Two decades have passed in the land of Gnod, yet the psychic travelogue only becomes more enthralling as it goes on. The page is turned, a new chapter begins… Chronicles of Gnowt (Vol. 2) will arrive via Rocket Recordings on 9th October.
Today, the band share the King Tubby-inspired ‘Old Gold’, taken from their transcendentally heavy middle instalment in the Chronicles of Gnowt trilogy.
Paddy comments, “The words for ‘Old Gold’ have been floating around the Gnod universe since 2008 waiting for the right rhythm. 18 years later the right rhythm appeared. This track was further enhanced by our (sometimes) sound engineer Raikes jumping on guitar, wah and space echo and Spud Murphy approaching the mix like King Tubby.”
Chris adds, “The rhythm came from jamming in the rehearsal room on a one note riff / rhythm that I was playing on the bass. It was one of those riffs that stuck & became a track.”
Celebrating 30 uninterrupted years of activity, Brazilian death metal troop NervoChaos is set to release their fourteenth album, Chaosmongers, via Black Lion Records on 13 November 2026 on CD and vinyl as well as digitally, while Tumba Records licenses the CD and vinyl editions for Brazil.
Drawing on chaos as its central creative force, the album contains twelve tracks, eleven of which are new, alongside ‘Porcos Sanguinários,’ a tribute to the legendary Brazilian band Ratos de Porão. Chaosmongers is a work that connects the cosmos, the occult, and human resilience, and is open to various interpretations, rejecting linear narratives and allowing listeners to create their own reading. At its core, an entity traverses death, explores unknown realms, faces suffering, and becomes sovereign of a kingdom beyond our understanding. This narrative reflects a personal journey through downfall, self-discovery, transformation, and empowerment. This duality is present throughout the album. The compositions act as narrative, atmosphere, and reflection, providing diverse experiences within a single work. Chaos appears not only as destruction but as a force capable of breaking boundaries and creating new realities.
The first single, ‘Embrace Chaos,’ offers a glimpse into the album’s central concept and is now available on all major streaming platforms.
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The album was produced by Edu Lane, recorded in São Paulo, Brazil, by Adriano Daga, and mixed and mastered by Fredrik Nordström. The visual identity for Chaosmongers, created by Niklas Sundin, combines imagery of the vast universe and cosmic explosions with the energy of the audience at the band’s shows. The central idea is that the chaotic force that moves galaxies and changes worlds also manifests in the human experience through creation, overcoming adversity, and collective expression.
Japanese metal pioneers Sigh have unleashed Goh-Ka upon the world. The band’s 15th studio album is already being hailed by some as their finest work yet, adding another landmark release to a legendary career that has seen them release 14 previous studio albums, three live albums and embark on multiple sold-out tours around the globe.
To accompany the release, there’s a visualiser for ‘Kuso-Shi 1,2 and 3’. Watch it here:
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Goh-Ka is a new highlight of atmosphere, technical mastery, and meticulously arranged epics of metallic grandeur. Main-man Mirai Kawashima notes this as being as equally personal an album as ‘Shiki’, both musically and lyrically. From a musical perspective, if you were to place the main ingredients of Celtic Frost, Voivod, Black Sabbath, horror movies and Japan into a cauldron and stir it, you will get ‘Goh-ka’. Numerous additional spices such as psychedelic rock, prog rock and classical music are also evident over the album’s close to one-hour duration.
The album title ‘Goh-ka’ has a triple meaning, being: 業火 infernal fire scorching sinners, 劫火 a huge fire that burns down the world at the end of time, and 業果 karma.
The primary theme permeating the album is Kuso-zu; a series of Buddhist paintings or illustrations depicting the nine stages of a human body’s decomposition after death, created to encourage meditation on the impermanence of life, the inevitability of death, and the detachment from physical beauty and worldly attachment. It openly shows the harsh reality that no matter how beautiful you are, you’ll be dead and rot sooner or later. And Kuso-shi is a poem based on these paintings. The artworks on the cover and in the booklet of Goh-ka are therefore Kuso-zu themselves.
