29 Oct 2025 - Stephan
Black MetalSludge

Don’t judge a bumper car ride by the airbrush above its entry! Also don’t talk about bumper cars when it’s actually a rollercoaster!

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27 Oct 2025 - Max Lavoie
Noise-RockDark-Wave

First of all, if you are not familiar with Model/Actriz, I would like to be you, because their blend of abrasive Noise Rock with Dark-Wave and Industrial twists has a fresh sound that either pulls you in or completely repels you! In my opinion, that is one of the highest compliments you can give an artist, because I don’t believe in lukewarm sounds… those are the antithesis of what art should be.

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26 Oct 2025 - Thorsten
Dark FolkDrone

Did anybody know that Michael Gira and Coil had an unborn child, named him after a biblical version of a “historic” madman, gave him an organ, a female side-kick with an eerie voice that would set Lake Michigan on fog, bought them a trillion candles, a wonderful note book to write down his sinister messages of hope and even booked them a recording studio to bless the world with a bunch of musical melodies and seemingly psychotic psalms? Enter Nero Kane. Enter ”For the Love, the Death and the Poetry”.

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24 Oct 2025 - Knut
Sludge MetalDoom Metal

Like a wake-up slap in our faces, Mastiff´s new release is upon us. It is right in the turbulent wake of their previous release, Deprecipice that we also reviewed. Not a lot has changed but where shall a band go that is as masterfully bleak as Mastiff? Glad they’re there.

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23 Oct 2025 - Thorsten
Post-Hardcore

Expert Work Records out of Columbia, Missouri proves that they have a knack for uncovering great under-the-radar bands long forgotten or even unpublished - think of Tintoretto or We Contain Multitudes - and their newest release by Drill for Absentee is proof for that. Just think of a band that might somehow have influenced Thursday in all its Post-Hardcore glory with shifty beats, variable singing and screaming parts and spoken word elements. And all of that is just Side A of Strand of a Lake Vol. 1 and Vol. 2!

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22 Oct 2025 - Andrea
IndustrialSludge

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, OvO released their eleventh album entitled Gemma. While venturing even further into experimentation, the band has maintained its distinctive sound, evolving its music towards something innovative.

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20 Oct 2025 - Stephan
Synth PopPost Rock

At night, even the staunchest atheist feels the desire for a Synth Pop prayer.

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16 Oct 2025 - Knut
Post Metal

Like a thunderclap, IAN is discharging their debut album on us. It is dazzling, vivid, and impassioned.

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09 Oct 2025 - Thorsten
Industrial Metal

“It was the nightingale and not the lark” - well, it surely wasn’t a tank and a ramrod, even though one might argue that you can hear all four things on the latest record by Author & Punisher, welcome to Nocturnal Birding!

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08 Oct 2025 - PBV
Post Black MetalPost-Rock

Space. Depth. Power. Dynamics. Ferociousness. Sadness. Anger. Regret. Stillness. What to expect from a work that even from its first interaction tells a story simply through its song titles read in their descending order.

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07 Oct 2025 - Knut
Atmospheric Black MetalBlackgaze

Hailing from the Metal melting pot that is St Petersburg, Gnot is upon us with their fourth release since its inception in 2018. It is a sublime atmospheric melodic arpeggio-induced album, as one expects from that city.

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06 Oct 2025 - Stephan
JazzNoise

Growing concepts require louder execution! For the first time with the help of masters of crushing guitar noise and haunting emotional expression Experimental saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi’s latest cry against racism delivers his message on a new scale.

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02 Oct 2025 - PBV
Modern ClassicalChamber Pop

The musical sphere is as vast as it is myopic with every genre bending niche, unsingable crescendo and head-scratchingly-butterfly-in-stomach-elated arrangement that raises the hairs on the back of your neck as it plummets you into a sun room or a cavernous well without much supposed warning. These records come along when you least suspect and leave a mark as a stone inscription somewhere in a recess of your mind like a covert epitaph.

