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Watch: ‘Seven’ by Gates Of Autricon

Posted: 14 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Celtic language, Gates Of Autricon, guttural vocals, melodic death metal, Metalcore, Official music video, Riffs, Seven, Single, social tension, Stream

French melodic death metal/metalcore quartet GATES OF AUTRICON have released a music video for their new single ‘Seven,’ a hard-hitting blast of relentless riffs, guttural vocals and epic melodic leads, fusing melodic death metal with modern metalcore muscle.

Hailing from France’s Franche-Comté region, GATES OF AUTRICON bring together the melodic aggression of death metal with the immediacy and power of modern metalcore. Drawing influence from bands including Trivium, Malevolence and Children of Bodom, the quartet balance crushing riffs and visceral vocals with soaring melodies, guitar solos and an unmistakable desire to tear things apart on stage.

With ‘Seven’ that aggression is matched by an equally confrontational subject.

“This song is about our leaders’ disregard for the voice of the people and social peace,” says the band. “It crystallizes 10 years of mounting tension. It was important for us to record it in the studio and pay special attention to our sound. It’s a hard-hitting track that encapsulates what we do best.”

The band’s roots stretch back to Chartres, known as Autricon in the Celtic language, where its members spent years developing their shared musical identity and love of aggressive riffs and guttural vocals. It was later in Belfort that GATES OF AUTRICON fully brought the project to life, eventually releasing their debut EP Reclaim.

Since then, the band have steadily established themselves within the eastern French metal scene. With artistic support from Belfort venue La Poudrière, they opened the Sapins Metaliks Winter Fest in November 2025 alongside Assigned Fate, Fractal Universe and Gorod, closed the Fête de la Musique at the legendary Atelier des Môles in June 2026, and most recently headlined La Poudrière’s Support Your Local Bands event in October 2026.

At the heart of GATES OF AUTRICON is a constantly evolving take on modern metal, pairing ambitious songwriting and an aggressive, melodic sound with socially conscious lyrics rooted in anxiety, frustration and growing social tension.

Listen: ‘Endless Bridge’ by Martin Saint

Posted: 13 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Alternative Rock, Bandcamp, Citylake, Echo and the Bunnymen, Endless Bridge, Martin Saint, Single, Stream, The Ember Glows, The Mission

Montreal-based indie rock/alt-pop artist Martin Saint presents his new single ‘Endless Bridge’, a poignant exploration of love, loss, forgiveness, and letting go. The song follows a relationship from its tender, snow-covered beginnings through heartbreak and separation, ultimately arriving at the possibility of reconciliation and emotional release.

Drawing on the atmospheric DNA of ’80s artists such as The Mission, The Church and Echo and the Bunnymen, ‘Endless Bridge’ evokes changing seasons, long distances, and the passage of time. Its imagery moves between the innocence of early romance, a sense of divine grace, and the vulnerability of confronting what remains after two people part.

At its core, the song is about what happens when love is tested by time and distance. Rather than holding on at all costs, the narrator gradually arrives at a place of acceptance—where forgiveness becomes a form of freedom, and letting go becomes its own expression of love. The final image, like an offering carried out to sea, captures that surrender: painful, beautiful, and ultimately liberating.

Martin Saint is a Montreal-based singer-songwriter who is perhaps best known as lead singer and guitarist of The Ember Glows and Citylake prior to that. Since The Ember Glows parted ways in 2024 after half a decade and a solid string of releases, Martin has established himself as a solo artist. Apart from writing, recording and performing his own music, he also collaborates with a handful of fellow Montreal artists, such as Johnny Couteau, SU, DJ Sarcastic, and HJ & The Constellations.

‘Endless Bridge’ is Martin’s first new music since his full-length Seekers album, released in spring of 2025. With glimmers of Nick Cave, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Bauhaus and The Doors infused through his work, his music presents a unique cinematic mood permeated by poetic lyrics, baritone vocals, and hooks over soundscapes.

