Recommended for fans of: Hacride, The Ocean, Benea Reach As the person who’s largely been responsible for featuring Hippotraktor here in the past, it only made sense for me to be the one to write about their upcoming third album, Annihilist, which comes out this Friday. And when I realised that this might well be the first […]
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Emma Ogier is a young alt-rock singer-songwriter from Houston who seems to be on a very sharp upward trajectory. Ogier was a teenager during the pandemic, and she developed her twangy and oblique sound in relative isolation. Then she moved to Nashville and released a series of independent singles, starting in 2023. She recently signed with Lost Highway and assisted on Dominic Fike’s new single “Small Town.” In the months ahead, she’ll play Austin City Limits, tour with Hovvdy, and do some shows as a member of Bright Eyes. Now, she’s ready to announce her full-length debut Fly 1111.
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Every week there is a tidal wave of new music released unto the world. Each Friday we’ll round up some of the best new music available, some we’ve reviewed, some we haven’t, but all worth checking out!
Theres a lot of new heavy music hitting the airwaves this week, everything from black metal, death metal, gothic metal, Stoner rock, doom, thrash metal and even some of your traditional heavy metal!
Here’s what we think you should check out today!
Rome’s melodic death‑doom innovators Shores of Null release ‘Homesick’ via Dusktone
“captures the essence of Finnish doom metal elegantly, seamlessly blending individual musical prowess with an underlining glacial bite.“
Read our full review here.
Milan-based musician Gabriele Gramaglia offers the first full-length manifestation of Lugubrious Garment, ‘In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night’ via 20 Buck Spin.
“thoroughly devastating and yet can shed all its virulent form to become something terribly approachable.”
Read our full review here.
Night Hag return from the shadows with ‘Great Dismal Darkness’ via Rotted Life.
“a crushing record you’ll want to return to over and over again”
Read our full review here.
Belgian death metal band Carnal Desecration unleash ‘Ancient Malediction’ via Thrash Records.
The death metal onslaught of Carnation release ‘Symphony In Flesh’ via Redefining Darkness Records.
Caspian‘s relentless post-rock ambition continues on their self-titled album, released via Wax Bodega.
“We all feel pain. Physical, emotional, or otherwise. One dose of this may well be the antidote you need!”
Read our full review here
Urarv release thirty two minutes of idiosyncratic black metal on ‘Nychta Psychis’ via Darkness Shall Rise.
French dreamgaze / atmospheric post-metal duo Cløudy Skies release ‘Bury Me Beneath The Stars’ via Argonauta Records.
Defects release ‘Artificial Icons’ via Mascot Records.
“The socio-political commentary, with a deep throaty scream, as they pummel you into submission”
Read our full review here.
Master delivers old school death metal on new album ‘Among the Seeds of Death’, released via Hammerheart Records.
“ten tracks of no nonsense carnage”
Read our full review here.
One of the most compelling voices within the modern instrumental underground, Shy, Low release ‘Purity Spiral’ via Pelagic Records.
Atmospheric sludge metallers Thrakian release ‘The Way’ via Aonair Records.
One of Europe’s leading forces in stoner rock, Stoned Jesus release ‘Songs to Moon’ via Season of Mist.
“complex, challenging, and converging far from the conventional path.”
Read our full review here
Portland, Maine death metal outfit Worm Altar release debut album ‘Pillars of Eternal Dusk’ via Dawnbreed Records
“enough weight and size to off-kilter tectonic plates”
Read our full review here
Bretagne’s Sépulcre return with ‘Cryptic Temple Of Otherworldly Abhorrations’ via Invictus Productions
“every single riff, drum strike, vocal delivery is so written and performed to deglove the skin from your body”
Read our full review here.
The enemies of Dundee tremble as exalted power metal heroes Gloryhammer release their long-awaited fifth album ‘Space 1993: Wrath of Kor-Virliath‘ via Napalm Records.
Sidus have found their voice on latest opus ‘Lotus’, released via Dunk! Reocrds.
