The Collective

13/11/2024

- 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”.

*There was also a feature showcasing all of the final four bands announced last week for Fortress Festival 2025.

The show featured:
Osi And The Jupiter* - Draugadóttinn (from Uthuling Hyl, released on 09/09/2017 by Eisenwald);

DARKHER* - Immortals (from The Buried Storm, released on 15/04/2022 by Prophecy Productions);

Sylvaine* - Nowhere, Still Somewhere (from Nova, released on 13/05/2016 by Season of Mist);

New Model Army - Orange Tree Roads (from Eight, released on 31/01/2000 by Attack Attack Music);

Lying Figures - Euphoria And Misery (from Inheritance, to be released on 14/11/2024 by Meuse Music Records);

Bile Caster - Abscess (from Writhing Between Birth And Death, released on 04/10/2024 by / Cursed Monk Records / );

Defeated Sanity - Accelerating The Rot (from Chronicles Of Lunacy, to be released on 22/11/2024 by Season of Mist);

Iniquitous Savagery - Casualty Of Diabolical Trial (from Edifice Of Vicissitudes, to be released on 22/11/2024/ Willowtip Records);

Dödsrit* - Celestial Will (from Nocturnal Will, released on 22/03/2024/ Wolves Of Hades);

Unreqvited - The Starforger (from A Pathway To The Moon, to be released on 24/01/2025 by Prophecy Productions);

In One Place - Empty Promises, Your Empty Void (from Silence / Static, self-released on 31/10/24);

Múr - Frelsari (from Múr, to be released on 22/11/2024 by Century Media Records);

Memorare - By Royal Decree (from The Pendle Witches, self-released on 02/11/2024);

Kildonan - II - Ioliar-Bhuidhe (from Embers, to be released on 13/12/2024 by Caligari Records);

Gorgon - Troops Of The Fallen (from For Those Who Stay, to be released on 29/11/2024 by Osmose Productions);

Dewfall - Fara (from Landhaskur, to be released on 29/11/2024 by Naturmacht Productions);

FEATURE - The Epic AT The End: -
LÓSTREGOS - LVME - Cinza Sacra (from Nai, released on 25/10/2024 by Dusktone).

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

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-11th-november-2024-alexguinness/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…

11/11/2024

- 45 Minute warning!

11/11/2024

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

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

Also, we look at the latest announcements for Fortress Festival, for which the lineup is now complete!

The show will feature tracks by:
- Bile Caster,
- DARKHER,
- Defeated Sanity,
- Dewfall,
- Dödsrit,
- Gorgon,
- Iniquitous Savagery,
- In One Place ,
- Kildonan,
- LÓSTREGOS,
- Lying Figures,
- Memorare,
- Múr,
- New Model Army,
- Osi And The Jupiter,
- Sylvaine, and
- Unreqvited.

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".

06/11/2024

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:
Lömsk - Spet​ä​lsk (Act I, 01/11/2024 Independent release)

Asgrauw - Erfenis (Oorsprong, 31/10/2024 Independent release)

Dizmal - Poisonous (Nether, 30/10/2024 Independent release)

Todestrieb - Axis Nihil (Corona Tenebra, 13/12/2024 Avantgarde Music)

-M-I-R-R-O-R- - I (Rhythm 0, 25/10/2024 Independent release)

Sun Worship - Fractal Entity (Upon the Hills of Divination, 31/10/2024 Vendetta Records)

Kerath - Kargo Kult (Skutigera, 28/10/2024 Independent release)

Biesy - My razem jak dłoń i miecz (Golem, 30/10/2024 Pest Productions)

Vojna - Zhromaždení na svojich smteľných posteliach (In The Triumph Of A Few Or In The Treachery Of Many, 28/10/2024 Independent release)

Verlies - Marchandise Des Pouilleux Part. II (Les Oubli​é​s De La Chute, 27/03/2020 Independent release)

Arcturus - Collapse Generation (The Sham Mirrors, 29/04/2002 Ad Astra Enterprises / Prophecy Productions)

夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) - Telepath Transport Wing (Delirium Pathomutageno Adductum, 28/10/2024 Independent release)

SATAO - Leaving the Sphere (Devourer of Man, 24/10/2024 Independent release)

Cryptic Brood - Digging Through Skin (Necrotic Flesh Bacteria, 01/11/2024 Lycanthropic Chants)

