Die Melodic Death / Groove Metal-Band SELIAS hat einen Labeldeal bei Wormholedeath unterschrieben. Im Zuge dessen werden die Kanadier ihr neues Album „Killkarma“ veröffentlichen. Es ist nach „Headshot“ (2024) das zweite Album der Band und wird am 7. November 2025 erscheinen. Mit dem Video-Clip zu „Bullets“ gibt es nun den ersten Vorab-Track.

SELIAS Line-Up:
Guillaume Pascual – vocals & keyboards
Daniel Bouwman – drums
Jeff Hyde – bass
Steve Elias – guitars

SELIAS „Killkarma“ Tracklist
01 – The Day The World Went Away
02 – Abducted
03 – Bullets (Video bei YouTube)
04 – 888
05 – Beyond The Switch
06 – Don’t Tread On Me
07 – Cautionary Tale
08 – 88i8
09 – Six 6 Sicks
10 – Real Eyes Realize
11 – Ravens Call
12 – Flames
13 – My Time
14 – Twisted Path Reimagined

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Die Hardcore / Sludge-Band MASTIFF hat mit „Decimated Graves“ einen zweiten Track ihrer kommenden EP „For All the Dead Dreams“ veröffentlicht. Davor haben die Engländer vier Alben veröffentlicht. Als ersten Vorab-Track gibt es auch „A Story Behind Every Light“ zu hören.

„Wir haben ‚A Story Behind Every Light‘ als Lead-Single ausgewählt, weil es ziemlich einstimmig zu unserem Lieblingssong geworden ist, nicht nur auf dieser EP, sondern im gesamten Repertoire der Band“, erklärt die Band. „Thematisch ist der Song ziemlich schwer, da er sich mit Jims (Anm. Sänger Jim Hodge) sehr realen Selbstmordgedanken nach dem Verlust seines Sohnes befasst, der jedoch von seiner Tochter vor dem Abgrund zurückgehalten wird.“

„For All the Dead Dreams“ wurde von Joe Clayton im Nø Studio aufgenommen und gemixt und von Brad Boatright bei Audiosiege gemastert. Release-Termin ist der 24. Oktober 2025 via Church Road Records.

MASTIFF Line-Up:
Vocals – Jim Hodge
Guitars – Phil Johnson
Guitars – James Lee-Ross
Drums – Mike Shepherd
Bass – Dan Dolby

MASTIFF „For All the Dead Dreams“ Tracklist
1. Soliloquy
2. Rotting Blossoms
3. Decimated Graves (Audio bei YouTube)
4. A Story Behind Every Light (Audio bei Bandcamp)
5. Corporeal

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Die Alternative Rock / Pop Punk-Band IT´S IRRELEVANT hat mit „I’m Very Feel“ eine neue Single mitsamt Video-Clip veröffentlicht. Davor haben die Engländer aus London zwei EPs veröffentlicht.

IT´S IRRELEVANT Line-Up:
Izaak Rushton – Vocals
Hakaran Bance – Guitar
Chris Penfield – Bass
Shahzad Zaman – Drums

IT´S IRRELEVANT „I’m Very Feel“ (Video bei YouTube)

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The modern age, if we can even call it modern, is a circus of absurdities teetering between tragedy and vaudeville. Repeat, a Stockholm punk/post-punk duo (occasionally joined live by bassist Sanna), confront this chaos head-on with their new EP Celebrate. Recorded at Studio Sickan in Malmö, the five tracks play like clenched fists and uneasy laughs—short, sharp bursts of refusal that channel monotony, political absurdity, and personal struggle into anthems that dare the listener to keep moving.

“Celebrate is about facing all the absurdity and frustration we carry, but also about refusing to give in,” the band explains. “It’s a record about holding on.” That insistence comes through not as sentimentality, but as stubborn resistance: sarcastic, brash, and brimming with the spirit of punk dissent.

The title track launches the EP with distorted guitars and bombastic drums that evoke the sound of the Buzzcocks and Sex Pistols. Lyrically, it’s about survival in the face of dismissal: “Said you were nothing, tried to cut you short… Why not celebrate?” The refrain insists on victory through endurance, twisting pain into a rallying cry. Rather than a hollow cheer, “Celebrate” feels like sarcasm sharpened into protest—punk irony and punk triumph in the same breath.

Built around a catchy riff and buoyant vocal melody, “Nothing New” skewers the recycling of lies and the endless spin cycle of distorted narratives. The lyrics (“Painting the picture / Telling us lies now / Running in circles”) condemn the spectacle of repetition as stagnation, echoing both Euro-punk sneer and L.A. punk venom. Its chorus—“Sick of it all, spinning lies and pictures, knowing that this is nothing new”—becomes a bitter anthem for the information-saturated present.

The most propulsive pogo-ready track of the bunch, “Frames” channels the dive-bar squat-show energy of early Buzzcocks. Though its lyrics are clipped and direct, their thrust is clear: pressure, guilt, and the suffocating structures that box us in. Musically tight and lyrically confrontational, it delivers catharsis through raw insistence.

Driven by a galloping rhythm, “Day After Day” evokes the intensity of early Gun Club crossed with the fury of Dead Kennedys. Its lyrics hammer at cycles of struggle: “Day after day it’s the battle you can’t escape… Again, again, the defeat when it’s losing control.” This is repetition as punishment, monotony as a weapon. The song becomes a soundtrack to alienated labor, its relentless refrain mocking the grind even as it mirrors it.

