It seems as if this is the year, when Post-Rock or Post-Metal bands come back with new names - this time it’s Aortes, the band formerly known as Autism. VoS is happy to give you the second single of their upcoming album Devouring Gloom - and thus we are proud to share the awesome video for “With Me Forever”!

I am not a particularly encyclopedic connoisseur of music. I much rather prefer hesitant, haphazard journeys through darkened corridors of style, letting chance encounters with inspiring musicians and powerful recorded statements reveal secret passages leading onward who knows where but toward some new recess or bejeweled cavern. Little can I foretell what might emerge from those depths - some phantasmal beauty, sentient echo, or half-glimpsed minotaurine fright of my subconscious - but if I’m lucky, the knotted thread I carry will sometimes afterward disclose woven patterns of delight. One such recent journey into the darkling wilds has led me to Mellowdeath, the wily Germany-based duo of bassist Isabel Merten and drummer Sara Neidorf, whose doom jazz/post-rock excursions avoid well-worn paths of ease for more adventuresome, hinky peril. Their EP, Deadly Stares, offers a foretaste of the labyrinthine experimentation and roulette risk we should expect from their first full-length, which is slated for release later this year.

For many people, Dungeon Synth and Black Metal are two completely different genres. Nevertheless, sometimes there comes an act along that can convince even those who don’t want to be convinced that both genres share several similarities. Wuodan’s Wunde from Austria is another act that can do exactly that, and thus we happily present you the new single “I” taken from the upcoming release Es glimmt empor aus ewger Nacht!

A few months ago, we were taken by surprise by a little, mostly overlooked release by a small Northern England-based label called Utility Tapes. The record was Salt Pig’s The Chalk Circle and of course we couldn’t say “No”, when the label asked us if we wanted to do a premiere for their next release. So we are happy to give you Adam Zejnm’s Rusher Cutting, For Keji!

Golden Antenna Records is one of those records with a superb roster - all killer no filler. Therefore it comes as no surprise that they are now releasing the second full-length by Leipzig, Germany-based Post-Rock hopefuls jeffk, who were one of THE surprises a few years back with their first Inadequate Shelter and who are now back with TAR. Therefore Veil of Sound proudly presents the next single off of that album for you here!

Breach are Cult of Luna are two of the most iconic Swedish Post-Metal names ever. There have been loads since, one only needs to think of The Moth Gatherer or Norna. And from next week on, many of us need to think of KOLLAPS\E, because they will release their first full-length on January 13. And to give you an idea why we should bear KOLLAPS\E in mind we give you their second single “Anaemia” as an exclusive premiere! Enjoy!

Ropes Inside A Hole might sound like a new name on the scene but actually it’s the former Post-Rock-hopefuls RIAH now forming a band to give meaning to what they now regard as an acronym. Veil of Sound is very happy to give you their new single “Loss & Grief”! And we are sure you will like this one too!

Maybe old me is just reading (or rather listening) too much into this track, but I want to be struck dead if the new single by Bradford-based Worriedaboutsatan is not a TripHop track in disguise! Where can you find out for yourself? Well, here on VoS!

Whenever the year spins towards its end all the nerds run around basically pulling their hair and asking their fellow companions What‘s your Album Of The Year? all the time because that’s one of the hardest things - to narrow down all the great records one has heard in the last twelve months into one list.

Johnny Cash’s “Hurt“. Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love“. Jimi Hendrix‘ “All Along The Watchtower“. But also Travis‘ “Baby One More Time“. Type-O-Negative’s “Cinnamon Girl“. Clem Snide’s ”Beautiful” Or even worse, The Calling’s ”London Calling”. U2’s ”Fortunate Son”. Limp Bizkit’s ”Faith”. Yes, I know that you know – all of these are cover versions. Of course you know, as the title to this special already implies. Today we want to have a look at cover versions and what makes them good or when do they turn sour? There is also a cause for us to do so: the release of a really great EP by some friends of ours. Årabrot from Scandinavia, whose Heart-EP is out today. We have a lot of goodies, so just move along and enjoy!

