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Watch: ‘The Zombie Terror’ by Sigh

Posted: 1 December 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: 30th anniversary edition, Infidel Art, Matt Vickerstaff, Official Lyric Video, Peaceville Records, Sigh, Stream, The Zombie Terror

The special 30th anniversary editions of Sigh’s groundbreaking and boldly experimental second album Infidel Art are out now on Peaceville. The new release is available on a selection of formats including a limited marble vinyl LP, standard black vinyl LP, 2CD, and cassette. Alongside the release, the band have also shared a new lyric video for the track ‘The Zombie Terror’, created by Matt Vickerstaff.

Speaking on the new edition, bandleader and songwriter Mirai Kawashima shared -

“I am well aware that Sigh’s albums released via Cacophonous Records in the 90s have been hard to find for a long time. Actually so many labels tried to re-release those albums, but it never worked. However, finally the wait is over! Soon you can get them on both vinyl and CD via Peaceville Records. Of course the albums are way more primitive than what we are doing today, but they definitely are the albums that shaped who we are today. And what really surprised me was that those 4 albums were released within 5 years. How productive we were!”

INFIDEL ART VINYL EDITIONS: MARBLE VINYL LP AND BLACK VINYL LP

Infidel Art is also available as a Double CD Edition and a collectible Cassette Edition. The CD includes a rare first mix of the entire album, as well as additional tracks ‘The Zombie Terror’ from the ‘Far East Gate In Inferno’ compilation, plus songs originally included for a split release with Kawir, having also received a new transfer from the original DAT source.

All formats apart from the cassette also include a new interview with main-man Mirai Kawashima conducted by Dayal Patterson of Cult Never Dies, delving into the history and legacy of the album.

Listen: ‘The Call’ by Bellbird

Posted: 30 November 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Bellbird, Canada, Constellation Records, Experimental, Jazz, Single, Stream, The Call, Tour Dates

Constellation welcomes Montréal-based jazz ensemble Bellbird to the label.

Meanwhile Bellbird celebrates with new track ‘The Call’ and will kick off 2026 playing a half-dozen shows on a winter tour of Western Canada in January.

Bellbird features tenor saxophonist Claire Devlin, alto saxophonist and bass clarinetist Allison Burik, bassist Eli Davidovici, and drummer Mili Hong. The players hail from various countries and backgrounds: rooted in modern jazz, Bellbird’s music also channels influences from the players’ wide range of influences steeped in Montréal’s genre-mashing experimental undergrounds, including punk/rock, drone/minimalism, electroacoustics and more. (Constellation has previously worked with Hong via her terrific drumming on The Obsession With Her Voice by Erika Angell and for Angell’s smouldering live shows).

Bellbird’s first album Root In Tandem was self-released in 2023, garnering some well-deserved critical accolades, and acclaimed live appearances on the Avant/Jazz circuits in Canada ever since.

Hear ‘The Call’ here:

BELLBIRD LIVE

January 2026 • Canada

January 15 – The Esplanade (Medicine Hat)
January 16 – Yardbird Suite (Edmonton)
January 17 – Buckingjam Palace (Calgary)
January 18 – ArtsPlace (Canmore)
January 23 – Alliances Français (Vancouver)
January 24 – The Bassment (Saskatoon)

Bellbird photo by Marc Etienne Mongrain

Watch: ‘All I Have Is Love, All I Do Is Destroy’ by grabyourface

Posted: 27 November 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: All I Have Is Love All I Do Is Destroy, dream pop, grabyourface, sad electronica, Sadgirl Mixtape, Single, Stream, Video

France’s sad electronica/dream pop artist GRABYOURFACE has released a new video for the song “All I Have Is Love, All I Do Is Destroy,” included in the album Sadgirl Mixtape released on February 5th.

The video of “All I Have Is Love, All I Do Is Destroy” captures the artist performing a series of daily rituals – smoking a cigarette, taking a walk, driving – that allow her to forget about the end of a relationship. Beneath the surface created by these rituals lies the void of loneliness, pain, and the time struggling to flow.

Dancing with tears in your eyes. This is the promise of a GRABYOURFACE show, a gut-wrenching, mesmerizing deep dive into your darkest feelings mixed with toxic and sexy overtones. GRABYOURFACE is the blend of influences varying from Boy Harsher, Linkin Park, Lana Del Rey and Lil Peep, creating a dangerous chimera of angst, melancholy and songs to cry to in the dark, but also powerful hymns of anger towards the unfair and the unkind. The stage is where she lets the demons loose, a cathartic experience of beautiful violence towards yourself and the world.

