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Watch: ‘House Of Rain’ (feat. Ann-Mari Edvardsen) by Novembre

Posted: 26 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: anthem, House Of Rain (feat. Ann-Mari Edvardsen), Novembre, Peaceville Records, Single, Stream, Video, Words Of Indigo

Italian masters of doom Novembre are back today with the second single from their new album Words Of Indigo, set for release on Peaceville on 7th November. Speaking about the new track, titled ‘House Of Rain’, songwriter Carmelo Orlando shared –

“The moment the main motif of ‘House Of Rain’ poured out, I knew we had something special. It’s not the kind of theme you stumble upon every day. It’s an instant sing-along and had to be handled with special care if we didn’t want it to go to waste on a two-bit tune. That’s why we decided to put extra effort into putting this track together. Once it was done, I felt it needed another vocal line an octave higher to go along with mine. That’s where the idea of female vocals came in. Luckily, one of my all-time favourite singers, Ann-Mari Edvardsen, ex-singer of the Norwegian legends The 3rd and the Mortal—with whom we had already collaborated years ago on the album Novembrine Waltz—had just moved to my hometown in Sicily. It only felt natural to give her a call and suggest a second collaboration, which, to my surprise, she happily accepted. So I flew back to Sicily to meet her in a studio, and that’s where the magic happened.

Then the band was phenomenal, the rhythm section thundering ahead like a train, and the central solo lifted the piece to soaring heights.

And like something out of a fate-driven novel, it all came together—Ann-Mari, my return to the old country—and the lyrics could only be about an old house, the houses we leave behind, and the silence they must have carried all those years without us kids tearing through its rooms. Do they miss us? Do they feel lonely?”

Novembre by Giacomo Mearelli

Watch: ‘The Preacher’ by Hollow Ship

Posted: 25 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Heavy, Hollow Ship, PNKSLM Recordings, Psychedelic, Single, Stream, The Preacher, Video, Weird

‘The Preacher’ is the new single from Gothenburg’s Hollow Ship, recorded and produced together with tape wizard Don Alsterberg. Leaving the noisy compressed sound that defined their acclaimed debut LP Future Remains behind and entering a rich new sonic texture while unmistakably still the heavy hitting Hollow Ship.

‘The Preacher’ arrives after a summer during which the band found themselves topping Spotify’s viral charts in the US, UK, their native Sweden and many other territories with ‘Magic Mountain’ from the cult classic Future Remains. With the band set to head out on tour in Europe later this year ‘The Preacher’ also serves as a first taste of new music with their second full-length due next spring.

‘The Preacher’ arrives together with a video by Freddy Wallin and is out now digitally via PNKSLM Recordings.

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Watch: ‘Beyond The Veil’ by ATMAEN

Posted: 24 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Atmaen, Atmospheric, Beyond The Veil, dark, fugue state, hypnagogia, Inertial Music, Lullabies From The Dark Ether, melancholic ambient, Single, Sleep, Stream, trance-like, transition, Video

Italy-based melancholic ambient artist ATMAEN has released the song ‘Beyond The Veil’, taken from the artist’s new EP Lullabies From The Dark Ether, out on December 12th via Inertial Music. This latest work is meant to be a bridge to cross the line between being awake and falling asleep.

Lullabies From The Dark Ether is music that flows gracefully in the quiet darkness of the night, like an owl flying silently, lifting the veil between the world of daylight and the world of dreams. Otherworldly soundscapes create the frame within which soulful melodies unfold. Wordless vocals seem to come from a different dimension. They flow and blend with the synth sounds, creating a rich evolving sound tapestry, to drift into dreams as wide as the universe. Some songs also feature a beautiful heavily processed piano that sounds like it’s coming from another world, yet speaks directly to the listener’s soul. A gentle invitation to feel lighter, to let the mind dissolve in the night sky, to let the spirit roam free and blend with the vastness of space.