The EP closes with its shortest, sharpest jab. “Me and Paul Auster” almost veers into pop territory with its infectious melody, but its brevity and absurdity flip into protest by parody. Like a grunge-inflected chant, the track collapses the existential cycles hinted at throughout the EP into a wink and a punchline, refusing closure while delivering one last shock of energy.

Listen to the EP below or on Spotify, and order it via Bandcamp.

Celebrate by Repeat

While guitars buzz and drums pound, the politics lie in the refusal to soften edges. Celebrate thrives on brevity, abrasiveness, and an unwillingness to be commodified. It’s a record that insists frustration can be sculpted into form, not wasted in nihilism. Repeat sit in dialogue with traditions stretching from The Clash to Killing Joke, yet their voice is distinctly contemporary: bound to absurd cycles and sharpened into urgent survival.

Tour Dates:

5 September – Malmö, Sweden – NBGB

19 September – Malmö, Sweden – Rundgång

17 October – Hollen, Germany – Seker Huus

18 October – Hamburg, Germany – Rondenbarg/Wagenplatz

24 October – Lübeck, Germany – VeB

25 October – Hoorn, Netherlands – Swaf

20 November – Helsinki, Finland – Playhouse

21 November – Lohja, Finland – Nelja

22 November – Tampere, Finland – Vastavirta

19 December – Meschede, Germany – Tröte

20 December – Lund, Sweden – Mejeriet

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I Gave You My Word

Now I Wish You Were Dead

I Pledged My Faith

Until The Colours Fade

Canadian outfit Odonis Odonis return with their sixth album, a self-titled release that signals both rebirth and reckoning. Finding its home on the new label Royal Mountain, the record channels pressure and possibility into something immediate and tangible. From the opening notes of the lead single, “Hijacked,” the duo sounds like men staring down the chaos of the present with sharpened focus and bruised determination.

Clattering guitars collide with fervent layered vocals, a bassline that penetrates the marrow, and a drumbeat that pounds like a nervous pulse. The song circles despair, painting a world fractured by greed and division, yet reaching toward connection. There are vows broken, faith eroded, and desire strained, but beneath the turmoil lies a raw insistence on love, on unity, on survival against the encroaching dark.

“Hijacked,” says vocalist and guitarist Constantin Tzenos, “is about the tension of a world on the brink. It reflects on a pivotal moment for humanity, a warning against surrendering to destructive, regressive forces. It channels the feeling of being stalked by a looming darkness that’s always just behind us, but the message is clear: the future is still unwritten, but only if we refuse to be hijacked by fear and chaos.”

That sentiment is more than just an artistic conceit; it’s a lived experience. Odonis Odonis are not careerists sequestered in rehearsal rooms; they are working musicians trying to survive the pressure cooker of modern life. Tzenos juggles the precarious world of film and television post-production, fending off AI’s encroachment while navigating fatherhood. Dean Tzenos and Denholm Whale have been piecing together their art against a backdrop of inflation, gig-economy precarity, and the constant churn of survival. Whale himself is immersed in the all-hustle/no-security realm of independent concert promotion. The weight of those realities saturates the music, lending urgency to every beat and phrase.

The accompanying video for Hijacked, directed by Ryan Faist, underscores that immediacy. A darkened club, dancers in slow motion, the swirl of fog, and the sense that time itself has collapsed into a single surreal frame. It’s as though the camera has wandered into a fevered memory, part rave, part requiem.

Odonis Odonis may be confronting a collapsing modern world, but they do so with a spark of insistence. Their music embodies both the ache of division and the desire for connection. In their hands, the future feels precarious, but also charged with possibility.

Watch the video for “Hijacked” below:

 

The best way to grasp Odonis Odonis’ body of work is to picture a sprawling nightclub. Each room holds a different obsession: psychedelic post-punk in one corner, electronic body music in another, but together they create an unbroken current of invention. This self-titled album doesn’t abandon those rooms so much as lock them together in a more seamless experience. Where 2023’s ICON EP felt like a showcase of guests: A Place to Bury Strangers, Tobacco, SUUNS, this new release strips away external decoration. What’s left is the core of the band: restless, direct, and unflinchingly present.

Odonis Odonis’ new self-titled album is out on November 15th.

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Sean Nicholas Savage frequently blurs the line between diarist and dramatist, but on his latest tour-de-force, The Knowing, he delivers something dazzling in its simplicity and startling in its daring. The Canadian singer, long a cult figure for his prolific output and theatrical stage presence, returns with a collection steeped in sincerity yet staged with pop’s playful artifice.

With “I Love Everything About You,” Savage drapes his voice across soft synth hues and buoyant rhythms, conjuring a long-lost optimism from mid-to-late ’80s radio without slipping into parody. Echoes of Erasure’s fragile grandeur linger, alongside the earnest lift of a theme song ushering in a Friday night sitcom. The unabashed sweetness of Cyndi Lauper or Nik Kershaw shimmers through, and – dare we say – it even brushes against the exuberance of New Kids on the Block. What makes the song radiant, though, is not the lineage of its references but the  Earnest way Savage inhabits them, his vocal delivery both conversational and trembling with feeling.

I Love Everything About You is a study in language itself: a playful riddle of repetitions where every phrase circles back to the word know. It’s wordplay as devotion, turning linguistic excess into intimacy. (Trust me, if this guy loves your lousiest photos just because you’re in them, he’s a keeper!)

