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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Danny Kenyon deserves to be spoken about alongside the great guitarists of the MD doom scene. People like Victor Griffin, Al Morris, Wino, Dale Flood, John Brenner, etc. R.I.P. thousandvisionmist1.bandcamp.com/album/journe... #doommetalsky #marylanddoom #ThousandVisionMist #LifeBeyond #Indestroy

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Journey to Ascension and the Loss of Tomorrow, by Thousand Vision Mist

10 track album

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

My top 10 favorite bands/musicians (in alphabetical order): Agusa Apostle of Solitude The Atomic Bitchwax Color Haze Kyuss Jason Molina Monster Magnet Pale Divine Pentagram Solace

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

There’s a new Marmalade Knives album coming in September and I, for one, am here for it! marmaladeknives.bandcamp.com/album/paradi... #psych #prog #musicsky #stonerrocksky #progrock

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Paradigm Lost, by Marmalade Knives

1 track album

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

New doom charts are up. Read what I have to say about Masters of Reality at #17

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Favorite 25 albums of March 2025: 23. SANHEDRIN - HEAT LIGHTNING Classic metal, traditional metal thesanhedrin.bandcamp.com/album/heat-l...

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Heat Lightning, by Sanhedrin

9 track album

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Favorite 25 albums of March 2025: 24. LUCIFER’S CHILD - THE ILLUMINANT Black metal agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-il...

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The Illuminant, by Lucifer's Child

8 track album

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Alright, here we go… my favorite 25 albums (including a few EPs) released in March, 2025. 25. FROGG - ECLIPSE Wild and weird technical death metal: froggofficial.bandcamp.com/album/eclipse

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Eclipse, by FROGG

10 track album

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We’ve had a really strong start to the year in terms of new albums. I’m contemplating listing out my top 25 albums from March here… it’s the list I sent to Doom Charts, but not everything falls under the big umbrella of doom/stoner/psych. What say you, Blue Sky?

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This week’s listening: a lot of new stuff with a little extra black metal thrown in and some Alcest in honor of finally getting to see them in a couple weeks. #nowplaying #metalsky #blackmetalsky #deathmetalsky #musicsky #progrock #heavypsych #doommetalsky #stonerrocksky

A 6*6 grid of the covers of albums I listened to between 2/8 and 2/14. Albums include Tumbleweed Dealer - Dark Green, FVZZ POPVLI - Melting Pop, Pentagram - Lightning in a Bottle, 16 - Guides for the Misguided, Causa Sui - Loppen 2024, Cruces - Spite.

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Double punch of good news! Futuropaco has a new record coming out and their label, @elparaiso.bsky.social, one of the very best in the biz for #psych, #progrock, and #jazz, is now on Bluesky.

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If you like your post-metal on the more aggressive side with somewhat blackened vocals, I’d highly recommend the new Adrift album!! @posttim.bsky.social this might be up your alley! adrift666.bandcamp.com/album/dry-soil. #nowplaying #metalsky #postmetalsky #doommetalsky #blackmetalsky

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Dry Soil, by Adrift

6 track album

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

For all my friends into #doometalsky and retro heavy, Doctor Doom just joined, they rule!

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Listening for this week. Mostly new stuff plus records from the shows I saw last weekend and the first Solace album as my band plays with them in a couple days.

A 5x5 graphic of album covers that I listened to this week. Featured albums include the new Fish Basket album, recent releases by Sulfator, Sarcator, Moon Wizard, and Godzillionaire plus the new Dax Riggs

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

January is the month for bands whose names start with S and end with ATOR. Both the Sarcator and Sulfator albums have been kicking my ass. Blackened deathy thrash. #blackmetalsky #deathmetalsky #metalsky #nowplaying sulfator.bandcamp.com/album/gemini sarcator.bandcamp.com/album/swarmi...

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Gemini, by Sulfator

8 track album

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The new Fish Basket album is out. This is not a drill, I repeat: the new Fish Basket album is out!! Instrumental prog/psych goodness! #progrock #progsky #heavypsych #nowplaying fishbasket.bandcamp.com/album/fish-b...

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Fish Basket and his second album, by Fish Basket

7 track album

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

This week’s listening. Jamming some older bangers and starting in on 2025 releases. #nowplaying #metalsky #doommetalsky #stonerrocksky #blackmetalsky #deathmetalsky

A 5*5 collage of album covers from albums that I listened to this week. Albums include Pentagram - Lightning in a bottle (2025), Moon Wizard - Sirens (2025), TFNRSH - Book of Circles (2025), all three Sun and Sail Club albums, a couple Solace records, the first Trigger Effect album, and others.

