In this episode,  ⁨@GhostCultKeefy666⁩  chatted once again with  ⁨@aliceinchains⁩  singer and guitarist William DuVall to discuss his new track with  ⁨@MetalAllegiance⁩  - "Black Horizon!" William discussed how he came to work on the track, featuring MA band members Mark Menghi ( ⁨@KingUltramegaOfficial⁩ ),  ⁨@MikePortnoyDT1⁩  of  ⁨@dreamtheaterofficial⁩ , and  ⁨@TheRealAlexSkolnick⁩  of  ⁨@Testament⁩ ! The band will play an anniversary show during NAMM at  ⁨@houseofbluesanaheim3545⁩  on January 22nd! William discussed his vocal approach, how he tackles other collabs, his solo career, and other future plans!

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYpY0tcrfmA

Listen via Reigning Phoenix Music: https://metalallegiance.rpm.link/blackhorizonPR

Buy tickets to the show here:https://tinyurl.com/MAHOBShow2026

Metal Allegiance lineup for "Black Horizon"

Alex Skolnick - Guitar

Mark Menghi - Bass

Mike Portnoy - Drums

William DuVall - Vocals

Josh Wilbur - Mixing, Mastering on “Black Horizon”

Follow Metal Allegiance:

https://www.metalallegiance.com/

https://www.instagram.com/metalallegiance/

https://www.facebook.com/metalallegiancemusic

Thanks to Curtis Dewar of C-Squared Music and Marketing for setting up this interview!

#gcshoutout - This video's shoutout is to the band Summon The Demons (NY):

https://www.instagram.com/summonthedemonsny/

The Usual Suspects:

Interview by Ghost Cult Keefy

https://www.instagram.com/ghostcultkeefy

Editing by Omar Cordy

https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics

Theme music by Salted Wounds

https://www.instagram.com/saltedwoundsnyc

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From the underground to the big time, it's New Music Friday for January 23rd, 2026!

Can you pronounce all these bands?

Alkaloid – Bach Out Of Bounds (Season Of Mist)

Archvile King – Aux Heures Désespérées (LADLO Recordings)

Autumn’s Child – Melody Lane (Pride & Joy Records)

Backengrillen – Backengrillen (Svart Records)

Barbarian – Reek Of God (Dying Victims Records)

Casket – In The Long Run We Are All Dead (Neckbreaker Records)

Coranatus – Dreadful Waters (Massacre Records)

The Crawling – Live In Belfast MMXXIV (Grindscene Records)

Crystal Lake – The Weight Of Sound (Century Media Records)

The Damned – Not Like Everybody Else (earMusic Records)

Death Dealer – Reign Of Steel (Massacre Records)

Deathraiser – Forged In Hatred (Xtreem Records)

Destiny’s End – Breath Deep The Road (Live & Unreleased) (Nameless Grave Records)

Draag – Miracle Drug EP (Smoking Room Records)

Dreamkillers – Proiphys Cunninghamii (XMusic Records)

Elwood Stray – Descending (Out Of Line Records)

Furi Helium – No Altar Stands Eternal (Self-Released)

Fyres – Like Waves (LDP Records)

Gavial – Thanks, I Hate It (Exile On Mainstream Records)

Gros Enfant Mort – Le Sang des Pierres (Moment Of Collapse Records)

HamaSaari – Pictures (Klonosphere Records)

Helix – Scrap Metal (Perris Records)

Karloff – Revered By Death (Dying Victims Records)

Ligation – After Gods (Personal Records)

Megadeth – Megadeth (Tradecraft Records/ BLK II BLK)

Meteora – Dissonance EP (H-Music Records)

New Mexican Doom Cult – Zaggurat (Majestic Mountain Records)

New Miserable Experience – Gild The Lily (Pelagic Records)

Nite Stinger – What The Nite Is All About (Pride & Joy Records)

Pagan Altar – Lord Of Hypocrisy Re-Release (Dying Victims Records)

Pelican – Ascending EP (Run For Cover Records)

Poppy – Empty Hands (Sumerian Records)

Ritual Arcana – Ritual Arcana (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Rotting Christ – Aealo (Re-Recorded) (Season Of Mist)

Sad Whisperings – The Hermit (Vidar Records)

Shadowmass – Wastelands (Floga Records)

Sigh – Ghastly Funeral Theatre Re-Release (Peaceville Records)

Sky Valley Mistress – Luna Mausoleum (New Heavy Sounds)

Slowrepeat – Aqua Haze (Electric Desert Records)

Spiral Fracture – Grace In Decay (Wormholedeath Records)

Stalwart – Tempvs Edax Rervm (Wormholedeath Records)

Temptress – Hear (Blues Funeral Recordings)

Textures – Genotype (Kscope Records)

Trash Pillow – Raw EP (Self-Released)

