Latest Reviews

There are way too many records released every week - which one should you listen to? We want to help you by reviewing lots of records every week and you can also check out a little teaser before reading the whole thing. And if you want to, you can also browse through our archive and have a look at the amazing records you might have missed out on.

  • Fall of Leviathan - In Waves

    24 Apr 2024 - Knut
    Post RockPost Metal

    The Swiss quintet has released a cinematic album dedicated to the ocean in all its unpredictable majestic splendor mixing the tenderness of Post-Rock and the dense heaviness of Post-Metal.

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  • Slowenya - The Wild Inevitable

    17 Apr 2024 - Knut
    DoomgazeDarkwaveIndustrial

    A brave genre-bending album soaked in the heaviest and slowest Doom with delightful dissonant parts reeking of grinding Industrial Metal seeped with gloomy Darkwave synth sampling.

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  • DOOL - The Shape Of Fluidity

    12 Apr 2024 - Martin
    Dark Alternative Metal Rock

    Soul Searching Sun

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  • Full Earth - Cloud Sculptors

    10 Apr 2024 - Stephan
    Psychedelic RockStoner RockProgressive Rock

    Machines of incomprehensive size and age, molten into shape by the heat of the Earth’s core, now hovering in the empty sky and throwing monumental shadows over the yet uninhabitated tectonic plates. Fueled by cosmic radiation they move unstoppably through the unadorned sphere between the planets’s surface and the endless void of space. Their mission is enormous, scheduled for ages. The outcome is beautiful and one of the many crucial forces which enable the development of life: The creation of clouds.

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  • Henrik Palm - Nerd Icon

    07 Apr 2024 - PBV
    Heavy MetalPost PunkArt Rock

    Henrik Palm, or Henke as lovingly referred to by his friends, has been around the block so much that the block has transformed into a crystal structure of self-reference; with the barman knowing precisely “the usual” when Palm and his collaborators end up being served.

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  • Vnder A Crvmbling Moon - II Aging & Formless

    05 Apr 2024 - Knut
    Atmospheric Sludge Metal

    One year after their first full-length Vnder a Crvmbling Moon have refined their music now releasing an album with meditative, contemplative even dreamy music based on Sludge and Doom.

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  • Fyear - s/t

    03 Apr 2024 - Thorsten
    Conscious RapFree Jazz

    There is a lot of fire to be found on FYEAR’s eponymous debut album which oscillates between the realms of Conscious Rap poetry and fighting Free Jazz that is working with and somehow also representative of the sounds their label Constellation Records is known for. What a debut!

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  • Locrian - End Terrain

    02 Apr 2024 - Thorsten
    Experimental Drone-MetalAvantgarde Noise

    Locrian. A name that should ring like thunder in the ears of everyone who loves unconventional, “uncategorizable” music. There are elements of Shoegaze, Synthwave, Noise, Death Metal, Industrial, Post-Punk and loads more to be found on their newest record End Terrain which to many might be their opus magnum, including yours truly.

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  • The Vulcan Itch - Rise of the Fallen

    31 Mar 2024 - Thorsten
    Stoner Rock

    It’s officially spring! As nature came to life again I also found myself curious to see what’s new in the music realm and so I tried to discover something new, fresh, and also a bit distant from the usual “mood” that I search in music. The Vulcan Itch just released their second full length Rise Of The Fallen this week, a groovy rock album with a pinch of Stoner and Noise-Rock influences.

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  • Civerous - Maze Envy

    30 Mar 2024 - Gökhan
    Blackened Death MetalDoom Metal

    Last year was an unbelievably amazing year for Death Metal, especially for folks whose flavors lie in grimy, nasty section of the menu. We’ve been assured once again that the venom that coats the axes of veterans and stalwarts of the genre is as potent as ever. But the young blood also came up with terrific releases as well. So, after having such a spoiling year I was thinking that 2024 was going to be a relatively slow year for the genre. But oh no. No, sir.

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  • Diabolic Oath - Oracular Hexations

    28 Mar 2024 - Martin
    Black MetalDeath Metal

    Go to hell to feel alive!

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  • Darkestrah - Nomad

    27 Mar 2024 - Knut
    Epic Pagan Black Metal

    With their distinct sonic palette highly recognizable, Darkestrah releases an album 25 years after their inception that does the impossible as it seems to surpass their previous impeccable full-length albums.

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  • Monovoth - Pleroma Mortem Est

    25 Mar 2024 - Stephan
    Funeral Doom

    “Most Of All Is Death” is a Funeral Doom album centered around the subject of Death.

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  • Doodseskader - Year Two

    21 Mar 2024 - Lucia
    HardElectronicaNoiseyHardcore

    Music has its own way of bringing perspective to the different facets of life: to give them not only an outlet, but also to allow for all to come together, bringing some type of solace and relief. Doodseskader combining in one, pouring their life experiences into the music, hitting the listener hard, connecting with the audience and delivering perfection. The softness of the pastel colours meet the brutal sound of their music and the lethal delivery of their honest lyrics, transforming the rage and hurt into something unique. Get ready to be immersed in Year Two.

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  • Reverb on Repeat - Жить

    18 Mar 2024 - Knut
    Ambient | Shoegaze

    Four tracks of melodic meditative, soothing, comforting Ambient-Shoegaze from what can be called a supergroup of the St Petersburg scene.

