The Collective

09/12/2024

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!

09/12/2024

- On air in one hour (9am) and then again at 9pm today!

The Collective's very own "The Child" takes over to curate an entire hour show of tracks he has chosen on previous shows.

There are some absolutely brilliant tracks getting another airing!

🎄Start your week getting in the festive spirit with Advent Show 9🎄

From the very first shows by The Collective, there has been The Child’s Choice, in which a then 7-year old menace had free choice of a track to include in Alex's shows. This hour is entirely a celebration of some of the brilliant tracks that The Child has had included in previous shows

On air at 9am & 9pm or On Demand at https://totalrock.com/on-demand/

08/12/2024

- 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…

There is an exclusive first play of the debut single from Scottish band, VISHA, a complete playthrough of a new split EP… plus the return of The Child’s Choice!

The show will feature tracks by:
- Abduction,
- A Rose Dying In The Rain,
- Black Pyre,
- Dissection,
- Fallaness,
- Gràb,
- Labyrinthus Stellarum,
- ,
- Moongazer,
- Nostalghia,
- ,
- Rats Of Gomorrah,
- ,
- Summoning Saturn Voids,
- VISHA,
- , and
- Year of the Cobra.

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".

04/12/2024

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:
MROH - Alone (Single release, 15/11/2024 Independent release)

Omegaeternum - The Endless Quietus (1248, 24/11/2024 Ván Records)

Molh - Beneath the Carpathian Moon (Deus, 22/11/2024 Independent release)

HOMSELVAREG - Spirito Errante Eterno (Single release, 29/11/2024 Independent release)

Beehive Revolt - Gribbhæren (Hvsk, 29/11/2024 Independent release)

Beneath Moonlight - None Before God (Beneath Moonlight, 20/12/2024 Debemur Morti Productions)

Nebelkrähe - Über den Fluss hinweg (entfremdet (2024), 26/06/2009 / 29/11/2024 Crawling Chaos)

Gravenchalice - Dominion (Echelon, 28/11/2024 Independent release)

Choir - And Sing An Anthem For The Famine II (Smithe Thee Smoldering Providence, 17/12/2024 Total Dissonance Worship)

Oranssi Pazuzu - Vino Verso (Valonielu, 11/10/2013 Svart Records / 20 Buck Spin)

Hamferð - Evst (Evst, 11/10/2013 TUTL Plátufelagið - TUTL Records)

MOONDARK - Sterile Earth (The Abysmal Womb, 20/12/2024 Pulverised Records)

Vidres a la Sang - Màrtirs (Virtut del desencís, 29/11/2024 Eternal Juggernaut Records)

Monte Penumbra - Stamen of Barrenness (Austere Dawning, 13/12/2024 Noevdia)

Stenched - Suppurating Cranial Cavity (Purulence Gushing from the Coffin, 19/11/2024 Me S**o Un Ojo Records / Extremely Rotten Productions)

PYRE - Murderous Transcendence (Where Obscurity Sways, 31/01/2025 Osmose Productions)

Infernalivm - Ashes of the Saints (Conquering the Most High, 29/11/2024 Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Phorboda - All is Naught (Single release, 15/11/2024 Independent release)

Retromorphosis - Vanished (Psalmus Mortis, 21/02/2025 Season of Mist)

Nexion - Gandr (Single release, 22/11/2024 Independent release)

BJES - 13:31 (Tyrana, 27/11/2024 Independent release)

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

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-nard-2nd-december-2024/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…

02/12/2024

MUCH LESS THAN ONE HOUR WARNING!

30/11/2024

Point your ears towards this...

Nard & The Collective, this Monday at 6pm GMT. Underground extreme metal nuggets from recent and upcoming releases...

Blasts from the past for this week are both opening tracks from albums released on the 11th of October 2013...

