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Nordic folk outfit BYRDI has released the video single ‘Huldre‘ as the second track taken from their forthcoming album “Byrjing” (“Beginning”), which is scheduled for release on March 5, 2021, via Trollmusic. A huldre (English huldra or hulder) is a seductive female nature spirit that is well known across Scandinavia. Mostly seen as benign, this mythical creature is […]
EMPYRIUM has released a magnificent video for ‘The Three Flames Sapphire’ as the second single taken from their forthcoming album “Über den Sternen”, which is scheduled for release on February 26, 2021. “Although our video single ‘The Three Flames Sapphire” features the first track of ‘Über den Sternen’, it was in fact the last song that we composed […]
Valse Noot is a free noise rock quartet from Brest, France. Valse Noot doesn’t just rip the face off, it also attacks the brain, because the disturbed rock of this band, somewhere between Fugazi’s Zappa and Lizard’s Jesus, sounds as if the Joker has gone into “free rock noise”. Madness reigns everywhere on the new album ‘Utter […]
Having released a promising self-titled EP in 2016, Hamburg-based progressive post-rock trio Vandemonian finally announce the release of their debut album “Xenophilia”, due out on February 20th. Recorded and produced on a DIY-approach by guitarist and vocalist Nick Braren between late 2018 and early 2020, “Xenophilia” developed gradually over those two years with the trio constantly […]
Danish sludgy post-metal trio Kollapse has revealed a music video for a new song off their forthcoming second album “Sult”, which is set to be released on April 9, 2021, via Fysisk Format, in cooperation with Maniyax Records, Dingleberry Records, and Virkelighedsfjern. The last couple of years have been particularly difficult for the band, after a string […]
NOPES have premiered the pulsating new track ‘Under the Leather’, which is taken from the US noise punks’ forthcoming album “Djörk”, which is slated for release on January 29. “This track was written about experiences with people who act like they have something to prove”, relates vocalist Alex Petralia about ‘Under the […]
THY CATAFALQUE is unveiling a brand new music video for the track ‘Napút’, taken from their latest album ‘Naiv’.Mastermind Tamás Kátai comments that: “This is a video we shot in my home town, Makó. Many of these locations are the places I grew up in and although nothing fancy is going on, […]
The song is taken from the band’s latest full-length ‘Grave Image’, released in January 2020. DEATHWHITE comments: “The themes reflected in both the video and song are indicative of the world we currently occupy — the pandemic of 2020 simply amplified those matters. The havoc wrought upon this planet via the denial […]
What would you do if you knew that anything you could ever meet in life has already happened?It’s like sitting for half an hour in the waiting room at the doctor that just gave you eight minutes to live. ‘Terminus’ is a kind of autobiography of a terminal illness, one […]
Mountain vistas of sombre forests stretching towards the horizon, majestic ruins of medieval castles still standing proud on ragged cliffs, water spirits lurking in dark moorlands beckoning unwary wanderer to the depths – the very same motifs that inspired the painters and poets of German Romanticism have also given rise […]