This openness extends to the visuals. The tender video by Johnny Dynamite reveals the core of the album: an ode to devotion stripped of irony. Watching him wander the shoreline, enumerating small joys, feels almost radical in its clarity. In a world smothered with suspicion and sarcasm, Savage insists on affection without disguise. The artwork, a collaboration with Lulannie, was improvised en route to a New Year’s Eve party, but the candid shots carry the same tone as the music: spontaneous, intimate, carefully unguarded. It’s a gesture of making beauty from the everyday, transforming the walk to a celebration into part of the record’s mythology.

Savage, despite his name, does not shrink from love songs in their most unabashed form. Instead, he leans into their excess and finds renewal in their transparency. Pop here is neither ironic nor naïve; it is philosophical theater, a way of grasping meaning through melody. Savage delivers a song that reminds us that desire and tenderness are inseparable.

Watch the video for  “I Love Everything About You” below:

In the spring of 2024, Sean Nicholas Savage recorded the first version of The Knowing in Edmonton, Canada. He returned to the basement where he once pressed his ear against a silent needle to hear records in secret, the speakers muted so the rest of the house could sleep.

For this new chapter, Savage invited others into his orbit. There’s a tender duet with Marci, a handful of tracks colored by Belgian songwriter David Numwami’s guitar, and a co-written moment with JJ Weihl (better known as Discovery Zone) on Pink Bouquet.

The record also marks a series of departures. For the first time, Savage steps outside the Montreal imprint Arbutus Records, long his home alongside artists like Marci and Das Beat. Instead, The Knowing arrives through a transatlantic partnership between Philadelphia’s Born Losers Records and Berlin’s Mansions & Millions.

This album is Savage’s strongest collection of ballads yet: songs steeped in boyband-era yearning, cinematic in scope, and threaded with a renewed embrace of beats and duets. These are compositions that sound like memories unfolding in real time, both fragile and sweeping.

“What is The Knowing about?” he asks. “I tell you that I don’t know in the song. That’s almost all that I say, is that I don’t know. Do you believe in spells? There’s a lot of tomfoolery going on with that song, a lot of tomfuckery..”

With that mischievous wink, Savage pulls apart certainty itself, leaving listeners with a record that feels like both a question and an answer.

The Knowing is out now via Born Losers Records and Mansions & Millions. Listen to I Love Everything About You below and order the album here. You can also order The Knowing on vinyl here.

The Knowing by Sean Nicholas Savage

With tours lined up across the US and Europe, Savage stands ready to bring this luminous intimacy into rooms full of strangers: inviting them, with a smile, to know. Get tickets here.

Europe:

2025-09-18 Glasgow, UK Flying Duck
2025-09-19 Manchester, UK YES Basement
2025-09-20 London, UK Club Cheek
2025-09-21 Margate, UK Where Else?
2025-09-23 Copenhagen, DK Rust
2025-09-24 Stockholm, SE Hus 7
2025-09-26 Tallinn, ES Paavli Kulturfabrik
2025-09-27 Riga, LV Laska V21
2025-09-28 Vilnius, LT Mello
2025-09-30 Warsaw, PL Chmury
2025-10-01 Krakow, PL Klub RE
2025-10-02 Gdansk, PL KOT
2025-10-03 Berlin, DE 186 Studio
2025-10-04 Rotterdam, NL de Doelen
2025-10-05 Hamburg, DE Nachtasyl
2025-10-06 Leipzig, DE Moritzbastei
2025-10-07 Cologne, DE PAFF Bar
2025-10-08 Paris, FR Badaboum
2025-10-09 Lausanne, CH La-Breche

North America:

2025-10-22 Minneapolis, MN Underground Music Venue
2025-10-23 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
2025-10-24 Detroit, MI Marble Bar
2025-10-25 Toronto, ON Baby G
2025-10-26 Montreal, QC Toscadura
2025-10-29 Boston, MA Warehouse XI
2025-10-30 New York, NY Night Club 101
2025-10-31 Philadelphia, PA Silk City
2025-11-02 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade (Altar)
2025-11-05 Los Angeles, CA El Cid
2025-11-06 San Diego, CA Soda Bar
2025-11-07 San Marcos, MX Bloodlust Winebar
2025-11-08 San Francisco, CA 4 Star Theatre
2025-11-13 Seattle, WA Hear-After
2025-11-15 Portland, OR Holocene

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Sean Nicholas Savage frequently blurs the line between diarist and dramatist, but on his latest tour-de-force, The Knowing, he delivers something dazzling in its simplicity and startling in its daring. The Canadian singer, long a cult figure for his prolific output and theatrical stage presence, returns with a collection steeped in sincerity yet staged with pop’s playful artifice.

With “I Love Everything About You,” Savage drapes his voice across soft synth hues and buoyant rhythms, conjuring a long-lost optimism from mid-to-late ’80s radio without slipping into parody. Echoes of Erasure’s fragile grandeur linger, alongside the earnest lift of a theme song ushering in a Friday night sitcom. The unabashed sweetness of Cyndi Lauper or Nik Kershaw shimmers through, and – dare we say – it even brushes against the exuberance of New Kids on the Block. What makes the song radiant, though, is not the lineage of its references but the  Earnest way Savage inhabits them, his vocal delivery both conversational and trembling with feeling.

I Love Everything About You is a study in language itself: a playful riddle of repetitions where every phrase circles back to the word know. It’s wordplay as devotion, turning linguistic excess into intimacy. (Trust me, if this guy loves your lousiest photos just because you’re in them, he’s a keeper!)

This openness extends to the visuals. The tender video by Johnny Dynamite reveals the core of the album: an ode to devotion stripped of irony. Watching him wander the shoreline, enumerating small joys, feels almost radical in its clarity. In a world smothered with suspicion and sarcasm, Savage insists on affection without disguise. The artwork, a collaboration with Lulannie, was improvised en route to a New Year’s Eve party, but the candid shots carry the same tone as the music: spontaneous, intimate, carefully unguarded. It’s a gesture of making beauty from the everyday, transforming the walk to a celebration into part of the record’s mythology.