Agathisma - Unmerciful Lacernist (Adversarial Reality, 26/10/2024 Independent release)

أبناء هاوية Sons of Abyss - Initiation Into The Unseen World ش​ر​و​ع في ع​ا​ل​م ا​ل​غ​ي​ب (The Shaitanic Self And the Iblisic Quintessence ا​ل​ذ​ا​ت ا​ل​ش​ي​ط​ا​ن​ي​ة و ا​ل​ر​و​ح ا​ل​إ​ب​ل​ي​س​ي​ة, 01/11/2024 Independent release)

Shaarimoth - Blade of Malediction (Devildom, 31/10/2024 World Terror Committee)

Serpent Column - Reclaiming Decades Erased (Tassel of Ares, 19/10/2024 Independent release)

Aethyrvorous - II (Akephalic Palingenesis, 01/11/2024 Wrought Material)

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

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-nard-4th-november-2024/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…

04/11/2024

JUST ABOUT NEARLY ONE HOUR WARNING!

02/11/2024

Nard off of The Collective will once again assault your ear tubes with underground extreme metal, this Monday at 6pm GMT...

Tracks from:
Aethyrvorous
Agathisma
Arcturus
Asgrauw
Biesy
Cryptic Brood
Dizmal
Kerath
Lömsk
-M-I-R-R-O-R-
SATAO
Serpent Column
Shaarimoth
Sun Worship
Todestrieb
Verlies
Vojna
أبناء هاوية (Sons of Abyss)
夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker)

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!

29/10/2024

- For anyone that missed it, or wants to listen again, The Collective’s show with Alex from YESTERDAY 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:
REMINA - Siren's Sleep (from Erebus, released on 06/09/2024 on by Avantgarde Music);

- Heed No Light (from Futile Attempts To Reach The Light, to be released on 15/11/2024 by Cognitive Discordance Records);

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

Svavelvinter - Glasmannen (from Mörkrets Tid, released on 01/06/2018 by Dimout Productions / At Dawn Records);

Necronomicon Ex Mortis - Trick Or Treat (from The Mother Of Death, self-released on 29/11/2024);

- As Cataclysms Swept Across The Cities (from Something Eldritch And Macabre, to be released on 13/12/2024 by Personal Records);

Gutless - Viral Infection (from High Impact Violence, to be released on 22/11/2024 by Dark Descent Records / Me S**o Un Ojo Records);

Revolting - Seven Severed Heads (from Night Of The Horrid, to be released on 17/12/2024 by XTREEM MUSIC);

Mercyless - I Am Hell (from Those Who Reign Below, released on 25/10/2024 by Osmose Productions);

Purgatorial - Doomed To Repeat (from Fading Whispers Of Voidbound Souls, to be released on 22/11/2024 by These Hands Melt);

FEATURE – 3 new releases from Soulseller Records: -
Svarttjern (Official) - Determination (from Draw Blood, to be released on 06/12/2024 / Soulseller Records);
Old Forest - Curse Of Wampyr (from Graveside, to be released on 06/12/2024 / Soulseller Records);
Valdaudr - Den Moerke Tronen (from Du Skal Frykte, to be released on 06/12/2024 / Soulseller Records);

Burial - Rejoice In Sin (from Rejoice In Sin, to be released on 15/11/2024 by Apocalyptic Witchcraft);

Vrazorth - Shadows Cast Upon A Stellar Veil (from Emergence, to be released on 29/11/2024 by Avantgarde Music);

- Magtløse korskyssere (from Indsigt, to be released on 01/11/2024 by Northern Silence Productions);

Canis Dirus - Once Cursed Path Glistens In The Sun (from By The Grace Of Death, to be released on 21/12/2024 by Bindrune Recordings);

FEATURE - The Epic AT The End: -
Cursed Cemetery - Tad Ekam (from Magma Transmigration, released on 18/10/2024 by Dusktone).

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

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-28th-october-2024-alexguinness/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…

28/10/2024

30-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!

27/10/2024

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

Also, this show showcases three upcoming releases from Soulseller Records.

The show will feature tracks by:
- ,
- ,
- ,
- Burial,
- Canis Dirus,
- Cursed Cemetery,
- Deheubarth,
- Gutless,
- Mercyless,
- Necronomicon Ex Mortis,
- Old Forest,
- Purgatorial,
- REMINA,
- Revolting,
- Svarttjern (Official),
- Svavelvinter,
- Valdaudr, and
- Vrazorth.

