Articles by Sander van den Driesche
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 …
ORAKEL ROHBAU MMXIX – C. Ochs´ IllustrationsNovember 26th 2019Alchemical rebus, demons and angels scattering bread-crumbs along their path plus Abraxas magic – the exhibition ORAKEL ROHBAU MMXIX shows original drawings, silkscreen prints and collages b …
Chicago-based post-punk trio Luggage have announced the release of their third full-length, Shift, due out on November 22nd. Recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago with Matthew Barnhart (Shearwater, The New Year) handling the engineering duties, the a …
RDS220 is a new studio project by Matthias P. Halsberghe and Kristof J. Mondy (also known from bands & projects like Amenra, Liar, VVOVNDS, Stormwind and many others). Last year some of the tracks appeared on tape through Svartblod, in t …
30,000 Monkies | Website | Facebook | Bandcamp Three years following the release of their critically acclaimed debut full length I Ate Myself to Grow Twice as Big, Belgium’s 30,000 Monkies finally return with their sophomore album Are Forever, due out …
Sorxe | Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter A process of evolution is necessary to conjure up the cosmic forces required to elicit a new Sorxe record. Each track is honed, formed, stripped down then built back up, shapeshifting all the while; once …
Ghost:Hello | Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter Ghost:Hello is a synth-loving stoner rock family affair from northeast Ohio. Made up of a husband/wife duo and their cousin, the band members have been playing for decades. With extensive individual histories …
Our editor Sander asked Tim Macuga from Consumer/Have A Nice Life some questions to find out more about Consumer and their new upcoming album ‘In Computers’.
RDS220 is a new studio project by Matthias P. Halsberghe and Kristof J. Mondy (also known from bands & projects like Amenra, Liar, VVOVNDS, Stormwind and many others). Last year some of the tracks appeared on tape through Svartblod, in the me …
Goatburner | Facebook | Bandcamp Finnish duo Goatburner will release their highly anticipated first full-length titled Extreme Conditions, on September 27th via Time To Kill Records. Extreme Conditions goes through the weather of today, with such unpre …