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

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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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Album Review: HYPNO5E — “Sheol”

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Have you ever returned to a place that meant a lot to you, only to realize that you still haven’t come to grips with what has occurred there? This is the story that HYPNO5E brings on their sixth album, Sheol, where departed souls have returned to Lake Tauca, a former lake in Bolivia, where singer and guitarist Emmanuel Jessua grew up. The album is also part of a diptych that started with 2018’s A Distant (Dark) Source, which showed the end of the story. Although I knew nothing about the concept before deciding to review the album, I dove straight into it with an open mind, as I had a feeling this album would not disappoint.

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Album Review: Raum Kingdom — “Monarch”

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Some years ago, I reviewed Raum Kingdom’s first album, Everything & Nothing, which really impressed and made me want to see what else was out there in terms of sludgy post-metal. As part of my ongoing metal education, I have listened to many bands that would fall under the label of post-metal, even some out there on the far fringes of the genre. Somewhere along the spectrum of accessibility sits Raum Kingdom, a band whose abrasive sound and inherent bleakness makes me want to jump out of my skin, and their second album, Monarch, truly brings that to fruition.

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Album Review: She Said Destroy — “Bleeding Fiction II: Child of Tomorrow”

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There’s always a challenge writing a piece of music longer than the average length of a pop song for today’s listening audience. According to Vox.com, that average is anywhere from three to five minutes. That average is often run over in metal, where an artist or band stretches out to explore sonic territory, often building off a musical idea or using a through line based around jamming. Case in point: in 2012, She Said Destroy released an almost 30 minute long single track EP titled Bleeding Fiction. 10 years later the band has released a “sequel” in Bleeding Fiction II: Child of Tomorrow. Again, it’s a single track EP though it’s about half the running time of the original. This piece is full of ideas and that’s a bit of a problem. This song sounds like a band that had an EP full songs that mashed them into one sonic collage.

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Album Review: God Alone — “ETC”

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How does one actually begin talking about an album like ETC?  I think the most accurate way to sum it up at the top is from one of the rare times the comments section has actually been worth going through, on the official video for “Tsk Tsk Tsk,” the first single God Alone put out.  There is a comment that simply reads “This is the worst thing I’ve ever heard 10/10.”  While I disagree strongly with the first part of that statement, I can understand what would make someone say something like that, even in jest.  ETC is an album that is only going to garner extreme opinions, in both directions.

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