Built upon looping, intertwining rhythms and heavily processed instruments and samples, ‘Luxury’ distils the band’s unmistakable sonic identity into one focused strike. It’s a precise yet overwhelming construction – mechanical, hypnotic, and abrasive – and a perfect example of what we’ve come to expect from the proprietors of the “total harmful sound.”

After so many iterations of heavy, desert-inspired doom rock over past decades, it seems the essence of purely driving riffs, earworm harmonies and strong songwriting that defined a genre has been forsaken. Bronco Forte are a return to the stark blast that made bands like Kyuss, Alice In Chains and Soundgarden legends. 

Bursting onto the European scene with their debut Panorama EP in 2022, French instrumental quintet Hanry quickly established themselves as something altogether different; fusing soaring post-rock with acoustic warmth and the fragile intimacy of ambient electronica.

Haunted Lives provides the first retrospective for enigmatic Scottish artist Grey Malkin – a “gathering of works” from 2009–2025.

A slow, surreal descent through emptiness and decay. Built on suffocating tension and bleak atmospheres, the song evokes a world where life has become mechanical – a theatre of dead marionettes staring with hollow eyes. . .  a reflection on numbness, loss, and the quiet horror of simply existing.

This Lonesome Paradise Unveils Death Motels: A Gothic Desert Odyssey of music and cinema.

Fresh from their successful vinyl release, Hollow Cells, in the summer, February sees Belonging teaming up with fellow Portlanders, Inny, for a split EP entitled The Dog. Today we premiere the title track.

At last, a brand new album from the legendary The Heads. yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell is their first new material for 20 years. It will be released almost 30 years on from their seminal debut Relaxing With, this will be their fifth studio album proper.

Based in Brighton, Songe is a British/French ambient duo formed in 2023 upon stumbling on a lonely church piano. The band’s songs weave through ambient soundscapes, touches of darker noise and haunting folk.

Formed in 2015 in the Baltics, avant-blues duo Ringhold consists of Estonian guitarist Kalle Tikas and Latvian vocalist Eleonora Kampe. Single Takes is a live studio album capturing five distinct tracks recorded in the summer of 2025.

The mystical day 60s rock met neo-psychedelic rock mixing up to the point of losing consciousness of their own essence, that’s when Giöbia’s acid psychedelic rock was born, in an overwhelming and incessant soundtrack with an unmistakable Italian taste. …

With the aptly named single ‘Distant Ghosts’ out for Halloween, we thought it was about time we found out more about what makes Oh Doom! tick to such an irresistibly slow pulse, so we asked them to pick the three albums that have proved major influences on their music.

Vexations create frenetic and off-kilter post-psych, with dissonant layered guitars, unorthodox song structures, and vocals that oscillate between spoken word and emphatic screams, to give a punchy yet unearthly sonic experience.

Progressive composer, Luigi Porto, known for his cinematic soundscapes and idiosyncratic art-rock duo Manicburg, brings his signature blend of rawness and elegance to ‘Gabor ’25’. Having been a favourite of Porto’s live shows, performed in several form …

Denver-based moonpool is a heavy shoegaze and grunge act fusing the rawness of post-punk with the crushing beauty of 90s alternative.

MoonKill play untethered Texas Punk. Inserting ambient spacey sounds & new-wave tension into a punk world that is difficult to pin down. Vocalist Dan Aronov croons and howls with the powerful pipes of young Glenn Danzig, while the rest of the band blasts out tight and infectious melodic, metallic punk rock.

Rún are an experimental Irish trio that blends folk, synth, drone, noise, and heavy grooves into a dark, ethereal, and transcendent mix of long-form explorations and vignettes.

Gus Baldwin is a 20-something singer/songwriter/ex-hippie/part-time punk hailing from Austin, TX. His music spans an array of time periods (80s power-pop, 60s psych, 70s proto-punk, 90s indie rock), and his forthcoming self-titled debut solo LP showcases the immensity of his talents in making all of those influences sound fresh and new. 

The Spectral Light’s new album Obliteration is a visceral, atmospheric journey shaped by improvisation, deep literary roots, and a shared affinity for both crushing heaviness and ghostly ambience

Returning after an eleven year absence, one of the UK’s most exhilarating death metal-infused sludge bands TRUDGER are back with their brand new album, VOID QUEST.

Combining elements of alternative metal, post hardcore, and progressive rock, San Antonio outliers Donella Drive cannot be categorized by a singular label. Consisting of songwriters Aidan Escalante (lead vocals/guitar) and Andrew Salazar (bass/backing vocals) the young San Antonio band hearkens to the hyper-energized punk-prog of fellow Texans At The Drive-In. There’s a decidedly more metallic edge to their sound, but at its heart they’ve got a really refreshing explorative melodic fury.