Mountainscape are a three-piece post metal band hailing from Reading. formed in mid 2019 after having played together in previous projects. A big drive behind starting the band was writing music without adhering to boundaries. Acceptance is a blend of …

“Holy shit, I got this riff!” In this way Kaupe, an ambitious band with influences spanning decades, was born in 2016. The Florida-based project started life between two eclectic individuals whose propensity to riff off each other knew no bounds. Two y …

Los Angeles-based post-punk shoe-gaze band Blackout Transmission summon a psychoactive rush of sound on their debut long-player Sparse Illumination out February 19, 2021 via Etxe (et-CHAY) Records. Bright and gleaming at times, warm …

Coma World is a new collaboration between Maxwell Hallett, a.k.a. Betamax (The Comet Is Coming/Soccer96) and Pete Bennie (Speaker’s Corner Quartet) bringing together their potent chemistry in an intoxifying self-titled debut LP. Betamax drives the duo …

Zeahorse are a four-piece psychy noise-rock band from Sydney formed in 2010. For the past decade they have built a strong dynamic and immersive live experience that has earnt them a loyal and underground following across Australia. Living in different …

London-based musician/producer Guy Andrews premieres a remix release by the formidable musician Kevin Drumm, Transmogrifications, incoming via Houndstooth on January 22, 2021. Drumm transforms two pieces in particular, one from Permanence (which was re …

Eindhoven quartet, Komatsu, reveal their powers of mass construction and resurrect a rare desert flower in their forthcoming album Rose of Jericho. Light meets heavy and desolation meets beauty in the nine powerful songs that make up their fourth LP. R …

Welcome to a pre-release of Self-Theories, an album about despair and hope, anxiety and optimism, lack of self-esteem and active search for it, maladies of the modern world, our responsibilities and reinventing ourselves for the sake of …

Newcastle’s fabulous Twist Helix are back with their eagerly anticipated second album, Machinery, on Friday (20th Nov). We were huge fans of their debut Ouseburn around these parts, so we are very excited for the new record. Based on a raw, emotive cul …

OEM Compilation I by various artists Founder member of OEM, Adriana Cicccone, writes:How did the idea of putting together a compilation album start?Covid has pretty much put an end to live shows. The music industry has been hit hard by the pandemic. …

What is a guitar, anyway? That’s a question Karhide has been asking for more than a decade now. From early releases that coupled the blowtorch intensity of Pelican with the assembly-line heaviness of Godflesh, his initial answer seemed to be a declarat …

Paolo Fresu. Photo: Roberto Cifarelli Saffronkeira. Photo: Mario Saragato   “It is time for man to set a goal for himself. It is time for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is still rich enough for it. But that soil will one day b …

Centripetal Force (North America) and Cardinal Fuzz (UK/Europe) are excited to announce the upcoming release of Mugstar’s GRAFT, the follow-up album to their much-lauded live collaboration with Can’s Damo Suzuki released earlier this year. After experi …

SURGERY the first remix album from Burden Limbs will be released on October 23 by Glasshouse Records. The eight-track re-working of the band’s debut EP There Is No Escape features a range of different mutations of the Burden Limbs sound. Where the orig …

A bartender, a personal trainer, a graphic designer, and an immigration attorney walk into a practice space. . . Formed in Buffalo, New York in 2014, Alpha Hopper create a frenetic stew of guitar-driven rock’n’roll with ingredients from punk, hardcore, …

ChinaRose formed in 2016 when Stephen Rosenthal (Guitar/Vocals) and Kheri Mason (Bass) decided to start a new project while their other bandmates in Spooktacular were away at college. Soon after they recruited Ryan Rambow, who had just thrown together …

Centripetal Force (North America) and Cardinal Fuzz (UK/Europe) are excited to announce the upcoming release of MUGSTAR’s Graft, the follow up album to their much-lauded live collaboration with Can’s Damo Suzuki released earlier this year. Mugstar have …

Growing from the extemporised seed of instant composition; Yammerer has developed its sound into a Multi-Limbed-Anti-Hero (M.L.A.H-YAM). This ever-evolving behemoth’s notable fuel sources include; Garage / Psych / Post-Punk / Krautrock / New Wave / Oat …

OROCHEN is more than a band, it’s a collective whose music is based on dark contemplations of a world where humans and the environment are thought of as economic resources. A society formed under a new religion that most of us know as capitalism, a rel …

Our track premiere, ‘If You Ever Come Down’ is taken from the forthcoming Lost in Love, the first solo EP from Teddy Panopoulos, one-half of acclaimed New York City band Dead Waves. Under the Dead Waves banner, Panopoulos and his brother Nick have rele …

Asphodel Wine | Facebook Sarah and Zachary’s universes collided in Autumn 2015, when their respective bands SubRosa and Minsk were both invited to support Cult of Luna on a West Coast U.S. tour. Upon returning home, separated by 1402 miles (2256 kilome …