I asked AI to find themes in my interviews and here's the bottom line: Machine Music treats extreme music not as a subculture but as a way of thinking about how human beings endure suffering, construct meaning, inherit traditions, and imagine possibilities that ordinary life does not easily permit.
Chasing a band for give-or-take 10 years for an interview. Today's the day.
ICYMI
Machine Music@machinemusic.bsky.social · 3d ago// I don't have a clever title just a ton of amazing weird metal // Feat: Epitaphe, Krallice, Earth Mother Fucker, Thaetas, Nu Jazz @orangemilkrecords.bsky.social, Ænigmatum, Karkait, Rahaty, Silurian, Smote @rocketrecordings.bsky.social + INFO ON Rană and more machinemusic.net/2026/08/02/i...
// I don't have a clever title just a ton of amazing weird metal // Feat: Epitaphe, Krallice, Earth Mother Fucker, Thaetas, Nu Jazz @orangemilkrecords.bsky.social, Ænigmatum, Karkait, Rahaty, Silurian, Smote @rocketrecordings.bsky.social + INFO ON Rană and more machinemusic.net/2026/08/02/i...
It wasn't that long ago where I said to myself: "When will there be a new Ænigmatum album? Their previous one was one of my favorite death metal albums of the past few years". Well, as it turns out: FUCKING TODAY (surprise drop by 20BS) 20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/infini...
Infinitude's Passage, by Ænigmatum
6 track album
20buckspin.bandcamp.com
Full album stream of the new Altarage ahead of its release tomorrow. I'd get on that if I were you cvltnation.com/abysmal-mech...
cvltnation.com
This is not a drill. New Epitaphe AKA the band that does what Haunter should have been doing. First new album in four years. YES. epitaphe.bandcamp.com/album/iii
III, by Epitaphe
5 track album
epitaphe.bandcamp.com
The world is one fire, might as well have appropriate music sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/bestia...
Bestial Lustmord, by RAHATY
9 track album
sentientruin.bandcamp.com
ICYMI
Machine Music@machinemusic.bsky.social · last wk.// Listening to Weirdo Extreme Metal Like it Was Reading James Joyce // Feat: Venomous Echoes, Death.Void.Terror, Morgue Supplier, Ripper, Ecliptic, Anatomy of Habit, @wailinstorms.bsky.social, Deamonolith, Acausal Intrusion + INFO ON: Scarcity, Siderean & more machinemusic.net/2026/07/26/l...
Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Hail Sagan ™️@hailsagan42069.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
// Listening to Weirdo Extreme Metal Like it Was Reading James Joyce // Feat: Venomous Echoes, Death.Void.Terror, Morgue Supplier, Ripper, Ecliptic, Anatomy of Habit, @wailinstorms.bsky.social, Deamonolith, Acausal Intrusion + INFO ON: Scarcity, Siderean & more machinemusic.net/2026/07/26/l...
ICYMI
Machine Music@machinemusic.bsky.social · 2w ago// Recording 2 and a half hour long interviews while listening to Bauhaus and György Ligeti July 12-18 // Feat: Sev Lezu, Altarage, Decedent, Fed Has + HIRS, Beastlor, Xenoch, Thy Burial, Âmes-astre + INFO ON: True Widow and more machinemusic.net/2026/07/19/r...
Your daily reminder that I talked with Matt from avant-garde demolition Crew Cleric about improvisation, editing, learning from John Zorn and how heavy music fit into all that. It's long, it ain't a YouTube short or whatever, but I think it's good. machinemusic.net/2026/07/16/a...