Savage, despite his name, does not shrink from love songs in their most unabashed form. Instead, he leans into their excess and finds renewal in their transparency. Pop here is neither ironic nor naïve; it is philosophical theater, a way of grasping meaning through melody. Savage delivers a song that reminds us that desire and tenderness are inseparable.

Watch the video for  “I Love Everything About You” below:

In the spring of 2024, Sean Nicholas Savage recorded the first version of The Knowing in Edmonton, Canada. He returned to the basement where he once pressed his ear against a silent needle to hear records in secret, the speakers muted so the rest of the house could sleep.

For this new chapter, Savage invited others into his orbit. There’s a tender duet with Marci, a handful of tracks colored by Belgian songwriter David Numwami’s guitar, and a co-written moment with JJ Weihl (better known as Discovery Zone) on Pink Bouquet.

The record also marks a series of departures. For the first time, Savage steps outside the Montreal imprint Arbutus Records, long his home alongside artists like Marci and Das Beat. Instead, The Knowing arrives through a transatlantic partnership between Philadelphia’s Born Losers Records and Berlin’s Mansions & Millions.

This album is Savage’s strongest collection of ballads yet: songs steeped in boyband-era yearning, cinematic in scope, and threaded with a renewed embrace of beats and duets. These are compositions that sound like memories unfolding in real time, both fragile and sweeping.

“What is The Knowing about?” he asks. “I tell you that I don’t know in the song. That’s almost all that I say, is that I don’t know. Do you believe in spells? There’s a lot of tomfoolery going on with that song, a lot of tomfuckery..”

With that mischievous wink, Savage pulls apart certainty itself, leaving listeners with a record that feels like both a question and an answer.

The Knowing is out now via Born Losers Records and Mansions & Millions. Listen to I Love Everything About You below and order the album here. You can also order The Knowing on vinyl here.

The Knowing by Sean Nicholas Savage

With tours lined up across the US and Europe, Savage stands ready to bring this luminous intimacy into rooms full of strangers: inviting them, with a smile, to know. Get tickets here.

Europe:

2025-09-18 Glasgow, UK Flying Duck
2025-09-19 Manchester, UK YES Basement
2025-09-20 London, UK Club Cheek
2025-09-21 Margate, UK Where Else?
2025-09-23 Copenhagen, DK Rust
2025-09-24 Stockholm, SE Hus 7
2025-09-26 Tallinn, ES Paavli Kulturfabrik
2025-09-27 Riga, LV Laska V21
2025-09-28 Vilnius, LT Mello
2025-09-30 Warsaw, PL Chmury
2025-10-01 Krakow, PL Klub RE
2025-10-02 Gdansk, PL KOT
2025-10-03 Berlin, DE 186 Studio
2025-10-04 Rotterdam, NL de Doelen
2025-10-05 Hamburg, DE Nachtasyl
2025-10-06 Leipzig, DE Moritzbastei
2025-10-07 Cologne, DE PAFF Bar
2025-10-08 Paris, FR Badaboum
2025-10-09 Lausanne, CH La-Breche

North America:

2025-10-22 Minneapolis, MN Underground Music Venue
2025-10-23 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
2025-10-24 Detroit, MI Marble Bar
2025-10-25 Toronto, ON Baby G
2025-10-26 Montreal, QC Toscadura
2025-10-29 Boston, MA Warehouse XI
2025-10-30 New York, NY Night Club 101
2025-10-31 Philadelphia, PA Silk City
2025-11-02 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade (Altar)
2025-11-05 Los Angeles, CA El Cid
2025-11-06 San Diego, CA Soda Bar
2025-11-07 San Marcos, MX Bloodlust Winebar
2025-11-08 San Francisco, CA 4 Star Theatre
2025-11-13 Seattle, WA Hear-After
2025-11-15 Portland, OR Holocene

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Just pointing at words
Desperate to undo feeling this way
Your sins, brighter than the sun
Your sins, better than what came before
As darkness settles like a shroud across the calendar and headlines accumulate like ash, we grope for cracks in the facade that might lead us out. That search—futile yet unyielding—beats at the core of Princess Ugly’s new single, The Out. The song doesn’t arrive as a polished monolith, but as a fractured communiqué: a piece built from jagged edges and deliberate silences, as if assembled in dim light by trembling hands.

From Portland, Oregon, J. Christopher-Rome and Christopher Moncrieffe sculpt a vision where dance and dread coexist uneasily. Rome delivers words like a prophet tired of his own sermon: measured, bitten off, sometimes spat, sometimes swallowed. His voice hovers at the threshold between theatre and confession. Moncrieffe builds the environment around it, beats locked in angular repetition, synths stretched taut, guitars curdled into sparks of static. Together, their tension conjures a landscape that is both bare and intoxicating, something danced upon with hesitant feet.

Cat Powell-Hoffmann lends her voice, weaving through the composition with sharp clarity, a counterweight that exposes fragility beneath the structure. The interplay of voices moves like two currents clashing, each tugging the other toward a different shore. Beneath them lies a rhythm less about celebration than survival, an invitation to move even while weighed down by doubt.

The lyrics cut like inscriptions on stone, opaque existential musings that are more concerned with ritualistic ponderence than with scutibility. Phrases circle around futility, sin, decay, and power, repeating like mantras until their meaning collapses into sound. “The out” becomes less an escape and more an echo chamber, a reminder that every door swings back to where you began. There is no absolution, only a compulsion to keep looking.

