The donkey brays balefully

Metal and other mournful serenades

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The Donkey Dirge, 6/01/2026

Endless Dismal Moan - Curse 7 - Curse of the Underground

葬火 - 生命の螺旋 - 徒花

Jute Gyte - Fausta in the Third Heaven - Unus Munus Patet

Miserere Luminis - De cris & de cendres - Sidera

SERPENT LORD - The Once Forgotten Ways of Old - The Once Forgotten Ways of Old

Wraith Knight - Decrepit Wings & Rotting Bones - The Dracolich - Of Arcane Magic & Forbidden Knowledge: The Necromantical Passage

Belnejoum - Tower of Silence - Dark Tales of Zarathustra

ESOCTRILIHUM - Mauled, Swallowed And Dissolved Into Nothingness By The 8-Eyed Psychopomp - Ghostigmatah - Spiritual Rites of the Psychopomp Abxulöm

PHASMA - V - Purgatory

CRYPTS OF DESPAIR - Gaze Of The Adversary - We Belong In The Grave

OBSCUREVIOLENCE - Pulse of Subconscious Cruelty - Refuting the Flesh

Vesperian Sorrow - Death She Cried - Stormwinds of Ages

Amiensus - The Peak of Denali - Single

Werner Karloff - Imágenes del ruido - Atemporal EP

Balvanera - Abismo - Balvanera

YZBL - moonlit - tendril

SAINT VENGEUR - Immaculata - Sex and Repression in Higher Society

Autonoesis - On Black Wings of Eternity - Moon of Foul Magics

Benoît Pioulard - Steeples Writhe - Stanza IV

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The Donkey Dirge, 5/4/26

All Men Unto Me - Kyrie Eleison - Requiem Liturgy - 93696 - 93696 Ashenspire - Plattenbau Persephone Praxis - Hostile Architecture Forcefed Horsehead - Spell No Stones - Monoceros Benoît Pioulard - Reliquary (Part Timer Remix) - Hymnal Remixes FACS - Class Spectre - Still Life in Decay JUNON - Propheten der blauen Flamme - The Golden Citadel of the Astral Sphere BURIAL HORDES - Infinite Sea of Nothingness - Ruins Wolvennest - Burial - Procession ET MORIEMUR - Takamagahara - Tamashii No Yama Zbhezhdjik of Polariis - LOGENTRY1.12: I Must Find and Restore Power to this Ancient Power Plant and Contain The Disease Within... - LOGENTRY-1:01 - Frozen Windhells Seek to Dominate my Remaining Flesh Wode - Lash of Tyrants - Uncrossing the Keys Vision Master - Knife in the Velvet Glove - SCEPTRE Eternal Champion - YSLSL - FRIEND OF WAR Kryatjurr of Desert Ahd - Hellish Windstorms Absorb Our Shelter - Deafening Supercells of Thunder and Death Lock Howl - …And She was Found by the Lake - Pareidolia

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The Donkey Dirge, 4/6/2026

OM - Pilgrimage - Pilgrimage ISIS - Holy Tears - In the Absence of Truth ISIS - 1,000 Shards - In the Absence of Truth SUMAC - New Rites - The Healer Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit of Calamity - The Enduring Spirit 71TONMAN - War is Peace - War is Peace // Peace is Slavery BEKOR QILISH - The Fall of Mortals in the Appearance of the Unnameable - Consecrated Abysses of Dread One of Nine - Age of Chains - Dawn of the Iron Shadow Ophicvs - Neptune's Moon - Steel Beast Smoulder - Shadowy Sisterhood - Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring Grendel's Sÿster - Rosenhag - Katabasis into the Abaton/Abstieg in die Traumkammer Tchornobog - I - The Vomiting Tchornobog (Slithering Gods of Cognitive Dissonance) - Tchornobog Aggressive Profector - Harlot's Spell - Come Creeping Fiends Helm's Deep - Breaking the Seal - Treacherous Ways Hellripper - Mester Stoor Worm - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

