Reviews, Interviews, and Podcasts celebrating the best Extreme Metal music

Author: Justin Corbett

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 27 – Our Favorite Live Albums

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 27 – Our Favorite Live Albums

    Welcome to 2025! For our twenty-seventh episode, we decided to discuss our top five favorite Live albums. Some of these should come as no surprise to longtime listeners, but there are a couple of surprises! Of course, we also discuss each of our top three albums from the past two weeks as well as several…

  • Harakiri For The Sky – “Scorched Earth” Review

    Harakiri For The Sky – “Scorched Earth” Review

    Harakiri for the Sky is my favorite band. Not just recently, but all-time. Throughout my life I’ve likely listened to over a hundred thousand of hours of music, and throughout that entire journey, I’ve been on a constant hunt for bands and music that make me feel things. I’ve found many truly exceptional emotionally-driven bands,…

  • Am I in Trouble? – “Spectrum” Review

    Am I in Trouble? – “Spectrum” Review

    Am I Trouble is the solo project of Steve Weiner, who is also behind the project Negative Bliss, which put out an EP that I reviewed late last year. While it is a solo project, where Steve recorded all of the lead vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, and probably most other sounds you’ll hear, he did…

  • Justin’s 2024 in Review

    Justin’s 2024 in Review

    Wow, it’s New Year’s Eve already! I can’t believe 2024 is about to end. Back in December 2023, I made the decision to start HarshVocals.com as both a written review site, and a podcast. I had many years of experience podcasting, and writing for various movie review sites, but I had never had my own…

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 26 – The Best of 2024

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 26 – The Best of 2024

    I can’t believe it’s been a whole year already! For our twenty-sixth episode, we discuss the highs and lows of 2024, and recap all of our favorite things, including both of our top30 albums for the year. Of course there is a little overlap, but there’s a few surprises too! It’s a long journey, but…

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 25 – The Best and Worst Metal Cover Songs

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 25 – The Best and Worst Metal Cover Songs

    For our twenty-fifth episode, we thought it would be fun to highlight our favorite and least favorite Metal Cover Songs. Some of these are great, but others are outright horrible. We play short clips from the bad ones so you can decide for yourself! As always, we’re sure we’ve missed great examples of both good…

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 24 – Influential Metal Albums Part3

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 24 – Influential Metal Albums Part3

    For our twenty-fourth episode, we continue our discussion about the most influential metal albums throughout history. This is the final part of this three episode series, where we cover everything we consider important from 2006 through today! Obviously we can’t discuss every possible album, so if there’s any you feel like we missed, please let…

  • Harsh Vocals – Episode 23 – Influential Metal Albums Part2

    Harsh Vocals – Episode 23 – Influential Metal Albums Part2

    For our twenty-third episode, we continue our discussion about the most influential metal albums throughout history. This is part two of a three part podcast, where we cover everything we consider important from 1995 through 2005. We’ll cover 2005 through present on part three! Obviously we can’t discuss every possible album, so if there’s any…