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“We could have been a really good stadium band. It would have not been any good for the personalities in the band – it would have driven us all absolutely insane I would have thought. Any level of success would have made us worse people in my opinion. We could have been really good at it though. It didn’t happen and that’s that – it is what it is. It’s not a good or bad thing, just a thing. I would have liked to have made that second record though. There’s nothing wrong with being unknown, with being anonymous, it’s what almost everyone is – but try telling that to an arrogant idiot in his early twenties. . .”
Michael J Hall, Nebraska
Articles by Charlie Gardner
Deepest Wellsprings of Being, the new album from Ohio-based band Flourish, is the sound of 90s shoegaze run through the cinematic style of David Lynch and the post-futurism of Blade Runner.
We are drowning, but we keep gasping for air as the world teeters on the brink of an uncertain future. . .
ShitNoise’s latest single, ‘The Ballroom Brawl’ is not set in a ballroom or at all influenced by The Sweet. It does however come with a health warning: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
‘Disrupt’ stares eyes wide open into the abyss of the soul. The black hole stares back whilst scorching our eyes to blindness, leaving us in darkness – alone by ourselves.
MANICBURG is a new project born in northern Manhattan. It is the trait d’union of two sonic worlds: that of Julliard composition instructor and NYC native Ray Lustig and Italy’s bohemian bonhomme, Luigi Porto.
Teeth, Babel Map’s forthcoming third album was recorded in the spring of 2024. Prior to beginning the writing of Teeth, the group describes this chapter as an evolutionary time for them as a change in line-up allowed for a progressive increase in experimentation with song structure.
The genesis of “End of the World” traces back to Citizend’s first encounter with artificial intelligence. Prompted with the task to conjure a song lyric for the end of days, the band received a chilling response from the AI: “it was your own fault.”
The lyrics to ‘Accretion Disk Necropolis’ are based around this weird dream I had where there was this sprawling “graveyard” of used up/ uninhabitable planets, derelict vessels, and all this broken space-tech slowly being swallowed up by a monstrous living black hole.
MANBIRD!? I have no idea what it means. Ask Steve Hands, he came up with it. No, don’t ask him. He won’t know either. . .
Immersive music meant to be listened to at a loud volume or in the space between headphones.
Nothing Will Grow In The Soil arrives: exploring the role these ancient, strange trees occupy in our culture, spirituality and imaginations. Alongside this, Kitty Whitelaw’s forays into the deeper end of her register and the dark churns of McGivern’s double bass – complemented by a raft of digital effects – build a crushing, nightmarish landscape.
Counterlife is the debut album from London’s post-hardcore proponents, The Higher Line.
Completely reinventing their line-up with brass and percussion into a new hot and raw sci-fi sound, OSEES share ‘Earthling’, the psychedelic second single from their upcoming LP, SORCS 80, due later this year via Castle Face Records. Frontm …
‘Sovereign’ is the uplifting third single-premiere from acclaimed The Start Of The End.
Lord Buffalo is heavy in the way that ghosts are heavy… in the way that billowing dust is heavy.
Canadian experimental guitarists Aidan Baker & Eric Quach originally formed Hypnodrone Ensemble in Berlin, Germany in 2014 to explore the conjunctions of atmospheric, space rock-ish, shoegazery music with motorik, krautrock-ish, propulsive beats to offer immersive, psychedelic, and transportive performances.
We thought it about time we prised open some of the the paranormal power-trio’s secrets, so we asked them to share three records that inspired and influenced All The Colours Of Darkness.
This song is about the end of the world. Or is it? In tarot the Death card signifies deep transformation rather than physical death. Perhaps that’s where we’re heading – a brave new world.
The FVRMN frontman waxes lyrical about the four records that have been his greatest influences.
