The scene is set

There are candles on the bed

The jacuzzi burps up

Something that’s dead

Charles Rowell has long seemed driven by deeper compulsions than pose or poster mythology. Since 2008, he has kept himself in motion, shifting through bands like Crocodiles, Flowers of Evil, and Issue with relentless momentum. That same charge runs through Crush of Souls. It is all over Sudden Death, the new single from Captive Youth, the project’s third album, arriving only a year after Lézire with the force of someone treating stagnation like a death sentence.

This track carries real bodily force. Rowell steps away from the sepulchral drag and nocturnal romance of earlier Crush of Souls material and drives headlong into the steel-ribbed throb of old-school EBM, 80s synthpop,  and 90s industrial dance music. The beat hits with the blunt certainty of machinery in motion, while the basslines stalk and surge with warehouse intent. The reference points are clear enough to be useful: Technique-era New Order, Nitzer Ebb’s stern propulsion, Psychic TV in ceremonial overdrive, Anne Clark’s urban chill.

Sudden Death is the diseased centerpiece of the forthcoming album, turning escape into rot and pleasure into punishment. A holiday setting curdles into a fever dream of salt, sex, heat, and decay, until every attempt at release feels contaminated. The song locates the strange point where leisure becomes claustrophobic, and desire starts carrying the scent of disaster. That is the track’s real trick: it understands how closely lust and annihilation can sleep beside each other, and it sells that proximity with style, bile, and a wicked sense of theatre. The imagery is humid, damaged, and faintly absurd in the best possible way, as if luxury itself has begun to decompose.

The video by Michael Zimmerman, filmed by Laure Marie Rowell, meets the song on exactly the right terms. Gothic and psychedelic, it presents a performance piece that feels smeared at the edges, as though the image were beginning to break down under the pressure of its own excess. That visual treatment suits the music well because Sudden Death is an album steeped in contamination. Politics, sexuality, dislocation, memory, and bodily appetite all get dragged through the same glamorous gutter.

Watch the video for Sudden Death below:

As album number three, Captive Youth feels both like a revision and a reanimation: a hard, danceable record animated by the rootless charge of Charles Rowell’s captive youth spent moving from town to town. Across nine tracks, Crush of Souls channels the energy of a wandering worker-poet, carrying romance and ruin in the same battered bag and turning urban disaffection into something lean, hot, and dangerously alive. The album also features the track “Domination” with Sade Sanchez of L.A. Witch.

Captive Youth is out 19 June 2026 through Avant! Records. Listen to Sudden Death below, and pre-order Captive Youth here.

Captive Youth by CRUSH OF SOULS

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Now I’m screaming loud so I can fly away

There comes a point when the screen begins to feel less like a tool than a barrier — a black membrane standing between the body and the world outside. Mazarine’s new single “EyeSpeak2U” springs from that moment of restless recognition, channeling the urge to put the phone down, break routine, and feel fully alive again into a rush of washed guitars, clicking drums, and vocals poised between cool detachment and mounting unrest.

This latest track from the Los Angeles outfit finds Angie Kang and Derrick Perry, now joined by guitarist Eddie Diaz, sharpening their collision of shoegaze vapor, post-punk tension, experimental pop, and no wave abstraction into something brisker and more confrontational. According to the band, “EyeSpeak2U” is a fast-paced, emotionally volatile single about breaking out of confinement and clawing toward some kind of resolution, accompanied by a self-produced video that mirrors that pressure through fragmented performance and analog disorientation.

The song opens with a chiming guitar drone, a bouncy, detached bassline, distant strums, and clipped percussion that recall the snap and sway of late 80s and early 90s alternative underground. Then comes the saxophone: not as ornament, but as abrasion — a wiry, needling presence that brings a streak of downtown disrepair into the track, nodding toward James Chance while the band’s broader frame reaches from dreampop to post-punk and beyond. Above it all, Angie Kang’s voice drifts in with a cool ache, airy yet urgent, carrying the melody with a glancing emotional pressure. As the final third of the track begins, the song briefly shifts into a more suspended, sighing section, where guitars soften and the saxophone flutters overhead like a siren echoing through fog, only to quickly pick up speed again.

Lyrically, “EyeSpeak2U” feels like a restless push against routine and the numb, mediated habits that keep real life at a distance. “Put your phone away” lands less as a throwaway line than a small act of revolt, while “been awhile since I’ve lived” gives the song its emotional center: the sense of someone waking up to how long they have been sleepwalking through the feed, the screen, the same stale cycle. The repeated desire to “fly away” and “make it out of here” turns that frustration into motion, reaching not just for escape, but for contact, air, movement, and the jolt of feeling fully present again.

The video gives that instability a vivid visual grammar, cutting between a bare white performance space and a second plane of stacked CRT televisions glowing in violet and blue. In the studio scenes, the trio plays beneath hard light amid amps, cables, pedalboards, and the plain clutter of a live setup. Elsewhere, the monitors multiply the band into ghosted, grainy apparitions, flashing close-ups of eyes and mouths that make looking feel intimate and invasive at once. Neon triangle graphics tunnel inward behind Angie Kang as she sings, while the band’s name pulses across screens like a station ID from a half-remembered cable channel.

That interplay between clean performance footage and degraded analog image gives the clip its pulse. One moment, Kang stands center frame, bass in hand, flanked by Derrick Perry and Eddie Diaz in motion; the next, the image slips into smeared close-ups, blurred silhouettes, monitor reflections, and enlarged facial fragments that make the band seem caught inside their own transmission. Rather than leaning on retro fetish, Mazarine uses old television textures to suggest feeling filtered through machines — identity duplicated, desire delayed, and escape never quite cleanly won. Purple wash gives way to stark white light, fingers on guitar and bass are set against vast emptiness, and performers become signals, all reinforcing the band’s gift for contrast: intimacy and distance, clarity and distortion, gaze and release.

