Anfang des Jahres kommt DeathbyRomy wieder auf Tour und macht auch vier mal Station in Deutschland, präsentiert von Sonic Seducer! Alle Termine hier.

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ALT BLK ERA – Offenbach, Stadthalle (24.10.2025)

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Jetzt einstimmen auf Halloween mit unserer Feiertags-Playlist: Grausig schönes von Gothminister, Powerwolf, Lord Of The Lost, Wednesday 13, Mister Misery, The Vision Bleak, Motionless In White, Suicide Commando und mehr!

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Die deutsche Electro-Formation X Marks The Pedwalk bringt am 27. November 2025 ihr neues Album Insomnia heraus. Das…

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Heute ist es soweit: Der Film "Depeche Mode: M" startet in den deutschen Kinos! Alle Infos hier.

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Nach knapp 7 Jahren ist die Gitarrenlegende Johnny Marr zurück in der Domstadt und dank seiner überragenden Historie,…

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Manchmal ist ein Neuanfang kein Bruch, sondern eine Rückkehr. Morten Alsinger, einst umtriebige Figur der dänischen Elektro- und Punk-Subkultur, meldet sich mit einem Solo-Projekt zurück, das Intimität...

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The Damned haben ein neues Cover-Album in der Pipeline, das ihrem verstorbenen Ex-Gitarristen Brian James gewidmet ist. Mehr Infos hier!

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Eric Shans and Augustine Backer have been active as Fermion for several years now. “Conflicted”...

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LYCHGATE veröffentlichen am 19. Dezember 2025 ihr neues Album „Precipice“. Reinhören kann man in die erste Single“Hive Of Parasites“:

Greg Chandler hat „Precipice“ im Priory Studio gemischt und gemastert, das Artwork kommt von Nadiia Skidan.

LYNCHGATE „Precipice“ Tracklist
01. Introduction – The Sleeper Awakes
02. Mausoleum of Steel
03. Renunciation
04. The Meeting of Orion and Scorpio
05. Hive of Parasites (Audio bei YouTube)
06. Death’s Twilight Kingdom
07. Terror Silence
08. Anagnorisis
09. Pangaea

LYCHGATE  Line-up: 

J.C. Young „Vortigern“ – Guitars, Organ, Piano, Orchestration
Greg Chandler – Vocals
S.D. Lindsley – Guitar
Tom McLean – Bass
T. J. F. Vallely – Drums

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For Jaîsa, alias Janina Draxinger, music is a way of channeling her feelings and thoughts, she speaks of self-therapy: “Because I can get certain thoughts off my chest or give myself courage, hope or strength. Others write diaries, I write songs.” She can now look back on 18 releases, including music videos, and has been […]

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Do you already know our “Industrial Rock/Industrial Metal” playlist on Spotify? Including Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Marilyn Manson, Linkin Park, Skold and many more.

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Die Doom Metal-Band DVM SPIRO haben mit „MMXXV – Grave“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist nach „MMXIX – In Frigidvm Lectvm“ (2019) das zweite Album des italienischen Trios aus Turin, das auch bei NIHILI LOCUS aktiv ist. Erscheinen wird das neue Album am 16. Januar 2026 via My Kingdom Music.

DVM SPIRO Line-Up:
Massimo Currò – Bass
Roberto Ripollino – Guitars, Drums, Programming & Editing, Vocals (growl)
Valeria De Benedectis – Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals

DVM SPIRO „MMXXV – Grave“ Tracklist
1. Preludio
2. Indistinta Morte
3. Dissentimento
4. Troppo Lente Scendono Le Tue Lacrime
5. Insoluto D’Anima
6. Alla Fine

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Die Horror Death Metal-Band TENEBRO hat mit dem Lyric-Video zu „Impiccata“ eine erste Single ihres kommenden Albums „Una Lama D’Argento“ veröffentlicht. Die Single nimmt Bezug auf Dario Argentos „Suspiria“ und ist inspiriert von der berüchtigten Erhängungsszene.

„Una Lama D’Argento“ ist nach „L’inizio di un incubo“ (2022) und „Ultime grida dalla giungla“ (2023) das dritte Album der Italiener und ist als Hommage an Dario Argento, den italienischen Meister des Horror-, Giallo- und Thriller-Kinos, konzipiert. Der Release des Albums erfolgt am 12. Dezember 2025 via Time to Kill Records erfolgen.

