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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Frail Body - A Brief Memoriam (EP)
01 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
ScreamoThere are labels and there are well-run labels, and then there are those two or three handful of labels that really excel at what they do, making it possible to employ people and still release a bunch of records of the highest pedigrees.
The mini album “A Brief Memoriam” by Frail Body is proof that Deathwish Inc. is one of those handfuls that are able to gather a loyal following by representing a certain sound, aesthetic, ideology – you name it; they have a hand for picking unknown bands that fit their soundscope, giving them time and creative freedom and then incorporating their ideas into a catalog like no other. Frail Body from Rockford, Illinois, is a young trio that promises to follow in the footsteps of bands as diverse as Orchid and Touché Amoré with their modern wavey form of screamo, adding a shade of harshly, blasted and yet suffering, angsty hardcore to a flawless list of releases.
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Byzanthian Neckbeard - Minaton
01 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
SludgeByzanthian Neckbeard has all of it and that is a good thing for all Sludge fans because those riffs will carry the band far with all its doom and gloom and stoner and… well, you get it! Sludge on!
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Törzs - Tukör
25 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Post-RockMountain men mambo. Caveman cha-cha-cha. Those stupid terms can hardly be used more adequately than when describing Törzs’ new album, with a wink of an eye. Why? Later, for now let’s talk about the music itself.
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Timelost - Don't Remember Me For This
25 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Grunge-ShoegazeA duo, that sounds completely unlike the other bands the two guys usually play in, revives two genres from way back in the 90s - Grunge and Shoegaze, rather unusual combination.
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Throatsnapper - About The Dead
25 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Sludge-MetalConsouling Sounds + Belgium = modern hard music. Throatsnapper is the exhibit to proof this theory.
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The Kompressor Experiment - 2001
25 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Post-RockSwitzerland again - BUT! this time no metal-band but an interesting Post-Rock-act called The Kompressor Experiment.
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Process Black - Countdown Failure (EP)
25 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Noisy-HardcoreLegendary guitar hero Aaron D.C. Edge has yet another project to still his insatiable strife for releasing music with numerous bands and giving each outfit a significant style.
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Mur - Brutalism
25 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Blackened-Industrial-MetalOver the years, the boundaries between genres have vanished more and more. Some think that is not good and try to remain pvre and trve to their roots, which should be tolerated. As long as nobody gets hurt for it. Others think that it’s good to cross boundaries and explore new genre-blending possibilities.
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John Malkovich! - Hyenaeh!
25 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Post-MetalSome bands are hard to get a grip on and John Malkovitch! from Italy is one of those because their post-rock-influenced instrumental metal is nothing new, admittedly, but there is something about these tracks that makes you want to listen to them again – one of the better signs for any record.
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Consumer - In Computers
25 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Post-Electro-MetalA side-project to die for by one part of Have A Nice Life releases an impressive record.
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Botanist - Ecosystem
25 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Green-MetalGreen Metal = Black Metal with a focus on the importance of all plants on this wonderful planet.
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Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations
18 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Tech-DeathHow fast can laser beams travel on a guitar neck? Well, ask these guys in Xoth!
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Hegy - We Won't Make It Home
15 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Instrumental-BlackgazeAnother enchanting Hungarian post-metal/post-rock band releases a highly recommendable record in October 2019.
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Opium Lord - Vore
11 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Blackened-NoiseWell, well, well – if it ain’t the birthplace of it all, Birmingham?
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Juggernaut - Neurotique
11 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Psych-Prog-Post-RockWhen in Rome do as the Vandals, an old idiom says which implies that you turn everything topsy-turvy and leave no stone untouched. Believe or not, this could also be applied to Juggernaut’s third album Neuroteque which was released recently.
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Arx Atrata - The Path Untravelled
11 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Atmospheric-Black-MetalAgalloch, Saor, Winterfylleth, Panopticon – the list of role-models is long and seemingly endless when it comes to atmospheric black metal bands nowadays. The list of their successors maybe even longer.
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Ultha - Belong (EP)
07 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Black-MetalCologne’s best ever (!!!) in Black-Metal are returning with an epic EP that blows your mind and soul. It seems as if this one is their last release, but there could not be a better way to say goodbye!!!
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SIBIIR - Ropes
04 Oct 2019 - Thorsten
Blackened-HardcoreSIBIIR are from Norway. They like black metal. And Siberia. So what kind of music do you expect? Doomy, glistening sounds? Or explosive, harsh shredding? Well, SIBIIR are neither, performing neither doom nor chaos.
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A//tar - Hallowed
06 Sep 2019 - Thorsten
Grunge-SludgeThe Pacific Northeast of the USA. Home to early metal and grunge and blackgaze. Sometimes home to some at the same time. A//tar (pronounced Altar) is a good example of such a combination building their sound on equal foundations of blackgaze and grunge.
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Burden Limbs - There Is No Escape (EP)
04 Sep 2019 - Thorsten
Dark-Harsh-IndieA dark, shadowy and sometimes painful EP by British indie-rock-hopefuls Burden Limbs.
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The Fifth Alliance - The Depth Of The Darkness
30 Aug 2019 - Thorsten
Blackened-SludgeBreda’s The Fifth Alliance seems to be set out for another awesome release, “The Depth Of The Darkness” surely sounds promising!
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Kvelgeyst - Alkahest
12 Jun 2019 - Thorsten
Black-MetalAnother project by highly productive Swiss Black-Metal collective Helvetic Underground Committee, Kvelgeyst focuses on a very early phase of Black Metal musically. We hear straightforward old-school-black-metal much in the vein of Bathory and less in the Celtic Frost-sense.
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À L'Ombre D´Héméra - En Route Vers Le Grand Vide (EP)
21 May 2019 - Thorsten
Post-MetalPost-Metal is a genre that definitely needs no more introduction. There have been so many variations upon the loud-quiet-dynamic, the calm-before-the-storm-image, the wave-upon-wave-comparisons. Isis, Aereogramme, Neurosis, you name it. And yet, there is something gripping about that genre when well-done.
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Brutus - Nest
29 Mar 2019 - Knut
In 2017 the Belgian band Brutus burst into the metal scene with their acclaimed debut album. Two years later they release their sophomore full length, Nest. In the two years between these albums, Brutus has developed their musical style almost turning to Post-Metal. To call a band such as Brutus a power trio is fitting, but it is almost an understatement.
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Dakhma - Hamkar Atonement
28 Sep 2018 - Thorsten
Atmospheric-Black-MetalA band from Zurich releases music about Zoroastrianism and Zurvanism and enrobes it in highly rhythmically Black Metal with so much punch and groove that it is sometimes hard to take in – that is Dakhma!
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