“Dark days. We feel buried under endless unnerving headlines,” says the band. “We cling to past mistakes and regrets. We romanticize. We make excuses. We look for clarity and resolution, often finding neither. Even as the things we perceive as negative can sometimes light our way with an unsettling brilliance, we look away. Tear it all up. Everyone is looking for their out.”

The Out feels as if being caught in a procession: drums marking the pace, voices overlapping in dispute, steps uncertain yet compelled forward. The song bears the weight of philosophy without bowing under it, pulling abstractions into the body, into the blood. With this unsettling stomper, Princess Ugly inhabits their name fully: offering no easy glamour, only the strange beauty of unease.

Watch the video for ‘The Out” below:



Listen to The Out below and order the single here.

The Out by Princess Ugly

Princess Ugly began in 2006 as a largely solitary vision from J. Christopher-Rome, but by the following year Christopher Moncrieffe had entered the fold, turning Princess Ugly into a dialogue rather than a monologue. Together they unveiled two full-lengths: The Past, One Second At A Time (2010) and It Should Be Clear By Now (2012) before falling silent. Nearly a decade later, the silence broke. From 2021 onward the duo pressed into darker territory, releasing a run of singles and EPs that carved deeper into post-punk and goth terrain: Hunger (2021), An Individual Soul (2023), Break Every Room (2023), Death After Life (EP, 2023), and Bring the Axes (EP, 2024). Their return also carried them beyond their own catalogue, with an appearance on Belgium label Spleen+’s Resurgence (2025), a sprawling post-punk compilation box set.

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Just pointing at words
Desperate to undo feeling this way
Your sins, brighter than the sun
Your sins, better than what came before
Dark days drag across the calendar, headlines pile like ash, and in the cracks between them we search for a way out. That search, futile yet relentless, thrums at the heart of Princess Ugly’s new single, The Out. It arrives less as a polished monolith than as a fractured dispatch, a work built from jagged edges and deliberate pauses, as if assembled in dim light with trembling hands.

From Portland, Oregon, J. Christopher-Rome and Christopher Moncrieffe sculpt a vision where dance and dread coexist uneasily. Rome delivers words like a prophet tired of his own sermon: measured, bitten off, sometimes spat, sometimes swallowed. His voice hovers at the threshold between theatre and confession. Moncrieffe builds the environment around it, beats locked in angular repetition, synths stretched taut, guitars curdled into sparks of static. Together, their tension conjures a landscape that is both bare and intoxicating, something danced upon with hesitant feet.

Cat Powell-Hoffmann lends her voice, weaving through the composition with sharp clarity, a counterweight that exposes fragility beneath the structure. The interplay of voices moves like two currents clashing, each tugging the other toward a different shore. Beneath them lies a rhythm less about celebration than survival, an invitation to move even while weighed down by doubt.

The lyrics cut like inscriptions on stone, opaque existential musings that are more concerned with ritualistic ponderence than with scutibility. Phrases circle around futility, sin, decay, and power, repeating like mantras until their meaning collapses into sound. “The out” becomes less an escape and more an echo chamber, a reminder that every door swings back to where you began. There is no absolution, only a compulsion to keep looking.

“Dark days. We feel buried under endless unnerving headlines,” says the band. “We cling to past mistakes and regrets. We romanticize. We make excuses. We look for clarity and resolution, often finding neither. Even as the things we perceive as negative can sometimes light our way with an unsettling brilliance, we look away. Tear it all up. Everyone is looking for their out.”

The Out feels as if being caught in a procession: drums marking the pace, voices overlapping in dispute, steps uncertain yet compelled forward. The song bears the weight of philosophy without bowing under it, pulling abstractions into the body, into the blood. With this unsettling stomper, Princess Ugly inhabits their name fully: offering no easy glamour, only the strange beauty of unease.

Watch the video for ‘The Out” below:



Listen to The Out below and order the single here.

The Out by Princess UglyPrincess Ugly began in 2006 as a largely solitary vision from J. Christopher-Rome, but by the following year Christopher Moncrieffe had entered the fold, turning Princess Ugly into a dialogue rather than a monologue. Together they unveiled two full-lengths: The Past, One Second At A Time (2010) and It Should Be Clear By Now (2012) before falling silent. Nearly a decade later, the silence broke. From 2021 onward the duo pressed into darker territory, releasing a run of singles and EPs that carved deeper into post-punk and goth terrain: Hunger (2021), An Individual Soul (2023), Break Every Room (2023), Death After Life (EP, 2023), and Bring the Axes (EP, 2024). Their return also carried them beyond their own catalogue, with an appearance on Belgium label Spleen+’s Resurgence (2025), a sprawling post-punk compilation box set.

Follow Princess Ugly:

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Bandcamp
Website

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Am 26. Oktober 2024 spielten MOONSPELL ihr erstes symphonisches Orchesterkonzert mit dem Titel „Opus Diabolicum“ in der MEO Arena in Lissabon, der Hauptstadt Portugals. Die Band schrieb bei diesem unvergesslichen Live-Event Geschichte und fügte sowohl der portugiesischen Metal-Musik als auch ihrem eigenen Vermächtnis ein weiteres großartiges Kapitel hinzu, während sie ihre Klassiker und das Album „1755“ bei einer einmaligen, exklusiven Show und ihrer bislang größten Produktion neu interpretierte.

