the random tapes

4 tapes were guessed.

Check out the last post.

I uploaded two new ones for people to help find.

First: number 8 - the one I think sounds like Dave Grohl is on drums.

This song is quite aggressive. It's one of the heaviest songs I heard in those days that was not on "the metal show". Drummer reminds me of Dave Grohl. Singer sounds like a hardcore guy. What. could. this. be?!?!?!

second: number 12 - IS THIS GUIDED BY VOICES!?!?!?

this one seems a little obvious, and I honestly could have just dm'd Sean Padilla about it, but homie busy.

I don't even know GBV that well, I just the recent stuff, and my favorite favorite thing of theirs "plantations in pale pink" (and the song the Breeders covered). If it's not them, who is it??

lemme know.

that's all for now.

I received this yesterday.

Checked this morning and OHHHHHH BOOOOOOYYYYYYY

THEY FOUND NUMBER 32!!!!!!!

Have you heard of this band?

according to Metal Archives, this thrash band used to be called 'Forbidden Evil", but then changed their name because they got labeled "black metal".

I can't believe I finally know what this is.

holy shit. I told you this was a white whale holy grail (sing it, for Brent) random tape.

oh. . . . but this beauty didn't stop there.

NUMBER 523!!!!!!!!!!

the one that sounds like Piebald

Hadn't heard of this one either. This version is from a 7", but there's also an album.

linfreund

you are a hero.

thank you.

It takes a while sometimes, but thanks to anyone that still looks at these and points them out. I know this has turned into a regular ass music blog/obituary blog, but the purpose remains.

there's a 3rd one too

NUMBER 41!!!

the one that "sounds like the Melvins".

This is all I can find of theirs, and it's from a compilation.

UPDATE: THEY HAVE A BANDCAMP!!

which has everything they did including that song FOR ONE DOLLAR!!

also got

NUMBER 10

the one that sounds like Blonde Redhead and it's intro sounds like that one nasum song

that link is the full album. Will jam this today.

(already found out that "autobots vs decepticons" is also a random tape)

there's still heroes out there, man.

ALL FOUR currently on the soundcloud.

so, new tapes gonna go up eventually, y'all.

stay tuned!!!!

linfreund (TacSea on soundcloud)

I feel like it's all growers and disappointments except for a couple of releases, those being

Diva Karr

There's been a few decent dissonant releases so far, but this one is the best thing I've heard in 2026. Black metal and noise that does no overstay it's welcome at all. Also, go fig, I had never heard of this band before February.

Fossilization

As for bands I already love, Fossilization were the main one to really come through in 2026.

A Knife In the Dark

. .for some reason this is only on streaming. ?!?!?!?

what's up with streaming only releases, bruv??

A Knife In the Dark sound like Jesus Piece, to the point I wondered if it was the remaining members of Jesus Piece (you know their singer left, right? what the fuck?! 2025 hardcore drama was ridiculous . . .although I guess it doesn't top 2026, does it?) ("IT VASSH SHELF DEFENSCH! HE VASSSH GOINK TO KILL ME, HE TOLDT A GUY").

Turns out it's former members of the Burning Wind? Lemme tell ya, you should really hear that band.

This was the first great metalcore release of 2026, since a certain mathcore band decided to let their guitarist flex his top 40 cleans all over their record. . . . . (Chamber fans is some OVHoes, btw)

ooh, my people dropped today

you know this band, right?

My band share a guitarist with them. It's got Will that used to be in Artificial Brain. jam it right now.

