Migration Fest Books False, Mizmor, Spirit Adrift, Yellow Eyes, Immortal Bird, Obsequiae, Thou and Emma Ruth and More!


Migration Fest is coming back for its third edition and it looks like a rager! Presented by 20 Buck Spin and Gilead Media, Migration Fest III has booked False, Mizmor, Spirit Adrift, Yellow Eyes, Immortal Bird, Obsequiae, Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle Obsequiae, Imperial Triumphant, Buried At Sea, Falls of Rauros, Kowloon Walled City, Spirit Adrift, Tomb Mold, Ulthar and many more. The full list can be seen below. The fest takes place July 31st – August 2nd, 2020 and returning to Mr. Smalls in the Pittsburgh suburb of Millvale, PA.Continue reading


Ghost Cult’s Top 10 News Stories of 2019


As we barrel into the new year we want to take one last look at our most popular news stories (by topic) on our website in 2019. Thanks for being here with us and choosing us for your music news, interviews, reviews and other entertaining content we try to provide daily!Continue reading


Immortal Bird To Kick Off Headline Tour Tonight


Immortal Bird, on the strength of their acclaimed 2019 album Thrive On Neglect (20 Buck Spin), is kicking off their North American headlining tour tonight. The two-week journey begins tonight (December 7th), in Dayton, Ohio and will come to a close December 20th in their home city of Chicago, Illinois. The band was a last-minute addition to Cattle Decapitation’s Chicago show this past week as well. Immortal’s Bird Rae Amitay just wrote a guest blog for Ghost Cult which you can check out now. Don’t sleep on this band or this tour if you haven’t checked them out before!Continue reading


GUEST POST: Rae Amitay of Immortal Bird Discusses Her Worst Job Ever!


Ghost Cult is bringing back an old feature, affectionately known as Day Job for a Cowboy (cowgirl, or any of our gender non-binary peeps reading this). We ask musicians about the worst job they have ever had in their life. In this guest post, Immortal Bird’s Rae Amitay shares a particularly rough time she had as a day camp counselor once, which you can read below. In 2019 Immortal Bird has toured and played select festivals supporting their excellent release from earlier this year, Thrive on Neglect, out now via 20 Buck Spin. The band is about to embark on another run of tour dates that kick off December 7th.Continue reading


Immortal Bird – Thrive on Neglect


Thirty-seven minutes of dark passion. That’s what we get with the second album, Thrive on Neglect from Chicago troop, Immortal Bird. The production was handled by Dave Otero (Allegaeon, Archspire, Cattle Decapitation, Khemmis) at Flatline Audio in Colorado. Immaculately produced, the album sounds great in headphones or full on with speakers.

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Immortal Bird Streams Entire New Album – “Thrive On Neglect”


Chameleon-like extreme metal band Immortal Bird is streaming their entire new album over at Decibel Magazine, before it drops this Friday, July 5th via the 20 Buck Spin label. The album is am F5 tornado of riffs and beats but focused excellent songcraft. It’s sure to cap a lot of end of year lists. Check out the stream and pre-order that album now at the links below. Continue reading


Immortal Bird Streams a New Single – “Vestigial Warnings”


Immortal Bird previously announced their brand new album, Thrive on Neglect, due out on July 5th via the 20 Buck Spin label. The band has now shared a new track, ‘Vestigial Warnings’ which you can hear now via the label’s YouTube channel or below. On tour right now as they head towards a date with Northwest Terror Fest, the band plays Denver tonight, May 24th. The track is a dizzying, brutal assault on the senses, which pushes the bands’ reputation for their razor-sharp blackened technical death metal to new levels of extreme. Continue reading


Immortal Bird Streams New Single, New Album “Thrive On Neglect” This Summer


Immortal Bird will release a new album Thrive On Neglect this summer, their first for 20 Buck Spin, on July 5th. The group has shared its first new song, ‘Anger Breeds Contempt’, which you can hear below. Continue reading