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".

23/10/2024

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:
Nekus - Accursed Murmur (Death Apophenia, 15/11/2024 Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

ORYX - Myopic (Primordial Sky, 18/10/2024 Translation Loss Records)

HEXEKRATION RITES - Carnal Incandescence (Gathering the Disciples, 15/10/2024 -rek / Obscurity of Error Records)

Fatalys - Todas las memorias conmigo se van (En la lejan​í​a del alba, 17/10/2024 Independent release)

Multa - The Amazing Question (The Amazing Question, 16/10/2024 Independent release)

Portae Obscuritas - Omniscience of the Eternal Black Light (KHAOS, 04/10/2024 Northern Fog Records)

Nidare - Are we born just to glimpse upon the consequence of human life (Es laesst nicht los, ich jedoch laengst, 04/10/2024 Independent release)

Les Chants du Hasard - Choral inane (Malivore, 12/05/2023 I, Voidhanger Records)

Divine Empire - Hidden Hatred (Redemption, 17/11/1998 Olympic Recordings)

BARNAVEIKI - Rotþróin (Barnaveiki EP, 04/10/2024 Independent release)

Sacred Noose - Black Tempests of Promise (Single release, 02/10/2024 Independent release)

Grøft - С​м​е​р​т​ь (Г​е​р​б, 18/10/2024 Independent release)

Epine - L'Un-de-Tant (Infernum Omnes II, 25/10/2024 Independent release)

NECROSYS - Imię me Zaraza (Nekrowersum, 13/10/2024 Mara)

Extorted - Violence (Cognitive Dissonance, 16/10/2024 Independent release)

solar wimp - Enhanced Iconography (Trails of Light, 15/11/2024 Independent release)

Golgothan Remains - Necropoles (Bearer of Light, Matriarch of Death, 22/11/2024 Dark Descent Records)

Sarcophagum - Feudal Futures (The Grand Arc of Madness, 06/12/2024 Nuclear Winter Records)

Bedsore - Realm Of Eleuterillide (Dreaming the Strife for Love, 29/11/2024 20 Buck Spin)

BONUS TRACK FOR THE MIXCLOUD UPLOAD:
DEAMONOLITH - The Monolithic Cult of Death (The Monolithic Cult of Death, 18/10/2024 / Ancient Dead)

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

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-nard-21st-october-2024/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…

21/10/2024

ONE HOUR WARNING!

19/10/2024

Join The Collective this Monday at 6pm GMT, and allow Nard to catapult some underground extreme metal right towards your eartubes...

Blasts from the Past for this week:
One is not-so-pasty but very very blasty, the other is very pasty and also very blasty....

Tracks from:
BARNAVEIKI
Bedsore
Divine Empire
Epine
Extorted
Fatalys
Golgothan Remains
Grøft
Les Chants du Hasard
HEXEKRATION RITES
Multa
NECROSYS
Nekus
Nidare
ORYX
Portae Obscuritas
Sacred Noose
Sarcophagum
solar wimp

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!

17/10/2024

- 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:
Askeesi - The Foggy Mountains Of The Caucasus (from The Roots Of A Sacred Tree, released on 30/09/2024 by Maa Productions / Zero Dimensional Records);

The Cure - Alone (from Songs Of A Lost World, to be released on 01/11/2024 by Polydor / Fiction Records);

- Burn (from The Reptile House EP, released on 16/05/1983 by );

Coltaine - Dans Un Nouveau Mond (from Forgotten Ways, released on 05/09/2024 by Lay Bare Recordings);

MONOLITHE - On The Run To Nowhere (from Black Hole District, to be released on 15/11/2024 / by Hammerheart Records);

Nepenthe - Upon These Unfamiliar Shores (from The Fading Promise Of Tomorrow & Elegies Of Loss And Doom, to be released on 15/11/2024 / by Hypaethral Records);

IOTUNN - Twilight (from Kinship, to be released on 25/10/2024 by Metal Blade Records);

Drownship - Where The Flood Springs (from Tidal Passages, to be released on 08/11/2024 / by These Hands Melt);

Wolvencrown - A Spell Nature Cast (from Celestial Lands, to be released on 29/11/2024 / by Avantgarde Music);

Chaos Invocation - This World Wants Us Dead (from Wherever We Roam…, to be released on 08/11/2024 by AOP Records);

Spider God - Starcrusher (from Possess The Devil, to be released on 15/11/2024 by Repose Records);

EINST - Ohne Dich Ward Nicht Auch Nur Ein Augenblick (from Einst, to be released on 25/10/2024 by Naturmacht Productions);

ÄERA - Schattenkreuz (from Phantast, to be released on 04/10/2024 by Vendetta Records);

FEATURE – The Epic AT The End: -
Askeesi - Whispers Of The Forgotten Oak (from The Roots Of A Sacred Tree, released on 30/09/2024 by Maa Productions / Zero Dimensional Records).

