 20

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www.nocleansinging.com 28/06/2026

SEEN AND HEARD ON A SATURDAY: BEHEMOTH, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, FUMING MOUTH, SÉPULCRE, LUMINOUS VEIL, JØTNARR, THOLN, MAUNAH - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) Sometimes we lead off these roundups with shiny lures (bands whose names are well known) to attract hungry fish (you), in the hope that the fish will get hooked by something sharp hanging below in darker waters. That’s what I’ve

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www.nocleansinging.com 19/06/2026

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): IF I DIE TODAY - "I FELT NOTHING" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) We live in a time of trauma and constant distraction, bombarded by personally damaging events beyond our control, emotional turmoil caused by damage to others, and bafflements produced by algorithmically generated slop and delus

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www.nocleansinging.com 14/06/2026

OVERFLOWING STREAMS: GOROD, CULT OF LUNA, ALLEGAEON, BLACK SPIKE, SNAG, UNTU, MOLOKEN, WITCHSORROW, SWARN - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) I went whole-hog with my listening hours yesterday. Like a pig in a trough, I gobbled up so many good songs that I picked 9 of them for today’s roundup. As gluttonous as that was, I easily could have added a lot more, even after

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www.nocleansinging.com 14/06/2026

SHADES OF BLACK: EMPTINESS, FÖGBÖTLER, CAGED BASTARD, MILLIONS OF THEM, WOLFZAHN, MERRIMACK - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) After yesterday’s big trough of music for gluttonous souls, I wasn’t sure what to do with this column today. I easily could have rewarded gluttony again. The platter of new black(ish) metal songs and complete releases that’s in

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www.nocleansinging.com 10/06/2026

AN NCS PREMIERE: FERALIA - "BALLATA AVERNALE" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) Some metal albums are essentially collections of singles, songs that don’t have any thematic connection to each other. Others are “concept” albums, in which the songs have their place in some unifying pre-conceived vision by the

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www.nocleansinging.com 06/06/2026

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: TRIAGE - "DECIMAL POINTS" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) I want to begin this premiere feature with a personal note. While working on Northwest Terror Fest in Seattle a few weeks ago I witnessed what might have been the wildest musical riot of the entire event, a performance at the pa

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