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

My favorite new release so far this week. A little psych, a little prog, a little kraut rock, a little post-metal, all awesome! tiefenrausch.bandcamp.com/album/book-o... #metalsky #nowplaying #progrock #heavypsych #spacerock

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Book of Circles, by TFNRSH

4 track album

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This weeks’s listening. A couple new albums, a couple nostalgic (and perhaps slightly guilty pleasure) 90s records, and a couple to commemorate the passing of original Solace vocalist Jason. #nowplaying #metalsky #doommetalsky #stonerrocksky

A 6*6 grid of album covers for that I listened to this week. Albums include the new Fermentor, Accurst, and Tanpopo Crisis Albums, Solace’s first two albums (Further and 13), 311’s Transistor and Lisa Loeb’s Tails, along with records by Raven, Warbeast, Brant Bjork, King Parrot, Volcano, Kanaan, and others.

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Don’t often get a chance to spin records, but working from home today and running through some (relatively) recent acquisitions. Up first is this Mondo Drag seven inch. #nowspinning #progrock #progsky #heavypsych #nowplaying #vinyl

Side B of a Mondo Drag seven inch sitting on a turntable. The seven inch is a picture disc and printed on the entire record is a black and white image of the band with the frontman standing ahead of the rest of the group.

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Wonderful to hear that Nine Records is giving the reissue treatment to the lone album by trad doom supergroup, Under the Sun (members of Pentagram, Cathedral, Penance, Revelation, Memory Driven, Place of Skulls, etc.). ninerecords.bandcamp.com/album/man-of.... #musicsky #metalsky #doommetalsky

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Man of Sorrow, by Under The Sun

1 track album

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

My favorite album released in the: 1970s: Blues Creation - Demon and Eleven Children 1980s: Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire 1990s: Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley 2000s: Apostle of Solitude - Sincerest Misery 2010s: Elder - Lore 2020s: 40 Watt Sun - Perfect Light #musicsky #metalsky #doommetalsky

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

And finally we've reached the end... my top 10 albums of the year. Thanks to everyone who read and found something to check out! #AOTY #metalsky #metalsky2024 #doommetalsky #stonerrocksky #progrock #psych

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Listing my top 50 AOTY for 2024 this week, 10 per day. Starting today with 50-41: #AOTY, #metalsky, #metalsky2024, #doommetalsky, #progsky, #stonerrocksky

A screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet listing albums 50-41 from my top 50 albums of the year list. The albums are:

50. Occult Witches - Sorrow's Pyre
49. Wombat Supernova - Apewoman VS Turbo
48. Heavy Temple - Garden of Heathens
47. Kevin Hufnagel - Dusting for my Fingerprints
46. Slat - Elegie Propastná
45. CrossRoad - Funeral Path
44. Mean Mistreater - Razor Wire
43. HYLKO - The Man Comes Around
42. Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol - Big Dumb Riffs
41. Gnome - Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Here's my "Best of the Rest" on my AOTY list. Essentially albums # 76-125, listed alphabetically by artist. During the year I checked out somewhere between 2000 and 3000 albums; these are among the top 5-7% of what I heard. #AOTY #metalsky #metalsky2024 #doommetalsky #stonerrock #prog #psychedelic

An Excel table showing the first half of my "Best of the Rest" albums of the year list. The albums are listed alphabetically by artist. The albums listed in this image are:

Alcest - Les Chants de l'Aurore
Ancient Vvisdom - Master of the Stone
Ard - Untouched by Fire
Astrodome - Seascapes
Astrometer - Outermost
Brant Bjork Trio - Once upon a Time in the Desert
Carnosus - Wormtales
Clouds Taste Satanic - 79 A.E.
Consider the Source - The Stare
Delving - All Paths Diverge
Destroyer of Light - Degredation Years
Dissordawtisms - Sardonic Ideas of Spastic Contempt
Exuvial - The Hive Mind Chronicles, Pt. I: Parasitica
Exxasens - Infinitum
Free Ride - Acido Y Puto
Full Tone Generator - Refuge of Sinners
Haunt - Dreamers
Haunted - Stare at Nothing
Hekate - House of Solomon
High Warden - Astral Iron
Immorior - Wonach Wir Streben
Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Temples Colliding in Fire
Iron Monkey - Spleen & Goad
Jupiter Fungus - Garden Electric
Kanaan & Ævestaden - Langt, langt vekk