Jetzt, ein Jahr später, kannst du dieses monumentale Ereignis jederzeit genießen, erhältlich auf DVD/Blu-ray, 2 CDs, schwarzem und farbigem Vinyl sowie in digitalen Formaten über Napalm Records am 31. Oktober 2025. Nach dem bereits veröffentlichten epischen Live-Video zur Hymne der Band „Vampiria“ veröffentlicht MOONSPELL heute „In Tremor Dei“ mit dem Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa.
Preorder: https://napalmrecords.com/moonspell

 

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1993 in Namur/Belgien: Während andere Teenager Belgien vielleicht mit Pommes, Bier und den „Smurfs“ in Verbindung brachten, hatte ein junger Schlagzeuger namens Cernunnos eine andere Idee –...

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Das Blondie-Comeback-Album "No Exit" von 1999 erhält eine Neuauflage - komplett neu gemastert und inklusive Bonustrack und Remixes! Mehr Infos hier.

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Am 31. Oktober 2025 erscheint ein Live-Album von MOONSPELL: „Opus Diabolicum“ wurde 2024 bei der „Opus Diabolicum“ in Lissabon mitgeschnitten, an dem Konzert wirkte auch das Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa mit.

MOONSPELL-Sänger Fernando Ribeiro betont, dass „Opus Diabolicum“ keines der gewöhnlichen Metal trifft Klassik-Projekte ist:

„Ich war nie derjenige, der MOONSPELL in eine orchestrale Richtung gedrängt hat. Ich meine, wie jeder Fan weiß ich um den Einfluss der Klassik auf den Heavy Metal (Quorthon von BATHORY nannte Wagner als seine Lieblingsband), und in meiner Musiksammlung finden sich Mussorgsky, Prokofiev und Ravel neben den bereits erwähnten BATHORY, CELTIC FROST, SARCÓFAGO oder MAIDEN. Aber ich selbst war kein Fan von Metal-meets-Orchestra-Projekten, und als ich Jaime (Gomez Arellano) bat, dieses Monster zu mischen, fragte ich ihn: Hast du S&M und andere „Live mit Orchester”-Alben von Metal-Bands gehört? So etwas wollen wir nicht! Dies ist ein Werk der Leidenschaft: wahrhaftig das Werk des Teufels (opus diabolicum): unvollkommen, unbearbeitet, ungezähmt. Eine Veröffentlichung von Freunden für alle Freunde, die wir in dieser von Gothics verlassenen Welt haben und die in einer Arena in Lissabon oder in einem verschwitzten Club in Texas den Bann aufrechterhalten, bis wir nicht mehr sind.

Den Mitschnitt von „In Tremor Dei“ kündigt Fernando Riberio so an: 

„Unser Album „1755“ war unverzichtbares für diess Konzert mit Orchester, das Album mit portugisischen Texten handelt vom großen Erdbeben, dass Lissabon im 18. Jahrhundert erschüttert hat. Dieser Song fängt das Westentliche der gesamten Show und Inszenierung ein: Lissabon bebte erneut, aber das Orchester spielte weiter.“

 

Reinschauen kann man außerdem in den Mitschnitt von „Vampiria„

Frontman Fernando Ribeiro sagt dazu:

„‚VAMPIRIA‘ ist ein Moonspell-Klassiker, so alt wie die Zeit selbst. Es war unsere erste Wahl als Single, weil es eines der bemerkenswertesten Arrangements der gesamten Show ist, das einem zeitlosen, ewigen Song neues Blut und neues Leben (sind das nicht dasselbe?) verliehen hat. Seht mit eigenen Augen, wie es nach einer ‚Reise durch die Ozeane der Zeit‘ von den Toten aufersteht.“

 

„Opus Diabolicum“  wird als DVD/Blu-ray, 2 CD,  Vinyl und Digitalrelease erhältlich sein.

MOONSPELL „Opus Diabolicum“ Tracklist & Cover 

1. Tungstennio (CD + DVD/Blu-ray only)2. Em Nome do Medo3. 17554. In Tremor Die5. Desastre6. Ruinas7. Breathe (Until We Are No More)8. Extinct9. Proliferation10. Finisterra11. Everything Invaded12. Scorpion Flower13. Vampiria (Video bei YouTube)14. Alma Mater15. Fullmoon Madness

1.90.5-VBNPWPRYO7CKAX3KSKTY2RNIDE.0.1-9

 

MOONSPELL is:Fernando Ribeiro – VocalsRicardo Amorim – GuitarsPedro Paixão – KeysAires Pereira – BassHugo Ribeiro – Drums

 

 

MOONSPELL – Backstage Werk, München – 07.11.2024 – Konzertfotos

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AUTHOR & PUNISHER sind im Herbst 2025 nicht nur auf Tour, sie bringen auch ein neues Album mit: „Nocturnal Birding“ erscheint am 3. Oktober 2025. Für das Album gibt es eine ungewöhnliche Inspirationsquelle, Tristan Shone berichtet:

„Schon vor dem Songwriting wusste ich, dass Vogelgesang die Basis der Songs sein würde. Das erste Gitarrenriff ist im Prinzip der Gesang einer Lerche. Wenn man sich „Rook“ anhört, ist diese Melodie der Gesang der Krähe. Ich habe alle Tracks um die Rhythmen und Melodien von Vögeln herum geschrieben, die ich recherchiert oder in der freien Natur gehört habe.“

Mit „Titmouse“ wurde nun die dritte und letzte Single veröffentlicht:

Seit August kann man auch zur zweiten Single „Thrush“ einen Clip ansehen:

Reinhören kan man in die erste Single  „Titanis“:

 

