01 Aug 2025 - Kurt
Desert rockStoner Doom

There’s an expression here in the States that rolls off the tongue quite nicely but, like all American idioms, is laced with an underlying, nasty bite: “You snooze, you lose.” It’s a smug, “them’s the breaks”/“sink or swim” way of telling someone that if they missed out on something, they’re the one to blame. The expression is ubiquitous among music snobs in particular. “You mean to tell me you weren’t at the party I hosted 35 years ago at my parents’ house outside Seattle where Nirvana played six songs for the 12 of us who were there? Too bad, bud: You snoozed and you losed.” (Remember, this fictional scenario takes place in the educationally challenged US of A.)

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30 Jul 2025 - Knut
DarkwaveSynhpop

Rule of Two set out to make a summer song by putting their distinct sonic thumbprint on Robyn´s highly successful “Dancing On My Own” from 2010 and ended up creating an appealing five-song EP surrounding the track with their darkened dreamgaze sonics.

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29 Jul 2025 - PBV
Progressive MetalAvant-Garde

When one speaks of freedom in the modern world, or a world gone past—there are oftentimes allusions to some arduous battle in overcoming political turmoil, obstruction or insurmountable conflict. There are stark but worn faces raising their fists up in solidarity or protest, photographed in austere black and white, a headline hanging above their head in bold firm letters. And nonetheless it becomes an iconic memory that forms a time and a place.

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20 Jul 2025 - Simon
Blackened Post-HardcoreGrunge

Ba’al summon forth turmoil and catharsis on their sophomore full-length!

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15 Jul 2025 - Andrea
Hip HopSpoken Word

Three years after his last album, South London artist Kae Tempest comes out with his brand-new album, self-titled, a 12-track record that is a turning point from the previous releases and is a coming back to his roots, returning to hip hop from slam poetry and spoken word.

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12 Jul 2025 - Knut
AmbientDreamgaze

It feels like the cosmos sings to you as you float meditatively through the torrents of ambient and dreamy soundscapes emerging as emotional streams from the deep layers of Remaining Warmths’ sonics.

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11 Jul 2025 - Kurt
RockDoom

Fyr, the new EP by superbly skillful Swedes GAUPA, is a downright infuriating listen. Well, to this embarrassed rock critic, at least. How does a band capable of writing and executing a record, even if it is just an EP, without the slightest blemish, scratch or scuff? Like a parasitic worm, that confounding question bores into the brain of the listener and refuses to dislodge itself from an ear canal, because it knows it’s onto something. Well, so do GAUPA, and they’ve clearly learned that if a parasite can enter your skull and nibble at your brain, they can execute similar sabotage with a quintet of songs that Do. Not. Quit.

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10 Jul 2025 - Knut
Doom Metal

As heavy as they come, Mosara continues to seep along the path of fuzz-induced stoner doom metal with juggernaut, ponderous music.

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07 Jul 2025 - Stephan
ClassicalIndustrial

“First we take Pyongyang, then we take Tehran.” (not Leonard Cohen)

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03 Jul 2025 - PBV
NWOTHMProg Rock

With underground music lore we occasionally wander down roads of questions, asking ourselves, our friends, even our enemies—”What If?”. “What if Criss Oliva was still here? What if he joined Megadeth and not Marty? How would the art be now? Would Phil Lynott like what’s happening in music (or the world) in 2025? Would Neil Peart make one more record if he didn’t get sick? Would it be good?” We cast our ruminations into the deep dark well and hear the ripples hit the stone and silence after some time.

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26 Jun 2025 - Andrea
Math RockStoner Rock

When I joined Veil of Sound, I was struck by a sentence: “lifting the veil from underground music”. These words made me realise that I had joined a team with ideas similar to mine, passionate like me about music that needs to be found, digging and listening to things you wouldn’t listen to if they didn’t walk by in front of you or if someone recommended it to you, and for me Duocane are the perfect example of such a thing.

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22 Jun 2025 - Simon
Post-Hardcore

A genuinely beguilling album from a new band with a lot to say!

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18 Jun 2025 - Knut
Post-MetalAtmospheric Black Metal

Varhara´s third album is a treasure chest of mighty, melodic, and cascading atmospheric metal music.

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17 Jun 2025 - Knut
Post-Black MetalBlackgaze

May 1st, saw the debut release of yet another amazing band from St. Petersburg - Береста. The band´s music is complex, layered and utterly captive as with most of the metal bands from that city.

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16 Jun 2025 - Knut
Ambient

Ambient music in the distant wake of Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, inspiring relaxed meditation.

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13 Jun 2025 - Thorsten
DSBMDark Wave

The Nameless is back with his impersonal band – Ghost Bath brings a new soundtrack for the darkness of summer. If you feel a kind of disdain for the too many hours of sunshine in the upcoming weeks, then this might be the soundtrack for your recluse in solitudinous wait. Rose Thorn Necklace is a step in a slightly different direction but it is still indubitably Ghost Bath. Never mind the red.

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12 Jun 2025 - Thorsten
BlackgazeReggaeton

Stagnation is Death. Could be the name of a new metal band, huh? Or an album title. Neither is wrong. Basically it‘s the programmatic slogan which might help to understand Pyramids‘ new record Pythagoras. We will try to make you understand what we and the band mean with that slogan.

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09 Jun 2025 - Knut
Death JazzMetalcore

Welcome to the tumultuous and ferocious swirls and whirls with hard and heavy, Jazz-infused metal music delivered by the Norwegian powerhouse Agabas.

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05 Jun 2025 - Clément
Shoegaze

WHERE MY SAD PEOPLE AT? Feel free to jump on the first plane to Texas, where the new faces of music which is as saturated as it is emotionally charged are born, at least on the American scene.

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29 May 2025 - PBV
ExperimentalProgressiveMetal

There is lore that exists about every place. No matter how famous or small, vast or strange sounding — when uttered by both foreign and local tongues, an even sea creates a tumultuous ripple.

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28 May 2025 - Knut
Post-Rock

Kusanagi´s third release since the Liverpudlian band’s inception in 2011 is an invigorating display of Post-Rock music at its best.

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23 May 2025 - Simon
Alternative RockProg

A happy puppy full of exuberant energy, that’s what this lesser known album is!

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21 May 2025 - Andrea
Dark AmbientDrone

For approximately one month I’ve started my day with a good habit: every morning, while making the bed and preparing myself for work, I push play on the Bandcamp app and I listen to the spotlight songs of the New and Notable section: I must say that this introduced me to a lot of interesting artists, one of those is who is we talking about, Penelope Trappes.

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14 May 2025 - Thorsten
HipHop

Zack de la Rocha, Chino Moreno and now Ashanti Mutinta. Three very different people, three distinctly diverse agendas but one commonality: They use the word “Fuck” in the most poisonous, best possible, most poignant way! Her new record Only Dust Remains is a sure step in a new direction.

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13 May 2025 - Knut
Funeral DoomDepressive Metal

Sweeping and weeping distorted guitars, powerful and versatile growls, and grandiose orchestration: The formula for an immaculate album.

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