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Today, we’re featuring one of the most promising bands in the realm of instrumental progressive metal, hailing from Sibiu, Romania. For those who may still be unfamiliar with Doomsday Astronaut, they embarked on their musical journey in 2022, formed by guitarist Waqas Ahmed. Upon my first encounter with the band, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pryzme is a progressive French rock band born from the idea of Dominic Blanchard and David Chollet in 2014. Gabrielle Duplenne and Maxence Marmiyesses completed the lineup in 2019. Their debut album, “Four Inches,” was released in 2021 and consists of eight long-playing tracks. As soon as you dive into […]
Too often, black metal emanates feelings of pain or hate. That visceral anger that develops deep inside each of us needs to escape and liberate the vessel from which it feeds its presence in the genre. This must be the core feeling black metal artists choose to place upon that […]
Athens’ basement psych-punk outfit BAZOOKA has returned with their fourth album via Inner Ear Records, taking us on a journey to a world above the earth, somewhere else. Their record “Somewhere Elsewhere” consists of ten songs and sees the five-piece band in a psychedelic and very raw sound, much like […]
Once we were besotted with post-rock, the genre became the new alternative culture. A form of groundbreaking music that none of us could take the ears and eyes off. For the uninitiated, which included me until I listened to this record, CARVED INTO THE SUN is a California-based instrumental post-rock/progressive […]
HURLENOIR is a French band that has flown beneath many radars since it first started in 2019. As much as a musician as a painter, HURLENOIR is an artist who exploits dark themes to challenge and engage in reflection on the often rugged course of life. With “Achromaria,” the band’s […]
WILDE & BROWNE are indie pop singer-songwriter Cha Wilde and guitarist Davey Browne, who have teamed up to create a self-titled album of some sonic depth. The real-life married couple’s collaboration explores themes of seduction, love, polyamory, sex, and freedom, revealing much of their indie influences and pointing to an […]
“Bug,” PAGING DOCTOR MOON‘s second project, has an instrumental mix that is exactly what you might expect from the Western Pennsylvania-based band. In a statement, vocalist Kirsten Heibert says, “‘Bug’ is a short story of self-reflection in relation to codependency and loss. We wanted to take a step forward from […]