ATMAEN is a project created by Valentina Buroni. She’s a singer, a songwriter, and a researcher in the field of sacred ritualistic chanting and of self-transformation through sound and music. Her songs are prayers, invocations to the spirits of nature, sacred chants to connect with the spiritual dimension, medicine chants, sonic journeys and meditations to expand the consciousness. She creates dreamlike, magical, otherworldly atmospheres in her songs. She is influenced by Celtic music, folk music from Western Europe, ritualistic chants of contemporary indigenous cultures, electronic music, ambient music and movie soundtracks.

Valentina is trained in early music singing, modern singing, Irish traditional singing, overtone singing, Gregorian chant singing. She also plays the frame drum. She is a dance therapist and a professional holistic operator with more than 20 years of experience in the use of voice and singing for personal growth and well-being.

She has released 7 full-length albums with different music projects (Dragonheart Records, Standing Stone Records, Inertial Music) ranging from heavy metal, to electro-acoustic ambient, to world folk music. She has played big festivals like Triskell Celtic Festival, Nomad Dance Fest, and Wave Gotik Treffen.

ATMAEN by Roberto Lo Schiavo

Watch: ‘The Pilgrim’s Arc’ by Papillon de Nuit

Posted: 23 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: collaborations, Dramatic, Gothic, Melody, Papillon de Nuit, Single, Spoken Word, Stream, The Pilgrim's Arc, theatrical, Video, York

The catalogue of material released by Papillon de Nuit, the ever-shifting, ever-evolving musical project of Stephen Kennedy, continues to expand with the release of single number eight.

Kennedy’s approach to the project is both interesting and unusual, with each song recorded at a separate session, often not even fully-formed in terms of writing and arrangement beforehand, and realised with various guest musicians and vocalists. Retuning once more to Young Thugs studio in York, ‘The Pilgrim’s Arc’ again sees Stephen handle a considerable range of duties, from drums to grand piano and providing spoken and sung vocals, as well as writing and arranging the song itself, while joined by Michalina Rudawska (cello) and Karen Amanda O’Brien (spoken word).

The Exceptional Mr Hyde make a guest appearance here, providing ‘menacing spoken word’, while Steve Whitfield added bass and guitar, as well covering production work

The result is a striking, dramatic, percussion-driven piece with some chunky bass, and layered vocals creating an almost schizophrenic mutter behind a soaring melody.

Listen: ‘Brown Skin’ by Night Ritualz

Posted: 21 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Brown Skin, Darkwave, electro, goth, identy, Latin, Metrpolis Records, New Wave, Night Ritualz, Post-Punk, Single, Stream, struggle, Synth Pop

Based in the Texan city of San Antonio, darkwave/synth punk artist Night Ritualz (aka Vincent Guerrero IV) weaves deep Latin influences into his songs, blending English and Spanish lyrics with music that combines atmospheric soundscapes suffused with pulse-pounding beats to tell stories that are both deeply personal and universally relatable.
New single ‘Brown Skin’ is the first track to be teased from a new album out in early 2026. An unapologetic expression of identity, struggle and survival, the song blends personal storytelling with social commentary, confronting feelings of displacement, family separation and the weight of heritage. The song lyric is sharp and direct, carried by a vocal delivery that makes every word hit like a protest chant.

“This song is about resilience – working hard every day, facing systems that try to erase you and still standing strong with pride in where you come from,” explains Night Ritualz. “The repetition of the hook and the outro were designed to channel frustration into power, making it both deeply personal and universally relatable.”

Listen: ‘Little Yeah Whatever’ by Mayshe-Mayshe

Posted: 18 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: electronica, Layers, Little Yeah Whatever, looping, Mayshe-Mayshe, minimal, Mosswood, Pop, Single, Sparse, Stream, subtle

Ahead of the release of her forthcoming self-released, crowdfunded album, Mosswood – which we absolutely love – minimal electronic pop artist Mayshe-Mayshe has released a third single by way of a taster.

‘Little Yeah Whatever’ encapsulates the spirit of Mayshe-Mayshe perfectly – subtle, understated, shy-sounding, but with an unexpected strength at the core.