TENEBRO Line-Up
Il Becchino – Guitars, Vocals
Il Beccamorto – Bass, Drums, Guitars

TENEBRO „Una Lama D’Argento“ Tracklist
1. Inferno
2. L’angelo Caduto Tra Le Luci Del Teatro
3. Impiccata (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
4. Sangue Sui Muri
5. Lo Specchio… Omicida.
6. Il Corpo Come Spartito
7. Piume Rosse
8. Appare ala Bambola, Poi La Lama
9. Larve Affamate
10. Nel Sonno Della Veggente
11. Jennifer

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Die Death Metal-Band ABYSMAL DAWN hat mit „Cradle of Affliction“ eine neue Single mitsamt Video-Clip veröffentlicht.

„‚Cradle of Affliction‘ ist eine Anspielung auf den Sound unseres ersten Albums und unsere früheren melodischen Death-Metal-Einflüsse wie AT THE GATES„, erklärt Sänger, Gitarrist und Gründungsmitglied Charles Elliott. „Dieser Song ist für Tomas Lindberg (R.I.P.) und alle Fans, die ABYSMAL DAWN seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten auf unserem Weg unterstützen.“

Es ist der erste neue Song der US-Amerikaner seit der 2022er-EP „Nightmare Frontier“. Davor hat die Band aus Los Angeles fünf Alben veröffentlicht.

ABYSMAL DAWN Line-Up:
Charles Elliott — Guitars, Vocals
Eliseo Garcia — Bass, Additional Vocals
James Coppolino — Drums
Vito Petroni — Guitars

ABYSMAL DAWN „Cradle of Affliction“ (Video bei YouTube)

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Die Metalcore / Groove Metal-Band STOLEN SOUL hat mit „Bellow“ einen Video-Clip ihrer aktuellen EP „Seek Revenge“ veröffentlicht. Es ist der erste Release der Basken und ist am 16. Oktober 2025 erschienen.

STOLEN SOUL Line-Up:
Iker Santos Villariezo – Bass
Argoitz Estebanez Barrado – Drums
Andima Fernández Beldarrain – Guitars
Aritza Pérez Diaz – Guitars
Ángel Santamaría Corpas – Vocals

STOLEN SOUL „Seek Revenge“ Tracklist
01 Alive
02 Rise Above
03 Restless
04 Whispers
05 Bellow (Video bei YouTube)

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Mit „Solitude“ wird am 28. November 2025 via Naturmacht Productions das neue Album der Depressive Black Metal-Band NORDICWINTER erscheinen. Es ist das achte Album des kanadischen Solo-Künstlers Yves „Evillair“ Allaire.

NORDICWINTER „Solitude“ Tracklist
1. Whispers of the Frozen Abyss (Audio bei Bandcamp)
2. The Howling Void (Video bei YouTube)
3. Echoes of a Dying Sun
4. The Sorrow of Eternal Frost
5. Eternal Night’s Embrace
6. As the Last Light Fades (Instrumental)

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Die Heavy Metal-Band TEMPEST SAINT hat mit „The Cursed“ einen weiteren Video-Clip ihres aktuellen Albums „Hyperbolized“ veröffentlicht.

„‚The Cursed‘ handelt vom Gefühl der Zugehörigkeit – davon, Teil eines Genres zu sein, das nicht mehr zum Mainstream gehört, und von der Sehnsucht nach einer vergangenen Ära“, erklärt die Band.

„Hyperbolized“ ist das erste Album der Engländer und ist am 18. Mai 2025 erschienen.

TEMPEST SAINT Line-Up:
James O’Connor – Guitars (lead)
Luke Gould – Guitars (rhythm), Bass
Joseph Curtis – Vocals
Lee Chitticks – Drums

TEMPEST SAINT „Hyperbolized“ Tracklist
1. Hyperbolized
2. Never the End
3. Riot Pact
4. Self Vilified (Video bei YouTube)
5. From the Ashes
6. The Cursed (Video bei YouTube)
7. Dead Ringer (Video bei YouTube)
8. Beggar’s Belief

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Mit „Seraphim“ wird am 7. November 2025 das neue Album der Melodic Death Metal-Band OPHIDIAN MEMORY erscheinen. Es ist das vierte Album des US-amerikanischen Solo-Projekts von Blake Lamoureux (MOURNING VEIL). Das Cover-Artwork stammt von Jon Weber. Vorab gibt es den Track „Cenotaph“ zu hören – mit Gast-Sänger Jacob Dieffenbach (Ex-RIVERS OF NIHIL).