( . . .also, my band, Thaetas . . . um . . . .you might have heard something recently, but that will all be confirmed soon)

Dir en grey?

hey, Mortal Downer is FINE. It's B-side is superior to it's A-side (to the point people on Reddit are making alternative tracklists). It's got zero blast beats, and is overall too slow, but every song from "the devil in me" on is pretty awesome. Also, their gang vocals are still top notch. all the Japanese hardcore bands need to call them. All the American hardcore bands need to call them. Dir en grey gang vocals sound like an army. It's 5 guys. More accurately, it's 4 guys responding to one guy and you feel like it's 600 guys out for your head. The best 5 guys to get in a booth to shout your slogan, your hook, your "I COULD NEVER SWALLOW YOUR FALSE IDEALS OF A LIFELESS HAPPY ENDING" equivalent (ps - the Poison the Well is FINE.) is Dir en grey. You see how I still manage to gush about these people even though the album I'm talking about is not on par with the last two?

This year is slow.

. . . . .I wonder if people were given a warning that Neurosis was coming back with Aaron Turner

"Aaron Turner just joined Neurosis and they're dropping in 2026. Don't try very hard"

Converge - "okay . . . "

(hey, maybe Hum of Hurt will be better)

Somewhere, there is someone who back in 2022 when the awful news was announced uttered this genius prolific phrase, mostly in jest due to believing in their heart of hearts that it would never happen "you know what? they should just get Aaron from Isis".

. . . .and then 4 years later, "NeurIsis", a genre that was coined by some people that saw 18 similar sounding bands popping up over the course of several years, literally came true.

. .and it might be the only good memory anybody has of 2026.

like the deadguy (or Dripping, or Acid Bath) reunion in 2025.

"that year fucking sucked ass . . . .ooh, but remember that Neurosis album? that was sick. The only reason I'm glad I did not die before 2026 is that Neurosis album."

um. . what else. . .

Boldy James and E L U C I D did damn good.

Earl?

look, he's in that $uicideboy$ tier of rap where they've made upwards of 1 perfect album and I'm not going to drag them if they drop something I don't like.

anyway

I know April fucking sucks.

keep your head up out there. or don't.

you don't have to.

-svvan

R.I.P. James GosT Loller

one night this just came on on WVKR, and I of course assumed it was someone at the station talking shit, but it was actually the band themselves.

it's 22 minutes, I don't think they played the whole thing.

Well . . . . ugh, I don't even know what the fuck to say.

There's a reason my bands new album is called "the irredeemable age". eh? That year was fucking bullshit.

as usual.

well, that was a given, right? 2026 is already beyond redemption, and that was a given, right? (black people told you it would be like this)

anyway, 2025 was a year of growers, so it actually did in fact take very long (also, I am falling into a depression where nothing is exciting again).

before I drop the main list, here is everything else I liked in 2025

Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration Hateful Abandon - Threat LABYRINTHINE HEIRS - Labyrinthine Heirs Chepang - Jhyappa Fange - Purulences Proscription - Desolate Divine Devouring Famine - A Man Whispering with the Dead Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence Smearing - Acts Of Service Crossed - Realismo ausente Sorry... - Fragile Scalp - NOT WORTHY OF HUMAN COMPASSION Theatre's Kiss - Desolat / In the Depths of Despair Mclusky - the world is still here and so are we Stress Palace - Paradise Compulsed - Amalgamated Anguish Iron Lung - Adapting // Crawling Tombs - Feral Darkness Kontusion - Insatiable Lust For Death Rancid Cadaver - Mortality Denied OROMET - The Sinking Isle Bleeth - Marionette Cemento - Bad Dream Songs Rwake - The Return of Magik Sulfuric Cautery - CONSUMMATE EXTIRPATION Discordant Meditation - Tragic Creature Deliquesce - Saviour / Enslaver Street Sects - Dry Drunk The Ominous Circle - Cloven Tongues of Fire Westside Gunn - Heels Have Eyes 3 Open Mike Eagle - Neighborhood Gods Unlimited The Armed - the Future is Here and Everything Must Be Destroyed Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Mercy Lebanon Hanover - Asylum Lullabies Chat Pile - In the Earth Again Lord Snow - Have You Heard of the High Elves Nuvolascura - How This All Ends Soulfly - Chama BoriRock - Infinite Wave Ransom & Conductor Williams - The Uncomfortable Truth FEEL WORSE - This Will Weigh Heavily On Your Annual Performance Appraisal Cronos Compulsion - Lawgiver Projector Fires - Projector Fires Carthage must be destroyed - Ex Nihilo SICK DESTROYER - Sick Destroyer Cataphiles - Shadow Self shedfromthebody - Everything Out There Has Teeth

