Kali Malone presents a second preview of her forthcoming album, Burning Song with the new song and album closer, ‘My Eve My Dawn.’ ‘My Eve My Dawn,’ represents a clear vision of this process; foreg…

Errant Child – 18th September 2026 Christopher Nosnibor These Killing Times is Emma Ruth Rundle’s sixth studio album. It’s released on her own Errant Child label, and it’s a bold work. As we learn …

Following the release of the new album from Brazilian duo DEAFKIDS, Cicatrizes Do Futuro (Scars of the Future), on Neurot Recordings earlier this year, they’re about to embark on a colossal tour of…

This Friday sees the release of Year of the Horse, the Ipecac debut from exciting new signings Cor de Lux, which very much gets the Aural Aggravation vote. Across nine songs, the Kill Devil Hills q…

Room40 – 7th August 2026 Christopher Nosnibor Three years on from Lasped Gasps, their collaboration with Jon Mueller, experimental duo Push For Night, consisting of Oliver Chapoy and James Elliott,…

Room40 – 7th August 2026 Christopher Nosnibor Three years on from Lasped Gasps, their collaboration with Jon Mueller, experimental duo Push For Night, consisting of Oliver Chapoy and James Elliott,…

Everest Records – 25th September 2026 Christopher Nosnibor What we effectively have here is a pair of EPs from Swiss avant-garde act KiKu, led by trumpeter and composer Yannick Barman and drummer a…

The Body and Cel Genesis share ‘Whole Wide World,’ the title track and second preview from their debut collaborative album of the same name, out November 13 via Thrill Jockey. The song wastes no ti…

Lustmord Lombardo, the pairing of two of heavy and experimental music’s most respected musicians, ambient heavyweight Lustmord and percussive force Dave Lombardo, release ‘The Desolate Shore Part I…

With their album debut Nüwa Mends the Sky, UREDDA reveal themselves as musical alchemists who create pieces of utter beauty and a fascinating otherness, that appear to the listener as magic due to …

Two decades have passed in the land of Gnod, yet the psychic travelogue only becomes more enthralling as it goes on. The page is turned, a new chapter begins… Chronicles of Gnowt (Vol. 2) wil…

‘God’s Picture’ is the latest track to be taken from Emma Ruth Rundle’s These Killing Times, and described by Emma as the centrepiece and thesis statement of this record. The album will be released…

Auf Abwegen – 3rd September 2026 Christopher Nosnibor Is Internet radio really radio? There may still be live broadcasts, but they tend to be then saved and made available for streaming for a perio…

Fysisk – 4th September 2026 Christopher Nosnibor The line ‘here we are now, entertain us’ from Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ is on which has come to resonate with me more powerfully in recent…

Fysisk – 4th September 2026 Christopher Nosnibor The line ‘here we are now, entertain us’ from Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ is on which has come to resonate with me more powerfully in recent…

Burning Song is the new release from Kali Malone and the first new album of solo compositions since early 2024’s All Life Long. The album arrives via Ideologic Organ on October 30th and is previewe…

The Flenser – 4th September 2025 Christopher Nosnibor Chat Pile have only been around for seven years, but in that time they’ve cemented themselves as among the leading exponents of contemporary no…

Audiobulb – 22nd August 2026 Christopher Nosnibor Every town, every city has its own unique vibe. Some we acclimatise to, others, we find uncomfortable. Others still, scary. Myself, I am not a fan …

Cor de Lux are getting closer to releasing their Ipecac Recordings debut album, YEAR OF THE HORSE, on 18th Sept, which captures their competing impulses: abrasion and melody. Across nine songs, the…

Misanthropic Agenda – 4th September 2026 Christopher Nosnibor As titles go, this is one of those which is closer to an explanatory essay than a mere title. My last encounter with Perverts In White …

Lustmord, the pioneer of modern ambient electronic music, and Dave Lombardo, one of heavy music’s most influential percussionists, have joined forces as Lustmord Lombardo. The pair release their de…

Chat Pile’s heralded debut album God’s Country depicted a particularly American flavour of dread, and their 2024 LP Cool World showed a cruel planet defined by global systemic violence. Now, …

Two decades have passed in the land of Gnod, yet the psychic travelogue only becomes more enthralling as it goes on. The page is turned, a new chapter begins… Whilst this band has flourished …

Buzz Osborne didn’t need another band. JD Pinkus didn’t need another band. Coady Willis didn’t need another band. Together with Clinton Jacob, they started one anyway. Meet Gatta …