‘God’s Picture’ is the latest track to be taken from Emma Ruth Rundle’s These Killing Times, and described by Emma as the centrepiece and thesis statement of this record. The album will be released via her own imprint Errant Child on 18th September.
“’God’s Picture’ is a meditation on the state of the world, particularly climate disaster, global conflict and class. Musically this song feels like a segue from Engine of Hell, with its gentle piano and guitar, to These Killing Times, with its more lush arrangements and message. This song is also a plea for the demolition of Western hegemony. Accompanied by a music video collaboration with many friends and for which I painstakingly constructed the sets for in the winter of 2025/26, ‘God’s Picture’ is the thesis statement at the core of my new album These Killing Times.”
Watch the video for ‘God’s Picture’ here:
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Deconstructing Sequence unveils a devastating video for the track ‘The Undying Void’, taken from their latest full-length, Tenebris Cosmicis Tempora, which was released last November via Black Lion Records. The album leans into undiscovered realms of black metal but also pushes even further forward into progressive and avant-garde territories. As an explosive reminder of what the new album encompasses, Deconstructing Sequence deliver a striking video for an unhinged and thoroughly heart-hammering song. The video was recorded at Two Shots Studio and produced by Łukasz Grosik from Remedy Brand.
“Łukasz Grosik perfectly captured the atmosphere behind the song and the band, showing a very dark, destructive vision,” states the band. “A vision that we, as Deconstructing Sequence, will follow.”
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Deconstructing Sequence was formed in 2012 in Taunton, Somerset (UK) by Tiberius. Alongside former Northwail bandmate Morph, the duo sought to explore more progressive and avant-garde territories within extreme music. Soon after, J. Nerexo (from Shadows Land) joined on drums, culminating in a more aggressive and twisted edge to the band’s progressive sound. This lineup produced two EPs and one full-length album.
The debut EP Year One (2013), mixed and mastered by Arkadiusz “Aro” Jabłoński at Monroe Sound Studio, laid the foundation for a new era of artistic freedom. The follow-up, Access Code (2014), featured a video created by Costin Chioreanu of Twilight13Media, hinting at an evolving musical vision. In 2017, Deconstructing Sequence’s first full-length album, Cosmic Progression: An Agonizing Journey Through the Oddities of Space, released via Polish label Via Nocturna in 2018, was praised worldwide for its unconventional approach and bold sound. After relocating to Szczecin, Poland, Tiberius began shaping a new creative direction for what would become the band’s second full-length. With Morph stepping away, drummer Dark Soul joined in 2018, injecting fresh energy into the band. Over the next few years, Deconstructing Sequence meticulously constructed what would become Tenebris Cosmicis Tempora, recorded at Monroe Sound Studio under the supervision of Arkadiusz “Aro” Jabłoński between 2022 and 2025, with guest vocal contributions from Mazak and Adrian. In 2023, bassist Immortal joined as a full-time member, followed by Uruk on second guitar in late 2024, finalizing a complete and stage-ready lineup.
Tenebris Cosmicis Tempora, the sophomore album, blends the furious riffing of Mayhem, the majestic elements of DHG and Emperor, and the haunting depth of Akhlys, forging a journey through idiosyncratic sound and vision. While their previous album lent significant credence to death and post-metal in manifesting their progressive black metal art, this new opus sees the band truly deconstructing their earlier sequence — shapeshifting into a weirder and more unhinged black metal entity.
Tenebris Cosmicis Tempora unfolds as an allegory of humanity’s self-destruction and self-conceit. It follows the last human’s journey from Earth’s destruction to his transformation into a godlike being consumed by his own creation. Guided first by Lucifer and later corrupted by cosmic forces, he witnesses the collapse of faith, power, and meaning. In his quest to control and recreate existence, he becomes the very force of ruin he once fled — until only the void remains, reflecting the eternal flaw of humanity itself.
Looking ahead, the band is already working on new material, rehearsing demo tracks, and continuing their relentless pursuit of twisted, black metal innovation.
