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Listen: ‘050809’ by Spotlights

Posted: 2 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Spotlights, the beloved trio of Mario and Sarah Quintero with drummer Chris Enriquez, release Rarities, a remastered nine-song compilation of early and rare tracks spanning the band’s full discography on 21st November via Ipecac Recordings.

A preview arrives with ‘050809’, the first song the now married Mario and Sarah Quintero ever wrote together. “Sarah and I had been talking about making music together before we were even dating,” Mario shares. “05/08/09 is the day we became an item.”

Hear it here:

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Rarities traces the band’s evolution, from their debut single to standout tracks from their 2023 Séance EP. After relocating from San Diego to New York in 2013, the band released their first EP, Demonstrations, in 2015. That was followed by the Spiders EP and their full-length debut, Tidals, in 2016 – releases that drew attention from artists like Deftones, Shiner, If These Trees Could Talk, and ultimately led to their signing with Ipecac Recordings.

Now, after a decade of releases, the band is reflecting on these songs, all of which are appearing on vinyl for the first time. “It’s a really fun listen,” Mario adds. “You can hear and feel the development of the band over the years, not only musically but emotionally and production wise as well.”

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The band will be selling copies of the Rarities vinyl on tour, and via the Ipecac website. Tickets for the band’s shows supporting AA Williams are on sale now, via Ipecac.com/tours.

LIVE DATES IN SUPPORT OF AA WILLIAMS:

27/01 – UK Norwich, Arts Centre
28/01 – UK Milton Keynes, Craufurd Arms
29/01 – UK Nottingham, Bodega
30/01 – UK Manchester, Deaf Institute
31/01 – UK Glasgow, G2
01/02 – UK Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
03/02 – UK Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
04/02 – UK Bristol, Strange Brew
05/02 – UK London, Bush Hall
06/02 – UK Southampton, Papillon
07/02 – BE Diksmuide, 4AD
08/02 – FR Paris, Nouveau Casino
10/02 – FR Toulouse, Le Rex
11/02 – ES Barcelona, La Nau
12/02 – ES Madrid, Villanos
13/02 – PT Lisbon, Casa Capitão
14/02 – PT Porto, Mouco
15/02 – ES Donosti, Dabadaba
17/02 – FR Grenoble, l’Ampérage
18/02 – IT Milan, Legend Club
19/02 – CH Aarau, KiFF
20/02 – DE Munich, Live / Evil
21/02 – AT Vienna, Chelsea
22/02 – CZ Prague, SUBZERO
24/02 – PL Warsaw, VooDoo
25/02 – DE Berlin, Neue Zukunft
26/02 – DE Cologne, Gebäude 9
27/02 – NL Eindhoven, Effenaar
28/02 – NL Utrecht, Tivoli Cloud Nine

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Watch: ‘Short Ass Bus (ft. Big Ass Truck and Ignominious)’ by Bonginator

Posted: 1 October 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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BONGINATOR celebrate their big bad yellow tour-vehicle with the new video single ‘Short Ass Bus’. The New England death metal posse has invited Abel Abarca, vocalist of American hardcore maniacs BIG ASS TRUCK from Inland Empire, CA, and vocalist Colin Richardson from their brothers-in-grooves IGNOMINIOUS to the party and you should totally feel free to join the fun, too!

The track has been cranked from the Americans’ second full-length Retrodeath, which will change the rotation of this planet on October 24, 2025.

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BONGINATOR comment: “When you were a kid, did you have to ride the short bus to school?”, vocalist and shredder Erik Thorstenn wants to know. “Wait… that was just us? Anyway, this song is a banger and features our homies Abel Abarca from Big Ass Truck and Colin Richardson from Ignominious. It’s a song about going to school, being covered in drool, and having a big ass. Also the guitar solo is sick. Just saying. No clue, how we will pull that off live. Listen and tell us what you think! But uh… Are you serious that none of you rode the short bus to school?”