Nocturnal Rainbow Recordings – 31st July 2026 Christopher Nosnibor The title of Ran Slavin’s latest does, for all the world, sound like some slangy diss. “I’m getting skibidi rizz.” “Bruh’s hyper b…

Room40 – 7th August 2026 Christopher Nosnibor Lawrence English is an artist who invariably creates works imbued with insight and purpose, with concept and theoretical grounding in the contemplative…

‘Enough’ is the scathing new track to be taken from Emma Ruth Rundle’s These Killing Times. The album will be released via her own imprint Errant Child on 18th September. Clocking in at 6 minutes a…

Norwegian cult act ULVER return again to the track ‘Hollywood Babylon’ from their previous album Liminal Animals (2024) for the best of all reasons: a stunning music video that has been long in the…

Superpang – 17th July 2026 Christopher Nosnibor Jana Irmert’s catalogue is a body of work defined by ever-shifting focus, and her capacity to do so makes her an ideal choice for soundtrack work. He…

Since Chat Pile’s formation just over six years ago, the Oklahoma City-based quartet has grown from a scrappy passion project of four local film and music enthusiasts into one of the defining heavy…

Christopher Nosnibor I can still smell the smoke on my clothes and skin. I can still taste the smoke. Not tobacco smoke, as used to be the case way back (although more recently than seems possible)…

Odd Doo – 12th June 2026 Christopher Nosnibor There is something uniquely compelling about the sound of a pipe organ. I’m clearly not alone in this, as there have been many non-religious works whic…

Cor de Lux, the unorthodox alt-rock foursome from North Carolina’s outerbanks, who recently announced their signing to Ipecac Recordings, release their label debut, the J. Robbins-produced YE…

Lawrence English shares a second piece from his forthcoming album, The Rest Is My Ghost arriving on Room40 on 7th August. ‘One Line Sky’ starts uneasy, towering and stuttering before bursting forth…

Room40 – 26th June 2026 Christopher Nosnibor It’s rare that an album sits so far beyond the realms of any genre that it’s difficult to know where to start in discussing it. Helen Svoboda’s Headwate…

Karlrecords – 22nd May 2026 Christopher Nosnibor Flocks is the duo consisting of drone specialist Werner Durand and percussionist Uli Hohmann, and their second album, Lagoon, we’re informed that ‘t…

In a world increasingly shaped by disposable content, Chat Pile answers with something defiantly real and organic, a mentality that permeates Who Loves The Sun, their third full-length record. Sinc…

Helen Svoboda now shares another glimpse of her forthcoming album, Headwater (out 26th June via Room40), with the mystical ‘Veins’. In collaboration with Finnish vocalist Selma Savolainen, Helen Sv…

Emma Ruth Rundle’s These Killing Times is electrifying, emotional and charged with anti-patriarchal feminist rage. The forthcoming studio album from the multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and multi-…

Futura Resistenza – 9th June 2026 Christopher Nosnibor 23 minutes is, of course, about the most music that it’s possible to fit on one side of vinyl without risking loss of fidelity, but the number…

Sub Rosa – 15th May 2026 Christopher Nosnibor Mick Harris may have left Napalm Death some thirty-five years ago, but it’s still for his work with them – and his coining of the term ‘grindcore’ – th…

O.R.G.II is an immersive musical work that brings the traditional pipe organ into dialogue with electronic and drone compositions, unfolding within a liminal soundscape — a space of transition and …

BIG|BRAVE, the Montréal/Berlin-based trio of guitarist/vocalist Robin Wattie, guitarist Mat Ball, and bassist Liam Andrews, have unveiled the mountainous single ‘an uttering of antipathy,’ taken fr…

Miasmah – 7th May 2026 Christopher Nosnibor “What does a trip towards another world sound like? We’re about to find out. The master of tension, melancholy, and the deranged is back after a long per…

In a second glimpse of the forthcoming album Headwater (out 26th June), Room40’s Helen Svoboda now shares the sparse and mystical ‘Void of Space’. The song begins with a stark vocal, before close h…

Two Acorns – 15th May 2026 Christopher Nosnibor Remastered reissues can be more than simply an event for collectors, and aren’t always an act of exploitation on the part of the label or the band. I…

Cinder Well – the hauntingly stark musical project of multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker – announces a new album A Blooming Body which arrives July 17th via Hen House Studios (where the…