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Watch: ‘Normalized Tragedy’ by dälek

Posted: 27 March 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Brilliance of a Falling Moon, Dälek, Experimental, Hip-Hop, Ipecac Recordings, Normalized Tragedy, Single, Stream, Video

Today, experimental Hip-Hop legends dälek release their latest full-length album, Brilliance of a Falling Moon.

Conceived, composed, and produced by Will Brooks (aka MC dälek) and Mike Mare, Brilliance of a Falling Moon is a sprawling, uncompromising record that speaks to the political timbre of the day. Taking its name from a section of Erik Larson’s 2011 novel In The Garden of Beasts, the album paints a fiery portrait of life and resistance in fascist America.

Recorded in the group’s Deadverse Studios over the course of 2024 and 2025, Brilliance of a Falling Moon’s beats are propelled by brutal, dust-caked drum breaks and cloaked in an ominous, otherworldly atmosphere. Taking aim at everything from The State’s suppression of information to colonialism and Trump’s demonization of immigrants, Brooks’ rhymes are practically burning with outrage at the current state of the world.

“When you listen to this, I hope you walk away with hope because we’re still fighting, building, and pushing.”

Check out the new video for ‘Normalized Tragedy’ below:

Not only has dälek always presented an undiluted political stance in their music, the band is part of the continuum of bold, revolutionary hip-hop pioneered by Public Enemy and The Bomb Squad. dälek has spent decades carving out a unique niche fusing hardcore Hip Hop, noise and a radical approach to sound.

Founded by Will Brooks (aka MC dälek) and Alap Momin (aka Oktopus), dälek debuted in 1998 with Negro Necro Nekros, a sonic tour de force built upon thunderous drums, blissful ambient sections, and gritty, insightful lyrics. On watershed albums like 2002’s From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots (2002), Absence (2005), Abandoned Language (2007), and 2009’s Gutter Tactics (2009), dälek laid a template that added completely new textural and structural dimensions to rap music.

With this kind of musical and political pedigree, it makes sense that dälek would return with such a timely record that reflects all of our frustrations.

Once again the band has teamed up with artists Paul Romano and Mikel Elam for the striking package artwork.

Photo credit: Jonny-Scala

Watch: ‘Ghosts Of Europa’ by Mortiis

Posted: 25 March 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Cradle Of Filth, Ghosts Of Europa, Mortiis, Official music video, Prophecy Productions, Sarah Jezebel Deva, Single, Stream, Tangerine Dream, Thorsten Quaeschning

Iconic Norwegian artist MORTIIS presents the the stunning music video ‘Ghosts of Europa’. This is also the title track (feat. vocals of Sarah Jezebel Deva (The Kovenant, Cradle of Filth, et al.) and Laurie Ann Haus (Blizzard Games, Todesbonden) as well as additional synths and sequencers from Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning) and first advance single taken from his upcoming new full-length.

MORTIIS comments on ‘Ghosts of Europa’: “This song has tried many shapes and forms, until it finally sort of found itself”, the Norwegian writes. “I never thought that it would end up this way. Strange, mysterious, and choral. It started out as a simple thing, a different song, with a different title, which got slowly de-constructed and altered. This did not happen due to dissatisfaction with the original, but because layers of new ideas appeared. As excited as I am about this new ‘entity’ and the way it shaped up, the title, that has already been in existence for years, feels slightly, and sadly, prophetic – although that was never my intention.”

Watch: ‘Serve Me Some Crime’ by Noir Addiction

Posted: 24 March 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Alternative Rock, ‪Jack Lucas Laugeni, controlled chaos, Industrial, Noir Addiction, Pretty Things Don't Last, Serve Me Some Crime, Single, SoulPunx Records, Stream, Video

Alternative-industrial rockers NOIR ADDICTION present their new single ‘Serve Me Some Crime’, a sarcastic manifesto about embracing chaos and contradiction, where rule-breaking, humour and non-conformity become tools of personal freedom. The accompanying video, with its black-and-red aesthetic, was created by ‪Jack Lucas Laugeni. Favouring instinct and madness over routine, control and the suffocating seriousness of everyday life, this is the first postpunk-darkwave taste of the Pretty Things Don’t Last album, forthcoming via Berlin’s Soulpunx label.

