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Watch: ‘Psychostasia’ by Ufomammut

Posted: 19 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Fenice, Heavy, Neurot Recordings, power trio, Psychostasia, Rock, Supernatural Cat, Ufomammut, video stream

On May 6th Italian alchemists and power trio Ufomammut return with their ninth studio album, Fenice via Neurot Recordings and Supernatural Cat, but not as we’ve heard them before, now “more intimate, more free.”

For over 20 years, the band has combined the heaviness and majesty of dynamic riff worship with a nuanced understanding of psychedelic tradition and history in music, creating a cosmic, futuristic, and technicolor sound destined for absolute immersion.

Fenice (meaning Phoenix in Italian) symbolically represents endless rebirth and the ability to start again after everything seems doomed. The album is the first recording with new drummer Levre, and truly marks a new chapter in Ufomammut history.

“I think we lost our spontaneity, album after album,” says Urlo. “We tried to make more complicated songs and albums, but I think at some point we just ended up repeating ourselves. With Fenice, we were ready to start from zero, we had no past anymore – so we just wanted to be reborn and rise from the ashes..”

Whilst the band are well-known for their psychedelic travels into the far reaches of the cosmos, Fenice is a much more introspective listening experience. Fenice was conceived as a single concept track, divided in six facets of this inward-facing focus. Sonic experimentations abound in the exploration of this central theme; synths and experimental vocal effects are featured more prominently than ever before as the band push themselves ever further into the uncharted territory of their very identity.

Check out the video for ‘Psychostasia’ here:

Watch: ‘This Shame Should Not Be Mine’ by GGGOLDDD

Posted: 18 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: abuse, alternative, Artoffact Records, dark, GGGOLDDD, harrowing, ptsd, This Shame Should Not Be Mine, video stream

Dark alternative act GGGOLDDD have revealed the striking new video for the title track from their upcoming album, This Shame Should Not Be Mine. The video is a sharp commentary on continued victimisation by society after someone experiences trauma.

Vocalist Milena Eva comments: "I was raped at the tender age of nineteen by someone I trusted and had fallen in love with. In one instant my life was upside down. It shaped me a lot. Especially the shame that comes with it, because of what society told me. ‘This Shame Should Not Be Mine’ is a fully electronic, dark and creepy song that personifies the fear and anxiety I’ve lived with. When I listen to it now it gives me strength and power like a mantra telling me it is not my fault.

After the trauma happened I went through some very scary years and the weird thing is it took me years to understand that I was scared. I filed my feelings under depression or loneliness. And my pain was downplayed by doctors and myself. It took me a long time to understand I have ptsd, that I’m sick because of what happened. And one of the biggest reasons it came this far was because of how people responded. The blame and shame that comes with taboo and the patriarchy is numbing. And the shame should have never been mine.”

Watch the video for ‘This Shame Should Not Be Mine’ here:

This Shame Should Not Be Mine is out on April 1st via Artoffact Records.

Watch: ‘Love’s Sudden Death’ by Darkher

Posted: 16 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Atmospheric, Brontë Sisters, Brooding, Darkher, Doom, ethereal, Gothic, Haunting, Hawarth, Henden Bridge, Long Doike Moor, Love’s Sudden Death, Prophecy Productions, video stream

DARKHER are now premiering the bitter-sweet video single ‘Love’s Sudden Death’ taken from the beloved Northern English doom act’s sophomore album The Buried Storm, which has been chalked-up for release on April 15.

The black and white clip ‘Love’s Sudden Death’ was filmed on location at Long Dike Moor, which lies between Hebden Bridge and Haworth in West Yorkshire – and is also very close to Top Withens, the moorland that inspired the Brontë Sisters’ novels and poetry.

Watch the video here:

Photo: Catherine Pogue

Listen: ‘Talk Shows’ by Low Hummer

Posted: 15 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Dance To The Radio, Low Hummer, Post-Punk, single stream, SXSW, Talk Sjows

Hull quintet Low Hummer have shared new single ‘Talk Shows’ ahead of their debut appearances at SXSW this week. The first new music since their acclaimed debut album appeared in September 2021, ‘Talk Shows’ is another piece of danceable, synth heavy post-punk from the East Yorkshire band as they continue to create essential documents of alienation & discomfort as lyricist Dan Mawer touches on societal pressure to drink, body dysmorphia and the dirge of late night Saturday TV.

