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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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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