Noir Addiction is led by Sonny Lanegan, a seasoned musician and producer whose creative vision was shaped by cutting his teeth in Los Angeles’s high-octane music scene, where he honed his experimental style as singer-songwriter for White Pulp and co-founder of The Dead Good. The Spill Magazine finds this “somewhere between industrial grit and sardonic self-awareness. Drawing clear lineage from acts like Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode, Noir Addiction doesn’t just imitate its influences—it refracts them through a modern lens of irony and controlled chaos”.

Listen: ‘Oxygen’ by Lantlos

Posted: 22 March 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Lantlos, Metal D'n'B, Nowhere In Between Forever, optimism, Oxygen. single, Prophecy Productions, Stream

LANTLOS present the nimble track ‘Oxygen’ as the tasty final advance single taken from the forthcoming new album Nowhere in Between Forever, which is slated for release on April 3, 2026.

LANTLOS comment on ‘Oxygen’: “This song is rollerblading through a utopian vision of the late ‘90s rave euphoria – a hyper world of digital elevation and weird plastic positivity”, mastermind Markus Skye muses. “’Oxygen’ channels that era’s surreal optimism and unbroken faith in technology as a gateway to a bright, boundless future. I take it as a kind of ‘Metal DnB’ track. Metal and rock drumming are driving a classic breakbeat rhythm that creates a rush of velocity and acceleration, which feels both euphoric and slightly shrill. This strange flight through early 3D models of an endless digital reality gets you suspended between plastic bliss and power trip exhaustion on your way to elysium.”

Listen: ‘Aneska’s Song’ by Marie Ann Hedonia

Posted: 20 March 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Aneska's Song, electroindustrial, Industrial, Lunar Eclipse EP, Marie Ann Hedonia, Single, Stream

Electro-industrial artist, MARIE ANN HEDONIA just unleashed her new EP, Lunar Eclipse – an autobiographical release full of anger, rage and revenge.

The songs work as emotional layers from rage to acceptance, and through them we are transformed. ‘Anseka’s Song’ is pure rage as humans love violence. We consume it as entertainment when it should shock and disgust us. It’s a perfect opener for this EP. The song sets the tone for the emotional space these tracks occupy. It also flows right into ‘Family Trauma’, the most autobiographical track on the EP.

Marie says: “My family was messed up, screaming fights, job loss, arrests, and it generally made me a pretty angry person. I thought one day I would write this all down, maybe as a quirky memoir. Instead life guided me to music and so I channelled my rage, and sadness into this EP. In astrology a “lunar eclipse” can bring on emotional transformation, even upheaval. I want this EP to release these emotions for myself and for the listener.”

Along with the release of her 2nd EP comes, Eclipse, a full length album encapsulating both EP releases, available on vinyl, digital download, and streaming now!

Watch: ‘Luxury’ by The Family Men

Posted: 19 March 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: abrasive, co/de/termination, Cyberpunk, electropunk, ExpAerimental Noise-Rock, Experimental, Luxury, Single, Stream, The Family Men, Video, welfare records, William Gibson

Swedish experimental noise-rock outfit The Family Men return on May 8 with their second full-length album Co/de/termination, set for release via Welfare Sounds & Records.
To mark the occasion, the band have unveiled a brand new video for the track ‘Luxury’.

‘Luxury’ channels the band’s sonic identity into a single, tightly focused piece. As Echoes & Dust put it: “Built upon looping, intertwining rhythms and heavily processed instruments and samples, ‘Luxury’ distils the band’s unmistakable sonic identity into one focused strike. It’s a precise yet overwhelming construction – mechanical, hypnotic, and abrasive – and a perfect example of what we’ve come to expect from the proprietors of the ‘total harmful sound.’”

