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Watch: ‘I Am The Night’ by I Am The Night

Posted: 9 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Behold! I Am The Night release a new music video from their debut album released this coming May on Svart Records.

The new band featuring Finnish metal scene legends opens an ancient chasm of Black Metal, born of an epic tradition.

Rising from the deep valleys of Kymi in southernmost Finland, I Am The Night is Black Metal rooted in the classic early 90’s tradition, where walls of guitars and synthesizers raise the forces of darkness in a battle against the heavens and burning angels light up the night sky.

The band’s debut full length album, with cover art by scene legend Necrolord, bears the title While The Gods Are Sleeping and shall be released on May 6th, 2022. The record was birthed during the heaviest blizzard Finland had seen in years in the winter of 2021, with the band holed up at the Soundspiral Audio studio during the height of the pandemic.” On new single, ‘I Am The Night’ the band comment,

”We had a certain 90’s video in our mind when we gave Jari Heino instructions to create this one. This is his modern take on that classic, and the way we wanted it to look. The song itself is a swing of a morning star to one’s head. Aggressive and harsh, but still the melodic aspects can be found. Listen and wander into the night.”

Watch the video now:

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Watch: ‘Tripping Up The Stairs’ by Helms Alee

Posted: 8 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Seattle three-piece Helms Alee announced a new album Keep This Be The Way for April 29th via Sargent House earlier this month and today they’re back with the final single before it’s release.

‘Tripping Up The Stairs’ pits nightmarish synths against a barrage of distortion and is accompanied with an Apocalypse Now meets Swamp Thing styled video focused on the concept of control. The director Ron Harrell notes:

"The idea that I wanted to convey when we set out filming the video was an uncomplicated yet visually compelling version of finding said control. To me it became as simple as floating at sea and finding sure footing on land. Helms Alee has a pretty hydrous identity as it is, so incorporating that part came naturally. I had an initial cut of the video that was a little cleaner and realistic, visually speaking. The band saw it and, what I heard them say was “that’s great, now fuck it up”. So I fucked it up and this is the result."

On the collaboration, the band says:

"Ron Harrell is one of our dearest friends, so it felt very easy and natural to be directed into vulnerable states by him. Having been by our side through most of the creation of our latest record via assisting with engineering, contributing thoughts and ideas, and generally being a friend to us, it made perfect sense to collaborate with him in this format. Photography and videography are natural ways that Ron expresses his love of life. That is made clear by the visual beauty of this video. He took a complicated feeling and created a weird fever dreamscape story to express that feeling. He applied his empathetic nature to incorporate the feelings/needs of the band while sculpting a story only he knew how to tell."

Watch the video here:

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Watch: ‘Love in the Wreckage’ by Metamorph

Posted: 7 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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“Witchy” goth rock band, METAMORPH recently unveiled their new single, ‘Love In The Wreckage.’ Not, sadly, an homage to JG Ballard, the song tells a story of life in today’s chaotic world. It’s a transmutation of the world’s chaos into love; a tale of light in the dark.

METAMORPH’s music has always been about change. 2021 was full of so much chaos and pain. METAMORPH’s Margot Day says: “There has been a strange undercurrent of joy in the madness. I found myself transforming this emotional intensity into a spiritual awakening. These new lyrics and melodies are pouring in like an avalanche.”

Check ‘Love in the Wreckage’ here:

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Watch: ‘Toni’ by Interpol

Posted: 7 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Well this has come out of nowhere: Interpol unveil a new song, ‘Toni’ with a video, while simultaneously announcing they’ve a new album, The Other Side of Make-Believe, out on Matador Records in 15th July 2022.

Check ‘Toni’ here:

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Watch: ‘Marry the Night’ by GHXST

Posted: 5 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Having announced their debut album Admire last month with first single ‘Pls, You Must Be a Dream’, LA-based noise duo GHXST has now shared new track ‘Marry The Night’.

‘Marry the Night’ is a love song for nights after hours spent walking through empty streets. The track opens with a lulling atmospheric loop that gradually opens into heavier spaces, with Shelley X’s signature delayed vocals echoing against drop-tuned guitars. Throughout, a drum machine pulses, like beats echoing from outside a Brooklyn warehouse. It’s gloomy listening, but the gloom is somehow warm and inviting. 

The video is a compilation of stories shot on iPhone by friends of the band. Scenes jump from New York to New Orleans to Palau to Los Angeles. There’s no narrative, but the moody, b&w scenes feel like flipping through someone’s lost memories from an endless day.