Watch the video for “EyeSpeak2U” below:

Based in Los Angeles, Mazarine began in early 2024 as a remote collaboration between Perry and Kang before widening its palette beyond shoegaze and dreampop to include trip-hop, grunge, post-punk, and no wave. Perry, a Virginia-born filmmaker and former DJ with roots in guitar bands and sample-based production, reconnects here with the rawer edges of his record-collection instincts, while Kang brings experience from the Austin noisy math-rock outfit Future Death. The addition of Eddie Diaz this year adds another layer of muscle and color to the group’s sound.

“EyeSpeak2U” arrives now ahead of the four-track EP Dress Rehearsal, due May 8.

Listen to “EyeSpeak2U” via streaming here.

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Chicago’s Cold Waves Festival has announced the lineup for its 2026 Chicago edition, with Cold Waves XIV set to take place September 24-27 across Metro, GMan Tavern, and Bottom Lounge. This year’s bill is led by TR/ST, Stabbing Westward, King Woman, and Tear Garden, with a deep lineup that once again spans industrial, post-punk, darkwave, synth-driven abrasion, and left-field heaviness.

Also set to appear are Youth Code, , Chalk, N8NOFACE, Haunt Me, Acumen Nation, 16Volt, Spike Hellis, Die Sexual, Nuxx, Purest Form, Kaputt, Bragolin, Black Cross Hotel, Clubdrugs, Insula Iscariot, Carrellee, Patriarchy, Flesh_Bot, and Scary Lady Sarah.

According to the newly unveiled flyer, the festival will feature 24 acts plus DJs, food trucks, vendors, charity raffles, and auctions, with a portion of proceeds benefiting Darkest Before Dawn and other Chicago-area non-profits. The flyer also notes that main-stage shows are 18+, while GMan after-shows are 21+.

Metro doors open at 6 PM, with shows beginning at 7 PM. Bottom Lounge doors open at 7 PM, and GMan after-shows begin at 12 AM. The festival will offer GA and VIP passes, as well as multi-event discounts.

Cold Waves also notes that the day-by-day lineup schedule will be announced on Tuesday, April 14, at 10 AM CT. At that same time, Metro discount 3-day passes will go on sale. All single-day GA and VIP tickets will then go on sale Friday, April 17, at 10 AM CT.

If no other North American appearances are announced or have taken place beforehand, Dutch post-punk band Bragolin also appears set to make its North American debut at Cold Waves XIV and its first-ever Chicago performance.

The full lineup for Cold Waves XIV is as follows:

TR/ST
Stabbing Westward
King Woman
Tear Garden
Youth Code

Chalk
N8NOFACE
Haunt Me
Acumen Nation
16Volt
Spike Hellis
Die Sexual
Nuxx
Purest Form
Kaputt
Bragolin
Black Cross Hotel
Clubdrugs
Insula Iscariot
Carrellee
Patriarchy
Flesh_Bot
Scary Lady Sarah

For more information and ticket updates, visit coldwaves.net.

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Venues:

Metro
GMan Tavern
Bottom Lounge

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Zwischen flackernden Lichtern, klebrigen Clubböden und dieser einen Melodie, die sofort alles zurückholt: „Kathy’s Song“ ist genau so ein Stück. Und genau dieses Gefühl wird jetzt neu...

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Hammerheart Records hat die Neuauflage des Debütalbums „In the Sign of the Ravens“ der Viking-Metal-Band MITHOTYN angekündigt. Der Klassiker aus dem Jahr 1997, der von Nightside Audio (God Macabre, Skymning) remastert wurde, erscheint am 5. Juni über das Label. Das Album ist erstmals auf Vinyl und als Digi-CD erhältlich mit neuem Artwork von Kris Verwimp.
Preorder: https://mithotyn.lnk.to/inthesignoftheravens

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Nachdem Mithotyn vier Demobänder veröffentlicht hatten, brachten sie 1997 endlich ihr erstes Album in voller Länge heraus. „In the Sign of the Ravens“ erreicht zwar vielleicht nicht ganz die Höhepunkte der späteren Veröffentlichungen der Band, aber es gibt dennoch viel zu genießen. Das Album bietet eine harte, kühle Interpretation des Viking Metal, und in dieser frühen Phase hatte die Band die stärkeren melodischen Elemente, die auf späteren Alben eine größere Rolle spielen sollten, noch nicht vollständig angenommen.

 

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Finnish synthesizer wizard Sebastian Teir, better known as Kebu, is hitting the road for his most ambitious tour yet, starting today in Stockholm Following the March release of his new album, “Urban Skies”, he has scheduled an impressive 32 concerts across 12 European countries. The huge tour kicks off today in Stockholm and will travel through […]

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PIG have released the new single “Sex & Suicide” today, April 10, 2026, via Metropolis...

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Lords Of Acid have released the new single “Karaoke Superstar” via Metropolis Records. The track...

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Nur ein Post, ein paar Worte, null Vorwarnung – und plötzlich steht ein Release im Raum, das zwei musikalische Extreme zusammenzieht wie ein Kurzschluss im Sicherungskasten: ‘Nine...

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Sechs Jahre Pause also! Für viele Bands ist das schon der Moment, in dem hektisch an der eigenen Relevanz geschraubt wird – ein bisschen Trend hier, ein...

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Sieben Jahre Ruhe? Vergiss es. 'Verdun' sind zurück – und ihr neues Album „Abyssal Womb“ erscheint am 26. Juni 2026 über Transcending Obscurity Records. Und das Ding...

