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It's our birthday... which means it's time for us to say THANK YOU to all of you (yes, even you) who have supported what we do over the years! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/21/h...
HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY TO US! - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) For another year, our 16th overall, we’ve raced through the ongoing firestorms of heavy new music without being thrown off and trampled, and so it’s time to celebrate survival ag...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It's our birthday... which means it's time for us to say THANK YOU to all of you (yes, even you) who have supported what we do over the years! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/21/h...
It's our birthday... which means it's time for us to say THANK YOU to all of you (yes, even you) who have supported what we do over the years! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/21/h...
HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY TO US! - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) For another year, our 16th overall, we’ve raced through the ongoing firestorms of heavy new music without being thrown off and trampled, and so it’s time to celebrate survival ag...
www.nocleansinging.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It's our birthday... which means it's time for us to say THANK YOU to all of you (yes, even you) who have supported what we do over the years! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/21/h...
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The end of the year may be getting closer and closer, but that isn't stopping Andy Synn from highlighting three more examples of the "Best of British" courtesy of ASIRA, FALSE REALITY, and GNASCH.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/20/b...
BEST OF BRITISH: ASIRA / FALSE REALITY / GNASCH - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn presents another terrific trio of albums from the UK underground) I’m going to level with you, I’m running out of time… I’ve got recording to finish off, my annual work review coming up, an...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The end of the year may be getting closer and closer, but that isn't stopping Andy Synn from highlighting three more examples of the "Best of British" courtesy of ASIRA, FALSE REALITY, and GNASCH.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/20/b...
The end of the year may be getting closer and closer, but that isn't stopping Andy Synn from highlighting three more examples of the "Best of British" courtesy of ASIRA, FALSE REALITY, and GNASCH.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/20/b...
BEST OF BRITISH: ASIRA / FALSE REALITY / GNASCH - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn presents another terrific trio of albums from the UK underground) I’m going to level with you, I’m running out of time… I’ve got recording to finish off, my annual work review coming up, an...
www.nocleansinging.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The end of the year may be getting closer and closer, but that isn't stopping Andy Synn from highlighting three more examples of the "Best of British" courtesy of ASIRA, FALSE REALITY, and GNASCH.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/20/b...
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"Braiding together ingredients of black metal, post-metal, and sludge, while also making room for gentle acoustic instrumentation and emanations of gossamer lightness, the band are capable of creating visions of catastrophic upheaval and spiritual uplift." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/a...
AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): SEDNA - "SILA NUNA" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) Based on photographs, Cesena looks like a pretty place. A small city of roughly 100,000 people, it’s near the Apennine Mountains in Italy and about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from t...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"Braiding together ingredients of black metal, post-metal, and sludge, while also making room for gentle acoustic instrumentation and emanations of gossamer lightness, the band are capable of creating visions of catastrophic upheaval and spiritual uplift." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/a...
"Braiding together ingredients of black metal, post-metal, and sludge, while also making room for gentle acoustic instrumentation and emanations of gossamer lightness, the band are capable of creating visions of catastrophic upheaval and spiritual uplift." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/a...
AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): SEDNA - "SILA NUNA" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) Based on photographs, Cesena looks like a pretty place. A small city of roughly 100,000 people, it’s near the Apennine Mountains in Italy and about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from t...
www.nocleansinging.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"Braiding together ingredients of black metal, post-metal, and sludge, while also making room for gentle acoustic instrumentation and emanations of gossamer lightness, the band are capable of creating visions of catastrophic upheaval and spiritual uplift." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/a...
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"There’s only so much I can do with words to get across how scorchingly visceral, how thrillingly vital, how searingly venomous this album is… think bands like Deadguy and Botch, Imprint-era V.O.D. and late-90s Zao... you really need to hear it for yourselves." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/b...
BORE - FERAL - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn has gone Feral… and thinks you should too) My love of Hardcore (mostly of the more “Metallic” variety) has been well-documented by now. After all, many of my earliest, and longest-lasting, ...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"There’s only so much I can do with words to get across how scorchingly visceral, how thrillingly vital, how searingly venomous this album is… think bands like Deadguy and Botch, Imprint-era V.O.D. and late-90s Zao... you really need to hear it for yourselves." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/b...
