The Ninehertz Podcast

Episode 201 is here! Your Friday is saved!

Mike and Pete dish up the usual chat and noise for your weekly dose, this week it's:

Black Helium - I Saw God

Big Break - The Gaffer

Hexer - Bathyskaph

Nightfucker - Causeways

Human Hand - Teeth

People Look Like Dogs -Duct Tape My Dignity To A Firework

Choir - Mouths Trapped In Concrete

Uath - The Malice of Inanimate Objects

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Atlas Stone

It's hard to believe but here we are at episode 200! Mike and Pete have been playing you the best from the metal underground since 2017 and we can't quite comprehend that number either!

To celebrate, here's 9 of the best tracks we've found this week! Here's to 200 more!

Stormo - Deserti

Dying Fetus - Unbridled Fury

Fange - À La Racine

Ropes Inside A Hole - Overwhelmed 

Cadaver Shrine - Benighted Desecration

Balberskult - Weberknecht

Yashira - Burial Mound

Clouds Taste Satanic - Sun Death Ritual

Black Air - Fog Works

We're well and truly back, thanks everyone who listened last week, this is why we love doing this. 

A veritable smorgasbord of amazing riffage, strange sounds and stoner, doom and whatever as usual. 

Mike and Pete pick:

Love Gang - Blinded by Fear

Skrying Mirror - Fractals

Finis Hominis - Jukai

Messiah In The Abyss - I’m Hate

Basalt Shrine - The Immutable Eminence of Despair

The Golden Grass - Howlin’

Remote Viewing - Your Opinion Is Wrong

Allfather - Take Their Eyes

Nephilim's Noose - Cloaked in Chain // The Sanguinary Altar

We're back! After a terrible start personally to the year, we've managed to get together and record our first pod of the year. It's good to be home.

MIke and Pete welcome in February 2023 with the sweet, sweet sounds of:

Pyramid Mass - Wars

Gravehuffer - Blueprint For An Early Grave

Cerb​è​re - Cendre

Arnaut Pavle - With Sulphur Carriage

Frogskin - Of Vermin and Man

Conjureth - Devastating Cataclysmic Unearthing

Ὁπλίτης - Μ​ά​ρ​τ​υ​ς

LIMBES - De Courbes Et De Peaux

Neutraliser - Capsule Bowed Space

We don't like to pick the best albums every year for a list, just our favourites. Here's ten cuts to end the year we think you'll love as much as we do.

See you all in 2023, love Mike and Pete.

Stomach - Oil
Ashenspire - Tragic Heroin
Friend - Wellness
Body Void - Drown
Uncle Woe - Merriment Abounds
Haress - Time To Drink
Kurokuma - Ololiuqui
Roman Candle - Survivors Guilt
Throth - Gold
Wiegedood - Now Will Always Be

One of our last podcasts of the year, join us as we thrash out drone, psyche, grindcore and death metal in a big shitty pot.

Mike and Pete pick:

Shit the Cow - Everybody
Monastr - On Your Knees
Falling Floors - Flawed Theme
Wyatt E - Aswan
Prophetic Suffering - The Suffering
Wedge - Spite
Potvor - I
Scalp - Endless Relapse
Alix - Ride Your Light

Stick around for next week's highlights of the year!

Episode 195 and it's time to kick some life into the frozen depths of December. This will put some fire in your stride this week.

Mike and Pete pick, peruse and present:

Heron - The Middle Distance

Nozh - Blood Party

Seed of the Sorcerer, Womb of the Witch - Curse of Corrosive Castration

Heteropsy - Human Is Pain

Lebrique - Meth Bath

Extinction - Cloud Forest Fruitopsy

Isak - Ablaze

Roman Candle - Gaslighting Isn’t Real (You’re Just Crazy)

Ratpiss - Crime Pays//Violence Thrills

It's getting cold now, let us warm your dark soul with nine of the finest tunes we've come across this week.

Mike and Pete select the following:

Cryptae - Billow

pHPeople - Film For Slugs

Gorthon - Premature Eradication

KVLL - Suffocation 

Sapna - The Vessel 

Celophys - Wulong

Crypt Rot - The Work of Worms

Colonial Wound - Altar of Youth

Faetooth - She Cast a Shadow

We're back after illness, plague and pestilence stopped us recording.

