The Collective

17/08/2025

- 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:
- Antiversum,
- Argesk,
- Barren Path,
- ,
- De Profundis,
- Falling Leaves,
- Gorleben,
- Gormoth,
- Heads For the Dead,
- Heretoir,
- Indren,
- In this house of mourning,
- REMINA,
- Silent Tombs, and
- Wehmut.

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".

15/08/2025

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:
Autrest - Forgotten Wolves (Burning Embers, Forgotten Wolves, 05/09/2025 Northern Silence Productions)

Gorycz - Tańczy (Zasypia, 03/10/2025 Piranha Music)

Ismere - Phalanx (Tombs of Resolve (Demo), 03/08/2025 Independent release)

Visitant - Starless (Rubidium, 23/08/2025 Exitus Stratagem Records)

Leather Hearse - Combustion Corrosion (We Burn) (Burn in Heaven | Decalogue, 06/10/2025 Southern Lord Recordings)

Death has spoken - Through Shaded Ways (Elegy, 17/10/2025 Meuse Music Records)

An Abstract Illusion - No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons (The Sleeping City, 17/10/2025 Willowtip Records)

Gjallarhorn's Wrath - A Silent Scream (The Silver Key, 05/09/2025 Non Serviam Records)

Burial Gift - Hollow Bloom (MMXXV EP, 25/07/2025 Independent release)

Abyssal - I Am the Alpha and the Omega (Antikatastaseis, 23/06/2015 Profound Lore Records)

COBALT - Arsonry (Gin, 17/03/2009 Profound Lore Records)

Autumnal - Jälkeen (Jälkeen EP, 01/08/2025 Independent release)

Ethereal Wound - Cursed (Defile | Demise, 29/08/2025 Lowered Head Records)

Devouring Famine - Imploding into the Black Hole (Imploding into the Black Hole EP, 01/08/2025 Independent release)

Unknown Subject - Democracies Die! (Democracies Die! EP, 15/08/2025 Independent release)

GAM - Worship and Obey (Iron Gauntlet EP, 01/08/2025 Independent release)

Ancient Torment - Under the Guise of Virtue (Follow the Echo of Curses, 01/08/2025 Eternal Death)

Eternal Absence - Catharsian Tempest (Within the Ruins, 01/08/2025 Independent release)

Zanpanzar - Fractal Black Spires (Heart of the Sunwinds, 01/08/2025 Dominance of Darkness Records)

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

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-nard-11th-august-2025/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Join Nard and The Collective this week for another 2 hours of music from recent and upcoming releases in the world of underground extreme metal. This week we have an A-Z. Sure, there's a few letters missing and a few letters repeated, but it runs from A-Z... Your two Blast from the Past tracks for t...

13/08/2025

- For anyone that missed it, or wants to listen again, The Collective’s special Bloodstock VIP preview show with Alex (include choices from Nard) from MONDAY, 4TH of AUGUST evening is now on Mixcloud.

The first hour of the show, with Alex, featured:
Eihwar - Ragnarök [Viking War Trance Reforged] (from Viking War Trance, released on 20/09/2024 by Season of Mist);

Nothing Speaks - Fall For You (from the Secrets EP, self-released on 07/06/2024);

Orange Goblin - Symptom Of The Universe [Black Sabbath cover] (from A Eulogy For The Damned, released on 23/01/2012 by Candlelight Records);

High Parasite - Let It Fail (from Forever We Burn, released on 27/09/2024 by Candlelight Records);

Vnder A Crvmbling Moon - Breach The Sky (from II: Aging & Formless, released on 05/04/2024 by Ripcord Records / RoadtoMasochist);

Obituary - Visions In My Head (from Inked In Blood, released on 27/10/2014 by Relapse Records);

- Exploitation (from Point Blank, released on 28/02/1994 by Roadrunner Records);

Mastodon - Battle At Sea (from Lifesblood, released on 21/08/2001 by Relapse Records);