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01 Oct 2025 - Knut
MetalcoreSludge Metal

How dismal and thunderously heavy can a band´s music get, and still be utterly engaging? The answer is probably Adur´s music on this high-velocity album.

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30 Sep 2025 - Andrea
Doom MetalSludge

Three years after their debut Remnants of the Vessel, Faetooth have released their second album, Labyrinthine, on The Flenser. This work showcases the band’s artistic maturation, transforming the premises of “Fairy Doom” into something deeper and more personal.

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29 Sep 2025 - Kurt
Black MetalProg Metal

Ever since its inception, one of the chief criticisms about Black Metal is that it is arguably the most narcissistic strain of heavy metal. Sure, almost every metal band deals with depression, hopelessness, cynicism and other self-focused maladies. But far too many Black Metal projects revolve around an individual who consciously and self-centeredly decides to embrace his own fatalism and spiral toward death — rather than looking for a community of like-minded individuals struggling with the same mental issues.

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19 Sep 2025 - Knut
Progressive Metal

This album is massive and expansive, as the music sweeps through eighty minutes of highly addictive melodic themes composed by a trio of talented musicians.

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12 Sep 2025 - Martin
SludgeDeath DoomPost-Metal

In a world overstimulated by surface signals and synthetic truths, Hypostasis, the latest offering from Finnish post-metal four-piece Sunniva, demands something else entirely: stillness, confrontation and depth. This isn’t music designed to entertain—it’s crafted to initiate.

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06 Sep 2025 - Thorsten
Post-HardcoreMathcore

Another awesome release by our dear friends in Ripcord Records, who are becoming more and more the go-to label for everything heavy and melodic, yet intricate and underground in the UK, or should I say in Scotland? Anyway, Wolv3s is a new outfit formed by veterans who want to showcase their love for everything between Thrice and Dillinger.

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03 Sep 2025 - Thorsten
Prog-FunkSynth-Rock

Sometimes it is important to step out of one’s comfort zone to, afterwards, be able to re-focus on one’s main focus and projects. Brann Dailor does exactly that with the help of Arcadea, his Synth-Rock/Prog-Funk project in which he is not only the amazing drummer animal but also the vocalist. And as if that change of role would not be enough, the whole thing also needs to be a Sci-Fi-epic set 5 billion years in the future. Of course.

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31 Aug 2025 - PBV
SludgePsychPost-Metal

We open on an empty street as a semblance of light streams between the two spires of the Basler Münster Cathedral. The cold wind gives the trees a gentle tussle. The reflections in the puddles shake with an immutable unrest. It is a quiet dawn, the city vibrating with a certain fretfulness. The picture is askew struggling to focus. The lens refracts and lights with the flick of a cigarette as some figures slowly start to enter the frame.

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28 Aug 2025 - Stephan
Goth RockPost Punk

With a delay of almost two years, Årabrot finally present us with the title track of their 2023 album Of Darkness and Light - and a full new album from the same recording sessions around it.

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25 Aug 2025 - Andrea
SlowcoreFolkAmericana

Hayden Silas Anhedönia released her second full-length album under the moniker Ethel Cain. The album came out on 8th August and is named Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, after the former boyfriend of Ethel Cain.

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15 Aug 2025 - Thorsten
Noise-Punk

“Those folks who say there’s no good new music out there anymore - you are just not looking enough!” That‘s what you should say, and the new EP by Irish band Nerves called Iarmhaireacht should be proof enough for that statement! Welcome to the most exciting EP this month!

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10 Aug 2025 - Thorsten
SludgeNoise

What do you get, when two of Down Under‘s most interesting bands/projects team up together for a split record? Well, you sure do not get a second installment of the (admittedly great, but heard too effin often) “Where the Wild Roses Grow“ - for two reasons: First – there is no need for a sequel, as she is already dead. Second – UBOA and Whitehorse are not really pop-artists! But their split is awesome – in a very different way!

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