AUTOR & PUNISHER „Nocturnal Birding“ Tracklist & Cover
 

1. Meadowlark
2. Titanis (ft. Kuntari) (Video bei YouTube)
3. Mute Swan (ft. Megan Oztrosits of Couch Slut)
4. Black Storm Petrel (ft. Fange)
5. Titmouse (Video bei YouTube)
6. Titmice
7. Rook
8. Thrush (Video bei YouTube)

AUTHOR & PUNISHER Tourdatesn 2025
Oct 18 Lisboa, PT @ Music Station (w/ Blood Incantation)
Oct 20 Madrid, SP @ Sala Mon (w/ Blood Incantation)
Oct 21 Barcelona, SP @ Sala Wolf
Oct 22 Marseille, FR @ Le Molotov
Oct 23 Montpellier, FR @ In Tenebris Lux
Oct 24 Nilvange, FR @ Gueulard Plus (w/ Divide & Dissolve)
Oct 25 Maastricht, NL @ Samhain Fest
Oct 26 Hamburg, DE @ MS Stubnitz (with Bong-Ra)
Oct 27 Aarhus, DK @ Voxhall (with Bong-Ra)
Oct 28 Oslo, NO @ Goldie (with Bong-Ra)
Oct 29 Goteborg, SW @ Monument (with Bong-Ra)
Oct 30 Copenhagen, DK @ Stengade (with Bong-Ra)
Oct 31 Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghaim (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 01 Gdansk, PL @ Drizzly Grizzly (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 02 Warsaw, PL @ Voodoo (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 03 Poznan, PL @ 2Progi (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 04 Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 05 Frankfurt / Darmstadt, DE (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 06 Paris, FR @ Backstage (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 07 Bruxelles, BE @ Magasin 4 (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 08 Lille, FR @ La Bulle (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 09 Manchester, UK @ Damnation Festival

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Die Funeral Doom Metal-Band BELL WITCH  und das Folk-Projekt AERIAL RUIN  setzten ihre Zusammenarbeit fort:  STYGIAN BOUGHs „Volume II“, ein neues Collab-Album, soll demnächst erscheinen. Anfang 2026 sind STYGIAN BOUGH auf Europatour, in Dutschland sind  Konzerte in München, Dresden, Münster und Hannover angekündigt.

Einen Teaser zu „Volume II“ gibt es bei YouTube:

STYGIAN BOUGH European Tour Dates

26.01.2026 – Warsaw, PL – Voodoo
27.01.2026 – Wroclaw, PL – ŁÄ�cznik
28.01.2026 – Brno, CZ – Kabinet Muz
29.01.2026 – Vienna, AT – Arena
30.01.2026 – Munich, DE – Feierwerk
31.01.2026 – Dresden, DE – Club Pushkin
01.02.2026 – Munster, DE – Sputnikhalle
03.02.2026 – Paris, FR – Backstage By The Mill
05.02.2026 – London, UK – The Dome
06.02.2026 – Newcastle, UK – Cluny
07.02.2026 – Glasgow, UK – Stereo
08.02.2026 – Sheffield, UK – Corporation
09.02.2026 – Manchester, UK – Rebellion
10.02.2026 – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
12.02.2026 – Brussels, BE – Magasin 4
13.02.2026 – Nijmegen, NL – Doornroosje
14.02.2026 – Hannover, DE – Cafe Glocksee

 

 

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Die Stoner / Doom Metal-Band GRAND MASSIVE hat ein Video zu ihrer Coverversion von METALLICAs „Jump Into The Fire“ geteilt.

 

Der Track ist auf dem aktuellen Album „Houses Of The Unholy“ zu hören. Die neue Platte der Münchner ist seit Mai 2024 erhältlich, ab sofort gibt es das Album aich als LP.

GRAND MASSIVE „Houses Of The Unholy“
1. Those From The Shadows (Video bei YouTube)
2. Unwritten Prohecy
3. The Last Mountain
4. Call Of Demons (Audio bei YouTube)
5. Jump In The Fire (METALLICA Cover)

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Vom 5. bis 7. Juni 2026 finden im kommenden Jahr die Festivals ROCK AM RING und ROCK IM PARK statt – bei beiden Open Airs werden LINKIN PARK als Headliner spielen.

Mike Shinoda von LINKIN PARK freut sich auf die Auftritte im kommenden Jahr:

„Rock am Ring und LINKIN PARK verbindet über die Jahre eine ganz besondere Geschichte. Es ist verrückt, dass wir 2026 bereits zum sechsten Mal bei diesem Festival auftreten! Wir fühlen uns geehrt und freuen uns sehr, das Vermächtnis in unserer neuen Ära fortzuschreiben.“

Nun wurden weitere Bands bestätigt:

A PERFECT CIRCLE, ARCHITECTS, BABYMETAL, BAD OMENS, ELECTRIC CALLBOY, HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD, ICE NINE KILLS, IRON MAIDEN, LANDMVRKS, LIMP BIZKIT, LINKIN PARK, MARTERIA, PAPA ROACH, SABATON, SOCIAL DISTORTION, THE OFFSPRING, THREE DAYS GRACE, TRIVIUM, VOLBEAT, WITHIN TEMPTATION

Der Karten-Vorverkauf für RAR und RAP 2026 hat am Dienstag, den 10. Juni 2025 um 12:00 Uhr begonnen. Gut 70.000 Karten sind laut Veranstalter bereits verkauft.

