Skin Graft Records is one of those labels that more people should know about, for its integritry, artistic vision and excellence at roster building. I mean, hey, Fisher and Company had Melt-Banana, Shellac, Zeni Geva or US Maple but also great new bands like Squid Pisser (remember our interview with Tommy recorded on Super Bowl Sunday!), Cheer Accident, Lovely Little Girls or Cuntroaches. Next week, June 28th, Skin Graft is going full circle by releasing Blurred Wires, the raucous new record by Upright Forms, which is the newest outfit of Nick Sakes who was also part of the cult-underground 90s icons Dazzling Killmen, who - and here comes the full circle - released the very first record ever on Skin Graft. However, we try not to dwell on nostalgia too much, because it’s like fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, brushing over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth. And Nick is surely not one to dwell too much on moments past - that surely shows in Upright Forms’ songs which are angular and “math-y” but at the same time also still pretty poppy as he still likes a good melody or hook. You see we have a lot to talk about and therefore this conversation with Nick is one of the nicest interview with an unsung hero of the past you might get your ears on! Furthermore, as if that interview wasn’t enough, we also give you a review of Blurred Wires to round off the whole package. So, enjoy our Record Special for the upcoming Upright Forms-record!

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Sometimes you get songs and records that need time, sometimes you do not even notice how they are crawling into your earchannels. Typhon Sleeps Heavily does just that on their EP Under The Influence - if you want to witness background music pushing for your attention without pushing, then this record today should be right your thing!

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Okay, this is a real trend - Solar Temple is yet another artist who has a second premiere in a rather short while: Last time we premiered their collaboration with Dead Neanderthals now we give you one of the tracks of their upcoming record A Gift That Should Have Been Reserved for the Great Lights out next week via Consouling. “Celestial Kingdom” shows the project from a very different yet still highly psychotic (or psychedelic?) side. Enjoy!

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We are always trying to come up with new content and also open to guest writers delivering first class articles. When William York and we got talking a few months ago, we quickly hit it off and it became clear, that he would write something very special for us. He knows a lot about the band, has interviewed several band members over the course of the last 20-some years and has been to see two concerts on the recent live runs. In this essay, he tries to come up with an answer what constitute the Mr. Bungle-experience and what their existence as such still means. As Mr Bungle is currently in Europe with their “Geek Show” we thought, it’d be cool to split up Will’s extensive and intensive texts into two parts.

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Can a band that seemed like seasoned veterans with their first full length in 2016, expand their musical scope further into new avenues in the Heavy Metal realm with a third album? The Norwegians SIBIIR undoubtedly can - heavier, denser even more diverse with relentless anger and desperation at the heart of the music.

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Ah, the Netherlands. Land of windmills, cheese, canals. But also land of Psychedelic Black Metal and Avantgarde Jazz, these two things being much more important for VoS than the three former Dutch classics. And what do we get when these two musical ideas melt? Yes, we get a “classic” Dutch collaboration record by Dead Neanderthals and Solar Temple. Man, how proud we are, to premiere the whole record two days ahead of the official release date for you! Enjoy!

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Doing two premieres by one and the same band or artist seems to become a thing here on VoS - a few weeks ago we gave you two VORARE premieres within a few days, and now it’s Mount Logan who were so kind to let us premiere “Track 03” after our first one 12 days ago.

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Lifting the memories of 80s and 90s synth-based music and fusing it with Indie influences and modern Darkwave. I did not see that coming from two long-serving musicians from the Oslo metal underground.

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Million Moons is a London based Post-Rock band that aims to tell stories through emotional and cinematic spheric Post-Rock as their debut Gap in the Clouds showed us in 2022. That was a brave musical take on something that affects many of us, Alzheimer´s.

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Album of the Year was a pretty self-assured, if not to say arrogant, record title by Faith No More nearly 30 years ago. Well, in their case, it was justified. Fast-Forward to 2024 and we get another record with a pretty self-confident title - Mount Logan named their upcoming record Best of Music. And even though we love its tongue-in-cheek meaning, we are more than convinced of it and thus present you the video for the first track (also aptly titled “Track 01”) here on VoS!

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If you have experienced the same thing as Fantin Reichler or yours truly, this premiere will seem like a very good depiction of what you had to watch. As these moments were pretty hard to go through, let’s have a closer look at the music, as it speaks volumes and is a reason for VoS to be proud to give you this premiere for their third single “Interlinked”!

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NO! You are not mistaken, we have yet another VORARE premiere for you this month! And this time it is the premiere of the whole record they will be releasing with Earthflesh on Friday. Whether you “enjoy” this tour de force or not is up to you, but you will probably not be able to do something but listen simultaneously to this record!

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More or less 200 seconds that are pumped full of everything synths and modulators, drones and beats can procure - that is Vorare’s new single “Vacuous” which we have for you today. Post-Punk beats meet Black Metal scream countered by some vibrating oscillating Drones and all garnished with a pretty chaotic Noise soundscape - et voila! Enjoy our latest premiere right here, right now.