Turbo’s Tribunal – Mills Of Tribunal (Jawbreaker Records)

AND

Virtue In Vain – Nothing Is All I Am EP (Self-Released)

The Usual Suspects:

🎤 Ghost Cult Keefy

https://www.instagram.com/ghostcultkeefy

💻 Omar Cordy

⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics⁠⁠

🎵 Fahad Syed

⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/fahanzi

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In this new episode, Keefy chats with Entertainment Lawyer and band manager Randy Ojeda, esq! In addition to discussing Randy's career path, he outlines many important issues bands face when starting out in the business, as well as tackling some major legal issues in the music world right now! Follow Randy's law firm here:https://www.randyojedalaw.com/Thanks to Sofia Fraz of C-Squared Music and Marketing for setting up this interview. #gcshoutout - This video's shoutout is to the band: Phase Meridian:https://www.instagram.com/phasemeridianThe Usual Suspects: Interview by Ghost Cult Keefyhttps://www.instagram.com/ghostcultkeefyEditing by Omar Cordyhttps://www.instagram.com/ojcpicsTheme music by Salted Woundshttps://www.instagram.com/saltedwoundsnycCheck out our linktree - updated daily with top stories:⁠https://linktr.ee/ghostcultmag

Keefy sits down with Stefan De Graef of  @psychonaut3763  to discuss their new album World Maker, out now via  @pelagicrecords .The conversation explores the band's intentions, songwriting, and evolving identity. It discusses how Psychonaut blends atmosphere, heaviness, and philosophical depth while maintaining clarity and emotional impact. Stefan shares insights into the creative process behind "World Maker," the band's development, and what listeners can anticipate from their most ambitious work to date.#gcshoutout - This video's shoutout is to the band: Avarihttps://www.instagram.com/avari_band/The Usual Suspects: Interview by Ghost Cult Keefyhttps://www.instagram.com/ghostcultkeefyEditing by Omar Cordyhttps://www.instagram.com/ojcpicsTheme music by Salted Woundshttps://www.instagram.com/saltedwoundsnycCheck out our linktree - updated daily with top stories:⁠https://linktr.ee/ghostcultmag

From the underground to the big time, it's New Music Friday for January 16th 2025!

Can you pronounce all these bands?

Anti-Sapien – At The Mercy Of The Merciless EP (Terminus Hate City)

Arcanum Sanctum – Pax EP (Self-Released)

Architectural Genocide – Malignant Cognition (Comatose Records)

Bimurta – All Skies Lead To The Sun EP (Self-Released)

Blanket – True Blue (Adventure Cat Records)

Carrion Vael – Slay Utterly (Unique Leader Records)

David Boring – Liminal Beings And Their Echoes (Damnably Records)

Death Cult – Paradise Live (Beggars Banquet Records)

Demons My Friends – Demons Seem To Gather Re-Release (Ripple Music)

Edenbridge – Set The Dark On Fire (Steamhammer/SPV)

The Eternal – Celestial EP (Reigning Phoenix Music)

Evoken – Embrace The Emptiness Re-Release (Hammerheart Records)

Evoken – Shades Of Night Descending Re-Release (Hammerheart Records)

Frozen Factory – Apocalypse Inc. (Wormholedeath Records)

Funeral Home – Your Funeral (Inverse Records)

The Funeral Portrait – Live From Suffocate City (Better Noise Music)

Gluecifer – Same Drug New High (Steamhammer/SPV)

Godzillionaire – Negative Balance Re-Release (Ripple Music)

Gran Moreno – El Sol (Self-Released)

Hagetisse – To Wither Beneath Thy Radiance (Void Wanderer Records)

Hyperion – Cybergenesis (Fighter Records)

In A House Of Heartbeats – Divination Of Dreams (Ripcord Records)

I Promised The World – I Promised The World EP (Rise Records)

Kreator – Krushers Of The World (Nuclear Blast Records)

The Last Sound Revelation – The Proximity Effect (Octopus Rising Records)

Marianas Rest – The Bereaved (Noble Demon Records)

Moon Wisdom – Let Water Flow (Hypnotic Dirge Records)

Neapolitan – The Fool EP (Golden Robot Records)

Ov Sulfur – Endless (Century Media Records)

Pavic – Live To Thrive (Self-Released)

Philippe Drouin Obvurt – Le Chemin Du Gaucher (Brutal Mind Records)

Soen – Reliance (Silver Lining Music)

Soulbound – sYn (Metalville Records)

Through Mists – The Thought That Swallowed All (Self-Released)

Total Annihilation – Mountains Of Madness (Testimony Records)

Under – What Happened In Roundwood (APF Records)

Valiant Sentinel – Neverealm (Theogonia Records)

Vesseles – Home (Self-Released)

Viserion – Fire And Blood (Self-Released)

Voice Of Glass – Epos (Rexius Records)