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

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-14th-october-2024-alexguinness/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…

14/10/2024

25-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 at 6pm, and EVERY Monday (UK time, with repeats at 6am on Tuesday), only on TotalRock!

12/10/2024

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

We continue trying to catch up a little on the unrelenting flow of brilliant new releases; showcasing various recent and upcoming underground metal gems… but there is also some much older nostalgia!

This show opens with the first track from a great new album and then closes with the final track from the same album.

Oh, and there are plenty of LONG songs...

The show will feature tracks by:
- ÄERA,
- Askeesi,
- Chaos Invocation,
- Coltaine,
- The Cure,
- Drownship,
- EINST,
- MONOLITHE,
- Nepenthe,
- ,
- Spider God, and
- Wolvencrown.

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".

09/10/2024

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:
Ars Veneficium - Into the Void (The Lurking Shadow of Death, 27/09/2024 Immortal Frost Productions)

ABRAHAMIC LIARS - Bekentenis Van Een Lichtekooi (Requiem, 27/09/2024 Independent release)

Primal Code - Anapsid (Opaque Fixation, 15/11/2024 Relapse Records)

Ripped to Shreds - 孽鏡臺 (Visions of Sin, Mirror of Darkness) (Sanshi, 27/09/2024 Relapse Records)

Darah - Holier Than Thou (Single release, 02/10/2024 Independent release)

Rotborn - The Closing of the Vortex (Shrapnels of a Panic Spiral, 01/11/2024 Redefining Darkness Records)

Cosmophage - Decaying Entropy (Sidereal Malignancy, 04/10/2024 Independent release)

Odious Spirit - Gnawing the Fabric of Time (The Treason of Consciousness, 20/09/2024 I, Voidhanger Records)

Vomitorium - Flowers Preserved Like Heads In Formaldehyde (Hope Is Not A Strategy, 04/10/2024 Independent release)

WRATHPRAYER - Mercy Begets Savagery (Enkoimeterion, 11/10/2024 Nuclear War Now! Productions)

Mortal Incarnation - Infinite Consciousness Unchained from the Mortal Incarnation (Lunar Radiant Dawn, 06/07/2019 Sentient Ruin Laboratories / Independent release)

Drastus - Occisor (La Croix de Sang, 01/03/2019 Noevdia)

Sult - Livets Bitre Ende (Sult, 29/09/2024 Independent release)

Winter Lantern - A Bottomless Curse, A Bottomless Sea (Hymne to a Dismal Starre, 17/10/2024 Independent release)

Hænesy - Furthest Reaches of Light (Single release, 04/10/2024 Independent release)

Mefitis - The Untwined One (The Skorian // The Greyleer, 29/11/2024 Profound Lore Records)

Mitochondrion - The Protanthrofuge (Vitriseptome, 01/11/2024 Profound Lore Records)

Concilium - The Mass of Depravity (Evangelium, 25/09/2024 Independent release)

Rvinous Null - Born of Phospor, Sealed in Flame (Labyrinthine Reaches, 06/09/2024 Independent release)

Ghemhamforash - Forth Down the Chasm (Bloodletting, 13/06/2024 Altare Productions)

Ifryt - Dolina Latających Żab (Nudy, 20/09/2024 Godz Ov War Productions)

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

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-nard-7th-october-2024/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…

05/10/2024

Join The Collective this Monday at 6pm GMT...

Nard.
Extreme metal.
Ears.

Blasts from the past for this week both come from 2019...

Tracks from:
ABRAHAMIC LIARS
Ars Veneficium
Concilium
Cosmophage
Darah
Drastus
Ghemhamforash
Hænesy
Ifryt
Mefitis
Mitochondrion
Mortal Incarnation
Odious Spirit
Primal Code
Ripped to Shreds
Rotborn
Rvinous Null
Sult
Vomitorium
Winter Lantern
WRATHPRAYER

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!