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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05 Jan 2026 - Thorsten
Post-MetalFolk

The new year is off to the races! And we kick if off with The Light Below’s new record Georgia whose basic concept might make no sense at first glance but then again makes all the sense in the world! How can Post-Metal become any better this year?

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02 Jan 2026 - PBV
Free RockPost-Folk

To haunt, to confront, to seduce, to strike. In night, in day, in that indecipherable moment when the sun meets the water and horizon and melts both together like glass and steel. Textures mix like wet plaster and arrive like concrete. This is the new school painfully birthed from the old school.

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02 Jan 2026 - Daniel Gorman
AvantgardeGoth

Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason operates less as a collection of songs and more as a sustained inquiry into a specific form, memory, and resistance to coherence.

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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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