All kinds of big announcements today. Thankfully I saved enough energy to share a few of them.

Back in January, I made a New Year’s resolutions list of sorts, mostly because I had three goals in mind when it came to music this year. One of these goals was to get more into death-doom and while I am incredibly familiar with bands like Hanging Garden, I want to see what else is out there. While looking through some of the titles up for grabs ’round here, I decide...

Today was so lame. And this week is a full week. Also lame.

…lemme hear ya say whooo who he was a reeeeeeal baad man… OH hi! You caught me mid chorus of “Baad Man” from last week’s COC delivery and WHOOO BOY what a trip that album is. I could talk your ears off (eyes out? HA) about the hows and whys of my affinity for that one but we’ve got more new stuff to discuss here on Initial Descent so we’ll do that instead. Death meta...

The 434th edition of the Nine Circles Playlist has been thinking about the pregnant pause that is Holy Saturday. If you were raised Christian, you probably learned that Good Friday was the day Jesus was hung and died on the cross; Easter Sunday he rose again. So what’s Saturday? I like to think it’s the day Jesus just chilled in that cave, just listening to the new t...