AND

Void Monuments – Posthumous Imprecation (Blood Harvest Records)

The Usual Suspects:

🎤 Ghost Cult Keefy

https://www.instagram.com/ghostcultkeefy

💻 Omar Cordy

⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics⁠⁠

🎵 Fahad Syed

⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/fahanzi

Check out our linktree - updated daily with top stories:

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In this new episode,  @GhostCultKeefy666  chats with Jude Bennett of rising UK Death Metallers  @BeyondExtinction ! The band dropped their impressive debut album "Where They Gather" in September of 2025. Jude catches Keefy up on how the band formed from the ashes of other local bands, how the band creates music together, and much more! Buy the album and follow the band here:https://beyondextinction.online/https://www.facebook.com/BeyExt/https://www.instagram.com/beyondextinction/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYd9OmE-JPrQryNFhWCx5Cghttps://x.com/beyextBeyond Extinction are:Jasper Harmer - vocalsJude Bennett - guitarsDanny Russel - guitarsNiall Ali - drumsShoutout to Jazmin L'Amy of Cosa Nostra PR for setting up this interview for us.

This video features a shoutout to Facada!

https://www.instagram.com/facadagrind/

To get your band a shoutout in our video interview, hit the link tree! The Usual Suspects: Interview by Rachael Skinnerhttps://www.instagram.com/reflectionsbyraeart Editing by Omar Cordyhttps://www.instagram.com/ojcpicsTheme music by Salted Woundshttps://www.instagram.com/saltedwoundsnycCheck out our linktree - updated daily with top stories:⁠https://linktr.ee/ghostcultmag

In this new episode, Rachel Skinner chats with Nikan "Siyanor" Khosravi of Confess to look back on their action-packed 2025 and what comes next for the band. Not only did they reissue a new expanded edition of their 2015 album "In Pursuit of Dreams" - they also released a slamming new album “Destination Addiction” on January 31st, 2025, through EVIN Productions. They also feature in the acclaimed metal documentary series "Into The Void" on Hulu.

Thanks to Tom Brumpton of Polymath PR for setting up this chat.

Follow Confess and buy their music and merch here.
https://www.confessband.com/

The Usual Suspects:
Interview by Rachael Skinner
https://www.instagram.com/reflectionsbyraeart

Editing by Omar Cordy
https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics

Theme music by Salted Wounds
https://www.instagram.com/saltedwoundsnyc

Check out our linktree - updated daily with top stories:
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From the underground to the big time, it's New Music Friday for January 9th, 2025!

Can you pronounce all these bands?

Alter Bridge – Alter Bridge (Napalm Records)

Beyond The Black – Break The Silence (Nuclear Blast Records)

Bound To Prevail – Enthroned In Torment (Lethal Scissor Records)

Bruit – Monolith Re-Release (Pelagic Records)

Bullet – Kickstarter (Steamhammer SPV)

Calling All Captains – The Things That I’ve Lost EP (New Damage Records)

Deadwood – Rituals Of A Dying Light EP (Innerstrength Records)

Denominate – Restoration (Dusktone Records)

Ectovoid – In Unreality’s Coffin (Everlasting Spew Records)

Hekseblad – The Fall Of Cintra Re-Release (Hypnotic Dirge Records)

Iotunn – Waves Over Copenhell (Metal Blade Records)

Killgurls – Powder EP (Adventure Cat Records)

Krushor – Taste Of Hatred EP (Inverse Records)

Lionheart – Valley Of Death II (Arising Empire Records)

The Medea Project – Live At Dingwalls (Self-Released)

Nanowar Of Steel – The Genghis Khan EP To End All Genghis Khan EPs (Napalm Records)

Nighnacht – Limb Service (Morbid And Miserable Records)

Oraculum – Hybris Divina (Invictus Records)

Orchid Throne – Buried In Black (Self-Released)

The Promise Of Plague – The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath (Self-Released)

The Protomen – Act III: This City Made Us (Self-Released)

Push! – Plowing Ahead (Frozen Records)

Redivider – Sounds Of Malice (Self-Released)

Sardonic Allegiance – Coast II EP (Self-Records)

Semper Acerbus – Following Omens (Eclipse Records)

Sickle Of Dust – Across The Vultures Trail (Flowing Downward Records)

Six Going On Seven – Human Tears (Spartan Records)

Stranguliatorius – Flies Don’t Lie (Horror Pain Gore Death Records)

Terror Garden – Terror Garden EP (Self-Released)

Uuhai – Human Herds (Napalm Records)

Zu – Ferrum Sidereum (House Of Mythology Records)

The Usual Suspects:

🎤 Ghost Cult Keefy

https://www.instagram.com/ghostcultkeefy

💻 Omar Cordy

⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics⁠⁠

🎵 Fahad Syed

⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/fahanzi

Check out our linktree - updated daily with top stories:

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