AN NCS PREMIERE: KYBALION — “MAKE THE WORLD BLEED”

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May 142026
 

(written by Islander)

We first encountered the music of the Italian black metal band Kybalion in 2024 through the release of their second EP, A Crippled Power. We found it a multi-faceted and relentlessly dynamic work, often driven by high-octane and constantly varying bass-and-drum work but with riffing that twisted and turned in intriguing and captivating ways.

Kybalion are now returning with a new EP set to arrive on June 5th through Non Serviam Records. Its title might seem to announce Kybalion’s musical mission for their new songs: Make the World Bleed. But both conceptually and musically its merits go deeper than mere ruthless exsanguination. Continue reading »

SEEN AND HEARD ON A SATURDAY: THE TROOPS OF DOOM, SOL DE SANGRE, WEREWOLVES, COLDCELL, NIHILO, LACABRA, KYBALION, BALWEZO WESTIJIZ, KŌYA, WHARFLURCH, AMORPHIS

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May 182024
 


Troops of Doom – photo by Cissa Flores

I wasn’t able to serve up a Saturday roundup last weekend due to working on Seattle’s Northwest Terror Fest, and it’s highly unlikely I’ll get one done next Saturday since I’ll be at Maryland Deathfest (if you’re there and spot someone who looks like a heavily tatted escapee from a nursing home, come say hi). So that makes this one kind of important, if only for me.

There’s gobs of new music to choose from, many more gobs than usual since I missed a week. And by the way, I’m using “gob” here as a word meaning “a large amount” and not its other meaning, i.e., “a lump or clot of a slimy or viscous substance”, though I have included a song off an album named Shittier/Slimier.

Ready, set, go! Continue reading »