Eivør – Tungl (Nuclear Blast Records)
Joe Stump – Lords of the Strings (Silver Lining Music)
John Diva and the Rockets of Love – Your Favourite Drug (Frontiers Music SRL)
Venus Grrrls – To Die As Lovers May [EP] (Killabop)
Elysion – Identity (Massacre Records)
Generation Steel – Steelmachine (Fireflash Records)
Streamer – Into The Void (High Roller Records)
Antania – The Unholy 33 (Argonauta Records)
Black Altar – XXX Years ov Rituals Upon the Black Altar – 1996-2026 (Odium Records)
Mannveira – Vesöld (Dark Descent Records)
Dominion – Mortification of Thy Flesh (Sinistrari)
Erase This Earth – Horrors Unearthed (Inverse Records)
Fate Unburied – Neraspeme (Time To Kill Records)
Fracturus – The Synthetic Path (Independent)
Gorgonaut – Ayame (Independent)
Iapetus – The Mother Void (Willowtip Records)
Leadbelcher – Heaven’s Bloated Corpse (Apocolyptic Witchcraft)
Mother of Graves – The Light That Keeps Us (Profound Lore Records)
Veilburner – All That Glimmers if Gloam (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Buzzard – Hush Now (Independent)
Double Space – Not In A Million Years (Virkelighedsfjern)
Firebreather – Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Sundowner – Cesspool (Disdain Records)
The Black Thunder – Time Obliteration (Pagan Records)
Throes – The Colorless Light of Emptiness (Church Road Records)
Umus – Voidlit (Ksenza Records / Aesthetic Death)
Urna – The Great Jihad (ATMF)
Sidus – Lotus (Dunk! Records)
Threestepstotheocean – Death of Permanence (Subsound Records)
Fervence – Constructs (Metal Blade Records)
Grant The Sun – Biomes (Mas-Kina Recordings)
Kinetic – Liminal (Eclipse Records)
Messier 16 – Shouts from the Cliffs of Heterodoxy (Time To Kill Records)
Unteachers – Under Bright Sadness (Rottweiler Records)
Zero Hour – No Man’s Land (CyNormal Lab Records)
Blind Illusion – Stage Fight: Live at the UC Theatre (Hectic Records)
Blood and Sun – Aion’s Light (Nordvis) [Neofolk]
Great Falls – The Bite That Grows Up (Neurot Recordings) [Post-Hardcore]
Salvation – The Haunted (Reptilian Records) [Noise/Prog]
St. Digue – Secret Language (Over The Under Records) [Darkwave]
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Los Angeles band Niis have shared “No Flowers,” the latest single from the forthcoming new EP “Play Niis” – set for release October 23rd on Rise Records. Available today on all streaming platforms, “No Flowers” is joined by an official music video directed and edited by Marië Ramos. The new track follows the EP’s lead single “Earthquakes,” which arrived earlier this month.
On “No Flowers”, the band taps into their trademark intensity, with vocalist Mimi Doe delivering “I just wanna feel alive” through a barrage of jagged guitars and distortion.
“A lot of the songs on this record are about fitting into societal monotony,” Doe explains, “We forget to put ourselves first by doing things that bring us joy and make us feel something, or anything. And that’s something I really wanted to capture with the lyrics.”
Produced by Austin Coupe and Michael Shuman, on “Play Niis” the Los Angeles punk band embraces a more melodic, expansive side of themselves without losing the visceral energy that has defined them on prior releases. Written through periods of heartbreak, upheaval and uncertainty, the six-song EP is ultimately about the search for joy and human connection in an increasingly disconnected world—music as a way to feel alive, process pain and find something beautiful in the chaos.
“Play Niis” is available for pre-order / pre-save now, with limited edition vinyl color variants available in the Rise Records store.
Niis —pronounced “Nice”— have spent the past several years building a reputation for music that is as confrontational as it is deeply human. Formed in 2020 by vocalist Mimi Doe and guitarist Ryan McGuffin, the band introduced themselves with “Not Niis” (2020), followed it with “Must Be…” (2022), and released their debut album “Niis World” in 2025. Now joined by bassist Isabella de Vroede and drummer Jonathan Salvo, Niis return with “Play Niis”, their Rise Records debut. If their earlier records were defined by rage and volatility, “Play Niis” finds the band leaning into melody, vulnerability and connection while continuing to confront the world around them.
