Welcome to 2026! For our fiftieth episode, we cover everything from the past six weeks, from November 28th through January 9th! There were a lot of great releases at the end of 2025, but this year is definitely off to a slow start!

We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the American Black Metal band Ashenheart. They are releasing a new single on January 26th called “Stars Wept to the Sea” in memory of the main guitarist’s wife passing away from cancer. All proceeds from the bandcamp sale will be donated to the American Cancer Society, so please visit at the link below and donate if you can!

Check out their bandcamp:

https://ashenheart.bandcamp.com/album/stars-wept-to-the-sea-single

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Songs in this Episode:

• Enshine – Reignite
• Fullmoon Rite – Geisterwald Akt II (Im Bann des Teufelsvogels)
• Struck a Nerve – The Knife Scrapes the Bone
• Arcane Frost – Withering Decay
• EverRise – Melody of Death
• Jours Pales – Cineraire
• Blood Red Throne – On These Bones
• Bloedmaan – What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
• Ashenheart – Stars Wept to the Sea

Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Death From Above – Reckoning of the Damned
• Trigger – The Waking Beast
• Tumulo – Evangelho do Canhoto
• Streams of Blood – Vermaledeit
• Consumer – Consumer Society
• Bullet – Kickstarter
• Carnal Savagery – Crypt of Decay
• Thy Disease – United We Fall
• Munt – The World is Not Yours
• Galloglaigh – Upon Silent Waters
• Blizzen – Metaelectric

Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Avdagata – The Apocalyptic Aeon
• Malefic Throne – The Conquering Darkness
• Infyrna – WeltSchmertz
• Czernina – Oszukac Listopad
• Yardfield Colony – The Doomestication
• XIV Dark Centuries – Aus uralter Zeit
• Revasseur – Reaper’s Gale
• Hierophany – Tenebrario
• Woe – Legacies of Human Frailty

On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Brendon Small, the creator of Dethklok and Metalocalypse! Dethklok is about to embark on tour across the US with Amon Amarth and Castle Rat this April! Get your tickets at the link below:

https://www.amonklok.com

Thanks to Brendon for taking the time to talk with us and go in-depth about Metalocalypse, touring, and his growth as a musician. We had a blast getting to know him, and despite a few small technical issues, I think we had a great interview! We hope you enjoy it too.

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I can’t believe it’s been two years since we started this journey with Harsh Vocals! To celebrate, we’ve revamped the website and updated our logo, hopefully you all like it! For our Forty-Ninth episode, we discuss the highs and lows of 2025, and deep dive on both of our top30 albums for the year. Of course there is a little overlap, but there’s a few surprises too! It’s a very long episode, but there are a lot of laughs and some great discussion. We hope you’ll stick around until the end.

We also want to thank everyone who has supported us by visiting the site, checking out the podcast, and leaving us reviews. Every message, comment, and review means so much to us, and makes us feel like we’re really doing something to help promote this amazing music we love so much. We have so much to look forward to in 2026, so we hope you’ll all stick around and see what’s in store!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Graveripper – Bring Upon Pain
• Mystic Circle – Luciferian
• Starer – Song of the Harper
• Bliss of Flesh – Martyr
• Condition Critical – Wretched Aggression
• Thormesis – Am Morgen, wenn die Sonne untrgeht

For our forty-eighth episode, we decided to discuss ourselves and our passions outside of Metal. You’ve been listening to us for two years now, so we felt it was time to talk about who we are! Of course, we also discuss our favorite six albums from the past two weeks, as well as a ton of honorable mentions. It was another great cycle!

We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Massachusetts based Punk/Thrash Metal band, “Death Ray Vision”!

Check out their bandcamp at the link below:

https://deathrayvision.bandcamp.com

If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Sterbhaus – Death Bu Wolfe
• Depravity – Call to the Fallen
• Nokk – All the Pretty Things
• Bore – Hoof & Feather
• Morbikon – Ghoul Infested Mausoleum
• Lamp of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy, Pt. 1 – Moondance
• Death Ray Vision – From the Rafters

Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Ash Return – Defy and Conquer
• Mezzrow – Embrace the Awakening
• Olde Throne – Megalith
• Outlying – Oblivisci
• The Halo Effect – We are Shadows
• Speedclaw – Stardust
• Frozen Land – Icemelter
• Bloodhound – Field of Swords
• Darktribe – Forgotten Reveries
• Mytherine – Lord of Mountains

Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Valpur – With Ire Ablazes the Stone
• Devouring Famine – A Man Whispering with the Dead
• Demon King – Death Knell
• 1914 – Viribus Unitis
• Halmad – When Night Rode Across the Earth
• Karu – Perdition
• Spleen Flipper – Through the Ashes of Mankind

For our forty-seventh episode, we decided to do another “More Music” episode, featuring an even lengthier discussion about our favorite albums of the past two weeks, rather than a topic! We did this because there were simply too many great albums released through this cycle!

We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Las Vegas based Black/Death Metal band, “Scathen”!

