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CANTO: Trivium, Revocation, Crystal Lake, and More I'm running a marathon in less than two months and that concept is absolutely terrifying. Anyway, music news is on the way! Let's start with the latest from Revocation. (Side note: it appears there are some big ticket items today already. Anyway.) New Gods, New Masters is out on September 26th via Metal Blade, and today they offered up "Sarcophagi Of The Soul"

CANTO: Trivium, Revocation, Crystal Lake, and More

Album Review: Borracho – Ouroborus I'm easy when it comes to stoner rock. Give me a power trio, some fuzzed out low end in sync with the guitars (preferably also fuzzed to the nines), drums that don't sound like programmed blips, and melodies that catch and sparkle in the desert sun. Washington, D.C.'s Borracho have been doing just that for over 15 years, and on sixth full length…

Album Review: Borracho – Ouroborus

I'm easy when it comes to stoner rock. Give me a power trio, some fuzzed out low end in sync with the guitars (preferably also fuzzed to the nines), drums that don't sound like programmed blips, and melodies that catch and sparkle in the desert sun. Washington,…

CANTO: Belphegor, Solace, Battle Beast, and More I think... I'm going to go for a run in the woods after work. Yeah. That's what I'm gonna do. This is exactly what I'm looking for on a hot, humid day with the air choked by wildfire smoke! Belphegor dropped the new single "Sanctus Diaboli Confidimus". That's the first release under their new label, Reigning Phoenix Music. Back-to-back days with Magnetic Eye things?

CANTO: Belphegor, Solace, Battle Beast, and More

oh hey, happy birthday!

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EP Review: Pustulant Flesh — “Gurgling Pustulence” 

https://ninecircles.co/2025/08/06/ep-review-pustulant-flesh-gurgling-pustulence/

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Profile: Ireland's Death Metal Juggernauts Malthusian

https://ninecircles.co/2025/08/06/profile-irelands-death-metal-juggernauts-malthusian/

CANTO: Howling Giant, Hooded Menace, Perishing, and More The bad news is that it's only Tuesday. The good news is that my photo pile is like 1% smaller. We're going to open things up with Costa Rican industrial black metal entity Dusk. The first single from Repoka, their new EP out on August 29th, emerged today. Check out "Demons be Driven .2.25" right here. In a different direction, …

CANTO: Howling Giant, Hooded Menace, Perishing, and More

looks like ol’ dewey cox went and got him summa that cuh-caine

fair but honestly still not as stupid as “blackened death” and “black/death” apparently being two different subgenres 😑😑😑

one of our former staffers tried to argue this and it felt like fabio insisting he was “a model/actor and not the other way around” in the og zoolander

CANTO: Green Carnation, Falling Leaves, Vulnificus, and More I'm back from Fire in the Mountains. I'm back from Glacier. I have literally thousands of photos to go through. But first! The inbox. Melodic doom/death metal band Falling Leaves announced a new album, The Silence That Binds Us, will be out on September 5th. A promotional video for that sophomore release is available here. Vulnificus are releasing their debut on October 10th through Comatose Music, titled…

CANTO: Green Carnation, Falling Leaves, Vulnificus, and More

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Initial Descent: August 04 - 10, 2025

https://ninecircles.co/2025/08/04/initial-descent-august-04-10-2025/

The Nine Circles Playlist Vol. 399 (08.02.2025) The 399th Nine Circles Playlist is here, featuring new music from Haunt, Species, and more!

The Nine Circles Playlist Vol. 399 (08.02.2025)

The 399th Nine Circles Playlist is here, featuring new music from Haunt, Species, and more!

It’s Friday, it’s 5:00 somewhere, and we’ve got just the metal and beer pairing for you!

Check out Ian’s thoughts on both the recent BLACK MAGICK METAL PUNK (out via @fiadh.bsky.social) *and* Illuminated Beer Works’ THE KEEP, below!

#albumreviews #craftbeer #blackmetal #punk

Initial Descent: July 28 - August 3 , 2025 Initial Descent: July 28 – August 3 , 2025

Oh hey, our new release roundup never actually skeeted on Monday, for whatever reason. Good job, internet.

Anyway… here it is!

ninecircles.co/2025/07/28/i...

Dan felt badly about missing last month’s bad album art recap. So he put together a super-sized post covering the last TWO months as a make-good.

CURSED IMAGERY: now with 33% more suck! Check it out below

#albumcovers #metalsky #badart

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8/17, lol

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Album Review: Kayo Dot - "Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason"

https://ninecircles.co/2025/07/31/album-review-kayo-dot-every-rock-every-half-truth-under-reason/

it’s whatever. still need a lw upgrade and/or eze before the season starts imo

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just spent the last hour or so laying stone edging ‘round a garden bed here in central pa and think my soul has left my body

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Profile: Executive noise-mongers Bright Sunshine

https://ninecircles.co/2025/07/30/profile-executive-noise-mongers-bright-sunshine/

lol also “a message i just got from a buddy of mine” is just sam’s-club-brand “hipster coffee shop”

made the mistake of tabbing over to the “discover” feed and one of the first posts was from a virtual all-girl metal band, whose virtual members apparently each have their own bsky accounts

y’all this timeline sucks *so* much shit

compiling picks for the bad album art post for the last couple months, and man... some folks out there have made some CHOICES with their fonts so far this summer

central pa so ymmv, but... just pulled our first roma yesterday 🤞

probably won’t go in theaters but want so badly to see these hybrid dino abominations in action in the new one lol

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Profile: Travis Zupo of Oakland Death Metallers Barbarous

https://ninecircles.co/2025/07/29/profile-travis-zupo-of-oakland-death-metallers-barbarous/

jimp around! jimp ip, jimp ip and get down!

The Lash, by The Dirty Nil 10 track album

just a reminder that the dirty nil absolutely whip ass

thedirtynil.bandcamp.com/album/the-lash