Today, heavily trafficked tastemakers Noisey - Music By Vice premiere two new tracks from California's Black Twilight Circle, Axeman's "Ride Into the Night" and Blood Play's "Screams Transcend." Both tracks hail from the forthcoming Black Twilight Circle double-CD compilation, TLILTIC TLAPOYAUAK, set for international release on September 2nd via The Ajna Offensive. Alongside an extensive interview with prolific Black Twilight Circle founder Volahn, explaining the cult and mystique of the Black Twilight Circle, both Axeman's "Ride Into the Night" and Blood Play's "Screams Transcend" can be be streamed exclusively HERE.

California's Black Twilight Circle are arguably the most important development in American black metal since the dawn of the new millennium. For the past decade-plus, this collective of bands has developed an extremely singular, idiosyncratic sound away from the prying eyes of metal's aboveground, creating its own veritable dialect that, crucially, burns with the ancient flame of black metal. The Black Twilight Circle's vision is an intensely personal and challenging one, and its myriad bands - Volahn, Arizmenda, Kallathon, Blue Hummingbird on the Left, Shataan, Kuxan Suum, Tukaaria, Dolorvotre, Muknal, and Axeman among many others - individually and collectively expand this vision whilst keeping it closely guarded, their incestuous nature a matter of aesthetics rather than necessity. Based around the Crepúsculo Negro label and strictly released on cassette and vinyl formats, the documents to date of the Black Twilight Circle have coursed through black metal's deepest underground, but they've nevertheless enthralled all who've gazed into their peerless wisdom. Still, the metal aboveground has largely ignored this development and perpetuates an outmoded and obsolete history of "USBM."