This is a confident and ultimately enjoyable album from a band to watch.

Raw, in your face, brutal, and down to the bone, Hedvig comes out swinging to bring the Bees knees with the flavour of incredible results!

A little cosmic, a little shambolic but mostly an album in love with the limitless joy of sound.

So, for Manuel, it created this journey into a meditated field of finding his own true self by playing at the tempo of the beats he was playing.

If you like your sludge noisy yet expansive then Row of Ashes really is the band for you. Tide Into Ruin is fantastic.

This album is a really accomplished feat of studio brilliance and lovingly crafted melodies. Glorious.

So, for them to embark on the different parallels they’ve brought to the kitchen table, it seemed like an unexpected idea for them to work together, but it works like a charm.

Rich and powerful atmospheric post-metal which really deserves to be heard. This could be one of the best in 2025.

Pythagoras is a glorious fusion of sounds bursting with sublime melodies. It’s like nothing you’ll have ever heard before.

There are some incredible ways to honour the compositions that places inside our hearts, but for Jon and the Geeks, they knocked it out of the ball park to give Yes fans the loyalty they truly deserve.

South coast noise rock team return with a cracking new album.

It turns out that ‘Laini Tani’ sounds like an experimental album that is so easy on the listener’s ear.

They manage to deliver something out of this world on their second album. And if you’re very new to them, this might be your gateway to see what you’ve been missing.

Echoes of Eternal Night is one of those funeral doom albums that grips you tightly and drags you into the infinite blackened realms of desolation and wretchedness.

This may not be everyone’s cup of tea per se, but Sylvan brings it all to the front with the hope of letting the past and the present be, and moving on to seeing what the future will be for them.

Essentially, we get a meticulously crafted modern avant-pop album that works at every level. Harry seems to be quite a glittering nightgown.

With moving lyrics and stirring melodies, this recording will have you sighing with sad memories even as your feet start tapping.

It is great to see this Norwegian band making more darker and heavier themes to continue with the subject matter and see what will happen in the years to come.

Behölder brought back that true old-school metal feeling, delivering an album that’s highly recommended for metal fans around the world.

Katatonia return with another selection of progressive melancholy. The Swedes overcome the departure of their co-founder without rocking the boat too much, for better and worse.

The cover of Pretty, Baby! features a cobalt blue, stencil-like image of a barking, spike-collared Doberman; this blue is used liberally in their other visuals and is a perfect abstract summation of their sound. The shade covers their bright, pop-ish moments and their darker, fuzzier ones, managing to be vibrant and brooding at once, as is this EP.