May the yoke break before thee

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The Donkey Dirge, 3/2/26

THE IDES OF MARCH APPROACHES

Holy Taker - Lamb - Heaven is a Place I Can't Stay Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING - SAVED! August, Yours Truly - When this Body Breaks - In the Eyes of God Thou & Emma Ruth Rundle - Into Being - May our Chambers be Full Polterguts - Broken People - Gods Over Broken People DAMAG3 feat. Lex Bratcher, Figgy Baby, and Jamal Malachi - TH3 iMAG3 OF GOD - BLiND gilanares - I'VE BEEN HIDING IN THE CUPBOARD IN MY COSTUME! - Soundcloud Hot Mulligan - I Don't Think its the Right Time for Emojis - Single Heart Attack Man - Thoughtz & Prayerz - Thoughtz & Prayerz Mutoid Man - War Moans - War Moans Nightmarer - Baptismal Tomb - Deformity Adrift MORS VERUM - Serenade - Canvas Knoll - Earth's Iron Lung - Interstice Cattle Decapitation - The Insignificants - Terrasite Sallow Moth - Runemilk Amulet - Mossbane Latern Clava - Primavera das Rosas Negras - A HOMELAND DENIED: A Compilation for the Palestinian Liberation Lureplasm - Blood Porridge Tower - Luridysic Heirloom Turpitude - Washing Machine Heart (Cover) - Mordor Hypomanic Daydream - DayDreamer - The Yearning Night Club - Pretty Girls Do Ugly Things - Masochist The Black Queen - That Death Cannot Touch - Fever Daydream KANGA - Control - Eternal Daughter HEALTH - YOU DIED (HVDES RMX) - R-TYPE 1 Minuit Machine - Black is My Anger - Violent Rains Zanias - Serpentsmile - Cataclysm Hante. - Two-Faced Angel - Morning Tsunami Macy Rodman - Toothpaste Blue/Brine - SCALD Silenthaven_ - Down in a Hole (Remix) - Youtube Rey Tang - Bloody Tears (Cover) - Youtube

May the yoke break before thee

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The Donkey Dirge, 2/1/26

The first show of 2026! New things, new places

Holy Taker - Holy Diver - Heaven is a Place I Can't Stay Turpitude - Washing Machine Heart (Mitski Cover) - Mordoré Inquisition - Infernal Invocation of Torment - Deadly Alliance SERAPHIC CASTRATION - Ritual of Semantic Blasphemy - Demon(stration) Nile - Die Rache Krieg Lied der Assyriche - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka Oxygen Destroyer - Banishing the Iris of Sempiternal Tenebrosity - Guardian of the Universe Blood Incantation - Inner Paths (To Outer Space) - Hidden History of the Human Race The Ruins of Beverast - Babel, You Scarlet Queen! - Tempelschlaf BELL WITCH & AERIAL RUIN - From Dominion - Stygian Bough: Volume II Exxûl - Walls of Endless Darkness - Sealed into None New Mexican Doom Cult - I Stand Alone - Ziggurat Γκιντίκι (Gidiki) - Afoussis (Αφούσης) - AHOY Amanda Pascali - Roses and Basil (La Siminzina) - Roses and Basil Dobranotch - Lalebi - Vander Ikh Mir Lustik Zein Al-Jundi - Lamma Bada Yatathanna - Zein Al-Jundi: Traditional Songs from Syria Seren Saraç - GURBET - Single NGHTCRWLR - Infrared - OZ Beau Jordan - Billowing & Blowing - Single KANGA - Control - Eternal Daughter Taraneh - Prophet - New Age Prayer Mountain Realm - I Will Craft You a Sword to Slay Gods - Stoneharrow Rusty Pilgrim - Wulfsige - In Heaven - The Bookhouse Boys: A Dark Ambient/Dungeon Synth tribute to David Lynch Departure Chandelier - Outro (Dragged Via Musket Straps and Set Upon Bivouac Fires) - Satan Solider of Fortune Sanguinária - Prelúdio - Árias Sanguíneas Caladan Brood - A Voice Born of Stone and Dust - Echoes of Battle

May the yoke break before thee

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With a new year, comes new things!

The Donkey Dirge will be coming to the analog airwaves starting in February on KPBJ 95.9 FM in Shadow Hills, CA and kpbj.fm on the web. The broadcasting schedule will be posted soon!

Check out the station's website in the meantime:

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The Donkey Dirge, 12/26/25

The big ol' 2025 recap, some of the best songs I heard and loved this year!

