The Collective

14/07/2025

ONE HOUR WARNING!

12/07/2025

Yes, it's very warm here in the UK cos of that big ol' ball of fire in the sky, but don't worry I'm definitely not going to mention the heat...

Escape the heat by listening to Nard on The Collective this coming Monday at 6pm BST (British Summer Time: hot) with a warming selection of scorching tracks from the melting pot of the extreme metal underground...

Tracks from:
Amphisbaena
As The Sea Parts
Babayka
Beannachd Leibh
Fermento
Hebephrenique
Imperishable
Innumerable Forms
Kaspyx
Kathaaria
Khaotus
KHNVM
Korp
Mörtual
Pestilential Shadows
Romani Spells
Temora
Theurgion
Wreche

You can listen through your smart speaker (ask it to “play TotalRock”) or through the TotalRock website.

You are also welcome to join us in the TotalRock Chatroom here - https://discord.gg/yyW2yzvjpa, where we will be sharing links to the tracks.

As always, you can listen back to any of our shows at your convenience by searching online for "The Collective on demand".

Join us for The Collective at 6pm, and EVERY Monday (UK time, with repeats at 6am on Tuesdays), only on TotalRock!

07/07/2025

55 MINUTE WARNING!

Listen to The Collective through your smart speaker (ask it to “play TotalRock”) or through the TotalRock website.

You are also welcome to join us in the TotalRock Chatroom here - https://discord.gg/yyW2yzvjpa, where we will be sharing links to the tracks.

Join us for The Collective at 6pm, and EVERY Monday (UK time, with repeats at 6am on Tuesday and 1pm on Saturday), only on TotalRock!

06/07/2025

A little insight into what to expect from this week’s The Collective show with Alex, TOMORROW EVENING at 6pm (UK time) on TotalRock.

We again continue trying to catch up a little on the unrelenting flow of brilliant new releases; showcasing various recent and upcoming underground metal gems.

The show will feature tracks by:
- Amiensus,
- ,
- Burden of Ymir,
- Erebor,
- ,
- Gormoth,
- Green Carnation,
- Grimovetust,
- Hammer,
- Hemelbestormer,
- Nostalghia, and
- Withered Land.

You can listen through your smart speaker (ask it to “play TotalRock”) or through the TotalRock website.

You are also welcome to join us in the TotalRock Chatroom here - https://discord.gg/yyW2yzvjpa, where we will be sharing links to the tracks.

Join us for The Collective at 6pm, and EVERY Monday (UK time, with repeats at 6am on Tuesdays), only on TotalRock!

As always, you can listen back to any of our shows at your convenience by searching online for "The Collective on demand".

03/07/2025

For anyone that missed it, or wants to listen again, The Collective's show with Nard from Monday is on Mixcloud and the On-Demand section of the TotalRock website...

The show featured:
Anthrodynia - Severed from Mundanity (Unspeakable Horrors Emanating from Within, 15/08/2025 Nameless Grave Records)

Novembers Doom - Major Arcana (Major Arcana, 19/09/2025 Prophecy Productions)

Strychnos - Uendelig Begravelsesmarch (Uendelig Begravelsesmarch, 30/05/2025 Dark Descent Records)

Beyond Mortal Dreams - Arachnivore (Devastation Hymns EP, 28/06/2025 Lavadome Productions)

Defacement - Worthless (Doomed, 22/08/2025 Avantgarde Music)

Cult Burial - Collapse (Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust, 05/09/2025 Independent release)

Abyssery - Sadistic Sentence (Interminable End, 25/07/2025 Independent release)

Malthusian - The Summoning Bell (The Summoning Bell, 08/08/2025 Relapse Records)
Black Sanctum - Antidote (Inner Death EP, 06/06/2025 Independent release)

Secret Chiefs 3 - Exterminating Angel (Book of Horizons, 25/05/2004 Web of Mimicry)

Dark Fortress (Official) - Lloigor (Venereal Dawn, 29/08/2014 Century Media Records)

Aetos - Columns of Fire (Ancient Power EP, 20/06/2025 Independent release)

Hekser - Black Cauldrons of Cosmic Arcana (Mechanisms of Obscurity, 27/06/2025 Ghostique Records)

