Harsh Vocals

On this special episode, we had the opportunity to interview Justin Lawnchair, the man behind the progressive death metal band, “The Biscuit Merchant” – the latest album Golden Age is the eleventh entry in his Alphabet cycle, which will eventually contain 26 full albums as a complete concept! We are very excited to get to know Justin better and learn more about what went into his albums and the overall story idea! Unfortunately, Christian’s microphone had some technical difficulties, so the episode ended up a little shorter than intended, but we still all had a great time. Check out the Biscuit Merchant bandcamp below: https://thebiscuitmerchant.bandcamp.com Listen at the end of the podcast to hear the track “Paradox Bomb”! Also, Follow us on Facebook, X, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website!

For our fifty-sixth episode, we had another incredible cycle with way too many albums to discuss! Of course we had to do another More Music episode! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the California-Based Black Metal band, Ucalegon! They have their first single, “Chatelaine” available now! Check out their bandcamp: https://ucalegons.bandcamp.com/track/chatelaine 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: Apolaustic – Fragments of a Misty Journey Aldheorte – The Wild Divine Zerre – Rotting on a Golden Throne Defacing God – Transition Vanir – Against the Storm Hexenhorde – Wraith of the Blackthorne Pyre Hellripper – Blakk Satanik Fvkkstorm Bedrangnis – Echo der Schopfung Ucalegon – Chatelaine Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Power Paladin – Beyond the Reach of Enchantment Myrath – Wilderness of Mirrors Tommorrow’s Outlook – Black Waves Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis Malauriu – The Third Nail Nervosa – Slave Machine Non Est Deus – Blessings and Curses Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Rivers Ablaze – Inexternal Dread Winterfylleth – The Unyielding Season Antrisch – Expedition III: Renitenzpfad Growth – Under the Under AsylumTX – Cultus Ignoxia Pauldron – Too Ancient to Be Holy Fathomless – II: Thy Desolation Malum – From the Void Nykteria – Henosis

For our fifty-fourth episode, we had another incredible cycle with nearly 50 albums that were Honorable mention worthy or better! Of course we had to do another More Music episode! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the US-Based Black/Death Metal band, Fathomless! They have their first single, “Honor and Glory” available now, and their full album “II: Thy Desolation”, will be releasing on April 4th, 2026! Check out their bandcamp: https://fathomlessmetal.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: Announce The Apocalypse – Terror From the Void Funeral Pile – The Ghost of Orion Harrowed – Bayonet Lomsk – Stare Into the Void Chaingun – Conflagration Fire Magic – Leave Me Where I Fall Ossomancer – Sobek – Cosmic Vibrations Devoured Toward the Throne – Forge Ahead Fathomless – Honor and Glory Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: A Goat as Our Shepherd – Man Proposes, Earth Disposes Black Swan – Paralyzed Divine Threat – Pillar of Agony Karelian Warcry – Veripellot Vreid – The Skies Turn Black Myvalyir – The Past Tales Epigram – Obsolescent Nerve Star – White Hot Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Marlugubre – Per Amor Nymphae Drawn into Descent – Onrust Rotten Soil – I Worship Death Miserere Luminis – Sidera Lightlorn – The Ebb and Flow of Galactic Tides Xenobiotic – Dante From Ashes Reborn – Chasing Utopia Tanin’iver – Save the Rest for the Wicked

For our fifty-second episode, there was yet another incredible cycle that had more great music than usual. We decided to forgo a topic, and instead focus on the eight best albums of this two week period! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the German Melodic Death Metal band, Serpent Icon! They have their debut EP “Tombstone Stories” coming out on March 6th, 2026! If you dig the track, purchase a copy when it releases via their bandcamp! Check out their bandcamp: https://serpenticon.bandcamp.com/album/tombstone-stories-ep 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: Vaulderie – Nocturnal Hound Shine – Kneel Before the Serpent Lomor – Meet Your Meat Skulld – Mother Death Sidious – Rotborn Terror Profane Elegy – Herezjarcha Circular Ruin – The Storm I Keep Within MØL – A Former Blueprint Serpent Icon – Sirens and Sinners Christian’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Fortress – Death is Your Master Teutonic Slaughter – Cheap Food Vandor – The Ember Eye Pt 2 Ashes Awaken – Rise Bitterness – Hallowed Be the Game Induction – Love Kills! Mayhem – Liturgy of Death Tailgunner – Midnight Blitz Paganizer – As Mankind Dies In Aeturnum – Of Death and Fire Malignant Aura – Where All of Worth Comes to Wither Justin’s Honorable Mentions for this Cycle: Buried – Imagined Deformation Incarcerated – Necrosphere Obscurity – Ascheregen For Ruin – Painted in the Colours of War Kanonenfieber – Soldatenschicksale Through Void – Forsaken Sagenbringer – Zwischen den Welten Kosuke Hashida – Moment of Silence Urne – Setting Fire to the Sky

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 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: 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

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! If you enjoy the show, 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 Youtube, Facebook, TikTok, X, Threads, Bluesky, and Instagram – Just search for @harshvocalssite – Links are also at the bottom of the website! 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-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! 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: 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-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! 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: 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

For our forty-fourth episode, we both got sick! Due to illness wrecking our voices, we had to postpone recording, so rather than a two week cycle of music, you’re all getting the best of three weeks instead! Due to having more music, we decided to forgo a topic on this episode, so just enjoy the extra tunes and our discussion on all the incredible albums that came out over this incredibly strong cycle! We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Portland, Oregon Blackened Doom/Death/Sludge band “Mind Prisoner”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://mindprisoner.bandcamp.com/album/less-faith 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: Overt Enemy – Psychotic Episode Moribund Oblivion – Deceptive Portals Vittra – Reign Supreme Frost – In The Rotten Hands of Time Krigsgrav – Ghosts Wounds of Recollection – Everyone I Love Will Someday Die Brotthogg – Mare Thormesis – Made of Nothing Mind Prisoner – Years Gone

For our forty-second episode, we decided to discuss some current events, as there has been an abundance of band drama circulating on the Metal News sites over the past few weeks. Most notably with Cradle of Filth. We have some thoughts! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the Houston Progressive Death/Thrash band, “KHEPERA”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://kheperaband.bandcamp.com/album/foreword 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: BAEST – Misfortunate Son Ashen – Ancestral Gate Warmen – Dethroned Corridoré – This Great Demise Vindicator – Ripper Attack Inpathos – Grand Design KHEPERA – Wendigo

For our fortieth episode we decided to talk about all the things we hear in music that we don’t enjoy, as well as the things we see at concerts and online that negatively impact us. Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the German Death Metal band “Monstrum” Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://monstrum666.bandcamp.com/album/mental-demolition 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: Oskoreien – To Kiss the Viper’s Fang Recorruptor – Insidious Rot Abyssery – Interminable End Abigail Williams – Talk to Your Sleep Jordfäst – Dit gudarna trälar är Pt 2 Ba’al – Floral Cairn Monstrum – Beyond the Stars

For our thirty-eighth episode, we decided to look back at our formative years and the albums that made us realize our passion for music and how those albums have impacted us over the years. Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the incredible past two weeks as well as several honorable mentions. We close out the show with an Extreme Submission from the USBM project “Mycorrhizae”! Check out their bandcamp at the link below: https://bigbovine.bandcamp.com/album/mycorrhizae 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: Indemon – Abuse Lord Belial – Serpent’s Feast Inhuman Condition – Mind – Tool – Weapon Cryptopsy – Our Great Deception Skjolden – Keeper of the Silent Heart Helheim – Sorg er dødens spade Mycorrhizae – Strength in Space