It's #GrindayFriday so it's time I mention a gross, wild one I keep going back to (that's also catchy, groovy and riffy as hell, just ask @HailsandAles).

The second LP by Chicago's FULMINATE, this is 'Postoperative Decline' from earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nP9G3UVoiRL8aYbvvfdqu41dKMsjjgTus

#grind #goregrind #ChicagoBands #ChicagoMetal #ChicagoGrind #IllinoisMetal #IllinoisGrind #grindcore #metal #ChicagoMetal #IllinoisMetal #2026Albums #2026Records @vanessawynn @wendigo @rtw @guffo @c0m4

For #BlackMetalMonday, the brutal, crushing war metal of Chicago's HELLFIRE DEATHCULT. All of theirs is some great, nasty, blasphemous stuff, and this is their LP from 2022, 'Al nombre de la muerte': https://hellfiredeathcult.bandcamp.com/album/rites-ov-black-death

#BlackMetal #metal #Chicago #ChicagoBands #ChicagoMetal #Illinois #IllinoisBands #IllinoisMetal #HellfireDeathcult #2022Albums #2022Records @rtw @vanessawynn @brian @NoRestfortheWicked @HailsandAles @flockofnazguls @gavin57 @guffo @c0m4

Chicago – Beginnings

#ThursDeath this week is the excellent new LP 'Necrotic Terror' by Chicago's SWINGING MACE (it's just one guy, Brian Higgins, who is also the guitarist for Gored Embrace). It's not on Bandcamp, but it's on YouTube and Qobuz, both links below.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nK_ayEZakspgSW_vX46j94CIoeMuXUfPI&si=A5TrmIKsmoZsvQFi

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/necrotic-terror-swinging-mace/r6skgc94ozdnb

Swinging Mace is some killer deathy shit. The whole thing is great, but the last song is "They Live", and it's an epic that's over 9 minutes long. 'Necrotic Terror' is a damn cool record and I keep coming back to it lately.

#metal #DeathMetal #SwingingMace #2025Albums #2025Records #Chicago #ChicagoMetal #ChicagoBands #Illinois #IllinoisBands #IllinoisMetal @HailsandAles @brian @rtw @c0m4 @swampgas @umrk @Kitty @nnenov @guffo

Whitney – Back To The Wind

https://wgom.org/2025/11/20/whitney-back-to-the-wind/

This week's #MusicWomenWednesday is another surprise find I stumbled across on Bandcamp. Apparently in the 90s/early 2000s there was a band called Joan of Arc in Chicago, and AITIS BAND features two of Joan of Arc's former members. Featuring a combination of dueling Roland eg101s, a MicroKorg, a fake guitar, and a bass, Aitis Band's new LP 'IV' comes out Friday. There's some cool minimalism and hooks all over these three preview songs-- psyched to hear the full thing later this week.

https://aitisband.bandcamp.com/album/iv

#indie #IndiePop #IndieRock #Chicago #ChicagoBands #IndieMusic #lofi

Knuckle Puck – Untitled

https://wgom.org/2025/09/19/knuckle-puck-untitled/

This week's #ThursDeath is Chicago, Illinois' EMBITTERED, who I have to thank @rtw for tipping me off to. This some GREAT, doomy death -- crushing and dynamic. They have two demos:

The Caveman Cometh (from this year)
https://embittered1.bandcamp.com/track/the-caveman-cometh-demo

and Sibylline Visions of Oracular Decay (from 2022).
https://embittered1.bandcamp.com/album/sibylline-visions-of-oracular-decay-demo

Both of these are full of some excellent primitive caveman death metal shit. Psyched for their forthcoming LP, which is still in progress.

#metal #DeathMetal #ChicagoMetal #ChicagoBands #doom #DoomMetal #DeathDoom #CavemanMetal #Chicago #Illinois #Embittered @HailsandAles @wendigo @umrk @Kitty @lola @flockofnazguls

Strawberry Jacuzzi - "Bucket of Puke"

(lighter than the title implies, I promise)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j0zfGEWcb4

#music #StrawberryJacuzzi #ChicagoBands

Not sure how I missed the 2nd single/video from the upcoming Pelican LP 'Flickering Resonance' that comes out May 16, but 'Indelible' came out a little over a week ago, and of course it fuckin riiiips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKXMltX1IiI

#metal #Pelican #PostMetal #instrumental #PostRock #Chicago #ChicagoBands #ChicagoMetal #InstrumentalMetal @wendigo @HailsandAles @BlackenedGreen @rtw @Kitty @umrk @lolipropagandabot @cory