Secret Chiefs 3 Archives

Best Albums: Atomic Ape, Helms Alee, ††† (Crosses), Whispered

Atomic Ape: Swarm
Helms Alee: Sleepwalking Sailors
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Whispered: Shogunate Macabre

ALARM’s 11 Favorite Albums of 2013

At long last, ALARM unveils its 11 favorite albums of 2013 — a list of amazing music that you won’t find anywhere else.

ALARM’s 51 Favorite Albums of 2013

Saving the best for last, we’ve chosen our 51 favorite albums of 2013, pulled from the acclaimed and the unsung — some of the best as well as most boundary-pushing releases from rock and beyond.

Best Albums: Secret Chiefs 3, Mutoid Man, Deicide, Sole, Soundgarden

Secret Chiefs 3: Book of Souls: Folio A
Mutoid Man: Helium Head
Deicide: In the Minds of Evil
Sole: Crimes Against Totality
Soundgarden: Screaming Life / Fopp reissue

Videos!: Secret Chiefs 3 does Halloween, Sepultura leaves the Vatican, and more

With too many great videos releasing all at once, we put them all together in one epic post.

Cult icons Goblin to tour USA with Secret Chiefs 3, play Housecore Horror

Horror-score fans, your long wait is finally coming to an end. For the first time ever, Italian prog icons Goblin (Suspiria, Dawn of the Dead) are touring North America this October. Even better? They’re joined by the genre-defying Secret Chiefs 3.

2013 and 1/3: The Best Albums of the 2010s (So Far)

Inspired by the third installment of The Naked Gun, we decided to compile our favorite albums over the first 3 1/3 years of the 2010s.

A decade in the making: Secret Chiefs 3 announces long-awaited Book of Souls in two parts

Public-access blasphemy: Ghost BC’s video for “Secular Haze”

Ghost BC: Infestissumam (Loma Vista, 4/9/13)*

[*not final cover art]

Swedish occult-metal band Ghost BC (formerly just Ghost) is back this April with its “sophomore psalm,” Infestissumam, and it promises more rollicking tunes set to lyrical themes about everyone’s favorite dark overlord.

The video for “Secular Haze,” the album’s first single, finds the band in its usual high-priest and heavy-cloak garb, jamming its just-barely sinister melodies on a public-access-style set. Catch the band live across America this spring.

Timba Harris announces solo album on Tzadik

Secret Chiefs 3 footage from Chile

Video: Secret Chiefs 3 tour film

Last winter, Secret Chiefs 3 — the East-meets-West super-group known for its mysteriously cloaked and ever-rotating lineup led by guitarist Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle and Faith No More — took off for a European tour with some folks from the APATT Orchestra, a large-scale ensemble that seeks unusual settings for collaborations with other artists.

In a new hour-long tour film, you can catch all the on- and off-stage adventures of SC3 and APATT as they bring their wild instrumentation abroad. Adventures include, but are not limited to, parades with giant motorized elephants, steam-punk carousels, and unsuccessful rock-on-string fights.