Watch: ‘Totem’ by NYTT LAND

Posted: 25 November 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Aba Khan, NYTT LAND, Prophecy Productions, Siberian ritual folk, Single, Stream, Totem, Video, Worship

NYTT LAND unveil the video clip ‘Totem’ as the first single taken from their forthcoming new album Aba Khan. The tenth full-length, including self-released titles, of the Siberian ritual folk band from Kalachinsk has been prepared for release on February 20, 2025.

NYTT LAND comment: “In all truth, ‘Totem’ is a spell that is part of the Mansi tribe’s ritual traditions, who preserve their ancestral faith and shamanic lore in the wild forests of Western Siberia and the Ural Mountains to this day”, throat singer and multi-instrumenalist Anatoly Pakhalenko explains. “This is not just a song, it is a real and ancient ritual of worshipping the elder spirits of the forest. Prepare to become a part of it.”

On their tenth full-length Aba Khan, NYTT LAND pick up the stylistic thread that they had previously woven with Ritual (2021). This means, the music is generally based on a foundation of current ritual dark folk to which the duo from Siberia adds elements from the native traditions of their home among other ingredients.

It is important to mention the sonic base from which NYTT LAND set out as the band also creates releases that aim to authentically preserve and reconstruct the ancient and still living shamanic traditions of Siberia as embodied by their previous album Songs of the Shaman (2025).

Although NYTT LAND return to the less strict and rather popular formula with Aba Khan, their inspiration has still come from a whole year of travelling through the vast territories of Siberia. The couple discovered new areas and got acquainted with spiritual traditions of the indigenous peoples that they met. The result of this journey is a collection of priceless treasures that has been respectfully translated into a contemporary musical language.

Watch: ‘Veneer’ by Serious Child

Posted: 24 November 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Indie, Individuality, My Girl The River, Serious Child, Single, Stream, Veneer, Video, What Lies Beneath

Serious Child, aka Alan Young, has just released his fourth album What Lies Beneath.

The album is a collection of musical stories about what’s underneath the surface of our everyday lives and the third single to come from it is ‘Veneer’, a story of social camouflage, of a figure who had behaved normally for so long, everyone had forgotten who they were.

Co-written with Neil Connor, ‘Veneer’ is a lush, almost Floydian piece, where a change in tempo, David Grubb’s sliding violin and My Girl The River’s backing vocals take us to a beautiful place of realising who we are. An ode for the outcasts of society, ‘Veneer’ celebrates finding your own individuality and being proud of it with its layers of comforting and sumptuous introspection.

The new single is another look into West Sussex based Alan Young’s intriguing world, which he explores with a poet’s ear for emotion and a comedian’s eye for everyday detail. For the new record, Young has drawn from a wide range of sources of inspiration- from Tony Harrison’s sonnet ‘Book Ends’, to Rob McFarlane’s brilliant book Underland and Georgian traditional lullaby “Iavnana”.

Young’s previous albums have consistently attracted four and five star reviews, and his last full album, 2021’s Talk About The Weather (with Andy Ruddy) was shortlisted for Fatea Album of the Year. His most recent project was a charity EP for Save Ukraine, with whom his brother Dave worked as an emergency relief driver. His most ambitious and varied offering to date, the new record, What Lies Beneath is the bold sound of an indie-pop artist exploring and confidently fulfilling their potential.

Catch Serious Child playing around the UK on a double headline tour with My Girl The River as follows:

15 November – Alton – Beech Village Hall

16 November – London – Water Rats

20 November – Lewes – Con Club

19 February – Bristol – Hen & Chicken

22 February – Penzance – Acorn Theatre

13 March – Winchester – The Arc

15 March – Stroud – Prince Albert

Watch: ‘Champagne Problems’ by Mango In Euphoria

Posted: 23 November 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: A Void, Camille Alexander, Champagne Problems, glam, guts, London scene, Mango In Euphoria, Single, Stream, Video

It’s a gutsy, glammy stomper with gutsy guitars and a banging groove and we dig it. It’s also the first single from forthcoming EP, Lethal Lust. What more do you need?

Watch: ‘God’s Gonna Cut You Down’ by Beauty in Chaos

Posted: 22 November 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: 33.3 Music Collective, Beauty in Chaos, Gene Loves Jezebel, God's Gonna Cut You Down, Johnny Cash, Michael Ciravolo, Michael Rozon, Official Video, Single, Stream

The evolving revolving entity Beauty In Chaos present their latest sonic offering – ‘God’s Gonna Cut You Down / Get Down Moses’, released via 33.3 Music Collective and produced by Grammy-nominated producer Michael Rozon (Ministry, Jarboe, Wayne Hussey, The Melvins).