“The song ‘Endless Bridge’ is about as close to a love song as I’ll ever get, but there’s a bittersweetness to it. Beginnings, endings, renewals. It expresses faith in the future and letting go of forces holding us back, even if this may take a lifetime. There’s definitely a spiritual undertone tucked in there. Musically, I wanted something that’d sound epic. Something that is melancholic and foggy, but ultimately also uplifting and catchy,” says Martin Saint.

“In between the two albums, I went back into the studio to re-record ‘Endless Bridge’, one of my holder songs that I had originally released back in 2017 with my former band Citylake. I felt this song, in particular, deserved a dedicated rework and a new release — under my own name this time around. This song and its performance reflects where I am at this moment in time, as well as how far I’ve come since the period that the song was penned.”

Watch: ‘Jealous God’ by Our Frankenstein

Posted: 12 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Single, Stream, EP, Gothic Metal, Industrial metal, satire, comedy, Our Frankenstein, music video, industrial rock, Jealous God

Industrial rock/metal band, OUR FRANKENSTEIN has just unveiled their new single and video for ‘Jealous God’ in anticipation of their forthcoming EP, Comedy.

Addressing envy and devotion: OUR FRANKENSTEINn tackle spiritual imprisonment. ‘Jealous God’ harkens back to the old gnostic belief that our reality is secretly under the control of a malevolent demiurge named, Yaldaboath. The song and music video contrast the false god’s wrath with real world catastrophe in a style that could only be viewed as satire.

The ‘Jealous God’ video invites the question that if our fate is in the hands of the powers that be…what happens if we (the people) obtain the crown? The video was shot by Pablo Salamone and directed / edited by Ryan Laney.

OUR FRANKENSTEIN is a Gothic Metal band that was formed in Orange County, CA in 2013. Drawing influences from both cinema and the gothic music scene, the band has quickly evolved to what it is today. With one foot rooted in myth and the other in reality, OUR FRANKENSTEIN creates music that tells a story.

Listen: ‘Wired for War’ by Dismantled

Posted: 11 October 2026 in Singles and EPs, Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Bandcamp, Dismantled, electro-industrial, electroindustrial, electronica, Endless, Gary Zon, new album Metropolis Records, Single, Stream, Synth Pop, trance, Wired for War

Founded by US electronic musician Gary Zon in 2000, Dismantled issued five albums over the next decade that blended multi-layered electro-industrial music with melodic trance elements, resulting in a darkly brooding and futuristic sound.

‘Wired For War’ is the second single to be released ahead of a long-awaited new album entitled Endless, out on 20th November via Metropolis Records. As with its predecessor, ‘Zero’ , it is a synth-pop noir nugget tailor-made for futuristic dancefloors, albeit with a lyrical message critical of the hollow inanity of much of modern society.

Endless was primarily recorded in Oregon and completed in Southern California. Zon describes it as his most cohesive work yet and a record that has helped him rediscover the sound that gave the project its unique appeal at the outset. He also states that fans will spot deliberate references to previously issued songs.

Hear ‘Wired for War’ here:

Having begun making electronic music in 2000, Gary Zon soon came up with a brand of complex yet melodic electro-industrial and trance sounds that saw him compared to peers such as Front Line Assembly, Haujobb and Wumpscut.

Dismantled signed to Metropolis Records and issued a self-titled album in 2002. It was followed by the acclaimed Post-Nuclear (2004), a record that introduced a clearer vocal style into what was otherwise a grittier and more organic soundscape. Standard Issue (2006) was previewed with Breed To Death, an EP that included remixes of new and already released songs by the likes of Psyclon Nine, Haujobb and Wumpscut, and was then followed by a lengthy period of touring ahead of the release of fourth album, When I’m Dead (2007).

