04 Mar 2026 - Knut
Post-MetalSludge Metal

Turpentine Valley return with a crushing and versatile release.

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28 Feb 2026 - PBV
ExperimentalElectronica

There are certain cities that teach you how to listen before they ever let you sing. Taipei is one of them. Its nights hum in neon minor keys: scooters like hi-hats across wet asphalt, temple bells as distant sub-bass, election vans barking slogans that smear into tape-warped mantras. In that restless frequency spectrum between incense and the LCD glare, 破地獄 / Scattered Purgatory have spent a decade refining a language of ritual and slow-motion melody that never quite belonged to any single genre, any single nation, any single afterlife.

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27 Feb 2026 - Knut
Avantgarde MetalPost-Metal

An inventive and genre-busting high-quality metal release from a band that never looks back.

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26 Feb 2026 - Knut
BlackgazeAtmospheric Black Metal

The music from Olhava in general, and on this new album in particular, has the sense of the epitome of unhindered flow of consciousness.

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21 Feb 2026 - Thorsten
Drone Metal

You probably do not know Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret, right? Well, you probably do know Magpie Corsa and Dylan Desmond, if you’re reading this. But what is the connection between those two couples? Well, the eponymous record by Alliance Rose Croix is!

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20 Feb 2026 - Andrea
ExperimentalDark Ambient

In the last years, we’ve seen the rise of many artists from a part of the world who are often not considered on a par with others, due to a perception that never corresponds to reality. With Wahj Toni Geitani challenges these stereotypes by releasing an album that pushes boundaries with its sound.

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17 Feb 2026 - George
Shoegaze

Nothing’s A Short History Of Decay is the Philadelphia quintet’s fifth album and as it gently shows you in on the easy lull of ”Never Come Never Morning”, we’d recommend that you don’t get too comfortable. Nothing is widely regarded as being a Shoegaze act and as you’ll find over the course of the next nine song songs, this label is something of a disservice to a band that is so much more.

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17 Feb 2026 - Thorsten
Zeuhl

One cannot but admire musicians like Patrick Shiroishi. Folks who go all in with their music, their profession and confession, who strive for spots unknown to them, galaxies far far away where no man has gone before. Enter Shiroishi‘s (*) Zeuhl-project Corima which has been dormant for a decade. Now they’re off again to new frontiers again, with Hunab Ku!

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16 Feb 2026 - Simon
Alternative Metal

The compelling new Matador record is a welcome respite from the outside world!

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13 Feb 2026 - Knut
Post MetalDoomgaze

A bold up-to-date release of the last chapter of the French band Ingrina´s Lys trilogy that began in 2018, continued in 2020 and is concluded in 2026.

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12 Feb 2026 - Thorsten
Avantgarde Noise

Mandy, Indiana – not from Indiana, not named Mandy. The band name might be the most unimportant thing about this now-quartet international project, unlike their music which is amazingly close to the zeitgeist, still being ardently strident and passionately powerful. Their new record URGH might be the most highly anticipated record of the first quarter of 2026 and it proves all the expectations to be underestimating their capabilities!

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11 Feb 2026 - George
ExperimentalTechno-Noise

There’s a ten second sample on this album at the end of Det Blev Våra Liv that tells you everything about Fågelle as a producer. It’s fairly incongruous when you first hear it, it’s a car driving past with a pumping Techno beat blasting from its speakers. Nothing of note there, is there? Nothing we don’t hear in the city every night?

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10 Feb 2026 - PBV
Death MetalHeavy MetalPost-Punk

There are some telltale signs of what makes a movie good. It usually comes within the first five minutes of the film, where there begins some textural exposition, light entering the frame, things passing in the window as some erudite, minimalist, tracked out title sequences crawl across the frame. A musical motif is introduced that builds drama and reflection. If the film is truly good by the final credits roll, that which shows up in those first five minutes informs pretty much everything that may happen with such sharp poeticism that by the end, you are shaking your head with disbelief of what you just witnessed. Some directors establish these themes in all their films—like a consistent thread, they implore you to understand that you are entering their universe, and must succumb to their sensory language and “rules” to truly enjoy the picture.