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Mit "The World Is On Fire" haben Evergrey die erste Single aus dem kommenden Album "Architects Of A New Weave" ausgekoppelt. Außerdem hat die Band ihren neuen Gitarristen vorgestellt - mehr Infos und das Musikvideo hier bei uns.

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Neue Musik von ATREYU: Die Band hat eine weitere  Single vom kommenden Album „The End In Not The End“ veröffentlicht, für „Children Of Light“ arbeitete die Band mit Max Cavalera zusammen: 

Zuvor teilte die Band diese Songs: 

 

 

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 Im September präsentierte die Band mit „Dead“ den ersten neuen Track seit mehreren Jahren – der Song befasst sich mit den großen Fragen des Lebens, wie Brandon Saller erklärt:

„‚Dead‘ handelt von Fragen,  die wir uns alle irgendwann stellen: Bin ich wichtig? Bemerkt es jemand, wenn ich nicht mehr da wäre? Ich spreche hier nicht von Depressionen oder Selbstmordgedanken, sondern eher vom großen Ganzen. Wir alle wollen etwas Bleibendes hinterlassen, aber sind wir wirklich wichtig? Wahrscheinlichen hoffen wie das alle.“

 

 ATREYU Line-Up:Brandon Saller – Lead VocalsDan Jacobs – GuitarTravis Miguel – GuitarPorter McKnight – Bass/VocalsKyle Rosa – Drums

ATREYU „The End is Not the End“ Tracklist

The End Is Not The End

Break The Glass

Dead (Video bei YouTube)

Break Me

All For You (Video bei YouTube)
Ghost In Me

Glass Eater

Wait My Love, I’ll Be Home Soon

Ego Death (Video bei YouTube)

Death Rattle

Children Of Light

In The Dark

Afterglow

 

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PYOGENESIS haben heute eine weitere Single veröffentlicht, „Nothing But My Heart“ zeigt eine neue Facette der Band – das Label schreibt vom „ersten Power-Metal-Song in ihrer 35-jährigen Bandgeschichte“.

Nach fünf Jahren Pause hatten PYOGENESIS mit „All I Am Is Bleeding” im Februar 2026 einen neuen Song veröffentlicht, der Song entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit THE OTHER. Für Sänger Flo V. Schwarz ist der Track ein sehr persönlicher Song:

 „Ich habe diesen Text aus einem Schmerz heraus geschrieben, der Teil meiner Persönlichkeit geworden ist. Es ist einer der emotionalsten Songs, die ich je geschrieben und gesungen habe. ‚All I Am Is Bleeding‘ ist mein Herz, das ohne Haut zum Schutz offen daliegt.“

Zurzeit arbeiten PYOGENESIS an ihrem nächsten Studioalbum, es soll Anfang 2027 veröffentlicht werden. Mit „Uncontrolled“ gibt es nun einen weiteren neuen Song.

„Der Song ist emotional aufgeladen und fängt den gewissen Moment ein, in dem die Hormone verrückt spielen. Er beschreibt, was in jungen Menschen vor sich geht, wenn sich alles verändert, während sie versuchen, ihren Platz in der Welt zu finden“, sagt Sänger Flo V. Schwarz.

PYOGENESIS Line-up 2025:
Flo V. Schwarz – Gitarre, Gesang
Malte Brauer – Bass
Gizz Butt – Gitarre
Sebastian Michalski – Schlagzeug

PYOGENESIS „Uncontrolled“ (Audio als Stream)

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THE NARRATOR veröffentlichen am 8. Mai 2026 ihr neues Album „Phosphor“. Heute teilte die Band den Track „Agnosia“ plus Video:

Einige Songs daraus hat die Band bereits veröffentlicht, unter anderem im März die Single ist „Two Lives„:

Zuvor teilte die Metalcore-Band „Stasis“ und „Unbind Me“, danach „Aurora„.

Im Herbst sind THE NARRATOR auf Tour und geben auch in Deutschland einige Konzerte.

THE NARRATOR „Phosphor“ Tracklist & Cover

01    Phosphor
02    Aurora (Video bei YouTube)
03    Modern Age Blasphemy
04    Stasis (feat. AVRALIZE) (Video bei YouTube)
05    Pills From The Start
06    Agnosia
07    Two Lives (Video bei YouTube)
08    Dissection
09    Iron Grip
10    9010

THE NARRATOR Tour 2026

26.09.26   FI   Helsinki, On The Rocks
30.09.26   CH  Aarau, Kiff Aarau
01.10.26   AT  Wien, Flex Café
03.10.26   DE  München, Backstage Club
04.10.26   DE  Stuttgart, Im Wizemann
06.10.26   CZ  Prag, Rock Cafe
07.10.26   DE  Leipzig, WERK 2 – Kulturfabrik Leipzig e.V.
08.10.26   DE  Berlin, Frannz-Club
09.10.26   DE  Hamburg, Bahnhof Pauli
10.10.26   DE  Köln, Club Volta
11.10.26   NL  Haarlem, Patronaat
13.10.26   DE  Wiesbaden, Schlachthof Wiesbaden Kesselhaus
15.10.26   UK  London, The Black Heart
16.10.26   FR  Paris, La Maroquinerie
17.10.26   NL  Tilburg, Little Devil
18.10.26   BE  Antwerp, Kavka Oudaan

THE NARRATOR – Summer Breeze 2025 – 12.08.2025 – Konzertfotos

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CONJURER haben ihr Konzert im Londoner The Underworld im November 2025 aufgezeichnet, die Band hat nun den Mitschnitt von  ‚The Searing Glow‘ veröffentlicht:

Für die Band war es ein besonderer Abend:

„Ein Headliner-Auftritt im The Underworld vor ausverkauftem Haus, war einer unserer letzten Meilensteine, die wir noch erreichen wollten. Am 8. September 2014 waren wir dabei, als YOB den Laden auseinander genommen haben. Noch in derselben Nacht stellten wir unsere Band auf die Beine, war es ein langer Weg. Natürlich wollten wir diesen Moment festhalten, also haben wir unseren bewährten Videografen Joe Guppy beauftragt, einige Multikamera-Aufnahmen zu machen, und hier ist das Ergebnis: ‚The Searing Glow‘ von unserem Album ‚Unself‘, live im The Underworld, London.“

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Am 24. April 2026 veröffentlicht EINAR SOLBERG, Sänger bei LEPROUS, sein zweites Soloalbum „Vox Occulta“.  Heute stellt er die vierte Single daraus mit einem Video vor:

Aufgenommen hat Solberg „Vox Occulta“ dem Norwegian Radio Orchestra sowie der Unterstützung von Keli Guðjónsson (AGENT FRESCO, Schlagzeug), Chris Baum (BENT KNEE, Violine), Pierre Danel (NOVELISTS, Gitarre), Jed Lingat (Bass) sowie den Gitarristen Ben Levin (ex-BENT KNEE) und John Browne (MONUMENTS). Das Album wurde von Adam Noble gemischt und mit David Castillo produziert.

Mit einem Video zu „Liberatio“ hatte der Norweger im Februar eine weitere Single daraus geteilt:

 

Reinhören kann man außerdem seit Januar in die neue Single „Medulla“

 

Das zuvor veröffentlichte Video zum Track „Stella Mortua“ ist hier zu sehen:

2026 ist EINAR SOLBERG außerdem auf Headliner-Tour durch Europa:

18/09 – UK London, The Garage
19/09 – FR Paris, Café de la Danse
20/09 – FR Toulouse, Le Rex
21/09 – FR Biarritz, La Rhapsodie
22/09 – PT Porto, Mouco
23/09 – PT Lisbon, Republica da Musica
25 & 26/09 – ES Barcelona, Be Prog! My Friend
26/09 – FR Grenoble, L’amperage
29/09 – PL Krakow, Hype Park
30/09 – DE Berlin, Lido
01/10 – DE Neunkirchen, Gebläsehalle 
02/10 – CH Baden, Werkk Kulturlokal

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Swedish new wave pioneers Lustans Lakejer have just released their first-ever live album, ”Hotell” and tomorrow I’ll catch them on stage in Release hometown Gothenburg where they made their breakthrough over four decades ago. They’ll perform at Pustervik in Gothenburg, with Compute as support act and Eddie Bengtsson in the DJ booth. Pustervik is one […]

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Gestern waren Mesh mit ihrem neuen Album "The Truth Doesn't Matter" in Frankfurt zu Gast. Exklusive Bilder der Band sowie der Support-Acts Blackbook und Mari Kattmann hier bei uns!

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Der Release-Freitag hat wieder zugeschlagen – und diesmal mit ordentlich Gitarrendruck: 'The Props' aus Los Angeles veröffentlichen heute, am 10. April 2026, ihre Debüt-EP „Arrow“ über Blue...

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Mit "Who Will Follow You" haben Evanescence heute die erste Single von ihrem kommenden Album "Sanctuary" ausgekoppelt. Mehr Infos und das Video hier bei uns!

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Finnish synthesizer wizard Sebastian Teir, better known as Kebu, is hitting the road for his most ambitious tour yet, starting today in Stockholm Following the March release of his new album, “Urban Skies”, he has scheduled an impressive 31 concerts across 12 European countries. The huge tour kicks off today in Stockholm and will travel through […]

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Poetic pain JONAS KOLB“Je suis Berenice“Album (in-house production) Shards of thought violently enter your brain. “Je suis Berenice” – is a bitter, sinister soundtrack that gives expression to inner pain. Jonas Kolb puts together sound collages that are as disturbing as they are skillful, creating graphic collages and nightmarish images that have their very own […]

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This large format book presents an unforgettable selection of stunning art and fetish photography taken over the last 10+ years. Killer Heels Photography was awarded BEST PHOTOGRAPHER at the UK FETISH AWARDS in 2022 and 2023. Killer Heels Photography has its very own style, an unmistakable look. Specializing in latex fashion and fetish. “Latex is […]

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Die Dissonant Death Metal-Band DYSGNOSTIC hat mit dem Video-Clip zu „The Black Sun“ eine erste Single ihres kommenden Albums „End Whispers“ veröffentlicht. Es ist nach „Scar Echoes“ (2022) das zweite Album der Dänen und wird im Laufe des Jahres 2026 via Transcending Obscurity Records erscheinen.

DYSGNOSTIC „The Black Sun“ (Video bei YouTube)

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Die Black Metal / Sludge-Band VERDUN hat einen Labeldeal bei Transcending Obscurity Records unterschrieben. Im Zuge dessen werden die Franzosen aus Montpellier ihr neues Album „Abyssal Womb“ veröffentlichen. Es ist nach „The Eternal Drift’s Canticles“ (2016) und „Astral Sabbath“ (2019) das dritte Album der 2010 gegründeten Band rund um Gitarrist Jérôme Pinelli (DOCTOR LIVINGSTONE). Release-Termin ist der 26. Juni 2026. Das Cover-Artwork stammt von David Sadok. Vorab gibt es nach dem Track „Silent Witness“ nun auch den Opener „Funeral of the Cosmic Knight“ zu hören.

