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CANTO: The Black Dahlia Murder, Unto Others, Winterfylleth, and More

June 13, 2024June 13, 2024CoreyLeave a comment

I know. It’s super late. Life is chaos. Deal with it.

We finally have that announcement from The Black Dahlia Murder that we have been anxiously awaiting. Servitude will be out on September 27 through Metal Blade Records, and you can watch and stream “Aftermath” here.
Winterfylleth also unveiled new album details. The Imperious Horizon will arrive on September 13 through Candlelight and Spinefarm. A video for that one’s first single, “Dishonour Enthroned”, can be seen here.
Looks like Cryptopsy have signed on with Season of Mist, which is certainly some good news. They’re touring with Carnifex this fall, and it sounds like new music is on the way. Bring it.
Darkest Hour announced a couple August dates, and they’ll be appearing at the return of Mayhem Fest in October. On top of that, they also dropped a new lyric video for “Mausoleum”.
And closing for the night, we have the new track and video from Unto Others titled “Raigeki”. I haven’t listened to it yet, which is a bit silly. As a reminder (is it a reminder?), they’re on tour towards the end of the year with W.A.S.P.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb

CANTO: Rotting Christ, Winterfylleth, Immortal Guardian, and More

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020CoreyLeave a comment

I feel like there was something important I was supposed to get done today…

I think we all saw that fossil discovery that was named after The Ocean. Well, it looks like Rotting Christ gets a fossil as well. A new brittle-star species has been named “Brezinacantha Tolis” in honor of the Tolis brothers. Dope.
Winterfylleth have released a lyric video for “A Valley Thick With Oaks” in celebration of the 10th anniversary reissue of The Mercian Sphere. That limited edition is out now through Candlelight Records.
Finnish death metal band Omnivortex released the second single via video from their upcoming debut album. Check out “At The Mountains Of Madness” now, and prepare for the release of Diagrams Of Consciousness on November 11th through Concorde Music Company.
Immortal Guardian dropped a new music video for “Read Between The Lines”. Psychosomatic will be out through M-Theory Audio on Feb. 12, 2021.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb

CANTO: Amorphis, Dimmu Borgir, Rotting Christ, Winterfylleth, and More

August 12, 2019August 12, 2019CoreyLeave a comment

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I’m very tired. Let’s see what lurks in the inbox on this fine Monday.

Amorphis and Dimmu Borgir have announced an awesome co-headlining tour. The bad news? Only European dates so far – and there aren’t even many of those. Still, if your schedule allows it, you should dabble. Oh, and did I mention Wolves In The Throne Room will be supporting? Yeahhhhh.
In other tour news, Rotting Christ have had to back out of their performance at Psycho Las Vegas due to issues obtaining work visas. Shit happens. Not an easy process and changing band members only makes it more challenging. The blame, however, was directed entirely at the band and label by the festival team. From their account, they claim RC/Season of Mist waited way too long to submit their applications. The label owner responded with very good points. It’s all very dramatic.
In today’s random news, you can see the Slayer logo on NASCAR driver JJ Yeley’s car this weekend. Honestly, it’s a collaboration that kinda makes sense. Regardless, I’m not a NASCAR fan, so I’m going to forget about this basically as soon as I finish typing it.
Next month, specifically September 13th, Winterfylleth will be releasing a live album/DVD through Candlelight called The Siege of Mercia. The footage was taken from their performance at Bloodstock back in 2017. For a preview, check out their performance of “The Swart Raven” below. This is awesome, but I really really need to see them live eventually.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb

The Nine Circles Playlist: Vol. 4 (8.14.2017)

August 14, 2017July 1, 2018ninecirclesadminLeave a comment

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A variety of death metal superpowers this week! That’s always exciting. It’s been kind of a weird weekend on a number of fronts, so putting this list together was the perfect supplement to my body’s futile attempt to process all the alcohol I’ve consumed. I will apologize, the list is a bit shorter than usual. Some of the Nine Circles staff are off doing a lot of life-things for whatever reason, so that trims us down a bit. Maybe some of you think that’s a good thing? We don’t care either way. You know the drill, past playlists can be found on our channel here, and this week’s can be activated directly below. Enjoy!

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Best of 2016: Dan’s List

December 30, 2016December 28, 2016Dan1 Comment

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So yeah, this year sure sucked in a lot of ways, didn’t it?

On a personal level…where to begin? My family said goodbye to our beloved dog, Bailey. I had a rough breakup at the end of April. I got into a deeper rut in my professional life than I’d ever experienced before, which culminated in me quitting my job and leaving New York. I also, briefly, quit Nine Circles. (You didn’t think I’d stay away for good though, did you?)

And that’s just my stuff! Beyond that…well, for starters, pretty much everyone died. Prince, Alan Rickman, Phife Dawg, Craig Sager…I mean, you kind of had to know 2016 was going to be shitty on that front after we lost David goddamn Bowie when the year was scarcely a week old. And that’s all to say nothing of the other shit: escalation of racial tensions across the country, continued apathy toward a changing climate, Christmas Eve / Day and New Year’s Eve / Day both falling on Saturdays and Sundays…it was a lot, man. Oh, and we also elected the personification of an Internet comment section to the presidency. That was neat.

In spite of all that, 2016 wound up being a goddamn banner year for metal. When I first started thinking about this list, I was envisioning maybe a Top 15 – but that quickly grew to a Top 25, and then to its current incarnation: a Top 50, with 20 “ranked” albums and 30 honorable mentions, not to mention EPs. It was just impossible to whittle it down any further; that’s how good metal was this year. Hell, I had a number of albums that featured in my mid-year list that didn’t even make it into the honorable mentions section of this one!

Make no mistake, this year would have felt exponentially shittier without all of those records. In times like these, cueing up a metal record that’s driving you bonkers, throwing your head back and howling at the moon kind of becomes essential to maintaining your sanity. And you know what? Sanity was maintained. (Well, mine at least…I dunno about America’s. All the more reason for America to start listening to more damn metal.)

This year may have thrown every possible pile of feces it could at us, but you know what? We made it through anyway. We’re still here and it’s not. And that’s nothing to turn our noses at. Here are the records that helped make that happen for me: Continue reading →