Albums of the Decade: An Interview with Cleric
[This is the 58th installment of the Albums of the Decade series of interviews. For the rest of the series go HERE.] Artist: Cleric Album: Retrocausal + The Book Beri'ah Vol. 2 – Chokhma Year…
machinemusic.net
Finding out I was (again) rejected from a research fund I submitted to last year and reaching for Inter Arma's The Cavern since that was the last clear point of happiness in recent times (seeing it live) as a form of really rediculous self harm.
my head is just exploding from these lovely words about âmes-astre: machinemusic.net/2026/07/19/r... @machinemusic.bsky.social thank you! more to come of this project for sure
Recording 2 and a half hour long interviews while listening to Bauhaus and György Ligeti July 12-18
Everything is the same. Oh, except I just put up my Albums of the Decade interview with Cleric. That changed. Keep safe. If you're new to this metal blog of bones you can also check out the various…
machinemusic.net
// Recording 2 and a half hour long interviews while listening to Bauhaus and György Ligeti July 12-18 // Feat: Sev Lezu, Altarage, Decedent, Fed Has + HIRS, Beastlor, Xenoch, Thy Burial, Âmes-astre + INFO ON: True Widow and more machinemusic.net/2026/07/19/r...
ICYMI and you like weird heavy music. Yeah, you.
Machine Music@machinemusic.bsky.social · 3w ago// ALBUMS OF THE DECADE: AN INTERVIEW WITH CLERIC // Another installment of my relentless interrogation of the best heavy art of the 2010s. This time an in-depth convo with Matt Hollenberg about two Cleric releases: Retrocausal and Chokhma, and about improvisation. machinemusic.net/2026/07/16/a...
As you prepare to delve into what I feel is the best album of the year so far, Emptiness' Nowhere Speaks, feel free to return to what I wrote about it a few weeks ago. Still holds true. machinemusic.net/2026/05/09/l...
Listening to Kowloon Walled City to Feel and/or Hide the Pain While Writing About Sick Metal May 3-9
The Kowloon Walled City show I was fortunate enough to witness in Roadburn changed my life. Truth be told, it wasn't the only cathartic, mind-expanding moment in my time there, but Kowloon Walled C…
machinemusic.net
// ALBUMS OF THE DECADE: AN INTERVIEW WITH CLERIC // Another installment of my relentless interrogation of the best heavy art of the 2010s. This time an in-depth convo with Matt Hollenberg about two Cleric releases: Retrocausal and Chokhma, and about improvisation. machinemusic.net/2026/07/16/a...
I will have MORE to say about this, hopefully in this coming weekly post, but: NEW BEASTLOR. AKA Mick Barr's other-other black metal project. Previous album was, to me, an underrated gem. This might be even better. beastlor.bandcamp.com/album/allah
Allah, by Beastlor
8 track album
beastlor.bandcamp.com
Bands I could press play on their first ever song and let their entire discography play without skipping anything: Yellow Eyes Krallice True Widow Fugazi Thou Warning/40 Watt Sun ISIS Grey Aura Morbus Chron/Sweven Vastum Cult of Luna Liturgy Oranssi Pazuzu Suffering Hour Djevel Virus
ICYMI /Gazing Upon the Dead Horizon While Trying to Buy Weird Metal Tapes/ Feat.: Snet, Neptunian Maximalism, Iskandr, Echo Zero, Some Dead Bodies, Cinder Well , Cabinet, Скотина, Moonspell + INFO: Sulphuric Death, Saint Disgustus etc. machinemusic.net/2026/07/11/g...
/ Gazing Upon the Dead Horizon While Trying to Buy Weird Metal Tapes / Feat.: Snet, Neptunian Maximalism, Iskandr, Echo Zero, Some Dead Bodies, @cinderwellmusic.bsky.social, Cabinet, Скотина, Moonspell + INFO: Sulphuric Death, Saint Disgustus & more. machinemusic.net/2026/06/27/m...
Don't know if it's a legit BC page, but Theatre of Tragedy albums have been uploaded. This track, in both live and studio version, is for sure one of my favorite metal songs ever. Easily. theatreoftragedy.bandcamp.com/track/intro-...
Intro / And When He Falleth, by Theatre Of Tragedy
from the album Closure:Live
theatreoftragedy.bandcamp.com
Riffs that descend like a jagged rain from the heavens. This is what my life needs right now, this is it. fluisteraars.bandcamp.com/album/jacht-...
Jacht der Mysteriën, by FLUISTERAARS
3 track album
fluisteraars.bandcamp.com
