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• Aftab Darvishi - A Thousand Butterflies

  

  02 Aug 2022 - Stephan
  Neo-Classical

  Leaving home, be it by choice or by force. Finding new homes. Yearning for familiarity, yet learning to embrace the unknown. This is the outline of themes on this collection of works by Iranian composer Aftab Darvishi.

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• Stick To Your Guns - Spectre

  

  01 Aug 2022 - Sebastian
  Hardcore

  After years of hard to contain anticipation the new Stick To Your Guns album has finally arrived. It is packed full of highlights and showcases the versatility of the Californian Hardcore powerhouse. If you didn’t follow all of Jesse’s many side projects, you might be surprised about some directions this album goes.

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• 40 Watt Sun - Perfect Light

  

  30 Jul 2022 - Ben
  Alternative / Dirge

  Patrick Walker returns with a lilting, affecting follow-up to 2016’s Wider Than the Sky. Recorded over the course of a year with an ensemble of collaborators, Perfect Light finds him in a reflective mood.

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• Chat Pile - God's Country

  

  29 Jul 2022 - Thorsten
  Noise-Rock, Math-Rock

  God‘s chosen country. The first modern democracy. The pursuit of happiness. Bring me your huddled masses yearning to be free. A manifest Destiny. With Liberty and Justice for all. Or maybe …
  … a country to rule them all, one country to find them … and in the darkness bind them?

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• Final Light - s/t

  

  28 Jul 2022 - Dan D.
  Blackened Synthwave

  Skynet is winning. The world is in ruin. Buildings stand no more, and the remains of civilisation lay strewn across the wastelands we once called home. Only a brave few members of the resistance remain.

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• Oahk - Tiny Husks

  

  27 Jul 2022 - Thorsten
  Shoegaze, Ambient, Indie

  I am writing this review while driving to Berlin with my lively group of juniors, shortly about to embark on their last summer as school students, full of that wonderful vibrancy of youth. On my air pods I am listening to a record that fascinates ever since my dear friend Josh told me about it, roughly a month ago - Tiny Husks by Oahk. The latest record of that one-man-project from New Hampshire, which is also really exciting and vibrant. But its topic is quite the opposite of my current environs: the premature loss of an unborn child.

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• My Sleeping Karma - Atma

  

  26 Jul 2022 - Sebastian
  Psychedelic, Stoner, Post-Rock

  After many years full of uncertainty and difficulties, My Sleeping Karma finally return and present us with one of their best works to date. The band was not sure if the album would even see the light of day, but it finally does and is once again a display of the incredible musicianship of the German four-piece.

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• Exaltation - Under Blind Reasoning

  

  25 Jul 2022 - Stephan
  Death Metal

  “Exaltation from New Zealand are a death metal band releasing their debut album on Sentient Ruin Laboratories.” - Does this count as a full review yet?

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• Living Room - New Years

  

  24 Jul 2022 - Dan D.
  Emo, Punk, Pop-Punk

  Back in the early 2000’s when I was at university, Drive-Thru Records was big. I mean REALLY BIG. I spent a sizeable chunk of my student loan purchasing CDs and shirts over a stupidly slow dial-up internet connection from their website and waiting weeks for them to be delivered. I didn’t mind so much as at that time a pound sterling pretty much equated to two dollars and shipping was peanuts, so I was getting a bargain. When the parcel finally arrived, I’d eagerly tear into it to and indulge in the pop-punk and emo melodies of Finch, Midtown and my personal favourite, The Early November. Living Room’s approach reminds me a lot of the first The Early November releases, they are more in the emo territory than pop-punk but still have certain pop-punk sensibilities, and I wouldn’t have been disappointed if New Years was included in my box of goodies shipped from the States.

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• Videodrones - After The Fall

  

  23 Jul 2022 - Stephan
  Electronic, Synthwave, Krautrock

  For the fourth time Causa Sui drummer Jakob Skøtt teams up with fellow synthwave lover Kristoffer Ovesen for yet another album celebrating the warm magic of analogue electronic music. This time the ever-evolving duo added a new spin without losing their original flavour.

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• Wilderness of Mirrors - Extinction Level Event

  

  21 Jul 2022 - Simon
  doom metal/drone/ambient

  Wilderness of Mirrors return with a superb sophomore album, it’s an effecting, grandiose offering which will reward you with its intelligent dynamics!

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• Klaus Schulze - Deus Arrakis

  

  19 Jul 2022 - Knut
  Electronic/Berliner School

  I still vividly remember my first encounter of the third kind with the music by Klaus Schulze. I walked into a newly opened record shop in the town I grew up in to ask if they had received the new Gong album. They had not, but the woman behind the counter gave me timewind by Klaus Schulze and said I should check it out while waiting for the other album. The Schulze album totally blew me away and sent me into the wormhole of synth-based music for the years to come.

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• Tómarúm - Ash in Realms of Stone Icons

  

  18 Jul 2022 - Thorsten
  Tech-Death Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal

  When thinking about tech-death metal bands one surely thinks about highly progressive scales, about the typically stumbling drums that seem to fall over each other, and about musicians who like Dream Theater as much as Death. Atmospheric black metal on the other is always associated with images of dark forests, hooded figures screaming at the top of their lungs for the gods of nature and to whom bands like Wolves in the Throne Room or Agalloch mean everything. A lot of people might – at first glance – guess that it is pretty hard to combine these two genres. Lo and behold, there are bands who are able to do that and Tómarúm from Atlanta is surely one to listen to!