OPHIDIAN MEMORY „Seraphim“ Tracklist
01. Charred Chasm of the Meadow
02. Resurrected Primordials
03. Conceiving Dreams to Quell Our Ruin
04. Bleeding Darkness Bound by Fire
05. You:I:Us
06. Cenotaph (feat. Jacob Dieffenbach) (Audio bei YouTube)
07. Syzygy

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Mit „Gigantes Mortui“ wird am 7. November 2025 via Hypnotic Dirge Records die neue Compilation der Post Doom / Death Metal-Band NORILSK erscheinen. Die Scheibe umfasst Songs aus der bisherigen Diskografie der Kanadier und wurde live im eigenen Proberaum aufgenommen. Gemixt und gemastert wurde die Compilation von Topon Das, während das Cover-Artwork von Timur Khabirov stammt. Mit „Ghosts of Loss“ gibt es nun einen dritten Vorab-Track zu hören.

NORILSK Line-Up:
Nic Miquelon – vocals and bass
Nick Richer – drums and backing vocals
Tom Hansen – guitars
Matt MacIvor – guitars

NORILSK „Gigantes Mortui“ Tracklist
01 Beyond the Horizon (Audio bei Bandcamp)
02 Potsdam Glo (Audio bei Bandcamp)
03 Ghosts of Loss (Audio bei YouTube)
04 Le puits de l’oubli
05 La liberté aux ailes brisées
06 No Sacred Ground

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Die Dark Metal-Band UPON SHADOWS hat mit „The Son“ eine neue Single mitsamt Video-Clip veröffentlicht. Inspiriert vom uruguayischen Schriftsteller Horacio Quiroga, sei der Song eine Hommage an das düstere Vermächtnis des Autors, dessen Werk den künstlerischen Weg der Band von Kindesbeinen an geprägt habe. Als Gast-Gitarrist wirkt Pablo Hansen mit.

Davor hat das uruguayanische Duo bereits sieben Alben veröffentlicht.

UPON SHADOWS Line-Up:
Natalia Arocena – Bass & Theremin
Tamara Picardo – Keyboards, guitars, vocals & lyrics.

UPON SHADOWS „The Son“ (Video bei YouTube)

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Die Hardcore-Band 217 hat mit dem Video-Clip zu „You Can Get Rid Of The Past!“ eine zweite Single ihres kommenden Albums „In Your Gaze“ veröffentlicht. Es ist das erste Album der Italiener aus Pescara, die 2019 mit der EP „Atheist Agnostic Rationalist“ debütierten. Release-Termin ist der 7. November 2025 via Time To Kill Records. Vorab gibt es auch zu „Resumption“ einen Video-Clip.

217 Line-Up:
Ivan Di Marco – Voice
Nicola Marinaccio – Guitars
Vittorio Del Prete – Drums
Daniele Fasciani – Bass

217 „In Your Gaze“ Tracklist
1. Her Lay, Incorruptible, Ethereal Beauty
2. Resumption (Video bei YouTube)
3. Zenit
4. The Day My Father Died
5. Wandering Body
6. The Spinotian Resistance
7. Pit Is Not A Crime (feat. Kate)
8. Nadir
9. Free To Live/Free To Die
10. Cicada’s Swansong
11. You Can Get Rid Of The Past! (Video bei YouTube)
12. Hood Crew (by Growing Concern)

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Die Black / Death Metal-Band AZZAYA hat mit „Infernal Blasphemia“ ein neue EP angekündigt. Die Scheibe folgt auf das zweite Album der Portugiesen, „I Begin“ (2024), nach. Release-Termin ist der 29. November 2025 via Maledict Records / War Prod.

