Latest Reviews

There are way too many records released every week - which one should you listen to? We want to help you by reviewing lots of records every week and you can also check out a little teaser before reading the whole thing. And if you want to, you can also browse through our archive and have a look at the amazing records you might have missed out on.

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  • Wolfredt - Tides

    12 Mar 2021 - Simon
    alternative/post-rock/post-metal

    An outstanding album which manages to convey its message very well, a real achievement

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  • Agvirre/Dead Cosmonauts - Eye Of Mirrors

    10 Mar 2021 - Pat O'
    Post Metal/Post Black Metal

    Agvirre and Dead Cosmonauts have released a split single in aid of the MIND mental health charity. This is a great opportunity to sample Agvirre’s “blackened Post Grunge” sounds and hear Dead Cosmonauts give their unique twist on the Bladerunner theme song. These are two brilliant tracks of high intensity, no holds barred “Post Metal” that need to be heard.

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  • Mountainscape - Acceptance

    08 Mar 2021 - Simon
    progressive/post rock/metal

    A stunning musical journey through a film score inspired landscape

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  • A Reason To Travel - Kingdom

    08 Mar 2021 - Pat O'
    Ambient Post Rock

    A Reason To Travel’s latest release Kingdom is an immaculate piece of Ambient Post rock that will have you emotionally invested from start to finish. Sit down, relax and enjoy this epic journey back in time.

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  • kavyk - Radiant Abyss

    03 Mar 2021 - Thorsten
    Blackened Death metal

    Louisiana Death-Doomers Kavyk churning out a debut album on Caustic Hollow which is full of dirty fingernails but also some cliffhangers with space to evolve.

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  • Endlings - Human Form

    03 Mar 2021 - Ben
    Experimental/Noise

    Endlings are an American band, borne of a collaboration at the Albuquerque Experimental Music Festival, way back in 2010, between John Dieterich of Deerhoof and Diné composer, visual and sound artist, Raven Chacon. They’re joined on three tracks of this release by virtuoso percussionist Marshall Trammell.

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  • Timelost - Gushing Interest

    26 Feb 2021 - Thorsten
    Grungey Shoegaze

    Less than 18 months after their debut full-length, Timelost, the shoegazey Grunge-combo releases a new EP with several interesting songs and a PsychFur-Cover!

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  • Their Methlab - Tsunami

    25 Feb 2021 - Pat O'
    post rock/ post metal

    The brilliantly talented Their Methlab release a stomping mini EP thats hits you full on with power, thunder and might. Two tracks of old school hard hitting and ultimately fun “post-metal”.

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  • Soothsayer - Echoes of the Earth

    23 Feb 2021 - Thorsten
    Atmospheric Sludge

    Sludgers from Cork blend in perfectly between ritualistic metal bands and world-music experts showcasing some kind of Irish ritual of ancient times, when the earth was roamed by druids and fairies.

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  • Silas J. Dirge - The Poor Devil

    18 Feb 2021 - Thorsten
    Dark Country

    Silas J. Dirge is the onomatopoeic moniker of a Dutch singer/songwriter whose outlaw ballads really transport the feeling of a 20th duel scene on the streets of Laredo with hayballs flying across the path.

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  • Kavrila - Rituals III

    17 Feb 2021 - Thorsten
    Blackened Noiserock

    Hamburg’s most interesting band between hardcore and black metal complete their Rituals trilogy with the release of yet another interesting record.

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  • ellende - triebe

    17 Feb 2021 - Thorsten
    Atmospheric Black Metal

    Austrian black metal institution Ellende reworks the songs from an EP that he released several years ago and the new sound does some astonishing things to the tracks.

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  • Kabbalah - The Omen

    16 Feb 2021 - Thorsten
    Occult Stoner

    A sound somewhere between Blue Cheer and The Doors is mixed with choir enchantments to conjure the spirits on Kabbalah’s <i/The Omen</i>. Really spellbinding.

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  • Nordsind - Lys

    13 Feb 2021 - Pat O'
    Blackgaze

    On a wet and dreary winters evening, one of life’s little pleasures is chilling out with a bottle or two of ice-cold beer and passing a few hours wandering through the vast euphonic wilderness that is Bandcamp. I tend to get lost in it every couple of months, and when I do, there’s a great sense of triumph and gratification when I unearth a band whose sound instantly clicks and has something unique about them. Back in 2017, I came across Denmark’s Nordsind, and their EP Efterar.