Westside Gunn - 12 Bore - Feral Kaothanasy - Metagonism Lifegaurd - Ripped and Torn De La Soul - Cabin in the Sky Mercy Ties - Reflections and Criticisms Home Front - Watch It Die Clipse - Let God Sort 'em Out Conway the Machine - You Can't Kill God With Bullets Zeicrydeus - La Grande Heresie Sallow Moth - Mossbane Lantern (which, full disclosure, I have a guest spot on) Skinhead - "It's a beautiful day, what a beautiful day"

you see how much hip hop is in there?

Guys, when people said that battle in 2024 (you now the one. where the rapper I was iffy on but thought he had a couple cool tracks basically dissected the trash rapper I knew was trash from day fucking one in front of the whole world?) was the start of something big, I thought maybe they were exaggerating . . . but then we got some of the best mainstream hip hop albums in years. Is the radio playing Clipse? well okay, I know which songs they probably play (ie; all the ones I skip)

anyway, here go the EPs. I only had 15.

now, the albums of the year.

remember I said 2024 was doom year? maybe 2025 was too. It kind of wasn't post punk year, or brutal death metal year, but hey. . . . mathcore title was taken early into the year by the comeback of the year. You already know who the comeback of the year is.

let's start.

40. Smohalla - Ruina Draconis

39. Ainsoph - affection and vengence

38. Délirant - Thoughteater

37. Natures Mortes - Blind Submission

36. ByoNoiseGenerator - Subnormal Dives

35. Annihilation Cult - s/t

34. Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar

33. Intercourse - How I Fell In Love With the Void

32. Burning Palace - Elegy

31. Gloombound - Dreaming Delusion

30. Wreck and Reference - Stay Calm

29. Venomous Echos - Dysmor

28. Yellow Eyes - Confusion Gate

27. Blood Monolith - the Calling of Fire

26. Evoken - Mendacium

I finally get this band now. I don't remember what I heard that year they opened for Wormrot, but I didn't like it as much as I like this. Perfect combo of dISEMBOWELMENT and . . .name a doom band that has a lot of synths.

25. Morast - Fentanyl

24. Psudoku - Psudoktrination

23. Leaker - HAPPY HOUR

22. Stimulant - Sub-Normal

21. VoidCeremony - Abditum

20. Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding

19. Ethereal Wound - Defile | Demise

There's another band that allegedly sings about Berzerk. I think this is the better band that sings about Berzerk . . by a large margin.

(now someone start a band that sings about Gundam that isn't deathcore)

18. Scorpion Milk - Slime of the Times

17. Boldy James & Nicholas Craven - Criminally Attached

16. Veilburner - Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy

15. Old Year - Dissent

14. Deterioration - Prepare For the Worst

13. billy woods - GOLLIWOG

this man barged into my top three rappers in one damn year. If I would have heard Church when it came out, it probably would have made that list. This one, the horror themes just keep bringing me back to it.

12. Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services

I was not happy at 17-18 when I found out from the WVKR dj that this band had broken up only month after discovering them (and then he put on Converge, and I was happy again). So, go fig in the worst year of our lives so far, Deadguy return with an album that sounds like 2.0 (and I'm a 2.0 guy. I might be the only 2.0 guy on earth.) never happened.

11. Terror Corpse - Ash Eclipses Flesh

10. Nyre Dolk - Barndommens Hjem

This would be filed under the "things you might hear on Radio Fenriz, if that show still existed". This album went on the "driving to a show" playlist.

