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| Solace - Further >>> 22.08.2025 | |
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25 years, a quarter of a century, is a very long time in the life of any human being. And maybe even more so, in the lifespan of a recording of music. Yet "Further" by American stoner metal band SOLACE, first released at the turn of the millennium, has stood the test of time. Its tracks feel just as contemporary and relevant as in the year 2000 |
| Kayo Dot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth under Reason >>> 01.08.2025 | |
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On their eleventh regular studio album, "Every Rock, Every Half-Truth under Reason", KAYO DOT commemorate the 20th anniversary of "Choirs of the Eye" by reuniting the original line-up. This bold musical statement from the ever-changing composer and mastermind Toby Driver marks both a return and a progression from the band's seminal debut by revisiting the compositional practices that defined it while pushing forward into uncharted territory. |
| Gaupa - Fyr >>> 05.07.2025 | |
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GAUPA return with new mini album "Fyr" and a slimmed down line-up to serve up some of their heaviest material to date. A multi-layered play on words, in the Swedish language "Fyr" can mean 'four', which coincides with this being GAUPA's fourth release. Yet it can also mean 'lighthouse', 'beacon', and 'fire', which for various reasons fit the music and lyrical content as well |
| Domkraft - Domkraft >>> 27.06.2025 | |
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When the self-released and self-titled "Domkraft" EP came out in 2015, it was for many the first sign of life from the Swedes. That the 250 original copies sold out quickly is a testament to the strong appeal of the fuzz-driven, psychedelic riff-doom cosmos that DOMKRAFT created right from the start. And it just kept growing over the course of 10 years, four albums, two EPs, and a live record. |
| Ceresian Valot - Uumen >>> 24.05.2025 | |
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If the new Finnish band CERESIAN VALOT were to adopt a symbol, the Ouroboros or the Phoenix would be excellent candidates. Both mythical creatures symbolise the cyclical aspect of nature that means: every end is also a new beginning. |
| Nytt Land - Songs of the Shaman >>> 16.05.2025 | |
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Shamanism has become an item of Western pop culture that is quite randomly attached to any kind of new age esoteric phenomena involving animistic elements and trance-like experiences but also referred to regarding religious and magical aspects of barely understood ancient cultures. In a more strict sense, the term refers to spiritual practices of indigenous Siberian peoples. Its practitioners, the shamans, interact with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness as protectors of their communities. |
| Lux Interna - New Wilderness Gospel >>> 03.05.2025 | |
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After a decade of silence, LUX INTERNA return with their fifth album "New Wilderness Gospel". More than just a collection of songs, the album is the centerpiece of a larger, immersive world woven from sound, text, and image. |
| In the Woods - Otra >>> 11.04.2025 | |
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With their seventh studio album "Otra", Norwegian avant-garde metal stalwards IN THE WOODS... might surprise their listeners and particularly those, who have not followed the remarkable evolution that the band from the southern Norwegian city of Kristiansand has undergone since the early nineties. |
| LO-Pan - Get well soon >>> 05.04.2025 | |
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Up for a catchy tune? LO-PAN deliver them in droves! The four-piece from Columbus, Ohio in the United States have long been known for their powerful blend of driving rhythms, melodic vocals, and immersive sonic landscapes, and with "Get Well Soon", they add captivating songwriting to the list. |
| Year of the Cobra - Year of the Cobra >>> 01.03.2025 | |
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Guitars, who needs guitars in heavy music? At least YEAR OF THE COBRA can happily do without the ones that have only thin strings and are mostly good for fiddling around. Vocalist Amy Tung Barrysmith gets a massive groove and lush heaviness out of her bass, which is more than enough to fuel the booming twin engine made from doom metal and psychedelic sludge that drives their self-titled third full-length |
| Unreqvited - Pathway to the Moon >>> 08.02.2025 | |
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UNREQVITED mastermind (Ghost) has a penchant for beautiful musical creations that reveal their claws and fangs only at closer inspection after spending some time on them. This solo project is firmly rooted in blackgaze sonic soil but has also out sent tendrils into ambient, post-rock, post-black metal, and other related stylistic strata. The seventh album, "A Pathway to the Moon", is taking an impressive evolutionary leap. |
| Various Artists - Best of Jethro Tull Redux >>> 06.12.2024 | |
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JETHRO TULL are musical giants with a unique sound – or rather sounds that have remained singular in the canon of rock music. Founded in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1967 by the Scotsman Ian Anderson, the band has undergone several stylistic shifts and changes of image during their still ongoing career of many decades. Yet largely due to the characteristic voice of their frontman and the inclusion of a flute as an essential instrument, JETHRO TULL have always had an inimitable and easily recognisable trademark sonic fingerprint. |
| Nachtmystium - Blight Privilege >>> 02.11.2024 | |
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NACHTMYSTIUM are back! And after all that was said and done, mastermind Blake Judd aka Azentrius is still standing. Not only that, but Judd has clawed himself back from the abyss of a most extreme life imaginable to a much more quiet, observant, and matured artist and person. |
| Soror Dolorosa - Mond >>> 04.10.2024 | |
