02 May 2025 - Thorsten
Avantgarde Black Metal

What do you get when Terrence from Locrian (here under his moniker Brutalism) teams up with a French instrumental trio? You get everything. Noise, Ambient, World Music, Classical and Neoclassical. If you like your music challenging, like to listen around the bend - then check out the collaboration between Brutalism and Toru. It will bend your mind!

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30 Apr 2025 - Clément
Post-Rock

Writing this review doesn’t just lead me to praise the merits of French Post-Rock patron saints BRUIT ≤. It’s also a way to pay homage to the city of Toulouse, the capital of the Haute-Garonne department.

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30 Apr 2025 - Knut
Ambient Sludge Metal

Soaring atmospheric metal mixed with Post-Hardcore vibes through the vocals, sludgy riffs, and relentless rhythm section: Here is the highly anticipated debut album from ARV.

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29 Apr 2025 - Knut
Electronica

Musical impressions of vibrant Berlin by a veteran from the overflowing Oslo scene.

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25 Apr 2025 - PBV
Death MetalProgressive

As crimson-soaked leaves rustle heavily in a cold wind, thousands of eyes peer out from a marred sky. A river of blood travels into the horizon towards a hazy castle in the distance. What warrior lay here in the shadow of a mangled tree, what stories spew from their maw?

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24 Apr 2025 - Knut
Post-RockPost-Metal

I stumbled upon this band and want to share it with you. No Post-Rock or Post-Metal fan should miss out on this.”

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23 Apr 2025 - Andrea
ExperimentalRock

Darkness and unpredictability are two words that comes in my mind when I listen to the new record from the Canadian band BIG|BRAVE called OST: a soundtrack that exists before the images, but that creates it.

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11 Apr 2025 - Daniel Gorman
Black Metal

Cosmic horror black metal quintet The Great Old Ones releases their fifth full-length record, Kadath. Their album is a concept album heavily influeneced by the Lovecraft novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which is based on three dreams that Randolph Carter experienced.

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11 Apr 2025 - Knut
Stoner MetalSludge

Håndgemeng´s sophomore full-length takes the band into heavier, fuzzier, but at the same time melodic sonics.

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10 Apr 2025 - Thorsten
Psychedelic Singer-Songwriter

Ora Cogan has given us new music just ahead of her gig at Roadburn 2025 in the form of her four song EP Bury Me and this one is again a prime example of the connection between Americana and New Folk.

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09 Apr 2025 - Stephan
Symphonic MetalDeath Metal

I was prepared for cringe and hoped at least for a chuckle. But Kerberos reminded me of the important life lesson that there are no guilty pleasures, only pleasures.

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03 Apr 2025 - Simon
AvantgardeAlternative

A mesmeric collaboration between two fiercely original artists results in an album of incredible depth!

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02 Apr 2025 - Stephan
Psychedelic Rock

Did you know that there’s a tunnel between Oakland and the Amalfi coast?

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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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