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• still motions - syn · the · sis

  

  17 Jul 2022 - Thorsten
  Post-Rock

  “Into the great wide open, under those skies of blue“ - that line from one of Tom Petty‘s biggest hits might have turned into a motto or a guideline for Arizona’s post-rock besties still motions. The band has now released a second full-length which proves that idea because their sound seems endlessly expansive and limitless. Behold this band as they might become the next big thing in post-rock!

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• Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy

  

  16 Jul 2022 - Stephan
  Avantgarde Black Metal

  A “Maximalist Scream” it is indeed. The first single for Imperial Triumphant’s new album could easily have been its title track, as these two words so truly encompass the essence of Spirit of Ecstasy: A bonkers more is more assault of layered chaos with an army of guest musicians from all over the spectrum performing multiple genres simultanously within an avant-garde black metal tornado that sticks its gloriously cacophonous vortex right into your wide open, shell-shocked mouth.

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• Mosara - Only the Dead Know Our Secrets (EP)

  

  14 Jul 2022 - Knut
  Sludge Doom Metal/Doom Metal

  In May last year Mosara released their debut album although they had been active as a band since the beginning of the 2000s. It was all you could wish for from a heavy blistering sludge doom album. And now they release an EP that further explores the heavy sludge doom sonics they master so superbly well. This release may be a bit more subdued in how it unfolds the soundscapes, more cinematic and wider, but still very stupendous.

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• Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture

  

  13 Jul 2022 - Thorsten
  Blackened Avantgarde

  Hostile Architecture Hostile…what? How can architecture be hostile? It can and it will become clearer throughout this review of a really amazing record if you like White Ward and Botanist, Code and Imperial Triumphant. Glaswegian-based collective Ashenspire catapults itself into the top ranks for modern black metal music with a twist and an agenda!

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• Sacred Son - The Foul Deth of Engelond

  

  12 Jul 2022 - Thorsten
  Atmospheric Black Metal

  “Serfdom / Injustice endures / I plough the field, harvest the corn / For naught; no silver crossed my palm / Toiling without recompense / Until the worksmen succumb to pestilence“ The first words we can hear on the latest Sacred Son-record The Foul Deth of Engelond is like a mirror or wormhole between the present and the time depicted in its procedures. Maybe the songs work like time capsules to teach us something?

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• Hiroe - Wrought

  

  11 Jul 2022 - Thorsten
  Post-Metal

  Hiroe is a new band which has just released their debut album – on Pelagic Records and it must mean something if the big players in post-metal want to publish your debut! Nothing less than that your music must be really promising and the band from Philly surely is promising a lot of good things as their post-rock is shifty and playful but also serious and seductively light.

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• Scarcity - Aveilut

  

  09 Jul 2022 - Thorsten
  Experimental Black Metal, Avantgarde Death Metal

  Aveilut means “mourning” in Hebrew. Aveilut is a record about death and the feeling of loss. Aveilut is a record by two highly talented musicians. Aveilut is a record which will grip you by the throat, kiss you, embrace you, break your back while doing so and in the end will never leave your side. Miraculously wonderful.

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• CHVE, Maarten Marchau, Simon Segers, Thomas Hoste - De Manen Opzij

  

  08 Jul 2022 - Thorsten
  Ambient, Traditional

  We all know how that is – an artist you really like has a new project out and while listening to it, you notice that it is not quite like you expected. What do you do then? Discard it or give it another chance? In the case of De Manen Opzij, a new project involving Colin H. Van Eeckhout my advice would be – listen to it more than once, more than twice, heck, give it as many spins as you might need, because then a record will unfold before your ears which is somewhat like dark magic!

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• Miira - Wellness

  

  07 Jul 2022 - Stephan
  Post-Rock, Noise, Ambient

  Wärmi is Wärmi is Wärmi.

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• Existence Dysphoria - Minus Negative

  

  06 Jul 2022 - Knut
  Sludge, Doom Metal, Stoner Doom

  The sludge is on, murky gritty heavy guitar, low-end grooving bass rooted to the ground by hard hitting drums and cymbals. All played with a fuzzy stoner attitude. This release shows how sludge should be played with harsh, abrasive and grinding distorted instruments and shouting unpolished vocals fighting for attention in the contorted sonics. The London based band formed in 2017 holds back nothing and throws in some surprises.

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• Ştiu Nu Ştiu - New Sun

  

  05 Jul 2022 - Thorsten
  Psychedelic Rock, Vintage Rock

  “Somewhere along the doom-folk highway“? Or rather the “Birth of post-metal”? The truth lies in the middle when talking about New Sun the new record by Ştiu Nu Ştiu, the wonderfully outlier band for all those who love Wolvennest or Årabrot, the Gun Club or GGGOLDDD. Music which is difficult to grasp but easy to fall in love with. Or to?

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• Liam Mour - Above

  

  04 Jul 2022 - Skyler
  Electronic

  Liam Mour comes in strong after his first motion picture soundtrack.

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