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09 Feb 2026 - Stephan
Post PunkBlack Metal

Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll!
Sturm, Drang and Romanticism!

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08 Feb 2026 - Cillian Breathnach
Sludge

Ever since their excellent 2019 self-titled demo, Seoul’s Gawthrop have been dragging Sludge Metal back to its nihilistic, confrontational roots. Kuboa is the band’s debut LP, and aims to bring a tighter focus to this mission. Citing artists like Corrupted, Noothgrush, Coffins, and Meth Drinker for this LP in particular, the band are clearly aiming to make punishingly heavy music without much adornment. It comes in at a tight 36 minutes – there’s no intro track, there’s no interludes, there’s just Sludge.

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06 Feb 2026 - Martin
Metallic Hardcore

Punk, metal and everything in-between. Love may not be enough, but there is still Converge to hold on to.

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05 Feb 2026 - Stephan
ElectronicKrautrock

Rorschach minimalism: Black circle on white background. What do you see? A void? A hole torn into life? Or the bright light of a new dawn only momentarily obscured by a rock? The ambiguous geometry on the album cover complements the musical question of what is actually more important: Is it what we can hear? Or is it what is missing?

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04 Feb 2026 - Knut
Ambient Sludge MetalPost-Metal

14 years after their first release, Syberia takes the step into the heaviest instrumental Post-Metal realm with an emotionally charged release.

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30 Jan 2026 - Andrea
ScreamoPost-Hardcore

There are records that you don’t just listen to, but that draw you into a whirlwind of emotions. Le sang des pierres, the second full-length by French Screamo/Post-Hardcore band Gros Enfant Mort, is a record that doesn’t seek to convey beauty and comfort, but rather genuine raw emotions to be appreciated and embraced.

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27 Jan 2026 - Thorsten
Free JazzAvantgarde Punk

In the beginning there is sound, static to be precise. Or Noise. Or a beat. Or hyperventilation. One thing that is there for everyone to see from the very beginning but for basically nobody outside of Sweden to understand: Backengrillen. Listen and behold for this is something great in the making!

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24 Jan 2026 - Thorsten
Industrial Black Metal

“To sleep, perchance to dream“ is a part of Shakespeare’s most famous soliloquy. “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.” is a quote often attributed to Poe. Hell, even in the bible we find a quote about “sleep” in Psalm 127:2 “For he grants sleep to those he loves”. Why am I coming up with these quotes from various sources? Because the new The Ruins of Beverast record is called Tempelschlaf and it surely has the elements to be quoted by future generations!

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23 Jan 2026 - Knut
Post-Rock

This year began like the previous ended – with an excellent Post-Rock album released on the first day of 2026. Last year ended with Baulta´s wonderful release, and this year started with a delightful new release from The Sun Burns Bright. What a way to begin the year for Post-Rock fans!

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17 Jan 2026 - Simon

In a House of Heartbeats tempt you into their land of slumber, dare you enter?

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11 Jan 2026 - Brian Burdzy
Hardcore PunkOi!

Every once in a while when doing an interview, our head honcho Thorsten notices a special connection to people, mostly because for these people music is not a part of their life, it is their life. Maybe not even the main focus, but they express themselves through, via and with music. And then he asks if they might consider writing for VoS. Most of them cordially decline, but some pick it up. One of these people is Brian Burdzy from Hundreds of AU - who after our interview with him said he’d love to join our ranks. Here is his first review and we hope you love the honesty as much as we do!

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06 Jan 2026 - Thorsten
Funeral Doom

When a record starts with a long-winding guitar line and a choral performance as uplifting as any Gregorian chant, then one should open the ears - Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin are at it again and this time, this is not a collaboration. Find out why Vol. II is different from its predecessor and even better, unexpectedly!

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