American Sharks is a three-piece band hailing from Austin, TX. Their punk-metal hybrid sound blends pop hooks with blasting in-yer-face riffs resulting in something akin to if Weezer went Stoner Rock. Coupled with hook-laden singalong lyrics, American Sharks’ forthcoming 2026 album Not Dead Yet is, well, a breath-taking return. 

North London based Art rock collective For Breakfast announce their long-awaited and eagerly anticipated debut album Longer Than Spring with the release of the title track. ‘Longer Than Spring’ is a song of contrasts and encapsulates the album’s tug-of …

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. 

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

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.

“We were extremely lucky to be ‘moths’, even if we didn’t use that term at the time – it was a posthumous label. That was the lost era of rock ‘n roll in NYC. That New York will never come back. It wouldn’t be possible today to have the lifestyle we had at the time. No cell phones and no social media made for a more focused, immersive, in-the-moment existence.”

Featuring 10 artists spanning genres from indie rock to electro pop, long time E&D faves, independent and ethical record label Reckless Yes is marking their return after a 2 year hiatus with compilation Among The Wildflowers. Give the full album an exclusive listen here on Echoes and Dust. 

Gnaw Their Tongues is about to release ‘The Genesis of Light’, which offers a starkly different vision in contrast to the dense, harrowing soundscapes and unrelenting darkness typical of previous releases.

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. 

I want to pay them back with this milestone of a decade of being alive when I shouldn’t be with a Wrongpop Bandcamp compilation album to raise funds AND awareness for Anthony Nolan. The release date is August 1st, exactly ten years to the day I was released from hospital. The album will be available for that month only, taken down and the money given to them.

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.

Belgian dark pop duo KØCAZE releases their haunting and evocative new EP D’Or et de Sang via Dune Altar. Across six intricately layered tracks, the band dives into themes of grief, transformation, and ancestral memory, weaving neoclassical instrumentation, electronic textures, and brooding dark pop sensibilities into a deeply affecting body of work.

Swiss punk noisers, Torpedo, have released a gut-wrenching third album: What the Fucked Do We All Do Now? | – Lights, projecting us beyond the show, into the rawness of real life, that of you and me in our kitchens, weeping over a human world that has become unbearable for all the Living. . .

Dwellers | Facebook | Bandcamp Salt Lake City progressive blues rockers Dwellers are shortly about to release their new album Corrupt Translation Machine and it is a swirling collection of blues laden anthems with lashings of psych flair adding to proc …

Atmospheric post-black metal band Genune is about to release their new album ‘Infinite Presence’ through Consouling Sounds. Have a listen to the full album ahead of its release here.

  Monnik | Instagram | Bandcamp Monnik (monk) is a very apt moniker for this Belgian based experimental one-man band. Monnik serves as a vessel for self-proclaimed hermit Thibaud Meiresone to explore the boundaries of spiritual isolation, making h …

The distorted, anxious and surrealist visual style of the album’s cover art (painted by artist Madalena Pinta) speaks perfectly to the album’s direct, albeit melted, psychedelic electronic post-metal. Riff after riff comes and goes, never wearing out its welcome.

Versus Machine is an innovative and genre-blending rock band whose members bring together years of experience from diverse musical backgrounds. The band’s core is made up of singer/guitarist Stephen Tilley, bassist Michael James Stipe, and drummer Brian Doherty, with the group’s formation rooted in both past musical connections and newfound collaborations.

Emmaleen Tangleweed’s music is more accurately described as a channelling than a song. Summoning stories of lost souls too tortured to let go, she cries and yearns as they no longer can, and yet, a silver thread of faith binds them.

Olivares has always lived between worlds – immersed in the chaos of noise rock, while quietly drawn to the subtle complexities of electronic sound. After years of creating experimental rock, it was the deep, hypnotic rhythms of artists like Pole, Nicolas Jaar, Nils Frahm, Caribou and Floating Points that sparked a shift in his creative direction.

With their third album on Heavy Psych Sounds Records, Alunah have wasted no time in a post-pandemic haze since their last release, balancing being on the European festival circuit alongside touring the UK.