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 …

Formed in 2008, Blacklisters, quickly earning a reputation as a formidable live act through aggressive, confrontational performances riddled with dark humour, The band returned to Greenmount Studios in 2019 to record their third album, Fantastic Man. T …

Kulk’s debut LP Here Lies Kulk is heavy and noise filled, falling somewhere between The Melvins and Fuzz. This album sees Suffolk-based duo of Jade Ashleigh and Thom Longdin move away from faster hard-rock riffs of their earlier EPs to something more d …

  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 …

in violet resurfaces with charity fundraiser rarity ‘Burden’   After four years dormant, the first rumblings of a return from London-based outfit, in violet, come in the form of standalone single ‘Burden’. A brooding electronic fog, unfurling into …

(Photo by radskiphoto)   rhubiqs | Facebook Instagram   On May 1st, London-based solo ambient electronic and ambient artist rhubiqs, also known as Tom Squires, will be releasing his debut album titled Migratory Paths. Today we have …

Vast Robot Armies | Facebook Bandcamp   Today Toronto-based band Vast Robot Armies release their new album titled Paper Crown Parade via Dome A Records. The new album features drums by Kellii Scott of Failure, as well as guest vocals by …