Thankfully we have these nine amazing tunes to ease us back in.

Mike and Pete play the following:

Sconsacrata - Lasciate Ogne Speranza
Torso - Precious Blood
Chrome Ghost - The Furnace
Usumgal - Restructuring the Ancient Cults
Gaul - Primordial Serpent
Nostromo - In Praise of Betrayal
Unyielding Love - Fettered is Silt
Throwing Bricks - False Promises
Paramo Bonzai - W.W.W.W.

Episode 192 and we're crashing your speakers the day before Damnation Festival hits you even harder.

Contained within are blasts of noise, cult-like euphoria and a peaceful ending from hosts Mike and Pete.

We play:

Sedhate - Worm

Dungeon Crawler - Oh Look! The Merchant's In Town

Baardvader - Prolong Eternity

Campana Del Terror - Privatizacion

Full of Hell - Aurora Leaking

Fucking Lovely - Billy Boy

Tau & The Drones of Praise - It Is Right To Give Drones and Praise

Live Burial - My Head As Tribute

Dhyana - Dharmakaya

Episode 191 and we're on it like the proverbial car bonnet again. This week Mike and Pete fight demons of sludge, monsters of metal and fade out to some wavy stoner jams.

The pair pick:

Amon Acid - Demon Rider

Curataje - Violencia Vacaria

Thammuz - Guayota

Codespeaker - Carthage

Loggerhead - Tarantula Hawk

Betelzeus - Leech

Karahka - Suunat

Resin Tomb - Unconsecrated

Vuara - Empty By Myself

We're back and experimental as fuck this week. Caterwauling, calamitous dirges and weirdness preside this week, enjoy!

Mike and Pete pick: 

Deplorable - Urge to Die

Antro - 326

Moss Eater - A Ruin Under The Sunlight

Oksennus - Yyrkimyksena oli nujertaa herviot, mutta

Shuck - SuperForever

Ara - Gurre Grund

Universally Estranged - Corrupted Mind Palace

Impugner - Ostracised Vitality

The Otolith - Sing No Coda

Episode 188 is here, full to the brim of punk, psyche and death metal action as usual. We dedicate this episode to a great man, Jim McDonnell, who sadly passed away on Monday. We close with a brief tribute to this most excellent of men, who played in Sheffield legends Excelsum Superbum.

Tracks are this week:

Rue - Hellscape 

Birthday Raven - Predetermined

30,000 Monkies - Honesty

Kaiser - Fire

Powerdrill - Victim Instigator

Gutvoid - Skeletal Glyph

Beware of Gods - Nightmare In The Dream House

Corrupt Vision - Death and Taxes

Tons - Slowly We Pot

Excelsum Superbum - Down With The Devil

Episode 187 is the perfect way to kick off a weekend free of pomp and circumstance or thinking about impending nuclear war.

Pete and Mike pick up:

Colour Haze - Goldmine

Lindow Moss - Eden Sniper

Destroy My Brains - Torment

Vile Species - Image Infection

Uncle Bari - Mollusc

Veilburner - Lo! Heirs To The Serpent

Jeanne - 15/4

Ancient Rats - Bar On The Moon

Rituelen - I

Episode 186 is straight to your earholes recorded last night! Mike and Pete fight real life to bring you the stuff that's been keeping them sane amongst a world gone crazy this week.

Among the joy is:

Greber - Dark Corners
Cowman - Hydrant
Nadja - Labyrinthine
Srak - Mita
White Hills - Radiate
Kovenant - Harena
Vermin Womb - Art District Without Artists
Moozoonsii- Mangrove
Whale Bone - Blood Magic

Episode 185 is here to ruin your Friday morning. Mike and Pete rattle out the following this week:

Gnasch - Hellwisher

Temple Guard - Plaguebearer

Solanhum - Mrs DNA (R. Franklin)

Lord of Confusion - Howling Void

CB3 - To Space and Away

Child Bite - Swan Song of a Boiled Dog

VoidOath - Orion-Cygnus Descent (Arrival)

Adzes - Rahayu

Excurse - Beyond the Nile of Sleep

We have done 184 episodes, which means we've played roughly 1,656 songs so far. Nine at a time, you know the drill.