Gojira - Flying Whales (from From Mars To Sirius, released on 27/09/2005 by Listenable Records);

Undeath - Brandish The Blade (from More Insane, released on 04/10/2024 by Prosthetic Records);

Flotsam and Jetsam - Natural Enemies (from Cuatro, released on 13/10/1992 by );

Ghosts Of Atlantis - Melkin's Tale (from Melkin's Tale, self-released on 25/07/2025);

Ba'al - The Ocean That Fills A Wound (from The Fine Line Between Heaven And Here, released on 18/07/2025 by RoadtoMasochist);

Rivers of Nihil - House Of Light (from Rivers Of Nihil, released on 30/05/2025 by Metal Blade Records);

Emperor - With Strength I Burn (from Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk, released on 08/07/1997 by Candlelight Records);

The Spirit - Death Is My Salvation (from Songs Against Humanity, released on 25/10/2024 by AOP Records);

Ofnus - Zenith Dolour (from Valediction, released on 28/02/2025 by Naturmacht Productions).

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-4th-august-2025-bloodstock-special-alex/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

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

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…

11/08/2025

ONE HOUR WARNING!

07/08/2025

Join Nard and The Collective this Monday at 6pm BST for 2 hours of music from recent and upcoming releases in the world of underground extreme metal.

This week we have an A-Z. Sure, there's a few letters missing and a few letters repeated, but it runs from A-Z...

Your two Blast from the Past tracks for this week are both from Profound Lore Records releases; one from 2009 and one from 2015...

Join us!

Featuring:
Abyssal
An Abstract Illusion
Ancient Torment
Autrest
Autumnal
Burial Gift
COBALT
Death has spoken
Devouring Famine
Eternal Absence
Ethereal Wound
GAM
Gjallarhorn's Wrath
Gorycz
Ismere
Leather Hearse
Unknown Subject
Visitant
Zanpanzar

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!

02/08/2025

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

This week, Nard and Alex have selected tracks from the bands they recommend at Bloodstock VIP this coming weekend. You will also be able to find The Collective bringing chaos and cacophony to the Bloodstock VIP Serpents Lair on the three main days of the festival.

The show will feature tracks by:
Ba'al,
Eihwar,
Emperor official,
Flotsam and Jetsam,
Ghosts Of Atlantis,
Gojira,
High Parasite,
Mastodon,
,
Nothing Speaks,
Obituary,
Ofnus,
Orange Goblin,
Rivers of Nihil,
The Spirit - Band,
Undeath, and
Vnder A Crvmbling Moon.

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

You are also welcome to join us in the 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".

29/07/2025

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:
Pogarda - Lament (Czarne obrazy EP, 19/07/2025 Independent release)

Echoes of Gloom - The Wandering Moon (The Mind's Eternal Storm, 12/07/2025 Independent release)

Voices of Kamra - Of Pillars, Walls and Mutilation (Unending Confluence, 19/09/2025 Avantgarde Music)

Downward - Ruin (To Lurk as Fever, 11/07/2025 Katafalque)

Ofermod(Official) - Vineyards of Gomorrah (Drakosophia, 03/10/2025 Shadow Records)

Esoctrilihum - Hark! The Bewitched Trumpet Of The Red Harbinger Is Calling The Dead To Gather (Ghostigmatah - Spiritual Rites of the Psychopomp Abxulöm, 05/09/2025 I, Voidhanger Records)

Hasard (Les Chants du Hasard) - Oniritisme (Abgnose, 05/09/2025 I, Voidhanger Records)

Convulsing - Relent (Grievous, 22/08/2018 Independent release)

Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest (Those Whom the Gods Detest, 03/11/2009 Nuclear Blast)

CEMETERY - Thoughts on Life (Thoughts on Life... and Death, 08/08/2025 Independent release)

Luctus - Tamsošviesa (Tamsošviesa, 13/09/2025 Inferna Profundus Records)

Acephalic Void - The Dagger in the Flesh (We Chose Death, 18/07/2025 Independent release)