Ev Gold (guitar, vocals), Michael Jung (bass), and Stephen Moses (drums) make up GoJuMo, a noisy punk rock trio from Brooklyn. The three musicians first met in January 2016 through BC35, a weekend project celebrating the 35th anniversary of Brooklyn’s historic BC Studio, run by Martin Bisi (Swans, Sonic Youth). Artists connected to the studio over the years gathered to collaborate in different combinations, with Bisi documenting the sessions, which were later released by Bronson Recordings in 2018.
In the years that followed, Moses and Jung’s respective bands, Mustafina and Um, shared the stage several times with Gold’s Cinema Cinema. Then, in fall 2024, Gold reached out to Moses about starting a new project. What initially looked like a potential duo soon expanded when Moses suggested bringing Jung into the lineup. “I had loved Stephen’s drumming for quite a while and finally got the nerve up to reach out to him about jamming that fall,” recalls Gold. “It was fortuitous that he would recommend that we include Michael in the action and even more so when he – a great guitar player in his own right – was willing to handle bass duties. We have discussed swapping roles in the future, so there could very well be a GoJuMo record that has him on guitar and me on bass soon, we shall see!” Jamming and songwriting began soon after, and GoJuMo played their first show that December. Two-fifths of Alice Donut plus one-half of Cinema Cinema equals a GoJuMo: Go – Gold: Ju for Jung and Mo for Moses.
Throughout the year, the band developed the material through intensive rehearsals and live shows before returning to BC Studio with Martin Bisi in fall 2025. Having all worked with Bisi before, BC was the obvious choice.
The sessions quickly confirmed that the ease behind the project translated naturally into the rehearsal room. “Playing with these guys is an absolute joy. The music feels really organic and fits right into my wheelhouse and besides the fact that they’re really great players, they’re really nice guys,” says Stephen Moses. Ev Gold adds: “A lovely musical experience. Michael and Stephen have played together for over thirty years, they have a musical language of their own. It is a fortunate scenario to have such a well attuned rhythm section.”
That strong rapport was matched by an unusually productive first rehearsal. “The very first idea worked on at the initial GoJuMo rehearsal was ‘Failed Math” says Gold. “Coming away with three songs from the first time we ever got together in a room was a strong indication to us to continue to get together as often as possible!”
The session also produced the skeletal structures of ‘Worm’ and ‘How Soon Is Again?’, with all three songs eventually making their way onto the album.
Hear ‘Failed Math’ here:
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At a time when AI-assisted music production is becoming increasingly prevalent and polished recordings are often treated as the goal, GoJuMo instead relied on the chemistry built through months of rehearsals and live performances. The band opted for as little studio manipulation as possible: there were almost no overdubs, most of the record was captured live off the floor at BC Studio, and no song required more than three takes, with several completed in just one.
That approach is particularly evident on ‘Failed Math’, the album’s single. Gold traces the song’s origins back to the night he learned of the death of famed professional wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper. “He was a childhood favorite of mine and in an odd circumstance, I happened to be at home with my guitar on my lap when I heard the news of his passing,” he recalls. “The next thing I knew I was playing a pattern on guitar that would become the main figure of this song”. The idea, originally titled ‘The Pit’ after Piper’s talk show Piper’s Pit, remained in Gold’s demo folder for years before finding a new life with GoJuMo. The song eventually evolved into a reflection on Gold’s struggles with math during his senior year of high school, an experience that prevented him from graduating on schedule and led to a semester of summer school.
The finishing touches and mixing were handled at HizHaus by bassist Michael Jung, who also serves as the band’s documentarian. An avid photographer who regularly captures live shows around New York City, Jung also records each GoJuMo practice for the members to review and use as part of the songwriting process.
TWICE A MAN unveil a beautiful visualiser for ‘Desert Snow’, the first to be plucked as an advance single from the electronic environmentalists’ forthcoming album Reveries Before Silence. The Swedes’ new full-length has been chalked up for release on November 20, 2026.
