Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly love The Melmacs any more, they’re back with another new single that shoots straight to my heart. Now the band’s fourth single released in advance of the forthcoming album EUPHANCHOLIA, “Lazy Hearts” is perhaps its purest pop song to date. It’s a total earworm. I’m not sure it’s humanly possible to create a song catchier than this one — this tune is like caffeine for the soul! You could be having the worst day ever, and then this song comes on, and suddenly your possibilities are endless and your hopes are bright. The band puts so much energy into this musical performance, and Bimmi sings every note with absolute joy.
This song resonates with me because it’s an anthem of encouragement to all those people out there who feel like failures because they haven’t yet accomplished the things that society expects of them. But the twist is that they’re not failures since they hold on to their dreams and cling to the belief that there has to be more to life than having lots of money and status. The band has dedicated this song to the “stamped daydreamers and true believers” who ultimately make this world a better place. So cheers to all the “lazy boys, all the lazy girls” with their hearts full of gold, and cheers to The Melmacs for making music that restores my faith in humanity. I’ve been playing this track on repeat and getting pumped for EUPHANCHOLIA, which will be out April 10th on Bakraufarfita Records & Wanda Records in Germany, Spaghetty Town Records in the USA, and Beluga Records in Sweden. I can’t wait!
Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly love The Melmacs any more, they’re back with another new single that shoots straight to my heart. Now the band’s fourth single released in advance of the forthcoming album EUPHANCHOLIA, “Lazy Hearts” is perhaps its purest pop song to date. It’s a total earworm. I’m not sure it’s humanly possible to create a song catchier than this one — this tune is like caffeine for the soul! You could be having the worst day ever, and then this song comes on, and suddenly your possibilities are endless and your hopes are bright. The band puts so much energy into this musical performance, and Bimmi sings every note with absolute joy.
This song resonates with me because it’s an anthem of encouragement to all those people out there who feel like failures because they haven’t yet accomplished the things that society expects of them. But the twist is that they’re not failures since they hold on to their dreams and cling to the belief that there has to be more to life than having lots of money and status. The band has dedicated this song to the “stamped daydreamers and true believers” who ultimately make this world a better place. So cheers to all the “lazy boys, all the lazy girls” with their hearts full of gold, and cheers to The Melmacs for making music that restores my faith in humanity. I’ve been playing this track on repeat and getting pumped for EUPHANCHOLIA, which will be out April 10th on Bakraufarfita Records & Wanda Records in Germany, Spaghetty Town Records in the USA, and Beluga Records in Sweden. I can’t wait!
Tasmanian devils THE ABSOLUTION SEQUENCE have set an August 2026 release date for their highly-anticipated full-length album, Dread Cycle.
Following a string of EPs and singles, the album promises to be the band’s most incendiary work yet. Slated for release via Bleeding Art Collective, with distribution by Blood Blast Distribution, Dread Cycle is set to solidify the band’s position as a premier name in contemporary technical death metal.
THE ABSOLUTION SEQUENCE is prepping fans for what’s to come with the release of the official music video for the album’s first single, “Ghost Mantra.”
The band comments on the song’s lyrical concept: ‘“Ghost Mantra’ is all about being surrounded and taunted by the apparitions of our ancestors, and the sacrifice of the lowly in order to maintain the status quo. What comes with these haunting feelings is the overwhelming presence of guilt, as we watch the poor die horribly and step over their bodies to see out our goals. ‘Ghost Mantra’ is a solemn bow to those who have suffered. A showing of respect and gratitude.”
Track-listing: 1) Despotic Ruin (Diet of Worms) 2) Idols of Confraternity 3) Ghost Mantra 4) The Sordid Miasma 5) The Nightlight Sigil 6) Promethean Pilferage 7) A Mire Caked in Nativity 8) Grinding the Sphere 9) The Diary of the Emaciated
Dread Cycle was produced by Chris Themelco and mastered by the world-renowned Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios. The album was written by THE ABSOLUTION SEQUENCE.
Line-up:
Stephen Cusato – Rhythm Guitar/Backing Vocals Steven Mason – Rhythm Guitar Alastair Boon – Bass/Backing Vocals Luke Tucker – Lead Guitar Nick Machin – Drums Luke Sanderson – Drums Shawn Wells – Lead Vocals
BIO:
Emerging from the isolated, unforgiving wilderness of Tasmania, THE ABSOLUTION SEQUENCE has carved out a unique identity within the Australian extreme metal scene. Their sound is a direct reflection of their homeland’s “dark isle” reputation, a place defined by a sinister history and a cold, remote landscape that stands in stark contrast to the Australian mainland.