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Watch: ‘Deny Reality’ by Worst Ones

Posted: 30 September 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Philadelphia’s industrial sludge metallers WORST ONES is back with a new powerful single, entitled ‘Deny Reality’. The song channels the bleak pulse of Godflesh, the twisted hooks of Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, and the sample-driven chaos of Skinny Puppy, creating something both claustrophobic and hypnotic.

‘Deny Reality’ is a mid-tempo industrial sludge anthem built on relentless electronic percussion and skittering hi-hats that slice through layers of noise loops. The guitars have been shredded, resampled, and reconstructed into something ripped and inhuman. A towering chorus cuts through the haze, while a crushing breakdown in the middle drags the listener deeper into heaviness.

Lyrically, ‘Deny Reality’ confronts the culture of wilful ignorance that has metastasized into complicity. Lines like “Cast out your empathy, behold your tragedy” and “My nightmares are dreams, you deny reality” attack the blindness that sustains power and allows violence to thrive. The song reflects a world where denial has become survival, even as that denial drives us toward collapse. In its imagery of poisoned breath, hollow faith, and the erasure of empathy, the track positions ignorance not as escape but as the very engine of destruction.

In addition to its digital release, Deny Reality will appear on Abolish ICE, a compilation CD of Philadelphia-area metal, hardcore, and punk bands. The CD features 16 artists, including Trunk, L.M.I., Sunrot, Boozewa, SOJI, Detox Meds, and Get Well. Copies are available from the bands in exchange for donations to Juntos, a community-led Latine immigrant rights organization based in Philadelphia. Through this release, WORST ONES aligns its music with direct action, using its sound as both protest and support for those most affected by systemic oppression. With Deny Reality, the band continues the mission of turning noise into resistance. The result is not just another sludge anthem, but a dirge for a society choking on its own denial and a demand to confront the truth, no matter how unbearable.

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Watch: ‘Thundertaker’ by Sky Valley Mistress

Posted: 30 September 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Sky Valley Mistress have initiated countdown to the release of their second album Luna Mausoleum, that is due to land on Friday 23rd January 2026 (New Heavy Sounds).

Intended to be the soundtrack of their Hearsecraft ride to the moon, Pilot Kayley “Hell Kitten” Davies and Commander Max “Leather Messiah” Newsome launch you into the Sonic Stratosphere with an audio journey fuelled by 70’s hard rock, driven off the road to a fresh new destination.

Taking you through desert rock grooves and mountainous riffs, you are guided by Kayley’s soulfully smoked voice and her range of soaring, delicate, yearning and understated melodies as the band ride peaks and valleys of dynamics and pace with an eclectic selection of instrumentation of fuzz guitars, organs, real orchestras and a children’s choir.

Twisting influences of Queens of the Stone Age with Portishead and turning from Spiritualised-sized gospel choruses to the gallow heavy swing of Black Sabbath, with sound as fast as light they move between their influential orbit to create a modern classic that is entirely their own. There isn’t space in this genre the band haven’t explored. This is a demonstration of their refusal to wait for permission to create a record that stands in scale with some of the most monumental albums in rock.

The band’s statement on their intent behind creating Luna Mausoleum was that it should be “greater and beyond all reason”.

They’ve also released first single ‘Thundertaker’ named after the hearse they drive on tour. Opening with the apocalyptic power of early Black Sabbath before taking you on a joy ride fuelled by some Motörhead grade speed, THUNDERTAKER is a riff rippin’ rocket jam kicked out from the Sonic Strato- sphere for the world to hear.

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The band who has one member play every instrument so that they sound like a four piece in the studio, defy logic with aspiration with their iconic live show as a Duel-Drumming Duo. Vocalist Kayley “Hell Kitten” Davies takes the sticks and one half of a drum kit whilst original drummer Max “Leather Messiah” Newsome battles the electric guitar with the kick drum under his foot. No samples. No backing tracks. No click tracks. No one is playing rock and roll the ways these two do.

Live October 2025:

02  – LONDON THE BLACK HEART

03 – SHEFFIELD NETWORK

04 – DARWEN SUNBIRD

17 – HULL DIVEHU5

18 – PRESTON THE CONTINENTAL

23 – THE PURPLE TURTLE READING

24 – FORUM BASEMENT TUNBRIDGE WELLS

25 – THE LIGHTHOUSE KENT

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Watch: ‘Mycelium’ by Mayshe-Mayshe

Posted: 29 September 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Mayshe-Mayshe has released new single ‘Mycelium’, and an accompanying video.

