Keefy caught up with Travis, Stephen, and Nick of Tucson, Arizona melodic death metal outfit Wyrmhaven to discuss the band's debut full-length, Seasons of Gloom, released May 29, 2026, independently. Written during a period of significant loss and perseverance, the record balances dark aggression with personal vulnerability, drawing on the band's deep reverence for metalcore's early days while pushing further into melodic death metal territory.

Seasons of Gloom was produced by the band and Ryan Bram, known for his work with Gatecreeper, Spirit Adrift, and Terminal Nation, engineered by Bram, and mixed and mastered by Zack Ohren, whose credits include Machine Head, Fallujah, Entheos, and All Shall Perish. Cover art comes courtesy of Adam Burke of Nightjar Illustrations. The record is available on limited edition vinyl and digitally through the Wyrmhaven Bandcamp page.

Buy Seasons of Gloom here:
https://wyrmhaven.bandcamp.com/album/seasons-of-gloom

Special thanks to Earsplit PR for setting up this interview.

This video's #gcshoutout → Volcandra
https://www.instagram.com/volcandra/

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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Ojayy caught up with Gus Rios, the mastermind behind last year's G.I. Joe Cold Slither record, to discuss his latest project with Knights of Unicron: The Transformers: The Movie: The Soundtrack: The Reformatted Edition, out July 24, 2026, through Hasbro Music and Reigning Phoenix Music. Gus breaks down how Knights of Unicron, comprised of himself, Matt Harvey, and Ross Sewage, rebuilt the iconic 1986 animated movie soundtrack from the ground up to deliver a heavier, sharper, and more powerful sonic experience for the fortieth anniversary.

The Reformatted Edition features an all-star lineup of guest performers and lifelong Transformers fans, including Stan Bush and Vince DiCola, Sebastian Bach, Mark Osegueda of Deah Angel, Francesco Cavalieri of Wind Rose, Brittney Slayes of Unleash the Archers, and Cold Slither's own Torch. The album was produced and engineered by Matt LaPlant, mixed and mastered by Zeuss, and recorded at Ripper's Lair. Cover artwork and design are by Matt Ferguson.

Buy The Transformers: The Movie: The Soundtrack: The Reformatted Edition here:

https://reigningphoenixmusic.com/

Special thanks to C Squared PR for setting up this interview.

https://www.instagram.com/csquaredmm2/

This video's #gcshoutout → Emasculator

https://www.instagram.com/emasculator/

The Usual Suspects:

Interview by Ghost Cult Ojayy

https://www.instagram.com/ojayy666

Editing by Omar Cordy

https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics

Theme music by Salted Wounds

https://www.instagram.com/saltedwoundsnyc

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#KnightsOfUnicron #GusRios #Transformers #TheReformattedEdition #TransformersTheMovie #HabroMusic #ReigningPhoenixMusic #StanBush #SebastianBach #BrittneySlayes #MarkOsegueda #ColdSlither #GhostCultMag

Everything that dropped, worth knowing about. It's New Music Friday for July 24th 2026

Baphomet’s Blood – Metal Damnation Re-Release (Dying Victims Records)

Bryan Eckermann – Return To Helmbrook (Bonespill Records)

Caelestia – Revelations In Black (Eclipse Records)

Castiel – All Returns To Hollow And Silence EP (Seek And Strike Records)

Changing Places In The Fire – Changing Places In The Fire (Wild Thing Records)

Combichrist – The Venom In The Mouth Of God (Out Of Line Music)

Ddent – Feeding The Void’s Luster (Chien Noir Records)

Divulsive – Spawned In Viscera (Comatose Records)

Eternal Mourn – Winds Of Sorrow EP (Terror From Hell Records)

Faustian – Parable Of The Sewer (Apocalyptic Witchcraft Records)

Goot – My Time (Wordlessness Records)

Gudewife – Atoms, Don’t Die EP (Ripcord Records)

The Hu – Hun (Better Noise Music)

Into Darkness – Route To The Other Side (Dying Victims Records)

IX Of Blades – Way Of The Midnight Wave (Self-Released)

Jordsjø – Pestkrønikene (Dying Victims Records)

Litosth – Dreaming (Personal Records)

Lockstep – I Know What I Saw (Profound Lore Records)

Madball – Not Your Kingdom (Nuclear Blast Records)

Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree & Destroy Erase Improve Re-Release (Reigning Phoenix)

Mimi Barks – Dreamstate Of Fear EP (Deathkiss Records)

New Forms – Nothing’s Sacred Anymore EP (Iodine Records)

North Sea Echoes – How To Cast A Shadow (Metal Blade Records)

Pox – B.K.W. EP (Void Wanderer Records)

Reekmind – Glints From The Crematorium EP (Night Terrors Records)

Rezn – Cycles In The Infinite Dream (Sargent House)

Ripper – Towards Rebirth (Dark Descent Records)

Sallow Moth – Hydrophilous Blood (Willowtip Records)