Mike and Pete eviscerate your week with:

Throth - Letterman Is A Liar
Still/Form - Pig's End
Necroplant - Negative Space
Sroeng Santi - Kuen Kuen Leung Leung
Mammoth Volume - A Lullaby of Doom
Bugfight - The Wall
Breaking/Entering - ...To Remember the Cold
Ode & Elegy - Ode & Elegy
Might - Lost

We're back after a short holiday and our reinvigorated selves have produced a smorgasbord of the most deadly proportions.

Gorge yourself on this feast:

Opium Lord - Sherpa
City of Caterpillar - Decider
Ethereal Tomb - Eyes of Truth
Body Void - Burn
Malatesta - Schneerauschen
Mamaleek - Boiler Room
Early Moods - Live to Suffer
I'm Being Good - Ultrasmell
Non-Serviam - O My Whale

It's definitely one of the best years for heavy and groove-laden tunes. This week Mike and Pete spin these beauties for you:

Mother Bear - Smiek
Pretty Lightning - The Slow Grinder
Chat Pile - Slaughterhouse
Salem Trials - Cast Out Kids
Tickle Your Fancy - Tickle Your Fancy
Everest Queen - Sunken Thorn
Ghosts of Jupiter - Villains
Vanda - World Reborn
Praetorian - Self Denied Fear

Episode 181 and the weirdness starts here. From the dusky embrace of countrified black metal to the raw blasts of grindcore, this is a pocket rocket of an episode, Mike and Pete pick:

Astral Pigs - Our Golden Twilight

Rad Pitt - Like Me, Oh Please Like Me!

Black Wound - Oceans

Ire Wolves - Legions

The Human Race is Filth

Ashenspire - Beton Brut

Griefstoker - Soulseller

Wailin Storms - Broken Into Three

Crestfallen Dusk - The Darkness Come Rollin In

Let's. Play. Doom.

And grindcore, and death metal, heck it's a heavy one this week as we slowly lurch towards episode 200.

Mike and Pete vomit forth the following this week:

Wormrot - Desolte Landscapes

ABEST - Molten Husk

Sloth Hammer - Remembrance Groove

Mourir - Que De Chemins Minable

Dvvell - Daughter

Hellknights - Носитель Хаосу

Lord Mantis - Hammer of Mercy

End - Eden Will Drown

Dreadnought - Midnight Moon

Episode 179 is here and what a cavalcade of stoner, doom, prog and weirdness we have for you this week. Kicking off with two bouts of heaviness but descending into sumptuous relaxation.

Moni Jitchell - Tidy Rage

Piri Neis - Cigarette For An Actor

Fatso Jetson - Drifting Off to Storybook Deth

Hegemone - Abeyance

Wizzerd - Super Nova

Hissing - Hostile Absurdity

Obiat - Sea Burial

Lucius Fox - Pyrocumulonimbus 

Les Nadie - Zhonda

It's time to kick a heavy hole in the week and what better company than your fave Ninehertz hosts Pete and Mike as they crack open podcast 178 with these purveyors of filth:

Nebula - Highwired

Abrupt Decay - Frail

Loot the Body - Skate Wizards

Slugcrust - Echoless

Josiah - Saltwater 

Slund - Metamorphosis

Morbid Evils - Anxious

Dr. Acula - The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena

Mico - Yunque

What's the meaning of life? One compilation on here seems to suggest it's 42. Douglas Adams would be proud. There's a ton of incredible stuff out this week, check out Mike and Pete's choices as follows:

Green Altar - Rise

Cloud Rat - Cusp

Knoll - Felled Plume

Spit! - What Can I Do?