A screenshot of an Excel table showing the second half of the Best of the Rest of my albums of the year. The albums are listed alphabetically by artist. The albums listed in this image are:

Kant - Paranoia Pilgrimage
Kello Gonzalez - Above the Great Beyond Below
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741
Legions of Doom - The Skull 3
Little Albert - The Road not Taken
Lucifer - Lucifer V
Magick Potion - Magick Potion
Moss Upon the Skull - Quest for the Secret Fire
Mother of Graves - The Periapt of Absence
Mountain Caller - Chronicle II: Hypergenesis
No Man's Valley - Chrononaut Cocktailbar/Flight of the Sloths
Red Mesa - Partial Distortions
Rosalie Cunningham - To Shoot Another Day
Savage Oath - Divine Battle
Schubmodul - Lost in Kelp Forest
Shred Rogers - The Circle
Slomosa - Tundra Rock
Solemn Ceremony - Chapter III
Spiral Grave - Ill Repute
Traum - Traum
Violent Homicidal Slasher - For a Few Riffs More
Wax Wizard - Wax Wizard
Witch Vomit - Funeral Sanctum
Witchorious - Witchorious
Zombi - Direct Inject

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I'm ready to start posting my albums of the year. Today I'll post my top 20 eps; over the next 10 days I'll post my top 125 albums of the year. Tomorrow will be my "best of the rest" (# 76-125 alphabetical); Friday my hon. mentions (# 51-75 alphabetical); Next week my top 50 (10 per day).

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Question for #metalsky2024: how are y’all making the pictures with your AOTY picks arranged in a collage? Is there an app I should be using?

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Four albums that dropped when you were in high school and warped your mind forever: Tool - Ænima Monster Magnet - Powertrip Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age Solace - Further

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

To be TRVE DOOM, the musicians must also receive a special certificate signed in blood by both Wino and Leif Edling. In the event one of the above is unavailable, some (but not all) have deemed John Perez an acceptable substitute.

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Weekly listening, largely focused on putting together my November @doomcharts.bsky.social contribution and then my #metalsky2024 AOTY lists. I should start rolling out the latter during the upcoming week. #nowplaying, #metalsky, #doommetalsky, #stonerrock, #prog, #heavypsych, #lastfm

A seven by seven collage of album covers from records I’ve listened to this week. The vast majority are albums released this year including Opeth, The Gates of Slumber, Svar, Sun and Sail Club, Ancient Vvisdom, and many others.

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Fresh monthly @doomcharts.bsky.social are out! Read what I had to say about new albums from The Gates of Slumber and Slower at nos 8 and 17 respectively. #metalsky #doommetalsky #stonerrock #stonerrocksky

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My top 25 albums (including a couple short releases) of November, presented here in alphabetical order, that I sent into @doomcharts.bsky.social for the month. Click on the image to see all 25. #metalsky #doommetalsky #stonerrock #stonermetal #psych #prog

An Excel chart of my top 25 albums for November shown in all caps and alphabetical by artist. The albums are:

APODEMUS - MONOTONE
CRIPTA BLUE - NO RETURN
EXUVIAL - THE HIVEMIND CHRONICLES PART I: PARASITICA
EXXASENS - INFINITUM
HEAVY TRIP - LIQUID PLANET
HIGH WARDEN - ASTRAL IRON
JUPITER FUNGUS - GARDEN ELECTRIC
KING IN YELLOW - BOLESKINE DREAM
MAGICK POTION - MAGICK POTION
MOSS UPON THE SKULL - QUEST FOR THE SECRET FIRE
OPETH - LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
ORIGIN OF INFINITY - EXORCISM
PRIMAL CODE - OPAQUE FIXATION
PRIMEVAL MASS - SAQQARA’S RITE
ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM - TO SHOOT ANOTHER DAY
SLAT - ELEGIE PROPASTNÀ
SLOWER - RAGE AND RUIN
SVAR - IN THE LAND CALLED NIGHT
THE GATES OF SLUMBER - THE GATES OF SLUMBER
TIDAL SHOCK - RIFFS OF HA
WARPSTORMER - WARPSTORMER
WAX WIZARD - WAX WIZARD
WEITE - OASE
WIZARD MUST DIE - L’OR DES FOUS
WOODROSE - DESIRE

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benbellum.bsky.social @benbellum.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Jeeeeezus! I did not expect The Gates of Slumber to come back hard like that. Album of the week for sure… maybe album of the year. thegatesofslumber.bandcamp.com/album/the-ga... #metalsky #doommetalsky #nowplaying #doom

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The Gates of Slumber, by The Gates of Slumber

6 track album

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