The Nine Circles Audio Thing

It's going to be a busy couple of months for Brooklyn rockers, Netherlands . On August 24, they'll be releasing their new album, Black Gaia via frontman Timo Ellis 's Records and Tapes Records imprint. A week or so later, they'll head out on the road with none other than Mastodon and Dinosaur Jr. for a quick trek across the U.S. and Canada. So, yeah...if you like Netherlands, it's time to get exci...

Time for another audio thing! In this edition, the group gets together to discuss some of their favorite albums from the first half of the year. (Yes, we're aware it's halfway through July. Promptness, thy name is NOT Nine Circles .) In any case...Dan, Corey, Chris, Hera and Vince got together for a Google Hangout a little while back to run through these. In some cases, you'll hear about stuff we'...

Welcome back! In this month's edition of our Album of the Month chat, we discuss Vince's pick for June, Gaerea 's Unsettling Whispers . The Portuguese black metal troop dropped their debut full-length on June 22 via Transcending Obscurity . Your pod team this time out includes Dan, Corey, Chris, Vince and Hera, who got together for a Google Hangout this past weekend to talk about the album. And un...

It's a new month, so we're back with another chat about our favorite album from the old month! For this May-2018-edition of old-month, that album is Amorphis ' spellbinding new set, Queen of Time . It's the Finnish legends' thirteenth album to date, and we here at the blog were all pretty taken with it. This time out, "we here at the blog" translates to: Dan, Corey, Chris, Vince, Hera an...

After a tumultuous year-and-a-half-plus that, including a near-fatal case of diverticulitis for frontman Mike Scheidt, YOB is set to release its new album, Our Raw Heart , in a little over a week. It's one of the most anticipated albums of the year, both here at Nine Circles and in the metal world at large -- not just for the saga that led to its creation, but also...because YOB is kinda the best?...

The Nine Circles Audio Thing is back again! This time out, it's our album of the month for April 2018, which you'll already be able to identify if you read the title of the post. If you didn't, um...if at first you don't succeed, try, try again? At any rate, April's album of the month was Panopticon 's The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness, I & II . (Henceforth referred to as "...

Originally published 4/11/2018 That's right, folks -- four years ago(!), Dan and Corey registered the first email address for Nine Circles (then known as Horns Up …oof…) and started us off on this crazy adventure through which we’ve come to become, erm…somewhat positive contributors to the metal blogosphere? I guess? SO, to celebrate, the two founders — plus current editors / writers / life-signer...

Originally published 7/26/2017 As y’all know, we here at Nine Circles were pretty big fans of Couch Slut 's first album, My Life as a Woman . (Or maybe you didn’t know that, I dunno.) Either way, that album — released just under three years ago on the now-defunct Handshake Inc. label — established the band, and vocalist Megan Osztrosits in particular, as a filthy, aggressive force in the New York...