Am 14. November 2025 bringen STELLAR CIRCUITS ihr drittes Album „Phantom :: Phoenix“ raus. Reinhören kann man in die zweite Auskopplung „Corridor„. Sie folgt auf die Single „I See Your Spirit„.

Laut Sänger Ben Beddick entstand das Album in einer schwierigen Phase:

„Während des Songwritings kam immer wieder ein Thema auf:  Tod und die Wiedergeburt durch Feuer. Diese Idee, alte und tote Teile selbst zu töten, um etwas Neues und vielleicht sogar eine ehrlichere Version von uns zu schaffen. Jedes Mal, wenn wir ein Album schreiben, erwarten wir, dass es unangenehm werden und wir einen verletzlichen Teil von uns offenbaren werden. Ein weiteres Thema, das uns beim Schreiben immer wieder beschäftigt, ist der Umgang mit Verlust. Jeder von uns hat während dieses Prozesses verschiedene Phasen des Verlusts und der Trauer durchlebt, und ich glaube, das spiegelt sich in diesem Album wieder. Wir wollen uns immer wieder neu herausfordern und auf dem Fundament aufbauen, das wir in den letzten Jahren als Band geschaffen haben. Ich denke, dass uns das mit Phantom :: Phoenix gelungen ist. Es ist eine Darstellung dieses Zyklus, und ich hoffe, dass es für diejenigen, die es hören, als Katalysator für Wachstum dienen kann.“

STELLAR CIRCUITS „Phantom : : Phoenix“ Tracklist

I See Your Spirit (Video bei YouTube)
Queen Mary
Silhouette
Elegant Illusion
The War Within
Bury The Ashes
Corridor (Video bei YouTube)
Gloria
Same Page
Paris

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Die Alternative Rock / Post Hardcore-Band CHIEFLAND präsentiert ihre neue Single „Fractures“ – das Stück ist eine Zusammenarbeit mit EMMERICH.

Im Winter 2025 spielen CHIEFLAND außerdem einige Konzerte in Deutschland.

CHIEFLAND Tourdaten 2025

21.11.25 Leipzig, Noel’s Ballroom
12.12.25 Hamburg, Molotow
13.12.25 Köln, MTC
14.12.25 Hannover, Bei Chez Heinz
18.12.25 Frankfurt, Nachtleben

CHIEFLAND Line-up 2025
Christopher Hiller – Gesang
Lucas Keitel – Bass
Justus Elbers – Drums
Hans-Joachim Particke – Gitarre

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Hamburg dark rock act Mono Inc. will take their “Darkness” live show across Germany in...

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Dark electronic duo Deep Red has released “The Red Door”, a new single that foreshadows...

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Female-fronted synthpop trio Fatal Aim released the single “Euphoria” via SkyQode on August 29, 2025....

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Los Angeles industrial institution Das Bunker marks its 29th anniversary on Friday, October 3, 2025,...

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Am Wochenende feierten Eisbrecher zum letzten Mal ihr Volle Kraft Voraus Festival. Neben den Gastgebern spielten Joachim Witt, Project Pitchfork, The Beauty Of Gemina, Schattenmann und Hell Boulevard auf - exklusive Fotos hier!

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Meanwhile, it’s been over 20 years since Rotersand made their debut. More than two decades...

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Ashes and Diamonds present an absolutely iconic album with “Ashes and Diamonds Are Forever”. Daniel Ash shows that he is not only a virtuoso on the guitar – as we know from Bauhaus, among others – but also cuts a fabulous figure as a charismatic singer. The trio worked on their first joint album “Ashes […]

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Magic Wands are releasing a digital double single with “Time to Dream / Armour”. In “Time to Dream”, the dark/dream pop duo addresses the dream-like state in which the boundaries between reality and fantasy become blurred. “The song was inspired by magic and the feeling of stepping through the looking glass,” the two explain. The […]

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SPONSORED POST Teneil Throssell alias HAAi likes to explore the boundaries of electronic music. – This is also reflected in her second album “HUMANiSE”, which will be released on October 10, 2025 via Mute. The London-based DJ, producer and songwriter ventures a thought experiment: where will this increasingly AI-dependent world take us? Is there any […]

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The modern metal band Darkness Surrounding have known each other since their school days. Since 2024, the band from Wuppertal have been working with a new singer (Tim Dau) and a new singer/guitarist (Kassandra von Bajgar) and have probably found the missing pieces of the puzzle for their sound. This is channeled in the new […]

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This large format book presents an unforgettable selection of stunning art and fetish photography taken over the last 10+ years. Killer Heels Photography was awarded BEST PHOTOGRAPHER at the UK FETISH AWARDS in 2022 and 2023. Killer Heels Photography has its very own style, an unmistakable look. Specializing in latex fashion and fetish. “Latex is […]

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Mit „The Bible Of Witch Chase“ haben MYSTIC CIRCLE eine weitere Single ihres kommenden Albums „Hexenbrand 1486“ veröffentliöcht. Für ihre vorherige Single „The Scarlet Queen Of Harlots“ haben sich  MYSTIC CIRCLE mit SARAH JEZEBEL DEVA zusammengetan, über den Track sagt die Band:

„Mit der dritten Single zu unserem neuen Album ‚Hexenbrand 1486‘ beschwören wir Babalon, die scharlachrote Königin der Huren, die die Menschheit zur Sünde verführt. Einmal mehr haben wir mit unserer langjährigen Freundin Sarah Jezebel Deva zusammengearbeitet, was dem Song eine besondere monumentale Atmosphäre verleiht. Dieses Biest ist allen schwarzherzigen Hexen da draußen gewidmet.“

Der Song ist die dritte Auskopplung vom kommenden Album  „Hexenbrand 1486“. Das neue Album des deutschen Duos aus Ludwigshafen folgt der jüngsten Compilation „Kriegsgötter MMXXV“ nach und wird am 31. Oktober 2025 via ROAR erscheinen. Produziert wurde das Album von Nils Lesser. Das Cover-Artwork stammt von Rafael Taveres.

Zuvor teilen MYSTIC CIRCLE einen Video-Clip zu „Ghost Of Whitechapel„.

„Die klassische Jack-the-Ripper-Geschichte aus der Sicht des Monsters. Wir haben viel recherchiert, von den angeblichen Briefen des ursprünglichen Mörders bis hin zu den Versen, die er angeblich zu sich selbst gesprochen hat. Inspiriert durch den Comic „From Hell“, der ein wahres Meisterwerk ist, mussten wir diesen Song einfach schreiben“, sagt Frontmann Beelzebub.

Mit dem Video-Clip zu „Boogeyman“ gab es zuvor schon einen ersten Vorab-Song.

MYSTIC CIRCLE Line-Up:
Beelzebub – Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
A. Blackwar – Drums, Guitars, Keyboards

MYSTIC CIRCLE „Hexenbrand 1486“ Tracklist
01. Luciferian
02. The Scarlet Queen Of Harlots (Video bei YouTube)
03. Boogeyman (Video bei YouTube)
04. In The Sign Of The Goat
05. Ghost Of Whitechapel (Video bei YouTube)
06. Institoris (Heinrich Kramer)
07. The Bible Of Witch Chase (Audio als Stream)
08. Blutschande Unzucht Sodomie
09. Dance On The Wings Of Black Magic
10. Zeugnis Der Verachtung (Outro)

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Die Heavy Groove Metal-Band FULL HOUSE BREW CREW hat mit „Glasgow Grin“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Das neue Album der Griechen rund um Sänger und Gitarrist Vagelis Karzis (WOLFHEART) wurde von Saku Moilanen (RED MOON ARCHITECT, BEFORE THE DAWN) in den Deep Noise Studios gemixt und gemastert. Release-Termin ist der 6. Februar 2026 via ROAR. Vorab gibt es zu „No Gods, No Chains“ einen Video-Clip.