VERDUN Line-Up:
David Sadok – Vocals
Jay Pinelli – Guitars
Florian Celdran – Bass
Geraud Jonquet – Drums

VERDUN „Abyssal Womb“ Tracklist
1. Funeral of the Cosmic Knight (Audio bei YouTube)
2. Silent Witness (Audio bei YouTube)
3. He Who Killed the Devil
4. La Lame et la Chair
5. Rise of the Atomic Ghouls
6. The Man Behind My Eyes
7. Les Noces du Néant

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Nach einem Video zu „Red In Tooth And Claw“ stellen RESTLESS SPIRIT mit „Desolation’s Wake“ einen weiteren Song ihres kommenden, selbstbetitelten Albums vor. „Restless Spirit“ erscheint am 8. Mai 2026 via Magnetic Eye Records.

Ein weiterer Preview-Song ist ‚The Burning Need‚ .

RESTLESS SPIRIT „Restless Spirit“ Tracklist
1. The Burning Need (Video bei YouTube)
2. Hallowed
3. Red in Tooth and Claw (Video bei YouTube)
4. Desire Lines
5. Desolation’s Wake (Audio bei YouTube)
6. Ember
7. Time and Distance
8. Phantom Pain

Line-up
Paul Aloisio – guitar, vocals
Jon Gusman – drums
Marc Morello – bass

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Die Pagan Black Metal-Band NUMEN hat mit „Erre“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist das fünfte Album der Spanier, die das Album in Euskera (Baskisch) eingesungen haben. Release-Termin ist der 12. Juni 2026 via Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions.

NUMEN „Erre“ Tracklist
1. Kez beteriko zeru penatua
2. Negu itxian Urtarril hotza
3. Errautsen azken arnasa
4. Hustasuna – Oroitzapen galduen putzua
5. Euria infernuko suta

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Die Death Metal-Band THORIUM hat mit dem Video zu „MG42“ nun auch ein Lyric-Video vom Titeltrack  von ihrem kommenden Album „Suburban Rot“ veröffentlicht. Es ist das sechste Album der Dänen und wird am 6. Juni 2026 via Emanzipation Productions erscheinen. Als Produzent konnte die Band Tue Madsen gewinnen.

THORIUM Line-Up:
JP – Guitars
Jose Cruz – Guitars
Daniel – Drums
Jesper – Bass
MHA – Vokills

THORIUM „Suburban Rot“ Tracklist
1. Abra Macabre
2. Endless Disgust
3. Open Wounds
4. MG42 (Video bei YouTube)
5. Suburban Rot (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
6. Shelter
7. The Collector
8. Bring The Children To Me
9. The Undead
10. Crucified

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Die Technical Death Metal-Band COGNIZANCE hat nach dem Video zu „A Game Of Proliferation“ mit dem Video zu „The Zone“ eine dritte Single ihres kommenden Albums „In Light, No Shape“ veröffentlicht. Es ist das vierte Album der Engländer aus Leeds und das erste, auf welchem Gitarrist Alex Baillie hauptverantwortlich für die Vocals ist, nachdem Bandgründer Henry „Big Mac“ Pryce die Band verlassen hat.

„In Light, No Shape“ wurde von Ronnie Björnström gemixt und gemastert und mit einem Cover-Artwork von Jef Whitehead ausgestattet. Release-Termin ist der 1. Mai 2026 via Willowtip Records. Vorab gibt es auch zu „Witness Marks“ einen Video-Clip.

COGNIZANCE Line-Up:
Alex Baillie – Guitar/Vocals
Apostolis Karydis – Guitar
Chris Binns – Bass
David Diepold – Drums

COGNIZANCE „In Light, No Shape“ Tracklist
1. Transient Fixations
2. Inflection Chants
3. A Game of Proliferation (Video bei YouTube)
4. Chasm
5. Vertical Illusion
6. A Reconfiguration
7. Witness Marks (Video bei YouTube)
8. Subterranean Incantation
9. Induced Contortions
10. The Zone (Video bei YouTube)

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Die Blackened Sludge-Band DELIVERANCE hat mit „The Voyager Golden Banquet“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist das vierte Album der Franzosen aus Paris und wird am 22. Mai 2026 via Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions erscheinen.

Das Album wurde von Gitarrist Etienne Sarthou aufgenommen und gemixt und von Magnus Lindberg gemastert. Das Cover-Artwork stammt von Pauline Talarn. Vorab gibt es den Track „The Banquet part 1“ zu hören.

„Dieser in zwei Teile gegliederte Song stellt den Höhepunkt der interstellaren Reise dar, die wir auf diesem Album gestaltet haben. Nach dieser langen Reise lässt uns ‚The Banquet Part I‘ einen Lichtschimmer am Ende des Tunnels erblicken und weckt in uns die Kraft und Hoffnung, diese Reise fortzusetzen, die vielleicht noch nicht zu Ende ist“, sagt die Band.

DELIVERANCE Line-Up:
Sacha Février – Bass
Fred Quota – Drums
Etienne Sarthou – Guitars
Pierre Duneau – Vocals

DELIVERANCE „The Voyager Golden Banquet“ Tracklist
1. Hellisual
2. Chasing the Dragon
3. Headspace Collapse
4. Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
5. As Above, So Below
6. Ground Zero
7. The Banquet – Part 1 (Audio bei YouTube)
8. The Banquet – Part 2

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Die Heavy Metal-Band SANDSTORM hat nach „Slave to Sin“ mit dem Video zu „Close Combat“ eine zweite Single ihrer kommenden EP „Dungeon of Death“ veröffentlicht. Es ist die dritte EP der internationalen Band aus Schweden und Kanada und wird am 22. Mai 2026 via Dying Victims Productions erscheinen.

