28 Feb 2025
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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07 Feb 2025 - Thorsten
Atmospheric Black Metal

Question: If a band is declared to have an exotic nature due to displaying their cultural heritage on their sleeve – can that band still be exotic for you if you come from that region? Answer: No! Follow-up-question: If the novelty act character is laid aside from you then, can that band still be regarded as glorious by yourself? YES! As long as a band is able to write great songs the novelty character might be less important (or non-existent) for people from that region but the music can still be utterly brilliant! Evidence: Gràb from Bavaria, the state I live in! Their new record Kremess is just that – brilliant!

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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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03 Feb 2025 - Thorsten
Post-Black MetalAtmospheric Black Metal

-273,15° Celsius. Or 0°K. That’s Absolute Zero. Or Zéro Absolu. The latter is also the name for one of the most exciting new Black Metal projects from France and in some ways it truly is a fitting title for the projects, as Absolute Zero is only possible on a theoretical basis, but not in reality, as there will always be a tiny divergence from it in kinetic energy. The same can be said about Zéro Absolu – the band comes close to 100% darkness but there are always some tiny silver rays on the (musical) horizon. Nevertheless, this is one hell of an Atmospheric Black Metal debut!

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02 Feb 2025 - Thorsten
Avantgarde PopPost-Rock

Whatever this really is, it is a miracle brew which feels a little bit like a fountain of youth, because coming out at the end one feels amazingly refreshed and really anew and in tune with his new listening habits. Thank you for the great record, LUACOLLIDER!

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31 Jan 2025 - Thorsten
Post-MetalPsychedelic Metal

Bay-Area-based film buffs Sleepbomb begin bringing new sounds to their cinematic and cinema-induced escapisms. But beware – this singular series of songs is surely not a list of beloved b-sides as it follows Sleepbomb‘s unique line of suspense – scoring alternative soundtracks creating new atmospheres for awesome movies. This time: George A. Romero‘s The Night of the Living Dead.

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29 Jan 2025 - Stephan
ExperimentalAmbient

“To become a martyr, one has to be murdered”.

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28 Jan 2025 - Knut
Blackened Sludge Metal

This album is a feat from the Hertfordshire, UK, band. Praetorian takes the Sludge metal music into blackened realms, adding a touch of Screamo and guttural growls. Energetic, angry, vibrant, and heavy riff-based from musicians at the peak of their career.

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27 Jan 2025 - PBV
Atmospheric Black MetalPsychedelic Folk

Density and volume are peculiar notions when people find themselves catching their breath in the midst of a musical journey. The chemical elements seem to fall away when the listener decides — knowingly or unknowingly — to succumb to the listening experience, as if something akin to floating in a vacuous space while being submerged in a translucent tank of light.

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25 Jan 2025 - Thorsten
IndustrialNoise Rock

You sometimes wish that KEN mode was a bit “poppier”? Or that Godflesh was a bit sterile? You desire a Killing Joke song that is grittier? Or that Skinny Puppy’s main instrument was the guitar and not the synth? Then you got to thank Three One G for giving us the new full-length by Seattle-based Haunted Horses - Dweller is all you wished for, and a bit more.

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24 Jan 2025 - Simon
Doom

Wyatt E. conjure forth the first half of a planned double album, it’s a bit good!

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24 Jan 2025 - Andrea
ElectronicIndustrial

The gritty and aggressive sound characterizes the debut album from Luigi Pianezzola, known as Torba. The Italian producer mixes Punk, Industrial and Electronic music to achieve an interesting and personal sound.

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23 Jan 2025 - Knut
Post-RockPost-Metal

This immersive album with stirring counterpoints reeling from velvet Post-Rock sonics to harsh and intricate Post-Metal atmosphere is every bit as delicate as it is harsh. Believe it or not, it is the first full-length by the Scots.

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