The band has developed a signature style of Technical Death Metal that balances high-velocity musical prowess with a deeply immersive, atmospheric undertone. The band has earned a wide array of mainland and international support slots from Nile, Archspire, Thy Art is Murder to Psycroptic, Northlane, Make them Suffer and others.
They also competed in the “GOOD THINGS 2022” Band Competition in Victoria. Their proven consistent success in the Tasmanian Metal scene has garnered them a reputation as a reliable and sought after headlining act.
As part of their recently announced new studio album Veneficium, due on May 22nd via Edged Circle Productions, Opera IX offer in listening the first single called “Veneficium”. Read more…
The K-pop supergroup BTS performed their first concert in over three years in Seoul on Saturday following the release of their new album, “Arirang,” on Friday. Thousands of fans came out to hear one of the biggest names in K-pop.
The legendary Norwegian duo Darkthrone has announced the release of a new full-length offering, Pre-Historic Metal, on the 8th of May through Peaceville Records. Recorded at Chaka Khan Studios with production work conducted by Ole Øvstedal, Silje Høgevold & Mads Luis. Mastering by Jack Control at Enormous Door, and Maor Appelbaum Mastering. Read more…
Vanaheim‘s new single “De Overtocht”, the first taste of their forthcoming Roede Voor De Borst record, is out now and available for streaming with an official music video. Read more…
Power Trip recently announced that they have inked a deal with Blue Grape Music for the release of new music from the band, who are currently working on their first album in nearly a decade for a 2026 or 2027 release. The record will be their first to feature new vocalist Seth Gilmore, the replacement of original vocalist Riley Gale who passed away back in 2020. Read more…
Mongolian folk rockers The Hu have released a double dose of brand new music. The band delivers “The Men”, which is accompanied by an official music video, alongside “Warrior Chant,” both out now via Better Noise Music. Read more…
fremder’s Geisterfahrer channels a bad idea whispered by a beautiful stranger leaning across the bar at closing time, and the first thing you notice is how completely the whole affair belongs to one mind. This German producer, songwriter, videographer, and tattoo artist has built the project from the bolts up, and you can feel that private fixation in every frame. The song, the imagery, the pose, the sense of ceremony: none of it feels farmed out, softened up, or passed through a committee of careful hands. It comes straight from the source, with all the obsession and odd little perils that usually implies.
The track itself runs on a severe, lean Motorik drag, the kind of rhythm that suggests forward motion without promising any destination worth reaching. Fremder calls his approach “black romanticism,” and for once that sort of phrase earns its keep. Geisterfahrer (which translates to “Ghost Rider”) is about giving yourself over to the wrong road with open eyes, about the lure of velocity when standing still might mean hearing your own thoughts too clearly. There is pleasure in the plunge here, a real appetite for danger, but also a spiritual weariness tucked into the German lyrics, as though the devil in the passenger seat has stopped bothering with salesmanship and simply rides along out of habit.
Musically, it sits somewhere between coldwave austerity, post-punk tension, and darkwave drama, with enough of that East European after-midnight ache to bring Molchat Doma to mind, plus a dash of the romantic fatalism of Harsh Symmetry and Kino, and the stern early chill of The Cure. The beat keeps pressing ahead while the synths hang overhead like bad weather, and the guitar cuts in with a clean, needling edge. Fremder sings as if he is calling from the far end of a tunnel, already half-gone and perfectly willing to keep going.
The black-and-white video, directed by Fogg Films, understands the song’s lonely appetite for exile. Fremder appears alone in a creek, half-submerged like some doomed saint of self-sabotage, then inside an ancient church, then stalking city streets, then boxed into a stairwell that looks ready to swallow him floor by floor. These aren’t settings so much as states of mind with walls. Every location carries its own particular chill, and the camera treats his isolation with just enough glamour to make ruin look tempting.
Watch the video for “Geisterfahrer” below:
That is the sly trick of Geisterfahrer. It turns alienation into allure, then lets the aftertaste tell the truth.
Listen to Geisterfahrer below and other streaming options here.
