Lacolpa’s new album, In Absentia Lucis (Brucia Records) finds the Italian band diving deeper into darkness. Their brand of darkness this time is more experimental than most heard this year. While they still self-identify as a Sludge band there is more common ground with Current 93 than with Neurosis.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Miracle Blood – Hello Hell
Miracle Blood’s latest album Hello Hell would serve as a standout piece within any punk music lover’s record collection. Their new album Hello Hell, released by Nefarious Industries, is a cacophonous concoction of noise-punk, sludge, and heavy metal. The band’s sophomore LP is strange and unusual, and may be found to be the next underground favorite of those who themselves are strange and unusual.Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Pillar Of Light – Caldera
This Detroit-based Sludge band Pillar Of Light moves into their brand of Metal like a storm cloud on their debut full-length Caldera (Transcending Obscurity Records) with a hypnotic manner of riffing that allows the songs to flow. Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: RVKKVS – Antithesis Of Prosperity
Aside from describing my very existence, the new RVKKVS album, Antithesis Of Prosperity (Grindhead Records) is also a damn good collection of brash, devastating, grinding noise. Continue reading
CONCERT REVIEW: Boris – Starcrawler Live at Racket NYC
10.23.24 – Racket NYC
This was a doozy of a weeknight show in Manhattan and we were gifted with over an hour of Boris and their amplified wall of sound. It’s crazy to think that it has been since 2001 since we haven’t gotten at least one yearly release from Boris in some form and this year’s Hello There collab (with Coaltar of the Deepers), live performance of Fade, and 2 years later, and Noise. All these releases dropping this year continue to prove how prolific of a band they are.
ALBUM REVIEW: Deadform – Entrenched In Hell
Deadform, the three-piece collective hailing from Oakland, plays what is strongly aligned towards the fusion of Sludge Metal with Crust Punk undertones. Originally rooted from the members’ former projects Laudanum, Stormcrow, and Dystopia, the band’s debut full-length, Entrenched In Hell, releases via Tankcrimes Records, also based in Oakland.Continue reading
EP REVIEWS: Clot – Dehiscence – Hostility
To put it mildly, Grindcore is king.
Sub-minute songs; albums that pack dozens of tracks in less than ten minutes; and the most chaotically bombastic sounds you can possibly combine and still label music. Continue reading
Ghost Cult Magazine Turns 12 Years-Old
Time marches on!
We are officially in our awkward tween phase! October sees Ghost Cult Magazine’s 12th year around the sun! Established in the doomsday year of 2012, Ghost Cult Magazine has been a daily music news, interviews, and reviews portal dedicated to covering Rock, Metal, Punk, Metalcore, post-Hardcore, Hardcore, Indie Rock, Doom, Prog, Death Metal, Black Metal, Sludge, Industrial, Grindcore, Dark Folk, Synthwave, other related genres, and geek culture as well! Shout out to our founders, past collaborators, partners, and you dear readers!
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE – Waingro Shares Their New Album “Sports” Out Now
Long-running Vancouver, BC Heavy Rock/Sludge band Waingro (perhaps named for one of the antagonists of the classic 1995 crime movie Heat?) have released their latest album Sports! The album chock full of bangers and this a really underrated band you should be spinning today. The band will also play a record release show tonight at the world-famous Rickshaw venue!
ALBUM REVIEW: Swamp Coffin – Drowning Glory
An entire anthropological study could be done on how the region a band comes from affects the sound of any given genre. Continue reading