Watch the video here:

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Watch: ‘Say So’ by Wild Wild Wets

Posted: 4 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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San Diego’s Wild Wild Wets are gearing up for the release of their just-announced new album Love Always.

The band has launched album pre-orders/pre-saves and is debuting the first single ‘Say So’ which is now streaming here:

Co-frontman Mike Turi (along with bandmate Taejon Romanik ) says of the track and companion music video, "Our good friend and producer, JeanCarlo Mendez, not only made the album happen, he has gone out of his mind putting together this wild visual video for "Say So" using old-school analog video techniques from the 80’s. His style and sensibility is obviously very much our vibe and he and his teammate Brandon Mosquera nailed the edit on this project."

Mendez adds, ‘Say So’ was immediately one of my favorite tracks. For the video I wanted to make an early MTV Era meets early 2000’s Ipod commercial… But on Acid. We used late 80’s era video switchers to create the feedback, and old CRT monitors to create the banding and scan-lines you see in the video. "Say So" is a fun psych-pop track with infectious energy, yet Sparks-esque, in its fermented dreariness (case in point the lyric: "I never met someone who could make me feel so high and not care if I’m alive" and references to ‘Formaldehyde Perfume’).

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Watch: ‘Tria Prima’ by Esoterik

Posted: 3 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Pagan synth duo, Esoterik have unveiled their new full-length LP, Alchemy.

The concept of Alchemy has many different forms and interpretations but the analogy holds true for any artist in that we take elements or ingredients, which on their own have a certain character and then take on a transformation into something that didn’t exist before.

Is it magick or is something more tangible? Who’s to say? But there’s no denying that words have power and music in itself has the ability to illicit a variety of emotions that time stamp our journey throughout life.

About the album, Alchemy, the band says the following, "We took a different approach with this album than we have in the past with a clear vision from the start thematically of what we wanted to achieve and then crafted each track around that."

As a taster, they’ve delivered a video for ‘Tria Prima’ which you can watch here:

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Listen: ‘Demon Wolf’ by Grafvitnir

Posted: 1 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Swedish black metallers Grafvitnir are back from the shadows with their eighth opus, titled Tunes of Sitra Ahra.

Venomous incantations accompanied by haunting riffs and eerie melodies with a touch of Nordic melancholy and coldness.

Eight tracks capturing the ferocious wrath of a people betrayed and the essence of the dark liberator of illumination.

Album is scheduled for its CD and digital releases on 29 April 2022 via Carnal Records.

Listen to the album’s first track, ‘Demon Wolf’ here:

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Watch: ‘Spring’ by GGGOLDDD

Posted: 1 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Dark alternative act GGGOLDDD have revealed a poignant new video for ‘Spring’ from their album, This Shame Should Not Be Mine, which is out today. Despite the name and the flowers that surround vocalist Milena Eva in the video, ‘Spring’ is one of the darkest tracks on the album.

Milena Eva comments: ”This song describes the moment I realized what happened to me after I was raped. I was confused. I froze. I don’t remember if it took hours or days or months. I felt empty and alone. And outside winter was turning into spring, like nothing had happened.”

Watch the video now:

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Watch: ‘Phantoms’ by Pure Reason Revolution

Posted: 30 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Pure Reason Revolution recently announced their fifth studio album Above Cirrus will be released on 6th May 2022 via InsideOutMusic. The is the follow-up to 2020’s Eupnea, which was the band’s first record since reuniting in 2019. This time around, Jon Courtney, Chloë Alper & Greg Jong (who returns as a full-time member for the first time since the ‘Cautionary Tales For The Brave’ EP) find themselves adapting to a world that is radically changing before their eyes, and on this new record, exorcising the isolation and uncertainty in search of something greater.

Today the band are launching a brand new single titled ‘Phantoms’. Watch the video, once again created by Thomas Hicks, here:

The band are also about to head out on a European tour alongside Gazpacho in April 2022. Find the full list of dates below:

8th April – Club Cann, Stuttgart, Germany

9th April – Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany

10th April – Columbia Theater, Berlin, Germany

11th April – Die Kantine, Cologne, Germany

13th April – Mezz, Breda, Netherlands

14th April – Hedon, Zwolle, Netherlands

16th April – Petit Bain, Paris, France

17th April – Earth Theatre, London, UK

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