BLACK FRIDAY BLACK LIST: Holiday Gift Guide for Rockers and Metalheads 2025

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Once again, the holidays are upon us and that means Black Friday sales! While mass consumerism feels a little gross considering the state of the world, at the same time, retail therapy, is still therapy! The Black Friday and Holiday Gift guide For Rockers and Metalheads is here! Check out all the links below to support bands, labels, festivals, record stores, and other small and local businesses this year for Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. And don’t forget to donate to some worthwhile charities on Giving Tuesday!

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Morbikon (Municipal Waste, Finntroll) Shares a New Single “Ghoul Infested Mausoleum” – New Album Coming Soon


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“Ghoul Infested Mausoleum” is the latest single from blackened death thrash project Morbikon. The harrowing new hymn comes by way of the band’s Lost Within The Astral Crypts full-length set for release on November 21st via Tankcrimes. Check out the single and pre-order the album below: Continue reading


Morbikon (Municipal Waste, Finntroll) Drop Their Single “Heavens That Burn And Eons Divided” – New Album Coming Soon


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Morbikon was pulled together by guitarist/bassist Phil “Landphil” Hall (Municipal Waste, Cannabis Corpse, Iron Reagan), and vocalist Mathias “Vreth” Lillmåns (Finntroll, …And Oceans). The blackened death/thrash metal project are now preparing to unleash their Lost Within The Astral Crypts full-length, on November 21st, via the Tankcrimes record label. In advance, the band is streaming its first single, “Heavens That Burn And Eons Divided.” Catch it below and read more.
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Haggus Share Their Single and Video “As The Hammer Drops” – New Album Out Now


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California’s Haggus have unleashed their next single and video, “As The Hammer Drops.” The track comes from the band’s new album, Destination Extinction, out now on the Tankcrimes record label. Watch the new video below and read more from the band.
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BLACK FRIDAY BLACK LIST: Holiday Gift Guide for Rockers and Metalheads 2025


Once again, the holidays are upon us and that means Black Friday sales! While mass consumerism feels a little gross considering the state of the world, at the same time, retail therapy, is still therapy! The Black Friday and Holiday Gift guide For Rockers and Metalheads is here! Check out all the links below to support bands, labels, festivals, record stores, and other small and local businesses this year for Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. And don’t forget to donate to some worthwhile charities on Giving Tuesday!

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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


ALBUM REVIEW: Necrot – Lifeless Birth


 

Despite crust death metallers Necrot forming in 2011, the Oaklanders’ newest slab is only the trio’s third full-length in their brief-yet-inviting discography. 

Essentially, the band doesn’t rush to put out a record, nor do they seem to want to release something before every “i” is dotted and “t” crossed.Continue reading


INTERVIEW: Luca Indrio of Necrot Discusses “Lifeless Birth” – Riffs and Growing a Monster


Ghost Cult Keefy once again chatted with Luca Indrio of Necrot to discuss their new album “Lifeless Birth” – due out on April 12th, 2024 via Tankcrimes!  Luca discussed the rise of the Bay Area death metal band, working with Tankcrimes label, details about the new album, and the opportunities the success of the band has brought the band! Continue reading


Necrot Shares a New Single and Visualizer “Drill The Skull” – New Album “Lifeless Birth” Incoming


Necrot continues their ascent to the forefront of American aural extremity, pushing the boundaries of style and continuing to recast metal in their image. Founded by bassist, vocalist, and principal songwriter Luca Indrio and drummer Chad Gailey in 2011 with guitarist Sonny Reinhardt joining the following year, the Oakland, California, trio offers Lifeless Birth as a culmination of their to-date efforts to encapsulate and push forward the deathly stylings of 2020’s Mortal and their 2017 debut, Blood Offerings. Lifeless Birth will see its release via the Tankcrimes label on April 12th 2024! The band just finished up the recent Brainsqueeze Tour with Municipal Waste Ghoul and Dead Heat (review here). Stream the new single single “Drill The Skull” now and pre-order the album below.Continue reading


Ghoul Shares a New Music Video for “Ratlicker” – Brainsqueeze Tour Dates with Municipal Waste, Necrot and Dead Heat Ongoing


Creepsylvania’s treasured masked mutants, Ghoul, have unleashed a live lyric video for “Ratlicker.” The rowdy canticle comes off the band’s Noxious Concoctions EP released last month on Tankcrimes. Watch Ghoul’s “Ratlicker” lyric video here:Continue reading