zeronic return with The Hope and The Enemy, a stirring alternative rock anthem balancing emotional tension and widescreen guitar drama with impressive control. The Austrian trio slowly build from introspective verses into soaring crescendos, capturing the uneasy coexistence of hope, doubt, despair, and resilience. There’s a mature confidence running through the track, shaped by decades of experience yet still charged with urgency and emotional immediacy. Rather than collapsing into nostalgia, zeronic sound revitalized, blending post-punk textures, melodic intensity, and reflective songwriting into a song that feels both timeless and sharply relevant to the fractured emotional climate of today.
Skip Danko B-Movie Road Club stumble through dust, distortion, and desert heat on Sixteen, a swaggering psych rock trip soaked in grime and cinematic weirdness. Recorded at the legendary Rancho De La Luna in California, the track embraces loose grooves, feverish guitars, and a hypnotic sense of disorientation that feels tailor-made for endless highways and neon-lit hallucinations. There’s something gloriously unpolished about the way Sixteen unfolds, balancing heavy psych energy with B-movie surrealism and late-night recklessness.
Rather than aiming for precision, Skip Danko B-Movie Road Club chase atmosphere and instinct, letting the song drift like a mirage across scorched desert asphalt.
Chase.:R blur introspection and atmosphere on Be Here Now, a dreamy electronic meditation built from layered textures, immersive production, and quietly reflective songwriting. Seattle-based artist and engineer Chase.:R approaches the track like an architect of emotion, carefully shaping ethereal soundscapes that drift between melancholy and clarity. There’s a weightless quality to the production, yet beneath the shimmering surfaces sits a grounded message about presence and emotional awareness. Be Here Now unfolds patiently, inviting the listener to slow down and disappear into its surreal, inward-facing world rather than chase easy immediacy.
Saint Soldier dissect the absurdity of modern sociopolitical spectacle on Theater, a sharp and reflective hip-hop track driven by frustration, observation, and hard-earned perspective. Born in Punjab and raised in Canada, Saint Soldier channels personal experience and decades of cultural tension into lyrics that feel both intimate and outward-looking. The production keeps a dark, simmering energy beneath the verses, allowing the song’s message to land without unnecessary excess. Theater captures the feeling of watching the world spiral into performance and division, while still searching for honesty somewhere beneath the noise.
Cinematic Jams channel rejection and resilience into something uplifting on No, a smooth fusion of pop rap, Afrobeat grooves, and cinematic soul textures. Built around rhythmic momentum and emotionally direct storytelling, the track captures the frustration of constantly hitting walls while refusing to surrender to them. The production stays warm and polished, balancing reflective verses with a motivational undercurrent that slowly pushes toward optimism. Rather than turning pain into melodrama, No transforms it into determination, delivering a relatable anthem for anyone still fighting to be heard in an increasingly indifferent world.
Sergio Tentella delivers a hypnotic late-night weapon with Away, a driving melodic techno cut built around pulsing rhythms, cinematic tension, and immersive synth work. The track steadily expands with precision, balancing emotional atmosphere and peak-time energy without losing its dark club focus. Sergio Tentella keeps the momentum locked from start to finish, crafting a proper techno banger that feels equally suited for underground dancefloors and solitary headphone journeys after midnight.
Mint Condish stumble gloriously into chaos on Rat Utopia, an unhinged folk-punk fever dream filtering modern society through the lens of John Calhoun’s infamous behavioral experiments. What begins with Americana grit quickly mutates into something far stranger and more confrontational, balancing nervous energy, aggressive outbursts, and darkly satirical storytelling. There’s an appealing roughness to the whole thing, as if the song might collapse at any second but somehow keeps pushing forward through sheer conviction. Created by a lifelong bassist stepping into solo territory for the first time, Rat Utopia feels raw, unpredictable, and refreshingly unconcerned with polish or safety.
Washington, DC death metal outfit GOETIA will release their debut full-length, Mortuary Cult, on June 12th via Carbonized Records.
