On the second single drop from his forthcoming debut album, every breath and every musical inflection can be heard on ‘Regen’, a truly mesmerising piece of neo-classical composition from the Dutch artist and composer Andert Tysma. Regen by Andert Tysma …

Pilgrimage To Pleroma | Facebook | Bandcamp Ashtoreth | Facebook UR is the upcoming collaboration between Pilgrimage to Pleroma (the solo-project of Mattias M. Van Hulle from Pothamus), Ashtoreth (Peter Verwimp), Stratosphere (Ronald Mariën) and Marko …

Light Creates Shadow is the musical project of Marc Changnon, Adam Young and Jered Johnson. Based in Portland Oregon, LCS has developed a distinct style that bends genres and creates a reinterpretation of the loud-quiet-loud dynamic.

Taking their name from an ethnic minority group indigenous to Northern China, Orochen are more than just a band, they are a political collective harnessing the power of music as a means to achieve a just and right end.   Chiefly preoccupied with t …

‘Brooklyn’ is a frustrated plea from singer-songwriter Katie Malco to her friend to return home – a love song to a cherished friendship where an absence is sorely felt. The release comes as part of a series of stripped-down songs from Malco’s debut alb …

Wrack is a one-man metal band formed in 2009 by Bay Area producer and multi-instrumentalist Tyler Cox. The music of Wrack at times recalls the aggro post-metal of early Isis, the patient math-riffing of Nothing-era Meshuggah, or the grandiose soundscap …

Terzij de Horde | Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter Terzij de Horde have always tried to not limit themselves by genres per se. Over the years, there have always been elements of black metal, progressive doom, chaotic screamo and extreme hardcore, but …

Photo: Kim Ambriz DTS 25 is an expanded reissue of Big’n’s Steve Albini-recorded album, first released in 1996 and freshly remastered by Carl Saff with the addition of many previously unheard demos.. Digitally restored from an unearthed cassette tape l …

  Crawling into virtual space during the Covid-19 pandemic, Omnibael had ideas. Diverse, divergent, wide-ranging ideas, but ideas which centred around the creation of noise. The noise came before the identity, before any kind of cohesion …

British drone musician and sound artist Daniel W J Mackenzie releases a new Ekca Liena album called ‘Skyward Vernacular’ through Consouling Sounds. Listen to the full album ahead of its release date here.

Funny story: Chicago’s quartet of weirdos Touched By Ghoul recorded their sophomore album Cancel The World at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in July 2019 with the title already in place. They mixed it in January 2020, and then …

Abort. Abort. Even the word itself sums up what many of us would have liked to be able to do over the last eighteen months. Alarm and abort. Reset, turn off the world. Instead, Karhide took the moment to reset and turn inwards. The result is Abort, an …

Ones And Threes is the new double album by Kowa Axis (London-based guitarist James Barry). A collection of pieces split across two distinct halves, it was informed heavily by Barry quitting a full time creative director job to go it alone as a freelanc …

  Longstanding Austin, Texan band ST 37 announce their forthcoming new album Over and Over and Over Again for release on Pariah Child Records.    The band states: “All the while working extemporaneously on the material tha …

After 3 years, New Zealand based Alicia Merz breaks her silence with her 5th Birds of Passage album ‘The Last Garden’, released on November 5th through Denovali. Alicia doesn’t share much with the public, except through her music, and so this album off …

The new expansive collaborative project picks up where their former band The Infinite Three left off. When that trio’s drummer Paul Middleton passed away suddenly in October 2019, the surviving members Daniel Knowler and Sam McLaughlin decided the band …

Human Worth are proud to present noise outfit X’ed Out’s formidable debut album We All Do Wrong, with a portion of proceeds going to charity Breast Cancer UK.Featuring members of such hailed bands as Silent Front & Working Men’s Club, this record i …

What or HOO do you get if you mix members of Slowdive and Beechwood Sparks with uncompromising folk angel, producer-songwriter and organic gardener with a penchant for wah-wah, Nick Holton? The answer is the wide-screen, heartbreaking glory o …

The Holy Road is the brainchild of Jonathan Stolber, an artist we discovered almost a decade ago when he was supporting perennial E&D faves Her Name Is Calla in his previous incarnation as To Bury A Ghost. We were blown away that night and have kep …

Photo: Sami Salmela Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa is as captivating as it is alienating. The sophomore album by Finnish experimental post-rock extravaganza HORTE is a dark and mesmerizing journey that is best consumed in one sitting – HORTE demand your undivi …

For its fourth release, Cold Plunge, doomgaze act STAHV aka Solomon Arye Rosenschein improvised – literally. The three tracks which make up the twenty-one minutes of the EP were each recorded live in one continuous take with minimal overdubs. The perfo …