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A few weeks ago, we had Learning Curve Records an interview with METZ (which btw is still insanely “under-watched” if you ask me, because the band has been one of the best on Sub Pop for many years now) - and if you want to know why bands like METZ are relevant in 2024 check out this video premiere for one the latest bands on the criminally underrated Crazysane Records label - Death by Gong and their song “In Despair”. The lyric video for it is filled with visuals to keep your eyes blurry and the sounds are there to make your ears bleed because of the crushed candy that the trio injects into them!

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Does anyone remember the Mokka Efti Ensemble from Babylon Berlin? Or the Dresden Dolls? Or Sabbath Assembly? Somewhere in between these bands you could locate South African-born and now Berlin-based artist Lucy Kruger. There is this certain Golden Twenties-vibe about her music that one would probably associate with Vaudeville. Enjoy our premiere of her latest and last video “Dripping Trees” which comes three weeks before the release of her new album!

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Admittedly, Black Metal in its rather athmospheric branches is one of our head honcho’s favorite soundscapes. However, there is nothing wrong with some gold old fashioned, classic-stylized Black Meal (not wanting to use the trve terminology). Therefore this split between two Belgian dark Black Metal powerhouses Antzaat and Ronarg is a welcome different shade of icy black. Enjoy!

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Sometimes we spin those crazy ideas in our heads here at Veil of Sound and it sometimes happens that two members of our crazy crew come up with the same idea or something very similar. So when Knut and Thorsten found out that they were both writing a review on the new Demersal album, and that the latter had already done a short interview with singer/ guitarist Viktor, it magically fell into place that they’d combine the interview with Knut’s review for a cool, all-you-can-get special on Demersal’s new, self-titled record. Doing the interview with Viktor was really cool because this fine young man surely knows his stuff and has a lot to say about how he sees hardcore and the world or how we can make sure to help each other. As he is also just a fun guy to talk to, this made for an easy interview. And when you first read Knut’s insightful review you will very likely be excited for May 10, when Demersal will be unleashed in all its beauty and complexity! Enjoy our special on one of the highlights of the Danish Screamo scene!

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Forget everything you remember about “Cinematic” or “Made-for-Movies” or “Cinemascope” or anything of the sort when it comes to Post-Rock. The wonderful Essex-foursome Telepathy show you what that should really mean by giving us their first ever recorded cover and what do they choose? “Time” by the wizard of bombast soundtracks Hans Zimmer, from his soundtrack to the Christopher Nolan headscratcher Inception! This is really “Cinemascope Post-Rock made for the big screen”, folks! Enjoy our premiere today!

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Is it a blessing or a curse that we are witnessing the return of several (smaller) Hardcore bands from around the millenium? We have seen the return of Bl’ast, a reunion by Gospel and there are many other bands that return nowadays. Another example of such bands seemed to be Tintoretto from Milwaukee but guess what? Yes, they are back with a release of their self-titled record.

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The ever-evocative and near-perfect Mantra-Doom outfit OM once had a track called “State of Non Return”, so what do you expect from a band of the same name? Exactly, heavy, sludgey Psych-songs and the Bologna, Italy based trio definitely delivers. How good they deliver you can check out here on VoS, where you can find the video for their new song “Vertigo”!

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Some animals, dogs for example, snap at their owners’ throats sometimes, most of the time not going for the kill, but for a joyful game and attention. The Belgian guys in Throatsnapper are no youthful dogs anymore, but their music definitely grabs your attention and the remarkable video for their latest single “Brilliant Insane” will do the same with its puppets, black and white atmosphere and (!) a brilliant stomping Sludge sound! Enjoy the latest premiere here on Veil of Sound!

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Rope Sect’s Inmesher and the Belgian dark music legend Lykaios are back at it again and so are we! Nox have a new video for you and one can definitely see a lot of where they are headed to with this project - dark Synthpop for the win!

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Feelin kinda down? A bit sad for whichever reason, if any at all? Need a little push off the throne of pitiful self-indulgence? Well, maybe the split record by Our Wrongs and Many Blessings might not be the best answer to your needs. Or maybe it is the perfect one. Enjoy our latest premiere here on Veil of Sound.

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Oh effin holy god-denying unbelievable shit. Yes - these are curses of joy. Anybody who thought that Walk Through Fire could not repeat the sheer awesomeness of their last masterpiece Vår Avgrund be assured they can. This will probably be the heaviest album of 2024 and surely one of the best ones! Enjoy our premiere for Till Aska, the new watermark for anything heavy ‘24.

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The Corrupting Sea and the Last American Poet - two individual one-man projects that join forces. What do we get? An amazing record full of melancholic Spoken Word passages and mesmerizing synth-driven music somewhere between Synthpop and Ambient. Enjoy the latest premiere here on Veil of Sound.

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