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

Band: Nuclear Power Trio Release: Wet Ass Plutonium Genre: Instrumental, Progressive Metal, Synth Country: USA Release Date: 28th of July, 2023 Released via Metalblade Records What better way to achieve world peace than having three presidents of nuclear powers, Kim-Jong Un, Putin und Trump, decide to take on the enemies of humanity with face-melting riffs, trumpets and hand out ass-kickings? Exactly, the album Wet Ass Plutonium by the mighty Nuclear Power Trio does just that. Apart from the satirical aspect of the group’s public appearance, I’ve rarely heard a record in recent ..read more

Bands: The Night Eternal Release: Fatale Genre: Heavy Metal Country: Germany Release Date: 14th of July, 2023 Released via Ván Records Germanys heavy metal saviours The Night Eternal are back with their second full length LP titled Fatale. The Essen-based five piece, still combine classical NWOBHM influence with occult rock and goth tendencies similar to Unto Others, In Solitude and Tribulation. Mastered by the renowned Arthur Rizk and co-produced by Marco Brinkmann, the successor to 2021s Moonlit Cross offers everything fans could have hoped for and more. While the aforementi ..read more

Band: The Deafening Silence Release: Night Lights Genre: Post-Rock, Ambient, Electronica, Experimental Country: United Kingdom Release Date: 19th of April, 2023 Released via self released Music is strange. Sometimes we feel positive or negative emotions when we listen to music, other times we associate memories with it or just exuberance. Post-Rock for example often triggers the feeling of being pulled into something, to float in empty space. But what I felt with Night Lights by The Deafening Silence was new and strange. I felt a pleasant coldness that calmed and relaxed me in ..read more

Band: Soft Kill Release: Metta World Peace Genre: Post-Punk Country: USA Release Date: 5th of June, 2023 Released via Cercle Social Records Cover Artwork Cercle Social Records Roughly a year after the stylistic departure that was Canary yellow Soft Kill are back with Metta world peace. Being slightly bitter about outcome of that said album, Tobias Grave took matters into his hands and produced the album by himself during a move with the help of some creative friends. The result is an album, that takes past releases, especially the demo-albums Premium drifter and Not quite Dra ..read more

Band: The St. Pierre Snake Invasion Release: Galore Genre: Hardcore, Rock Country: England Release Date: 21st of April, 2023 Released via Church Road Records Cover Artwork Church Road Records Some things just never get out of style: combining unhealthy but tasty food beyond imagination, dad jokes and pairing Rock with Hardcore. Ever since the Chariot have left there was a hole in my musical horizon. The St. Pierre Snake Invasion (short TSPSI) are here to take a place beside them up there. Roughly four years since Caprice Enchanté TSPSI grace the world with a NOT ABOUT-Co ..read more

Band: Quentin Sauvé Release: Enjoy the view Genre: Alternative, Singer / Songwriter Country: France Release Date: 31st of March, 2023 Released via Hummus Records / Bright Colors/ Luik Musique Cover Artwork Hummus Records Some records just “find” their perfect place and time. Back in the year 2020, circa a month before Corona put its grasp around the world, Quentin Sauvé released his debut Whatever it takes. The winter was grey and dreary, but this record gave it warm, melancholic twist that took me again and again. Enjoy the view arrives on the edge of spring and just like th ..read more