Continuing their run of collaborations with Leeds producer Matt Peel at his studio The Nave, ‘Talk Shows’ finds Low Hummer blending noughties indie beats with 80’s post-punk synths, spiky guitars and their unmistakable ear for a hook, as vocalist Aimee Duncan takes centre stage delivering this message of modern angst with her inimitable delivery, as deadpan, cool and tongue-in-cheek as ever.

Bolstered by regular play across BBC 6 Music, BBC Introducing and support from Jack Saunders on BBC Radio 1, excitement about the band has continued to build since the release of ‘Modern Tricks For Living’ – with a sold-out run of Dinked Edition Exclusive vinyl, a headline slot on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading & Leeds, a twitter listening party with Tim Burgess and a UK tour support with with Welsh indie icons Manic Street Preachers all keeping the band busy last year.

‘Talk Shows’ lands as the band arrive in the US for their debut shows outside of the UK, ready to represent their beloved Hull and it’s DIY scene to a brand new audience. With support from BBC Introducing & PRS Foundation, Low Hummer and their label Dance To The Radio Records will be in Austin for the week for a number of showcases including the British Music Embassy at Cedar Street Courtyard on the 19th March.

After SXSW the band will be playing more shows across the UK for the remainder of the year, including their first London headline show at The Lexington on 13th April.

Listen to ‘Talk Shows’ here:

Credit: Shoot J Moore

Watch: ‘My Head Is Bleeding’ by A Place to Bury Strangers

Posted: 14 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, alternative, APTBS, Dedstrange, My Head Is Bleeding, niose, No Wave, See Through You, video stream

A Place To Bury Strangers share the video for ‘My Head Is Bleeding’ from their new album, See Through You, out now on vinyl via Dedstrange.

Right away, ‘My Head is Bleeding’ gushes from the speakers with pummeling drums and whirring, anxious electronics–preparing listeners for one deafening blunt-force chorus after another. Wispy synthesizers and lacerating chemical burn guitars engage in a heated call-and-response while Oliver Ackermann extends a desperate plea for sanity to whichever metaphysical entity might be listening. “This song is about internally begging to a God when you might not necessarily believe in one,” says Ackermann. “It’s that moment where there’s just a sliver of hope that anything in your head might connect you with the Universe and actually make a change.”

In the accompanying video from director Travis Stevens (Jakob’s Wife, Girl On The Third Floor), flesh and blood commingle in a pileup of heaving, mysterious biomass as a mechanical womb gives birth to an oily, ectoplasmic form. Says Stevens, “The entire album rips but there’s a plea to transform suffering into joy in this song that I really sparked to. In order to emulate the raw unpredictability of an APTBS performance, I tried to create a similar magical combination of flesh, emotion, intuition and technology."

Watch the video here:

Listen: ‘Wall of Noise’ by Berries

Posted: 13 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Berries, Grunge, incecurity, Indie, Isolation, Post-Punk, single stream, Wall of Noise

Grappling with themes of insecurity and isolation, the gritty new track combines tight instrumentation with jagged riff-roaring melodies. Calculated and convulsive in equal measure, ‘Wall of Noise’ comes as a taste of the band’s debut album, which is expected for release this summer.

Chewing through twangy vocals, angular guitar lines and a guttural garage-grunge feel, Berries cultivate a craggy landscape of layered noise-rock that is evocative of the “noise” that so many of us constantly find pervading our own thoughts. Pelting us from all angles with their meticulously frenetic sound, the band explain of the track: “Lyrically the song gives a nod to how self-doubt and how solitude can heighten and affect these feelings. Feeling lost or confused can produce the noisiest thoughts in your mind and that’s what we wanted to convey in this song.”

And, while its lyricism might deal with notions of self-doubt, the track marks a clear, confident and calculated next step in the band’s development.

Listen to ‘Wall of Noise’ here:

Watch: ‘‘Skugge’ (live) by Wardruna

Posted: 11 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: ByNorse, dark, Folk, Kvitravn - First Flight of the White Raven, Live, Skugge, video stream, Wardruna

Wardruna release an official music video for their song ‘Skugge’ (meaning Shadow). The song is an eerie sonic journey, voicing a dialogue between man and shadow or as Einar Selvik puts it; “it is a song about shadows, echoes and the balance between seeking answers and wisdom internally and externally”. The video was filmed and produced in Norway by Ragnarok Film in January 2022.

