Articles by Sander van den Driesche

In an era of uncertainty and introspection, frustrations will inevitably arise. Yet there may also be the potential for change. It’s possible that the warping of time and the journey into one’s own headspace that come with altered circumstances allow a …

Atlanta based power thrashers Paladin released their debut album Ascension through Prosthetic Records last year, which they quickly followed up with the release of the 3-track Nevermore covers EP Anamnesis last year in December, also through …

Six Feet Tall | Facebook | Bandcamp Six Feet Tall are based in Perugia, Italy, and made their debut in 2016 with a debut EP for UA’ Records. The band started touring Italy right away and embarked in a UK tour in 2017. In 2019 they revamped the lin …

Sloath | Facebook | Bandcamp Six long years after the release of their, some might say classic sophomore album Deep Mountain, the world’s most reclusive sludge rockers Sloath return with their imaginatively titled third album lll. III is co …

Mercury Boys relives the proto-rock spirits on Return to Cinders, demonstrating nicely that rock is not dead, it’s certainly much alive and kicking.

Offering a modern take on the classic blueprints set by Pornography-era The Cure, The Sisters Of Mercy and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Executioner’s Mask arrives at the darkest of times with its most haunting offering yet: the 11-song collection …

IIVII | Facebook | Website 2020 will bring Josh Graham’s most ambitious IIVII album to date. The release spans not one album, but two albums at the same time! Where Zero Sleep explores trying to live and trying to sleep, Grinding Teeth will lead you th …

WuW is the creative outpouring of two brothers, Benjamin and Guillaume Colin, both classically trained percussionists and veterans of the Paris music scene. Having played in jazz ensembles, classical contemporary orchestras, world-music troupes and alo …

Founded in 1997, Thurisaz created their own sound and claimed their spot in the metal scene. Their first album Scent Of A Dream from the Belgian band sums up the best Thurisaz has to offer: very variated, high standard avantgarde doom-metal with lots o …

Huntsmen will release their new album Mandala of Fear via Prosthetic Records on 13 March. Whilst storytelling has been – and remains – at the core of all that Huntsmen is, they continue to dissolve the boundaries between metal and the more traditional …

Buoyed by the crystalline backing vocals of Janet Morgan (Channels), Fotocrime’s latest single ‘Blue Smoke’ is an instant dance-punk classic. A taut and driving bassline permeates the track while frontman R.’s syncopated earworm guitar line …

Manchester based Leeched have just released their latest album To Dull The Blades Of Your Abuse through Prosthetic Records, which is an absolute rollercoaster of a metallic grind attack. Haven’t heard it yet? Don’t wait any longer and make su …

CB3 | Facebook | Website Aeons is the title of CB3’s (Charlottas Burning Trio) new album set for release on the 28th of February 2020 through The Sign Records. The five track album from CB3 is an explosive rock jam experience. It brings the spirit of p …

Elefant | Facebook | Bandcamp January 2020 will bring us Elefant’s second album Bejahung. The band intended to create a truly ugly, dissonant, senseless, distorted cacophony as the successor to Konark und Bonark. But instead all these beautiful, k …

Last September saw Snow Burial release their debut Prosthetic Records album called Ostrava, which maps where life’s beauty and terror collide.With their roots deep in the vibrant core of Chicago’s heavy music scene, Snow Burial already have two EPs, on …

Coilguns has been flying the flag for the DIY scene since 2011. The band counts a total of four EPs and three full lengths in their back catalogue and their history is deeply bound to the development of guitarist Jona Nido’s own label –Hummus Records– …

Nocturnalia | Facebook | Bandcamp In the mysterious, vast lands of Scandinavia, where ancient monuments of stone point towards the sun, dark rock quintet Nocturnalia resides. With thunderous and organic sounds of classic rock, ritualistic drum patterns …

Timeworn | Facebook | Bandcamp Timeworn has been delivering a solid mix of sludge, hardcore energy and post-metal atmosphere since 2014. The band consists of members from i.a. Eskatol, Summon the Crows, Blodspor and From Below and with hard work, exten …

Phoenix’s experimental sludge/post-metal band, Sorxe, rely heavy on improvisation, pulling ideas from an eclectic well of inspiration ranging from Neurosis, Swans, Melvins and Pink Floyd. They recently released their album The Ark Burner, which is avai …

Coilguns | Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter Coilguns have announced their third full-length album, Watchwinders, as well as accompanying tour dates through Europe in support of the release. Watchwinders will be released via Hummus Records (founded by …