Tracks from:
Beehive Revolt
Beneath Moonlight
BJES
Choir
Gravenchalice
Hamferð
HOMSELVAREG
Infernalivm
Molh
Monte Penumbra
MOONDARK
MROH
Nebelkrähe
Nexion
Omegaeternum
Oranssi Pazuzu
Phorboda
PYRE
Retromorphosis
Stenched
Vidres a la Sang

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!

25/11/2024

15-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 and 1pm on Saturday), only on TotalRock!

24/11/2024

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 return this week to predominantly 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:
- The Cure,
- Dying Grotesque,
- Ethereal Darkness,
- Grima,
- Hrad,
- KONKHRA,
- ,
- Mavorim,
- Nefarious Dusk,
- Neon Nightmare,
- Onirophagus,
- Saor,
- Úlfarr,
- woodrose.band, and
- .

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 at your convenience by searching online for "The Collective on demand".

20/11/2024

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:
CML###VIII - Черно (2021 - 2024, 06/11/2024 Independent release)

Vimbulnatt - Beliar (Der dunklen Tugenden. Der Urgrund, 01/11/2024 Kernkraftritter Records)

Urfeind - Thorns of Madness (Dau​þ​alaikaz, 10/01/2025 Nine to Zero productions)

IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT - Hotel Sphinx (Single release, 13/11/2024 Century Media Records)

Kveldhall - Высекающий Искры (У В​р​а​т З​а​р​и, 30/11/2024 Black Arts Of Crime Prod.)

Dizziness - Smoulder Dun (Abhorrent Flickering of Obscurity, 30/11/2024 Independent release)

Barshasketh - Radiant Aperture (Antinomian Asceticism, 09/01/2025 World Terror Committee)

An Axis Of Perdition - Private Acts of Abnegation (Apertures, 13/12/2024 Apocalyptic Witchcraft)

Entropia - Astral (Vacuum, 28/09/2018 Arachnophobia Records)

Mizmor - ii. A Semblance Waning (Yodh, 12/08/2016 Gilead Media)

NÁMÖL - Likér ze shnilých holubích vajec (Zhouba z rakevního dna, 06/11/2024 Independent release)

Gorging Shade - Clepsydra (Inversions, 11/11/2024 Independent release)

Alarum - A Lifelong Question (Recontinue, 08/11/2024 Independent release)

In Dakhma - Sacrum (He Who Sows the Ground, 08/11/2024 Tower of Silence Records)

Mirzam Antidotum Ov Marazm - Kill Him (...There Is No Emptiness…, 29/11/2024 Via Nocturna)

Temblad - Chamber of Ripped Tongues / Chamber of Suppurating Plagues (Echoes of Cursed Retribution, 01/11/2024 Independent release)

Cerulean - Chamber of Saws / Chamber of Boiling Oil (Echoes of Cursed Retribution, 01/11/2024 Independent release)

Auriferous Flame - An Oration to the Storm (The Insurrectionists And The Caretakers, 08/11/2024 True Cult Records)

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

https://www.mixcloud.com/TotalRockCollective/the-collective-nard-18th-november-2024/

https://linktr.ee/thecollective_totalrock

Hear the latest version of The Collective here…

18/11/2024

ONE AND ONE TWELFTH OF AN HOUR WARNING!

16/11/2024

"Would it be OK if I ever so gently smashed some very good music right up your mind?"

If you consent, join Nard and The Collective this Monday at 6pm GMT where we showcase the very best from the Extreme Metal Underground...

Blasts from the Past:
An experimental psychedelic blackened post-sludge effort from 2018.
Some Black/Drone/Doom from 2016, by a band who just finished their 1st ever European tour.

We also have a playthrough of the entire split EP Echoes of Cursed Retribution by Temblad and Cerulean...

Tracks from:
Alarum
An Axis Of Perdition
Auriferous Flame
Barshasketh
Cerulean
CML###VIII
Dizziness
Entropia
Gorging Shade
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT
In Dakhma
Kveldhall
Mirzam Antidotum Ov Marazm
Mizmor
NÁMÖL
Temblad
Urfeind
Vimbulnatt

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!

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…