MIMI BARKS has released a new music video! The new music video, for the track BANSHEE, is taken from the London-based trap metal artist’s upcoming debut album, DOOM TRAP, which is scheduled to be released in September this year. Speaking about the new song, she says, “a scream much like the sirens of death. A piercing voice prophesying your approaching demise. This ethereal noise is your death sentence. Coming at you like the ultrasonic squeaks of a bat. And when your heart stops beating and nobody will be there for their last goodbye, you won’t find me. A broken childhood, a mo ..read more

HAUNTED PLASMA have announced their debut album! Titled I, the upcoming album from the Finnish future synth meets kosmische black metal is their debut full-length record and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Svart Records. The band is comprised of Juho Vanhanen [ORANSSI PAZUZU, GRAVE PLEASURES], Timo Kaukolampi [K-X-P, OP:L BASTARDS] and Tomi Leppänen [CIRCLE, AAVIKKO, K-X-P]. The record also features guest vocals from Mat McNerney [HEXVESSEL, CARPENTER BRUT, GRAVE PLEASURES, BEASTMILK], Ringa Manner [RUUSUT, THE HEARING] and Pauliina Lindell [VUONO, DUST MO ..read more

FLOYA are a real breath of fresh air this springtime. German duo Marv Wilder and Phil Bayer came straight out the gate with beautiful singles like The Hymn with an amazing year last year they’ve finally given the eager fans a full-length, Yume. Many of these songs you’ll have heard if you’ve kept up with their single releases, but the collection overall is a great listen from start to finish. You’ll find an airiness to songs like Stay and Willows at the top of the record that make you feel right at home. There isn’t really any other way to say that there are some proper bops going on here; tha ..read more

PAIN have announced a new album! Titled I Am, the upcoming album from the synth/industrial-laden metal project helmed by HYPOCRISY‘s Peter Tägtgren is the long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s Coming Home, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Nuclear Blast Records. Speaking about the upcoming album, Tägtgren says, “the previous record Coming Home came out in 2016 – and of course there was a tour after that. In 2019, I released an album called F & M with RAMMSTEIN singer Till Lindemann, a project I left in 2020. In 2021, it was t ..read more

A Saturday night in Nottingham is always vibrant, whether you’re hitting the town for the bars and clubs or, in this particular case, making your way into one of their independent venues for an evening of great music and cheap pints before 8pm. GREG PUCIATO is a man who has graced stages in the UK on many occasions, from his tours with the frenetic THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, his more electronic-inspired supergroup THE BLACK QUEEN or, most recently, with the majority of the band formerly known as EVERY TIME I DIE in the most excellent BETTER LOVERS. However, tonight is ..read more

It’s been a while since we’ve heard the gloriously aggressive sounds of GOST. The prince of darksynth has had some time to evaluate his work, the world and what the creeping doom around us means on both a global and personal level. We caught up about writing hyperfocus on new record Prophecy, recentering and the end of the world. “It’s hard to get a gauge on the on the album before this,” he notes about previous record Rites Of Love And Reverance, “because it was during the pandemic, so everything was just weird. But even before that, I was so conscious of what people are saying.”  Being ..read more

There is a pivotal scene in Paul Verhoeven‘s 1987 classic sci-fi film RoboCop where the metallic hero apprehends a high ranking member of the main antagonists criminal gang in a nightclub that full of futuristic cyberpunk clubgoers while an aggressive electronic song blares out at a deafening volume. That song is Show Me Your Spine by PTP (who feature members of MINISTRY and SKINNY PUPPY) and adds a perfect sonic encapsulation of the dystopian feel of the movie. That scene in particular is part of a film, as well as other similarly seminal classics like Ridley Scott‘s Blade Runner, and how the ..read more

Today’s intransigent storm gallops throughout the day, yet pauses for the new wave act DRAB MAJESTY as they descend on Glasgow. This marks the duo’s return to Scotland’s largest metropolis since 2019’s performance. Their local admirer numbers have ballooned since then, with the Americans playing a sweaty Room 2, instead of Broadcast‘s humble basement. The storm seemingly deterred no punters tonight; the venue is uncomfortably busy before the opening act takes the stage. Tonight’s truly an exhibition of unapologetic 80s nostalgic revelry. The first act of the night is the Italian-American thre ..read more

KEYGEN CHURCH have announced a new album! Titled Nel Nome Del Codice, the upcoming album from technologist/songwriter Victor Love (Vittorio D’Amore), also of 8-bit MASTER BOOT RECORD, is the follow-up to 2022’s ░ ▒ ▓ █, and is scheduled to be released in March this year, via Metal Blade Records. “My plans for KEYGEN CHURCH are long-term,” says Love. “I am taking more pipe organ and piano lessons to bring this to the stage with my other bandmates in MBR. I‘ll need to do it right or not do it all, though. That means I’ll have to figure out how to bring a pipe organ and piano ..read more

GOST have released a brand new song! The new song, titled Widow Song, is taken from the American darksynth outfit’s upcoming new album, Prophecy, which is scheduled to be released in March this year. Speaking about the new song, band mastermind James Lollar says, “Widow Song is very personal to me on a few levels. The title tributes an old close friend who suddenly died years ago. The lyrical content is a direct response to the world of chaos we are all currently having to navigate. Sonically, I wanted to merge my new wave and black metal influences. I pushed my vocal ..read more