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YEARS OF DENIAL is the alter-face of French musician/DJ/producer Jerome Tcherneyan and Czech performance artist/DJ Barkosina Hanusova. Their music is known for its moody, atmospheric, and hypnotic soundscapes, driven by distorted, echoey vocals, pulsing beats, and brooding synth melodies. The band’s lyrics often revolve around isolation, despair, addiction, and mental […]
One of the great things about music is you never know what’s around the next corner or the next click. The Shadow’s Gone Out and their debut EP ‘Final Alarm‘ is one of those moments when one click revealed a gem. The Shadow’s Gone Out is an instrumental industrial rock […]
Romanian pantam (handpan) performer and artist Nadayana and multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer Petre Ionuțescu a.k.a. Trompetre, team up to create a momentum that reestablishes the connection between sound and time. Adding to the melodic steel percussion instrument, the handpan, today’s premiere single, ‘Dissolve’, introduces the trumpet, flavoring the music with […]
pMad, the project of Paul Dillon, has released a new single, ‘Down,’ delving into the impact abusive relationships can have on one’s identity and self-esteem. Based in Portumna, Co.Galway, Ireland, pMad combines goth, indie rock, and post-rock with electro, exploring a gothic underground sound reminiscent of Sister of Mercy, Bauhaus, […]
Whenever I listen to an ambient album, I always check and see where the artist’s influences stem from. In the case of The Lonely Bell, the full-length album called “Ghost Town Burning” does not necessarily beg to any path or another, but it goes about and presents itself as music […]
Under the acronym of O.A.K. (Oscillazioni Alchemico Kreative), the Italian musician, composer, and singer Jerry Cutillo has released “Lucid Dreaming and The Spectre of Nikola Tesla.” The album continues in the thematic paths already traced in the previous trilogy 2016-2020, namely “Viandanze,” – “Giordano Bruno,” – “Nine witches under a […]
Following their latest record, “Alone in the Crowd,” released seven years ago, French female-fronted progressive metal/rock band Wedingoth has unveiled its fourth full-length record, “Five Stars Above.” According to their press releases, the band combines the power of rock, served by a female voice charged with emotion, to atmospheric nuances […]
‘Ouroboros‘ is Peri Winkle‘s debut single, a euphoric introduction to her close encounter with death and the psychological implications of standing face to face with oblivion. In her caffeinated and vibrant pop world, it seems like every feeling is lit up in neon: from the life-changing near-death experience to the […]
“Thank You From the Future” is Moon Letters‘ second album, released in 2022, following the success of 2019’s “Until They Feel the Sun.” It’s not overconfident to say that their sophomore album is quite a magical journey through the past, staying true to the elements of progressive music. The Seattle-based […]
Lunt releases a cinematic electro-acoustic track, ‘The Inner Border,‘ a nearly 15-minutes piece filled with gravitas and hunger to stir emotions. Wrote in June 2020, ‘Inner Border’ uses soundscapes as metaphors for the travel that led the artist to Latvia. Anna Akhmatova’s poem, “A land not mine,” is read in […]