SIGH (official page) - Death With Dishonour (I Saw the World's End - Hangman's Hymn MMXXV, 13/06/2025 Peaceville Records)

WSOBM - The Sky Bleeds Black (The Ocean of Truth, 13/06/2025 Independent release)

AD OMEGA - Athanatizein (Fathan Aiseras Seus, 16/06/2025 Zazen Sounds)

OTDHR - IX (Toteninsel, 20/06/2025 Independent release)

Frelser - Frelser! (Afgrundsprofeti, 04/04/2025 Independent release)

Devilpriest - Channeling into the Peerless Transgressiveness (Where I Am the Chalice, Be Thou the Blood, 27/06/2025 Nuclear Winter Records)

Darghl - Cry for Haevel (Solve, 18/07/2025 Independent release)

https://totalrock.com/podcast/the-collective-on-demand

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-nard-30th-june-2025/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…

29/06/2025

Join Nard & The Collective this coming Monday at 6pm BST for your weekly deep dive into the world of underground extreme metal.

The show is comprised of proper r**t dead good tracks from recent and upcoming releases, alongside your two Blasts from the Past...

This week one track comes from 2004; a project featuring members of Mr Bungle, and the other is a progressive melodic Black Metal track from 2014...

Tracks from:
Abyssery
AD OMEGA
Aetos
Anthrodynia
Beyond Mortal Dreams
Black Sanctum
Cult Burial
Darghl
Dark Fortress (Official)
Defacement
Devilpriest
Frelser
Hekser
Malthusian
Novembers Doom
OTDHR
Secret Chiefs 3
SIGH (official page)
Strychnos
WSOBM

You can listen through your smart speaker (ask it to “play TotalRock”) or through the TotalRock website.

You are also welcome to join us in the TotalRock Chatroom here - https://discord.gg/yyW2yzvjpa, where we will be sharing links to the tracks.

As always, you can listen back to any of our shows at your convenience by searching online for "The Collective on demand".

Join us for The Collective at 6pm, and EVERY Monday (UK time, with repeats at 6am on Tuesdays), only on TotalRock!

27/06/2025

- For anyone that missed it, or wants to listen again, The Collective’s show with Alex from Monday evening is now on Mixcloud and the On-Demand section of the TotalRock website; just search online for “The Collective on demand”.

The show featured:
PANOPTICON - This Mortal Coil's Rusted (from Laurentian Blue, to be released on 15/08/2025 by Bindrune Recordings / Nordvis);

Wytch Hazel - Elements (from V: Lamentations, to be released on 04/07/2025 by Bad Omen Records);

Vanishing Earth - Redbirds (from The Boundless, self-released on 17/06/2025);

Lights of Vimana - Remember Me (from Neopolis, released on 13/06/2025 by Dusktone);

Eskapism - The Circle Of Eternity (from Skresnava, to be released on 01/08/2025 by Naturmacht Productions);

Jord - King Of The Night (from Emellan Träden, to be released on 05/09/2025 by Hammerheart Records);

S***m - Witchhunter (from The Arsonist, to be released on 27/06/2025 by Steamhammer);

- Fountains Of Stars (from Fountains Of Stars, self-released on 11/06/2025);

PANOPTICON - The Whale Mountain View (from Songs Of Hiraeth, to be released on 15/08/2025 by Bindrune Recordings / Nordvis);

Deadland - Ageless We Are (from The Incantation, released on 11/06/2025 by );

- Infernal Crushing Reality… (from Hessian, released on 20/06/2025 by Wormholedeath);

FEATURE - Four of the bands playing the FIRES OF ALBA Festival in Glasgow on 5th of July:
Úir - Duinbrunde (from Óenach Tailten 18/02/2019/ Pest Productions / Blackwood Productions);

Wolvesrot - From Expectation (from Demo, self-released on 23/07/2023);

Blood Countess - Ululation Of The Grief Stricken Peasants (from Occulta Tenebris, released on 01/04/2022 by Repose Records / Dominance of Darkness Records / Blackwood Productions);

Thy Light - Infinite Stars Thereof (from Thy Light EP, released on 06/06/2021 by / Sphera Noctis Rec).

https://totalrock.com/podcast/the-collective-on-demand

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-23rd-june-2025-alex/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

- On this week’s The Collective show with Alex, we continue trying to catch up a little on the unrelenting flow of brilliant new releases; showcasing various recent and upcoming underground metal gems. Plus, there is also a feature on the upcoming one-day Black Metal Festival, FIRES OF ALBA, which...