US and European tours with VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berzerk and Combichrist preceded the The War Inside Me (2011), the most aggressive Dismantled output to date. Promoted on a tour with Front Line Assembly, it was followed by an EP, Whole Wide World (2012) and two further EPs, The Hero (2016) and No Escape (2020).

Watch: ‘Platform Decay’ by Coilguns

Posted: 10 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Ben Chisholm, Chelsea Wolfe, Coilguns, enshittification, Everything We Love We Destroy, Humus Records, Noise Rock, Official Visualizer, Platform decay, Single, Stream, The Armed

Swiss noise-rock collective COILGUNS today drop a visualizer video for “Platform Decay,” the latest single from their forthcoming fifth studio album Everything We Love, We Destroy, due out November 6 via Humus Records.

Following recent singles ‘Peace Trader,’ ‘Carbon Magic’ and ‘Everything We Love, We Destroy,’ the new track finds COILGUNS turning their attention towards the increasingly broken state of the internet, while celebrating the hackers, geeks and activists fighting to keep the digital world independent.

The band comments: “Hopelessly witnessing the systemic enshittification of the internet made us want to celebrate the hackers and geeks that are fighting to keep the digital world independent. In times when reliable information has become a rare and questionable value, we’re constantly confronted with violent news, sometimes not knowing why we’re getting to read it, nor knowing how to determine its level of reality.”

Rather than surrendering to that digital chaos, ‘Platform Decay’ becomes something of an anthem for what the band describe as the “modern pirates of our digital oceans,” driven by an insistent vocal refrain and the raw, physical urgency at the heart of the new record.

Musically, COILGUNS see the track as perhaps the clearest representation yet of where the band stands today.

“This song is probably the clearest example of what Coilguns sounds like today. Every member’s personality found its way into it, yet it doesn’t really sound like anything we’ve released before. It somehow brings together everything we’ve learned over the years while opening another door stylistically.”

That evolution is also hidden within the track’s details. Ben Chisholm (Chelsea Wolfe, The Armed) contributed additional production, including the song’s pulsating synth textures, while an old, beautifully out-of-tune hand-pumped harmonium discovered during the guitar sessions found its way into the recording.

Tour Dates
25.11 – Utrecht, NL
26.11 – Brussels, BE
28.11 – Antwerp, BE
29.11 – Tilburg, NL
02.12 – Cologne, DE
04.12 – Hamburg, DE
05.12 – Berlin, DE
06.12 – Munich, DE
12.12 – Lausanne, CH (Release Show)

2027 Tour Dates
13.02 – Annecy, F – Le Brise Glace
28.02 – Brighton, UK – Green Door Store
01.03 – London, UK – Moth Club
03.03 – Nottingham, UK – The Angel
04.03 – Birkenhead, UK – Future Yard
05.03 – Glasgow, UK – Stereo
06.03 – Newcastle, UK – Lubber Fiend
07.03 – Manchester, UK – SOUP
14.03 – Madrid, ES – Wurltizer Ballroom
16.03 – Lisbon, PT – Casa Capitao
17.03 – Porto, PT – Ferro Bar
18.03 – Vigo, ES – Master Club
19.03 – Bilbao, ES – Bilborock

Photo: Andy Ford

Watch: ‘Cop Out’ by Bokassa

Posted: 8 October 2026 in Singles and EPs, Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Anomalies, Bokassa, Cop Out, ferocious, Kings of Stonerpunk Records, New Album, Norway, Official music video, Single, stoner-punk, Stream, Thrash, UK EU tour dates

Norwegian stoner-punk rockers Bokassa return with a bang on ferocious new single ‘Cop Out,’ a no-nonsense barnburner set to please fans of the band’s heavier side.

The track sees the power trio firing on all cylinders, leaning into their metallic hardcore roots with a dash of thrash metal. ‘Cop Out’ is an unapologetic blast inspired by everything from protest songs with lyrics so broad they could apply to anyone, to bands that probably should have called it quits years ago but are still squeezing money out of their fans.