FULL HOUSE BREW CREW Line-Up:
Vagelis Karzis – Vocals / Guitars
Spiros Dafalias – Bass
Giorgios Tzatzakis – Guitars
Chris Borméy – Drums

FULL HOUSE BREW CREW „Glasgow Grin“ Tracklist
1. Glasgow Grin
2. No Gods, No Chains (Video bei YouTube)
3. The Tear
4. The Other Side
5. Free Fall
6. Rain
7. From The Gutter
8. Distant Star
9. Crawling
10. Reign of Terror

WOLFHEART, BEFORE THE DAWN, SUOTANA, FULL HOUSE BREW CREW Tourdaten 2025
25.09.2025 NL Utrecht – De Helling
26.09.2025 DE Herford – KulturWerk
27.09.2025 DE Siegburg – Kubana
29.09.2025 FR Paris – Backstage By The Mill
30.09.2025 BE Kortrijk – DVG Club
01.10.2025 DE Hamburg – Logo
02.10.2025 DE Leipzig – Hellraiser
03.10.2025 DE Essen – Turock
04.10.2025 DE Weinheim – Café Central
05.10.2025 HU Budapest – Analog Music Hall
06.10.2025 PL Kraków – Klub Zaścianek
07.10.2025 SK Košice – Collosseum
08.10.2025 CZ Prague – Rock Café
09.10.2025 SI Ljubljana – Orto Bar
10.10.2025 IT Paderno Dugnano (MI) – Slaughter Club
11.10.2025 CH Zug – Chollerhalle
12.10.2025 DE Lindau – Club Vaudeville
13.10.2025 DE Munich – Backstage

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Die Symphonic Metal-Band GLASYA hat mit „Fear“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist nach „Heaven’s Demise“ (2019) und „Attarghan“ (2022) das dritte Album der Portugiesen aus Lissabon rund um Sängerin Eduarda Soeiro, die Teil des Live-Line-Ups von MOONSPELL ist.

Das Album erzählt die Geschichte einer Frau, die sich ihren eigenen Ängsten stellen muss und den Mut findet, diese zu überwinden. Der Zuhörer schlüpft in die Rolle der Protagonistin und spürt ihre Beklommenheit, ihre Überzeugungen, ihre Erfolge und das Selbstvertrauen, das sie entwickelt, um einem nahestehenden Menschen zu helfen. Im Verlauf dieser Geschichte offenbart sie ihre Schwächen und zeigt, wie diese schließlich zu ihren Stärken werden – ein echter Triumph über die Widrigkeiten des Lebens. Mit „Glimpse of Memory“ gibt es nun eine zweite Single vom Album – mit Michele Guaitoli (VISIONS OF ATLANTIS, TEMPERANCE, OVERTURES) als Gast-Sänger.

„Fear“ wurde von Fernando Matias bei The Pentagon Audio Manufacturers produziert und von Jaime Gomez Arellano in den Orgone Studios gemastert. Das Cover-Artwork stammt von Phobos Anomaly Design. Release-Termin ist der 24. Oktober 2025 via Scarlet Records. Vorab gibt es einen Video-Clip zum eröffnenden Titeltrack – mit Gast-Sänger Fernando Ribeiro (MOONSPELL).

„Sarah, die Hauptfigur des Albums, wacht allein, verwirrt und ohne Erinnerungen an einem unwirtlichen Ort auf. Während sie versucht, sich daran zu erinnern, wer sie ist und was sie dort macht, wird sie von Stimmen aus der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart heimgesucht, die sich als ihre Ängste entpuppen, die zurückkehren, um sie zu quälen“, heißt es von Seiten der Band.

GLASYA Line-Up:
Eduarda Soeiro – vocals
Davon Van Dave – keyboards
Hugo Esteves – guitar
Bruno Prates – guitar
Ivan Santos – bass
Pedro Correia – drums

GLASYA „Fear“ Tracklist
01 Fear (Video bei YouTube)
02 Hunt Of The Haunted
03 In Debris
04 Stuck In A Cobweb
05 Glimpse Of Memory (Audio bei Bandcamp)
06 Rising Wildfire
07 In A Flooding Room
08 The Cold Of Dark
09 Rescue
10 The Confrontation
11 In Your Haven
12 The Ultimate Challenge
13 Overcoming
14 No Teu Abrigo

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Die Death Metal-Band QRIXKUOR hat mit „The Womb Of The World“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist nach „Poison Palinopsia“ (2021) das zweite Album der Engländer aus London, die dazwischen die EP „Zoetrope“ (2022) veröffentlicht haben.

„The Womb Of The World“ wurde von Greg Chandler (ESOTERIC, LYCHGATE) produziert und mit einem Cover-Artwork von Santiago Caruso ausgestattet. Release-Termin ist der 7. November 2025 via Invictus Productions.

QRIXKUOR Line-Up:
S – Guitars, bass and vocals
D – Drums

QRIXKUOR „The Womb Of The World“ Tracklist
1. So Spoke the Silent Stars
2. Slithering Serendipity
3. And You Shall Know Perdition As Your Shrine…
4. The Womb of the World

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THE ANSWER LIES IN THE BLACK VOID, ein Projekt der Sängerin Martina Horváth (THY CATAFALQUE) und Multoinstrumentalist Jason Köhnen (CELESTIAL SEASON, BONG-RA, THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE), veröffentlichen ihr drittes Album: „Transcendental“,erschien am 26. September 2025 via Lay Bare Recordings.

Nach dem zweiten Preview-Song „Sine Morbo“ kann man nun auch den Track „Deconstructed“ als Videoclip ansehen.

Als erste Single wählte die Ambient Doom-Band „The Summoning“ aus:

THE ANSWER LIES IN THE BLACK VOID  ‚Transcendental‘ Tracklist & Cover

Deniers
 Sine Morbo (Video bei YouTube)
Love Is A Dog From Hell
Senkim
The Summoning (Video bei YouTube)
Shattered By Wisdom
Deconstructed (Video bei YouTube)
Mists Of Krakatoa

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Mit „La meg sjå alt omkring meg falle“ wird am 31. Oktober 2025 via Downfall Records das neue Album der Black Metal-Band ILLVILJE erscheinen. Es ist der erste Release der Norweger.

ILLVILJE Line-Up
Steven – Guitar & bass
Are – Drums
Jolm – Vocals & guitar

ILLVILJE „La meg sjå alt omkring meg falle“ Tracklist
1. Svartsinne (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
2. Rovjakt
3. Djevelklo (Audio bei Bandcamp)
4. Byrdeferd (Audio bei Bandcamp)
5. Villmenn
6. Morklagt
7. Jordbundet

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Die Thrash Metal-Band KAKSONEN hat mit „Perisyntinen“ einen dritten Track ihres kommenden Albums „Valo-olento“ veröffentlicht. Davor ist nach dem Opener „Vastavoimat“ mit „Ikuinen“ ein zweiter Vorab-Track erschienen.

„Es ist ein Song darüber, seinen Platz in dem endlosen Kreislauf zu finden, der sich über Raum und Zeit erstreckt. Unser Leben ist ein flüchtiger Blick irgendwo zwischen dem Urknall und der Entropie. Wenn man seinen Platz im kosmischen Maßstab akzeptiert, findet man inneren Frieden, Ausgeglichenheit und Stabilität. Dabei spielt es keine Rolle, ob man an Seelenwanderung, Reinkarnation oder etwas anderes glaubt; wichtig ist, dass man sich seiner eigenen Position und seines Einflusses auf die Welt um sich herum bewusst ist“, erklärt die Band.