Existence Dysphoria - Sculpted into Nothing

My Diligence - Sail To The Red Light

The Wright Valley Trio - Schlaf

Diascorium - Self Modifying Game (Modified)

Besotten - Summoning Fog

Episode 176 and we don't show any signs of stopping soon.  Mike and Pete are proud to bring you nine more of the best tunes we've heard this week. Check it:

Greenmachine - Enemies In The Mood

Blind Eye - Breakdown (Decomposed)

Vape Warlök - Inhale Death

Penance Stare - Seven Vials

High Times - Dead Weight

Esoctrilihum - Thertrh

Bongbongbeerwizards - Choirs & Masses

Pilori - Meutriere

Sunset Images - Voces Oscurecidas

Episode 175 is here, check out Pete and Mike's latest selections to kickstart your Friday:

Friend - International Top Bloke

Onyon - Shrunken Head

Dybbuk - Blinked

Hush - There Can Be No Forgiveness Without The Shedding of Blood

The Gray Goo - Bicycle Day

Baazlvaat - The Master

Secret Fire - Smoke Whip

Ona Snop - Impotent Machine

Litrao - Culpa

It's getting to be a weekly thing isn't it? Us shoving 9 amazing tracks your way? Mike and Pete bring you these hallowed cuts to make your Friday POP:

Ølgod - Ølgod
Trees - Perish
Eyestabguts - Chemical Joy
Grave Lines - Carcini
Trophy Hunt - Beach
SEIMS - Showdown Without A Victim
Basalt Shrine - In the Dirt's Embrace
Rye - Amnhb
Gnome - Wenceslas

Shove your Platinum celebrations, this is where the cool kids are hanging this Friday. Nine tracks to distract from a deeply divisive public holiday here in the UK.

Check out the following as hosts Mike and Pete discuss the merits of grindcore, conceptual pieces about amphibian mass extinction and more:

Bad Men - Make Me

Mushrooms of Yuggoth - Church of Msr

Somnus Throne - L-Dopatryptamine

Tumm - La Cueva del Chancho

Artificial Brain - Celestial Cyst

Escaping Aghartha - Chrytid

Goatsmoke - Concrete Surfer

Hong Kong Fuck You - Another Fucking Day In Paradise 

Sunsetter - The Mirage/Downer

The summer is here, which means we need at least 50% of the podcast to be made up of black metal right? Enjoy the grimness here with some solid stoner, grind and more thrown in alongside.

Pete and Mike play:

Abronia - What We Can See

Primeval Well - Talkin’ In Tongues With Mountain Spirits 

Scorpklub - Bed Dance

Old Nick - A Witch’s Bike In The Forest 

Black Lung - Dark Waves

Who Bastard - Gangrel

Peine Kapital - Thanatocratie

Orphaned - Groan

Carcinoma - Inner Tyrants

Oh what treats we bring you every week. This episode is no different. Pete and Mike spin some of the filthiest dirges they've found this week.

Tracks are:

Beculted - Caustic Marrow

Made of Teeth - Three4a1er

Come To Grief - Bludgeon the Soul / Returning to the Void

Wo Fat - The Unraveling

Circle of Sighs - Alabaster

Urna - You Hide Behind

Ufomammut - Psychostasia

Terror Cosmico - Necromorfo

Dhyana - Three Jewels

Every Friday is exactly the same, track after track of pure gold. This week we flesh out black metal, stoner, doom and the inevitable whatever we have found this week worthy of a spin and a ponder.

Mike and Pete play you:

Slowenya - Irrevocable 

Vehemence - De Feu et d'Acier

Will Cope - Not A Fan

Obelos - Off the Sun

Druid Stone - My Sunshine

S - Piorunoschron (Lightning Shelter)

Devalued - Colossus

Kungens Män - Stora rummet

Dhidalah - Invader Summer

We're back from Desertfest with more tracks to kick your weekend off in style.

Check out:

Limousine Beach - Willodene

Righteous Fool - The Overblown

Head in Hand - Lathe of Heaven

Defect Designer - Luddites

Jagannatha - Surya

Sula Bassana And The Nasoni Pop Art Experimental Band - The Slowner

Cardiel - Armagedón Afterparty

EXECUTIONER'S MASK - Things Fall Apart

Dawn of Man - Plains of the Butchered

Episode 168 is here and full of artistic promise. This week we encounter hardcore-tinged death metal from Repulsion/Iron Reagan types, intense and beautiful guitar histrionics, devastating doom and much more besides.

