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The Nine Circles Audio Thing: LO! and The Ocean Were April and May’s Album(s) of the Month!

June 4, 2023ninecirclesadminLeave a comment

Sometimes the world gets away from you and you have to pack two months of podcast into one episode. So whether your mood swings to the raucous sound of LO! and their new album The Gleaners or the more trepidatious approach of The Ocean and their latest Holocene (both coincidentally on Pelagic The Nine Circles Audio Thing: LO! and The Ocean Were April and May’s Album(s) of the Month!Records) Buke and the 9C staff have you covered with what is sure to be a conversation composed of many, many, MANY words. I mean, it’s over three hours long – I’m assuming this is because of the amount of words being spoken but I supposed it could be something else: maybe there’s some bird calls?

Smoke ’em if you got ’em…it’s another Album of the Month episode of the Nine Circles Audio Thing.

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The Nine Circles Playlist Vol. 278 (4.08.2023)

April 8, 2023April 7, 2023ChrisLeave a comment

Not gonna lie. Sure there’s been some great extreme music that came out this week (like the latest from Devangelic) but damn if this new Crown Lands albums isn’t some of the best Rush worship I’ve heard since, well…Rush in their heyday, which if you ask was pretty much their whole career outside of the debut and that small blip from Presto to Roll the Bones. So we’re kicking off with a single from the Canadian duo’s stellar new release before diving into the guttural extremity of Devangelic’s fourth album Xul.

From there the 278th edition of the Nine Circles Playlist goes all over the place, as you would expect. We’ve got music from the likes of Rotten Sound, Demonical, and the scorching new cut from the forthcoming Cattle Decaptiation. We’ve got technical progressive death metal from Pronostic and glam from Steel Panther. And in between there’s cuts from Planning for Burial and Chapterhouse, Oranssi Pazuzu and Gorguts, Lo! and Godflesh, not to mention a host of killer cuts to close things out, including Opeth, Sabaton, Judas Priest, and others.

Get listening. Stay safe. See you next week…

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– Chris

Album Review: LO! — “The Gleaners”

April 7, 2023April 7, 2023D MorrisLeave a comment

David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet famously opens with an image of sublime beauty juxtaposed with hellish ugliness. A shot of a white picket fence with red roses segues into a kingdom of hideous, writhing insects. Black and gold shapes burrow and writhe through moist dirt. Lynch films the insects as abstract shapes struggling for dominance. Lynch wants his audience to know that under this surface beauty lies unknown horrors. The two live in symbiosis and neither can thrive without its opposite. Because it’s David Lynch though, this uncomfortable scene also holds beauty in it. A frightening beauty the viewer cannot ignore. The Gleaners, the latest album from Australian sludge mongers LO!, thrives in similar imagery.

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CANTO: Immortal, Ne Obliviscaris, Marianas Rest, and More

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023CoreyLeave a comment

My to-do list is getting aggressive, yet here I am doing hobby things.

Immortal (which is basically a Demonaz solo project these days) released a new single titled “War Against All”. That’s the title-track from the new album, set for a May 26 release through Nuclear Blast.
From there we’ll jump to Ne Obliviscaris and their new song and live video for “Misericorde I – As The Flesh Falls”. Somehow the release of Exul is only a couple of days away now, out through Season of Mist.
Dorthia Cottrell of Windhand is releasing her new solo album, Death Folk Country, on April 21 through Relapse Records, and today “Harvester” was unveiled. Give the new single a listen here.
Finnish melodic death and doom project Marianas Rest are releasing Auer on March 24 through Napalm Records. Today they revealed a video for a new single titled “Light Reveals Our Wounds”. This album is on my list for Friday. Casual FYI.
We’ll close with Lo! and the new video for “Rat King”. The Gleaners is officially out on April 7, only a couple of weeks away now, through Pelagic Records.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb

CANTO: Trivium, Naut, Vomit Forth, and More

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023CoreyLeave a comment

My dog has been stoned all day, which has been moderately amusing.

May as well lead in with another tour. Beartooth and Trivium are co-headlining a North American run in the coming months, covering a good chunk of April through June. They’ll be joined by Malevolence and Archetypes Collide on those dates. Tickets go on sale this coming Friday.
Next, we have some blackened sludge to add to the pile. Lo! shared a video for “Salting The Earth”, a track taken from The Gleaners, which is out on April 7 through Pelagic Records.
One more tour to drop in today. Vomit Forth are headlining a tour in the U.S. with Upon Stone as support. Those dates are in March, but they’re also on the road on either side of that… so you’ll have plenty of opportunities to catch them over the next few months.
Out of Napalm Records, we have a new track and video from Xandria, titled “Two Worlds”. The Wonders Still Awaiting is out this coming Friday, in case you needed a reminder.
And the video we’ll wrap up with today comes from Naut. The post punk outfit are releasing Hunt on February 24 through Season of Mist, and the clip for “Damocles” can be seen below.