„Valo-olento“ ist nach „Universumin kuningas“ (2023) das zweite Album der Finnen und wird am 17. Oktober 2025 via Inverse Records erscheinen.

KAKSONEN Line-Up:
Antti Lähdesmäki – guitar & vocals
Ville Koskivaara – bass & vocals
Tuomo Rinkinen – drums
Miika Vainio – vocals & guitar

KAKSONEN „Valo-olento“ Tracklist
01. Vastavoimat (Audio als Stream)
02. Kaikki maailman paha
03. Perisyntinen (Audio als Stream)
04. Nälkämaa
05. Kaikki maailman kauneus
06. Kauas pois
07. Ikuinen (Audio als Stream)
08. Manaaja

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Die Black Metal-Band THE STONE hat mit „Kletva“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist das zehnte Album der Serben aus Belgrad und wurde von Honza Kapák im Hellsound Studio gemixt und gemastert. Release-Termin ist der 28. November 2025 via Immortal Frost Productions.

THE STONE „Kletva“ Tracklist
01. Sve sravnjeno, sve spaljeno
02. Kletve lovor
03. Trag u ve�nosti
04. Slutnja
05. Denying the Axiom
06. Besi
07. Sve�a je dogorela

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Die Technical Death Metal-Band OBVURT hat nach „Hold On To Hope“ und „Patience“ mit „Between Past and Future“ einen weiteres Video ihres neuen Albums „An Alternate Dimension“ veröffentlicht. Es ist nach „Triumph Beyond Adversity“ (2022) das zweite Album der Kanadier aus Quebec und ist am 8. August 2025 via Brutal Mind erschienen.

OBVURT Line-Up:
Philippe Drouin – Guitars, Vocals
Enzo Roussel – Bass
Michel Gagné Bouchard – Drummer

OBVURT „An Alternate Dimension“ Tracklist
1. Artificial Consciousness
2. Patience (Video bei YouTube)
3. Rites of Humanity
4. War or Exile
5. Efforts, Try, Repeat
6. Existence
7. Monde Intemporel
8. Betrween Past And Future (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
9. Hold on to Hope (Video bei YouTube)
10. An Alternate Dimension

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Die Melodic Death Metal-Band OUTLYING hat mit „Oblivisci“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist nach „Scars of Daylight“ (2012) und „Frameworks for Repression“ (2016) das dritte Album der Kanadier aus Quebec und wird am 21. November 2025 erscheinen. Vorab gibt es den Track „November“ zu hören.

„Oblivisci“ ist ein Konzeptalbum, das sich mit Themen wie Trauma, Entfremdung, Trauer und Sucht auseinandersetzt. Das Albumcover, von Frontmann Fred A. Dubeau realisiert, zeigt eine postapokalyptische Version der Heimatstadt der Band und spiegelt damit die Themen der Texte wider, die sich mit gesellschaftlichem Verfall und persönlichem Zusammenbruch befassen.

OUTLYING Line-Up
Fred A. Dubeau – Guitar, Vocals
Charles Alex Bilodeau – Bass, Back Vocals
Martin Reithler – Drums

OUTLYING „Oblivisci“ Tracklist
1 – The Raven Is Gone – 5:27
2 – Stigma – 3:49
3 – Snow – 6:02
4 – Streets Of Rats And Vultures – 4:47
5 – Pitch-Black Serum – 4:36
6 – November – 5:56 (Audio bei YouTube)
7 – Sentinel – 5:43
8 – Impaired – 5:32
9 – Dreamless Nights Part I: A Lullaby For The Insomniac – 4:19
10- Dreamless Nights Part II: From Velvet Skies – 5:13
11- Dreamless Nights Part III: Walking Out Of Eden’s Ashes – 4:25

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Die Melodic Death Metal-Band BLOODY MOON hat nach „My Payoff“ und dem Opener „Deadly Rendezvous“ mit „I’ll Torn ‚Em Apart“ einen weiteren Video-Clip ihres kommenden Albums „Lost & Damned“ veröffentlicht. Es ist nach „Widow from the Dark“ (2023) das zweite Album der Finnen und wird am 31. Oktober 2025 via Inverse Records erscheinen. Das Cover-Artwork stammt von Ariz M Fazri.

BLOODY MOON Line-up:
Veeti Sukari – Vocals & Guitars
Nisse Nurminen – Bass
Toivo Aitakari – Drums

BLOODY MOON „Lost & Damned“ Tracklist
1. Deadly Rendezvous (Video bei YouTube)
2. Rage Metal
3. My Payoff (Video bei YouTube)
4. Blood Red Tears
5. I’ll Torn ‚em Apart (Video bei YouTube)
6. Lucky Bastard
7. End of the Road
8. Murder Hotel Chicago
9. Madman’s Boogie Woogie
10. Lost & Damned

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Toronto’s internationally acclaimed TRAITRS return with their first new material since 2021’s Horses in the Abattoir, unveiling the seraphic new single Burn In Heaven. Released on September 26, 2025, the track heralds a new beginning, serving as the lead single from their forthcoming full-length album, Possessor. Since their last album, the band’s sound has grown more potent and unmistakably more mature—proof that their time away from the studio has been anything but idle.

Like its title suggests, Burn In Heaven is soaring and elegiac, burning with fiery passion and solemn exaltation. The guitars churn along, augmenting the somber melody and dynamic vocals that are both solemn and yearning, evoking a sound that lies somewhere between Brett Anderson and Robert Smith, while delivering lyrics poised between anguish and grandeur. The result is a song that feels at once sacred and hedonistic—a dance party in a cathedral—where shadows move in step with light. Live or in studio, like the entirety of TRAITRS’ catalog, Burn In Heaven never loses its potency—its impact remains undiluted, a testament to the band’s ability to channel raw emotion into anthems that feel both intimate and vast.

The single’s artwork draws from cinema and theatre history, featuring a stark black-and-white still of Isabelle Adjani in her role in The House of Bernarda Alba. The choice is fitting: Adjani’s haunting gaze and the austere, shadow-drenched setting amplify the song’s tension between sanctity and suffering. Much like “Burn In Heaven” itself, the image feels both sacred and forbidden—an echo of gothic devotion and unquiet desire.

Order Burn In Heaven, the B-side This Sick Kiss on 7” and CD via Bandcamp.

And listen to “Burn In Heaven” on Spotify below:

Burn in Heaven makes a triumphant return for Traitrs, following years of international touring to sold-out audiences across Europe and North America, further cementing the band’s reputation as one of the most vital forces in today’s post-punk and darkwave resurgence.

To celebrate the release of “Burn In Heaven” and build anticipation for Possessor, TRAITRS are embarking on an expansive international run that will carry them from Italy through France, Scandinavia, Germany, the Balkans, and all the way to Mexico City. The tour begins October 24th in Rome at Reload SpeakEasy and winds through over twenty cities—including Stockholm, Paris, Athens, Berlin, Vienna, Zagreb, Belgrade, Sofia, and Tbilisi—before culminating on November 28th at Circo Volador in Mexico City.

