What new albums are you excited for this week!?

The Aristocrats – Duck (Boing Records)

Barren Womb – Chemical Tardigrade (Blues For The Red Sun)

Bloom – Maybe In Another Life (Pure Noise/Greyscale)

Bokassa – All Out Of Dreams (Indie Recordings)

Crazy Lixx – Two Shots At Glory (Frontiers srl)

Darkspace – -II (Season Of Mist)

Durbin – Screaming Steel (Frontiers srl)

Einar Solberg – The Congregation Acoustic (InsideOut Music)

Eternal Storm – A Giant Bound To Fall (Transcending Obscurity Records)

Far Beyond – The End Of My Road (Prosthetic Records)

Farsot – Life Promises Death (Lupus Lounge)

Garden Of Stone – Tides Of Decay EP (Inverse Records)

Griffon – De Republica (LADLO Recordings )

Grin – Hush (The Lasting Dose)

Honeymoon Suite – Alive (Frontiers srl)

Illumishade – Another Side Of You (Napalm Records)

Ihsahn – Ihsahn (Candlelight Recordings)

Laura Jane Grace – Hole In My Head (Polyvinyl Records)

Leah – The Glory And The Fallen (Ex Cathedra Records)

Lord Of The Lost – Swan Songs Re-Release (Out Of Line Music)

Mr. Bison – Echoes From The Universe (Heavy Psych Sounds)

The Obsessed – Gilded Sorrow (Ripple Music)

Pestilength – Solar Clorex (Debemur Morti Records)

Ponte Del Diavolo – Fire Blades From The Tomb (Season Of Mist)

Praise The Plague – Suffocating In The Current Of Time (Lifeforce Records)

Profiler – A Digital Nowhere (SharpTone Records)

The Requiem – A Cure To Poison The World (Fearless Records)

Rick Wakeman – Live At The London Palladium 2023 (Cherry Red Music)

Samael – Passage – Live (Napalm Records)

The Scream – Whellcome (Sliptrick Records)

Slayer – Show No Mercy Vinyl Re-Release (Metal Blade Records)

A Somerset Parade – Carcosa (Wormholedeath Records)

Steve Hackett – The Circus And The Nightwhale (InsideOut Music)

Sundrifter – An Earlier Time (Small Stone Records)

The Swaggerlies – Undoing EP (Self-Released)

Thy Shining Curse – Theurgia (Vicisolum)

Toxikull – Under The Southern Light (Dying Victims Records)

Vanir – Epitome (Mighty Music)

Witchorious – Witchorious (Argonauta Records)

The Usual Suspects:

Ghost Cult Keefy caught up once again with Lena Scissorhands of rising Modern Progressive Metal standouts  @INFECTEDRAIN ! Their new album "Time" drops from  @napalmrecords  this week, February 9th, 2024. Lena shared the concept behind the album, the band's first foray into this kind of album, she discussed the lyrical themes for the album, trying new things as a vocalist on this album, new bassist Alice Lane, and more!

Ghost Cult scribe Tom Osman interviews Årabrot's Kjetil “Tall Man” Nernes and Karin “Dark Diva” Park about their new album "Of Darkness and Light!" Released in the Autumn of 2023 via Pelagic Records, the album was recorded entirely in the church in rural Sweden where the couple lives with their two kids and produced by Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey, Chris Cornell, Eleven).

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The Steev and Keefy Power Hour is back with another episode recapping all the killer January releases and forecasting February '24 new albums! It's also episode 400 of our podcast! Senior Editor Steve Tovey joins Chief Editor Keefy, they discuss Steve's night out at a proper Metal show in an arena, the current state and future of headline bands, our Ghost Cult Album of the Month for January (cheers to you, Mountain Caller), and much more!

January Album of The Month -

Mountain Caller – "Chronicle II: Hypergenesis" - out now via Church Road Records

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Ghost Cult Keefy caught up with Brendan Canty and Brian Baker of Punk Rock supergroup Fake Names at Riot Fest 2023! The band features Brian Baker (Minor Threat,  @badreligionband , Dag Nasty), Michael Hampton (S.O.A., Embrace), Dennis Lyxzén (  @refusedofficial , INVSN, The [International] Noise Conspiracy), Johnny Temple (Girls Against Boys, Soulside) and Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Rites of Spring), and released their newest album "Expendables" on  @epitaph  Records last spring. Brendan and Brian caught up with us, discussed the formation of the band at a past Riot Fest, and the legacy of punk, bands they enjoy such as  @turnstile  and  @quicksandnyc , and what is so great about Riot Fest as a whole, and more!

Ghost Cult Keefy caught up with  @joeydiabolic  last year, to discuss his latest album "Just Drive!" Joey is a multi-hyphenate talent: music, composing, producing, visual arts, graphic design, web design, musicians services, and more! We talked to Joey about his decision to relocate to Los Angeles from New York, his love of horror, his new album, and much more!

Ghost Cult Keefy caught up with Drummer Carlos Crowcell of New York City's  @SolemnVision ! They just released their recent album "Despite The Rise Of The Sun!" Carlos discussed the history of the band, the new album, their upcoming gig at 70000 Tons of Metal Cruise pre-party, some advice for up and coming bands, and more!