Parallel to their new album, Twice A Man will also release a collection of rare tracks revolving around marine themes that have been gathered in a 48-page 2CD artbook under the title The Marine Trilogy on November 20, 2026
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Twice A Man comment: “The first single track, ‘Desert Snow’, is one of our musical footprints in a time marked by uncertainty, division, and change”, Karl Gasleben explains on behalf of the band collective. "This song reflects on the world we live in today while reminding us that hope and positive thinking can still be a path toward unity. As modern societies continue to challenge our sense of human connection, we need to find what brings us together rather than what drives us apart. If we can discover a common voice that leads us away from war, polarisation, and the climate crisis, there is still a future worth believing in. We want to be able to look our children in the eyes and speak about tomorrow with honesty, responsibility, and hope. ‘Desert Snow’ is our contribution to that conversation – a song that carries both reflection and faith in a better future.”
Static Abyss’s new album The Dying Hunt was released on 1st September via Peaceville Records. To mark the release, the band have unleashed an utterly skin-crawling new music video for ‘Sinew Leech’, plunging viewers further into the album’s nightmarish world of brutal death metal, doom-laden riffs and psychedelic darkness.
Watch ‘Sinew Leech’ below and experience the latest descent into the twisted sonic abyss of The Dying Hunt.
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Emerging in the early 2020’s, Static Abyss is a monstrous hybrid of twisted, doom-laden brutal death, comprising of longstanding members of the US metal scene. The band consists primarily of the duo of Deathgrave’s Greg Wilkinson (Guitars/bass) & Chris Reifert (vocals), both also members of legendary American masters of sickness, Autopsy, with Chris also notably starting his career with genre pioneers, Death. The band’s debut, Labyrinth of Veins was released in 2022, and their second album Aborted From Reality followed in quick succession, surfacing in 2023.
Returning now for Static Abyss’ third studio album, and with the addition of Chad Gailey of fellow death merchants Necrot behind the drumkit for this release, The Dying Hunt plummets the listener again into the festering, psychedelic swamps of lunacy, with the spiralling melodies texturing the relentless savage riffs for an effective nightmare-inducing trip through the sonic abyss. Continuously and relentlessly flitting between brutal passages and hypnotic otherworldly craziness, ‘The Dying Hunt’ reflects the ailing world & the unravelling of the psyche of its inhabitants in this darkly dystopian landscape, for a masterful descent into sick Death Metal combined with Crust and Doom elements.
The Dying Hunt was recorded at Earhammer Studios in Oakland, CA, with engineering, mixing and mastering overseen by Greg Wilkinson himself. Cover art comes courtesy of Jon Santos.
Burning Song is the new release from Kali Malone and the first new album of solo compositions since early 2024’s All Life Long. The album arrives via Ideologic Organ on October 30th and is previewed with today’s single and video for the song ‘Heavy with Fruit.’
Music that hovers in the moment just before understanding, where revelation lives. Moving through endings and beginnings, reflection and foresight, Burning Song represents a transformation in Malone’s compositional strategy towards a process that is more intuitive and direct. The album was recorded at the historic Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany, where J.S. Bach was cantor for the last 27 years of his life; his body rests beneath the sanctuary. Malone is the first musician to perform contemporary works on the church’s Bach Organ, an instrument completed in 2000 but with bespoke tuning and temperament systems based on historical norms of the baroque period.
She is joined by Lucy Railton on cello and Stephen O’Malley on bowed acoustic guitar, the same trio that honed a profound connection based on deep listening through the development of Malone’s work Does Spring Hide Its Joy. Recording took place over the course of two late nights in August 2025, with the engineer Francesco Donadello placing over 20 microphones throughout the room and closely upon the instruments, allowing the listener to locate themselves within the music as it fills the historic sanctum.
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Across the album, chord follows chord, each in slow succession, emerging like stones of various shades and shapes on a winding path. The trio moves as one, stepwise, through passages that are alternately ambiguous and radiant, at times triumphant as the tones rise towards the organ’s upper register. By discarding canon form, which has dominated much of her organ work, there is a clear sense of freedom that allows these pieces to unfold more gradually and speak more declaratively than ever before. Even with the presence of one of the most canonized and dissected composers of all time just underfoot, Malone felt the pressure of tradition lifting, an ease of being dictating the flow of the music. She is careful to never extend the narratives of any individual piece beyond what feels conclusive, resulting in a relatively compact cycle of compositions.
