The Haunt of Fear [Weekly Mixtape 240]

Befouled Malediction | Encasement
Iskald | Estertor | Paara | Shroud
The Mosaic Window | Autumnfall
Dead Neanderthals | Chants

The Old Witch illustration by Johnny Craig

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The Vault of Horror [Weekly Mixtape 239]

Mörtual | Intercorpse | Casket Dweller | Goatburner
Noroth | Cordyceps Corpse | Embryectomy
Traumatomy | Korpse | Dawn Of Demise
Celestial Scourge | Mucosal | NervoChaos
Saprobiontic | Artificial Brain | Worm Altar

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Proggy Autumn Noise [Weekly Mixtape 238]

Hällas | Rubi Ate The Fig | Mutism
Alberto Rigoni, Michael Manring, & Stuart Hamm
A-Tota-So | Lavisher | Poly-Math | Ok Goodnight
The Mourning | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
SEK | Gates of Kiev | Phantom Spell

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Interconnected [Weekly Mixtape 237]

Anagnorisis | Underdark | URSA | Die Sünde | Dead Neanderthals | Playgrounded | Sees | Demons My Friends | The Ocean

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Normie Repellent [Weekly Mixtape 236]

Kallohonka | Microwaves | Last Scene Alive
Fugue State | Man...or Astro-Man?
Wheelchair Sports Camp | Kira Roessler
HÉR | Nine Treasures | Deaf Beat Vanguard
Barriga de Verme | Madam Orange
Double Mute | Mellowdeath | Glissandro 70
Umlaut | Afrofuturistics
Leto Grand | Kids In Glass Houses
illustrations by Basil Wolverton

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Mors Insolitus [Weekly Mixtape 235]

Fate Unburied | Messier 16 | URNA
Krallice | Shabti | Ænigmatum
Miscreance | Dissimulator | Entropist
Volubilis | The Zenith Passage

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Nebulous [Weekly Mixtape 234]

White Stones | Only Human | Philosophobia
Fucked Up | Obdurate | Epitaphe
Green Carnation | Todomal | Dreadnought

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Velocitas [Weekly Mixtape 233]

Türböwitch | Lowcard De La Morte | Exumer
Dead Head | Absolute Darkness | Sabotør
Overpower | Scatter | Overtoun
Harlott | Another Demon | Horseman
Hostilia | Armored Saint | Denial Of Life

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catching up with Pylar (2026)

Pylar are a Spanish collective who boldly challenge the norms of underground metal through experimentation and improvisation. Their most recent album Delyrio represents the end of one era for them, and the beginning of the next. Guitarist Bar-gal was kind enough to answer my questions.

[cover image by Cristina Alvarez]

Saturnine [Weekly Mixtape 232]

Dry Wedding | Wailin Storms
Ealdor Bealu | Semantron
Anatomy Of Habit | Pylar
Cave Dweller | Holissstik | Cancervo

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