Receiving the Evcharist: Nibiridis and Pipeworks Brewing Company

Once again we're here for your weekend musical needs, featuring new tracks from Voidceremony, Revocation, and Psychonaut.

Album Review: Mors Principium Est – "Darkness Invisible" https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/26/album-review-mors-principium-est-darkness-invisible/

Profile: Manic West Coast duo Nuclear Dudes https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/24/profile-manic-west-coast-duo-nuclear-dudes/

Album Review: Species - "Changelings" https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/23/album-review-species-changelings/

Initial Descent: September 22 - 28, 2025 https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/22/initial-descent-september-22-28-2025/

RIP, Tompa. The 406th edition of the Nine Circles Playlist is dedicated to the memory of one of the most distinct voiced of metal. Go!

CANTO: Blindfolded And Led To The Woods, Vittra, Smash Into Pieces, and More

Album Review: Novembers Doom - “Major Arcana” https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/19/album-review-novembers-doom-major-arcana/

Profile: Doom-infused death metal collective Innumerable Forms

CANTO: Vast Pyre, Wretched, Vintersea, and More

Album Review: Amorphis – "Borderland" https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/18/album-review-amorphis-borderland/

Second Circle: Crippling Alcoholism and Gnaw Their Tongues https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/18/second-circle-crippling-alcoholism-and-gnaw-their-tongues/

Album Review: Krigsgrav - "Stormcaller" https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/17/album-review-krigsgrav-stormcaller/

Profile: Atmospheric post-black metal outfit Corridoré

CANTO: Evoken, White Baroness, Wounded In Forest, and More

Initial Descent: September 15 - 21, 2025 https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/15/initial-descent-september-15-21-2025/

Need some tunes for the weekend? Nine Circles has you covered with this week's playlist, featuring new music from Testament, Tribal Flesh, and more.

CANTO: Testament, Hostilia, I See Stars, and More

lol bluesky can do the thing it banned nathan grayson for saying too, imo going dark other than blog shares from here. and honestly probably just period ✌️

CANTO: Mourn The Light, Psychonaut, Urne, and More

CANTO: Byzantine, Tribal Gaze, Fauna, and More

Album Review: Between the Buried and Me - "The Blue Nowhere" https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/10/album-review-between-the-buried-and-me-the-blue-nowhere/

CANTO: Glorious Depravity, Teeth, Destruction Ritual, and More

Initial Descent: September 08 - 14, 2025 https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/08/initial-descent-september-08-14-2025/

Rainbows in the Dark: Sowulo - “NIHT” https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/07/rainbows-in-the-dark-sowulo-niht/

Another Saturday to get you going, featuring music from Primitive Man, Castle Rat, and more!

Album Review: Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Pt. I: The Shores of Melancholia Having a touchstone album in your discography can be a blessing and a curse. For all the acclaim and recognition it can bring to a band, it also hangs like an albatross, with everything else being compared to it. I feel…

Album Review: Primal Fear — "Domination" https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/05/album-review-primal-fear-domination/

CANTO: Primitive Man, Novembers Doom, The Hunt, and More

Album Review: Ritual Mass - “Cascading Misery” https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/04/album-review-ritual-mass-cascading-misery/

CANTO: Impureza, Howling Giant, Bardspec, and More

The Nine Circles Audio Thing: Tanner Anderson of Majesties on their live debut, melodic death metal classics, and much more! https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/03/the-nine-circles-audio-thing-tanner-anderson-of-majesties-on-their-live-debut-melodic-death-metal-classics-and-much-more/

CANTO: Equilibrium, Ptolemea, Alpha Destroyer, and More

Album Review: Uboa & Whitehorse - "The Dissolution of Eternity" https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/02/album-review-uboa-whitehorse-the-dissolution-of-eternity/

CANTO: Araphel, Sothoris, Void of Sleep, and More

Initial Descent: September 01 - 07, 2025 https://ninecircles.co/2025/09/01/initial-descent-september-01-07-2025/

Another week, another 9C playlist, featuring music from Sergeant Thunderhoof and Peelingflesh!

CANTO: Soulfly, Runemagick, Slow Crush, and More

Album Review: Zatokrev – "Bring Mirrors to the Surface" https://ninecircles.co/2025/08/28/album-review-zatokrev-bring-mirrors-to-the-surface/

CANTO: Jonathan Hultén, The Devil's Trade, Afsky, and More

Album Review: Hexrot – "Formless Ruin of Oblivion" https://ninecircles.co/2025/08/27/album-review-hexrot-formless-ruin-of-oblivion/

EP Review: Cardinal Sin - "Spiteful Intents" (Reissue) + RIP Nisse Karlén https://ninecircles.co/2025/08/27/ep-review-cardinal-sin-spiteful-intents-reissue-rip-nisse-karlen/

CANTO: Peeling Flesh, Ne Obliviscaris, Pupil Slicer, and More

The Month That Was is back and catching up on summer releases, including killer records from Phantom Spell, Sheev, and more.

CANTO: Waldgeflüster, Tithe, Hooded Menace, and More

Initial Descent: August 25 - 31, 2025 https://ninecircles.co/2025/08/25/initial-descent-august-25-31-2025/

IRON SAVIOR’s new re-recordings compilation may have only gotten a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ out of 10 from Dan, but it DID inspire some #content about other, uh… existent… metal re-dos! Check out our new feature on REFORGED - MACHINE WORLD and… https://ninecircles.co/2025/08/23/feature-iron-savior-rerecordings/

The 402nd edition of the Nine Circles Playlist celebrates the life of Brent Hinds, torn too soon from us.

Receiving the Evcharist: Hollow Moon: Precursor and Disarm