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Godspeed You! Black Emperor is Announced As The Final Main Stage Headliner ArcTanGent Festival 2025

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The Beach, Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV 8/16/19

The award-winning ArcTanGent Festival can today reveal its final main stage eadliner as Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The absolutely incredible Canadian post-rock collective return to ATG after a nine-year gap, completing this summers brilliant main stage headliners. Truly a unique, stunning, much-loved band, Godspeed You! Black Emperor will be performing a 2025 exclusive European show at ArcTanGent Festival, so if you want to see them, this is the only place to be!Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Bronson Arm – Casket Schwagg 

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Kalamazoo, Michigan is home to Bronson Arm (Blake Bickel – Guitar/Vocals, Garrett Yates – Drums) who are back with a new release a mere year after last year’s self-titled debut. The oddly titled Casket Schwagg (Learning Curve Records) is described as a politically charged album by Bickel despite the band not being politically charged themselves, whether this proves potentially off-putting to some remains to be seen. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Melvins 1983 – Thunderball

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Unlike Britain’s flagging public transport system, Melvins are regular as clockwork. In fact, such is the Los Angeles by way of San Francisco by way of Monsanto, Washington outfit’s lust for creating new music, that the fantastic amount of releases put out can be positively overwhelming and hard to keep up with. Continue reading →


Melvins 1983 Lineup Shares a New Single and Video for “Victory Of The Pyramids” – New Album “Thunderball”

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Forever prolific, weird, and unyielding, Melvins have announced their second album in five days and their second of 2025! The new album comes from Melvins 1983, the raw and unfiltered incarnation of the legendary band featuring Buzz Osborne and original Melvins drummer, Mike Dillard, return with Thunderball – their first full-length album in four years for this lineup.The album is due out from Ipecac Recordings on April18th, 2025.Continue reading →


Melvins and Napalm Death to Release a Collaborative Album “Savage Imperial Death March” – Tour Dates Incoming

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Ahead of their second co-headline tour in the last few years, Melvins and Napalm Death will share a collaborative album “Savage Imperial Death March!” The album will be released via Thomas Hazelmeyer’s Amphetamine Reptile Records!  Melvins are prolific and usually release multiple albums every year, including different band lineups and collabs. The online edition of the album drops this weekend, with additional tour editions available at all dates. Tour dates kick off soon from the two veteran bands. Continue reading →


Arctangent Festival 2025 Books New Headliners Wardruna, TesseracT, with Clown Core, Leprous, Mew, Slift, Arab Strap, Green Lung, Pelican, Emma Ruth Rundle, and More

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Following on from last year’s incredible and sold out (and probably best so far) 10th Anniversary event, the much loved and mighty award-winning Arctangent Festival returns this summer, and can today reveal another host of amazing acts for the event. To kick things off we have two more headliners for the festival. Firstly playing their first ever ATG are Norwegian band Wardruna, who will be bringing their Norse musical interpretations and traditions to the festival as our Wednesday night headliners. With this incredible band now in place, the Wednesday for this year’s Arctangent Festival will be its biggest ever, with more stages open to accomodate, but still no clashes! Then we have the brilliant UK prog rock band Tesseract, who will be returning to ATG and headlining the main stage on Saturday this year, closing out an intense two year touring period of their album War Of Being. In addition to a host of new bands added to the fest, special sets Include – Between The Buried In Me (Playing 2 Sets), Fall Of Troy (Playing Doppelganger In Full), and We Lost The Sea (Playing 2 Sets)!Continue reading →


PODCAST: Glacially Musical 212 – Nik, Keefy, and Don’s Epic Trauma Dump, and Vinyl Shopping Master Class

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Nik and Keefy of GhostCultMag are joined again by Talking The Talk With Don’s Don De Leaumont for a vinyl dump shenanigans as well as a breakdown of our different record shopping philosophies and pointers!

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END OF YEAR GUEST POST: Chris Enriquez (Spotlights, Julie Christmas) Top 10 Albums of 2024

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Wrapping up all the business of 2024 with some fun End of Year Guest Posts from bands, friends, music industry pals, label types, and assorted good fiends! Check out this list from our friend, Chris Enriquez, drummer for Spotlights, Julie Christmas, and others.Continue reading →


GHOST CULT MAGAZINE TOP 75 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2024

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Last-minute slinky Norwegian jesters aside, our dedicated and awesome team of writers, photographers, editors, contributors, alumni, designers and what have you, have come together to work through our regular collaborative and demographic confirmation of those albums that tickled our collective pickle in 2024.Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Dunn With Lords And Lady Kevin – Last Days at Hot Slit

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Since 1987 Kevin Rutmanis has been involved in the production of a steady stream of records with bands such as Minneapolis Noise-Rock legends Cows, Sludge Grunge titans Melvins, supergroup Tomahawk, Hepa/Titus, and now Lord and Lady Kevin. 

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