Tour Dates:

24.10.2025 I-Rome, Reload SpeakEasy
25.10.2025 I-Parma, Circolo Arcistella
31.10.2025 F-Wasquehal (Lille], The Black Lab
01.11.2025 S-Stockholm, Reimersholme
02.11.2025 NL-Utrecht, De Helling (@ Momentum)
04.11.2025 F-Nantes (Rezé), Cold Crash
05.11.2025 F-Paris, La Java
07.11.2025 GR-Athens, Death Disco
08.11.2025 D-Minchen, Feierwerk @ Katzenclub
09.11.2025 D-Stuttgart, Goldmarks (Debdepan)
11.11.2025 D-hamburg, Hafenklang Webdepan)
12.11.2025 D-Berlin, Slaughterhouse (Debdepan)
13.11.2025 D-Berlin, Slaughterhouse (Debdepan)
14.11.2025 D-Bochum, Matrix @ Cold Hearted Festival
15.11.2025 D-Dresden, Alter Schlachthof @ Cold Hearted Festival
16.11.2025 D-Mannheim, Dark Dance Treffen
18.11.2025 A-Vienna, Viper Room (The Devil & The Universe)
19.11.2025 A-Graz, PPC
20.11.2025 HR-Zagreb, Tvornica Culture
21.11.2025 SRB-Beograd, KC Grad
22.11.2025 BG-Sofia, Club Singles
23.11.2025 GE-Tiflis, Junkyard
28.11.2025 Mexico City MX @ Circo Volador

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Die Power Metal-Band VALIANT hat einen Labeldeal bei Theogonia Records unterschrieben. Im Zuge dessen werden die Griechen ihr neues Album „Neverealm“ veröffentlichen. Es ist nach „Valiant Sentinel“ (2021) das zweite Album der Band aus Athen.

„Neverealm“ wurde mit einem Cover-Artwork von Remedy Art Design ausgestattet und wird am 16. Januar 2026 erscheinen.

VALIANT Line-Up
Dimitris Skodras – guitars
Veandok – vocals
Panos Manikas – bass
Frederik Ehmke – drums

VALIANT „Neverealm“ Tracklist
01. War In Heaven
02. Neverealm (feat. Laura Guldemond)
03. Mirkwood Forest
04. The Underdark
05. To Mend The ring
06. Elden Lord
07. Come What May
08. Arch Nemesis (feat. Zak Stevens)
09. The Battle Of Hornburg

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You are here and so am IMaybe millions of people go byBut they all disappear from view
And I only have eyes for you
The 1950s were a fever dream of juke joints and soda fountains thick with smoke, chrome, and longing. Voices floated from street corners: The Flamingos, The Penguins, The Chordettes, The Cadets. Their harmonies, as sweet as soda pop and as strange as fevered youth, seeped into the bloodstream of popular culture. Punk, post-punk, and bubbly synthpop artists would seize these relics years later, bending them into new shapes, at once mocking, mangling, and celebrating them. Every decade, some restless soul has returned to those spectral refrains to see what secrets they still whisper. Now Candy Whips take their turn, carrying the flame into the circuitry of the present.

Wendy Stonehenge, best known for glam-rock outfit Glitter Wizard, created Candy Whips as a vessel for sounds too unruly for his main band. When the stages went silent during the pandemic, he took inspiration from Mute Records’ Daniel Miller and Frank Tovey, whose late-1970s “virtual band” Silicon Teens reimagined pop through circuitry. In that spirit, Stonehenge drew Kraftwerk’s robo-pulse into Oakland bedrooms, soldering punk and synthpop into a gleaming, improbable alloy.

“I’ve always been a big oldies fan,” Stonehenge says of Moonlight, his new EP of ‘50s standards. The tracklist is a roll call of jukebox ghosts: Gene Chandler’s Duke of Earl, The Penguins’ Earth Angel, Marty Wilde’s Bad Boy. He begins with The Flamingos’ number I Only Have Eyes For You, a song already drenched in dream, now rendered uncanny through filters and sequencers.

“This is probably my favorite doo-wop song and the first I recorded for the album,” he explains. “I feel like it really sets the tone for the whole EP… When I was a kid, it was always on the radio. These days, oldies radio doesn’t really exist, so you have to actively seek it out.”

The version is deeply Lynchian. One can imagine this cover looping in Blue Velvet while Dorothy Vallens stares at the ceiling fan, or echoing across the red curtains of the Roadhouse. The harmonies are intact, but they are refracted like moonlight seen in an oil slick. It feels less like a cover than a portal, an old American ballad wired into a dream sequence. Though many jaded modern bands might be tempted to smother such songs in sarcasm or irony, Candy Whips keeps faith with the tender romance of the original version of I Only Have Eyes For You…an act that feels almost rebellious in itself in these troubled times.  And perhaps that’s fitting, for were the Cold War years really ever free of trouble themselves?

“My choice of tracks is more of an intentional thing,” Stonehenge continues. “I’ve noticed that I’m particularly drawn to doo wop and old vocal groups… A lot of these songs are so ingrained in us that it’s easy to overlook how creative and weird they were in their day…. I think I’ve brought some of that weirdness to the forefront.”

Elsewhere, Marvin and Johnny’s Cherry Pie spins into a mechanized midnight dance; The Cadets’ Stranded in the Jungle leaps with staccato jolts, its slapstick vaudeville turned surreal cabaret; Mr. Sandman becomes a lullaby for infants dreaming in circuits; Earth Angel is processed into a mechanized serenade, a robot’s prayer to love.

“If I could turn young people on to this old music, that would be amazing,” Stonehenge professes. “It sometimes bums me out that this stuff isn’t as ubiquitous as it was in my childhood. This era is the well that most good music sprung from!”

And so Moonlight arrives: a séance where candy-striped nostalgia shakes hands with the uncanny. The Flamingos once sang that the world could be falling apart and still “I only have eyes for you.” In Candy Whips’ hands, the sentiment becomes stranger, sharper: love as an old broadcast transmitted into the future, fragile, eternal, and humming with electricity.

Moonlight is out now via Kitten Robot. Listen to Moonlight below and order the album here.

Moonlight by Candy Whips

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At the moment that you wake from sleepingand you know it’s all a dreamWell the truth may come in strange disguisesNever knowing what it means.

The autumnal equinox is supposed to be about balance, a cosmic see-saw where the day finally admits the night is winning. At Irving Plaza, Kula Shaker took that symmetry, stuffed it into a battered Marshall stack, and detonated it across Manhattan. The stage looked like a shrine built by a psychedelic carpenter: colorful malas drooped over guitars and amps, beads dangling like electric rosaries, waiting for Crispian Mills to strike the first chord and send the faithful tumbling into ecstasy.

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Mills took on the role as mischievous ringmaster, steering the night with flamboyant abandon. At his side, Alonza Bevan grounded the music with basslines that beat like a second heart. Winterhart drove the drums with a near-shamanic force, while Darlington, the cosmic organist, unleashed synth swells and keyboard runs that cascaded like stained glass breaking into light. Together, the four locked into a form both seamless and electric.

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They opened with Great Hosannah from Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts, and the song roared like a choir shot through with kerosene. Mills’s guitar playing was already aflame, sparks practically jumping off the strings. Alonza Bevan anchored the storm on bass, every note thick as wet rope, while Paul Winterhart’s drumming galloped, shamanic and insistent. Jay Darlington sat behind his keys like a wizard with a stack of spellbooks, dialing up the psychedelic projections that sprawled across the walls in amoebic patterns.

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The setlist was a veritable collage of eras and tempers: Idon’twannapaymytaxes and Ophelia from 1st Congregational Church of Eternal Love and Free Hugs rubbed shoulders with the hallucinatory folk of Into the Deep.

Their cover of Hawkwind’s Hurry On Sundown shimmered like a love letter to psychedelic lineage, while Mystical Machine Gun folded in a snarling snippet of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs, reminding us of the roots of both rage and joy in amplified sound. Watching Mills play guitar is, in itself, a crazy religious experience, as if he is trying to embody the flurry of noise itself.

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The old tracks landed like well-aimed prayers: Knight on the Town, Shower Your Love, Grateful When You’re Dead / Jerry Was There. These were hymns from K (1996), still capable of making an audience holler as though Clinton were still president and Britpop hadn’t yet curdled. But it was the newer material that shocked the room into the realization that this band isn’t coasting on incense and nostalgia. The masses sang them back with the same lung-shredding passion as Hey Dude.

