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The Nine Circles Playlist Vol. 191 (8.7.2021)

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The Playlist is BACK baby. Figured I’d take this one since it was my fault we missed the last couple. Hey man, gotta have a day in the sun and sand at least once a year right? Right. Alright then, you know how this works; we pull together a mixtape of jams we’ve been into this week, put it in a playlist, and paste it here for you to enjoy. This week we’ve got new Archspire, Spirit Adrift, Teeth, Eyes of Perdition, Deafheaven, Full of Hell, and Wolves In the Throne Room along with some choice cuts from Fluids, King Woman, Hail Spirit Noir, and True Widow. And that’s just naming a few as there’s several more in this mixtape that is fit for whatever you have going on this Saturday. So, hit the play button below and get your groove on. Or whatever else you want to get on. Your choice. Cheers.

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– Josh

Album Review: Empress — “Wait ‘Til Night”

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It seems a lot of metal bands these days enjoy playing with subgenres and creating hybrid sounds.  I love the creativity of these groups and their courage to explore the space and make something unique.  Australia’s Empress is one of those experimental bands and their latest release, Wait ‘Til Night, is an alluring combination of shoegaze, doom, indie, post-metal, and black metal.  This album is dark yet delicate, haunting, and dreamy.  The band’s signature sound is fine tuned in this, their sophomore album.

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The Nine Circles Playlist Vol. 106 (11.23.2019)

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Welcome again, ye chosen few, to another edition of the Nine Circles weekly mixtape.  There are a ton of good songs represented here by our almost full-house amount of contributions, so there’s bound to be something down there that will catch your ear.  Grab a cup of something strong dive in.

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– Vincent

Initial Descent: September 18 – 24, 2016

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Neurosis
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Anyone complaining that there hasn’t been a great week for metal thus far in 2016 needs to go immediately and start over, but there won’t be any complaining after this week. Mostly due to Neurosis‘ highly anticipated eleventh full length Fires Within Fires finally seeing the light of day. But that’s not all; Fatalist are back with their insanely good Swedeath saturated The Bitter End, Predatory Light further their black metal chaos on Predatory Light, Trap Them punch you in the mouth with their fifth album Crown Feral while Witchskull breaks out the bluesy doom on The Vast Electric Dark. Switching gears a bit, Dysrhythmia bends time on their progressive instru-metal album The Veil Of Control — let the dissecting begin. And last but not least, Insomnium‘s epic fifth full length Winter’s Gate is a blast. As stated, its another stacked week here on Initial Descent and literally, there’s something for everyone. So hit that ‘continue reading’ link. Continue reading →