23/06/2025

ONE-HOUR WARNING!

Listen to The Collective through your smart speaker (ask it to “play TotalRock”) or through the TotalRock website.

You are also welcome to join us in the TotalRock Chatroom here - https://discord.gg/yyW2yzvjpa, where we will be sharing links to the tracks.

Join us for The Collective at 6pm, and EVERY Monday (UK time, with repeats at 6am on Tuesday and 1pm on Saturday), only on TotalRock!

22/06/2025

- A little insight into what to expect from this week’s The Collective show with Alex, TOMORROW EVENING at 6pm (UK time) on TotalRock.

We again continue trying to catch up a little on the unrelenting flow of brilliant new releases; showcasing various recent and upcoming underground metal gems.

Plus, there is also a feature on the upcoming one-day Black Metal Festival, Fires Of Alba, which is happening next month in Glasgow…

The show will feature tracks by:
- Blood Countess,
- Deadland,
- Eskapism,
- ,
- Jord,
- Lights of Vimana,
- PANOPTICON,
- S***m,
- Thy Light,
- Úir,
- Vanishing Earth,
- ,
- Wolvesrot, and
- Wytch Hazel.

You can listen through your smart speaker (ask it to “play TotalRock”) or through the TotalRock website.

You are also welcome to join us in the TotalRock Chatroom here - https://discord.gg/yyW2yzvjpa, where we will be sharing links to the tracks.

Join us for The Collective at 6pm, and EVERY Monday (UK time, with repeats at 6am on Tuesdays), only on TotalRock!

As always, you can listen back to any of our shows at your convenience by searching online for "The Collective on demand".

18/06/2025

For anyone that missed it, or wants to listen again, The Collective's show with Nard from Monday is on Mixcloud and the On-Demand section of the TotalRock website...

The show featured:
PSYCHONAUT - Endless Currents (World Maker, 24/10/2025 Pelagic Records)

Kalmen - Moon (Sombre Vaults, 30/04/2025 Ván Records)

Hedonist - Parasitic Realm (Scapulimancy, 01/08/2025 Southern Lord Recordings)

Décryptal - Zisurru (Simulacre, 11/07/2025 Rotted Life / Me S**o Un Ojo Records)

Clairvoyance - Eternal Blaze (Chasm of Immurement, 18/07/2025 Carbonized Records)

IMPUREZA - Pestilencia (Alcázares, 11/07/2025 Season of Mist)

AkoúΦenom - Extrema Unción (Connections to the Erebus EP, 04/07/2025 Unorthodox Emanations (Avantgarde Music))

Galvanist - Atrophy (The Silence Between Stars, 03/06/2025 (album release date TBC) Independent release)

Sensations of Pain - Clandestine (Single release, 13/06/2025 Independent release)

Malevolent Creation Band - The Cardinal's Law (The Will to Kill, 11/11/2002 Nuclear Blast)

Inferno - Revelations Through the Void (Omniabsence Filled by His Greatness, 24/09/2013 Agonia Records)

Ba'al - Well of Sorrows (The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here, 18/07/2025 RoadtoMasochist)

OWLS - Avant-garde Black Metal - Rejection (Une Toile de Plus à Brûler EP, 06/06/2025 L'Ordalie Noire)

Diespnea - Vultures (Single release, 05/06/2025 Independent release)

Verikaste - Valheen siemenet (Verenvirta EP, 12/06/2025 Independent release)

𝐌𝐘𝐑 - Brennt (Helvegen, 20/06/2025 Independent release)

Wékeras - Urok (Do wirów, do krzyków, 29/06/2025 Pagan Records)

Eviscerators - Eternal Darkness (Warrior of the Moon… EP, 09/06/2025 Independent release)

Profane Elegy - Exeunt Omnes (Herezjarcha, ??/??/2026 Independent release)

L'Horreur D'Exister - In the Arms of Night (La Fonte EP, 13/06/2025 Independent release)

https://totalrock.com/podcast/the-collective-on-demand

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-nard-16th-june-2025/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…