Beauty In Chaos has come a long way since launching in 2018 by Los Angeles-based guitarist Michael Ciravolo (formerly of Human Drama and Gene Loves Jezebel and current President of Schecter Guitars) but his musical road often finds him circling back to visit his roots, celebrating them with new renditions.

The new two-song digital EP single features an enveloping, smokey rendition of the traditional gospel hymn ‘God’s Gonna Cut You Down’, popularized by The Man in Black himself – Mr. Johnny Cash (who also happens to be a distant cousin to BIC’s own Tish Ciravolo), along with the B-side showcasing Beauty In Chaos’ own take on Joe Strummer’s ‘Get Down Moses’.

In addition to very familiar territory (guitars and textures), BIC curator Michael Ciravolo contributes vocals on both tracks, joined by Michael Rozon (lap steel guitar, snare drum, voices), as well as Tish Ciravolo, Whitney Tai, Set Miller, Anthony Love and Tim Perry (background vocals and foot stomps).

“While both of these songs have certainly been covered before, I think we have injected BIC into them … even if we have stretched, what some have come to expect from us sonically,” says Michael Ciravolo.

Listen: ‘Terrified’ (full EP) by Slaughterday

Posted: 21 November 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Death Metal, EP, Grindcore, Napalm Death, Repulsion, Slaughterday, Stream, Terrified, Testimony Records

SLAUGHTERDAY let loose their new grindcore tribute EP Terrified today, on November 21, 2025. The German death metal veterans are dedicating this EP to the original firestarters of grindcore.

SLAUGHTERDAY commented: “This EP differs stylistically from our regular releases, because it is a tribute to the old grind bands like Repulsion and Napalm Death, which is also reflected in the cover and the logo”, guitarist Jens Finger wrote. “Of course, this immediately brings to mind Repulsion’s title ‘Horrified’ – which was exactly our intention. Every track is a short, sharp attack on the ears. What you hear is what you’ll get: bursts of explosive energy, razor-sharp riffs, and relentless rhythms – uncompromising and unrestrained!”

On their Terrified EP, death metal aficionados SLAUGHTERDAY deliver four short sharp chops as a tribute to the early pioneers of grindcore. This EP should therefore be regarded as a crushing interlude between two albums rather than a foretaste of brutal things to come on their next full-length.

Great Old Ones, forbidden sounds, tentacled death metal is rising… the German death metal powerhouse comes with a pedigree that amounts to nobility in the northwestern corner of their country.

SLAUGHTERDAY were formed in the East Frisian city of Leer in 2010. The original and still remaining core duo consists of string-shredder Jens Finger, who served as the guitarist of Oldenburgian death metal legends OBSCENITY from 1994 until 2010 and is also the growler of new label mates TEMPLE OF DREAD. The other half of the duo is personified by vocalist and drummer Bernd Reiners, who has also lent his voice to Aurich based death thrashers BK 49 among other acts.

From the start, SLAUGHTERDAY have channelled the raw, morbid spirit of such old school giants as AUTOPSY, DEATH, and MASSACRE. Yet while they always deliver crushing riffs and brutal pounding, these Germans come with captivating choruses and haunting melodies that set them apart from many of their deadly peers.

Listen: ‘Tensor’ by Omen Code

Posted: 20 November 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Alpha State, dark, EBM, electronica, Front Line Assembly, Industrial, Nitzer Ebb, Omen Code, science fiction, Single, Stream, Techno, Tensor

OMEN CODE reveal the pulsating and vibrant new SF-track ‘Tensor’ as the sinister final advance single taken from their forthcoming album Alpha State. The debut full-length has been announced to be released on December 5, 2025.

OMEN CODE comment on ‘Tensor’: “This was the second Omen Code track that I have recorded as a vocalist”, frontman Agi Taralas reveals. “Everything about it came very natural to me and exactly in the way that the vocals turned out in the end. As far as I am concerned, this track includes a few Nitzer Ebb tribute moments, which is hardly a surprise as they have largely shaped my personal preferences in electronic music.”

With their debut album Alpha State, OMEN CODE deliver the sound of the future – and the future is grim and dark! Their future is also firmly built upon the remains of the past. Certainly constructed to fill the dance floor, the international duo channels the bleak, cold precision of mid-tempo FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY and the cinematic story-telling soundscapes of John Carpenter electronics into a thrilling sound that is both resurrecting a classic 80s vibe and also fresh at the same time.

OMEN CODE are the new rising star on the EBM firmament. Deep, dark, and gritty industrial sounds are channelled into captivating mid-tempo tracks that create the atmospheric feeling of a dystopian future ruled by technology and marked by social decline.