Svjetlost – The Forever Silent (Shadow Of Sorrow Records)

Svindel – Drömfeber (Ripple Music)

Torpor – Dungeon Descent (Dying Victims)

Tyraels Ascension – Grave Seeker (Rottweiler Records)

Ty-RAY-elz Ah-SEN-shun

V.B.O. – Vice Business Only (Reigning Phoenix Music)

Viscera/// – 4. Assets For Psychedelic Warfare (Time To Kill Records)

Yeti On Horseback – Traditional Addictions (Self-Released)

AND

Zan/Cody – Beautiful ‘N Damned (Frontiers srl)

The Usual Suspects:

🎤 Micaela Petersen

⁠https://www.instagram.com/micaeladeadeyes

💻 Omar Cordy

⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics⁠⁠

🎵 Fahad Syed

⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/fahanzi

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Catch up on what you missed in the world of Rock and Metal news this week! Please support Jennifer Finch of L7 in her fight against brain cancer:https://www.gofundme.com/f/jennifer-finch-vs-brain-cancer-its-time-to-make-noisePlease support Shaun Glass' family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-life-in-metal-a-future-for-his-son-shaun-glass2026 Livestream Price Menu! Answer your questions - Still freeGeneral support $3Buy us a Coffee $6We rate your song $25 liveMusic business consulting call $75Support us https://cash.app/$ghostcultmaghttps://ko-fi.com/F2F1F2PLPhttps://paypal.me/ghostcultmag Get hooked up from Fable Beard co products with our code:https://bit.ly/FableBeardGhostCultMagTimestamp: 0:00 Intro ✅: Greetings2:00 Announcements ✅:48:00 Outro ✅: Please Like and Subscribe Check out our linktree - updated daily with top stories:⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/ghostcultmag⁠

Keefy caught up with the full band of North Carolina power trio Irata to discuss Human, their new full-length, released July 10, 2026, through Small Stone Records The band breaks down the making of the record, their return to a trio lineup after releasing 2019's Tower as a four-piece, and what drove the writing of eight songs built around thundering bass riffs, hypnotic drums, and grandiose choruses.Human was recorded with Hunter Allen and Adam Joyce of The Bronzed Chorus at Amplified Acres in Liberty, North Carolina, and mixed by J. Robbins at The Magpie Cage in Baltimore, Maryland. The record is available on CD, digital, and limited one-hundred-and-eighty-gram vinyl in two pressings: Birthday Cake Mix and Blue Grackle Mix.Buy Human and find more info here:https://www.smallstone.comSpecial thanks to Earsplit PR for setting up this interview.This video's #gcshoutout → The Anarchist Closethttps://www.instagram.com/theanarchistcloset/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#Irata #Human #SmallStoneRecordings #HeavyRock #PowerTrio #NorthCarolina #JRobbins #UndergroundMetal #GhostCultMag #MetalInterview

Catch up on what you missed in the world of Rock and Metal news this week! Please support Shaun Glass' family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-life-in-metal-a-future-for-his-son-shaun-glass2026 Livestream Price Menu! Answer your questions - Still freeGeneral support $3Buy us a Coffee $6We rate your song $25 liveMusic business consulting call $75Support us https://cash.app/$ghostcultmaghttps://ko-fi.com/F2F1F2PLPhttps://paypal.me/ghostcultmag Get hooked up from Fable Beard co products with our codehttps://bit.ly/FableBeardGhostCultMagTimestamp: 0:00 Intro ✅: Greetings2:00 Announcements ✅:110:00 Outro ✅: Please Like and Subscribe Check out our linktree - updated daily with top stories:⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/ghostcultmag⁠

Keefy caught up with Gothenburg, Sweden's Sludge/Doom leaders Monolord for a new interview. The band just released their excellent new album "Neverending" via Relapse Records. Over their thirteen years as a band, they have continued to raise the bar and challenge themselves, and "Neverending" is no different. The band worked with legend Sylvia Massy, known for her work with Tool, System of a Down, and Johnny Cash, which pushed them into new, yet still heavy territory. Thomas talked about the process, the more personal bent of the album's lyrics, and working with Swedish Death Metal legend and former Entombed bassist Jörgen Sandström (also of Grave, Domedagen, and Firespawn). Buy "Neverending" and check out tour dates here: https://monolord.com/Shoutout to Monica at Speakeasy PR for setting up this interview!This video's #gcshoutout → Oak Ash & Thornhttps://www.instagram.com/oakashandthorndenver/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#monolord #relapserecords #interview #doommetal

The Friday flood is here. It's New Music Friday for July 17th, 2026.