SANDSTORM Line-Up:
Reptile Anderson – Bass, Vocals
P.J. „The Butcher“ La Griffe – Drums
Stevie Whiteless – Guitars, Vocals

SANDSTORM „Dungeon of Death“ Tracklist
1. Dungeon Of Death
2. Slave to Sin (Audio bei YouTube)
3. Death After Life
4. Close Combat (Video bei YouTube)
5. Storm the Gate
6. The Bird

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Gitarrist GUS DRAX (BLACK FATE, SUNBURST, Ex-SUICIDAL ANGELS) hat mit „Ethereal Horizon“ einen Video-Clip seines neuen Albums „Theories of Imperfection“ veröffentlicht. Erschienen ist das Instrumental Progressive Metal-Album am 3. April 2026 via Theogonia Records. Es ist nach „In Search of Perfection“ (2010) das zweite Solo-Album des griechischen Musikers.

GUS DRAX „Theories of Imperfection“ Tracklist
1. Sentio Ergo Sum
2. Nocturnal Waltz
3. Emotive Resonance
4. Ethereal Horizon (Video bei YouTube)
5. Sombrero Attack
6. Final Atonement
7. Cosmic Shadow
8. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright

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Die Melodic Black Metal-Band GALIBOT hat mit „Catabase“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Das nach „Euch’mau Noir“ (2024) zweite Album der Franzosen folgt damit nur wenige Wochen nach der Neu-Aufnahme „Euch’Mau Noir bis“ des Debütalbums. Release-Termin ist der 8. Mai 2026 via Les Acteurs de L’Ombre. Vorab gibt es zu „Pénitent“ einen Video-Clip.

„Der Song zeigt die lebensgefährliche Arbeit von Elitebergleuten, die eine ebenso wichtige wie gefährliche Aufgabe zu erfüllen haben: Sie zünden Grubengas an, um die Stollen zu reinigen. Allein in die Tiefe geschickt, kriecht der „Pénitent“, dessen einziger Schutz seine durchnässte Kleidung ist, mit einer Fackel in der Hand vorwärts, um das tödliche Gas zu verbrennen. Heroisch und doch tragisch verkörpert der Song den ständigen Kampf zwischen Überleben und Opferbereitschaft“, sagt die Band.

GALIBOT Line-Up:
Clément Joly – Bass
Agathe „Diffamie“ Boulanger – Vocals
Thomas „BiTiDi“ Deffrasnes – Vocals, Guitars, Drums
Robin Gravemann – Drums
Julian Baquero – Guitars

GALIBOT „Catabase“ Tracklist
1. Catabase
2. Jeanlin
3. Bleu Noir Rouge
4. Voreux
5. Baptise Terre
6. Pénitent (Video bei YouTube)
7. Les Montagnes Poussent Sous Terre
8. Estaminet, Pt. 1
9. Terril
10. Saint Cordon
11. Mesektet

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Die Thrash Metal-Band DEATHSTORM hat mit dem Lyric-Video zu „Mount Eerie“ einen zweiten Track ihres kommenden Albums „Cascophonies“ veröffentlicht. Es ist das fünfte Album der Österreicher aus Graz und wird am 22. Mai 2026 via Dying Victims Productions erscheinen.

„Cascophonies“ wurde von Julian Jauk gemixt und von Bernd Heinrauch gemastert. Das Cover-Artwork stammt von Timbul Cahyono. Vorab gibt es auch den Track „Mask Of Sanity“ zu hören.

DEATHSTORM Line-Up:
Ferdinand Reinbacher – guitars
Marco Stebich – bass, vocals
Manuel Röxeis – drums

DEATHSTORM „Cascophonies“ Tracklist
1. Partially Devoured
2. Let this one be a Demon
3. Cease to Exist
4. Body in a Barrel
5. Horripilation
6. Mask Of Sanity (Audio bei YouTube)
7. Black Knife Night
8. Mount Eerie (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
9. Mortuorum Flies

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Die Melodic Black / Death Metal-Band APOLAUSTIC hat einen Labeldeal bei Transcending Obscurity Records unterschrieben. Im Zuge dessen haben die Schweizer rund um Romain Negro (Ex-STORTREGN) ihr neues Album „No Plenitude Without Suffering“ veröffentlicht. Das Cover-Artwork stammt von Romain Negro. Release-Termin war der 3. April 2026. Nach dem Lyric-Video zu „Fragments from a Misty Journey“ und dem Video-Clip zu „Testimony of an Obsolescent World“ gibt es mit „Black Flame Reviver“ nun ein weiteres Video.

APOLAUSTIC  Line-Up:
Romain Negro – Vocals, Songwriting
Merlin Bogado – Session Guitars & Bass
Nicolas Muller – Session Drums

APOLAUSTIC „No Plenitude Without Suffering“ Tracklist
1. Devouring the Past
2. Fragments from a Misty Journey (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
3. Testimony of an Obsolescent World (Video bei YouTube)
4. Shining Amidst the Lights (Audio bei YouTube)
5. Smells Like Dead Autumn Fire
6. Black Flame Reviver (Video bei YouTube)
7. De Feu et de Cendre
8. Peregrination Towards Childhood Memories

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Die Progressive Death Metal / Grindcore-Band DEFECT DESIGNER hat mit „Daily Dose of Gloom“ nun auch den Opener ihres kommenden Albums „Depressants“ veröffentlicht. Es ist das vierte Album der in Norwegen ansässigen Band und wird am 15. Mai 2026 via Transcending Obscurity Records erscheinen. Das Cover-Artwork stammt aus der Feder von Ian Miller.