Hosts Mike and Pete play:

STÖNER - A Million Beers
Kontusion - Unrelenting Pain
Blue Heron - Futurola
Gozer - A Fading Light
La Nausée - Disorder
Haress - Litres Into Metres/Sussurrus
NYOS - First Take
Qstaw - 86,5
Decasia - Illion

Episode 167 is here in all it's weighty glory.

Witness 9 atrocities made auditory reality as hosts Pete and Mike unleash the following tracks:

Eden Straits - Asp in Aspis

Whores - Imposter Syndrome

Electric Monolith - Nightmares

Homeskin - Rooftop Domicile

Captain Bones and The Droids - Moon Beam

All The Heavens Were A Bell - The House Is A Cage

Ambassador Hazy - Modes of Transport

The Lord - Triumph of the Oak

Beggin' for Oxys - Sixteen Cuts; Ten Untitled Tracks

Episode 166 is here! Nine more slabs of heaviness that have rocked our world this week.

Hosts Pete and Mike bring you the following:

Dark Circles You Can't Hold Onto Money While You Burn

Spiral Skies - The Endless Sea

Thera Roya - Nickless

Geisterfaust - The Infinite Dream

Mares of Thrace - In All Her Glory

Thou - Corrupted Sanctum

Morrow - Rejoice This Quiet Earth

SonofSeth - Festering Chains

Helpless - Wraiths of Memory

A heady mix of returns this podcast, welcome and in some cases, long-awaited!

Mike and Pete pick the following new blasts from the underground:

Henry Blacker - Lowering Mass

Pyrithe - Glioblastoma

Gawthrop - The Rabbit

MWWB - The Harvest

Miss Marple - Who Are You

Bog Body - Paralytic Pit of Swallowed Graves

WRØNG - Body Stretched Thin

Luminous Veil - Pine

Kantamus - En pääse pois

Episode 164 is packed to the gills with the joys of Spring, if those joys are death, doom and destruction!

Mike and Pete pick:

L.O.W - Kill Us All

WOORMS - Red Meat For The Faithful

Frankreich - Beyond The Tomb

Portal To The God Damn Blood Dimension - Ashes

Kaleidobolt - I Should Be Running

Dead Chasm - Spawned In Deslation

Troll Teeth - Elephant In The Room

Golgothan Remains - Veneration of Carnal Blasphemy

Holy Angell - Holy Angell

Episode 163 is here! A mix of grinding fatalism, plunging depths of doom and a sense of dread as is usual for us! Pete and Mike bring you nine of the best tunes every week.

The pair pick:

Norna - Serpent Spine

Gets Worse - Hard Graft 

Unru - Der Hauch der Freiheit

Encarsia - Prog Is For The Children 

Travo - Land Soon

Bong Coffin - Baelrog

Stomach - Deserve

Dungeon Weed - Gelatinous Vault of Doom

Mang Ont - Esimene Jääaeg

Episode 12 is upon us and we're excited to share nine new tracks as ever! This week features strange sounds from beyond doom and sludge, as well as some psychedelic vibes.

Mike and Pete spin:

Láje - Vzpomínka

Tuskar - Matriarch

Traps - Four Ashfields For Four Twenty​-​Five

Cabinet - Lilliputian Flicker of Fasciollasis

Jolted - Shame

Row of Ashes - Worcester Man

Charley No Face - Mosaic Sky

Candina - This Body In Flames

Wuurthrad - Masks Of The Power

Episode 161 is here and we're tearing it up in terms of the rulebook. Entries here from sludge, doom and the truly weird.

Mike and Pete play:

The No Reap - Stretching
Domkraft - And Yet It Moves
Mist Tower - Fever Touch
Necrosferatul - Bats of the Tuileries
Black Claw - The Crawling Chaos
Slowerpain - Sashka The Cannibal
Amon Acid - Incredible Melting Man
the BLASPHENAUT - Inverted Crucifix
Urishiol - Pools of Green Fire

Episode 160 is here and we're excited to bring you a cavalcade of crust, a dollop of doom and a sieve full of disgusting sludge this week.