The band themselves add: “‘Luxury’ is heavily inspired by William Gibson’s writing. It also feels like it encapsulates every part of the new album in some way, so it fits really well as a final single before the release. The video was a collaborative effort between Gustav and this really talented guy from Stockholm named Henke Luhr, and we feel it reflects the music in a very fitting manner.”

Following their debut album No Sound Forever, The Family Men have spent the past years performing extensively across Sweden and internationally, building a reputation as one of the most intense and uncompromising live acts around. That relentless momentum feeds directly into Co/de/termination, a natural yet sharpened continuation of the band’s sonic evolution.
Pushing both intensity and precision to new extremes, the album refines their sound into something tighter, heavier, and more deliberate than ever before. Urgent yet controlled, abrasive yet purposeful, Co/de/termination stands as a focused and uncompromising statement.

Operating across a wide sonic spectrum, The Family Men resist easy categorization. Samplers, broken electronics, tape loops, and heavily distorted guitars collide into a sound that is both confrontational and immersive.

Their live shows, often accompanied by feverish VHS projections, towering waves of feedback, and vocalist Gustav Danielsbacka performing directly within the crowd, have become legendary for dissolving the boundary between band and audience.

With Co/de/termination, The Family Men further cement their position as one of the most uncompromising voices in contemporary experimental rock.

Listen: ‘Untitled II’ by Ana Roxanne

Posted: 18 March 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Ana Roxanne, Haunting, Kranky, Live Dates, Piano, Poem 1, poetic, Single, Sparse, Stream, Untitled II

Ana Roxanne shares ‘Untitled II’, taken from her forthcoming album, Poem 1.

The track is the album’s pronounced, uninhibited centerpiece, delivers on the Lynchian promise that’s been present since her first EP, 2019’s ~~~.

Poem 1 follows via kranky on May 1st, an album that displays Ana’s new-found boldness. Listen to ‘Untitled II’ here:

Ana also announces the following live dates:

May 8 Brooklyn, NY, National Sawdust
May 11 Los Angeles, CA, Sid the Cat Auditorium
May 12 San Francisco, CA, Swedish American Music Hall
May 15 Seattle, WA, Triple Door
May 18 Toronto, ON, Hugh’s Room
June 4 London, England, Institute of Contemporary Arts
June 5 Vienna, Austria, Porgy & Bess

Watch: Klimt 1918 – Dream Core

Posted: 17 March 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Amor, Dream Core, epic, Klimt 1918, majestic, Melancholy, Official music video, Post Rock, Prophecy Productions, Shoegaze, Single, Stream

The heat is on: Rome’s skygazers KLIMT 1918 reveal the sun-drenched music video ‘Dream Core’ as the first advance single taken from the forthcoming new full-length Àmor. The beloved Italians’ fifth album has been chalked up for release on June 12, 2026.

KLIMT 1918 comment: “The song ‘Dream Core’ revolves around resilience, strength, and the ability to overcome life’s adversities”, frontman Marco Soellner explains. “We dedicate this track to those who choose to love despite everything. To those who believe that a song can trigger the will to change. To those who feel like a storm about to break over a sun-scorched desert.”

The burning pulse of the sun’s nuclear fire scorching the desert. The smooth sliding of glistening skin over other skin in a throbbing rhythm. The swelling hum of motion in a mass of bodies. KLIMT 1918 capture many such fleeting moments in time and preserve them through cascading walls of sound and the elegant drone of guitars.

The Italian’s fifth album, Àmor, represents a climax of their acclaimed previous work into a most melancholic, sensual, and majestic collection of captivating music. Àmor was born out of silence, solitude and social distancing. Yet as a deliberate artistic counterpoint, KLIMT 1918 decided to have all their new songs revolve around carnality, ardour, physical contact between bodies, and the urgent, compelling feelings that keep people awake at night.

With Àmor, KLIMT 1918 also take another step in the steady evolution of their sound. The influences of avant-garde metal have been dwindling from the start while darkwave and alternative rock rapidly grew stronger in the music of the Italians. Post-rock plays a strong role in their latest development but instead of shyly narrowing their perspective down by gazing at their shoes, KLIMT 1918 dream with open eyes, looking up above the horizon and into the sky.

