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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21 Jan 2025 - George
Dark Gospel

You think you know Pelagic Records pretty well, do you? Well this release may surprise you.

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16 Jan 2025 - Thorsten
DroneDark Americana

Somewhere between Chelsea Wolfe, William Basinski, Stars of the Lid and Anna von Hausswolff is the new home for Ethel Cain. There are still these mesmerizing and wonderful folksy structures one could but there is so much more to be discovered on Perverts, some of it very clearly, some rather hidden – but it is such a rewarding record!

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15 Jan 2025 - Knut
DarkwaveSynthpop

Out now is the sophomore EP from the adventurous two musicians behind Rule of Two. Using their immense creativity and developing catchy music with aclassc vibe straight from the 80s, but still very modern with an Indie approach to Darkwave, Electronic, and Dreampop.

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14 Jan 2025 - Thorsten
Shoegaze

”Whirr is a punk band from Modesto, CA” That’s what it says on their BC page. Well, is Whirr really a Punk band? Musically? Or more attitude-wise? We can look at both things now, because their new record Raw Blue is out since late December 2024 and my, my, my it sure is something!

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12 Jan 2025 - Knut
Blackened Death MetalThrash Metal

As the Wolf Moon rises above cities at night and desolate landscapes in 2025, Necromaniac descends on the world with their long-awaited debut album with what they describe as Morbid Metal.

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09 Jan 2025 - Thorsten
Post-Metal

Basically, this review of Obscure Sphinx’ new EP Emovere screamed for another writer, our connoisseur of everything Polish, the man who worked there for a some time and who knows the scene and the band quite well – Knut. And this EP is more than just its three songs and near 30 minutes, it is another sounding proof for the band’s reputation as one of the best progressive Post-Metal outfits out there anywhere!

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08 Jan 2025 - George
Atmospheric Black Metal

PATRIARKH might be a new name for you but Batushka probably isn’t which is what this band was formerly known as before they split into two different warring halves. This story was widely reported on and a bit boring so let’s get into the music instead shall we?

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03 Jan 2025 - Knut
Atmospheric Black MetalSymphonic Metal

Releasing a musical melting pot with one leg in Atmospheric Black Metal and one leg in classical music, Italian band Lord Agheros follows the trajectory on which its whole musical career has been based: melting Sicilian culture shaped by all ages into yet another sublime album.

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22 Dec 2024 - Andrea
Art RockProg Rock

An idea born several years ago has finally found his way out. Streghe is a concept album, written and produced by Fabio Meini on music by Josephine Lunghi. Eight songs about women forced to sell their bodies, migrant women, young mothers, trans people, abortion rights, raped women, gender equality, new and old witches.

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21 Dec 2024 - Stephan
ExperimentalDrone

The ancient question: What came first? The chicken or the egg? The church or the choir? The temple or the chant?
The new Indonesian spin on the question is: What came first to Senyawa? The idea to build the Vajranala Monument, a three and a half metres tall structure made of carved red andesite stones, which interprets the local Javanese history and mythology around the Buddhist Brojonalam Temple?
Or was it this collection of new songs which does the same?

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18 Dec 2024 - PBV
Psychedelic MetalBlack Metal

Curiosity is a hard currency measured and weighted by an impermeable, immeasurable gold standard when it comes to musical experiences nowadays.

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16 Dec 2024 - Simon
Post-HardcorePost-Black Metal

One of the UK’s most exciting new bands release their debut album, and it’s rather good indeed

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14 Dec 2024 - Knut
Atmospheric Black Metal

On their sixth full-length in as many years, the musical scope is expanded to capture human longing for the extreme and our will to conquer the near impossible as their life hangs in a thread while chilly winds sweep by to try to blow you off the cliffs and slopes.

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10 Dec 2024 - PBV
NoisecoreDeath Metal

As with the fodder of any holy scripture or revered sacred document, there lies within its tattered pages an outline for its version of the world’s eventual end. Somewhere between the inked or chiseled lines of the text, an inscription barks forth a date for sullen eyes to swiftly open upon its’ sight.

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05 Dec 2024 - Thorsten
Doom MetalSludge Punk

Four tracks and near 46 minutes and yet no real Doom record? Yes. QAALM from Los Angeles have stepped a bit away from their previous hunting grounds and simultaneously have stepped up their game indubitably. Their second full-length Grave Impressions of an Unbroken Arc show a band that is not tiptoeing around in one genre but easily in multiple directions, at the same time, while never forgetting about the song itself. Milestone record if one should bother to ask me.

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