This is a song is about autumn and decay, rainy woodland walks, lonely adventures, and setting off on a journey at nightfall. (Snufkin setting off on a journey to be specific.)

It’s mellow, and we rather like it…

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Watch: ‘Darkest Day’ by Rhys Marsh & Mandala

Posted: 28 September 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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‘Darkest Day’ is the opening track from Rhys Marsh & Mandala’s new album, Until The End Of Time — a dark, expansive and cinematic journey that explores themes of loss and love, along with the notion that when you lose someone you love, you still love them until the end of time.

With songs ranging from ten to eighteen minutes in length, the album’s soundscape is largely dominated by majestic analogue synthesisers and led by Mandala’s trademark dynamics — ranging from whisper-quiet to wall-of-sound. Until The End Of Time will be available on all streaming and download platforms, alongside a strictly limited-edition CD, available exclusively from Burning Shed, on November 14.

Rhys Marsh has released eleven albums in the past — both solo, and as the singer-songwriter in bands — and this is the third Mandala album. It was decided to call this a Rhys Marsh & Mandala album, as thematically and stylistically it follows on from Marsh’s previous solo album, Towards The West, which was a direct refection on the loss of his Dad.

Formed in London in 1997, Mandala have toured the UK, Scandinavia and North America over the years, playing at iconic venues such as CBGB’s in NYC and The Marquee Club in London. Their blend of folk-noir, progressive rock, psychedelia — all wrapped in Marsh’s atmospheric and dynamic melodies — has garnered acclaim and airplay across multiple countries, with singles A-listed on Radio Caroline, and chart success on iTunes in the UK and Canada.

Critics have called Mandala’s sound “a kaleidoscope of prog, psychedelia, and folk”, and praised their “knife-edge atmospheres and Eastern-tinged melodies” (The Independent), with The Guardian describing their music as “folk-noir”, and Time Out highlighting their “melancholy laden melodies”.

Until The End Of Time is the kind of album that needs to be listened to from start to end. The songs are long, and the themes expand and unfold gradually. There are elements of post-rock with the long build-ups, progressive rock with the sweeping Mellotrons, and a deep sense of melancholy.

The album features spoken word in three languages: English, Norwegian and Welsh. Marsh says that this verse can sum up the overall feeling of the album:

“The kingdoms of eternity

Will bring you here

Until the end of time

Where nothingness

Leads us into forever”

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Listen: ‘Succumb To Me’ by SINE

Posted: 26 September 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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The brainchild of US drummer/multi-instrumentalist Rona Rougeheart, SINE has released a new single entitled ‘Succumb To Me’ on Metropolis Records today. Co-produced by Rougeheart with Curse Mackey (Pigface) and mastered by Mark Pistel (Consolidated, Meat Beat Manifesto), the song mixes industrial sounds with dirty disco and rhythmic sub bass to form the perfect definition of what she refers to as her signature genre, ‘electronic boom’.

“While working on my next album, I decided to open a new session and start something fresh just for fun,” Rougeheart recalls. “As another track began to form, I was really loving the vibe, so I anchored it around two deep synth bass hits that pan right and left to give the listener a surround sound experience, especially in headphones. The lyrics seemed to write themselves as I recorded scratch vocals, just letting it flow. The lyrics are cheeky and a little sinister, with a dash of sex appeal. It’s definitely one of my favourite SINE tunes to date!”

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Watch: ‘Speedfreaks’ by Spøgelse

Posted: 25 September 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Gothenburg’s drunk’n’roll/hardcore-punk wrecking crew Spøgelse have dropped a brand-new video for their track ‘Speedfreaks’, delivering another feral taste of their forthcoming second album Spøgelse II, set to be released on October 24 via Welfare Sounds & Records.