This grimdark science fiction approach is not meant to indicate that OMEN CODE embrace any political agenda or message. Rather the international duo took inspiration from the writings of Philip K. Dick and Alfred Bester as well as cinematic masterpieces by British director Ridley Scott such as Alien and Blade Runner among others.
OMEN CODE were originally intended as a one-time project by Kevin Gould. The engineer, programmer, and lyricist was a member of the English Industrial EBM trio JOHNSON ENGINEERING CO. together with Sean Bailey and Ian Hicks, which released the album Unleash in 1988. He went on to found the electro-industrial act ELECTRO ASSASSIN with Ian Taylor. Following the release of Jamming the Voice of the Universe (1992), Taylor was replaced by Richard McKinlay with whom the next albums Bioculture (1993) and The Divine Invasion (1995) were recorded.

When vocalist and lyricist Agi Taralas was hand-picked from a stack of applications for the frontman position, the chemistry between the two artists proved so productive and strong that Gould and Taralas decided together to turn OMEN CODE into a permanent project that would also aim to perform live. The vocalist had already left his mark on the scene in a joint project with German electronic musician Stefan Böhm under the moniker OUR BANSHEE that released an album entitled 4200 in 2017.

Watch: ‘A.I. Hive Mind’ by Zu

Posted: 19 November 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: A.I. Hive Mind, Experimental, Ferrum Sidereum, House of Mythology, Industrial, Jazz, Official Video, Progressive, Single, Stream, Zu

Legendary Italian experimental trio Zu recently announced their return with Ferrum Sidereum (produced by Marc Urselli), a big and bold double album arriving on House of Mythology on the 9th January.

The music combines the complexity of progressive rock, the grit of industrial music, the precision of metal, the spirit and energy of punk, and the freedom of jazz. The result is a sonic journey that is as cerebral as it is visceral, defying easy categorisation while remaining unmistakably Zu.

Today they share the new single and video for ‘A.I. Hive Mind’ – about which the band comments, “Smart cities, brain computer interfaces, internet of things, singularity. This particular track addresses all of these things as well as questioning the loss of self, the idea of single consciousness and collective predictable behaviour. Perhaps the most burning question for us is: What does it mean to be human in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, simulated realities, and technological control?”

Zu have also shared live dates in support of the new album – dates and details below.

2026 LIVE DATES

10/01/26 – Bologna, TPO – Italy
21/01/26 – Caserta, Lizard Club – Italy
23/01/26 – Palermo, Candelai – Italy
24/01/26 – Catania, Zo Culture Contemporanee – Italy
28/01/26 – Milano, Santeria – Italy
29/01/26 – Verona, Colorificio Kroen – Italy
30/01/26 – Zagreb, Mocvara – Croatia
31/01/26 – Nova Gorica, Mostovna – Slovenia
01/02/26 – Bratislava, Žalár – Slovakia
02/02/26 – Prague, Palac Akropolis – Czech Republic
05/02/26 – Berlin, Neue Zukunft – Germany
06/02/26 – Copenhagen, ALICE – Denmark
07/02/26 – Malmo, Inkonst – Sweden
09/02/26 – Bruxelles, Magasin 4 – Belgium
10/02/26 – Eeklo, N9 – Belgium
11/02/26 – Amsterdam, OCCII – Netherlands
12/02/26 – Paris, Le Chinois – France
13/02/26 – Bulle, Ebullition – Switzerland
14/02/26 – Torino, Magazzino sul Po´ – Italy

Ferrum Sidereum – Latin for ‘cosmic iron’ – draws inspiration from the mythological significance of meteoritic iron, found in artefacts like ancient Egyptian ritual objects, Tibenta ‘Phurpa’ blades, and the celestial sword of Archangel St Michael. This elemental force imbues every moment of the album’s apocalyptic sound. Whilst heavy in tone and subject matter, bassist Massimo Pupillo comments that their music also aims to "raise good energy… people would come up to us after the show and tell us that they felt alive."

The trio – Paolo Mongardi (drums, percussion), Luca T Mai (baritone saxophone, synth, keyboards) and Massimo Pupillo (electric bass, 12-string acoustic guitar) – spent a year refining this sprawling 80-minute epic through relentless rehearsals and live studio recordings in Bologna. Produced and mixed by three-time Grammy-winning engineer Marc Urselli, known for his work with Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, and Mike Patton, the album balances raw intensity with refined production tweaks and textures.

“We are very spiritually-oriented people,” says Massimo. “Machines and AI do not have spirituality. So they can mimic and they can assemble existing things, but they cannot create. That spirit is probably the most important thing that our music carries.”

Photo credit: Marco Franzoni

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