“It’s about quitting while you’re ahead, before you become something you despise. Before you start doing expensive VIP meet & greets, before you write lyrics that are just empty buzzwords, before you start doing TikTok dance videos to sell more tickets. I don’t wanna spend my time coming up with new ways to get views on social media when I know there are still different pizzas out there I haven’t tried yet,” says vocalist Jørn Kaarstad.

Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why, in 2026, Bokassa are releasing music through their own label, Kings of Stonerpunk Records, under which they’ve released several titles over the years, including their universally acclaimed 2017 debut, Divide & Conquer.

Alongside the new single, Bokassa also announce their fifth album, Anomalies, a fitting title for a band that has never quite fit in anywhere.

The band’s relentless collision of punk, metal and rock subgenres into their own self-styled stonerpunk has seen them tour with acts as diverse as Clutch, Lagwagon, Therapy?, Zebrahead and Mastodon. That same refusal to stick to a single genre has always made Bokassa difficult to pigeonhole. In a world where bands are often rewarded for sounding like other bands people already love, Bokassa mostly sound like themselves.

“I don’t wanna be a ‘we got McDonald’s at home’ version of an older, better band. I see bands becoming universally acclaimed for that, and it’s probably smart to do so for commercial success, but then again, we’ve never been a band known for smart decisions. So we’ll stick to what we think is exciting,” says Kaarstad.

Anomalies will arrive in March 2027, accompanied by an extensive tour across Europe, the UK and the band’s native Norway.

Catch Bokassa live across Norway, the UK and Europe on the following dates:

March 12 – Kulturhuset i Bergen – Bergen, NO
March 13 – Blårock – Tromsø, NO
March 20 – Rockefeller – Oslo, NO
April 2 – Kafé Krank – Kristiansand, NO
April 3 – Folken – Stavanger, NO
April 9 – Byscenen – Trondheim, NO
April 16 – The Cobblestones – Bridgwater, UK
April 17 – The Black Heart – London, UK
April 18 – The Old Salutation – Nottingham, UK
April 19 – The Lodge – Manchester, UK
April 20 – The Joiners – Southampton, UK
May 6 – Monument 013 – Gothenburg, SE
May 7 – Stengade – Copenhagen, DK
May 8 – Betty – Hamburg, DE
May 9 – FRANNZ CLUB – Berlin, DE
May 11 – Nachtleben – Frankfurt, DE
May 12 – Luxor Live – Arnhem, NL
May 13 – DB’s – Utrecht, NL
May 15 – Antwerp Metal Fest – Antwerp, BE

Photo by Thomas Moe Ellefsrud

Listen: ‘Mutton’ by Black Groove

Posted: 7 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Black Groove, Charity, Desertfest, Eyehategod, Gnarly, Heavy, Human Worth, Kulk, Live, Low End Scum, Mastiff, Metal, Mutton, Noise, savage, Sludge, songle, Stream, Work Yourself to the Bone

Human Worth are proud to present the punishing new album Work Yourself to the Bone from south-coast sludgers Black Groove, available to pre-order now with a portion of all profits donated to charity.

Savage, gnarly, brutal and chaotic… These words feel lightweight when it comes to describing the bludgeoning that one experiences when listening to Black Groove, or attending one of their visceral live shows. Crawling out of the darkest crevice of East Sussex coastal town Eastbourne, this gruesome sludge metal quartet have made a real name for themselves across the South of England. Known as one of the heaviest bands in the UK today, Black Groove have been packing small venues, drawing in more and more fans of disgustingly loud, heavy music through word of mouth.

Now Black Groove are ready to channel that vicious intensity and colossal heaviness into their forthcoming second album Work Yourself To The Bone, to be released on the hellish Friday the 13th of November on Vinyl, CD and Streaming via independent Brighton based label Human Worth (home to IAN, Remote Viewing, Pleb and more). A portion of Human Worth’s profits from the sales of Work Yourself To The Bone will be donated to registered UK charity Survivors’ Network, supporting survivors of sexual violence and abuse across Sussex.

