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Heavy Metal Movies – by Mike “Beardo” McPadden

Heavy Metal Movies (Bazillion Points), written by Mike “Beardo” McPadden is a project the likes of which any metal geek-movie geek fusion would be proud to have accomplished in their lives; proof that...

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Nick Holmes Is The New Front Man Of Bloodbath!

Death metal supergroup Bloodbath has finally revealed their new front man to be legendary Paradise Lost front man Nick Holmes. Long admired for his great vocal delivery and genius lyricism, this seems...

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Burning Down Alaska – Values and Virtues

The first thing to say about Germany’s Burning Down Alaska and their debut release 'Values and Virtues' (Redfield) is that this feels much more like an album than an EP. Coming in at 9 tracks (7 songs...

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Roadburn 2016 Announced with Neurosis And Paradise Lost, Lee Dorian Curating

Roadburn Festival 2016 has been announced for next April 14-17th in Tilburg, NL. Headlining the festival will be Neurosis in the midst of celebrating 30 years as a band with a career spanning set, and...

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Gothic Tales – Esa Holopainen of Amorphis (Part II)

Paradise Lost’s 'Gothic' (Peaceville) wasn’t just a landmark, it was an album that tolled a massive bell with eager, willing and creative minds and created the landscape for the mid-to-late 90’s in...

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A Legacy Of Brutality Part II– Nick Holmes of Paradise Lost

“When we started with EMI we hired Jane Seymour’s stately home to stay at while recording. We bought loads of studio equipment and had a chef and everything! It was great. That’s was the benchmark of...

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Masters Of Misery – Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride

More often than not the most gut-wrenching, profound music has its roots in real-life experience. Throughout a career celebrating its silver jubilee this year, that’s been the case for Halifax, West...

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Kroh – Altars

Those aware of the vicious nastiness of Birmingham UK’s Fukpig will be more than familiar with key member and ex-Anaal Nathrakh live bassist Paul Kenney. Five years ago, Kenney began Occult Doom outfit...

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Zeal & Ardor – Devil is Fine

How open-minded are you? I mean, really properly open-minded, not just trying to be too-cool-for-school open-minded? I ask the question because this beguiling, genre twisting and highly evocative...

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Earth Electric – Vol 1 : Solar

Recorded and mixed mainly at Orgone Studio under the supervision of producer Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Cathedral, Paradise Lost), 'Solar' sees the band taking the darkly gothic sensibilities of Ava...

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Danzig – Black Laden Crown

The number seven has long been a recurring theme with Glenn Danzig. '777', '7th House', seven albums with numbered prefixes, and now in 2017 - seven years on from his last studio album to feature...

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Hear Zeal And Ardor Perform On BBC Radio 1‘s Rock Show

New York’s experimental artists Zeal And Ardor recorded an in-studio session at Maida Vale for BBC Radio 1‘s Rock Show With Daniel P Carter. The performance aired yesterday July 9th. You can check it...

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Bloody Hammers – The Horrific Case of Bloody Hammers EP

Following on from the wonderfully sinister, synth-laden Gothic overtures of last year’s 'Lovely Sort of Death', husband and wife outfit from North Carolina Bloody Hammers are back with 'The Horrific...

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Myrkur – Mareridt

In three short years, Danish singer-songwriter Amelie Bruun has already achieved what many fail to do across a lengthy career, and that is to create art that is interesting and distinctive. With...

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Grave Pleasures – Motherblood

One short drumfill. That’s all it takes to bring you back into the Death Rocking world of Mat McNerney (aka Khvost) before Motherblood (Century Media) launches into an uptempo angular, jangly Joy...

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Paradise Lost – Pallbearer: Live at Electric Ballroom, London 

How to best celebrate that Friday feeling? With a night of slow and Gothic Doom of course. The Electric Ballroom in Camden, London, is full to the brim, and it seems the crowd is somehow wearing even...

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Tribulation – Down Below

2015 was a big year for Tribulation, and The Children of the Night (Century Media) quickly garnered them a lot of media attention for delicately weaving together Classic Rock, Prog and psychedelia, to...

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On Thorns I Lay – Aegean Sorrow

Over the course of their history, Greek metallers On Thorns I Lay have undergone some significant shifts in sound and hit across waves they haven’t always been capable of riding. After name several...

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BEYOND THE BLACK: Reviews Round Up ft. Nature Morte, Second To Sun,...

Tis the season... for Black Metal! To celebrate, Ghost Cult runs the rule over several of this Winter's coldest releases... Continue reading →

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ALBUM REVIEW: Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence

The music business is ugly, hard, and not for everyone. You hear this over and over from industry types and even some artists. Still, it's hard to not pine for the days when record labels were really...

