Chris Elliott (Cell Arts Media / Black-Angeles) chatted with Chris Morrison of the acclaimed Indianapolis Death Doom band Mother of Graves! Their new album "The Light That Keeps Us," set for release on October 16th, 2026, via Profound Lore Records! Morrison detailed the process of the band's songwriting style, what about making their brand of music lends itself to an emotional catharsis, how they approached following up their stellar last album "The Periapt Of Absence," how underrated nineties Gothic Doom metal can be, what the heavy music scene in Indianapolis is like, writing epic songs that keep listeners engaged, and much more!

Mother of Graves is:

Brandon Howe – vocals, keyboards

Chris Morrison – guitar

Ben Sandman – guitar

Corey Clark – bass

Don Curtis – drums

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Drop the needle on the week's heaviest releases. It's New Music Friday for October 16th, 2026

Black Mask – Vestige Of Mercy (Static Era Records)

The Black Thunder – Time Obliteration (Pagan Records)

Blind Illusion – Stage Flight: Live At The UC Theatre (Hectic Records/Bleeding Priest Records)

Body Stuff – Body Stuff 5 (The Chain)

Carnation – Symphony Of Flesh (Redefining Darkness Records)

Caspian - Caspian (Wax Bodega Records)

Cloudy Skies – Bury Me Beneath The Stars (Argonauta Records)

Defects – Artificial Icons (Mascot Label Group)

Dominion – Mortification Of Thy Flesh (Sinistrari Records)

Eivør – Tungl (Nuclear Blast Records)

Elysion – Guardian Angel (Massacre Records)

Erase This Earth – Horror Unearthed EP (Inverse Records)

Fate Unburied – Neraspeme (Time To Kill Records)

Fervence – Constructs (Metal Blade Records)

Firebreather – Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Generation Steel – Steelmachine (Fireflash Records)

Gorgonaut – Ayame EP (Self-Released)

Grant The Sun – Biomes (Mas-Kina Recordings)

Great Falls – The Bite That Grows Up (Neurot Recordings)

Iapetus – The Mother Void (Willowtip Records)

Insomnium – Netherworlds (Century Media Records)

Joe Stump – Lord Of The Strings (Silver Lining Music)

John Diva & The Rockets Of Love – Your Favorite Drug (Frontiers srl)

Kid Bookie – Cheaper Than Therapy II (FLG Records)

Kinetic – Liminal (Eclipse Records)

Leadbelcher – Heaven’s Bloated Corpse (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)

The Lovecraft Sextet – Penance (Debemur Morti Records)

Lugubrious Garment – In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night (20 Buck Spin)

Master – Among The Seeds Of Death (Hammerheart Records)

The Monsters – Off The Road We Go! (Voodoo Rhythm Records)

Mother Of Graves – The Light That Keeps Us (Profound Lore)

Night Hag – Great Dismal Darkness (Rotted Life Records)

The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Howls From The Holographic Heart (Equal Vision Records)

Paerish – Rita (Side One Dummy Records)

Salvation – The Haunted (Reptilian Records)

Save Us – Death To Something (Solid State Records)

A Secret Revealed – The Ruin I Summoned Forth (Lifeforce Records)

Sergeant Steel – Golden Absolution (Metalapolis Records)

Shy, Low – Purity Spiral (Pelagic Records)

Shores Of Null – Homesick (Dusktone Records)

Stoned Jesus – Songs To Moon (Season Of Mist)

Temperance – Arcani (Napalm Records)

Threestepstotheocean – Death Of Permanence (Subsound Records)

Throes – The Colorless Light Of Emptiness (Church Road Records)

Tokio Hotel – Encore (Believe Music)

Umus – Voidlit (Aesthetic Death Records)

Unteachers – Under Bright Sadness (Rottweiler Records)

Urarv – Nychta Psychis (Darkness Shall Rise Records)

Veilburner – All That Glimmers Is Gloam (Transcending Obscurity Records)

AND

Worm Altar – Pillars Of Eternal Dusk (Dawnbreed Records)

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Tim Ledin caught up with Rob and Spencer of REZN to discuss their amazing new album "Cycles in the Infinite Dream" released via Sargent House on July 24th, 2026. Tim and the guys chatted about the process of making a career-redefining album for the band, twelve years in their careers. In addition to uncovering the new dimension of featuring lap steel on the new album, they also unpacked all the fine points that went into tracking, sequencing, performances, touring, artwork, the lasting influence of post-Metal masters ISIS, and much more!

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35:00 ✅: Setlist analysis - Night 1, plus discussion of visuals

46:36 ✅: Setlist analysis - Night 2

50:00 ✅: The biggest surprise of the first two shows!

53:23 ✅: How hard is it to perform with the overstimulating visuals

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Keefy caught up with Big Dad Ritch of the long-running Outlaw Rockers Texas Hippie Coalition! The band has always done everything big, and with a ton of style, so it's no surprise that to celebrate their 25th anniversary in 2026, they released two new records! "Stoned Cowboys" cements their deep Country roots with a ton of soulful lyrics and singing, while "Band Of Outlaws" is as heavy and brash as any album the band has ever done! Both were released via their brand-new record label, Big Dad Records, on September 11th 2026! Ritch catches up with us and takes us on a journey through time and music!