GOETIA was forged in the Fall of 2022 by bassist/vocalist Matt Scott, guitarist Demir Soyer, and drummer Nadia Tydings-Lynch. Soyer and Scott previously played together in the DC death metal band Perpetuated, with Tydings-Lynch filling in on drums for their last show. Embracing the chemistry of this lineup led to the immediate founding of GOETIA following the performance.
Influenced by the likes of Morbid Angel, Terrorizer, and Kreator, GOETIA self-released their first EP in May of 2023 which was re-released on Persistent Vision Records followed by regular touring throughout the year.
The band’s second EP, Tomb Essence, dropped in 2024 via Heavy & Fast Records, and finally a 7” in 2025 on Voice Of The Cielago (run by Scott). These three EPs form a loose trilogy centered on occult themes, all recorded and mastered by Matt Michel (Viva Studio) and Will Killingsworth (Dead Air Studios) respectively.
This year’s Mortuary Cult LP was written and recorded during these years by the same team, amidst tours alongside Altars, Vastum, Healing Magic, and others. The debut full-length is more conceptually driven, featuring ten tracks inspired by experiences in an old cemetery in the Washington, DC suburbs. Musically the aim is the same; fast paced death metal with an abundance of guitar solos and blast beats.
In advance of the record’s release, today the band unleashes the title track and first single. Scott elaborates, “‘Mortuary Cult,’ along with all the tracks on this album, was inspired by a local cemetery I used to visit frequently. Cemeteries are very peaceful places but also have a strange feeling of being liminal spaces. People come to them for a variety of reasons, so each song on the album is meant to represent the feeling of a particular trip. For this track, I was exploring the idea of people visiting for a sinister purpose, the worship of the dead through ritual. This was one of the first tracks written for the album, and the speed and structure helped define the tone of the entire record.”
Mortuary Cult was recorded by Matt Michel at Viva Studio and mixed by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios with cover artwork by Chris Taylor and logo by Matt Scott.
Mortuary Cult will be released on CD, LP, cassette, and digital formats.
Find North American preorders HERE, European preorders HERE, all other international orders HERE and digital orders HERE.
Mortuary Cult – Track Listing:
1. At Eternity’s Gate
2. Lanterns Of The Dead
3. Posthumous Execution
4. Mortuary Cult
5. Corpse Candle
6. Earth Inferno
7. Bestial Tomb
8. Excarnation
9. Tortures In Time
10. Eternal Samhain
GOETIA Live: 6/19/2026 Rock Room – Pittsburgh, PA 6/20/2026 The Baby G – Toronto, ON 6/21/2026 TBA – Quebec City, QC 6/22/2026 Geno’s – Portland, ME 6/23/2026 Ralph’s Rock Diner – Worcester, MA 6/24/2026 Nikki Lopez – Philadelphia, PA 6/25/2026 Fuzzy Cactus – Richmond, VA 6/26/2026 Static Age – Asheville, NC 6/27/2026 Bogg’s – Atlanta, GA 6/28/2026 Mad Malt’s – Huntsville, AL 6/29/2026 DRKMTTR – Nashville, TN 6/30/2026 Hi Tone – Memphis, TN 7/01/2026 Fubar – St. Louis, MO 7/02/2026 Reggie’s – Chicago, IL 7/03/2026 Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN 7/04/2026 Gazebo Park – Huntington, WV 7/10/2026 DC9 – Washington, DC * Record Release Show *
GOETIA: Matt Scott – bass, vocals Demir Soyer – guitars Nadia Tydings-Lynch – drums
Afterlife craft a hypnotic descent into memory and emotional projection on Lovers Maze, a haunted alt-pop piece shimmering with nocturnal melancholy. Working between Copenhagen and Paris, Olivia Danielsson builds an immersive world where sleek synths, blurred club textures, and layered vocals drift through themes of longing and psychological disorientation. The track moves like a half-remembered dream, balancing elegance with emotional unease while never losing its addictive pulse. Inspired by mirrored reflections and inner confinement, Lovers Maze feels cinematic in the truest sense, unfolding like a late-night hallucination where desire, nostalgia, and identity quietly collapse into one another.
