Band: The Night Flight Orchestra Release: Give Us The Moon Genre: Adult Oriented Rock, Classic Rock Country: Sweden Release Date: 31st of January, 2025 Released via: Napalm Records With Give Us The Moon the Swedish band takes flight for the seventh time into my guilty pleasure neon heaven. The journey begins with familiar sounds in ..read more

Band: Copale Genre: Grunge Country: Germany (Lübeck) Copale are a fresh and relatively new band out Lübeck that plays self-proclaimed Grunge Metal. Formed in 2022, the band is quickly gaining attention with a timeless intepretation of hand-crafted alternative Metal, also reminiscing on 90’s grunge heroes such as Alice In Chains or the often forgotten Only ..read more

Band: envy Release: Eunoia Genre: Post-Rock, Screamo Country: Japan Release Date: 11th of October, 2024 Released via Pelagic Records It should come as no surprise that we love envy: from the great back-catalogue (here are our ten favorite songs so far) and their great last album The fallen Crimson, they are just THAT good. So ..read more

Band: Death by Gong Release: Descalator Genre: Post-Rock Country: Germany Release Date: 20th of September, 2024 Released via Crazysane Records Like steps that continuously climb up a staircase or a steady heartbeat, “Troy Toy” leads the listeners into Death by Gong‘s album Descalator. Either way, Death by Gong lulls their listeners with their almost relaxing ..read more

Band: sleepmakeswaves Release: It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It Genre: Post-Rock Country: Australia Release Date: 12th of April, 2024 Released via Self-Released After being blown away musically by the new Midas Fall record, the next banger hit my ears immediately afterwards: It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It by sleepmakeswaves from Australia. I didn’t really have the album on my radar, even though I’m familiar with the band. Their albums are repeatedly mentioned in forums as “must-listens” and some songs are also repeatedly included in the playlists of popular streami ..read more

Bands: Midas Fall Release: Cold Waves Divide Us Genre: Post-Rock, Experimental Country: Great Britain (Scotland) Release Date: 8th of March, 2024 Released via Monotreme Records I didn’t have Cold Waves Divide Us on my radar at all, but came across them through a musical digging in forums because my Post-Rock heart was feeling a bit neglected. You just like to click on links, fast-forward the first 20 seconds, you probably know that. And then you stumble across music that unexpectedly takes you on a journey. This is what happened with the Scottish band Midas Fall led by Elizabet ..read more

Band: Infant Island Release: Obsidian Wreath Genre: Screamo, Shoegaze Country: USA Release Date: 12th of January, 2024 Released via Secret Voice Cover Artwork Sarah Bachman Community is a great thing. Achieving something greater doing it together. Being part of niche-culture has its advantages. A lot of things can be done more swiftly and there is a lot less fear of a possible reaction, because an open mind is kind of a minimum requirement to be part of that culture. Obsidian Wreath is a work of love and community. Infant Island release their third album Obsidian Wreath short ..read more

Band: Endlingr Release: Tra Genre: Psychedelic / Post-Rock Country: Belgium Release Date: 27th of October, 2023 Released via Consouling Sounds It’s autumn. Fields are getting misty in the morning and going to work and coming home from in the dark becomes common practice. The mood drops in the same way the leaves are falling. Though those are colorful, that what is left behind is grey emptiness. Endlingr‘s newest album Tra falls exactly into that vein. Three meditations of slow, atmospheric Post-Rock with a slight note of Psychedelic. Clocking in around 48 minutes, this is one ..read more

Band: Dreamwell Release: In my saddest dreams, I am beside you Genre: Screamo, Shoegaze Country: USA Release Date: 20th of October, 2023 Released via Prosthetic Records Cover Artwork Helvetica Blanc. Sparkling. That is the first word that comes to mind, when the first seconds of “Good reasons to freeze to death” come through your speakers. Like light broken on water. But around the 1 minute mark, the sparkling becomes blinding and burning, Screamo-Mode is fully engaged and one of the best openers this year begins. Two years after the already great Modern grotesque, Dreamwell ..read more

Band: Filth Is Eternal Release: Find out Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Grunge Country: USA Release Date: 29th of September, 2023 Released via MNRK Records Guitar feedback, drums and let’s go. No time to waste, just like their last album Love is a lie, filth is eternal Filth Is Eternal put the pedal to the metal (to get a little corny here) and take you right into the front of stage pits. Filth Is Eternal still throw fistful of gravel at high speed into your face with songs like “Crawlspace” or “Curious thing“, but then comes a song like “Cherish” and all of the sudden there is a sligh ..read more