Work Yourself To The Bone follows Black Groove’s impressive and raw 2024 debut album Low End Scum. The band recorded Work Yourself To The Bone live with producer and engineer Matt Pugh at Brighton Electric, who has previously recorded like-minded peers Believe In Nothing and Pascagoula. Pugh had already been a regular attendee of Black Groove in concert, and so was able to find that balance between capturing the wild energy of their live shows, whilst pushing their sound forwards and tightening the screws. “The results of working with Matt have been massive for us,” confirms bassist and vocalist Gareth Hellings; “To have a record that really represents the live sound and vibe of the band is what we wanted to achieve." Black Groove have made a conscious shift in their songwriting and lyrical topics too. "We were a lot more doomy, writing songs about shroom demons and swamp giants and whatnot," admits Hellings cheekily, "Then we made a conscious decision to write songs that were more real and relatable to us, and society as a whole.”

Black Groove will embark on a UK tour from November 13th to coincide with the release of the album. The sludge metal quartet have performed with the likes of EyeHateGod, Bongzilla, Goatwhore, Conan, Mastiff, Kulk, Sea Bastard, Believe In Nothing, Wode, Moloch and plenty more. Black Groove have also performed at key festivals and all-dayers, including Desertfest, Cosmic Vibration and Masters Of The Riff. The band hope the release of Work Yourself To The Bone will allow them to play more extensive tours, get over to Europe and make their mark at even more metal festivals.

Watch: ‘Get Up’ by Mass Minor

Posted: 5 October 2026 in Singles and EPs, Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Single, Stream, Metropolis Records, Darkwave, Official music video, Mass Minor, Get Up, Beyond The Edge Of Reason, electronic rock

Mass Minor is an Austin, Texas-based darkwave and electronic rock project led by Andrew J. Martin, Jr.. Blending atmospheric synths and driving guitars into cinematic songwriting, Martin also draws from post-punk, synth-pop and alternative rock influences to create a sound that feels both nostalgic and thoroughly modern.#

Mass Minor recently signed to Metropolis Records and have released a new single entitled ‘Get Up’. “This song is a conversation with God at 169 BPM about sin, money, mortality and the things we sacrifice our lives to,” explains Martin. "It comes from this idea of asking God to save us from problems we created ourselves. Maybe it’s not God’s job to save us. Maybe we need to fix our own shit. You’re the one holding the light. Get up.”

‘Get Up’ is the follow-up to the pulsating ‘Nowhere Now’, which was issued as a single in late July, with both songs included on a long-awaited new Mass Minor album, Beyond The Edge Of Reason, out in late February 2027.

Martin self-released the 2020 debut Mass Minor album, Become Each Other, as well as several singles subsequently collected together on EPs, and has maintained a consistent presence in the dark alternative scene via radio support, multiple SXSW appearances and performances alongside groups such as Twin Tribes, Ultra Sunn, TRAITRS, Vision Video, Urban Heat and Sacred Skin.

Watch: ‘Silver Butterfly’ by Death Pill

Posted: 4 October 2026 in Singles and EPs, Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Death Pill, Official Lyric Video, punk rock, Riot Grrrl, Silver Butterfly, Single, Stream, Ukrainian

A year on from Sologamy, the second album that landed like a blistering ball of melodic fury onto turntables via New Heavy Sounds, Ukrainian riot grrrl trio Death Pill return with a new single, ‘Silver Butterfly’.

The last time we heard from Mariana, Nataliia and Anastasiia, they were delivering some of the most urgent punk rock on the planet.

Then the world intervened. Again.

Following a brief 2025 tour, the band were scattered across continents by the ongoing war in Ukraine. Nataliia now lives in Australia. Anastasiia is based in Spain. Mariana remains in Ukraine. Five years into a conflict that continues to reshape everyday life, Death Pill found themselves facing a question that would finish off lesser bands: how do you keep creating when you can’t even share the same room?