The metaphor of burning holds two meanings. Fire moves in ways that appear intuitive, changing shape moment by moment, and relentlessly insistent. Here, Malone moves from harnessing the fractaline beauty of mathematics to reveling in the impact of feelings, of foresight, of something more undefined and from within. But burning is a process of change in which transformation spreads from a nexus point to rapidly consume whatever it encounters. The freedom found in the process of composing and realizing Burning Song is one that opens innumerable doors of possibility. In the fertility of ashes grows whatever comes next.
Live dates 2026/2027
Wed. Sept. 23 – Lisbon, PT @ Culgurest * Sat. Sept. 26 – Cologne, DE @ St. Gertrud [Brutalism] * Sun. Oct. 11 – Bern, CH @ Berner Münster [bee-flat] ^ Sun. Nov. 29 – Bratislava, SK @ Novy evanjelicky kostol [NEXT Festival] ^ Thu. Jan. 28 – London, UK @ St. Martin # Fri. Jan. 29 – London, UK @ St. Martin # Sun. Jan. 31 – Vernier, CH @ Madeleine Chapel – Espace de la Madeleine [Festival Antigel] #
* = Electronic set ^ = Solo organ set # = Burning Song set Plus more to follow
NYC art-rockers Ecce Shnak is bombastically stoked to present ‘Anna O’, the third single from their much-anticipated full-length record Dandy Variances, slated for release on October 23rd via Records, Man Records. With its ferocious blend of art-rock swagger, grunge grit, and theatrical ambition, ‘Anna O’ offers a raucous first taste of the sonic unruliness in store on the album.
Recorded and produced by Jeff Lucci, this single was mixed by Grammy award-winning producer Mario McNulty (David Bowie, Prince, Nine Inch Nails, Julian Lennon) and mastered by multi-platinum engineer Kris Crummett.
Formed in 2011 and forged in NYC’s experimental scene, Ecce Shnak (pronounced Eh-kay sh-knock) is made up of David Roush (composer, bassist and baritone vocalist), Bella Komodromos (vocals), Chris Krasnow (guitar), Gannon Ferrell (guitar), and Henry Buchanan-Vaughn (drums).
‘Anna O’ is a jump-off-the-couch, roaring-the-hook anthem with big grunge energy. For the first time, Ecce Shnak’s composer-baritone-bassist defers his lyric-writing duties to someone else. His mother, Robin Kneubuhl, wrote a poem months before he and his producer, Jeff Lucci, cooked up a noisy instrumental in March 2019. Roush and Lucci tried the poem out as a lyric, and it fit just right.
Kneubuhl has described her poem as “a lament about tragic contradictions in contemporary feminist thought and practice”. While Kneubuhl wholeheartedly believes in feminism’s ideals, she is concerned that it is misused toward nefarious ends, to the detriment of women and others alike.
“The song’s tragic hero embodies both a noteworthy psychoanalytic patient of Freud’s protégé Josef Breuer and the real-life gun-slinging heroine Annie Oakley. Though Anna is beleaguered by the contradictions Kneubuhl observes in the poem’s story, she ultimately emerges triumphant in the fight against patriarchy by the song’s end,” explains David Roush. “Though we are in the process of firming up the specifics, we can’t wait to play this for the Shnakiverse and music lovers generally on tour this fall!”
The music video is a third collaboration between Ecce Shnak and LA-based film producer DJay Brawner, who also directed the videos for the album’s first two singles, ‘Vincent’ and ‘Eddie, Legalistic Homeslice’. Ecce Shnak’s soprano, Bella Komodromos, plays the role of Anna, who is deeply distressed in captivity, as she seems wrongfully entrapped in an asylum. However, through an act of heroic resistance, she overthrows her abusive doctor and his servile aide. She sets herself free while the mighty rock band Ecce Shnak plays her homage as loudly and wildly as they can.
While Ecce Shnak’s songs draw on a wide array of styles, fans of Nirvana, the Pixies, and the Jesus Lizard will likely latch onto ‘Anna O’ quite tenaciously. With a reputation for astounding performances, Ecce Shnak’s music a volatile yet meticulously crafted ecosystem, where technical precision meets inspired mayhem.
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