AZZAYA „Infernal Blasphemia“ Tracklist
01 Infernal Blasphemia
02 Black Death Assault
03 Life for a Life
04 The Fall of Man
05 None Shall Serve
06 Of Blood, Gold and Eternal Darkness
07 Satanik Tekvin IV

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Die Progressive Heavy Metal-Band SPIRAL FRACTURE hat einen Labeldeal bei Wormholedeath unterschrieben. Im Zuge dessen werden die US-Amerikaner aus Virginia ihr neues Album „Grace in Decay“ veröffentlichen. Es ist nach „Dismantled“ (2017) und „Spiral Fracture“ (2022) das dritte Album der Band und wird am 23. Januar 2026 erscheinen. Nach dem Video-Clip zu „Soul Allegiance“ gibt es mit dem Video zu „Defiance“ nun die zweite Vorab-Single.

SPIRAL FRACTURE Line-Up:
Dave Givens – Guitars
Brian Fisher – Drums
Brian Tanner – Bass
Javier Ramos – Vocals

SPIRAL FRACTURE „Grace in Decay“ Tracklist
1. Derelicts of Delusion
2. Soul Allegiance (Video bei YouTube)
3. Defiance (Video bei YouTube)
4. Scars
5. Decapitated Lies
6. Chasm
7. Doldrums
8. Burning
9. Ctrl Alt Del
10. Relentless Dissonance

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Die Gothic Doom Metal / Darkwave-Band NATTRADIO hat mit „The Longest Night“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist nach „Nattradio“ (2024) das zweite Album des schwedischen Duos und wird am 12. Dezember 2025 via Darkness Shall Rise Productions erscheinen.

„Jeder Song wird zwischen 01:00 und 05:00 Uhr geschrieben und aufgenommen. Die Songs bewegen sich durch eine nächtliche Landschaft, die wir Doom Noir nennen – inspiriert von Gothic Doom, Darkwave, Ambient und manchmal auch Noir Jazz der 90er Jahre. Das Ziel ist es, nächtliche Themen einzufangen. Es sind Geschichten aus den Stunden nach Mitternacht, in denen Trauer das zentrale Gefühl ist“, erklärt die Band.

NATTRADIO Line-Up
Niklas Brodd – Guitars
Martin Boman – Vocals

NATTRADIO „The Longest Night“ Tracklist
1. Shadow Speaker
2. Sketches From The Dark (Visualizer bei YouTube)
3. Alright For Now
4. Dark Streets
5. Night
6. Shifting Baseline
7. All For You
8. Rainbirds
9. The Longest Night

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Die Metalcore-Band AGE OF RUIN hat nach den Video-Clips zu „Heavy is the Crown„, „The Ghosts We Carry“ und „Promise Me“ mit „The Traveler“ einen weiteren Video-Clip ihres neuen Albums „Nothingman“ veröffentlicht. Es ist das fünfte Album der US-Amerikaner und das zweite seit ihrem Comeback.

„Nothingman“, das am 17. Oktober 2025 erschienen ist, wurde von Mike Schleibaum (DARKEST HOUR) produziert und von Will Beasley gemixt und gemastert. Das Cover-Artwork stammt von Zack Dunn.

AGE OF RUIN Line-Up
Benjamin Swan – vocals
Daniel Fleming – guitar
Jonathan Clay – guitar
Christopher Fleming – bass
Hendrik Osinga – drums

AGE OF RUIN „Nothingman“ Tracklist
1. The Fixation
2. Heavy is the Crown (Video bei YouTube)
3. Lost in Shadows
4. The Traveler (Video bei YouTube)
5. Nothingman
6. An Awakening
7. The Ghosts We Carry (Video bei YouTube)
8. Promise Me (Video bei YouTube)
9. Bleed for Better Days
10. Lovesong

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Die Death Metal-Band OLDE OUTLIER hat mit „From Shallow Lives to Shallow Graves“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist nach „Consumed by Elder Sign“ (2014) – damals unter dem Namen INNSMOUTH – das zweite Album der Australier. Release-Termin ist der 19. Dezember 2025 via Iron Bonehead Productions. Vorab gibt es den Opener „The Revellers“ zu hören.