They launched into one of their biggest hits, Tattva, which, for many 90s teens, was a brief introduction to Sanskrit and Eastern principles. “Tattva, acintya-bheda-abheda-tattva” translates loosely as “the truth of the inconceivable, simultaneous oneness and difference of all things.” In Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy, it’s the paradox of the soul and the divine being both united and distinct; a riddle to be lived rather than solved. On this night, the chant resonated with added weight: the autumnal equinox marked the balance of light and dark, while inside, Kula Shaker turned the mystery of oneness and difference into music loud enough to shake the scales of Libra season.

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Good Money (from their upcoming Wormslayer album) was another highlight. At the climax, Mills flung a flurry of phony $100 bills into the pit. A blizzard of worthless wealth, fluttering green under the strobe lights. The audience went berserk, scrambling with the zeal of Wall Street interns after an IPO, laughing, hollering, stuffing bills into shirts. It was theatre, sure, but also a perfect parable: greed turned carnival, banknotes unravelled into paper rain.

They closed with Govinda, their eternal mantra, where once again Sanskrit met Fender and the room swayed like a single organism. Irving Plaza temporarily transformed into a temple where East kissed West, religion locked arms with rock ’n’ roll, and everyone shouted along as if salvation depended on volume.

All four members played with electrified grace, their energy boundless, their humour intact. The music itself seemed to shimmer with the notion of what is most holy in art: that it is not perfect, but alive…and alive it must remain. The fabled rapture might not have come after all, but the audience at Irving Plaza certainly was in that state.

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Kula Shaker are currently on tour in the US. Don’t miss this run!

Sep 30 – Tempe, AZ — Tue 7:00 PM · Marquee Theatre Tempe · Tickets
Oct 2 – Santa Ana, CA — Thu 7:00 PM · The Observatory · Tickets 
Oct 3 – San Diego, CA — Fri 7:00 PM · House of Blues San Diego · Tickets 
Oct 4 – Pioneertown, CA — Sat 7:00 PM · Pappy & Harriet’s · Tickets 
Oct 6 – Los Angeles, CA — Mon 8:00 PM · The Bellwether · Tickets
Oct 8 – San Francisco, CA — Wed 8:00 PM · The Regency Ballroom · Tickets

Kula Shaker return to the UK in February 2026 for a run of headline shows in support of Wormslayer.

7th – Brighton, Concorde 2
8th – Cambridge, Junction
9th – Holmfirth, Picturedrome
11th – Glasgow, Old Fruitmarket
12th – Manchester, O2 Ritz
13th – London, Islington Assembly Hall

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„There Is No Tomorrow“ – das klingt wie ein typischer Titel für ein düsteres Elektroalbum. Aber mal ehrlich: In unserer aktuellen politischen Realität könnte man das doch...

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Unsere Saltatio Mortis Deluxe 7″-Vinyl-Singles sind endlich eingetroffen und alle Vorbestellungen wurden verschickt. Jetzt noch eines der letzten Exemplare sichern! Streng limitiert auf 499 Exemplare in 3 Farben und nur bei uns erhältlich - kommt mit Lyric-Inlay im Kasten-Sleeve & Sonic Seducer 09/2025 inklusive Saltatio Mortis “Weltenwanderer”-Titelstory + CD-Track.

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THROMOS
„Satan“
(Black Metal)

Wertung: Empfehlung!

VÖ (LP): 01.07.2025

Label: Blutmondsphaeren

Webseite: Metal-Archives / Bandcamp

„Satan“ erschien als CD bereits im Dezember 2019 über Schattenkult Produktionen, wo THROMOS seit 2018 alle Alben veröffentlicht haben. Alle vorherigen Alben wurden über eben jenes Label danach neu aufgelegt. Vor einem Jahr wurde über das Tochterlabel Blutmondsphaeren, welches für Vinylveröffentlichungen gedacht ist, dass Debüt „Verfault Und Vergessen“ erstmalig auf Vinyl veröffentlicht. Fast genau 1 Jahr später war „Satan“ dann auf Vinyl erhältlich.

Vor 1,5 Jahren habe ich in meinem Review zum aktuellen Album „Verfluchung“ (Review hier) noch angemerkt, dass „Satan“ mir soundtechnisch nicht so zusagt. Stimmt überhaupt nicht mehr, das Album ist mittlerweile in meiner Last.fm-Liste bei Ihnen auf Platz 2 gelandet. Mittlerweile höre ich das Album wegen des Sounds sogar gerne. So kann sich das eben drehen.

Die Melodien auf „Satan“, besonders von „Gottlose Energien“ und „Lilith (Katakomben der Nacht)“ gefallen mir sehr gut und der Sound ist so schön räudig, aber trotzdem kann man alles gut hören. Der Gesang ist relativ rückwärtig gemischt und hat noch zusätzlich einen ordentlichen Schwung Hall bekommen. Zusammen mit den Melodien erzeugt das eine wirklich gute Stimmung in meinen Ohren. Das Vinyl macht sich auch gut in meiner Sammlung und ist so gut hergestellt, dass ich, je nach Album, wohl definitiv zugreifen werde. Ich persönlich hoffe auf „Vergessene Tiefen“ oder „Dematerialisation“, dann bin ich ohne Blick auf den Geldbeutel sofort dabei.

Für Raw Black Metal Fans, die auch Melodien mögen, eine absolute Empfehlung! (hendrik)

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Neue Musik aus Sydney: Die Alternative Metal-Band RELIQA meldet sich mit der Single „Your Touch“ zurück. Entstanden ist der Track in Zusammenarbeit mit Produzent James McKendrick.

„Your Touch“ folgt auf das Debütalbum „Secrets Of The Future“ (2024), den Inhalt des Stücks erklären die Australier:

„’Your Touch‘ ist eine Fortsetzung einer uns am Herzen liegenden Idee, die wir auf Secrets of the Future begonnen haben zu erkunden, nämlich die Angst, dass Ehrgeiz zu weit gehen kann. Es geht um einen Tunnelblick, bei dem dein Blick so eng auf ein einziges Ziel gerichtet ist, dass du eines Tages merkst, dass du alles, was du liebst, zurückgelassen hast. Der Song ist deshalb voller Weltraum-Metaphern – es fühlte sich wie eine passende Metapher an, um kühne Schritte zu machen, die dich isolierter denn je zurücklassen.“

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Die Indie Rock-Band PORTUGAL. THE MAN veröffentlicht am 7. November 2025 ein neues Album mit dem Titel „Shish“ via KNIK-Thirty Tigers. Zunächst erscheint die Platte digital, die CD- und Vinyl-Fassungen folgen am 12. Dezember 2025.

Reinhören ist vorab in die beiden Singles „Tanana“ sowie „Mush“ möglich. Außerdem steht der Preview-Track „Denali“ bereit.

Im März 2026 kommt die Gruppe für drei Konzerte nach Deutschland.

PORTUGAL. THE MAN „Shish“ Tracklist

Denali (Video bei YouTube)
Pittman Ralliers
Angoon
Knik
Shish
Mush (Video bei YouTube)
Tyonek
Kokhanockers
Tanana (Video bei YouTube)
Father Gun

PORTUGAL. THE MAN Konzerte 2026

05.03.2026 Hamburg – Inselpark Arena
06.03.2026 Köln – Palladium
09.03.2026 Berlin – Columbiahalle

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ZETRA feiern das einjährige Jubiläum ihres Debütalbums „Zetra“ mit einer besonderen Neuveröffentlichung: „Zetra: The Floor Eternal“ ist eine Quasi-Neuauflage in neuem Gewand, das in Zusammenarbeit mit theKeymaker entstanden ist und einen Dark-Ambient-Remix der Platte enthält.