To shorten the wait for their upcoming release Kvitravn – First Flight of the White Raven (out on April 22nd 2022), the live version of the song is also released on all digital platforms via Music For Nations/Sony Music/Columbia Germany/ByNorse. Watch the video here:

Listen: ‘Le Blakheth’ by Sacred Son

Posted: 11 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Audio Stream, black metal, Great Rising, Le Blakheth, Peasant’s Revolt, Sacred Son, single stream, The Foul Deth of Engelond

Sacred Son return in 2022 with a new album, The Foul Deth of Engelond; a black metal chronicle of the 1381 Peasant’s Revolt. Weaving historical record with speculative inversion, the album recounts this fierce and tragic Great Uprising as a proto-revolutionary moment in English history that echoes loudly into our own toxic and fragmented present. The story is presented as inspiration and allegory, with principal songwriter, Dane Cross, describing it as his ode to righteous leftwing political violence.

The Foul Deth of Engelond marks a return to the expansive sound of their debut, whilst continuing the move away from the one-person insularity that began with the sophomore effort. The road-tested four-piece band was recorded in the cold dark winter of 2020 by tube-amp maestro Chris Fullard (Ulver, Sunn O)))), Boris) at the analogue-focused Holy Mountain Studios in London. These sessions were then mixed by Randall Dunn (Wolves in the Throne Room, Earth, Kayo Dot) at his Circular Ruin studio in NYC, resulting in a rich, physical, and enveloping sound of textural layered guitar, propulsive rhythms, caustic voices, and Dunn’s signature spirit-conjuring atmospheres.

Sacred Son have also shared first single, ‘Le Blakheth’ with Dane commenting, “‘Le Blakheth’ is the third track from Sacred Son’s new album The Foul Deth of Engelond. It chronicles the bloodiest and most violent chapter of the 1381 Great Rising; when corrupt and sycophantic ruling figures were beaten and beheaded whilst their obscenely lavish buildings burned around them.”

Listen now:

Watch: ‘HHHH’ by Kee Avil

Posted: 11 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Avant-garde, Coil, Constellation Records, Crease, Experimental, HHHH, Kee Avil, minimal, Scott Walker, Spoken Word, video stream

Crease is the debut full-length album of deconstructed electroacoustic postpunk songcraft by Montréal guitarist and producer Kee Avil, whose touchstones range from Scott Walker and Coil to Fiona Apple; (early) PJ Harvey and (later) Juana Molina to Eartheater, Pan Daijing and Smerz—or like Grouper produced by Matmos.

Chiselled twitchy minimalist guitar, sinuous electronics, industrial and prepared-instrument micro-samples, furtive rhythmic propulsion, all galvanised by the anxious intimacy of finely wrought lyricism/vocals: Crease is one of those debut records that excites a wide range of peerless references precisely because it’s so compelling and convincing in its own idiosyncratic originality, vision, detail and execution.

To coincide with the album’s release comes the video for ‘HHHH’. Watch it here:

Watch: ‘Closer than Ever Before’ by Eric Oberto

Posted: 7 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Adoration Destroyed, Closer than Ever Before, Darkwave, Death, electronica, Eric Oberto, Erik Gustafson, Industrial, synthpop, Technoindustrial, video stream

Musician and actor, Eric Oberto has just unveiled his new video and single release for the song, Closer Than Ever Before. The song appears in the forthcoming Hollywood theatrical film, Malibu Horror Story due out in late 2022.

‘Closer Than Ever Before’ paints the dark picture of a man running from himself and racing against his own mortality. While being stalked by “Death” himself, he encounters memories from his past and startling entities that chase him closer to that final closing door.

The music video for ‘Closer Than Ever Before’ will mark the second collaboration between Eric Oberto and Erik Gustafson of the band, Adoration Destroyed!

Both Eric and Erik co-directed the music video shoot. Eric Oberto also took on the role of Producer with the invaluable help of Video Shoot Production Manager, Micha Marie Stevens. Erik Gustafson Cinematography brilliantly handled all of the post-production and editing work. Watch the video here:

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