29 Mar 2025 - Thorsten
Folk RockIndie-Pop

Another fascinating record that was handed to mankind full of humanity on this ominous last March Friday of 2025 is the gem many uninitiated might overlook. If it hadn’t been for Captain Canada I would have missed out on it as well – but now I am utterly in love with this release: Glory by Perfume Genius!

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28 Mar 2025 - Thorsten
Avantgarde Black Metal

How much concept can a record stand? When is the artistic pressure too big? Is there a point when music can become too overloaded? Well, if there is one band out there who does not care about these questions, then it is surely Dutch Avantgarde Black Metal band Grey Aura, as they show on their new full-length that they’re open for a lot. A LOT!

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26 Mar 2025 - PBV
Post PunkPsychedelic MetalAggro-Pop

True subversion has no time limits. No set formats. No rules. It’s a red stained brick wall with a green-screened madman prophet screaming at the heavens while a trumpet follows the whistle of a thug in the alley.

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24 Mar 2025 - Thorsten
Blackened Doom

How good must a band be if they can play festivals like Soulcrusher or Roadburn without a full-length under their belt? Well, they must be as good as Ter Ziele, who achieved just that and who released that “lacking” full-length a few weeks ago with Embodiment of Death! The Dutch quartet shows that Blackened Doom can have something like a hint of sunlight even though they might be as close to Amenra as you can possible be without being accused of plagiarizing.

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19 Mar 2025 - Thorsten
Black MetalPost-Metal

Well, what could one say that hasn‘t been said about Amenra? Probably nothing by now, because there has hardly been a modern-day Metal band that has a more devoted fan-base following the Belgian masters basically everywhere they go. The upcoming release of their next two EPs will not cause any decrease in their fans‘ affection for the band is back with what they do best: Follow the path they themselves have hewn into monolithic Blackened Post-Metal!

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17 Mar 2025 - Thorsten
Noise-Rock

Sometimes music answers questions never asked – Noisepicker, the duo from the UK surely love to play Jeopardy’s (non-famous) round of “Strange answers in noise minor for ₤1000” with their sound. The answer is: Noisepicker. The question: “What would Mark Lanegan’s music sound like if it was less bluesy and more Noise?”

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13 Mar 2025 - Thorsten
Experimental NoiseExtreme Sludge

The new collaboration between Intensive Care and The Body sounds like a synergetic effort between the natural and the cultural, between man’s former tribal periods and man-made (post-)industrial successes. One might venture to guess which side they might favor but the question remains whether their choice is the one that matters the most in a genre where the input of every single listener changes its sound immensely.

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12 Mar 2025 - Andrea
Queer PunkNoise Punk

Lambrini Girls are a duo from Brighton, UK, formed by Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira Boşgelmez; their music is pure energy and angst against all the discriminations, all the violence that permeates our society.

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10 Mar 2025 - Thorsten
Doomgaze

Cloakroom is one of these bands that not enough people listen to, even though most people would like them: Heavy but melodic. Warm but not overwhelming. Intelligent not arrogant. A band to love and they got a new record out - Last Leg of the Human Table. Let‘s dive into it!

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07 Mar 2025 - Thorsten
Post-Punk

When listening to Bambara it is always striking how many people neglect the real basis for their songs: Bambara is a storytelling band. The music comes second and thus one should look at the lyrics much more. So let’s do this with some of the lyrics of their upcoming record Birthmarks!

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01 Mar 2025 - Knut
SludgePost-Metal

As with many bands these days, this band´s sophomore album widens the band´s musical scope with a dense, atmospheric, and layered record with hidden gems in the cascading musical sweeps.

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28 Feb 2025 - PBV
MathcoreNoise Rock

A metallic rubber band heated to maximum kelvin snapping between two undulating spires shapeshifting into a volumeless liquid.

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24 Feb 2025 - Andrea
Viking MetalBlack Metal

Ereb Altor are back after three years since their last full-length. The band name reflects their music as is taken from an expansion of the Swedish fantasy role-playing game “Drakar och Demoner”.