Verfügbar ist „Zetra: The Floor Eternal“ rein digital seit 25. September 2025. Das Duo erklärt:

„[…] Erlebt Zetra in einer neuen Form. Diese Musik soll euch in Momenten der Entspannung, Meditation, des fokussierten Hörens oder im Hintergrund begleiten, während eure Gedanken woanders sind.

‚Zetra: The Floor Eternal‘ wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit theKeymaker aufgenommen, mit den folgenden Synthesizern:Behringer MonoPoly, SY1, Wasp & Solina, Moog Minitaur, Akai RhythmWolf & TomCat, Korg MS20, Roland JX8P […]“

Anhören kann man die Platte auf allen gängigen Streamingdiensten.

Im Dezember 2025 spielen ZETRA zudem einige Shows in Deutschland:

ZETRA: Covern KITTIE-Song & Konzerte in Köln, München & Berlin

Fotogalerie: ZETRA – Backstage Halle, München – 24.10.2024

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Die Metalcore-Band DOWNSWING hat einen Vertrag mit MNRK abgeschlossen. Die erste gemeinsame Veröffentlichung ist das Album „And Everything Was Dark“, das für 24. Oktober 2025 angekündigt ist. Wie sich die neue Platte anhört, verrät die Single „Too Little Too Late„. Hier ist außerdem LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES-Frontmann Chris Roetter als Gast zu hören.

Mit der Single „For What It’s Worth“ steht eine weitere Hörprobe als Clip bereit. Beteiligt ist hier Travis Moseley (COLORBLIND).

DOWNSWING „And Everything Was Dark“ Tracklist

No God to Me
Emptiness Remains
Drowned Out
Thanks For Nothing
In A Daze
For What It’s Worth (feat. Travis Moseley) (Video bei YouTube)
Stand By…
Serpent
Letting Go (feat. Elijah Witt)
Too Little Too Late (feat. Chris Roetter) (Video bei YouTube)
Eternal

DOWNSWING Line-up 2025
Harrison Seanor — Gesang
Anthony Salvaggio — Gitarre
Chris Arnold — Bass
Nick Manzella — Schlagzeug

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Das 13. Album vom SOULFLY trägt den Titel „Chama“, Sänger Max Cavalera erklärt den Titel: „Chama ist das brasilianische Wort für Flamme.  Es bedeutet auch ‚Berufung‘. Grüße gehen raus an den brasilianischen Kampfsportler Alex Pereira, der unseren Song ‚Itsari‘ bei seinen Kämpfen verwendet. ‚Chama‘ ist von der Energie dieses Moments inspiriert. Dieses Album ist der Sound des Feuers von SOULFLY!“

Die Wartezeit bis zu Veröffentlichung verkürzt jetzt das Video „Nihilist„; an dem Songs ist auch Todd Jones (NAILS) beteiligt.

„Chama“ erscheint am 24. Oktober 2025. Zur ersten Single „Storm The Gates“ gibt es ebenfalls ein Video:

„Chama“ entstand im Platinum Underground Studio in Mesa, Arizona mit John Aquilino, der bereits mehrfach der Band zusammengearbeitet hat. Das Album wurde von Zyon Cavalera und Arthur Rizk produziert. Letzterer war auch für das Mixing und Mastering verantwortlich.

SOULFLY „Chama“ Tracklist
01. Indigenous Inquisition
02. Storm the Gates (Video bei YouTube)
03. Nihilist (Video bei YouTube)
04. No Pain = No Power
05. Ghenna
06. Black Hole Scum
07. Favela / Dystopia
08. Always Was, Always Will Be…
09. Soulfly XIII
10. Chama

SOULFLY Line-up
Max Cavalera  Vocals & Guitar
Igor Amadeus Cavalera   Bass
Zyon Cavalera  Drums
Mike De Leon  Guitar

SOULFLY – Backstage Werk, München – 12.08.2024 – Konzertfotos

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Das Doom / Post Metal-Projekt THE DEVIL’S TRADE stellt sein neues Album „Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép“ mit der Single „The Sleep That Dragged You Away“ vor.

Auch ein Clip zur Single „Weltschmerz“ ist bei YouTube abrufbereit. Der Albumtitel bedeutet übersetzt so viel wie „Es gibt keine unbefleckte Schönheit“.

„Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép“ erscheint am 7. November 2025 via Pelagic Records. Für die Produktion erhielt das Duo Unterstüzung von Márton Szabó, das Mastering übernahm Nikita Kamprad.

THE DEIVL’S TRADE „Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép“ Tracklist
1. The Sleep That Dragged You Away (Audio bei YouTube)
2. Weltschmerz (Video bei YouTube)
3. All This Sadness
4. All This Sadness Will Be Gone
5. Your Pieces Scattered
6. Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép
7. Idegen Minden

THE DEVIL’S TRADE Line-up 2025
Dávid Makó – vocals, guitar, keyboard
Gaspar Binder – drums

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Im kommenden Jahr gehen Subway To Sally wieder auf Akustik-Tour - präsentiert von Sonic Seducer! Wo Ihr sie mit ihrem "Nackt III - Lügen und Legenden"-Programm live erleben könnt, erfahrt Ihr hier.

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On November 23, 2025, the benefit festival Endlichkeitsdialoge will take place at Werk 2 in Leipzig: Benjamin Schmidt, Christian von Aster, Luci van Org, Dr. Marcus Schwarz, M. Kruppe, Sarah Lesch and Ulrike Serowy are building a bridge between the best entertainment and exploring what death and all its facets are all about. They want […]

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Mit "The Chemistry Of Pain" haben Diary Of Dreams die erste Single von der kommenden EP "Chapter 1: Dead End Dreams" ausgekoppelt. Mehr Infos und den Video-Clip hier bei uns!

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Unsere neuen Titelhelden Nine Inch Nails konnten sich mit ihrem neuen Album „Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)“ Platz #8 der deutschen Charts sichern – herzlichen Glückwunsch! Übrigens: Das Album könnt Ihr Euch HIER bei uns auf CD als Aboprämie sichern! Eine große Titelstory + XL-Plakat und exklusiven Sticker findet Ihr im neuen Magazin: Sonic […]

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The Nürburgring is gearing up for a legendary festival: Rock am Ring 2026 combines goosebumps and unforgettable moments. The advance sales figures are already exceeding all expectations: Within the first hour, 45,000 tickets found their buyers, now there are over 70,000 – a record that impressively underlines the huge anticipation of the fans. From June […]

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Die Black / Death Metal / Grindcore-Band FLAGELO wird am 31. Oktober 2025 via Nuclear Winter Records (CD, LP) und Night Terrors Records (MC) ihre neue EP „Insaciable“ veröffentlichen. Es ist der erste Release der Kolumbianer und wurde von Sänger und Gitarrist Pablo Miguel Méndez (MICO) produziert.

FLAGELO „Insaciable“ (Stream bei Bandcamp)

FLAGELO Line-Up:
Francisco Gallego – Vocals
Sebastián Osorio – Vocals, Guitars
Miguel Méndez – Vocals, Guitars
Luis Miguel Cuartas – Bass
Juan José Moya – Drums

FLAGELO „Insaciable“ Tracklist
1. Insaciable
2. Viral
3. Rey de Nada
4. Historia Animal
5. Eslabón

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The Cure have confirmed yet another major festival date for 2026: they are set to headline the Isle of Wight Festival, adding a key UK date to their burgeoning European summer slate. The announcement marks their first confirmed U.K. festival appearance of the year.

