27 Sep 2024 - Daria
Doomgaze

For me, autumn is the best season for gloomy and introspective music, whether it is Dark Folk or more heavier music, perfect time for Iress’ new record Sleep Now, In Reverse.

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27 Sep 2024 - Thorsten
Post-RockPost-Metal

One of the major problems for many Post-Metal bands is to balance fragile, intimate moments on the one and hard, crushing parts on the other hand. Enter Glacier who seem to have taken this formula to new heights for themselves and also for their genre.

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26 Sep 2024 - Lucia
Death MetalExtreme Metal

What would it be like to disappear into thin air? Dreamless Veil gives us an answer to this in the most eerie and introspective way, with music that transcends the realms of the corporeal. The body being portrayed as a mere vessel, that just as the blast beats and shrieking vocals can be shattered, dissolved into nothing in the most gruesome way. Let’s travel into this sonic tale, which is beautifully crafted and materialised with Every Limb of the Flood. Be prepared to venture into this concept album with the idea that we, as listeners, will fully evaporate into its sound.

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24 Sep 2024 - Knut
Hard RockProg

A stunning release with constantly shifting heavy Hard Rock with some dazzling, melodic female vocals.

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19 Sep 2024 - Stephan
Instrumental RockAvantgarde Metal

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14 Sep 2024 - Knut
Post MetalPost-Hardcore

This heavy high-velocity album will leave you dazed and confused. But it is a happy daze paired with confusion on a higher level.

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12 Sep 2024 - Knut
Desert RockStoner Rock

If you weld the fuzziness of Desert Rock with the heaviness of Stoner you get “Tundra Rock” as this vibrant sophomore album from Slomosa wants to show.

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07 Sep 2024 - PBV
Experimental Death MetalExtreme Metal

”You’re not going to Mars / Mars is coming here”
…opens the chorus of the first track off Exhaust, the sardonic but devastating mood-setter bouncing and reverberating into the alleys through a dilapidated boombox.

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03 Sep 2024 - Thorsten
Melodic MetalBlack Metal

Spectral Wound bring the fun back into Black Metal. No, not the Black‘n‘Roll kinda fun that we enjoyed with Kvelertak but the kind of classic Black Metal sound that is defined by angry, fast, raucous attacks and some real Punk attitude where the only alternative to fast is faster!

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02 Sep 2024 - Knut
Post-Rock

Post-Rock from the capital of Metal, Birmingham, UK. It is not surprising that Solars’ music is ladden with the timbre of the heavy riffs that originated in this city.

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01 Sep 2024 - Gene
Post-ElectronicExperimental Hip Hop

This is your brain on drugs.

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30 Aug 2024 - Knut

Once more the Swiss-American band Modern Rites releases a cascading crescendo, a genre-defying album. The music is as intense as it is dense. It contains some of the riffing warmth of Death Metal, the soaring beauty that can be found in the tremolos and synths in Atmospheric Black Metal, and the churning depths of Industrial Metal.

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28 Aug 2024 - Lucia
Black Folk Metal

Black Metal is very familiar with paganism and mysticism, and Alburnum has managed to create a very ambitious mix of the ferocity of the genre whilst adding beautiful folk elements. The intricate melodies and arrangements make this a very distinctive sounding album. Not only do they deal with pagan and mystic themes, but they manage to add a personal touch to the music in The Withered Roots of Reality. Alburnum has achieved music that will be enjoyable for fans of the Black Folk Metal genre, with an obscure sound that is their own.

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27 Aug 2024 - Knut
Atmospheric Sludge Metal

A stunning album following a trail somewhere along the highway of the mightiest forerunners of the genre. The album does not come out as an equal, but more as a sequel with its heavy weight that carries the music with maritime and celestial themes. The band is constructing towers of sound with the riffs, the bass, and the drums that embrace and push two growling vocalists into memorable harmonies.

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27 Aug 2024 - Gökhan
Death Metal

Sometimes Death Metal doesn’t need to be elaborate or elongated - sometimes a quick slasher with the blade does the trick as easily as the more complicated chainsaw massacre. The Italian Death Metal guys in Fulci surely know about the usage of the blade just like The New York Ripper did. And now the former is back with a record about the latter. Intriguing!

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22 Aug 2024 - Thorsten
Avantgarde Black Metal

Next stop: The Birthday Party. What the anonymous masters of Avantgarde-Everything Mamaleek are doing on their latest record Vida Blue signifies a development which might only lead to the assumption that Mamaleek is the re-incarnation of Cave’s first significant band!

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22 Aug 2024 - PBV
Funeral DoomAvant-Jazz

As shadows slowly crawl across the worn skene of the Theatre of Dionysus, shifting the rays of the sun into low and heavy swirls of clouds, we witness the foreboding scene unfold — etched by Föhn in the ephemeral stage.

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17 Aug 2024 - Daniel Gorman
Post-Rock

Just when I thought it was a done deal that we weren’t ever getting a new Dirty Three album, they drop Love Changes Everything, their first LP in twelve years!

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16 Aug 2024 - Stephan
Post MetalAvant-Garde

On The Healer Sumac delivers a big bold stroke with a deafening yet subtly textured brush.

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12 Aug 2024 - Thorsten
GrindcorePowerviolence

As poisonous as the inland taipan, as crushing as a boa constrictor, as intelligent as the king cobra – that could be said about Missouri Executive Order 44, one of the new up and coming hardcore bands from the Midwest. One could also say the same thing about institutionalized religion and hey, that’s the idea behind the band from Kansas City, Missouri. No co-incidence!

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11 Aug 2024 - Simon
Post-Hardcore

Vesperine deliver the goods on their stunning new album Perpétuel

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09 Aug 2024 - Thorsten
Math-RockPost-Rock

Sometimes one might stumble across an album that is so elegantly seductive that you do not even notice your own inner excitement about it. When then recognizing the latter and being unable to explain why – then you might be listening to Megafauna, the new record by Math-Post-Rock magicians And So I Watch You From Afar

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04 Aug 2024 - Thorsten
Sludge

The hourglass, itself being one of the track titles on Kurokuma’s second record, Of Amber and Sand, is the best possible metaphor for said record by now-international group formerly based in the UK, now spread across Europe. This difference between “then” and “now” also defines their new work, as it is its main focus thematically; however, their new-found lifestyle also largely influences and diversifies their sound still mostly channeling the ideas of Sludge, Death and Doom Metal. Behold the behemoth Kurokuma coming at you.

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03 Aug 2024 - Thorsten
Neo-ClassicalNew Wave

How hard can it be to define the sound of a band? For near 30 years this question has been taken to new levels by Camerata Mediolansense. Is this Baroque New Wave? Or New Classical Punk? Are we talking about World Chamber Music? Can we classify them as Blackened Choir Music? Know what - all of these are possible. Whether one should listen to this record only has two answers: Yes, if you like your music different. Yes, if your musical taste is not bound by genres, historical periods or even languages. If (one of) these things matter to you, then you can stop here - for all the others: Welcome to the world of Atalanta Fugiens!

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29 Jul 2024 - Thorsten
Heavy PsychPost-Metal

In 1831, Katsushika Hokusai painted the famous painting The Great Wave off Kanagawa - and for some reason or other I feel a certain kinship between this painting and the cover of Ainu‘s self-titled debut just as I also see the thematic similarities to a band like Ahab. Does that lessen the five songs on Ainu in any way? No, surely not, because their Heavy Psych meets Post-Metal sound is really fresh even though some might see paralells to the genre predecessors, which I do not deny but also do not mind!

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