The answer is ‘Silver Butterfly’.

The song is the first Death Pill recording built entirely remotely, assembled across three countries, multiple time zones and circumstances that would test anyone’s resolve. As the band explain:

“’Silver Butterfly’ is the first Death Pill track that was created and recorded without the three of us ever rehearsing the song together in the same room.

We had never worked like this before. With our previous releases, the songs had always been developed, rehearsed or recorded in Ukraine, with at least two members of the band physically working on them together at some stage.”

But geography was only half the story.

“Because of Russia’s continued attacks on Ukraine and the resulting power outages, Mariana and our long-time sound engineer Dmytro repeatedly had to postpone recording and mixing sessions, sometimes without knowing when they would be able to continue at all. Making music remotely across three countries is one challenge. Making it while people in Ukraine are forced to organise their lives and work around air raids, attacks and electricity cuts is an entirely different one.”

And yet amazingly, none of that struggle weighs down the song. If anything, it gives it lift.

‘Silver Butterfly’ arrives on a surge of hooks, handclaps, chunky buzzsaw riffs and vocals that switch from sardonic to shred. It tears through punk, hardcore, pop and thrash without stopping to declare allegiance to any of them. Three minutes of resistance. In other words … Vintage Death Pill. The band explain:

“The past few years can feel like one long, blurred day, as if we have all become hostages to constant urgency, instant reactions and the expectation of immediate results. Life starts to resemble fast food: we consume whatever comes our way, rush through it and move on before we have had a chance to process the experience, let alone really absorb it.

This exhausting race against ourselves gradually strips away the very basic joy of simply living. "Silver Butterfly" is our attempt to freeze time for three minutes and actually feel the moment again.”

Against all odds, Death Pill continue to do exactly what great punk bands have always done: turn chaos and uncertainty into something you can scream along to.

Photo: Tetiana Chepurna

Listen: DROWNING IN THE STATIC FLOW by OMNIBDGR

Posted: 3 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Albums
Tags: bass heavy, Brutal, Cruel Nature Records, disruption, DROWNING IN THE STATIC FLOW, full album stream, Noise, Omnibdgr, Pound Land, rebellion, static

There’s just so much noise – everywhere. And it’s only getting louder and more distracting. It’s not just in the street, or social media, or the constant pinging and buzzing of your phone, it’s not just the backdrop of social media and the babble in the street… The pace of life is changing, and it seems like there’s no downtime, no respite, no peace. And the noise… the noise is a distraction. Its function is to fill your head, keep you anxious and on edge and looking, not the other way, but in all directions at once, apart from the one where you might see something. The noise exists to keep everyone in place, to entice you to buy more stuff you don’t need with money you don’t have. We are all drowning the static flow, which runs 24/7, 365. How to deal with all this noise? And how to counteract it? With more noise, of course. Disruptive noise. Fight fire with fire – or noise with noise of a different kind.

This album is that disruptive noise, which holds a mirror to it all and subverts and refracts it in infinite splintering directions. It’s an all-out assault on the endless stream of static and distraction, the chatter and hum.

This time around, Omnibdgr are doing things differently. Expanded to a trio and with a live drummer for the first time, there’s a newfound freedom from the constraints of programming. They all played live in the same room, embracing the bleed of other sounds in the mics, and this is the glorious, rebellious result. And ‘bleed’ is the word: Drowning in the Static Flow bludgeons away like never before, blunt and brutal, and loud enough to blow all the other noise away.

The live drums create a different dynamic and stand at the fore of a sound that’s percussion driven and bass heavy. Then, there’s everything else. And it’s all going off.
They may be underground, but Omnibdgr are the uprising, the sound of that vital rupture, the noise of resistance.

Stream the album in fill here:

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