Nine Circles

Every year or so, Transcending Obscurity releases an album I won’t shut up about — one I want all my friends to hear so I’m not alone in talking about it. Last year, despite landing what many would consider to be on the lower end of my list, I was keenly obsessed with 

Ideal running conditions tonight. That’s about all I’ve got.

Today’s question: who is your favorite, down and dirty riff merchants? And why will the answer always be GOZU? If you failed today’s question, be sure to brush up on your GOZU history prior to Friday and stand ready for their next molten slab of tunes to drop. Seriously, just look at that album cover… OK, next up we’ve got everyone’s favorite death metal war ...

True Norwegian Blackgrass. With a title like that, I just had to check this out. While the sophomore album from Norway’s Twin Serpent might be a bit of misnomer, it’s still a fun record for what it is.

I’ll be frank, the music on True Norwegian Blackgrass is pretty damn far out of my normal wheelhouse. As far a...

The 439th edition of the Nine Circles Playlist is still reeling from the double whammy of new Darkthrone and Panopticon released on the same day. Not to mention the latest from Frozen Soul, Jungle Rot…so much metal, and yet, as can probably be deduced from