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The Nine Circles Playlist Vol. 233 (5.28.2022)

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Greetings, everyone! Corey coming at you with our weekly playlist this time, as Chris is off doing way more fun things than this. Meanwhile, I’m on Cape Cod for a wedding this weekend. A cold… rainy… bleak Cape Cod on Memorial Day weekend. Is that also more fun than this? Maybe. And just to pout a little bit, seeing all my friends MDFing this weekend has also brought some nostalgia feels. Oh well. At least I have a fridge full of Tree House to entertain myself with up to and (if I pace myself) through the Champions League Final. Now that’s a tradition on this holiday weekend that I do still very much enjoy and practice. ANYWAY.

Fortunately, even on these dreariest of Saturdays, we have these handful of songs to entertain ourselves with for a spell. This time around, part of the playlist is directly inspired by a very important album announcement from Blind Guardian, something we should all be celebrating. Beyond that, we covered quite the range this week. On the more gothic side of things we have some stuff from The Sisters of Mercy and Chelsea Wolfe, new material from Cavernlight and Behold! The Monolith to pummel you into the ground, and then a few classics from the likes of Entrails and Nasum, and, of course, so so much more. You know what to do. Hit that Play button below, and sit back and enjoy the grey.

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“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb

Retrospective: Sisters of Mercy – “First and Last and Always”

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Last week Dan talked about The Sisters of Mercy’s (hereinafter “Sisters of Mercy” because…come on) second full-length album, Floodland.  Long before Floodland was a reality, before the members began openly filing lawsuits against each other and before Sisters of Mercy became a sort of German leaning industrial-goth band there was their beautiful debut album. Draped in all the British dark wave crowns possible. And that album, in all its glory deserves a day in the sun. As the senior statesmen here at Nine Circles, the task was handed to me to talk about Sisters of Mercy’s first album, First and Last and Always. Continue reading →

Retrospective: The Sisters of Mercy – “Floodland”

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It’s been a little more than seven years since I first heard Floodland — arguably the best-known album from English goth legends The Sisters of Mercy. In that time, it’s gone from an album I’d heard about only in passing to one of my favorite albums of all time. It’s so eerie, so totally in its element — and, oh yeah, so. damn. good. — as to become endlessly re-listenable. And having just gone through my…probably quarterly Sisters binge, I feel it’s the perfect album to wax poetic about for this week’s Retrospective. So let’s do that.  Continue reading →