OUR LIST OF 2025’S MOST INFECTIOUS EXTREME METAL SONGS (PART 17): UMBRÍO, DEATH OBVIOUS, INFERNAL THORNS

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Jan 262026
 

(written by Islander)

Now we begin the final week of this month-long song rollout. I know most of what this week’s last five segments will include, but not everything. I still have some agonizing decisions to make before calling a halt.

If you set your clocks by our posts (and of course you do), you’ll know that we got a late start today, and that this newest installment of our Most Infectious Song list is especially tardy in appearing. And so I’ll cut this intro short and plunge straightaway into these next three songs. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: INFERNAL THORNS — “BLACK FLESH”

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Aug 122025
 

(written by Islander)

When I listen to music I know I’m going to write about I don’t do it the way “normal” people do (I use the term loosely because I know our usual visitors would abhor being labeled that way, and with good reason). I tend to jot down words and phrases, trying to capture what I’m feeling so I can write about it.

That didn’t happen when I listened for the first time to the Infernal Thorns song “Black Flesh“. I didn’t freeze up, but something like the opposite of freezing, caught up in the sheer flood of adrenaline in the bloodstream, marveling at the hellishness of the heat and the bolting changes, muscles twitching from all the diabolical musical barbs, and not one word jotted down.

It was so much hellish fun, such a bacchanal of barbarism, that I didn’t keep track of how many times I listened before reminding myself I needed to organize some thoughts as a way of introducing our premiere.

But fuck, I guess I just introduced our premiere. Continue reading »