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

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Interview by Ghost Cult Wil Cifer

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Editing by Omar Cordy

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Theme music by Salted Wounds

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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.

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Interview by Ghost Cult Keefy

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Editing by Omar Cordy

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The next sonic assault has arrived. It's New Music Friday for July 10th, 2026.

Ad Finem Omnia – Senects Viae (Purity Through Fire Records)

Apogean – Waste Where Life Begins (The Artisan Era Records)

Arise From Worms – A Bleeding Tree Hanging Self-Destruction (Church Road Records)

Beware Of Gods – Upon Whom The Last Descends III: Behead The Oracle (Self-Released)

Cranial Osteotomy – Vortex Of The Dark Knowledge (Comatose Records)

DevilDriver – Strike And Kill (Napalm Records)

The Devil Wears Nada – In Lust We Thrust (Eonian Records)

Dysgnostic – End Whispers (Transcending Obscurity Records)

Ealdor Bealu – Graves Of The Silent Plain (Ripple Music)

Electric Mob – 2 Make U Cry & Dance Deluxe Edition (Frontiers srl)

Escumergament – Apparebat Eidolon Senex (Avantgarde Music)

Eva Under Fire – Villainous (Better Noise Records)

Grim Legion – Harbingers Of Death (HPGD Records)

Haserot – Advent Of Suffering (Redefining Darkness)

Healer – Desolation EP (Fleau Records)

If These Trees Could Talk – The Hidden Hand (Metal Blade Records)

I Proélefsi – Ypógeio Vasíleio (Depressive Illusions Records)

Irata – Human (Small Stone Recordings)

Iron Slaught – Metallic Torments (Gates Of Hell Records)

Master Massive – White Shadows (Fireflash Records)

Mourir – Nous, le venin (Pelagic Records)

My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoy Deluxe Edition (Reprise Records)

Necromonger – Emanation Of The Dying Perceptions (Xtreem Records)

NightFreak – Midwest Rattlesnakes (Big Neck Records)

No Cure – It Is Going To Get Dark (SharpTone Records)

The Plot In You – The Volumes Series (Fearless Records)

Pride Of Lions – Unbridled (Frontiers srl)

Pylar – Delyrio (Cyclic Law/Cavsas Records)

Ravaged By The Yeti – Snowbound Horror (Testimony Records)

Rotting Christ – Khronos Re-Release (Season Of Mist)

Savage – Septic Tomb EP (Dawnbreed Records)

Shadow Of Jupiter – Bones (Ripple Music)

Sigyn – From Nation To Chaos (Noble Demon Records)

Slow Goat – Where The Wisest Fear To Tread (Self-Released)

Smoking Snakes – All Lights On (Frontiers srl)

Snag – All The Cages Holding Us Will One Day Turn To Dust (Deathwish Inc.)

Snorlax – Toxic Current (Avantgarde Music)

Sojourner – Gateways (Avantgarde Music)

Spread The Disease – The Darkness. The Dread. The Suffering. (Hypaethral Records)

Sweet – The Answer Re-Release (Metalville Records)

Trendkill – Apathy For The Dead (Self-Released)

Undertakers – Global Dominion (Time To Kill Records)

Wailin Storms – The Arsonist (Season Of Mist)

AND

The Xcerts – I Think I Want To Go Home Now (FLG Records)

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🎤 Hough Photo

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💻 Omar Cordy

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🎵 Fahad Syed

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