09. Type: Armor Unit - Revolutions in Saecula

You might remember I talked about this album. I said it was "the first great grind release of the year". It certainly held up, even with . . .well.. . .you'll see what happened. Everything I said in that post still stands.

08. Earl Sweatshirt - Live Laugh Love

My big 3 is Earl, Boldy James and billy woods at the moment. and as you have seen, they ALL appeared in this list. I wondered if I would even be that into this because you know "he's not depressed anymore". It doesn't matter.

07. Primitive Man - Observance

Primitive Man also represent the mood of the time. I don't know wht all the funeral doom in particular was hitting for me this year. Why could that be? This was definitely my favorite doom release of the year.

06. Fed Ash - Rotting Exuberence

They had been on a run of split releases since 2020. I had no idea this was coming. It's my favorite thing they've done.

05. Pissgrave - Malignant Worthlessness

it's their final album (allegedly), and it's their best album. Go fig.

04. Barren Path - Grieving

so, like, Type: Armor Unit came out in January delivering everything that people that miss Gridlink needed, and then during the summer we found out that the final Gridlink lineup had basically continued under a new name with Mitch "Maruta" Mitch. Ended up a pretty good grindcore year.

03. Floating - Hesitating Lights

This was in the fight for top spot a long time. The waves have teeth really caught my attention, and I new this was a band to watch. The death metal/post punk combo is perfected further here, with unexpected ragers like "grave dog" (should have been the opening track, which is one of the best songs of 2025) that bore their way inside your head and never leave.

02. Strigiform - Agonite

This barged in in November, to take the dissodeath 2025 title.

01. Kostnatění - Přílišnost (Excess)

By the end of the year, you had about 5 records in a casino battle royale for this spot. It was tough, but this thing was just climbing the list. Kind of a dark horse, really. I like Upal just fine, but I didn't listen to it anywhere near as much as this. Who else did this much in just a little more than a half hour? It goes so many places, and never overstays it's welcome in any one place (there's even a Soulfly type song in here, bro. Ya know what? leave the nu metal revival to people that play death/black metal. between this guy and Garry Gonemage, it's clear who needs to handle this.). It is never dull. It figures, this was another November drop. In a year of growers, this was one of the quickest.

um....

Yeah, I'm done.

Be safe, and junk.

The month has been a little slow (outside of new underground hip hop anyway), but some bands have announced including Converge (in like 2 weeks?) and dir en grey (who will be clowned and suspected of using AI for the rest of their career sadly...but oh well, gen x creatives, right? goth kids know what I'm talking about.)

2 things

the tour did not happen, due to the annual freak ice storms in Texas showing up a couple weeks early. Hopefully reschedule.

the top rekkids list is coming.

The other day they posted a band called "No", who sounded like the precursor to stuff like Old Lady Drivers and the Locust

year end list will come in like February

in the mean time, a random tape i randomly discovered thanks to an IG page, either Deletism or Fuckyralgorithm.

I kinda sorta missed the Breeders, I think this is because I got into Veruca Salt and just sorta got stuck there.

they're really not similar even though Steve Albini recorded both 😅

there were 2 songs they used to pkay all the time that i have corne to realize were definitely the Breeders.

one was "safari". that is from before I ever heard of them.

the other, I never found it, even after listening to all the albums on streaming...

come to find out it is a GUIDED BY VOICES COVER

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME..

..another band I don't listen to enough (but Plantations in Pale Pink is my favorite album of theirs).

um, what el-oh...oh...

THÆTAS are doing a run of shows in Texas with Mutilatred next month.

Second time playing outside the Tri-state, and personally my first time on tour ever. . . .😬

more on that next month.

pretty insane.

album 2 is being mixed.

looking like next summer, but more on that too.

0decathexis0 dropped last month.

most aggressive material from that project

bunch of new shit and new old shit coming.

not on Spotify anymore, tho. 🤷🏿

everywhere but there now.

