Initial Descent: November 17 - 23, 2025 https://ninecircles.co/2025/11/17/initial-descent-november-17-23-2025/

Seems like EOY lists are starting to emerge from their cocoons; so let's highlight some worthy metal to help you in these trying times of list bashing and teeth gnashing

CANTO: Fire In The Mountains, Weft, Nukem, and More

Colin sits down with Charlie Anderson about his new solo project Weft. Dig it.

CANTO: Ellende, Slayer, Life Cycles, and More

Album Review: Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin - “Stygian Bough: Volume II” https://ninecircles.co/2025/11/13/album-review-bell-witch-and-aerial-ruin-stygian-bough-volume-ii/

Profile: New York death metal crew Internal Bleeding

CANTO: Enthroned, Terror Corpse, Sacred Leather, and More

Will the latest from Lamp of Murmuur win Colin over? You'll have to read the review to find out...

CANTO: Orbit Culture, Astral Spear, Home Front, and More

CANTO: Midhaven, Overt Enemy, Heriot, and More

Initial Descent: November 10 - 16, 2025 https://ninecircles.co/2025/11/10/initial-descent-november-10-16-2025/

This week we're celebrating the nuptials of two of our own, but we're also peppering the playlist with enough brutality to ensure a life of love and metal for as long as Ian and Angela both shall live.

CANTO: Stabbing, The Ominous Circle, Dead Head, and More

Album Review: Omnium Gatherum - "May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way" https://ninecircles.co/2025/11/07/album-review-omnium-gatherum-may-the-bridges-we-burn-light-the-way/

CANTO: Tarlung, Death Angel, The Old Dead Tree, and More

Profile: Death metal entity Ripping Remains Greetings, friends! We've got something wonderfully nasty for you today. Pacific Northwest death metal/deathgrind purveyors Ripping Remains released the Necrodestiny EP back on October 3rd through Satanik Royalty Records, and now we're here to talk about…

CANTO: Whitechapel, Black Coast, Nightfall, and More

Album Review: Ildaruni - "Divinum Sanguinem" https://ninecircles.co/2025/11/05/album-review-ildaruni-divinum-sanguinem/

Profile: James Woodard of genre benders The Grasshopper Lies Heavy https://ninecircles.co/2025/11/05/profile-james-woodard-of-genre-benders-the-grasshopper-lies-heavy/

The latest from Howling Giant expands its lineup and its scope for their biggest, best album to date.

CANTO: Varmia, Malefic, Architectural Genocide, and More

Initial Descent: November 3 - 9, 2025 https://ninecircles.co/2025/11/03/initial-descent-november-3-9-2025/

Good morning, November. Lots of Halloween-themed tracks, some new metal from Yellow Eyes, and a reminder that "A Praise Chorus" still kicks ass almost 25 years later...

Receiving the Evcharist: Pedestal for Leviathan and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.+Störtebeker Brauspezialitäten

Album Review: Primitive Man - “Observance” https://ninecircles.co/2025/10/30/album-review-primitive-man-observance/

CANTO: Denial of Life, Rogue, Cold Cave, and More

Profile: Psychedelic metal outfit Today is the Day

The Month That Was is back, taking in some of the missed released from September and October. Come for An Abstract Illusion, stay for Wode (and seven other great records).

CANTO: Death Obvious, Martröð, Morbikon, and More

Initial Descent: October 27 - November 2, 2025 https://ninecircles.co/2025/10/27/initial-descent-october-27-november-2-2025/

The Nine Circles Playlist Vol. 411 (10.25.2025) The 411th edition of the Nine Circles Playlist was wondering if the kids still say "What's the 4-1-1"? It would certainly be better than all this " 6-7" thing that took me forever to understand. At least we have things like Testament covering classic…

CANTO: Fire in the Mountains, Soulfly, Blackwater Drowning, and More

Album Review: Sunken – Lykke A four track, nearly fifty minute opus is quite a grand statement to make following a five year hiatus, but that is exactly what Denmark’s Sunken have done with their newest release Lykke. Sunken play the kind of atmospheric black metal that I enjoy a lot, with long,…

CANTO: Ingested, Novembre, Sun of the Dying, and More

CANTO: Ov Sulfur, Funeral Home, Dayseeker, and More

Profile: New York genre-bending entity Gridfailure

CANTO: Paleface Swiss, Mourn The Light, Stellar Circuits, and More

Album Review: Psychonaut - "World Maker" https://ninecircles.co/2025/10/21/album-review-psychonaut-world-maker/

CANTO: Kaamos Warriors, Nattradio, Abysmal Dawn, and More

Initial Descent: October 20 - 26, 2025 https://ninecircles.co/2025/10/20/initial-descent-october-20-26-2025/

RIP Ace. This week's Nine Circles Playlist is dedicated to you. But there's also new music from Coroner, Giöbia, and more.

CANTO: Gaerea, Despised Icon, The Hunt, and More

CANTO: Sleeping Giant, Entheos, Burned In Effigy, and More

Album Review: Afsky - “Fællesskab” https://ninecircles.co/2025/10/16/album-review-afsky-faellesskab/

CANTO: Enthroned, Thunder Rising, Hyperion, and More

Album Review: Graveripper - "From Welkin to Tundra" https://ninecircles.co/2025/10/15/album-review-graveripper-from-welkin-to-tundra/

CANTO: Oromet, Agnostic Front, Drowned in Silver, and More

Profile: North Carolina doomers Cosmic Reaper

CANTO: Liminal Spirit, Wolfbrigade, Ocean of Illusions, and More