Isle of Wight Festival 2026 is slated for June 18–21 at Seaclose Park in Newport. The Cure’s slot will close out the event, making it a marquee headliner position. In addition to The Cure, the festival has already revealed its co-headliners, Calvin Harris and Lewis Capaldi, establishing a diverse and multi-genre bill. They’ll be joined by punk icons the Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter, cult favorites like Wet Leg, The Last Dinner Party, and Shed Seven, as well as veteran acts including Suzanne Vega, Rick Astley, David Gray, and Feeder. The eclectic lineup further expands with appearances by The Kooks, Starsailor, KT Tunstall, and Jo Whiley’s 90s Anthems, promising a weekend that bridges generations and styles.

On the 2026 Isle of Wight lineup, Festival director Caroline Giddings said: “It might be our best line-up yet. It’s my favourite so far, at least. We’re proud to put the future of music and current stars on a bill alongside artists like The Cure and the Sex Pistols, who helped lay the foundation of pop culture.” She adds, “The festival has always been an extension of the Isle of Wight’s rich cultural history. From Lewis Carroll and Tennyson to Julia Margaret Cameron, the island has been a source of inspiration for artists through time. We always try to honour that by presenting the very best music has to offer, giving people an unforgettable festival experience in the process.”

This UK headline follows hot on the heels of The Cure’s earlier 2026 festival confirmations: Nova Rock in Austria on June 12 and Rock en Seine in Paris on August 30. Together with their newly announced Primavera Sound (Barcelona) appearance, the Isle of Wight booking strongly suggests The Cure are aiming for a full European festival tour—crossing the Channel to ensure their U.K. fan base isn’t left out.

The Isle of Wight appearance is especially notable because The Cure have not been frequent headliners of major U.K. festivals in recent years, with their 2019 Glastonbury appearance and 20th Anniversary Hyde Park show being the only exceptions. Also included in the band’s forthcoming schedule, Robert Smith has also been announced as the guest curator for 2026’s Teenage Cancer Trust concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

On the studio front, speculation over new music remains active. Robert Smith has previously stated in recent interviews that the follow-up to 2024’s Songs of a Lost World is “virtually finished” and could arrive before next summer’s festivals kick off. The band’s last official release was the 2025 charity remix album Mixes of a Lost World, featuring contributions from artists such as Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, Chino Moreno, Trentemøller, and more, with proceeds benefiting War Child UK.

Tickets & Festival Info

Primavera Sound Barcelona (June 3–7, 2026): passes via primaverasound.com
Nova Rock (June 11–14, 2026, Nickelsdorf): passes via novarock.at
Isle of Wight (June 18–21, 2026, Seaclose Park, Newport): passes and ticketing via the official Isle of Wight Festival site
Rock en Seine (Aug. 26–30, 2026, Paris): The Cure headlining Aug. 30—via rockenseine.com

With now four major festival confirmations spanning U.K., Austria, France, and Spain, it is increasingly clear that The Cure are shaping 2026 as a pan-European festival summer—with U.K. audiences finally included.

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Die Speed / Heavy Metal-Band ARMOURED KNIGHT hat nach „Forgotten Grace“ und „Guardians of the Stargates“ mit „Endless Light“ einen dritten Track ihres kommenden Albums „The Quest for the Sacred Melody“ veröffentlicht. Es ist nach zwei EPs das erste Album der Chilenen und wird am 7. Oktober 2025 via Dying Victims Productions erscheinen.

ARMOURED KNIGHT Line-Up:
Cristian León (guitar)
Mario Vera (drums)
Cristhoper Falk (bass)
José Tapia (vocals)

ARMOURED KNIGHT „The Quest for the Sacred Melody“ Tracklist
1. Wielders of Dark Wisdom
2. Age of Speeches
3. Endless Light (Audio bei YouTube)
4. Forgotten Grace (Audio bei YouTube)
5. Run From Here
6. Oath of the Sacred Melody
7. Behind the Mask
8. Guardians of the Stargates (Audio bei YouTube)

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The story is ancient, yet it cuts with fresh steel: Judith of Bethulia enters the tent of Holofernes, pours his goblet, watches him slump into stupor, and with his own sword severs the head that once commanded armies. The image has been carried across centuries of paint, sculpture, and scripture. Now it surfaces again, reborn in Judith With The Head of Holofernes, the keystone of their Altar De Fey‘s new album Under a Waxing Moon, out now on Transylvanian Recordings.

Altar De Fey (Kent Cates, Aleph Kali, Skot Brown, and Jake Hout) rose out of San Francisco’s early-eighties crucible of deathrock, and now, four decades on, they return with a record steeped in ritual cadence and theatrical menace. Eight tracks shape Under a Waxing Moon, each one walking the line between punk ferocity and the morbid pageantry of gothic rock. Guitars rake the air with serrated brilliance; basslines drive like an engine in the earth; drums strike with the steady insistence of procession and execution. Over it all, the voice cuts through with an incantatory edge; less sung than declared, summoning ruin, rebellion, and nocturnal rite.

At the center stands Judith With the Head of Holofernes, both parable and anthem. Its rhythm feels inexorable, like Judith’s own footsteps crossing the enemy camp. Tension swells, then breaks, releasing in sharp stabs of guitar and commanding voice. The song embodies the moment of the strike: the intoxication, the violence, the return with the severed head raised high.

Marcelle Marais’s companion video amplifies the spirit of the record with a stark black-and-white homage to silent cinema. Borrowing freely from Salome, Ben-Hur and Cleopatra, it revels in robes, veils, and grand theatrical gestures. Camp lingers at the edges, yet ceremony anchors the spectacle, blurring burlesque with ritual. Theda Bara’s coiled intensity and Francis X. Bushman’s hauteur echo through the frames, interspersed with tasty guitar solos from the band. Excess becomes allegory; exaggeration reveals truth. Cecil B. DeMille might blanch, but here artifice is wielded as both homage and subversion; reverent, mischievous.

The fable itself is embodied by Skye Seeley as Judith and frontman Jake Hout as Holofernes. Their performances bring myth into flesh: the seduction, the collapse, the severing stroke, and the victorious return. In Altar De Fey’s rendering, the legend becomes more than a tale preserved in paint and scripture. It becomes a sign of wit overturning tyranny, of beauty turned into its sharpest weapon against brute force.

Watch the video for Judith With The Head Of Holofernes below:

With Judith With The Head of Holofernes, Altar De Fey sharpens their legacy without embalming it. They take the fable of Judith, her blade still dripping with conquest, and extend it into the present moment, reminding us that deathrock’s ritual power lies not in nostalgia but in its capacity to unsettle, unsettle again, and rally courage against the siege.

Listen to Judith With The Head of Holofernes below and order Under A Waxing Moon here.

Under A Waxing Moon by Altar De Fey

Catch Altar De Fey in Europe this autumn!

Sept. 25 Bremen DE Friesenstrasse
Sept. 26 Berlin DE Wild At Heart w/Totenwald
Sept 27 Leipzig DE Zoro. DIYfest
Sept 29 Wien AUT Chelsea
Sept 30 Katawise PL Piati Dom w/KSY
Oct 1 Warsaw PL Chummy. w/Past Old Skull
Oct 2-4 Wroclaw PL Return to the Batcave Festival

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Soft was the bird that whispered to the wind

greed will ignite and burn you from within

No not much survives,

Evil the prize

Automatic’s Is It Now? arrives like a sly dispatch wrapped in rhythm. Out September 26 via Stones Throw, the trio of Izzy Glaudini (synths, vocals), Halle Saxon (bass, vocals), and Lola Dompé (drums, vocals) advance their sound with sharper teeth and slyer humour. They believe, as they’ve said often, that the message of change is best carried with a beat that moves hips as well as minds. Here, that idea turns luminous, laced with wit.

