For our sixty-fifth episode, we discuss our most-listened to albums of all time! Of course, we also talk about the incredible new releases from the past two weeks!

We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the awesome German Black/Death metal band HKSPK! They have a new album called “Heimkehr” releasing on September 11, 2026, and asked us to feature their latest single, Rot in Despair!

Check out their bandcamp:

https://hkspk.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!

Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

Songs in this Episode:

• SAROF – The Pit
• Gleichmacher – Palingenese
• Megascavenger – Heading for the Furnace
• Temple of Dread – Dreadspawn Dominion
• Bloody Cumshot – Devastating Bukkake
• Aspen Sanctum – Pillars
• HKSPK – Rot in Despair

Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Violence System – The Hollowing
• Deceased – Last Stand
• Coma Control – Shed the Sleep
• BrainBath – Head Hunted
• IronFlame – Worlds to Conquer
• Hulder – Verbolgen

Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Dark Plague – Masquerade
• Graf – Call of the Blood
• The Absolution Sequence – Dread Cycle
• Suffocate the Skies – Obsidian Shores
• Invocation Ritual – Altered Reality
• SoulRazer – Noxious Creation

For our sixty-fourth episode, we discuss Innovation in metal, looking back at past acts, current acts, and where we think the future is headed. We also play some killer music from the best releases of the past two weeks!

We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the all-girl Punk/Metal group, Gunk! They have an album out called FEMICIDE, and are releasing copies on vinyl at the end of August, along with a new music video!

Check out their bandcamp:

https://gunkpunkmusic.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!

Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

Songs in this Episode:

• Ripper – Towards Rebirth
• Aenigmatum – Inseverable
• Antipeewee – Ivory Throne
• CHAMBER OF UNLIGHT – The Dagger
• Litosth – Abyss
• Faustian – Broken Better
• Gunk! – FLESH DUST

Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Sinner – Boom Bang Goodbye
• Sellsword – …With Might and Vengeance
• Complexant – Apex
• Slaughtered Cadaver – Welcome
• Profane Burial – Desolate Echoes of Turmoil
• Daskra – Mountains Bleed in Autumn’s Fire
• Veil of Visions – Empty Forms

Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Into Darkness – Route to the Other Side
• Caelestia – Revelations in Black
• Bryan Eckermann – Return to Helmbrook
• Finsterforst – Still
• Nothingness – Godslaughter
• Cairiss – Wilderness
• Lipoma – Infernal Wounds of Ravenous Flesh
• The Red Mass Ritual – Cervine

For our sixty-third episode, we discuss each of our five favorite underrated albums! We also polled our friends and followers and got a ton of great recommendations as well. Regarding new music, we covered three weeks instead of the usual two, simply because the first in the cycle was the weakest week since starting the show. Luckily, weeks two and three yielded some awesome albums, so we hope you enjoy our picks!

We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the American Blackened Technical Death Metal band, Ethereal Rot! They just released their self-titled debut on July 17th, 2026,! If you dig the track, support the band via their bandcamp!

Check out their bandcamp:

https://etherealrot.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!

Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

Songs in this Episode:

• Lost Vital Spark – Anthem
• Apogean – White Trees, Black Leaves
• Iron Slaught – Ghastly Obsession
• Fuming Mouth – Barbarian Scourge
• Sigyn – A New Nation
• Niveous – Frostborne Resistance
• Ethereal Rot – Ophidian Womb

Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• DevilDriver – Strike and Kill
• Undertaker – Global Dominion
• Solaris – Of Sin and Ruin
• Lucid Dreaming – Upon the Barricades
• Hellionight – Witches’ Sabbat
• Night Path – The Night’s Path
• Psycroptic – The Pulse of Annihilation
• Haserot – Advent of Suffering

Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Mylingen – Det Inre Morket
• Ravaged by the Yeti – Snowbound Horror
• Mortem – Morketid
• Dysgnostic – End Whispers
• Emptiness – Nowhere Speaks
• Lord Gryphus – Summoning the King of Death
• Eaten by Sharks – The Undertow of Hate
• Eutonazia Kordax – Ominous Portents

For our sixty-second episode, we had four weeks of material to cover, so we opted for another “More Music” episode. There were a ton of great releases over the past month, and our picks as well as our honorable mentions are worth checking out!

We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Indonesian Melodic Death Metal band, Narva! They have their debut album “AnvilHeart” out now on Underrated Records. It was released on June 6th, 2026, but we somehow missed it! If you dig the track, support the band via their bandcamp!

Check out their bandcamp:

https://narvaofficial.bandcamp.com/album/anvilheart

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!

Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

Songs in this Episode:

• ZØRZA – Stormspell
• Shroud – Death Blows Over
• Astral Alchemy – Bathing in the Sap of the Moonflower
• Bloody Falls – I Am the Devil
• Stormkeep – The Taste of Immortal Blood
• Fires in the Distance – By This Time Tomorrow
• Inherits the Void – A World Unmade
• Saidan – Immersed by Eternity’s Blade
• Narva – Of Watchtower & Beacons

Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Cornucopia – Cosmic Consciousness
• Revolting – Supernatural Anthems
• Seven Metal Sins – Legacy of Chaos
• Edoma – Hymns of the Ice Kingdom
• Lex Legion – Lex Legion
• Green Desert Water – Eerie Meadows
• WoeWarden – The Roots of My Neglect
• Flykt – Sinister Strain
• Mork – Monolit

Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Together to the Stars – Irridescence
• Horn – Apokalyps 1618
• Grim Prophecy – Grim Prophecy
• Malist – Eternal Echo of the Fall
• Walg – VI
• Balashtoth – Equation II: The Antithesis of Life and Free Will
• Art | Est – Evil Embodiment
• One Day in Pain – Devouring the Gods
• Avarice – Perpetual Ruin
• Monument of Misanthropy – Washington State Charm

For our sixty first episode, We discuss our current top 10 lists from 2026 so far! There’s been a lot of great releases, and while there is some overlap in our lists, there’s also a few surprises!

There is no submission track for this episode, but 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!

Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

Songs in this Episode:

• In Malice’s Wake – By Tongues of Demons
• Nazghor – Cursed and Unblessed
• Inherits the Void – Wrath of the Endless Sea
• Xorsist – Of Where I Reside
• Hellripper – Sculptor’s Cave
• Together to the Stars – Mourner
• Saidan – Beat to Death

On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Steve Wiener, a longtime friend of the show, and a prolific musician – working on several bands, including Eveale, Am I In Trouble, Negative Bliss, Ashenheart, and Wince & Frisson! His latest release is from Am I In Trouble, and it’s a remix album called “Facets”! We had a great time getting to know Steve a little more and figuring out how he manages to work on so many different projects. This one was a lot of fun!

Check out Steve’s Ampwall page below:

https://steve.ampwall.com

Listen at the end of the podcast to hear the collaboration track with Gonemage, called “Cobalt”!

Also, Follow us on Facebook, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

For our sixtieth episode, we discuss one of our least favorite trends in music, Intro Tracks! There’s a right and a wrong way to do them, and we dive into what works and what doesn’t! Of course there’s a lot of great new music to hear as well!

We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Swedish Black Metal band, Dysthen! Their Debut EP, “Dysthen” released on May 29, 2026!

Check out their bandcamp:

https://dysthen.bandcamp.com/album/dysthen

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!

Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

Songs in this Episode:

• Membrance – Caronte
• Azaghal – Haava
• Malebeste – Le Puits d’Enfer
• Serpent Lord – A Pagan’s Spell
• Abandony Agony – My Redemption
• Mansvara – Obsidianize
• Dysthen – Lotus

Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Sarcasm – Lifeforce Omnibound
• As the Sun Falls – Songs from the Veil
• Misanthrope – Embracement
• LeatherWitch – First Spell
• Eternal Evil – Forever Feared
• Opera IX – Veneficium
• Keops – Bitter Story for Humanity

Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• The Scalar Process – Agnomysticism
• Crocell – Swarm of Insects
• Maladie – The Dance of Tragedies
• Hecate Enthroned – The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried
• Graveir – The Festering Triad
• Beyond Salvation – The Final Nail
• Deus Sabaoth – Distortion of Lies
• Surrogoat – Consumed by the Wrath of Time

For our fifty-ninth episode, we return to our cycle of discussing our top vocalists, and this time we discuss our favorites who sing cleans! Of course there’s a ton of incredible music to hear as well!

We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Canadian Death Metal band, Defenestration! Their new EP, “Rotting Antefix” releases on June 12, 2026!

Check out their bandcamp:

https://defenestration204.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!

Also, Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

Songs in this Episode:

• Conjuring – Rituale
• Tyrannus – Orbus Non Sufficit
• Electric Sun Defence – Estuary
• Aghalmar – The Mellow Soliloquoy
• Torchia – Black Cat
• Galibot – Penitent
• Defenestration – Rotting Antefix

Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Yoth Iria – Gone With the Devil
• Draconian – In Somnolent Ruin
• Howler – Beyond Mortal Control
• Arroganz – Death Doom Punks
• Atavistia – Old Gods Awaken
• Enthraced – Constellation Zero
• Acolythus – Unearthly Kingdoms ‘Neath Lifeless Stara
• Eradikated – Wiring of Violence

Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle:

• Old Moon – Home to Nowhere
• Saasta – Cesspool
• Wormgod – Choices
• LaCasta – Olibanvm
• IATT – Etheric Realms of the Night
• Harms – Rebirth of the Cold
• Jungle Rot – Cruel Face of War
• Sangkal – Niskalafana