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  • Mastiff - Deprecipice

    15 Mar 2024 - Knut
    HardcoreSludge Metal

    Brutal, desperately aggressive, and deeply emotional doomy Sludge that feels like a fresh slap of cold water in your face. Mastiff is right on track to become trailblazingly genre-defining with their new album.

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  • convulsing - perdurance

    13 Mar 2024 - PBV
    Death MetalProgressive

    There are many ways the construct of genre can seemingly work against an album. It’s usually all the peripheral elements; the artwork, the grammar choice, even things like handwritten lyrics. Many don’t care about iconoclasm in a bloodied-up slaughterhouse with meat strung up in a row. They want the burger; they tell you to hold the extras. And those folks not looking for wild spices in their meal or dwelling in conversation after ‘ are likely to get up from the table and travel their merry way to their next destination.

    All this to say that perdurance is a clear labor of love with every intentional detail accounted for. From the lengths of the silences’to the naming of the tracks and album; from the cadences and codas ‘ to the literal and figurative breaths in the auditory aesthetics.

    The trajectory of this album, which comes approximately six years after Brendan Sloan’s last work Grievous, transcends the notions of the Death Metal genre as we’ve come to know its seasoning and reasoning. It’s an album of risk, and plentiful reward for anyone wishing to digest, sit, and pour into the liner notes and lyrics. A bonafide emotional ride, which for the initiated and uninitiated alike, may recall the anguish of mister Steevo Hurdle on Gorguts’ Obscura; the ingenuity of Swan’ on Edge of Sanity’s Moontower; coupled with the expressiveness of the Mongrain’s and Holdsworth’s of that connected world. The sequencing alone, along with the secret bonus, recalls a time when full album listens were received without interruption, with full submersion into the material, in awe, with headphones on or sitting on the bed, following along to the lyrics.

    This is a ferocious one. If classical composition can feel ferocious. It is curious; if one feels that the gleam and luster of that death metal blade have dulled over the last decade, this blacksmithing is the leap into that magic. If these dark corridors entice your propensity to discover and uncover’this album is very much for you. A return to a certain form, that is simultaneously completely obliterated by the notion of what the future may hold in this genre. There are delicate sauces here; they’re tactile and they are complex; they are ‘baroque’ as a friend put it. With that said’every song is a ‘hit’ with and without the quotations. If the world listens intently ‘ this can be a watershed moment for the Heavy Metal cultural continuum as the namesake of the album suggests. In my recipe book, it very much is.

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  • Monkey3 - Welcome To The Machine

    12 Mar 2024 - Simon
    Psych RockStoner Metal

    Monkey3 return with a stunning slice of next level rock music to transport the most weary of listeners away into their musical cosmos.

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  • Beenkerver - De Rode Weduwe

    11 Mar 2024 - Lucia
    Black Metal

    All great stories are accompanied by a great soundtrack, and such is the case of Beenkerver’s De Rode Weduwe in telling the story of Sophia, the red widow. In this story, she deals with abuse, witchcraft, revenge and remorse. From the 90s Black Metal sound to the fast-paced riffs that are characteristic of Beenkerver’s music, this is him at his finest, creating a story that gives a female character a leading and heroic role. Thus, if you enjoy great storytelling with well-crafted Black Metal, let’s join Sophia and Beenkerver into this journey.

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  • Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - of the Last Human Being

    04 Mar 2024 - Thorsten
    AvantgardeFree Everything

    One of the most innovative bands on all of the planets of our milky way is back after 17 years and they show how a proper comeback should be done. Do not in any way compromise your art but look for the elements that defined your sound, try to keep the most important ones and add new elements that are challenging to your audience but never pushing them away. Welcome back Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and thanks for bringing us of the Last Human Being!

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  • Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches out to She Reaches out to She

    01 Mar 2024 - Gene
    Dark FolkElectronic

    Exactly everything I could have hoped for!

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  • Clouds Taste Satanic - 79 A.E.

    27 Feb 2024 - Knut
    Atmospheric Stoner Sludge

    A year after their amazing eighth full-length release the New York-based lords of heavy psych-fuzzy Sludge Doom Metal are back with their ninth massive instrumental opus.

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  • They Came From Visions - The Twilight Robes

    26 Feb 2024 - Thorsten
    FolkAtmospheric Black Metal

    Hephaestian Black Metal. There I did it. Came up with another unnecessary name for a genre that many by now have closed the lid on as it has become stale for them. But isn’t inventing new genre names also fun? Of course we need a basis on which to formulate our idea upon: They Came from Visions is an anonymous Atmospheric Black Metal trio from Kyiv, Ukraine. In the middle of the war-torn times they release their second full-length The Twilight Robes now via Eisenwald and it is a pure pleasure to listen to.

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  • Kali Malone - All Life Long

    26 Feb 2024 - Stephan
    Modern ClassicalExperimentalDrone

    Dear VoS Ultras, is an artist with a recent feature in the New York Times even still underground enough for this platform? In case of Kali Malone I would say yes, since despite almost unanimous critical praise the composer/organist still operates at the minimalistic fringes of every musical realm she touches.

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  • A Burial at Sea - Close to Home

    23 Feb 2024 - Knut
    Post-Rock

    A flow of unhurried contemplative music through subtle misty, sometimes elusive, sonics. The cascades of distorted, yet translucent crescendos. The omnipresent timbre of glimmering melodic Post-Rock. All of that and more is fused into the ten tracks on the astounding second full-length from this musical collective.

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