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The Friday index is open! It's New Music Friday for October 9th, 2026

Avrak – Avrak (Peaceville Records)

Bodega - All Inside Aquarium (Chrysalis Records)

Carceral – Descending Reprisal (I, Voidhanger Records)

Cardinals Folly – Let The Posers Fall! (Cruz Del Sur Music)

Chained Saint – Rise To Fall EP (Self-Released)

Cordyceps Corpse – Perverse Craving For Rotting Corpses (Gore House Records)

Crimson Coven – I The Forge (Cruz Del Sur Music)

Cultus Sanguine – Tears Painted Sky (My Kingdom Records)

Dawn Of Demise – Feed My Absurdity (Unique Leader Records)

David Caress - Azure (Self-Released)

Desolat – People As Idiots & Idiots As Leaders (Reptilian Records)

Détresse – Misères (Vendetta Records)

Div3r – Bad Cry Loud (Equal Vision Records)

Doom Scroll – Exhausted Dialogue (Self-Released)

Esoctrilihum – Annochiül Xar Sorthïlazur (I, Voidhanger Records)

Fall The Enemy – Sandcastles EP (Self-Released)

Feldspar – Soft Side (Stage Dive Records)

Gassed – Mental (Uprising Records)

Goatburner – Time Of Danger (Time To Kill Records)

Graveyard – Fever (Nuclear Blast Records)

Greta Van Fleet – Palace For The People (Republic Records)

HateSphere – Guillotine (Scarlet Records)

Hell-Born – VII (Deformeathing Records)

The Howlers – Heavy (FLG Records)

Humulus – Smuggler’s Cave (Ripple Records)

In Luna – The Architecture Of Negativity (Talheim Records)

In Obscurity Revealed – Caustic Maelstrom (Personal Records)

In This Hell – Bliss (Trollzorn Records)

John Coffey – Not Alone (Long Branch Records)

Leach – Psychosomatic EP (Self-Released)

Leper Colony – Back To Primal Sludge (Testimony Records)

Margarita - Abysses of Meloncholia (Electric Valley Records)

Meryl Streek - Stories They Don't Teach You At School (Venn Records)

Methedrine – Death Punk EP (Self-Released)

Mutation – Esoteric Order Of Debauchery (Hells Headbangers)

Netherwilds – Peasant Rising (King Volume Records)

Odious Spirit – The Sourceless Scourge (I, Voidhanger Records)

Old Man’s Will – At Last (Small Stone Recordings)

Orbita – Farewell To All We’ve Lost (Aural Music)

Pegzilla – Disobedience (Ripple Music)

The Pineapple Thief – Far And Wide (InsideOut Music)

Quemasantos – Stranded In Hell (Digmetalworld)

Ram – Against (Metal Blade Records)

Sagittarius – Abomination Of Mind (Wormholedeath Records)

Selfish Things – Receptivity (FLG Records)

Semuta – Thoughtless/Dreamless (Accident Prone Records)

Shiner – The Y Section (Spartan Records)

Signum Regis – Beyond Spacetime (Fireflash Records)

Smoulder – Witch Wife In An Alien World (Cruz Del Sur Music)

Steak – Steak (Ripple Music)

Taufpatin – Les Malfaisances de la Taufpatin (Antiq Records)

This Everless Autumn – Storm Ended, Sea Calm… (Diotima Records)

Tungsten – Ashes (Perception Music)

Unpeople – We Are Unpeople (SharpTone Records)

Wage War – Landfall (Fearless Records)

AND

Witchthroat Serpent – Demons Left To Roam (Heavy Psych Sounds)

The Usual Suspects:

🎤 Micaela Petersen

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💻 Omar Cordy

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Join Keefy for his weekly rundown of everything happening in metal! Our website is updated 24/7, 365, with Rock and Metal news, reviews, and interviews. https://ghostcultmag.com/category/news/Livestream menu! Answer your questions - Still freeGeneral support $3Buy us a Coffee $6We rate your song $25 liveMusic business consulting call $75Support us https://cash.app/$ghostcultmag https://ko-fi.com/F2F1F2PLPhttps://paypal.me/ghostcultmag Get hooked up from Fable Beard co products with our codehttps://bit.ly/FableBeardGhostCultMagTimestamp:0:00 Intro ✅: Greetings and Salutations! Keefy tries a new @liquiddeath2793 x @FeastablesFactory / @MrBeast , 2.2 Million views on @YouTube ( @vidIQ ) 7:01 Announcements ✅: RIP Chronos of @venom , RIP Chuck Varga of @gwar , RIP Matt Bennet of the Network, RIP Cliff Burton of @metallica (40 years), RIP Phil Campbell, Happy Birthdays, and This Week in Metal History 24:40✅: Features @bandcamp Friday, @thearsonchoir , @TheAmatoryMurder , @AmonAmarthOfficial review, @deathgrave + Oakheart, get free promo for your band 29:51✅: The News Rundown33:05 ✅: Metal Festivals39:01 ✅: Tour Dates Metallica at Sphere Las Vegas, Slipknot, A Perfect Circle, etc56:42 ✅: Major News Stories Nirvana, Slipknot, Iommi new song and MBE, SOAD new vinyl106:21 ✅: Ass Clown of The Week108:11 ✅: New Music Friday Keefy runs down the list of essential new Rock and Metal 111:39 ✅: The Mailbag @pusciferdotcom comic book + @aliceinchains new vinyl (2 LP)114:00 ✅: Outro Please like and subscribe!#rock #metal #news #metalfestivals #tourdates #vinyl