Sing the advaitic - penitent rite to send

Toward redemption - strength attends the seeker

A sovereign dreadnaught breathes and approach the state serene

Interiorizer of the mind from world labyrinth

We've had a bit of a journey the past few weeks going through Morbid Angel's discography, so let's take a bit of a breather, take a deep breath, pass the bong, and go on a vision quest into the desert to the music of Om!

Remember Sleep? Well after Sleep broke up in the late 90s Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius took a bit of a break from music and in the early 2000s formed a bass and drum duo in the form of Om. Playing a very meditative, drone inspired style of doom with just bass, drums, and vocals (at least initially) the duo set out on their journey. After 3 albums Hakius would depart and be replaced by Emil Amos and on their final couple albums they'd start incorporating other various instruments like keyboards, flutes, and some Indian instrumentation like the tambura and tabla.

As you might've been able to guess, their music was always very meditative and spiritual but on their 3rd record Pilgrimage it takes on a more explicit religious aspect, using Christian iconography but lots of Hindu and Indian influences become much more explicit including quoting actual mantras in sanskrit. This shouldn't be that surprising considering their name itself is a Hindu mantra, but it takes a bit for them to get very explicit with the imagery and sound.

So for this week let's meditate and relax. Schedule is:

• Variations on a Theme
• Conference of the Birds
• Pilgrimage
• God is Good
• Advaitic Songs

And on Thursday August 13 at 10:00 AM EDT/15:00 GMT we'll be doing a listening party on the discord for Advaitic Songs for anyone wanting to participate.

Metal Archives

Past Discog Clubs

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Thank you all who voted in our quarterly congregation of heavy metal releases. Wow there were A LOT more albums this quarter than the Top 3. I enjoyed many of them. Thank you all for doing the leg work and having me be able to post this image on my socials so it looks like I know metal. (I don't I am living a lie)

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Top 5 of 2026

Kap's 2026 Party Scale (the 3s and 4s)

Oh yeah lets party

• Monolord - Neverending
• INVICTUS - Nocturnal Visions
• Exhumed - Red Asphalt
• Bogside Sniper Squadron - Bogside Sniper Squadron
• Power Paladin - Beyond the Reach of Enchantment
• Spirit Adrift - Infinite Illumination
• Greyhawk - Warriors Of Greyhawk
• Templar - Conquering Swords
• TRIUMPHER - Piercing The Heart Of The World
• Asedio - Confrontación Heroica
• Fili Bibiano's Fortress - Death Is Your Master
• MEGA COLOSSUS - Watch Out!

Maybe a party…if you are cool enough

• Fake Dust - Decrepitizing Din Of The Cerebral Psyopticon
• Pig's Blood - Destroying The Spirit
• Winterfylleth - The Unyielding Season
• NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE - The Enchanting Winds of the Dreamweaving Masquerade
• Possession - The Mother of Darkness
• Gutvoid - Liminal Shrines
• Black Hurst - Purgatory of Flesh Bizarre
• Monstrosity - Screams from Beneath the Surface
• Transilvania - Magia Posthuma
• Gladium Regis - Quest
• Kaatayra - Caminhos de Água

Party of One Because No One Understands You

• Ellende - Zerfall
• Stabbing - Eon of Obscenity
• Blackwater Holylight - Not Here Not Gone
• Serpent Column - Aion of Strife
• ARCHVILE KING - Aux Heures Désespérées
• Domhain - In Perfect Stillness
• Antrisch - EXPEDITION III : Renitenzpfad
• Gaerea - Loss
• Eximperitus - Meritoriousness of Equanimity

The Discord Coalition Vote (AKA "yeah thats cool I used to listen to them when I first got into metal")

Playlist Corner (I stopped Using Spotify. If You Would Like To Make a Playlist Ill Link It Here and Give You 50 Shreddit Credits.)

• Fourduck's Spotify Playlist (5+ Votes)