Hard Heavy

Each week throughout the year, we select one new outstanding album to feature across our platforms as a way of celebrating music that is authentic, original and pure. In 2025, we featured dozens of exceptional albums across a variety of genres that tap into various musical traditions from different corners of the world. Every one of these albums tells a profound story in its own voice, speaking directly to the soul of those willing to listen.

After 27 years on-air, Screaming Symphony is turning the amps up one last time. The legendary PBS metal show that’s been shredding the airwaves since the late 90s is saying farewell. Join Peter and Gary for one last celebration of heavy metal. 

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the self titled album from GODTET + The Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

At once bold and nuanced, this album explores the friction between improvisation and orchestration. Where the orchestra is anchored in fully composed material, GODTET remains free – navigating the work's harmonic architecture with instinct and spontaneity. Structures are fixed, but expression is fluid.

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Time Telling, the evocative new album from Black Jesus eXperience.

Grooving, richly diverse and truth seeking, Time Telling explores the fragility of life, the preciousness of time and the importance of hope, love, joy and community.