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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04 Dec 2024 - Gene
World MusicFusion Rock

”Sci-Fi Middle Eastern Fusion”

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03 Dec 2024 - Stephan
Experimental MetalBrass

“Blow your trumpets, Gabriel!” (Adam Darski on The Satanist, 2014)

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30 Nov 2024 - Knut
Atmospheric Sludge Metal

From the eerie Dark Ambient opening seconds to the abrupt end this is a tour de force of Atmospheric Sludge Metal by one of the most interesting bands emerging in the last years.

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25 Nov 2024 - Andrea
Heavy Psych

After releasing their demo in 2022, the Barcelona-based Psychedelic Doom band Meltem released their first full-length on June 28: a blend of monolithic distortion, psychedelic riff and ritual drums from lands across the sea. Let’s dive into this review of Mare Nostrum by Meltem.

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23 Nov 2024 - Thorsten
Ambient Black Metal

Paysage d’Hiver is the best Black Metal this side of the millennium that has not seen the value of its music discovered by enough people. Many more should praise Wintherr and his project for the impressive transfer of classic cold Lo-Fi Black Metal into the 21st century. If anyone is a “trve” heir of what the Scandinavian pioneers did in the 80s, then it’s Paysage d’Hiver. His latest opus Die Berge is just another proof for that.

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21 Nov 2024 - PBV
Progressive Death Metal

There, beyond the gates of the Colosseum, bathing in the blood flowing through the Trevi fountain, covered in ash from the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica — two furious forces wrestle in a locked gaze; modernity and tradition.

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19 Nov 2024 - Thorsten
Post-Rock

“NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” is Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s eighth full-length and their first new released music since 2021, when they released G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! and it once again shows why not many other bands can claim to be as coherent as this collective from Montreal! So good to have them back and point to the problems of our modern world!

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17 Nov 2024 - Simon
Progressive Rock

London-based Dawnwalker return with a new album, lineup and direction, it’s all rather exciting

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16 Nov 2024 - Thorsten
SludgePost-Metal

This split seems like a High School reunion done perfectly well. When some members of Utah‘s finest Post-Metal scene get their bands together to do a split it better be something like this fourth installment of the Legends of the Desert-series released by Desert Records. Eagle Twin and The Otolith give us near 40 minutes of new amazing music in four songs!

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14 Nov 2024 - Knut
Atmospheric Sludge Metal

Blimey! A couple of months ago I reviewed the new high-velocity Norna album and wrote that it might be the heaviest album released this year. Little did I know that its contender was right around the corner. Well here it is: Still´s sophomore album with a barrage of heavy, discordant Post-Metal music.

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11 Nov 2024 - Thorsten
Atmospheric Black Metal

Long tracks are one thing. Single-track records something totally different. A 44-minute-Post Black Metal album completely unusual and not that frequent on top. Mother from Oostende, Belgium have done that again with their second full-length II and I love it!

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11 Nov 2024 - Thorsten
World MusicAmbient

How much purpose and intention can you put into one single note before it becomes stale, over-emphasized or simply “too perfect”? A difficult question, because warmth and idea do not necessarily contradict each other, this is not a general oxymoron. However, we all know those records which are too perfect, too sterile and not personal, not emotional enough to touch our very core. Please insert the record you are thinking of right now in this spot:____ And now I want to give you the record to counterbalance this bad example with: Listen to Leila Abdul-Rauf’s ”Calls from a Seething Edge”!

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