february 2023

It’s Album of the Month time again and for this edition, Ulthar’s third AND fourth full lengths, Anthronomicon and Helionomicon won the most votes. For those keeping score of these sorts of things, the votes weren’t unanimous but really close. Buke once again captains the episode along with Ian, Dan M, Colin, Hera, and Vince. The conversation pretty much dives head first into the album, how it compares to the band’s first two, and deep thoughts surrounding it all and Ian gets lengthy runtime here since he nailed the double review. Elsewhere, the gang spends a good portion of the runtime gushing over everything else they listened to since they last spoke, and the usual banter back and forth on literally anything and everything.

In other words, just another episode of the Nine Circles Audio Thing.

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Man, this year sure is going by quickly, isn’t it? Here we are, already approaching the end of February. I spent an inordinate amount of time this month telling myself, “naw, that Cursed Imagery post can wait a bit; we’ve got so much time left in the month” — up to and including earlier this week, when I realized “oh fuck, this coming Friday is the last of the month” and started SCRAMBLING. Oh, time, you fickle mistress, you.

Anyway! Enough rambling. We’ve had a treasure trove of good bad album art this month, so it’s high time we get into the best worst of it all. Hit that jump and let’s dive on in…

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