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Lindsay Schoolcraft Streams Her Debut Solo Album, Out Tomorrow

Entrancing Metal artist Lindsay Schoolcraft, best known for her work with Cradle of Filth and Antiqva, will release her début solo album Martyr tomorrow. The full album is streaming over at Metal...

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EXCLUSIVE ALBUM STREAM: Her Despair “Exorcisms of Eroticism”

Rising Gothic Metal band Her Despair is back with a new album, Exorcisms of Eroticism, out this Friday, November 22nd. Following their excellent EP Mournography, the band has returned with more of...

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Watch Philip H. Anselmo’s En Minor Perform Live in New Orleans

Watch Philip H. Anselmo's En Minor Perform Live in New Orleans Continue reading → The post Watch Philip H. Anselmo’s En Minor Perform Live in New Orleans appeared first on Ghost Cult Magazine.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Dukatalon – Involuntary Action

Ridiculously it's a decade since Israeli juggernaut Dukatalon released debut album Saved By Fear (Relapse Records): a bruising yet incredibly inventive slice of Sludge that at times called to mind Led...

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ALBUM REVIEW: Godthrymm – Reflections

As a proud Lancastrian all my life, it pains me to acknowledge the occasional superiority of bitter neighbours Yorkshire. One such area of supremacy is within the realm of Doom Metal: Paradise Lost and...

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Philip Anselmo’s En Minor Band Signs to Season Of Mist Records

Philip Anselmo's En Minor Band Signs to Season Of Mist Records Continue reading → The post Philip Anselmo’s En Minor Band Signs to Season Of Mist Records appeared first on Ghost Cult Magazine.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Constellatia – The Language of Limbs – Season of Mist

South African post-Black outfit Constellatia arrived just two short years ago, and already last year's debut album The Language of Limbs (Season of Mist) has earned a power-label reissue. A blast of...

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ALBUM REVIEW: A.A. Williams – Forever Blue

It is easy to forget that Forever Blue is the debut album from AA Williams, such is the level of status she has already acquired since first taking to the stage only last year. In the meantime, she has...

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ALBUM REVIEW: MJ Guider – Sour Cherry Bell

Sour Cherry Bell (Kranky) is the second full-length release from New Orleans-based artist Melissa Guion, who releases music under the moniker MJ Guider. It primarily deals in atmosphere. Guion uses...

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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: The Nocturnal Affair –“Beyond The Wall Of Sleep” Lyric Video

Just in time for the season of all things spooky, we bring you melancholic Gothic Metallers The Nocturnal Affair and their creepy new music video for “Beyond The Wall Of Sleep”! The band is led by...

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PODCAST: Episode 125: Burton C. Bell on Ascension of The Watchers

We caught up with music legend Burton C. Bell (ex Fear Factory) of Ascension of the Watchers for a new podcast, to chat all about his new album Apocrypha (Dissonance Productions). We chatted about the...

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Carach Angren Shares Epic Music Video for “Franckensteina Srataemontanus”

Dutch Symphonic Blackened Metallers Carach Angren has shared a new music video, the positively amazing “Franckensteina Srataemontanus.” The track is the title track from their recent new album, out now...

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ALBUM REVIEW: Faith In Jane – Axe To Oak

  Since forming in 2008, Thurmont, Maryland trio Faith In Jane has racked up an astounding eight releases of which Axe To Oak (Grimoire) is the latest. Quite impressive when you consider it takes a...

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ALBUM REVIEW: Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars – Napalm Records 

  It is an often overlooked but undeniable fact that up to the present day, Katatonia is on a phenomenal creative run; arguably one of the best in Metal music, in general. Since 2006’s The Great Cold...

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ALBUM REVIEW: Lamp Of Murmuur – Saturnian Bloodstorm

For forty uncertain, eerie and downright unsettling minutes, black metal project Lamp Of Murmuur grips the listener with a sturdy hand and refuses to let go until fear, disgust and melancholy take...

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CONCERT REVIEW: Ville Valo – Kælan Mikla Live at Saint Andrew’s Hall

HIM (aka His Infernal Majesty) is one of the biggest, most successful bands to come out of Finland. Love Metal is not only the name of their fourth full-length album, but it is a genre of music they...

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EP REVIEW: Dreamwheel – Redeemer

  The Redeemer EP (Nefarious Industries) is the debut release from Dreamwheel, a duo consisting of Evan Linger (guitar, bass, piano, synth — also of Skeletonwitch and Cultist) and Julia Gaeta (vocals —...

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