Echoes of Gloom - Great Malignant Towers of Delirium - The Mind's Eternal Storm Theoden's Reign - The Gates of Caras Galadhon - Citadel of the Stars ONE OF NINE - Quest of the Simaril - Dawn of the Iron Shadow Imperial Triumphant - Eye of Mars - Goldstar ANCIENT DEATH - Unspoken Oath - Ego Dissolution GYLT - Bone Rake - I WILL COMMIT A HOLY CRIME: TANDEM Zeicrydeus - Ten Thousand Spears Atop the Bleeding Mountains - La Grande Heresie Modern Day Heretics - Goliath Smile - Purified in Flame EP Saint Vengeur - ARRYTHMIA IV - Single Crippling Alcoholism - Mr. Sentimental - Camgirl NGHTCRWLR - Emerald City - OZ Holy Taker - Holy Diver - Heaven is Not a Place I Can Stay

May the yoke break before thee into 2026

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Probably my favorite off of their new album, Heaven is a Place I Can't Stay. Highly recommend to check out their entire album!

Bandcamp

Instagram

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The Donkey Dirge, 12/5/2025

LYRRE - Orchard - Single Malefic Throne - Divine Tragedy - The Conquering Darkness Rotting Christ - Aealo - Aealo (Re-recorded) Susumu Hirasawa - BERSERK -Forces- Technique of Relief Moron Police - The Apathy of Kings - Pachinko Syncatto - Hollow - Single Holy Taker - Dowsing - Heaven Is a Place I Can't Stay Les Litanies des Ténèbres - Les Supplices de l'Âme - Les Litanies des Ténèbres Landokmai - ปลายฝนต้นหนาว (Winter Breeze) - Single Ghost B.C. - Monstrance Clocks - Infestissumam Angeles Del Infierno - Al otro lado del silencio - Diabolicca Wax Audio - South of the Grapevine - Youtube Bill McClintock - Eminence of Holy Wars and Creeping Death - Youtube

May the yoke remain light

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The Donkey Dirge, 11/28/2025

Holy Taker - Holy Diver - Heaven is a Place I Can't Stay Jacquelyn Stucker, Stefano Montanari, Hannah Quin - Berghain (Cover) - Youtube MÄLEVOLANT - A Chalice. Blood Wine - Dark Tranquil Night A Tergo Lupi - Irae - Howl MaroMaro1337 - Premonition - Youtube Allora - Unspoken/Unheard - Single Mäleficentt - Severed by Your Own - Night of Eternal Darkness (NP-XIII) WORM - Necropalace - Necropalace Fianna - Lost Darkenings - Mists of Time (Promo '25) Jaime Paige, Marcy Nabors, Penny Parker - Do No Harm (Ventricular Mix) - Do No Harm

May the yoke remain light

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The Donkey Dirge, 11/21/2025

Departure Chandelier - Outro (Exile to the Jagged Cliffs of Saint Helena) - Antichrist Rise to Power Devil Master - Failure to Die - Manifestations Dobranotch - Lalebi - Vander Ikh Mir Lustik haruka nakamura - blue - aoimori III Ritmo Cósmico - Santa Suerte - Santa Suerte Taraneh - Spinning Out - Unobsession Imperial Triumphant ft. Dave Lombardo and Tomas Haake - Pleasuredome - Goldstar IMPUREZA - Santa Inquisición - Alcázares One of Nine - Death Wing of Black Flame - Dawn of the Iron Shadow Airro - One Last Breath x Can't Get You Out of My Head - Youtube Purity Ring - Better off Alone (Cover) - Single uKanDanZ - War Pigs (Cover) - Evil Plan

May the yoke remain light

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The Donkey Dirge, 11/14/2025

Andres Antunes - Master of Puppets but in the Style of Muse - Youtube KANGA - Daughter - Eternal Daughter Воланд - Игорь Корнелюк - Мастер и Маргарита Sabaton - Carolus Rex - Carolus Rex (Swedish) Her's - What Once Was - Songs of Her's Swear and Shake - Friendly Fire - The Sound of Letting Go Ryan Amon, Tsukasa Saitoh, Michael Wandmacher, Yuka Kitamura, Cris Velasco, Nobuyoshi Suzuki - Ludwig, The Accursed & Holy Blade - Bloodborne (The Old Hunters) OST Lous and The Yakuza - Solo - Gore Cattle Decapitation - Your Disposal - Monolith of Inhumanity The Black Dahlia Murder - What a Horrible Day to have a Curse - Nocturnal