Wound Collector - Arie für die Unbesungene (Single release, 08/07/2025 Independent release)

Nexion - Uþarpaspa (Sundrung, 19/09/2025 Avantgarde Music)

Proscription - Gleam of the Morningstar (Desolate Divine, 29/08/2025 Dark Descent Records)

Podridão - Death Metal - Exhaling Pestilent Rot (Coffin of the Corrupted Dead, 22/07/2025 Kill Again Records)

HERUVIM - Nulla Res (Mercator, 12/09/2025 Redefining Darkness Records)

Trypanon - Veiled in Shadows (Through the Portal of Flesh to Achieve Divinity, 05/09/2025 Time To Kill Records)

Phosphorus - Band - The Messiah (Frail Grasp of Broken Hands, 15/08/2025 Independent release)

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

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-nard-28th-july-2025/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…

26/07/2025

Join Nard and The Collective this coming Monday at 6pm BST for yet another deep dive into upcoming and recent releases from the world of underground extreme metal...

Your two Blast from the Past tracks for this week are both 8 minutes and 10 seconds long. Was this a coincidence that I'm trying to make seem like it was intentional? Yes, absolutely 100%.

Featuring:
Acephalic Void
Cemetery
Convulsing
Downward
Echoes of Gloom
Esoctrilihum
Hasard (Les Chants du Hasard)
HERUVIM
Voices of Kamra
Luctus
Nexion
Nile
Ofermod(Official)
Phosphorus - Band
Podridão - Death Metal
Pogarda
Proscription
Trypanon
Wound Collector

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!

25/07/2025

- 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:
Fields Of The Nephilim - Psychonaut Lib. IV (from Psychonaut [Single], released on 22/05/1989 by Beggars Banquet, The Arkive);

- Better Off Alone (from Better Off Alone [Single], self-released on 08/07/2025);

Corridoré - (Become) Carrion (from Abandon, to be released on 22/08/2025 by Hypaethral Records);

Amorphis - Bones (from Borderland, to be released on 26/09/2025 by Reigning Phoenix Music);

KING WITCH - Jesus Christ Pose [Soundgarden cover] (from III, released on 27/06/2025 by Listenable Records);

- Spiteful Intent (from Spiteful Intents, to be re-released on 29/08/2025 by Regain Records);

UNLEASHED - A Toast To The Fallen (from Fire Upon Your Lands, to be released on 15/08/2025 by Na**lm Records);

Malformed - The Incoming Rapture (from Confinement Of Flesh, released on 25/07/2025 by Dark Descent Records / Extremely Rotten Productions);

- Immeasurable Hell (from Cascading Misery, to be released on 05/09/2025 by 20 Buck Spin);

- The Dying Breath Of A Sacred Stag (from Blackbraid III, to be self-released on 08/08/2025);

Krigsgrav - Huntress Of The Fire Moon [feat. Jens Rydén] (from Stormcaller, to be released on 19/09/2025 by Willowtip Records);

Wormwood - Thousand Doorless Rooms (from The Star, released on 31/05/2024 by Black Lodge Records);

Aendreth - Sons Of The Fire (from Elegy Of The Necrochosen, to be released on 20/09/2025 by Vargheist Records);

Rauhnacht - Das Mark des Lebens (from Zwischenwelten, to be released on 25/08/2025 by Antiq Label);

Deheubarth - Weakling / Malingerer (from Revel In Occult Chambers, released on 30/11/2024 by Infernum Records);

Der Weg einer Freiheit - Eos (from Innern, to be released on 12/09/2025 / Season of Mist);

- Hrkþos Heshr Hiagom (from Uihtis, released on 25/07/2025 by Eisenwald).

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

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-21st-july-2025-alex

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

On this week’s The Collective show with Alex, 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. There is also be a nostalgic first track, to acknowledge the anniversary of seeing a favouri...

21/07/2025

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), only on TotalRock!