"There’s only so much I can do with words to get across how scorchingly visceral, how thrillingly vital, how searingly venomous this album is… think bands like Deadguy and Botch, Imprint-era V.O.D. and late-90s Zao... you really need to hear it for yourselves." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/b...
BORE - FERAL - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn has gone Feral… and thinks you should too) My love of Hardcore (mostly of the more “Metallic” variety) has been well-documented by now. After all, many of my earliest, and longest-lasting, ...
www.nocleansinging.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"There’s only so much I can do with words to get across how scorchingly visceral, how thrillingly vital, how searingly venomous this album is… think bands like Deadguy and Botch, Imprint-era V.O.D. and late-90s Zao... you really need to hear it for yourselves." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/19/b...
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"Phobocosm have clearly embraced, in a very specific way, the axiom that “less is more” by packing all their biggest riffs and best songwriting tricks into an even more compact collection of some of the most crushingly compelling tracks of their career." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/18/p...
PHOBOCOSM - GATEWAY - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn enters the gateway… and likes what he finds there) One of the biggest issues, for any band at any level, is finding a way to stand out from the crowd. I’m not saying that every band has to ...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Phobocosm have clearly embraced, in a very specific way, the axiom that “less is more” by packing all their biggest riffs and best songwriting tricks into an even more compact collection of some of the most crushingly compelling tracks of their career." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/18/p...
"Phobocosm have clearly embraced, in a very specific way, the axiom that “less is more” by packing all their biggest riffs and best songwriting tricks into an even more compact collection of some of the most crushingly compelling tracks of their career." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/18/p...
PHOBOCOSM - GATEWAY - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn enters the gateway… and likes what he finds there) One of the biggest issues, for any band at any level, is finding a way to stand out from the crowd. I’m not saying that every band has to ...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Phobocosm have clearly embraced, in a very specific way, the axiom that “less is more” by packing all their biggest riffs and best songwriting tricks into an even more compact collection of some of the most crushingly compelling tracks of their career." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/18/p...
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Our focus here at NCS has always (with some exceptions) been on covering bands we don't think have received the attention/acclaim they deserve... which is why today Andy Synn would like to introduce you to DIVINE HATRED, VANDAMPIRE, and WAR CLUB!
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/12/b...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/12/b...
BEST OF BRITISH: DIVINE HATRED / VANDAMPIRE / WAR CLUB - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn has three more bands from the UK underground for you to check out today) There’s a passage in One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (which I’m currently re-r...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Our focus here at NCS has always (with some exceptions) been on covering bands we don't think have received the attention/acclaim they deserve... which is why today Andy Synn would like to introduce you to DIVINE HATRED, VANDAMPIRE, and WAR CLUB!
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/12/b...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/12/b...
“From the abyssal and blistering depths of Alabama, and featuring members from Seraphic Entombment and Father Befouled, ECTOVOID return with the “Collapsing Spiritual Nebula“, the first track from their upcoming new album."
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/13/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/13/a...
AN NCS PREMIERE: ECTOVOID - "COLLAPSING SPIRITUAL NEBULA" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) “From the abyssal and blistering depths of Alabama and featuring members from Seraphic Entombment and Father Befouled, Ectovoid return with their new album In Unreality’s Coffin!...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“From the abyssal and blistering depths of Alabama, and featuring members from Seraphic Entombment and Father Befouled, ECTOVOID return with the “Collapsing Spiritual Nebula“, the first track from their upcoming new album."
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/13/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/13/a...
Our focus here at NCS has always (with some exceptions) been on covering bands we don't think have received the attention/acclaim they deserve... which is why today Andy Synn would like to introduce you to DIVINE HATRED, VANDAMPIRE, and WAR CLUB!
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/12/b...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/12/b...
BEST OF BRITISH: DIVINE HATRED / VANDAMPIRE / WAR CLUB - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn has three more bands from the UK underground for you to check out today) There’s a passage in One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (which I’m currently re-r...
www.nocleansinging.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Our focus here at NCS has always (with some exceptions) been on covering bands we don't think have received the attention/acclaim they deserve... which is why today Andy Synn would like to introduce you to DIVINE HATRED, VANDAMPIRE, and WAR CLUB!
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/12/b...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/12/b...
"...“The Lodge” immediately became the soundtrack to my nightly moments of writing lyrics, planning of releases, inspiration to artwork and so much more. I’m very excited to share our own rendition of this track, featuring our friend Chris Brown on cello."
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/11/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/11/a...
AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: AMIENSUS - "THE LODGE" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) One of our site’s favorite bands, Minnesota-based Amiensus, have busied themselves this year by releasing singles — “Fields of Emerald Fire” (reviewed here), “We Still Bloom” (re...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"...“The Lodge” immediately became the soundtrack to my nightly moments of writing lyrics, planning of releases, inspiration to artwork and so much more. I’m very excited to share our own rendition of this track, featuring our friend Chris Brown on cello."
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/11/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/11/a...
Its bombastic combination of hooky, 80s Pop-Rock guitar work and shimmering New Romatic synths makes this both Astronoid's most accessible and most ambitious effort since their debut. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/10/a...
ASTRONOID - STARGOD - NO CLEAN SINGING
Its bombastic combination of hooky, 80s Pop-Rock guitar work and shimmering New Romatic synths makes this both Astronoid's most accessible and most ambitious effort since their debut.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Its bombastic combination of hooky, 80s Pop-Rock guitar work and shimmering New Romatic synths makes this both Astronoid's most accessible and most ambitious effort since their debut. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/10/a...
"In this song MIND PRISONER once again succeed in the creation of contrasting musical styles and sensations, ferocity and anger, passionate hopefulness and stirring beauty."
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/07/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/07/a...
AN NCS PREMIERE: MIND PRISONER - "GRADIENT" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) We’re about to premiere a song from Mind Prisoner, a PDX-launched band (now divided between Oregon and South Carolina) that continues to seize our attention around here, and should seize yours. But first, a bit of history for those of you who might be encountering their music for the first time. Following [...]
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November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"In this song MIND PRISONER once again succeed in the creation of contrasting musical styles and sensations, ferocity and anger, passionate hopefulness and stirring beauty."
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/07/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/07/a...
We're all busy people... which is why sometimes you need something short-but-sweet you can fit in between moments of rage and panic. So Andy Synn has decided to highlight these 3 EPs, from CELLAR VESSEL, MALADIE, and SPLITJAW, to help take the edge off. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/05/s...
SHORT BUT SWEET: CELLAR VESSEL / MALADIE / SPLITJAW - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn has three more EPs for you to check out today) It might be controversial to say so, but I don’t think that 2025 has been quite as strong as 2024. That’s not to say there haven’t been some t...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We're all busy people... which is why sometimes you need something short-but-sweet you can fit in between moments of rage and panic. So Andy Synn has decided to highlight these 3 EPs, from CELLAR VESSEL, MALADIE, and SPLITJAW, to help take the edge off. www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/05/s...
"To boil things down, OUTLYING pull together ingredients of thrash, melodic death metal, and black metal to create music that’s blood-rushing and muscle-flexing, and the panoply of changing riffs is damned infectious too."
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/04/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/04/a...
AN NCS PREMIERE: OUTLYING - "THE RAVEN IS GONE" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) The melodic death metal band Outlying hail from the old industrial city of Trois-Rivieres in the province of Quebec, Canada. The band was founded in 2007 by lead vocalist/guitari...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"To boil things down, OUTLYING pull together ingredients of thrash, melodic death metal, and black metal to create music that’s blood-rushing and muscle-flexing, and the panoply of changing riffs is damned infectious too."
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/04/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/04/a...
“...'The Sinking Isle' represents a natural progression from our debut. The foundational elements remain, but a lot of new territory is explored that was only briefly glimpsed before." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/03/a...
AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE: OROMET - "THE SINKING ISLE" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) I’m part of a chat group with some long-distance friends who also write about metal (outside the cohort here at NCS). Some of them had listened to Sacramento-based Oromet’s new album The Sinking Isle before I had. One of them acclaimed it as the best funeral doom album of the year, and [...]
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November 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“...'The Sinking Isle' represents a natural progression from our debut. The foundational elements remain, but a lot of new territory is explored that was only briefly glimpsed before." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/03/a...
October was such a busy month for releases that Andy Synn has expanded his latest "Things You May Have Missed" article into a bumper edition ft. BIANCA, DROFNOSURA, HOPE DEFERRED, MASSA NERA, SUM OF R, and UNSOULING! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/03/t...
THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED (BUT SHOULDN'T) - NO CLEAN SINGING
(Andy Synn highlights six gems from October you may have overlooked) I’m going to say something controversial here, but… if you see someone talking a big game about how they “listened to 500 albums th...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
October was such a busy month for releases that Andy Synn has expanded his latest "Things You May Have Missed" article into a bumper edition ft. BIANCA, DROFNOSURA, HOPE DEFERRED, MASSA NERA, SUM OF R, and UNSOULING! www.nocleansinging.com/2025/11/03/t...
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Recommended for fans of ORANSSI PAZUZU, WHITE WARD, and GREY AURA... this month's edition of THE SYNN REPORT focuses in on the works of unorthodox blackened "post-genre" provocateurs GORYCZ.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/t...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/t...
THE SYNN REPORT (PART 188): GORYCZ - NO CLEAN SINGING
Recommended for fans of: Oranssi Pazuzu, White Ward, Grey Aura It’s been a busy month, and time is short, so let’s dispense with the preamble, shall we? Suffice it to say that if you’re looking for some richly textured, darkly evocative music that combines the best bits of “Blackened Post-Metal” and “Post-Black Metal” (of the [...]
www.nocleansinging.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Recommended for fans of ORANSSI PAZUZU, WHITE WARD, and GREY AURA... this month's edition of THE SYNN REPORT focuses in on the works of unorthodox blackened "post-genre" provocateurs GORYCZ.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/t...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/t...
Recommended for fans of ORANSSI PAZUZU, WHITE WARD, and GREY AURA... this month's edition of THE SYNN REPORT focuses in on the works of unorthodox blackened "post-genre" provocateurs GORYCZ.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/t...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/t...
THE SYNN REPORT (PART 188): GORYCZ - NO CLEAN SINGING
Recommended for fans of: Oranssi Pazuzu, White Ward, Grey Aura It’s been a busy month, and time is short, so let’s dispense with the preamble, shall we? Suffice it to say that if you’re looking for some richly textured, darkly evocative music that combines the best bits of “Blackened Post-Metal” and “Post-Black Metal” (of the [...]
www.nocleansinging.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Recommended for fans of ORANSSI PAZUZU, WHITE WARD, and GREY AURA... this month's edition of THE SYNN REPORT focuses in on the works of unorthodox blackened "post-genre" provocateurs GORYCZ.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/t...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/t...
"A wide-ranging amalgam of folk music, classical, raging black metal, unconventional psychedelia, dissonance, and harmoniousness [which] deploys those ingredients to create a paranormal pageant of black metal Americana, tailor-made for a Halloween night." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/y...
YELLOW EYES: "CONFUSION GATE" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) In June of last year Gilead Media announced that it would be releasing a collaborative album by Mizmor and Hell (Alluvion, which hit the streets in April 2025) — and explained th...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"A wide-ranging amalgam of folk music, classical, raging black metal, unconventional psychedelia, dissonance, and harmoniousness [which] deploys those ingredients to create a paranormal pageant of black metal Americana, tailor-made for a Halloween night." www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/y...
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It’s been a while since our last encounter with the band, due to the 5 year gap between their last album and this one. But in the case of Depravity, it’s true that absence makes the heart grow fonder... assuming one is fond of getting musically mangled.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/30/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/30/a...
AN NCS PREMIERE: DEPRAVITY - "AWFUL MANGULATION" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) It’s always a pleasure to adorn our page with a painting by Paolo Girardi, especially when it’s as monstrously grotesque as the one that leaps off the cover of Depravity’s new al...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It’s been a while since our last encounter with the band, due to the 5 year gap between their last album and this one. But in the case of Depravity, it’s true that absence makes the heart grow fonder... assuming one is fond of getting musically mangled.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/30/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/30/a...
It’s been a while since our last encounter with the band, due to the 5 year gap between their last album and this one. But in the case of Depravity, it’s true that absence makes the heart grow fonder... assuming one is fond of getting musically mangled.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/30/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/30/a...
AN NCS PREMIERE: DEPRAVITY - "AWFUL MANGULATION" - NO CLEAN SINGING
(written by Islander) It’s always a pleasure to adorn our page with a painting by Paolo Girardi, especially when it’s as monstrously grotesque as the one that leaps off the cover of Depravity’s new al...
www.nocleansinging.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It’s been a while since our last encounter with the band, due to the 5 year gap between their last album and this one. But in the case of Depravity, it’s true that absence makes the heart grow fonder... assuming one is fond of getting musically mangled.
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/30/a...
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/30/a...