Bestia Arcana – Holókauston Re-Release (Debemur Morti Records)

Beyond Creation – The Aura Re-Release (Season Of Mist)

Boundaries – Yearning: The Unbeautiful (Sumerian Records)

Carbon Tomb – Passage To A Neutron Star (Transcending Obscurity Records)

Code Red – Incendiary Re-Release (Pride & Joy Records)

Coffin Hunters – Cosmic Dawn (Bitter End Records)

Eaten By Sharks – The Undertow Of Hate (CDN Records)

Emptiness – Nowhere Speaks (Season Of Mist)

Eternal Drak – The Violence Of Time (FirstWave Records)

Ethereal Rot – Ethereal Rot (Self-Released)

Fuming Mouth – The Ringing Bell (Triple B Records)

Her Head’s On Fire – Am I Not Your Girl? (Iodine Recordings)

Imperium – Exodus Unknown (Heavy Metal Records)

Inferno – The Anthropic Sophisms (Debemur Morti Records)

Left To Die – Initium Mortis (Relapse Records)

Loathe – A Stranger To You (SharpTone Records)

The Menzingers – Everything I Ever Saw (Epitaph Records)

Mothertomb – Dying To Live (Self-Released)

Motionless In White – Decades (Roadrunner Records)

Necrocosm – To The Depths EP (Self-Released)

Novareign – Shifting The Axis Of The World (M-Theory Recordings)

Parker Barrow – Hold The Mash (Self-Released)

Poison The Preacher – Things I Want EP (Seek And Strike Records)

Post Death Soundtrack – Barren Mother Of All (Self-Released)

Psycroptic – The Pulse Of Annihilation (Metal Blade Records)

Quicksand – Bring On The Psychics (Equal Vision Records)

Rei Code Zero – Chronicles (Wormholedeath Records)

Repentance – Retaliate (Noble Demon Records)

Ruthless – Curse Of The Beast (Fireflash Records)

The Secrecy – Pins & Needles (Disorder Records)

StormHammer – Wrath Of The Hammer (RPM ROAR)

Tesla – Homage (Frontiers srl)

Tomb Slab – Tomb Slab (Road To Masochist Records)

Too Late, But Still – How Much Can We Take (Cardinal Sun Records)

UADA – Devoid Of Light (10th Anniversary Edition) (Eisenwald Records)

Umbersound – Tracks From The Slither (Red Book Records)

AND

Under Auburn Skies – Diminisher Of Hope EP (Self-Released)

The Usual Suspects:

🎤 Micaela Petersen

⁠https://www.instagram.com/micaeladeadeyes

💻 Omar Cordy

⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics⁠⁠

🎵 Fahad Syed

⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/fahanzi

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Wil Cifer caught up with Don of the Dead, founding vocalist, bassist, and sole original member of American Devil Metal legends Nunslaughter, to discuss the band's sixth full-length album Satanic Chaos Legions, released June 26, 2026, through BLKIIBLK Records. Don breaks down the band's debut on BLKIIBLK, what went into breaking a five-year full-length silence since 2021's Red Is the Color of Ripping Death, and how Satanic Chaos Legions continues the band's uncompromising blend of first-wave black metal, old-school death metal, thrash, and raw punk rock.

Formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1987 and later relocated to Cleveland, Ohio, Nunslaughter have spent nearly four decades building one of underground metal's most fiercely uncompromising legacies. Don of the Dead remains the band's sole original member and creative anchor. Satanic Chaos Legions is available now across multiple physical formats, including limited-edition three-color twelve-inch vinyl configurations through BLKIIBLK Records.

Buy Satanic Chaos Legions here:

https://www.blkiiblk.com/album/6

This video's #gcshoutout → Soul Mirror

https://www.instagram.com/soulmirrorus/

The Usual Suspects:

Interview by Ghost Cult Wil Cifer

https://www.instagram.com/w.i.l.cifer/

Editing by Omar Cordy

https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics

Theme music by Salted Wounds

https://www.instagram.com/saltedwoundsnyc

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GhostCultKeefy caught up with Paul Leary, co-founder and lead guitarist of the Butthole Surfers, to discuss After the Astronaut, the band's ninth studio album, released June 26, 2026, through Sunset Blvd Records. The record has one of the more remarkable backstories in alternative rock history. Originally recorded in 1998 as the intended follow-up to "Electriclarryland," the album was shelved by Capitol Records, who deemed it uncommercial. The band was subsequently forced to rework the material at Hollywood Records, which eventually became 2001's "Weird Revolution."

https://youtu.be/cBK3QLsqS0g

Decades later, the Butthole Surfers reclaimed the rights to the original recordings. Paul Leary completely remixed the tracks to present the music exactly as the band intended it back in 1998, making After the Astronaut both a long-overdue release and one of the most compelling stories in rock music in 2026.

Buy After the Astronaut and find more info here:

https://www.sunsetblvdrecords.com/

Special thanks to Heather Hawke at Reybee PR for setting up this interview.

This video's #gcshoutout → Misty Route

https://www.instagram.com/mistyroute/

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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#ButtholeSurfers #AfterTheAstronaut #PaulLeary #SunsetBlvdRecords #AlternativeRock