…and our second Profile for the week moves in a bit of a different direction! LIFESICK are releasing Loved By None, Hated By All, their new full-length, this coming Friday through Metal Blade. Leaning into the intersection of hardcore and ..read more

Profile: Austrian noise rock trio Desolat ..read more

I thought this was going to be my last post before vacation. Yet it turns out, since I’ve been a degenerate each night this week and have been dropping the ball on my Canto duties, you’ll hear from me at ..read more

Album Review:  BERENICE - "Berenice ..read more

We love a good comeback ‘round these parts, and between last year and this year, we have had our pick of excellent comeback albums, some of them over ten years in the making.  The Hope Conspiracy is another band that, by all accounts, fell off the face of the earth, but 2024 sees them check in after an almost eighteen year absence (barring a few single and 7” releases) with Tools of Oppression/Rule by Deception.  Thrusting themselves firmly back into the extremely political side of hardcore, it seems not much has changed in the last nigh-two decades, which is good for the fellas, at ..read more

A lot of bands, especially when their tenure has reached long past the point where they are even remotely close to relevant, talk of “getting back to basics”.  Very few bands actually have an opportunity to do that, though.  Gouge Away have seen a prolonged period of inactivity, for a variety of valid reasons, but in this time frame, they managed to capture what few bands actually do when they intentionally set out to do so: they went back to their roots, rekindled their bonds and stripped away all the fluff and frills (not that they had much to begin with) to craft Deep Sage. Gouge ..read more

Why does it feel like it’s been so long since In Transmission came out?  2021 wasn’t that long ago in the grand scheme of things, although with the pace Things are going it might as well be a lifetime ago.  It’s true, a lot has changed since then, both in the world and in the world of Capra.  For more info on that, check out Buke’s most recent interview with frontperson Crow Lotus. (Seriously, why are you doing anything else when there’s a new interview to listen to?)  With the release of Errors right around the corner, hot on the heels of a widely acclaimed debut, do Cap ..read more

Image courtesy of Tyson Pate Crow Lotus and Capra are no strangers to Nine Circles or this podcast. Their frenetic and damn captivating energy is second to none and with new album Errors they slam the door shut on any doubters and seal the deal that was inked in blood with their 2021 debut In Transmission. Any of you can find that album on tons of year end lists and this one will leave a bigger mark, trust us. Just ahead of the album’s release, our man Buke got the chance to chat, once more, with the inimitable Crow Lotus surrounding the new album, the past, the future ..read more

Alcohol can do strange things to one’s mind. I probably don’t need to tell you that, but it’s my way of saying the whisky I had consumed late into the night activated specific nostalgic pathways, and I found myself going back to the series of posts I did where I revisited a bunch of the metal I had collected some 15-20 years ago when I was re-engaging with what the genre of metal had become at that time. It’s been six years (pour one out for the fact I’ve been writing for this site for over six years now) since I last looked at the Binder: was that really all there was? Was that indeed, as I ..read more

Circumstances conspired, culminating in all the necessary tools required to pull me back in, penning (as if the saying has any grip in this electronic keyboard world) for the first time in years a Evcharist column. A band I love has an album coming out today, and I was just gifted a bottle of spirits that complements (even as it refutes) the abrasion rattling in my eardrums. Is it kismet? Fate? Or simply a cheap justification for me to talk about two things I dearly love: Boris and whisky? Either way, drink from the cup of heresy with this week’s offering: Boris & Uniform‘s ripping colla ..read more