Check out their bandcamp at the link below:

https://scathen.bandcamp.com/track/fecal-filled-host

If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Avernal – Arconte Egregor
• Ophidian Memory – Cenotaph
• Faust – To The Fire, To The Death
• Outlaw – Through the Infinite Darkness
• Ovader – Ymir’s Tale
• Mystic Circle – The Scarlet Queen of Harlots
• Thron – One Truth, One Light
• Bliss of Flesh – The Awakening
• Scathen – Fecal-Filled Host

Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Burned in Effigy – Tyrannus Aeternum
• Canvas of Silence – As the World Tree Fell
• Defecto – Echoes of Isolation
• Tapeworm Electric – Moonshine
• Aria – ?
• Agnostic Front – Echoes in Eternity
• Centinex – With Guts and Glory
• Insidius – Vulgus Illustrata
• Omnium Gatherum – May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way
• Soulfracture – The Leader of the Exploited
• Malakhim – And in our Hearts, the Devil Sings
• Misanthropic Might – Qualzucht
• Glorious Depravity – Death Never Sleeps
• Ildaruni – Divinum Sanguinem

Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• One of Nine – Dawn of the Iron Shadow
• Nyrak – Phoenix Mortis
• Krahenfeld – …Vom Ruf der Leere
• Warfield Within – Rise of Independence
• Godark – Omniscience
• Pedestal for Leviathan – Enter: Vampyric Manifestation
• Embraced by Darkness – Ex Inferis
• Miasmata – Subterrania
• Flesia – Achterbahnekstase

For our forty-sixth episode, we decided to talk about the different streaming platform options, and the recent mass-exodus from certain ones due to unsavory ads. Of course we also talk about the best albums from yet another incredibly strong two week cycle!

We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the English Progressive Death Metal band, “Soulfracture”!

Check out their bandcamp at the link below:

https://soulfracture.bandcamp.com/album/the-leader-of-the-exploited

If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!

We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Soul Grinder – Malevolent Reality
• Scorching Tomb – Skullcrush
• Coroner – Symmetry
• Darah – Futility
• Graveripper – New Gods, New Masters
• Impermanence – From Mirage to Lust
• Soulfracture – The Leader of the Exploited

Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Blindman – After Rain
• Anthology – Frozen Sun
• Monolyth – Seeds of Perserverance
• Victimarum – Seitseman Soihdun Valossa
• Afsky – Faellesskab
• Battle Beast – Steelbound
• Hellbearer – Darker Fates
• Sabaton – Legends
• Glasya – Fear
• Fatal Portrait – An Illusive Instinct for Lascivia Redux
• Sintage – Unbound Triumph
• Inlimine – Inveteratus
• Jet Jaguar – Severance

Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• UAAR – Galger Og Brann
• Tribal Gaze – Inveighing Brilliance
• Argesk – Moonlight Pyromancy
• Wretched – Decay
• Aurora Ortis – Against Ourselves
• IRR – Remains Remain
• Bonginator – Retrodeath

For our forty-fifth episode, we decided to talk about theatrics and the role they play in metal performances. We discuss shocking performances and some unusual things we’ve personally seen, as well as how the general population views Metal. Of course we also talk about the best albums from yet another incredibly strong two week cycle!

We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Portland, Oregon Blackened Melodic Death Metal band, “These Cursed Hands”!

Check out their bandcamp at the link below:

https://thesecursedhands.bandcamp.com

If you have a band and would like us to promote one of your songs in our extreme submissions segment, please reach out!

We hope you enjoy the show! If you do, please leave us a review on your preferred Podcast app! Reviews help us build our audience and help us promote underground music!

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Songs in this Episode:

• Turn Cold – Dog Bite
• Torture Machine – A Call From the Void
• Angrrsth – Prog
• Enragement – Abyssal Hellscapes
• Thorondir – Blut Und Ruhm
• Les Batards Du Roi – L’Ame sans repos
• These Cursed Hands – Extermination Revelation

Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Voragoth – Storm Obey No Masters
• Cruentus – End Without End
• Horror Within – Soul Awakening
• Necrotic Woods – Committed on Flesh
• Ofermod – Drakosophia
• Testament – Para Bellum
• Ultra Raptor – Fossilized
• Dead Heat – Process of Elimination
• Haeresis – Si Vis Parem Para Bellum
• Pandemic Outbreak – Torment Beyond

Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Zero Degree – What We Become
• Lycantrophilia – The Tyranny of Decay
• Frosted Undergrowth – Unchained
• Galge – D0DELIG
• Terzij De Horde – Our Breath is Not Ours Alone
• Scalding – Nuclear Winter Spell
• Starer – Ancient Monuments and Modern Sadness
• Wode – Uncrossing the Keys
• Katakomba – The Second Death
• Vials of Wrath – Remnants for Remembrance

On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Konstantin and Andy from the German Post-Black Metal band, Thormesis! Currently, their latest album “Nevertheless” sits at the top of our Album of the Year list, and we are very excited to get to know the band better and learn more about what went into making it! Thormesis has been around for decades and is one of the most unique and talented bands making emotionally-driven black metal today. If you haven’t heard their latest album, check it out at the link below!

https://thormesis.de

Listen at the end of the podcast to hear the track “Entzweit”!

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