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23 Feb 2025 - Simon
Post-MetalSludge

A stunning follow up to Pothamus’ stupidly good debut album, this is sonic brilliance

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22 Feb 2025 - George
Black MetalProgressive Metal

Riding in on a wave of frosty blackened blast straight off “A Legacy Of Sores” lets you know what you’re in for, or does it? Abduction have been a jewel in the UK Black Metal crown for a while now but are very much a band for “those that know.”

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21 Feb 2025 - Knut
Post-HardcoreGrunge

An exiting genre blender full-length debut from the French duo based in Clermont Ferrand three years after their promising debut EP.

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20 Feb 2025 - Thorsten
AvantgardeNeoclassical

Well, sometimes it is hard to find words about a record because you got so much to say about the sound, the songs, the structures. Sometimes it is even harder to stop talking about a record because the more you say, the less magic can be found by other people in it. Maud the moth’s new record The Distaff is a mix of both. In the best possible way!

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20 Feb 2025 - Stephan
Black MetalAvantgarde

In the grand scheme of things the genre still may be niche. But if you’re really into Dissonant Cosmic Progressive Avantgarde Black Metal and your day only has the same twenty-four hours like mine, you actually have plenty enough of choice to go through your life without any silent moment. The question is: Why should you specifically chose Exterior Palnet’s Haragma II?

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14 Feb 2025 - Thorsten
Breakcore

Listening to Bong-Ra can basically result in one of few results: Disdain because of what you hear, Discomfort because of what you think you might hear soon, Disconnect from the world outside from what you hear. For me, it is usually the later, because listening to Bong-Ra is my mediation in b-b-minor. And the b-b stands for breathtaking Breakcore.

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11 Feb 2025 - Stephan
ChansonExperimental

It’s a powerful modern archetype: The singer/songwriter with a guitar, alone on the road, enduring all the bullshit that comes with just being a woman, pouring her whole soul into the art. Emma Ruth Rundle, Midwife, Marissa Nadler are names our readers will certainly associate with this picture. And as admirable all of them are, it is a refreshing change to see it embodied in a different cultural context devoid of Americana or Appalachian Folk but performed by Franco-Moroccan artist Sophia Djebel Rose.

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10 Feb 2025 - Thorsten
BlackgazeProgressive Metal

Blackened Chamber Music? Orchestral Blackgaze? Progressive Black Metal? Unreqvited‘s answer: “Yes, please. And loads of it!” The one-man-prog-Blackgaze project from Canada returns better than ever. More diverse than before. More of everything. Without sacrificing the track! I am awestruck!

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08 Feb 2025 - Thorsten
Blackened Doom Metal

What should you as a bunch of musicians do, when your singer leaves the band? Well, there are basically two or three ways out of that misery, right? End it all, go instrumental or get another singer? German Blackened Doom maestros Morast went for the third option, wrote new material and now released a great new record – but please, let‘s not call it a comeback, okay?

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06 Feb 2025 - Daniel Gorman
Post-Rock

No Time For Caution are a two-piece Post-Rock outfit out of Rochester, NY. Thief in the Grove is their third full-iength and the follow-up to their 2023 album, The Days are Long, but the Years are Short.

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05 Feb 2025 - Thorsten
Post-Hardcore

Who in here remembers the movie The Fifth Element and Chris Tucker’s character as Ruby Rhod? He used the color “green” as a quality description to signify what is great, amazing or simply cool. The new record by L.S. Dunes indirectly does the same thing: It uses the namesake Violet similarly even though maybe only through its title and not openly within the lyrics. What do you think about the new record? Well, it’s really violet! Agreed!

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04 Feb 2025 - Thorsten
Sludge

Let’s play the numbers game. 35. 32. 16. 14. 11. 10. 4. Who knows the key to them? You don’t? Well, then read on!

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