There were these guys on WVKR, who's show had a title that would not fly today (but I can say it, because I'm autistic)/

it was mainly a street punk/crust punk show.

and they would always play this song

it was my favorite song they would play

STANDING AT THE FOOT OF THE GRAVE

they didn't used to play the second song, though. that's one I haven't heard.

it seems there's more vkei fans on tumblr than anything else still.....

well, hey, i have something else for youze

someone posted a video of Kyo from Dir en grey's old session band from before La:Sadies. Kisaki is there too. It is allegedly the only time Kyo was in a band without Shinya on drums until Sukekiyo.

oh, right, this was a Kuroyume covers set....

EARLY Kuroyume, the most metal adjacent Kuroyume. yeah.

vkei in the youtube streets is delivering massive. massive.

wow.

Brent Hinds died in a motorcycle accident.

as someone who a. wasn't even really listening to Mastodon anymore after "once more..." and therefore b. wasn't even seriously paying that much attention to what's gone on since he left the band, this is shocking.

When I moved to Philadelphia for school in 1999, a website called "pahardcore . com" (hi Chris) had a huge role in me getting acquainted with the city and it's music scene.

I was on South Street one day in, i wanna say, 2000, and I ran into two of the people I met through that site, and they're like "we're going to the Troc, there's a show"....and i just went along.

Mastodon played this show (Total Fucking Destruction opened, remember them?), in the Balcony at the Troc (also gone now).

This is when Lifesblood was about to drop. They were still playing the stuff from Call of the Mastodon. All gang vox all the time, just unfuckwithable.

I saw them a couple of times at that venue.

It's sad they will never get to patch up whatever differences they had. . .

- how exactly does one train their Instagram algorithm?

Well, I don't know. You tell me.

For a long time, it was only sending me videos about cooking...which is great.

Then it added on sketch comedians...which is also great.

Every so often it will get on a strak of sending me music, and a shocking amount of it will be good.

Predatory Void was an IG find, Rile was an IG find, Home Front was an IG find.

...and so are these

Leaker are from Australia.

Think Young Widows, Breather Resist and KEN Mode. It's that kind of thing.

This is what you hope a band will sound like when somebody says "mathcore"....at least if you're over 35. 😅

Latter are from Chicago.

Think Made Out of Babies, Cadaverette and/or Shadow of Bedlam. It's that kind of thing.

I would have eaten this right up at 15. I love it now, but at 15 when I was all about Excuse 17 and Sleater-Kinney? double.

- I finished vocals for the new THÆTAS album 2 weeks ago. You'd think "okay, you have time to make some posts and promote the new 0decathexis0 album coming September 19th".

What did I do?

start rerecording mad old shit (while also promoting the 0decathexis0 album coming September 19th)

37564 recordings stuff is very busy right now. There is also a Halloween release and that ALL NEW. a split between 0decathexis0 and -tetsvxshiima-... but for now, the new 0decathexis0 album drops Friday.

it will also be available on bandcamp.

also, follow 37564 on bandwagon.fm

It's my 14 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

14 yrs of random fuckin tapes?!

thanks for reading.

thanks for helping find these songs.

R.I.P. Ozzy Osbourne.

Went out after one final performance with/for people who love him, just like Sabu (though, maybe a better situation than Sabu)

I'm not gonna act like I know Sabbath's discography front to back like some friends of mine. I'm an 80s baby. The guy that drove us to summer camp in 1986, it never failed, like clockwork, the same mixtape "crazy train" and Blue Oyster Cult "don't fear the reaper" . . .I can't remember any other songs, just those two. I likely didn't understand much of anything going on, but that song remained in my memory until I heard "no more tears" in 1991. I love that fucking song.

Just, an icon. I saw videos of the funeral procession. That man is more loved than the Queen, by large margins.

Godspeed.

You get to miss the rest of this trash century.

I saw a pic where it's the ghosts of Ozzy, Dio and Lemmy patting Halford on the shoulder.

wow.

yes, the year remains irredeemable beyond measure. . . but I saw Acid Bath.