Loud, raw, and one beer away from total collapse, Spøgelse embody what punk is supposed to feel like. Spøgelse II packs fifteen (!!) tracks that hit like a fist to the jaw for anyone sick of polished, overproduced punk.

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Born in the deep Swedish woods but raised on Gothenburg afterparties, Spøgelse have spent the last five years cramming into beat-up cars, dragging gear across highways, and spilling beer on every stage reckless enough to host them. Their mission has never changed: fast riffs, feral live energy, and zero fucking compromises.

‘Speedfreaks’ captures the band in their purest form, a chaotic, adrenaline-fueled anthem that barrels forward with the same unhinged force that has made Spøgelse one of Sweden’s most trusted live acts.

Self-described as “beer and guitar-shrimp specialists” and “your favorite fuck-ups,” Spøgelse aren’t here to clean things up, they’re here to tear it all down.

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Watch: ‘Snodgerss’ by Smote

Posted: 24 September 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Following the announcement of Smote’s fifth release for Rocket Recordings – Songs From The Free House – the band now shares a second taster of what’s to come in the form of ‘Snodgerss’, a flute-led jig-turned-pitch-dark-ritual. Their deepest and most fully-realised album to date, Songs From The Free House continues Smote’s exploratory mission into heaviness in all its forms, and sees its primary creator Daniel Foggin exploring a variety of new avenues.

Songs From The Free House features guest appearances from Sally Mason of the Smote live band on vocals and Ian Lynch from Lankum on Uillean pipes and will be released via Rocket Recordings on 17th October.

Forged from repetition and mantric intensity and possessed of formidable psychic fortitude, this album proves that the only retro-chic Smote indulge in is liable to go back several centuries. The megalithic monomania of last year’s A Grand Stream set a formidable precedent, and Smote’s live shows in its wake have gradually built a reputation as visionary seers building audial monuments by cranked amplification and atmospheric intensity alike. Yet these five gnostic serenades offer portals and paradigms anew.

Smote has now shared the track ‘Snodgerss’. About the track, Daniel says,“’Snodgerss’ roughly translates to ‘smooth grass’ or ‘long grass’. Waves and layers dance around each other and modulate against the wind, each blade moving individually but still in harmony with the rest.  Such is the nature of the 3rd track on the album, blown out percussion dances around flute melodies and explosive guitars alike, each playing its own part in the movement." 

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Upcoming Smote live dates:
17 Oct / Falmouth / KCM Church
18 Oct / Bristol / Down Stokes Festival
19 Oct / Preston / The Ferret
20 Oct / Glasgow / Hug and Pint
23 Oct / London / The Lexington *sold out*
24 Oct / Derby / Dubrek Studios
26 Oct / Newcastle / The Lubber Fiend
13 Dec / Todmorden / The Golden Lion

13 May / London / The 100 Club

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Watch: ‘Voodoo Doll’ by S1R1N

Posted: 23 September 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Canadian dark electro artist S1R1N has unveiled the new single and video, ‘Voodoo Doll’.

‘Voodoo Doll’ is, at its core, a song about self-destruction and destructive relationships. The lyrics describe an effigy, a doll that the protagonist has created. This doll is the most precious thing in their world, as they love it with abandon, but it also becomes the target of their anger and rage and destructive behavior. As it often is in life, people hurt those whom they love the most, and it is no different in the relationship with the self.

The story also serves as a metaphor for the artistic process, as the journey of creation involves placing one’s heart and soul into something, all of the love and positive emotions that one feels, as well as all of the suffering and pain . The sound palette used to create the song calls to mind a creepy yet melodic aesthetic reminiscent of horror film soundtracks.

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The music video for ‘Voodoo Doll’ was very much inspired by the surreal yet gritty aesthetic of the music videos of the late 90’s and early 00’s. It was filmed in several abandoned buildings including a Victorian Insane Asylum and a Tuberculosis Sanatorium. The symbolism of these places, as well as the imagery of dolls and the bloody white clothes worn by Morgan in the video call to mind themes of lost innocence, and the corruption of the inner child. This is especially exemplified by the scenes in the video where dolls are destroyed. Both the song and video are intended as a cathartic experience for both the artist and audience.

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