OLDE OUTLIER „From Shallow Lives to Shallow Graves“ Tracklist
1. The Revellers (7:54) (Audio bei YouTube)
2. The Pounding of Hooves (10:55)
3. Swept (8:05)
4. All Is Bright (7:50)

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Die Progressive Metal-Band KORYPHEUS hat einen Labeldeal bei M-Theory Audio unterschrieben. Im Zuge dessen haben die Ukrainer am 26. September 2025 ihr neues Album „Gilgamesh“ veröffentlicht. Mit „Sleeper“ – mit Laura Guldemond (BURNING WITCHES) als Gast – gibt es nun ein weiteres Video.

Mit „Odysseus“ gibt es auch ein Lyric-Video. Der Song beschäftigt sich mit Themen wie Stoizismus und Liebe inmitten der rauen Kulisse der Kriegszeit.

Zuvor ist mit „Icarus“ eine andere Vorab-Single mitsamt Video-Clip erschienen. Dabei handelt es sich um einen Song, der einen alten Mythos in eine neue, von Außerirdischen inspirierte Geschichte über Vergeblichkeit und Mut verwandelt.

„Gilgamesh“ folgt dem 2020er-Album „Over the Rainbow“ nach, welches nach „Blessed“ (2019) das zweite Album der ukrainischen Band gewesen ist.

KORYPHEUS „Gilgamesh“ Tracklist
1. Gilgamesh
2. Far Cry
3. Karma Free
4. Sleeper (Video bei YouTube)
5. Holy War
6. Be My Ghost
7. Odysseus (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
8. Icarus (Video bei YouTube)
9. Avatar
10. Outro

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Die Blackened Industrial Metal-Band DAMNED TO DOWNFALL hat nach „Last Man Falling“ und „Nothing Will Save Us“ mit „Swallow Your Soul“ eine weitere neue Single veröffentlicht. Die Songs folgen auf die 2023er-EP „Slavery for You“. Davor haben die Schweden mit „Born to Breed“ (2020) eine weitere EP sowie mit „Embrace Your Extinction“ ein Album veröffentlicht.

DAMNED TO DOWNFALL „Last Man Falling“ (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)

DAMNED TO DOWNFALL „Nothing Will Save Us“ (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)

DAMNED TO DOWNFALL „Swallow Your Soul“ (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)

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Die Melodic Death Metal-Band OUTLYING hat nach „November“ mit „Pitch Black Serum“ einen zweiten Track ihres kommenden Albums „Oblivisci“ veröffentlicht. Es ist nach „Scars of Daylight“ (2012) und „Frameworks for Repression“ (2016) das dritte Album der Kanadier aus Quebec und wird am 21. November 2025 erscheinen.

„Oblivisci“ ist ein Konzeptalbum, das sich mit Themen wie Trauma, Entfremdung, Trauer und Sucht auseinandersetzt. Das Albumcover, von Frontmann Fred A. Dubeau realisiert, zeigt eine postapokalyptische Version der Heimatstadt der Band und spiegelt damit die Themen der Texte wider, die sich mit gesellschaftlichem Verfall und persönlichem Zusammenbruch befassen.

OUTLYING Line-Up
Fred A. Dubeau – Guitar, Vocals
Charles Alex Bilodeau – Bass, Back Vocals
Martin Reithler – Drums

OUTLYING „Oblivisci“ Tracklist
1 – The Raven Is Gone – 5:27
2 – Stigma – 3:49
3 – Snow – 6:02
4 – Streets Of Rats And Vultures – 4:47
5 – Pitch-Black Serum – 4:36 (Audio bei YouTube)
6 – November – 5:56 (Audio bei YouTube)
7 – Sentinel – 5:43
8 – Impaired – 5:32
9 – Dreamless Nights Part I: A Lullaby For The Insomniac – 4:19
10- Dreamless Nights Part II: From Velvet Skies – 5:13
11- Dreamless Nights Part III: Walking Out Of Eden’s Ashes – 4:25

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Mit „Ill-Gotten Gains“ wird am 21. November 2025 via Exitus Stratagem Records die neue EP der Doom / Stoner Metal-Band AITTALA erscheinen. Die Scheibe folgt auf das siebte Album der US-Amerikaner „Machines“ (2025) nach und behandelt Themen wie das Schaffen von Chaos zum persönlichen Vorteil, die Folgen solcher Handlungen und die Suche nach Erlösung untersuchen. Vorab gibt es zum Opener „Isolation“ einen Video-Clip.