KLIMT 1918 emerged from the ashes of a metal band in 1999 when the brothers Marco and Paolo Soellner rather chose to take fresh inspiration from such acts as BAUHAUS, THE CURE, and JOY DIVISION. This was also indicated by their new band’s name, which alludes to the Austrian symbolist painter and Art Nouveau pioneer Gustav Klimt, who died in 1918 while the Great War was still raging. The debut album of the Romans, Undressed Momento, arrived in 2003 and its dark emotionality immediately garnered high praise from critics and fans alike all over Europe.

Watch: ‘Just Begun’ by Sinister Shadows

Posted: 16 March 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: death rock, goth, Just Begun, Ryan Michalski, Single, Sinister Shadows, Stream, The Doorway To, Video

Florida’s death rock/goth artist SINISTER SHADOWS has released a music video for the song ‘Just Begun,’ taken from the self-titled debut album out on March 26th via The Doorway To label.

It’s quite a shift in style from its predecessor, ‘No One Home But Me’. Watch the video for ‘Just Begun’ here:

Sinister Shadows was created out of the love of death rock and goth rock from the Eighties and Nineties – bands like Bauhaus, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, and Nick Cave.

Sinister Shadows ‘ mastermind, Ryan Michalski (Idiot Robot, Ryan Cosmonaught), ran a video magazine called The Gothic Box in Tampa Florida years ago and went to such venues as The Orpheum and The Castle. Sinister Shadows wants to bring back the darkness, romance and flair that has been long missed of this sound and movement.

The album was recorded at Ryan’s RPM Studios in Tampa throughout 2025. The album sees the participation of Ryan’s longtime music partner Clint Listing (The Slumbering) for an intro and outro to the record.

Watch: ‘Mirrorings’ by Void of Light

Posted: 14 March 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Asymmetries, epcic, Heavy, Intense, Mirrorings, posdt-metal, Ripcord Records, Shoegaze, Single, Sludge, Stream, Video, Void of Light

Glasgow-based post-metal collective Void of Light have unveiled the new video for ‘Mirrorings,’ the lead single from their forthcoming debut full-length album Asymmetries, set to be released on April 3 via Ripcord Records.

Clocking in at a towering ten minutes, ‘Mirrorings’ first premiered at Decibel Magazine, who praised the track saying: “Clocking in at 10 minutes, ‘Mirrorings’ offers a pretty solid introduction to these gloomy Glaswegians, a dynamic epic that shifts from pummeling sludge to melodic shoegaze-inspired dynamism.”

The band had this to say about the new album and new song: “Asymmetries is the culmination of two years of hard work and exploration. Across the album’s five tracks, we set out to shape our own sound within a well-established scene, creating something that genuinely feels like ours. The closing track, ‘Mirrorings,’ brings the album’s introspective themes into a final, defining moment and represents what we feel is our strongest offering so far.”

Void of Light are a six-piece post-metal force built on contrast. Brutal yet deeply atmospheric, their sound fuses crushing riffs and thunderous drumming with melodic leads and carefully layered arrangements. Rooted in post-metal’s foundations but shaped by a wider spectrum of influences, the band carve out a sound that feels vast and aggressive, yet intricate and finely balanced through a keen sense of dynamics.

Following the release of their self-titled EP in 2022 and the two-track EP Enshroud in 2023, Void of Light completed a short UK tour and quickly established themselves as a powerful live presence across local venues and festivals. Renowned for their formidable performances, the band deliver an imposing wall of sound that is both overwhelming and precisely measured, drawing audiences into an intense, captivating experience.

On Asymmetries, Void of Light turn inward. Exploring themes of perspective, reflection, and internal conflict, the album charts a journey of reconciliation between the masks of the past and the truths of the present.

To celebrate the release, Void of Light will perform their album release show on April 3rd at The Flying Duck in Glasgow with support coming from Codespeaker & Obsidian Sand.

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