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Creatures of the night probably miss the 80s of the last century badly. Post-punk and New Wave reached glorious heights and their epic explorations of mixing hard guitars and driving electronics dominated alternative dance floors. Names like SISTERS OF MERCY, FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM, DEPECHE MODE, JOY DIVISION, THE HUMAN LEAGUE, ULTRAVOX and others still have a magic ring to them. |
| Psychlona - Warped Vision >>> 29.09.2024 | |
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When it's time to pick your poison, a blend of KYUSS and FU MANCHU is nearly always the base for a delicious result. Spice up the flavour with a particularly British note via a chilled infusion of HAWKWIND and a liberal sprinkling of PINK FLOYD over the lusciously creamy top, and you'll find that PSYCHLONA has served up a concoction ready to explode spectacularly in your aural taste buds. |
| Elephant Tree - Handful of Ten >>> 07.09.2024 | |
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The seed for ELEPHANT TREE was planted in a rehearsal space somewhere in the smelly back alleys of England's sleepless capital of London in 2013. There, the first notes of what would become 'Attack of the Altaica' sprang from the bass of Jack Townley and Sam Hart's drums. Thus, it is fitting that this earliest demo became the opening track of the band's new rarities collection "Handful of Ten" |
| Vuur und Zijde - Boezem >>> 13.07.2024 | |
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Love and heavy metal have always had a somewhat strained relationship as the former is at least nominally topic number 1 in pop music. It becomes even more complicated when black metal is involved, a genre in which hate is a major ingredient as much as blues musicians must have felt utter sadness. |
| Perchta - D'Muata >>> 14.06.2024 | |
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The image of a solitary woman living in a remote Alpine mountain place literally at the edge of civilisation evokes strong connotations of which 'witch' is probably one of the first. An independent woman confident and free in her actions, sexuality, and self-determination still goes against the collective expectations of our society. |
| Brume - Marten >>> 03.05.2024 | |
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BRUME (pronounced 'Broom') are living proof that California is not all sunshine and easy living. The San Francisco-based quartet organically blends doom metal, goth, and indie rock into a sometimes monolithic, and at other times delicate blend of heaviness that resides firmly on the darker side. |
| Dool - The Shape of Fluidity >>> 19.04.2024 | |
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Everything flows, nothing ever stays the same. This notion of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus applies to all of us as life itself is in a constant state of change. The same can be said about the third studio album of the fast-rising Dutch rock band DOOL. |
| The Vision Bleak - Weird Tales >>> 12.04.2024 | |
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THE VISION BLEAK return in grand style: The German duo's seventh full-length "Weird Tales" constitutes a monumental tribute to the eponymous American pulp magazine and other tales of mystery and dark imagination. The album consists of a single track that is divided into internal chapters, which are each inspired by weird tales, poems, and other literature of horror and the macabre. |
| Heavy Temple - Garden of Heathens >>> 12.04.2024 | |
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HEAVY TEMPLE are back. Back from touring across the United States as well as finding adventure and making new friends in Europe for the first time. Back from the rehearsal room where the making of new songs became far more of a group effort than on the debut album. And back from Animal Farm studio where John Forrestal gave the new album "Garden of Heathens" a rich and warm organic sound that is also crisp and crystalline. |
| Austere - Beneath the Threshold >>> 05.04.2024 | |
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Beneath the Threshold" represents AUSTERE in the here and now. With their fourth full-length the Australians have taken a long step into the present and embrace their musical future in a way that might have been expected after a 13-year hiatus. |
| Brother Dege - Aurora >>> 15.03.2024 | |
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If you make the trek down to Louisiana, you wont leave the same way you came. Listening to BROTHER DEGE, you breathe in the backwoods air, fall under the spell of the swamp, and get to know the ghosts of the Delta. Materialising at a crossroads between soul-rousing rock and roll, eloquent folk, backstreet Americana, and psychedelic bliss, the GRAMMY Award-nominated troubadour absorbs the spirit of his home state in threads of droning slide guitar, naked vocals, and blood-soaked poetry. |
| Kirlian Camera - Radio Signals for the Dying >>> 24.02.2024 | |
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KIRLIAN CAMERA are an ever churning maelstrom of creativity and musical innovation. Their inspirational power is both destructive when it comes to limitations of genre, style, and conventions as well as constructive for example regarding building new sonic structures on the ruins of the old. The Italians latest masterpiece, "Radio Signals for the Dying", is no exception as a new artistic high-watermark. |
| Aureole - Alunarian Bellmaster >>> 09.02.2024 | |
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For whom the bells toll in the Citadel Alunar shall encounter the Bellmaster! The particularly sinister and insidious musical and lyrical universe that Markov "M.S." Soroka is continuously creating with his various projects AUREOLE and TCHORNOBOG as well as ETERNIUM, KRUKH, and DROWN is enriched by a new chapter: |
| Kinit Her - The Nature Out There >>> 15.12.2023 | |
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With their fifteenth full-length "The Nature Out There", KINIT HER have reached a culminating and breath-taking height in their organic growth. Transcending all artificial limitations such as genre or instrumentation, the symbolist post-folk collective present a beautiful kaleidoscope of bursting musical colours and spiritual journeys into the wonders of nature with lush soundscapes that amazes and thrills with every note.
