A short sharp shock of hardcore punk ‘n’ roll, Herzschlager is a side-project from members of Allfather, here to open up pits and get heads banging. Turn the speakers up to eleven for this one.

Photo: Brian Gagnon Montreal based four-piece The Ember Glows is pleased to announce the release of their debut five-song EP entitled Passerby. The independent release will be available via Bandcamp on Friday March 19. The Ember Glows was formed in ear …

The Malignant Fire comes from the same place as The The Shape Of Punk To Come spiritually and sonically.

An EP that points the way to an exciting future for the already well-respected, noisey French metallers.

  Photo by Tiera Suggs of Tiera D Photo   The Cordial Sins | Website Facebook The Cordial Sins are a five-piece band based in Columbus, Ohio. On October 25th, the dream-pop/indie band will release a new EP titled In Memory via …

It’s not all one one paced though, there are a couple of short, sharp fuzzed up garage rock classics in there that really lift the energy and bring a nostalgic smile to those of us old enough to have been there in the early nineties.

Bonnacons of Doom | Bandcamp Facebook Twitter   Liverpool collective Bonnacons of Doom are set to release a new four-track EP on September 13th via Rocket Recordings. The EP is titled Esus and it is made up of a new compos …

Little Church | Website Facebook Twitter Chicago based quartet, Little Church, recently released a new EP titled, It’s Not You via Diversion Records. This 5 track EP merges rock, soul, layered psychedelia and melody into their …

Multi-instrumentalist Ed Carlsen started out as a professionally trained guitarist and a few years ago turned his attention to the piano. Marrying his skills on the guitar with his new found skills on the piano, he creates these wonderful ambient …

MØL excel at turning extreme, narratively rich music into digestible bite size chunks that work – they manage to distil the essence of Deafheaven and Alcest into condensed glistening sweat upon petal fields on a dying earth.

Girls In Synthesis are a post punk trio from London. Their music is intense and abrasive drawing on Crass, Flipper, Wire and The Fall as influences although to be honest they sound like none of them particularly and do sound like a jarring, adrenalised …

The Tidal Sleep return with their energetic, fluid brand of post-hardcore with ‘Be Kind’; a welcome four-track follow-up to last year’s outstanding ‘Be Water’.

Urne come racing out of the gate with their debut EP, blending progressive metal, thrash and metal, and leaving memories of their former bands in the rear view mirror.

Deus Vermin play the kind of music I am drawn to, dripping black, viscous, visceral and vile. Riffs are enshrined in chaos and drums are played with skin breaking purpose. The cruel sinister undertones of their music bleeds fluidly from their instruments forming a blackened melting pot of genres and influences.

Sheffield post-metal bruisers return with a new EP and a sound that is pared down, blunt and packed full of lumbering riffs.

Cold Cave are a purified distillation of synth-pop, not a mere pastiche. [The band] specifically evokes the idea of a better future that we have no way of attaining to add the kintsugi crack of emotion that creates beauty in an otherwise sterile genre.

Forget Me Knot isn’t a mere Alice’s stumble down the rabbit hole; more being dragged and swallowed alive by a living breathing organism.

It is music that has the power to soothe and lull the listener in thick wavy soundscapes that wrap around you in a warming gentle glow

The Only Way Is Lost EP, three tracks of intense, masterful rock that is dramatic and visceral, without ever being overblown, and draws on a wide range of musical resources without ever sounding derivative.

Autrenoir doesn’t draw its heaviness from loudness or abrasive crashes; rather, the atmosphere on each track settles in and grows at a steady pace, like a novel that unveils it gripping narrative, page by page, word by word.

You wait nine years and two yndi halda records come along at once! Well, in just under two years. Their fascinating new EP acts as an epilogue, the dawn after the previous album’s day, offering another glimpse at their beautifully reformed vision.