There is a certain pride in accompanying a band along their way for a longer time, especially when the initiation point for this shared voyage lies in the band’s early days. One of these bands to us is Quebec-based Post-Metal-juggernauts À l’ombre d’Héméra - and the next chapter is their new album Saison de déceptions which we are proud to give to you in full-length a week ahead of its release. Nod your head to this!

Synthwave is not a common thing here on Veil of Sound, but Ultra Balance and their debut record is more than a simple exception. It is somewhere in the middle between House and Synthwave and therefore quite exciting!

We have to apologize to all you Post-Rock lovers out there for not having given you our roundups in collaboration with WherePostRockDwells but we give you a double-edition to make up for it! Let us take you a passage through time and space with the four records of the two months. And don’t miss out on our honorable mentions as well!

Repetita Iuvant is a kinda mathy Post-Rock band from La Spezia, Italy. They have already been featured on VoS before and we are happy to show you the video for their latest single today!

There might be no better time for a new track by Asphodel Wine than the fall, and maybe even more precise, than Halloween. Therefore we are very happy to give you just that a new track by Sarah Pendleton and Zachary Livingston called Jesus Piece!

Compilations are surely a difficult thing - either the tracks are way too homogeneous and becoming blurry and boring or the songs are way too diverse and the audience cannot see a red line in the compilation. With Sounds To Make You Shudder that is different and therefore we happily premiere one of its tracks!

Somewhere along the structures of Swedish cinematic Post-Rock grandseigneurs ef you can find Swiss-band quintet Gob Ribbons. We present you the AI-compiled video for their new single “Galina”.

Well, here we are now - they’ll entertain us. Who is ‘they’? Mountainscape from Reading, that’s who! We already gave you Simon’s brilliant review of their upcoming album Atoms Unfurling yesterday and now it is time for the premiere of “Earthpulse” and if you listen to this nine-minute-opus you will surely be positively reminded of the magic that Post-Metal unfold!

We have one more premiere for you, wait, did I say one? Well, actually it’s two, but from the same album! So we give you two videos for the upcoming split release by ZOOL. and Butsenzeller. Who? Oh, just two highly interesting artists from the thriving Belgian music scene, who represent the electronic side of things and thus just another perspective on the question “Is Consouling Sounds maybe the most interesting label in the world right now?” We don’t say Yes of No, but we also don’t say Yes or No.

Deep resonating body, four strings, long neck, no plugs: A classical double bass is a wonderful instrument whose tones can spread warmth and fear at the same time, or melancholy and joy – all these contrary feelings. A real master of that instrument is Pieter-Jan van Assche, a Belgian musician who gave us the opportunity to present Furie, the new album under his project moniker Innerwoud in full for you tonight!

SednA is a band that likes the extreme sides of their genre - Blackened Post-Metal (or Atmospheric Sludge if you prefer that one). The genre and all its tropes, but without becoming a cliche, for their musicianship achieves high notes on both, technicality and artistic expression. Therefore we proudly present you with their latest video “Act. II”!

Yes, you are seeing correctly, another premiere here on VoS, no. 4 in a bit more than 60 hours! But enough about us, because this track is from a band very dear to us, because they were with us from the start and are somewhat family - À L’Ombre d’Héméra from Canada. However, we are not just happy to help out friends - BUT to share an amazing song with you, their new single “Disciple je Deviendrai”!

Blackbird Hill from France have listened to a lot of alternative rock and stoner rock from the last three decades past and have distilled it into their own amalgamum which can be heard on their upcoming second record Embers in the Dark. VoS is proud to give you a premiere for “Reset” and we hope you enjoy the fresh sound from France!

Thisquietarmy is sound miraculoso Eric Quach and Away is none other than Voivod’s drummer Michel Langevin and together they form one of the most interesting collaborations you will hear on this side of the experimental and the avantgarde. Veil of Sound is proud to give you this exclusive premiere of their video for “Epsilon 0000 1011” from their forthcoming album.

One of the strongholds of Veil of Sound has always been our love for anything post-rock and post-metal - and when we heard about Die Sünde wanting to do a premiere through us, we were more than happy, because they fit our preferences like a glove. Deep-tuned bass lines, swirling guitar opening, harsh growls and some tribal-like drumming - and that is just a few of the elements of their awesome new track, “Strega”.