AITTALA Line-Up:
Eric Aittala – guitars/vocals
Gary ‚Zeus‘ Smith – drums

AITTALA „Ill-Gotten Gains“ Tracklist
1. Isolation – 4:22 (Video bei YouTube)
2. Ill Gotten Gains – 4:20
3. Black Listed – 3:35
4. Ever After – 4:29
5. Ashes – 3:50

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Die kanadische Deathcore-Band DEADWOOD hat einen Labeldeal bei Innerstrength Records unterschrieben. Im Zuge dessen wird die Band am 6. Januar 2026 ihre neue EP „Rituals of a Dying Light“ veröffentlichen. Die Scheibe wurde von Gitarrist Fred Element produziert. Nun gibt es auch den Opener „Tales Of Massacre“ zu hören.

DEADWOOD Line-Up
Fred Element – Guitar
Martin Demontigny – Vocals
Charles-Etienne Lafrance – Drums
Stephane Filion – Lead Guitar

DEADWOOD „Rituals of A Dying Light“ Tracklist
1. Tales of Massacre (Visualizer bei YouTube)
2. Heretic (Video bei YouTube)
3. Thirst for Blood
4. Whispers of Death
5. Echoes of the Fallen

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Mit der neuen Remix-EP Into Oblivion Remixes öffnet das portugiesische Duo NECRØ ein weiteres Kapitel seines kompromisslosen Darkwave-Techno-Universums.…

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Am Samstag, den 01. November 2025 öffnet der Kulttempel in Oberhausen erneut seine Pforten für das Cold Temple…

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At Julien’s Auctions this November, the late Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk and quiet architect of electronic modernity,  will once again speak through his collection of machines. Nearly 500 of Schneider’s personal effects, from instruments to memorabilia, will go under the hammer at the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville—a sale that reads like an inventory of twentieth-century futurism. Among the relics: vocoders that gave him his robotic voice, the suitcase synthesiser that turned his flute into a machine, his gold-rimmed sunglasses, and the bicycle he rode through Kraftwerk’s Tour de France video.

Schneider, who died in 2020 at seventy-three, left behind more than instruments; he left behind an idea that human expression could be found in repetition and electricity. The collection’s estimated value, between $450,000 and $650,000, feels modest beside the weight of its influence. Kraftwerk’s synthetic hum became the pulse of the future, running through Bowie’s Berlin, Joy Division’s Manchester, and the gleaming grids of hip-hop in the Boogie Down Bronx.

“They were one of the first bands that used synthesisers and they created music that no one had ever heard of before,” says Giles Moon, head of music at Julien’s. “It was very unworldly, and it moved music forward in a way nobody had ever seen, in a totally different direction that most people probably didn’t think was even possible.” The astonishment still lingers. “Other bands found their tracks mind-blowing,” he adds. “They suddenly discovered this new pathway in music that Kraftwerk created. It inspired a lot of bands to move in the direction of using synthesised electronic music.”

Schneider’s estate describes the auction as an act of renewal. “He always believed that (his instruments) are meant to be played and shared – not left unused or gathering dust in storage,” a spokesperson said. “He wanted his equipment to find their way to people who would truly value them: musicians, collectors and those inspired by the art of sound.”

The star of the auction is the vocoder believed to have shaped The Man-Machine and Computer World, expected to fetch up to $50,000. The EMS Synthi AKS, a portable laboratory of bleeps and voltage used on Autobahn, carries an estimate of $15,000 to $20,000.

“It’s a very early synthesiser, in the form of a suitcase, so it’s quite unusual,” Moon explains. “It’s the first synthesiser they acquired in the early 1970s when Florian decided to stop using classical instruments. He would attach it to his flute and use it to process these amazing sounds.”

That flute, an Orsi G alto valued at $8,000 to $10,000, once bridged the analog and the synthetic. “There’s footage of Kraftwerk playing in what’s widely called the first techno concert,” Moon recalls. “Very uncharacteristic sounds come out of the flute… it is quite remarkable to see the reaction of the crowd, because this was the first time that most people had heard this type of music.”

For more information on The Florian Scheidner Collection, check out the listings at Julien’s Auctions here, and watch the promo below.

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  From Phoenix, Arizona comes The Real Anthem as the band has unveiled its second single, titled “Black & White Heart.” The track showcases the band’s mix of post-grunge power with a moody post-punk vibe, with lyrics of resilience and faith in the face of discord and darkness [..]

