Way back in 2012, Ghost Cult started as a magazine in The Netherlands, specializing in avant-garde and extreme metal, stoner rock, and doom. We ran 19 issues as a digital magazine, which was fairly successful with wide-spread and acclaimed features on Behemoth, Neurosis, Ghost, Megadeth, Amon Amarth, Dragged Into Sunlight, Dream Theater, Korn, Bill Ward, Anathema, Ihsahn, GWAR, Anthrax, COC, Down, Intronaut, High on Fire, The Atlas Moth, and many more. We’ve improved and grown every year with your help. We’d like to think that we provide news, reviews, interviews and concert, and festival coverage with integrity, and without the drama and BS you see from most other websites out there. We will always do what we do and curate and cover all kinds of rock, metal, punk, hardcore, and indie artists. Now in our seventh year, we move boldly into the future! Thanks for being here and supporting us! As a bonus, we have a gift for one lucky fan! Enter to win below!Continue reading
Tag Archives: Down
Watch Phil Anselmo and the Illegals Play an Intimate Show at Saint Vitus Bar
Philip H. Anselmo and the Illegals played a surprise show the other night in Brooklyn September 18th at Saint Vitus Bar. The tiny club held the Pantera/Down/Superjoint/En Minor/Scour legend performed a set of his solo work from The Illegals and Pantera classics he has been performing of late. Phil and crew will play their Pantera set when they open for the final Slayer tour this fall. Check it out! Continue reading
Philip Anselmo Expresses Interest in a Down Reunion for 2020
In a new interview with Metal Underground, Philip Anselmo has expressed interested in a Down reunion in 2020/. Next year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stoner Doom supergroup’s (Pantera, COC, Crowbar, EyehateGod) debut album Nola (East/West). Anselmo, whose 51st birthday was yesterday June 30th, also shared that any Down reunion must include Kirk Windstein who left the band several years ago to concentrate on Crowbar, be respectful of the many members’ projects, as well as his lack of interest in his Superjoint project any longer. Continue reading
Texas Hippie Coalition – High In The Saddle
When you get an album with the band name Texas Hippie Coalition, you have a set of expectations about what it’s going to sound like. A mental image of the music pops into your brain. Texas Hippie Coalition did not disappoint with High In The Saddle (Entertainment One). True to form, it’s Texas-style southern rock with a scruffy “edge” to the lyrics and followable 4/4 beats. If you like listening to Down, Black Label Society, or Southern Train Gypsy, Texas Hippie Coalition is almost but not quite totally unlike that. High In The Saddle straddles the line of rock and roll and country and does so admirably. Continue reading
Woven Man – Revelry (In Our Arms)
Those of us who developed a fondness for sludgey goodness back in the days of its infancy will have a soft spot for Welsh sluggers Acrimony, who blazed (!) an early trail for the sub-genre in the UK. While most of that band went on to found the Stoner grooves of Sigiriya, Lee ‘Roy’ Davies has drifted through guises until settling in the present day, and Woven Man: an outfit tipping its cap to The Wicker Man and aspects of his former band, which shine throughout debut album Revelry (In Our Arms) (Undergroove).Continue reading
Corrosion Of Conformity, Crowbar And Mothership Book North American Tour
Corrosion of Conformity, continue to tour behind their excellent early 2018 release No Cross, No Crown, out now on Nuclear Blast. They have teamed up with their brethren in Crowbar for a US tour. COC frontman Pepper Keenan and Crowbar leader Kirk Windstein have a friendship that goes back decades and they were both members of doom metal supergroup Down from 1991 to 2013. Mothership will act as direct support on all shows with Weedeater or The Obsessed taking the open slot on some dates. Continue reading
Metal Allegiance – Volume II: Power Drunk Majesty
In what is probably the biggest Who’s Who of heavy metal since Jimmy Bain, Vivian Campbell and Ronnie James Dio concocted the idea of Hear’n’Aid back during those halcyon days of hairspray and bulging spandex around 1985, Metal Allegiance continues to add name after name after name to its roster of well-respected contributors.Continue reading
Phillip Anselmo: “The Chances Of A New Down Record Coming Out Is Extremely High”
Philip Anselmo announced back in 2012 that Down would be releasing four EP’s over the next few years. Since that statement, the band has released Part I and Part II, but we haven’t heard anything about the final two EP’s until now. Continue reading
Rex Brown – “FaultLine” Video Released
After more than three decades with one of the heaviest bands of all time, Rex Brown wanted to do something different, and that’s exactly what he did. Rex wrote a true rock ‘n’ roll record, which he finally released back in July. Smoke On This is the first album to feature Rex on vocals and guitar, and as he mentioned in our interview, he had complete freedom to write whatever he wanted for the first time in his career. That freedom helped put together, what I feel is, one of the most genuine records of 2017.Continue reading
Stream In Flames’ Surprise Covers EP, Tour With Five Finger Death Punch Underway
In Flames has just released a surprise EP of cover songs dubbed, Down, Wicked & No Good, today via Nuclear Blast Records. The EP is out in conjunction with their new co-headline tour of Europe with Five Finger Death Punch, stopping off tonight in the bands’ hometown of Stockholm. The EP sees the band covering classic tracks from Depeche Mode, Alice In Chains, Chris Issak and Nine Inch Nails. You can stream the EP right now!Continue reading