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| Dool - Visions of Summerland live >>> 24.11.2023 | |
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| Howling Giants - Glass Future >>> 27.10.2023 | |
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Every song on HOWLING GIANT's sophomore album "Glass Future" tells its own story. Yet even without an overarching concept, all could exist within the same universe. Such crafty lyrical world-building is hardly surprising coming from a trio of enthusiastic fantasy and science fiction aficionados. "Glass Future" downright asks to inspire a book or graphic novel, even as it explodes with furious energy and thunderous acrobatics. |
| Laster - Andermans Mijne >>> 13.10.2023 | |
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LASTER are stylistically a jack in the box and the same is true for the fourth album of the Dutch trio. Every attempt to cram "Andermans Mijne" (someone else's mine' or 'someone else's mine') into any given pigeon-hole" will be greeted with the next track jumping out again with a delighted devilish grin and a hearty slap on the wrist with a fan. |
| Restless Spirit - Afterimage >>> 06.10.2023 | |
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In the case of RESTLESS SPIRIT, the band name says it all – and in more than just one way. Their third album, "Afterimage", embodies the East Coast trio's aim of never wanting to sound exactly like before. Long Island deep-fried guitars meet pounding rhythms and emotionally raw vocals. Where the predecessor "Blood of the Old Gods" (2021) sometimes ushered the listener into twisted complexity, "Afterimage" delivers short, sharp shocks that hit straight home. |
| Silence in the Snow - Ghost Eyes >>> 22.09.2023 | |
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There are only a very few bands today that manage to combine the classic spirit of dark wave and post-punk with emotional musical intelligence. SILENCE IN THE SNOW can easily count themselves among this vanguard. The duo has in the meantime relocated from Oakland to Arcata in the North of California, a town situated at the picturesque Arcata Bay that opens into the Pacific Ocean, and surrounded on land by national parks and Redwood forests. |
| Tar Pond - Petrol >>> 17.09.2023 | |
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The blues legend claims that the devil waits for those wanting to sell their souls at the crossroads. "PETROL", the second full length of Swiss doom visionaries TAR POND is very much born from such a convergence – but one where more than three dimensions meet. On a temporal level, "PETROL" connects the past, present, and future of the band, and the album's conception even transcends life and death. |
| Domkraft - Sonic Moons >>> 10.09.2023 | |
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On their fourth album, "Sonic Moons", Sweden's DOMKRAFT set forth on a voyage into the inner cosmos, riding their fuzz-driven, psychedelic riff-doom through the galactic psyche and into alternate metaphysical realities, all in search of escape, respite, and release. |
| Ruby The Hatchet - Live at Earthquaker >>> 22.04.2022 | |
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With sultry, honey-smoked vocals, lush yet crisp guitars and spirit of rock 'n roll organ heroics, it takes just a few seconds for luxuriant opening track '1000 Years' from RUBY THE HATCHET's hot-blooded new EP to firmly sink its hooks into ears and hearts. |
| Darkher - The buried Storm >>> 15.04.2022 | |
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Darkness treads light as a feather. The voice of despair gently wafts through the air. Delicate pain wrapped in radiant beauty pierces the heart slowly yet without hesitation. The sinister yet beguiling images that DARKHER aka Jayn Maiven paints with her ethereal vocals, guitars, and added strings conjure iridescent cinematic scenes in which it becomes hard to tell whether there lies beauty in darkness or if it is the other way around. |
| E-L-R - Vexier >>> 11.03.2022 | |
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