May the yoke remain light

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The Donkey Dirge, 11/7/2025

Igorrr - Pure Disproportionate Black and White Nihilism - Amen Royal Thunder - Ear on the Fool - Crooked Doors Eisenfunk - Herr Mannelig - SUPERHELDEN Guttural Slug - The Vermin King - Plague of Filth La Femmu Pendu - Le Diable à Côté - All of Them Witches Kate Bush - Cloudbusting (The Orgonon Mix) - The Other Sides Calva Louise - Con Corazon - Over the Threshold King Woman - Golgotha - Celestial Blues Ladrones - Pa' Unos un Loco Pa' Otros un Rey - Mexican Pesado Ten Ton Slug - Mindless and Blind - Colossal Oppressor Alice Phoebe Lou - Witches - Witches

May the yoke remain light

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The Donkey Dirge, 10/31/2025

A super special spooky Halloween show! After a long, long hiatus, I came back with a bang. Yippee!

Tim Curry - Halloween Song - The Worst Witch Soundtrack Loreena McKennitt - All Souls Night - Parallel Dreams La Femme Pendu - Conjuring the River King - Legend of the River King Spiritbox - Holy Roller - Ethereal Blue Brian David Gilbert - Lay All Your Love on Me (Cover) - Youtube Hildegard von Blingin' - Come Little Children (Cover) - Youtube King Diamond - Halloween - Fatal Portrait Blood Vulture - A Dream about Starving to Death - Die Close Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver - As Daylight Dies Loathe - Screaming - I Let It In and It Took Everything Xibalba - Años en Infierno - Años en Infierno Chavela Vargas - La Llorona - Cuarteto Lara Foster Tlen Huicani y Lino Chavez - La Bruja - Veracruz Son y Huapango

May the yoke remain light

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The Donkey Dirge, 5/28/2024

Rotting Christ - La Lettera del Diavolo - Pro Xristou Voice of Baceprot - God, Allow Me (Please) to play music - RETAS Ningen Isu - Farewell to the World - Shikisokuzeku OKI DUB AINU BAND - HEKURI SARARI - UTARHYTHM Tzompantli - Tlaloc Icuic - Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force Tezcatlipoca - ln Tlilihtec Tzompantli - Tlayohualtlapelani IpsoFacto! - En La Oscuridad - Single Shepards Reign - Ala Mai (Awaken) - Ala Mai Alien Weaponry - Kai Tangata - Tū Rotting Christ - Saoirse - Pro Xristou

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The Donkey Dirge, 5/18/2024

DVNE - Abode of the Perfect Soul - Voidkind Unleash the Archers - Buried in Code - Phantom SUNNATA - Chimera - Chasing Shadows Isis - Hive Destruction - The Mosquito Control EP Brume - Jimmy - Marten Ten Ton Slug - Ancient Ways - Colossal Oppressor Gatecreeper - Tears Fall From The Sky - Gatekeeper JINJER - I Speak Astronomy - King of Everything Knocked Loose - The Calm That Keeps You Awake - You Won’t Go Before You’re Suppose To Vermin Womb - Sad Clown (My Spiritually Rotten Second Reply) - Retaliation Phantom - Transylvanian Nightmare - Transylvanian Nightmare

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The Donkey Dirge, 5/7/2024

Zelenaya - Nasha Mate Na Bazari Bula - Folk Songs Lou Quinse - Rondeau de la Forca - Rodeau de la Forca Aara - Moribunda - Triade III: Nyx Converge - Broken Vow - Jane Doe Institution - Vertical - Rupture do Visivel GYLT - SHOVED - SHOVED/SPIRAL Hellish Form - Shadows with Teeth - Remains Wretched Blessing - Mirror Vulture - Wretched Blessing Crawl - Enslaved in Filth - Altar of Disgust Blackbraid - The Spirit Returns - Blackbraid II Periodeater - Lengthening of Days - Hymns for the Redeification of Maize