June 2023 "The Horde" Playlist - Metal Academy Radio
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0R0a3qxSe1XkOMxBN6gkwi?si=27dd93c89bfa4a94
Tracklisting:
01. Incinerator – “Slaughter” (from “Human Garbage” E.P., 2014) [Submitted by Vinny]
02. Dark Tranquillity – “Punish My Heaven” (from “The Gallery”, 1995)
03. VoidCeremony – “Writhing in the Façade of Time” (from “Threads of Unknowing”, 2023)
04. In Flames – “Bullet Ride” (from “Clayman”, 2000) [Submitted by Daniel]
05. Fires In The Distance – “Harbingers” (from “Air Not Meant For Us”, 2023)
06. Blood Duster – “Pornstorestiffi” (from “Cunt”, 2000)
07. Baring Teeth – “Atrophy” (from “Atrophy”, 2011)
08. Lunar Chamber – “Spirit Body & the Seeing Self” (from “Shambhallic Vibrations” E.P., 2023)
09. Slaughter Lord – “Taste of Blood” (from “Taste of Blood” demo, 1987) [Submitted by Daniel]
10. Temple Nightside – “Fortress of Burden & Distress” (from “The Hecatomb”, 2016) [Submitted by Daniel]
11. Frightmare – “Midnight Murder Mania” (from “Midnight Murder Mania”, 2003)
12. Massacre – “Cryptic Realms” (from “From Beyond”, 1991) [Submitted by Vinny]
13. Cancer – “Hung, Drawn & Quartered” (from “Death Shall Rise”, 1991) [Submitted by Vinny]
14. Cannibal Corpse – “Mangled” (from “Eaten Back To Life”, 1990) [Submitted by Vinny]
15. Wretched Fate – “Mind Desecrator” (from “Carnal Heresy”, 2023) [Submitted by Vinny]
16. Benümb – “Once & Never Again” (from “Withering Strands of Hope”, 2000)
17. Phyllomedusa – “Baw Baw Grunt” (from “Fijian Effluvium”, 2017)
18. Kommand – “Chimera Soldiers” (from “Death Age”, 2023)
19. CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP – “Dirty Harry” (from “We Live As Ghosts”, 2023)
20. Nightmarer – “Throe of Illicit Withdrawal” (from “Deformity Adrift”, 2023)
21. Suffocation – “Sullen Eyes” (from “Pinnacle of Bedlam”, 2013) [Submitted by Vinny]
22. Gorerotted – “Only Tools & Corpses” (from “Only Tools & Corpses”, 2003)
23. Deaden – “Sculpted In Flesh” (from “Hymns Of The Sick”, 1998)
24. Deprecated – “Deriding His Creation” (from “Deriding His Creation” E.P., 1998)
25. Sulfuric Cautery – “Compulsive Retaliation” (from “Suffocating Feats of Dehumanization”, 2023) [Submitted by Vinny]
26. Gutteral Slug – “Isolated Insanity” (from “Megalodon”, 2013)
27. Cattle Decapitation – “We Eat Our Young” (from “Terrasite”, 2023)
28. Fleshgod Apocalypse – “Sophistic Demise” (from “Oracles”, 2009) [Submitted by Daniel]
29. Extermination Dismemberment – “Survival” (from “Serial Urbicide”, 2013)
Unsurprisingly, to those who are familiar with my taste, the two doomier tracks from Fires In The Distance and Temple Nightside stood out especially to me this month and both bands will have to be subject to further exploration before long. In fact, I was really enjoying the playlist as a whole until it reached that terrible Phyllomedusa track - has he really made 280+ albums of that shit? Despite this I resisted the skip button and endured the entire 8 minutes so that I never make the mistake of listening to him again! Chop (x7)'s cybergrind was not my cup of tea either, but at least they had the decency to only last just over a minute. There were one or two others near the end I didn't much care for, Sulfuric Cautery and Extermination Dismemberment would fall into this category. The death 'n' roll of Blood Duster's Pornstorestiffi (shown on Spotify as Pronstorestiffi for some reason) was ridiculous but kind of enjoyable in some capacity. I don't know if I would like an entire album of such light-hearted dm, but as part of a playlist it was good fun. Others that hit home for me this month were Kommand, Slaughter Lord, Massacre, Suffocation and CC.
Thanks Daniel for yet again producing an entertaining playlist.
Yeah, I can't blame you for struggling with those gorenoise & cybergrind tracks (or the subgenres in general really) Sonny. I don't include those subgenres every month as they're just so niche. I only toss in the occasional tracks here & there to ensure a consistent coverage of all The Horde subgenres. I'm not sure that I can believe that there are people out there who claim one of those as their favourite subgenres but I recently had a bunch of people on Twitter getting very passionate & heated (read: condescending & aggressive) when I criticized a cybergrind release so you never know. I think I might be the only Metal Academic that can tolerate slam death metal. I can easily understand why people might not find it appealing though so let's just call it a guilty pleasure.
Blood Duster are nothing short of an Australian metal institution. It's against the law not to like them over here. Their sense of humor is stereotypically Australian so it wouldn't surprise me if some outsiders simply don't get it.