DEFECT DESIGNER Line-Up:
Dmitry Sukhinin – Guitars, vocals, music, lyrics
Martin Storm-Olsen – Bass, vocals, lyrics, sound engineering
Eugene Ryabchenko – Drums

DEFECT DESIGNER „Depressants“ Tracklist
1. Daily Dose of Gloom (Audio bei YouTube)
2. Butterfly Juice Straws
3. Repeated Aversive Stimuli Inducer (Audio bei YouTube)
4. Carte Blanche (Audio bei YouTube)
5. Expiration Deferral Request Denied
6. Scorching The Rival Pogonomyrmex Burrows
7. Body Count Of My Cow Tail
8. I Heard Robespierre Screamed Like A Bitch
9. Peons Before My Drabbing Wings
10. As The Terracotta Dust Settles
11. Awaiting The Return Of The Golden Age
12. The Inevitable Mad Composite
13. Wrong Future Forecast

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Envers moi-même
J’ai trop valsé
Avec les crève-cœurs que je sème

On Clair-obscur, David Emme arrives with the rare self-possession of an artist who seems to have chosen his limitations carefully and then made them eloquent. The Quebec City musician works in a palette familiar to post-punk and new wave: trim bass lines, cool keyboards, percussion with a stern sense of purpose, a voice held at a slight remove. Across four French-language songs, he studies strain, yearning, and the small ceremonies of survival with a sophisticated poise.

Étranger opens the EP with a mood of self-estrangement that never slips into theatrical excess. Emme sings from within the debris of his own past decisions, sounding bruised, restless, and quietly searching for a path out of private ruin. The arrangement gives the song a graceful pressure, as if each part were tightening around a thought the singer cannot quite release. We feel the sense of someone trying to walk upright while carrying the weight of old damage.

The centerpiece, L’échine, deepens the record’s concerns and broadens its scale. Here, personal unease seems to touch the larger instability of the present tense. The instrumentation has force, though it is deployed with restraint, and Emme allows a thin strand of resolve to move through the song’s unease.

Brèche is the EP’s most tender offering, though even tenderness arrives with difficulty. Its plea is directed toward someone sealed within themselves, and the song circles the problem of emotional access with unusual delicacy. Sleeplessness, memory, fear, and longing pass through the lyric like weather fronts. Emme’s vocal carries an ache that never begs for sympathy. It simply stays close to the wound.

Then comes Encore, which introduces a more sensuous sweep without loosening the EP’s discipline. Its romantic hunger, touched by the polished drama of eighties pop, lends the closing stretch a lift that feels briefly transportive. Yet even here, desire remains entangled with grief and recurrence, bringing to mind Holy Wire and Stare Away.

Listen to Clair-obscur below and order the album here.

Clair-obscur by David Emme

Though the record’s title, Clair-obscur, suggests contrast, David Emme is less interested in stark oppositions than in gradations of feeling. His songs live in intermediate states: affection under pressure, doubt dressed as discipline, hope appearing in narrow bands. The production, handled with Jeremy Cornellier and mastered by Francis Ledoux, favors depth over clutter. Synths gather like mist on glass. The guitars keep their edge without turning blunt or bludgeoning. The drums move with a steady insistence that gives the songs shape and forward motion, even when the sentiments inside them threaten collapse.

Clair-obscur is a strong first statement: elegant, unsettled, and persuasive in its understanding that feeling often arrives mixed, never pure, and almost never resolved.

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Black metal as a history lessonANTRISCH“Expedition III: Renitenzpfad Marañones”Album (AOP) Atmospheric black metal meets meaningful lyrics with a historical reference. There are also sprinkles of dark ambient and doom metal that make the journey to South America around the year 1560 even darker. We follow Lope de Aguirre, a brutal conquistador who ruthlessly had enemies […]

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There is a photo I can’t stop looking at

A photo of the recent past

A photograph is supposed to preserve a moment, but it can just as easily poison one. People look at an image and begin stuffing it with private meaning, projecting hunger, fantasy, grievance, or need until the person inside the frame is no longer seen as a person at all, but rather a portal. Anyone can become prey that way. It happens in bedrooms, on phones, across city blocks, inside social feeds, and in the mind’s own locked theatre, where admiration curdles into fixation and distance breeds delusion. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but plenty of those words are dangerous, and The Shelter’s Flesh shows exactly how fast they can turn feral.

Flesh comes at you like a lipstick smear on a broken mirror: glamorous, sick at heart, and fully aware that desire can slip from devotion into delirium before anybody in the room has time to call a doctor. This Mexican band has already built a name on dark romance and high-stakes emotional drama, but here they hit a sweetly poisoned peak, turning obsession into theater and giving it enough muscle to stomp around the stage in high boots.

Written by Elías Gameros and produced by Gus Oberg and Johnny T, “Flesh” has the kind of reach that makes you think of Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Interpol, Koudlam, Trisomie 21, Iron Maiden, and David Bowie; the song lives where glam excess, gothic pageantry, and post-punk severity collide in one beautiful traffic accident. The guitars slash and gleam with a cold edge that keeps the song moving with real menace, while the rhythm section drives everything forward like a bad impulse dressed for a coronation.

And then there’s the voice. Gameros leans into a croon that swells into something feverish and nearly feral, a performance big enough to fill a theatre and strange enough to make the back row uneasy. So when the lyrics move into that dangerous territory, where wanting somebody curdles into wanting to vanish inside them, he sells it with enough conviction that you might overlook its sinister undertones.

The lyrics revolve around the instant when attraction stops asking for closeness and starts fantasizing about total merger, body to body, nerve to nerve, self to self, until love becomes invasion. A photograph sparks the fixation, then the fixation grows teeth. The song circles voyeurism, fragility, devotion, and bodily ruin without sounding coy about any of it. It stares straight at that psychic split where tenderness and danger start sharing the same bed.