The album bends pop brightness into something slyly radical, embedding calls for renewal inside grooves that glitter with tension. Its Trojan horse conceit – sweet surfaces ferrying subversion – works especially well against themes of automated warfare, consumer stupour, and oil’s iron hand over politics. What seems cheerful on the surface masks a deeper unease, a satire shaped for the body as much as the brain.

On Black Box, their newest single, Automatic, plunges into critique with a hypnotic lure. The track borrows the mood of trip-hop and the precision of post-punk, then tilts it toward collapse. Greed, corruption, false victories…all are sketched in stark lines. The lyrics suggest a warning, one of wings burnt away and art cut down by invisible powers. Betrayal looms, deals are dismissed, and the central question lingers: what was the fight even for?

“The title ‘Black Box’ refers to the black box in a crashed plane,” says Glaudini. “The repetitive synth is supposed to suggest a plane gliding as it crashes/ an alarm distress call. I was listening to the Leonard Cohen album The Future a lot around the time the lyrics were written. It’s a pretty straightforward critique of people that have sold out on a large scale, specifically within creative industries. Thierry Mugler said, ‘art used to tell money what to do, now money tells art what to do’ and the world is a less interesting place because of it.”

The video for Black Box, co-directed by Niccolò Verrecchia and Bryce Williams, amplifies the music’s surreal humour. Rendered in stopmotion, Automatic appear as ants in a farm, burrowing through soil only to be chased by a grotesque blob. They surface in a fish tank, a forest on fire, an archaeological dig…images strange, playful, and memorable, calling to mind the Brothers Quay and oddball relics of early internet animation like the off-kilter Spongmonkeys or the absurd Flash chaos of classics like Salad Fingers and Gonads and Strife.

Watch the video for “Black Box” below:



Working for the first time with producer Loren Humphrey, whose credits span Tame Impala to Arctic Monkeys, the trio recorded between New York and Los Angeles, navigating distance and temperament with precision. Their influences stretch wider, nodding to Patrick Cowley, A Certain Ratio, Air, and that late-’70s moment when dub and punk collided with combustible effect. Is It Now? doesn’t posture as prophecy. It prods, provokes, and nudges. You might come away asking sharper questions, or at least dancing until you do.

Since 2022’s Excess, Automatic have shared stages with Tame Impala, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Marías, and IDLES. This fall, they tour extensively with Sextile, before heading to Europe and the UK on their own terms.

Listen to Black Box below and order the single here. Pre-order Is It Now? here.

Is It Now? by Automatic

Pre-order Is It Now?: https://sthrow.com/isitnow

United States

25/9: Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
26/9: Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry @ The Fillmore
27/9: Washington, DC @ Black Cat
29/9: Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall
30/9: Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room at Third Man Records
1/10: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
3/10: Dallas, TX @ Studio at The Factory
4/10: Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
5/10: Austin, TX @ Mohawk (Outside)
6/10: El Paso, TX @ The Lowbrow Palace
8/10: Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom
9/10: Las Vegas, NV @ Swan Dive
10/10: San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
11/10: Los Angeles, CA @ The Novo

UK & Europe

12/11: Brighton, UK @ Daltons
13/11: London, UK @ The Lexington
15/11: Berlin, DE @ puschenfest
17/11: Cologne, DE @ Bumann & Sohn  
19/11: Metz, FR @ BAM
20/11: Paris, FR @ Petit Bain
21/11: La Rochelle, FR @ La Sirene
24/11: Milan, IT @ Circolo Arci Bellezza
25/11: Prague, CZ @ Bike Jesus
27/11: Munich, DE @ Milla

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Flickering pulse in the ever-afterSpace between shock and surrenderAll moments held in this breathHunger for transcendence
In the anxious twilight of technological upheaval, Ceremony Shadows arrive with Future Past Collapse, a work that poses questions rather than neat consolations. The Portland-based ensemble has chosen a peculiar and telling lens: nostalgia, not for ancient ruins or antique rituals, but for the technology that once defined human ingenuity and now risks irrelevance.

This is no minor speculation.

“We were wondering if we will come to feel (or are already feeling) nostalgic towards human technology, especially as AI technology rises and displaces much of what has made us human up until this point in our history as a species,” the band declares. Such words carry the calm cadence of inevitability, balanced between fear and fascination.

The band, seasoned by their international upbringing and immersed in the peculiar currents of alternative culture, reframes familiar Darkwave scaffolding with intellectual heft. The rhythmic understructure sustains a hypnotic steadiness, while tones glide between severity and transcendence. In this, the music resembles a ritual without priest or altar, a construction of rhythm and voice meant to echo within the listener rather than instruct them.

The composition does not shy away from scale. Vocals by Jana Cushman of Darkswoon and Annalisa Rose of Glori add a warmth that collides with machine-assisted phrasing. The dual presence underscores Ceremony Shadows’ central conceit: the friction of circuitry against skin, the paradox of a voice both human and automated. If the past century trembled at the machine’s cold promise, this track recognizes that the same machine now bears the patina of memory, as quaint and familiar as a rotary phone in the age of retinal scans.

Lyrically, Future Past Collapse is a philosophical riddle spoken in fragmented imagery, astral and corporeal, which blurs any neat division between science and mysticism. Breath becomes an epoch, memory becomes circuitry. The chorus intones: “Future past collapse in presence / Awe in the depths of the light / At the heart of the void.” These lines are less prophecy than condition, a reminder that our present is forever slipping between archives of loss and anticipations of invention.

Humanity, they remind us, may soon see its inventions outgrow their creators. Yet even in that inevitability, Ceremony Shadows insists on awe: “Humanity is about to be augmented, if not replaced in certain ways, by AI technology. We wrote Future Past Collapse to examine this sense of nostalgia.” The result is a track that hums with the electricity of its own inquiry, aware that history is both archive and prophecy.

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Future Past Collapse by Ceremony Shadows

Ceremony Shadows are no strangers to the stage. From supporting ACTORS in 2023 to their Purple City Festival appearance in Edmonton, they have steadily expanded their orbit. Their debut album Ascension, released in March 2025, signaled ambition. Future Past Collapse confirms it.

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Casual Confrontation comes charging in with [D]LaM!, a track that thrashes away any pretense of indie-pop polish and replaces it with something darker, sweatier, and wired for late-night chaos. Frankie Diez, the Romanian-born, Cuban-American force behind the project, has been releasing music at a dizzying pace since 2020, but this single marks a fresh jolt: a full plunge into jagged industrial dance territory where the beats stalk and the synths bite.

“I’ve always been inspired and involved within the punk, goth, and alternative subcultures, and it’s about time my music began reflecting that,” Diez explains. The declaration feels like a gauntlet thrown. [D]LaM! isn’t a safe experiment by any means. It plunges into menace and exhilaration, a place where influences like Pixel Grip, Panther Modern, and Nine Inch Nails hover in the smoke, but never weigh down the track’s own weird pulse.

The song is alive with contradiction. The lyrics wrestle with resentment and self-preservation, confronting the tension of wanting to be invisible while simultaneously pulled into someone else’s gaze. The chorus pounds with a manic call-and-response: “Look at me / Don’t look at me” – a frantic seesaw between craving and revulsion. It’s obsessive, claustrophobic, almost like being shoved under a strobe light when you’d rather melt into the walls.

That discomfort, however, is exactly what makes the track burn. [D]LaM! lurches forward with abrupt turns, jagged stops, and jolting restarts, like a body convulsing in rhythm it can’t control. It’s volatile, wired with panic and pleasure, daring you to keep up. It’s confrontation set to a beat, a nervous breakdown disguised as a dance track. Diez has tapped into something raw, and the sound of it feels like he’s just getting started.

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