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Ghost Cult Magazine Turns 13 Years Old Today

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We Who Are Not As Others…

October 8th, 2025 sees Ghost Cult Magazine’s 13th year in business! Established in the doomsday year of 2012, Ghost Cult Magazine has been a daily music news, interviews, and reviews website 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, current co-owners, past collaborators, partners, and you dear readers! Stay tuned for a new merch giveaway tonight! 

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ALBUM REVIEW: Malevich – Under a Gilded Sun

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There are truly many directions you can go in music by taking influences from all over and finding a sound that is respectful to all of those influences. Malevich continues to evolve this approach with their latest release, Under a Gilded Sun (Church Road Records). This nearly forty-minute journey borrows from black, death, and sludge metal with dashes of grindcore mixed in. There are a few tracks on the album that feature a build-to-climax song structure, similar to how post-metal bands structure their songs.Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Tar Pit – Scrying the Angel Gate

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The sophomore album from Portland’s Tar Pit, Scrying the Angel Gate (Transylvanian Recordings), sets Lovecraftian themes against a style of doom that relishes the blues-based jams. An organ haunting the opening track from the back of the mix. The backbone of the song is a lumbering wall of fuzzed-out riffage. This song eventually builds the dynamic into a more metallic attack. Vocalist Don Gozalo brings an emotive howl to the songs. Unlike most doom frontmen, he is not as blatant an Ozzy disciple. This helps set their overall sound apart from their peers. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: King Potenaz – Arcane Desert Rituals Vol. 1

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Sweden’s DIY Stoner/Doom label Majestic Mountain Records is always best-known for releasing the most eccentric, adrenaline-fueling tunes possible, and fair to say that Arcane Desert Rituals Vol. 1 by Southern Italy’s King Potenaz is one of them! 

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INTERVIEW: Ralka Skjerseth and MoE Discuss Avant-Garde Metal

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The ever-dynamic outskirts of Oslo and their music scene always has something exciting to offer the deeper you explore, and the Norwegian rock unit MoE, which has been around since 2008, is one of them. Often described as Experimental and Noise-infused with avant-gardish Sludge undertones, they are bound to incorporate DIY approach in their creative process and present minimalist compositions in alternative and experimental ways. Well-known for involving challenging approaches in Rock and Noise settings, they aim to break boundaries in the stereotypical spectrums surrounding those two genres, aiming to provide their listeners a sonic experience laced in the depths of full-blown intensity. 

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CONCERT REVIEW: DVNE – Allochiria Live at Gazarte

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It was a perfect Saturday date night in Athens on May 24th to watch and capture UK’s Prog Metal artist DVNE alongside Greek band Allochiria opening up the show at Gazarte Music Venue.Continue reading →


INTERVIEW: Bobby Ferry Discusses -(16)-‘s “Guides for the Misguided” and the Band’s Evolution

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In this exclusive interview, Keefy is joined by guitarist and vocalist Bobby Ferry of -(16)- to delve into their tenth studio album, “Guides for the Misguided,” out now via Relapse Records. Get the inside story of the album, and much more!Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Death Whore – Blood Washes Everything Away

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After two high quality short-form releases, French death/crust act Death Whore erupt fully onto the scene with full length debut Blood Washes Everything Away. A co-production by Duality Records, Crypt of Dr. Gore, Specific Recordings, Hecatombe Records, and No Good to Anyone Productions, the band from Nancy unleashes thirty-five minutes of deeply unpleasant sonic punishment in the nastiest possible way.Continue reading →


INTERVIEW: What’s Behind “The Loss” Album, with Therese Lanz of Mares of Thrace

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In this episode, Keefy chats once again with Therese Lanz of Mares of Thrace all about their new album “The Loss” out soon via Artoffact Records! Therese goes deep on the concept of the album, the last few years of the band, the changes in the music industry during her career, and much more!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 →