“Play Niis” tracklisting
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The shadowy Ordo Vampyr Orientis evade expectations and definitions. Like another mysterious American black metal label Wergild, Ordo Vampyr Orientis have no social media and have avoided all attempts to investigate them. They reroute all focus to their music, which ranges from Waltzing symphonic black metal to hypnotic raw black metal and, now, lovesick warlock black metal with Befouled Malediction, whose track “Ritual” we’re premiering today before their debut, Desperate Necromancy, releases at the end of October.
Lovesick is, of course, downplaying the situation on Desperate Necromancy. As the title indicates, the record tells the story of a warlock who haphazardly learns necromancy to bring his loved one back from the dead, only to discover that the resurrection wasn’t without its drawbacks. It’s a classic monkey’s paw tale of which “Ritual” is the inciting action. Much like necromancy itself, the track is part witchcraft and part science. It’s quietly refined, though not to a degree that the raw and tragic aspects are overlooked. The melodies mirror the warlock’s adrenaline as he’s on the verge of bringing his love back to life, with the track’s middle section, in which the percussion nearly dissipates, marking his trepidation. Just by following the structure on “Ritual,” you can deduce which step of the process the warlock is undertaking and his reactions to it. It’s effective storytelling in black metal, putting the genre’s attributes to narrative work.
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Desperate Necromancy releases October 30 on Ampwall and Bandcamp. It will be available on vinyl on November 13 via Ixiol Productions and Dawnbreed Records.
Some bands have manifestos. GLIZZ have bad ideas, questionable appetites and apparently just enough available credit to keep recording them.
The Portland duo of drummer Aris Hunter-Wales—of Bewitcher, Soulgrinder and Order of the Gash—and guitarist/bassist/vocalist J. Bennett of Ides of Gemini and Black Mare made their first greasy impression earlier this year with debut EP Grenades. Now, barely seven months later, they’re back with another four-song dose of rock ’n’ roll degeneracy titled, appropriately enough, Fat Lips.
“Think of all the reasons you might have fat lips,” Bennett says. “Maybe you got punched in the mouth. Maybe you’ve got Botox. Maybe you talk too much. Maybe you’re Mick Jagger. They all apply here.”
Recorded in Portland with Matt Taylor of Dry Socket and Hybrid Forms, who also engineered Grenades, Fat Lips finds GLIZZ bringing a few friends along for the damage. Taylor contributes backing vocals to “Kiss It Goodbye” and additional guitar to “Just What I Needed,” while jazz vocalist Jenny Luna joins him on backing vocals for both tracks. Shadowland vocalist Tanya Finder lends her voice to “This Is Getting Old and So Are You.” Sanford Parker, who handled Grenades, once again mixes and masters.
And yes, “Just What I Needed” is exactly what you think it is. GLIZZ close the EP by putting their hands on the Cars classic, because apparently four decades of evidence that Ric Ocasek knew what he was doing wasn’t enough to keep these two away from it.
Hunter-Wales offers perhaps the most useful explanation of what’s going on here:
“Fat Lips is further proof that GLIZZ isn’t a band. It’s a libido with a credit card that’s maxed out. And a hangover. Plus, we do a Cars song!”
Hard to improve on that.
Fat Lips is out October 2. Get hit in the mouth below.
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Any Gorillaz performance, like any Gorillaz record, tends to include a whole lot of guest performers. Right now, Damon Albarn and his various cartoon associates are touring North American arenas with Little Simz and Deltron 3030. You can be assured that Simz and Del The Funky Homosapien will join Gorillaz during their headlining set, as will touring staples like De La Soul’s Posdnous and the Pharcyde’s Bootie Brown. Sometimes, a Gorillaz show also includes a surprise or two. You never know when someone like Pusha T might show up.
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