I stood there in this giant venue (the same one where I saw Dillinger return with Dimitri . . . but like 6 times as full), swarming the kind of girls who will send inappropriate photos to the one black guy they know if their man doesn't wash the dishes that night (y'all never not catching strays) and watched 2025 Dax Riggs completely nail songs I never thought he would sing again (and it's very clear there are many more songs he will absolutely never sing again, because I think he's done with the edgiest songs they had, eh? you know, I get it. i do. I get it. But I was kinda standing there like "what's so bad about diab soule? why don't you wanna sing that one?" *scans lyrics* *gets to second verse* . . uh. . . . . .yeah, alright, I guess i get it. . .). It was pretty surreal, as they went through all of their most depressing songs in succession (which I'm not complaining about at all, but I was reminded that at the time I first heard Paegan and was listening to it a whole bunch, I was not in a good place a-tall a-tall a-tall. I literally was spiraling listening to venus blue over and over. i'm not kidding).

I am convinced if things wouldn't have gone the way they did, they would have been on that Killswitch Engage/Lamb of God level. This thing sold out so fast they had to add another night . .two whole weeks later. They played Brooklyn again last Friday night. I can't believe i actually saw them.

Now, to continue manifesting an Assuck reunion.

obviously, not a lot of posts since May. Some things are going on. I've been working on 3 releases at once. I'm doing the vocals for the 3rd THAETAS album. the new 0decathexis0 album "modern love is rubbish" is coming soon. There's a new single dropping next Wednesday August 6th, and I'm announcing the album release date then. . . .and 0decathexis0 are doing a split with -tetsvxshiima-. and I did some guest spots too, and one of them will be out August 1st when Sallow Moth's new album drops.

also, I'm still showing up on the excised/anatomized podcast with the big homie Marc. We just finished the Dillinger series, and next we're doing Carcass (there might be a little episode about death'n'roll inbetween).

That's about it for now.

um . . . . . .fuck summer.

but we had Maryland Deathfest.

. . . .I wonder how many videos I'm allowed to post on here.

we'll see.

I only went to Friday and Saturday this year, and I've not been since 2017.

I missed it.

Is it basically tha same just going to the Brooklyn shows on the way? Almost....and I get to sleep in my own bed afterwards. . . .but there's always new people to meet at MDF (even if you keep going every year, unlike me).

The new setup is so perfect, honestly.

It's even better than the old "Sonar with 2 outside stages" setup.

(Sonar is still sitting there for sale to this day, btw. and the diner accross from it is still sitting there empty with the neon sogn lit up).

I saw, in no particular order, Dragged Into Sunlight, Obituary, Arizmenda, Triage, Wormed, 324, Couple Skate, Chepang, Gorgasm, Failure (the powerviolence band from Italy, eh?), Sigh, Razor, Hirax, Father Befouled, Kronos and Asphyx.

shout out Taco Town.

Wormed, Dragged Into Sunlight, 324, Failure, Triage and Gorgasm were my favorite sets.

We'll see if I make it out next year. 🤷🏿

There's only one video allowed each post, and why not a video iI shot of Obituary from the parking lot (where a lot of people were watching). I posted more vids on my instagram (@0vvorldisabombaclaart0)

My bro Corey and I were talking about what it must be like for people on the outside walking around the city and hearing this stuff blasting all day and night, and I said "I guess they know how we feel having to hear shitty EDM everywhere we go".

It's almost like Metalocalypse came true🤣

I'm not sure where else you could do this. It's not happening in NY. Like, the city seems nore behind it than one would expect. It was in the local paper the 4th or 5th year I went.

I dunno what else to say, except, you gotta take your joy when you can because there's less and less opportunity for it.

hopefully everyone made it home safe.

BUT WE GOT A DEADGUY ALBUM!!

WE GOT ONE, Y'ALL!!!!!!