Watch the lyric video for “Flesh” below:

Listen to Flesh via Spotify below:

The Shelter have already played with heavy hitters, toured hard, and worked festival crowds from Tecate Pa’l Norte to New York’s New Colossus Festival, but Flesh feels like a statement of deeper intent for the band. It is an intriguing single, leaving us wanting more.

Follow The Shelter:

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There is a photo I can’t stop looking at

A photo of the recent past

A photograph is supposed to preserve a moment, but it can just as easily poison one. People look at an image and begin stuffing it with private meaning, projecting hunger, fantasy, grievance, or need until the person inside the frame is no longer seen as a person at all, but rather a portal. Anyone can become prey that way. It happens in bedrooms, on phones, across city blocks, inside social feeds, and in the mind’s own locked theatre, where admiration curdles into fixation and distance breeds delusion. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but plenty of those words are dangerous, and The Shelter’s Flesh shows exactly how fast they can turn feral.

Flesh comes at you like a lipstick smear on a broken mirror: glamorous, sick at heart, and fully aware that desire can slip from devotion into delirium before anybody in the room has time to call a doctor. This Mexican band has already built a name on dark romance and high-stakes emotional drama, but here they hit a sweetly poisoned peak, turning obsession into theater and giving it enough muscle to stomp around the stage in high boots.

Written by Elías Gameros and produced by Gus Oberg and Johnny T, “Flesh” has the kind of reach that makes you think of Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Interpol, Koudlam, Trisomie 21, Iron Maiden, and David Bowie; the song lives where glam excess, gothic pageantry, and post-punk severity collide in one beautiful traffic accident. The guitars slash and gleam with a cold edge that keeps the song moving with real menace, while the rhythm section drives everything forward like a bad impulse dressed for a coronation.

And then there’s the voice. Gameros leans into a croon that swells into something feverish and nearly feral, a performance big enough to fill a theatre and strange enough to make the back row uneasy. So when the lyrics move into that dangerous territory, where wanting somebody curdles into wanting to vanish inside them, he sells it with enough conviction that you might overlook its sinister undertones.

The lyrics revolve around the instant when attraction stops asking for closeness and starts fantasizing about total merger, body to body, nerve to nerve, self to self, until love becomes invasion. A photograph sparks the fixation, then the fixation grows teeth. The song circles voyeurism, fragility, devotion, and bodily ruin without sounding coy about any of it. It stares straight at that psychic split where tenderness and danger start sharing the same bed.

Watch the lyric video for “Flesh” below:

Listen to Flesh via Spotify below:

The Shelter have already played with heavy hitters, toured hard, and worked festival crowds from Tecate Pa’l Norte to New York’s New Colossus Festival, but Flesh feels like a statement of deeper intent for the band. It is an intriguing single, leaving us wanting more.

Follow The Shelter:

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I’ve waited for you
So lonely
Then you insist I stay behind
This is not Heaven

Hot on the heels of their unexpected, yet triumphant return to recording in 2025, Pittsburgh-based post-punk/shoegaze duo Lowsunday are back with a brand new track and video. Serving as the lead single from their upcoming Black EP (the natural shadowy follow up to last-year’s White EP), “This Is Not Heaven” is a scintillatingly dark and dreamy rave-up, featuring pummeling drum machine rhythms, buzzsaw synths, blistering guitar textures, and evocative vocals, with a chorus that lifts the track into oblivion, like an trans-dimensional jet engine. The track careens through those empty spaces where dreams and reality mix a little too closely for comfort, and the results are as alluring as they are haunting.

For the uninitiated, Lowsunday first began their tenure in the mid-1990s and were among the first bands to blend the current shoegaze movement with ’80s darkwave sounds. After self-releasing their eponymous debut LP in 1996, the band was quickly signed to Projekt Records, which released the band’s sophomore record, 2001’s wonderful Elesgiem. As trailblazers in their time, they left a huge mark on the scene, influencing countless modern bands to follow, all of which owe a great deal of debt to Lowsunday’s compositions. Remixes and remastered reissues of the band’s discography appeared in 2024 and 2025, respectively, bringing these records back into focus for a new generation. As such, the band, stripped down to core members Shane Sahene and Bobby Spell, came back in full force to reclaim their rightful throne. Last year’s interview with the duo captures the story so far and touches heavily on the band’s current output, which truly sounds as if they haven’t skipped a beat.

Meanwhile, both Sahene and Spell have shared a few words with us about the creation of “This Is Not Heaven.”

Sahene:

“This song captured a feeling that we’ve been trying to express but never as clearly as it became in this song. It’s a song that touches on loneliness and the view love from the outside – but also clearing your head enough to be expressive and cutting. It’s a song meant to be loud, at times dreamy and chaotic, but then finds its power in the heavy synth chorus- it almost reminds me of the racing engine of the Mammoth Car in old Speed Racer episodes, where it has scary power, but in this case, running from the hell of loneliness.”

Spell:

“For me. “This Is Not Heaven” is very melancholy musically and lyrically, but the choruses add enough light musically that the song leaves you with a feeling of hope. Writing and recording this song seemed to have a lot of mystery until a few key parts came along that completely changed the tone and clarified what the song would be. So far, it’s one of my favorite tracks we’ve written.”

The video for “This Is Not Heaven” is a perfect shadowy compliment to the single’s alluring cacophony. Directed by frequent collaborator Jer Herring, the video takes the duo through a monochromatic, gritty journey through city streets, dense forests, and dark basements;  those places where otherworldly beauty and sheer terror can exist in harmony.

The Black EP will be released on vinyl and digital formats on May 15th via Projekt Records. Check out the video below.

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Header photo by Christina Sahene. 

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