Watch: ‘Lost My Way’ by Brainwave

Posted: 16 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Brainwave, Hardcore, Ill Intent, Lost My way, Single, Stream, Video, visualiser

Hailed as a “hardcore Toxic Holocaust,” Wellington’s BRAINWAVE have just released ‘Lost My Way’, a ferocious new single from their upcoming debut full-length Ill Intent, due out October 22, 2025.

“’Lost My Way‘ channels the rage of feeling disorientated and directionless, of not achieving your potential and the sense that every way forward is blocked. It’s extremely personal, but in our atomised modern world, it’s also a sentiment that everyone has felt at some point,” says vocalist Rob Thompson.

Listen: ‘Ultra Fear’ by Omen Code

Posted: 15 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Alpha State, dark, Dependent Records, EBM, electronica, Industrial, Omen Code, Single, Stream, Ultra Fear

OMEN CODE unveil the new track ‘Ultra Fear’ as the next single lifted from their forthcoming debut album Alpha State, which has been scheduled for release on December 5, 2025.

OMEN CODE comment: “I had orginally planned to use ‘Ultra Fear’ for my previous music project”, mastermind Kevin Gould reveals. “The pace is quite low key again, but the sequence layers fill it out nicely. The lyrics have an abstract but also quasi religious feel. Back then, I had put some angry, shouted vocals over the track. Then Agi came along and did his ‘new vocalist’ thing. He basically rescued the track. We wanted the chorus to have a distant and alien tone so used a lot of treatments and vocoder. There is nothing like a machine telling you that ‘God is near’.”

Watch: ‘Golgotha’ by ZU

Posted: 14 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: epic, Experimental, Ferrum Sidereum, Golgotha, House of Mythology, Jazz, Single, Stream, Video, Zu

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

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 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 track "Golgotha", about which Massimo says; “Once upon a time, the stars spoke to men, but now cosmic destiny brings a silence. Silence in which lies what men say to the stars. Man radiates atmospheres and is in continuity with the cosmos. These are atmospheres of colour and atmospheres of sound. What we radiate is colour and sound. And the cosmos listens. The return of what it incessantly gives to the earth.”

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.”

Set for release in January 2026, Ferrum Sidereum is Zu’s biggest and boldest statement yet that challenges all conventional boundaries. Uncompromising, innovative, fiercely original.

Photo credit: Marco Franzoni

Watch: ’The Stranger’ by Cold in Berlin

Posted: 13 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Cold in Berlin, Doom, goth, Haunting, Heavy, New Heavy Sounds, Post-Punk, Single, Stream, The Stranger, Video, Wounds

Wounds is Cold in Berlin’s long-awaited and recently announced fifth album – their first in six years. As heavy as it is haunting, the record masterfully blends doom, post-punk, and driving krautrock in a dynamic, hypnotic maelstrom – pushing London’s most exciting cult band into intoxicating new territory.

“Wounds is a series of songs about the different ways people live with and process ‘the wounds’ of their lives,” explains vocalist Maya. “A strange celebration of that formative pain we have all experienced in some way. The loss and joy of survival – the celebration of finding others like us, the gift of knowing life comes after fire.”

New single ‘The Stranger’ is a song that is meant to allow for multiple interpretations. Vocalist Maya adds:

“Perhaps it is a song about addiction- the wound that doesn’t heal. The way the focus of an addiction sings to you, searching you out, twisting and flowing through the body- whispering beneath the skin until you answer the call and find home once more.

Perhaps it is a song about finding your place in the world- groups of people watching and experiencing something meaningful together- a way to heal and close old wounds. How live music can stay with you even as you are separated from it. How finding the strange songs, sang in dark places can actually bring you home to yourself.

Or perhaps it is a song about that sharp kind of love at first sight that can overwhelm, offering freedom and constraint all at once. When you are drawn to that person that you know can destroy you, but you cease to matter because they are somehow instantly your home and only resting place.

‘The Stranger’ can be all these things- a healer, a cage, an addiction, but it is most definitely a call into the darkness, reaching out to the listener to join us in the howl of life, to wake up the bones and the skin. Be with us in the noise and know that whatever it is that led you to us, we are grateful you are home.”

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