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I see it, feel it closing in.  

I see it, feel it closing in.

Time check and write it down again.

There is something unnervingly lucid about Alarmist, the new single from Midniter, the latest incarnation of Charlotte musician Nic Pugh. Beneath its dark pop and indie electronics lies a voice broadcasting from the heart of a fevered empire, observing the moral corrosion of a society devouring itself through screens and slogans.

Pugh has spent two decades traversing punk basements and dive bars, most notably with Paint Fumes and Jaggermouth. Midniter, conceived in January 2024, channels that itinerant experience into a new apparatus, one that replaces distortion with pulse, and rebellion with observation. The machinery hums; the human condition, it seems, is still malfunctioning.

“I wrote Alarmist in January, around the inauguration of Donald Trump as President for his second time,” says Pugh. “It doesn’t take much detective work to connect it to the lyrics. My anxiety was through the roof at that time, and I know most people in my community – whether it be the LGBTQ or local creative community – felt similar, if not the same. The opening lines are a true testament to that anxious, almost claustrophobic feeling.”

The track captures that tightening grip. Synths pulse like warning sirens. The rhythm feels less like movement than containment; a measured suffocation. There’s an elegance to its unease, a precision that turns despair into design. It’s the language of alarms, where beauty and panic share the same register.

The accompanying video, directed and edited by Yawn Productions, moves between jailhouse brutality and ritualistic zeal, before collapsing into the vivid psychedelic animation of Mexican artist Arturo Baston. The interplay between reality and the surreal evokes the narrative dislocation of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, where confinement and imagination intertwine to expose society’s psychic fractures.

“…I wanted the imagery to reflect a bit of what’s currently happening here in the States,” says Pugh. “I think our current immigration policy operating under the aggression of ICE is absolutely deplorable. Not only is it inhumane, it also feels hypocritical and cultish, along with this ‘pick and choose what suits me’ kind of Christian ideology that backs it. There are pieces of those ideas throughout the video that I feel match the suspense and urgency of the song itself.”

Watch the video for “Alarmist” below:

Alarmist stands as both lament and diagnosis, a chronicle of systems gone feral and of those still trying to breathe within them. It is art as resistance, anxiety rendered audible, and faith dissected under fluorescent light.

Alarmist is out now via SugarTank! Records. Listen below:

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Sword within the sheath

Like our hopeless fantasies

Truth spinning underneath

All these sleeping galaxies

Counterpoison is not a record that asks for your trust, it earns it through fire and fracture. Chicago artist Brittany Bindrim drags darkwave through the wreckage of modernity, tempering its metallic sheen with something rawer, angrier, and defiantly human. Where her last offering, Velella Velella, floated like a fever dream, Counterpoison clenches its teeth: every synth line a blade, every beat a blow struck against paralysis. It is a work born from confrontation: with power, with self, with the seductive toxins of apathy and control.

The title becomes a credo. Counterpoison is music as medicine, the creative act as act of resistance. Bindrim writes of corrosion and cure in the same breath, tracing the thin line between healing and harm. Her voice, alternately crystalline and caustic, cuts through the industrial fog like a signal flare, a reminder that even despair can be repurposed into strength. These are anthems for the anxious age, but also incantations for endurance.

A dirge of apocalyptic resignation, opening track Ever So Slowly seethes with liturgical irony. “Holy, holy,” the choir cries…in futility. Its verses indict spiritual hypocrisy and the machinery of blind faith, where knowledge is drowned and empathy erodes. The song moves like a slow, collapsing empire, condemning the sanctity of indifference. Musically, it’s a darkwave/synthpop behemoth: slinky in its verses, crushing in its chorus. Synths coil and strike, industrial beats hammer with mechanical precision, and each hook opens like a trapdoor beneath your feet. It’s a rallying cry disguised as a dance track, pulsing with urgency while the lyrics chart the slow-motion disintegration of a world too distracted to notice its own undoing.

The accompanying self-directed video, created with Simona Noreik, channels that tension into visceral imagery: a rapid-fire montage of graphic intensity and dystopian allure. Fantastical landscapes fracture under confrontation; dancers twist as though shedding invisible chains; bursts of fire slice through frozen horizons. It unfolds like a fevered reel from a lost sci-fi epic, where every frame feels prophetic and personal.



