23 Dec 2025 - Max Lavoie
Post-RockCinematic

Swedish orchestral Post-Rockers EF celebrated the 20th anniversary of their debut album Give Me Beauty… or Give Me Death! on November 28th with a deluxe edition via Pelagic Records, who remained “Humble in Triumph” while popping champagne for their 300th release in the label’s history.

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20 Dec 2025 - Stephan
Death MetalBlack Metal

You better read this fast, since I haven’t checked with our IT department if it’s even safe to post any content of this particular band on Veil of Sound! So just in case this isn’t just my last album review of the year here, but our whole server burns down in a Dissonant Blackened Death Metal firestorm: Thank you for your interest and support as long as the fun lasted!

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17 Dec 2025 - Max Lavoie
Post-RockPost-Metal

On 7 February 2024, Long Distance Calling crowned their 2022 masterpiece Eraser with the largest headlining show of their career at the Lichtburg cinema in Essen, Germany. Performing six songs from the album while also exploring parts of their back catalogue alongside guest musicians, the band delivered a grand, ambitious performance that further cemented their mammoth presence within the eclectic German music scene — nearly 20 years into their career.

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16 Dec 2025 - Knut
Blackgaze

This is the kind of ambient music that keeps you soaring through celestial bodies, either at the cosmic stage or in the depths of your inner self.

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14 Dec 2025 - Andrea
Doom MetalStoner Rock

From the river of Lake Ontario and near the Niagara Falls, we find a band as massive as the water falling down from those creeks. From Hamilton, Canada, Pale Horse Ritual releases their first full-length album on Black Throne Productions, named Diabolic Formations.

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12 Dec 2025 - Knut
Post-Rock

Rewrite your AOTY-list for Post-Rock, because here comes the top contender for 2025.

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05 Dec 2025 - Thorsten
Abstract Music

Do you remember that old classic Horror/Thriller image of a tall, narrow winding spiral staircase? The one where one cannot see either bottom nor top because it all seems to blur? Where the feeling of agoraphobia met claustrophobia because of what might lurk in the spaces and the spaces in between the spaces? That’s what Witness Wounds achieve on their eponmymous debut LP!

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04 Dec 2025 - Knut
MathcoreMetalcore

Here comes a raw and untamed feral musical attack from Scotland.

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01 Dec 2025 - Simon

Primitive Man don’t just make albums, they produce a state of mind, for those who dare enter, it’s extraordinary.

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30 Nov 2025 - Knut
Atmospheric Black Metal

Cascading, and surging arpeggio-induced atmospheric, cinematic, and vivid music from Denmark.

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27 Nov 2025 - Thorsten
Noise RockAmbient Americana

I never knew I had an urge to build an aural memory of a connection between Nick Drake and Unsane. Then I heard In the Earth Again the new collaboration record by Hayden Pedigo and Chat Pile. How can two acts so vastly different create such an immersive experience without sounding the sum of its parts and yet creating such a highly diverse record?!

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23 Nov 2025 - Kurt Orzeck
Indie

Whatever you were expecting from a Paz Lenchantin solo album, you won’t be prepared for what you hear when you press play. The bassist’s name became familiar thanks to her tenure in A Perfect Circle, alongside Maynard James Keenan, and Zwan, alongside Billy Corgan, — and, let’s face it, because her name of Argentine descent is quite unusual. With Triste (that’s Spanish for “sad,” you heathens!) provides ample evidence on her debut album supporting the commonly held belief that bassists are the most enigmatic members of rock bands.

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21 Nov 2025 - Knut
Post-Rock

Post-Rock at its best, with emotional and sweeping atmospheric soundscapes.

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19 Nov 2025 - Andrea
Math-RockPost-Hardcore

On October 10, God Alone released their third full-length album titled The Beep Test, it is a blend of melodic aggression, combining the technicality of Math-Rock with the danceability of Post-Hardcore.

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18 Nov 2025 - Knut
DreampopSynthpop

Another engaging release from the Oslo veterans who take on synth-based music filled with soaring melodies. This time, we talk about their debut full-length album, where beats enhance the swelling, expansive melodic themes.

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13 Nov 2025 - PBV
Avantgarde Black Metal

Maximalism can take on many forms. It may materialize as a concrete ornate gothic church imposing over Prague’s main square under whose shadow humans move like ants in a hurried pace, swarming in and out of streets that flow like rivers into the Vltava. It can also be a hefty flock of crows, yawping with life, perched high upon a spire shrieking and calling before they make their cursory descent upon the heads of unsuspecting passerby’s, wings shimming tenfold in the cold sun of autumn.

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12 Nov 2025 - Stephan
AlternativeDrone

“Oh, I’m breaking up with language / Oh, In search of something bigger than this”

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10 Nov 2025 - Knut
Experimental Sludge MetalDoomy Darkwave

As the world goes askew and seems reeling in a divergent whirlpool, Ghold is back after a six-year hiatus with the soundtrack for our unsettling times.

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07 Nov 2025 - Thorsten
Post-Rock

I figure that one of the coolest things that can happen to music nerds like us, it to rediscover formerly beloved bands of which one has just lost track amid the sheer universe-size wave of new music one can digest. In my case it is to fall in love with Maudits once again – this time over their great new record In Situ!

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06 Nov 2025 - Thorsten
Avantgarde Black MetalDungeon Synth

There are labels and bands whose connection is so distinct and so unique that they form an inseparable unity: Think of The Ocean Collective and Pelagic Records or Debemur Morti Productions and Blut aus Nord, Ranges and A Thousand Arms or I, Voidhanger and Esoctrilihum. The latter combo now give us Ghostigmatah – Spiritual Rise of the Psychopomp Abxulöm! Amazing stuff!

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04 Nov 2025 - Knut
Post-MetalAtmospheric Doom Metal

The Belgian instrumental trio releases a sonorous, vibrant, emotive, and massive sophomore album blending musical styles into their take on Atmospheric Doom music.

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31 Oct 2025 - Simon
Desert/Stoner Rock

Desert rock legends Yawning Man return with a new album, and it’s not all bright desert sunshine.

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31 Oct 2025 - Thorsten
Atmospheric Black Metal

Okay, this one might hurt a bit, well, in fact it might hurt a lot, but let me tell you, there is a certain silver lining to be found in nearly everything, also in the sad story behind Sakna‘s lone and only record De Syv Dødssynder. Nevertheless, one must walk through the shadow of death to arrive at the beginning of the horizon. Let’s walk this path together.

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30 Oct 2025 - Knut
Post MetalSludge Metal

Vandampire´s full-length debut is an impressive musical effort, pushing and stretching the assumed borders of the genres included in sonorous cascades of vigorous sonics.

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29 Oct 2025 - Stephan
Black MetalSludge

Don’t judge a bumper car ride by the airbrush above its entry! Also don’t talk about bumper cars when it’s actually a rollercoaster!

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