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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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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