Mike and Pete pick:

Krandüs - The Blood Red Eyeball of God

Why Patterns - Parapraxis

Smoke - Groupthink

Chalk Hands - Les Jours Passent Et Ne Me Ressemblent Pas

Civerous - Decay and Decline

Sword Breaker - Under The Banner of Vengeance 

Gone - Lye

Unreqvited - Perpetual Green of the Willow Groves

Uncle Woe - Lavignia Falls

2022 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting years for heavy stuff, here's a rip-roaring episode to ruin your Friday, heavy on the sludge this week but with other unpleasantness thrown in for good measure.

Mike and Pete play:

Seremonia - Kaivon pohjalla

The Death of Money - Error After Era

Lunar Funeral - Burn the Shadow

Silver Gallery - My Life

Wonder - Madness

Class Traitor - Spaceless

Sewer Trench - The Streets Were Alive....

Slog - Ceremonial Magicks

eyesnomouth - Release

Episode 158 is here to wreck your Friday! Nine new cuts from across the world. Pete and Mike bring you:

CIA Hippy Mind Control - The Ancient Metaphysics of the Soul
Vvorse - Kurjen Elegia
Death Parade - Swimming
Messa - Dark Horse
Le Seul Element - Juste une idée obscure de ce qu'est la fierté
Autarch - Excession
Pythian - Permanent Shadow
Ilon Lapset - 2000 Light Years From Home

Mike and Pete bring you episode 157 of the pod. We're only in January and there's steam coming off some of these releases already.

Sleepwulf - Satan is King

Chapel Floods - Crooked Noose

Dodskvad - Dommedagens Lyre

Night Hag - Degradation of a Putrid Soul

Kryptograf - The Well

Eaters of the Soil - VI - Untouched, Unspoken To

The Mountain King - IV Sophos

Karpakanaut - Minimum Units

The Web of Lies - Receiver

Truly into some untapped seam of creativity now, our submissions inbox is full! Pete and Mike spin the following new releases this week:

Horndal - The Deceiver

Bodach - Ruiner/A Reprise

Ničiteľ - Anna spí

Hipoxia - False Destiny

Throth - Down To Where We End

Polterwytch - Call of the Polterwytch

Directional - Preaching the Ineffable

Robes of Snow - Rain on the Battlements

We're amazed that January is this crammed with incredible releases. Check Mike and Pete's picks this week, which are:

Fossilization - Exalted in the Altar of Insignificance

Everson Poe - The Chamber of Blood

Keeper - XX

Oar - Doomed and Damned

Mizmor - Wit's End

The Body & OAA - Barren of Joy

Aequorea - Demon Is Man

Lahdon Aika - Aka Se Pois

Void Odyssey - Reefer Rights

We're back, after a busy Christmas and COVID for Mike, 2022 couldn't be a more welcome sight. Here's what Mike and Pete have scoured for you this week:

Rebreather - Drown
Kurokuma - Jaguar
Petbrick - Craniotome
Plague Patrol - Xenogenesis
Carcano - Day 2: Riding Space Elephants
Dead Neanderthals and Aaron Turner - Corporeal Flux
El Universo - Asteroide 85
The Mute Servants - Pointless Breather
Bomg - Ixian Bore

We're back after the shortest of breaks!

This week, Mike and Pete bring you a soundboard of sorts, from atavistic drone, to thumping sludge, all the way to psychedelic stoner rock and everywhere in between.

Tracks this week are:

Big Business -New Tombs

Invuche - Elal

Electric Eye - Den Atmosfaeriske Elven

ASHTORETH & ONSTURICHEIT -The Svatur Variations Live (Excerpt)

Bedtimemagic - Pass Out

Emanation - Cyclic Metamorphosis

Heavy Peasant - Modern Medieval

Molten Dagger - A Loophole Through Consciousness

Mule Thrower - Scab Eater

Episode 152 is here and we're steaming ahead with stuff right up until the end of the year. We play our 1000th song (congrats Froglord!)and have a blast!

Songs are:

Froglord - Samhain

Enablers Output Negative Space

Sun Below - Chronwall Neanderthal

Apollo80 - Lung Beers

Throneless - Lion Tamer

Lizarel - Rite of Scrying

Black Wound - Rusted Teeth

Noroth - The Great Reaping

Dopesmoker - NASDAQ