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UK-based artist Kill Shelter has recently unveiled a beautifully melancholic yet powerful new album, “Asylum.” With influences ranging from alternative, post-punk, darkwave, and contemporary electronica, alluding to the classic sonorities of Depeche Mode, Sisters of Mercy, or New Order, Kill Shelter spuns into an even more fantastic creative direction. While […]
You know how sometimes you wake up, have your coffee, naked on the balcony, the cat is sitting next to you, and you feel like wandering through the desert when suddenly a cold breezy air kicks you pleasantly in the face with sounds and colors from a different dimension? No? […]
Blackened Death Doom outfit STRIGOI are now proudly releasing their brand new single ‘Hollow’, which is taken from the band’s upcoming album “Viscera”. The album is set for worldwide release on September 30, 2022, via Season of Mist. “We chose HOLLOW as the first video single as it lends itself perfectly to giving […]
Sludgy crust/grind abomination The Human Race is Filth (THRIF) was conjured by longtime friends and bandmates Kasey and Paul, who have been playing and releasing tons of music together with their other bands: Bittered, Police State, Mans Plague, and Split/Cross. Band’s debut EP, “Human Exposed”, which came in December 2017, already marked the duo’s seventh […]
Dead Man’s Eyes are out with a brand new video single perfectly capturing the character of the upcoming album “III“. It has taken four years for the Cologne-based band to return with their second studio album, which will be released on Tonzonen Records, on August 19th. Similar to their previous album “Words Of […]
Take that humans! VALBORG are offering a short, sharp glimpse of their industrial side, driven by a chugging MOTÖRHEAD groove with the new video single ‘Hektor’, which is taken from the German sludge monster’s forthcoming album “Der Alte” (“The Old One”) that has been scheduled for release on September 9. “Every now and then a song comes along, which has […]
Ruit Hora is not a complicated band to love if you have a propensity to enjoy surprises. Founded by Daniel Araya, Ruit Hora (Latin for time runs) is a Chilean band creating a unique sound, mixing the English doom school with projects of the likes of Ulver, Laibach, John Carpenter, […]
To the best of my belief, it has seemed a tumultuous few years for Frau Fleischer, with the line-up change, pandemic, the release of their debut album, and the like. “When the Sun’s Down” was released on November 23, 2021, via Sliptrick Records, and here I found myself reviewing the […]
Portland-based drone/shoegaze/noise project FOLIAN premieres 2nd track ‘Beau Ideal’ from upcoming EP “Mimicking Nothingness”, out on 15 July via the architect D. Fylstra’s own imprint Anima Recordings. Mimicking Nothingness by Folian Formed by the musician D. Fylstra, FOLIAN merges elements of drone, shoegaze, metal, pop, and experimental noise, as well […]
‘Átfordul – Live at Bükk‘ marks the return of Hungarian post-rock trio Tӧrzs, presenting their first material since they introduced themselves to the world in grand fashion with 2019’s majestic audio/visual experience “Tükӧr”. For the uninitiated, Tӧrzs is the biggest instrumental post-rock band in Hungary. ‘Átfordul‘ is a prelude of […]