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CANTO: Carcass, Orthodox, Siege Of Power, and More

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023CoreyLeave a comment

Let’s face it, the only reason this post happens is because it takes forever to clean out the inbox each day already. Multitasking!

Now this is a tour I hope someone on the Nine Circles team covers. Carcass, with Municipal Waste, Sacred Reich, and Creeping Death. Those North American dates fall (almost entirely) in April. As always, tickets go on sale this coming Friday.
Next up, we have a new video from Orthodox, launched just ahead of their upcoming tour. Give the clip for “Nothing to See” a watch here. That’s a track taken from Learning To Dissolve, which dropped last year through Century Media.
Alright, let’s work in some death metal. Siege Of Power are releasing This Is Tomorrow on February 17 through Metal Blade, and today they unveiled a visualizer for “The Devil’s Grasp”.
Crown Lands are releasing their sophomore album, Fearless, on March 31 through Spinefarm Records. Check out “Starlifter: Fearless Pt. II”, the epic 18-minute opener, right here.
Closing out, we have the hardcore punk project known as Venomous Concept. Below you’ll find the video for “Fractured”. The new album, The Good Ship Lollipop, will be out on February 24 through Decibel Records.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb

Nine Circles ov…Surprises and Releases That Got Away From Us

April 12, 2022April 10, 2022Chris2 Comments

What can I say? Sometimes it’s not that the promo pile is brimming over with releases and you miss out on a few things, sometimes you just get so caught up you simply forget. You miss the signs that something you’ve been waiting for forever slips by (ahem, *Hällas*) or that one album your friend has been telling you is damn good and you need to hear it and…you don’t. Sometimes a band you love just ups and sneaks one past you without a word.

And sometimes…sometimes children…you don’t get a promo at all.

We’re not complaining; we’re a small site and we do this for the simplest of reasons, and whether or not that also happens to feed the vicious masochistic streak hiding below our tender skins well, so be it. So for this edition of Nine Circles ov… let’s check out a few that got away.

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The Nine Circles Playlist Vol. 209 (12.11.2021)

December 11, 2021December 11, 2021ChrisLeave a comment

Friday night. I have the usual going on: new music in the cans and some nice whiskey (currently the Redbreast 12, a recent turn-on after being largely ignorant of Irish whiskeys)within easy reach. I need it because next week I start the three-week odyssey that is my annual End of Year round up but…great stuff just won’t stop coming out (seriously: wait until you all hear the new Ustalost). And 2022 is already off to an INSANE start. I’m listening to our early pick for January’s AOTM and…well, you’ll just have to wait to and see what it is. It’s damn good though – I can tell you that much.

But seeing as there’s a few weeks left in 2021, let’s kick off the 209th edition of the Nine Circles Playlist with some killer tracks. The stoner gods have been shining their bloodshot eyes down on me, so my contribution this month kicks off with some classic High on Fire and a killer live track from Crown Lands, a band that has me scrambling to find opportunities to tell everyone how good the peculiar mix of Rush and stoner prog they’re putting out in the universe is. Josh picks up the baton for both the old and the new, mixing up some vicious death metal out of the Transcending Obscurity bullpen with Paganizer and Hellfrost and Fire but also some razor sharp Christmas hair metal courtesy of Dokken. Anton shows just how strong the early part of 2022 is shaping up to be with new tracks from Hath and Celeste, while Vincent strikes my heart with the wonderful toe and keeps it crazy heavy with the latest from Succumb. Hera raises her head from the abyss to provide some evil delights in the form of Eisbrecher, Khôra, and…and…(checks to be sure) yup, something called Infected Mushroom.

All that and Buke bringing us home with some classics from Rainbow, Savatage, Nevermore, and the newest single from Voivod. So what are you waiting for?

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