Spiral Out is a sermon from the altar of control; an exorcism of ego, coercion, and dependency. Rapid percussion lies a bed where the vocals deliver that lyrics slither between dominance and surrender, sketching a relationship that doubles as a metaphor for consumer addiction and personal corruption. Its pulse is feverish; its mood, narcotic. A spiral, yes, but a deliberate one; the dance of predator and willing prey.

A melancholy meditation rendered in digital twilight, Hunting in the Dark blends rain-soaked introspection with a synthetic pulse that hums like distant circuitry. The lyrics trace a ritual of self-recognition; to name the demon is to tame it. Beneath the song’s Depeche Mode veneer lies something more ancient: the lure of illusion, the intoxication of chasing ghosts. It’s a nocturne for those who have mistaken desire for destiny and learned, finally, to see in the dark.

Ouroboros is a slow-burning, rhythmic dark electronic trip-hop pulse that coils into infinity. Every refrain folds back upon the last, each lyric echoing a cosmic recursion: “End at the start…Begin at the end.” Its tone is serene but haunted, as if enlightenment comes only through surrender to repetition. The serpent devours its tail in an unbroken circle of flesh, faith, and failure.

The frozen horizon of Long Time Coming stretches toward oblivion, like the dirge-laced dreams of Memento Mori-era Depeche Mode. Cinematic beats and shadowy vocals conjure Images of icicles and insulated hearts, conjure emotional hibernation, the stillness after catastrophe. Yet, within the frost, something divine stirs. Beneath layers of numbness, the song suggests resurrection. It’s a ballad for those thawing from spiritual hypothermia, inching toward a future they no longer trust but still chase.

With a knocking trip-hop beat that conjures an atmosphere both earthbound and nightsky, Sleeping Galaxies is an astral love song to impermanence, a flash of heat against cosmic indifference. It ascends and descends in measured breath. Its imagery: laughing until crying, racing toward the night,  carries the tragic joy of beings aware of their own briefness. Beneath its radiant poise lies an ache for unity; lovers as collapsing stars, bound to reassemble in another form. It’s the sound of eternity holding its breath.

A caustic chant of propaganda and exhaustion, Warplane laces its militaristic rhythm with industrial pop nihilism. The repeated “nah nah nah”s sound like the sneer of regimes and rock stars alike, empty slogans disguised as salvation. The song’s fog of drones, demagogues, and broken faith paints a world numbed by repetition. It’s protest music for the disenchanted – not a call to arms, but a recording of the static left after too many have answered.

With knelling synths and cinematic beats, Stray is a hymn to the dangerous sanctity of love. Its verses entwine mysticism and temptation, invoking Maldoror and the blurred border between worship and ruin. In its final ascent, Stray becomes an ecstatic confession: love as ritual fire, burning both supplicant and saint. On Marionette, a powerful vocal delivery shines a light on the sacred and profane, which dance in mirrored devotion, and a buzzing mechanical melody works as a mesmerizing interlude. The song’s tone is ritualistic and incantatory; faith and sin collapse into a single continuous gesture. The strings of control snap, but liberation feels just as choreographed. In this theatre of absolution, even freedom performs for an unseen god.

Finally, Cradle, with vocals laced with a divine tenderness and wrapped in swirling synth beats, traces the dissolution of the body and the persistence of the spirit. “Lay me down where I fell,” the voice pleads. Death is a shedding of form, a return to dust, rain, and root. The song radiates serenity in surrender; the hush of a star burning out gracefully, knowing that light will find another vessel.

Counterpoison is out now. Listen to the album below and order it here.

Counterpoison by Brittany Bindrim

Produced by Matt McJunkins at Secret Hand Studios and mastered by Ken “Hiwatt” Marshall, the album wields its polish as provocation. Its synths hum like power grids, its rhythms grind like factory gears, yet inside the machinery there’s a pulse,  furious, fragile, and unflinchingly alive. Counterpoison metabolises the contagion of its time, turning poison into proof of life.

Tour Dates:

Nov 13 – Funhouse, Seattle, WA
Nov 14 – Coffin Club, Portland, OR
Nov 22 – Bar Sinister, Los Angeles, CA

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