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  • Mansur - Karma

    13 Feb 2021 - Ben
    Dark Jazz/Electronic

    Where were you when you first heard something unique? Something that you had never heard before. Sure, we can all accuse any band or artist of being derivative. There are only so many notes, so many combinations and so many instruments in the world… everything we hear is bound to have been done before, right? How about taking a mixture of darkjazz, then mixing in a pinch of metal vocals and finishing it off with a healthy handful of middle eastern spice?

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  • Sepulcros - Vazio

    12 Feb 2021 - Thorsten
    Atmospheric Doom

    When a young band comes up with an impressive album riding the razor’s edge between Death and Doom Metal it should always be noteworthy, just like Sepulcros’s debut.

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  • Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse

    12 Feb 2021 - Stephan
    Dissonant Death Metal

    Whenever a festival evolves beyond its initial profile there will be critical voices mourning the good old days. In Roadburn’s case this critique sometimes comes perplexingly late, since the claim “Redefining Heaviness” actually just describes a practice of branching out, which has been action since at least a decade by now. Of course some naysayers translate it to “not being heavy any more”, which is their good right, but honestly quite puzzling to me for various reasons. Here comes the first: How can folks seriously miss heavy stuff in the line-up, when already the very first name up there is Ad Nauseam, playing their complete 2021 future classic Imperative Imperceptible Impulse?

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  • udånde - life of a purist

    11 Feb 2021 - Thorsten
    atmospheric black metal

    Udande proves to the dot that Vendetta Records is one of the labels for good black metal - this time with a lot to think about.

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  • Flyingdeadman - The Night

    07 Feb 2021 - Pat O'
    Post-Rock / Ambient

    France is said to be the birthplace of cinema with it’s innovative style and flair and it’s fearless approach with experimentation. So it’s not surprising that bands like Flyingdeadman, Lost In Kiev and Oak for example, are artisans at seamlessly integrating film into their own craft. It’s a signature sound and style for a lot of bands in the “post rock” genre, but some bands are simply better than others when it comes to effortlessly blending the two art forms.

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  • Sonic Flower - Rides Again

    07 Feb 2021 - Thorsten
    Heavy Stoner

    The legendary lost album by Church of Misery-side project resurfaced after more than fifteen years, rides again and shows why these guys are real masters at work!

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  • ÂGE ⱡ TOTAL - ÂGE ⱡ TOTAL

    04 Feb 2021 - Thorsten

    Collaborative effort by French bands Greyfell and Endless Floods turns into one of the most charming, mesmerizing and sonically crunchy records of the year.

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  • The Grief - Horizon's Fall

    02 Feb 2021 - Pat O'

    I was fearful that an underlying sense of pride and bias would creep into reviewing an album from a band that hail from my home-town of Cork, Ireland. However, I’m confident you will find that after immersing yourself in this album, you’ll agree that all the positive feedback it has received to date is on merit.

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  • God Is An Astronaut - Ghost Tapes

    02 Feb 2021 - Pat O'

    I first heard God is An Astronaut play live in 2007 and it’s a moment that’s embedded in my mind forever. I stood in awe as images were projected onto a screen, with three silhouettes etched to the forefront. Thought provoking clips flashed and fizzed across the small stage as the band captivated us with wave after wave of hard hitting, emotive Post Rock beauty and melancholia. It was all incredibly euphoric and memorable. Fast forward nearly fourteen years and they are still playing mind blowing shows and releasing dramatic and cosmic material. “Ghost Tapes #10” is the latest chapter in their story.

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  • Alkerdeel - Slonk

    02 Feb 2021 - Thorsten

    A few months ago we featured a review on the brilliant record Quelle by Belgian blackened doomsters Briqueville. This week we basically have the vice-versa record, some doomy black metal by Belgian band Alkerdeel in the form of their new record Slonk.

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  • Works of the Flesh - Works of the Flesh

    31 Jan 2021 - Thorsten

    Death metal with a very very strong infusion of hardcore and crust makes for a very tasty meal on this debut album by Belgian band Work of the Flesh.

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