09 Apr 2026 - Thorsten
Krautrock

When the wife is reacting to a record on the car stereo without the regular “Uargh – what is that? Well, do not need to know, could we listen to something else?” then it is already worth noticing. When the record then still annoys here, the music must be somewhat different, and ZAHN’s new record Purpur surely is. In which way?

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09 Apr 2026 - Knut
Post-MetalAtmospheric Sludge

The Dimwind duo adds a vocalist, hence becoming a trio and releasing a massive, melodic, and emotional album.

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08 Apr 2026 - Knut
Heavy MetalStoner Rock

On their sophomore album, Masheena go heavier with their stoner-induced heavy metal, adding a sense of blues to their massive sonics.

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07 Apr 2026 - Kurt Orzeck
Progressive Sludge

The other day, a buddy of mine asked me to name some bands I’m covering at the moment. “Witch Ripper,” I replied, singling out perhaps the best of the bunch. My friend’s forehead bunched up, as if to say, “Huh?” without actually verbalizing the sentiment. “Which Ripper? You mean to tell me there are more than one now? Doesn’t Tim Owens own the rights to that nickname?”

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06 Apr 2026 - Brian Burdzy
DarkwaveColdwave

The Turkish Darkwave duo follow up 2019’s Disko Anksiyete with an album that oozes somber melodies to a fault.

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04 Apr 2026 - Thorsten
Post-Metal

Man, with two weeks of having listened to this record constantly I only have only single thing to complain about An Undying Love For A Burning World - one cannot ask people any longer: “Which band do you prefer – Neurosis or Isis?” Is this already the Album of 2026? Probably.

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02 Apr 2026 - Stephan
Noise RockPunk

Sometimes you’ve just got to manifest miracles through stubbornness. Like when I kept standing in the centre of the first row watching a band from Leeds with a scribbled penis in their logo and despite all odds somehow survived the whole show without being hit by gobs of spit, half-empty beer cans or ball-sweat flavoured handshakes of their frontman. Yes, The Shits are as delightfully disgusting as their name promises.

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30 Mar 2026 - PBV
Technical Thrash MetalProgressive

There are bands who use science fiction as décor, and there are bands who submit themselves to it so completely that the music begins to behave like a star map, a war chronicle, a ruined scripture hauled from some pressure-crushed archive at the lip of a dead moon.

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28 Mar 2026 - Stephan
IndustrialDoom Metal

Don’t try to listen to Bong-Ra’s new album when you’re sick! It will only make you feel more feverish.

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27 Mar 2026 - Thorsten
Post-Rock

2026 is the year of the comeback records - Converge, Sunn O))) and of course, Neurosis. We follow the trend and showcase a highlight that means a lot to us, because it’s one of those bands that grew alongside VoS and with whom we have several ties: Today, French Post-Rock darlings where mermaids drown released their new EP Embrace the ineluctable - here are our two-cents!

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25 Mar 2026 - Max Lavoie
Post-PunkElectro-Punk

Sleaford Mods return with The Demise of Planet X, released via Rough Trade, a record that doesn’t imagine the end of the world, it documents it in real time. Bleak, biting, and often darkly funny, the album captures a society running on fumes. You know you’re in for an honest ride.

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23 Mar 2026 - Knut
Progressive RockJazz-fusion

An inspired release from a multi-talented Italian musician, evoking the timbre of various diverse genres.

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20 Mar 2026 - Andrea
Post-HardcoreSludge

From the ashes of bands from the Philadelphia hardcore scene, a new band was born. Its name is Colossal Rains, and, as the name suggests, they bring a massive sound that is destined to leave a mark on the ground. It’s not so usual to find a record that keeps you glued to the speakers from the first track to the last, but when it happens, you could listen to it several times a day without getting annoyed. Today, we’re delving into the first LP of this quartet from Philly: Feral Sorrow by Colossal Rains.

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17 Mar 2026 - Simon
Post-PunkPost-HardcoreIndie Rock

The stunning new album by Damokles is a macabre dance with death, it hits with power and beauty.

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16 Mar 2026 - Knut
Post_HardcoreAtmospheric Sludge

Two bands with seasoned musicians steeped in the fierce heavy side of metal music scenes in Sweden and Switzerland join forces and release a juggernaut of a split album.

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11 Mar 2026 - Knut
Post-Rock

The surges and swoshes, both musical and emotional, make Tethered Hands’ new release an immersive and captive hour-long musical journey.

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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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