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Ihr wollt Sonic Seducer bequem nach Hause geliefert bekommen, aber nicht gleich ein Abo abschließen? Wie wäre es mit dem Sonic Seducer Probe-Abo? Zum Vorzugspreis von 14,99 Euro erhaltet Ihr zwei Ausgaben und Prämien zu Depeche Mode, Subway To Sally und Placebo!

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Mit "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" haben Storm Seeker ein Cover des The Proclaimers-Klassikers inklusive Video veröffentlicht. Mehr Infos, den Clip und die Dates der laufenden Tour hier!

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The Cure have just confirmed their second live date of 2026: a headlining slot at Austria’s Nova Rock Festival on Friday, June 12, 2026, at Pannonia Fields in Nickelsdorf. The announcement arrives alongside Austrian press reports naming the year’s complete set of headliners.

This builds on last week’s news that The Cure will close out Rock en Seine in Paris on Sunday, August 30, 2026—their first 2026 date to be revealed—marking a return to the French festival for the first time since 2019.

With a June anchor in Austria and an August capstone in France, the shape of summer 2026 is beginning to take form. Given the band’s pre‑pandemic habit of stacking multiple European festivals around marquee appearances, more continental announcements feel likely between June and late August. For now, everything announced points to more European dates before anything in North America is announced.

Nova Rock 2026 runs June 11–14 at Pannonia Fields II; festival and day passes (including VIP/Green Camping options) are available via the official channels via novarock.at.

Rundown: Who’s playing Nova Rock 2026 (by day)

Thursday, June 11 — Volbeat (headliner), plus Feine Sahne Fischfilet, Bad Omens, Kaleo, Trivium, Bilmuri, Lemo, D’Artagnan, Static‑X, Soft Play, and Mammoth (WVH).
Friday, June 12 — The Cure (headliner) with The Offspring, Ice Nine Kills, A Perfect Circle, Three Days Grace, Social Distortion, Breaking Benjamin, The Pretty Reckless, The Plot In You, Royal Republic, President, Thrown, Catch Your Breath, and Just Mustard.
Saturday, June 13 — Iron Maiden (headliner), joined by Sabaton, Alter Bridge, Roy Bianco & Die Abbrunzati Boys, Sepultura, All Time Low, Kanonenfieber, The Rasmus, Kublai Khan TX, and Future Palace. (
Sunday, June 14 — Bring Me The Horizon (headliner), plus Papa Roach, Architects, Hollywood Undead, and Malevolence.

Additional acts referenced across Austrian outlets include The Pretty Reckless, Papa Roach, Sabaton, Trivium, Bad Omens, Ice Nine Kills, Breaking Benjamin, Architects, Alter Bridge, Roy Bianco & Die Abbrunzati Boys, Sepultura, All Time Low, Feine Sahne Fischfilet, President, Lemo, The Rasmus, Future Palace, Just Mustard, Kaleo, and more.

Tickets for The Cure’s 2026 European Festival Live Dates:

Nova Rock (June 11–14, 2026, Nickelsdorf): Festival/day passes via novarock.at (also on sale at Eventim/Öticket).
Rock en Seine (Aug. 26–30, 2026, Paris): The Cure headlining Sunday, Aug. 30—details via rockenseine.com.

Meanwhile, speculation over new music from The Cure continues. In a January interview, Robert Smith said the follow‑up to 2024’s Songs of a Lost World is “virtually finished” and aimed for release “before next summer,” with a third, more experimental project also teased. Last June, the band released the 24-track charity remix set, Mixes of a Lost World, featuring reworks by Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Chino Moreno, Orbital, Trentemøller, and more, with recording royalties pledged to War Child UK.

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The Cure have just confirmed their second live date of 2026: a headlining slot at Austria’s Nova Rock Festival on Friday, June 12, 2026, at Pannonia Fields in Nickelsdorf. The announcement arrives alongside Austrian press reports naming the year’s complete set of headliners.

This builds on last week’s news that The Cure will close out Rock en Seine in Paris on Sunday, August 30, 2026—their first 2026 date to be revealed—marking a return to the French festival for the first time since 2019.

With a June anchor in Austria and an August capstone in France, the shape of summer 2026 is beginning to take form. Given the band’s pre‑pandemic habit of stacking multiple European festivals around marquee appearances, more continental announcements feel likely between June and late August. For now, everything announced points to more European dates before anything in North America is announced.

Nova Rock 2026 runs June 11–14 at Pannonia Fields II; festival and day passes (including VIP/Green Camping options) are available via the official channels via novarock.at.

Rundown: Who’s playing Nova Rock 2026 (by day)

Thursday, June 11 — Volbeat (headliner), plus Feine Sahne Fischfilet, Bad Omens, Kaleo, Trivium, Bilmuri, Lemo, D’Artagnan, Static‑X, Soft Play, and Mammoth (WVH).
Friday, June 12 — The Cure (headliner) with The Offspring, Ice Nine Kills, A Perfect Circle, Three Days Grace, Social Distortion, Breaking Benjamin, The Pretty Reckless, The Plot In You, Royal Republic, President, Thrown, Catch Your Breath, and Just Mustard.
Saturday, June 13 — Iron Maiden (headliner), joined by Sabaton, Alter Bridge, Roy Bianco & Die Abbrunzati Boys, Sepultura, All Time Low, Kanonenfieber, The Rasmus, Kublai Khan TX, and Future Palace. (
Sunday, June 14 — Bring Me The Horizon (headliner), plus Papa Roach, Architects, Hollywood Undead, and Malevolence.

Additional acts referenced across Austrian outlets include The Pretty Reckless, Papa Roach, Sabaton, Trivium, Bad Omens, Ice Nine Kills, Breaking Benjamin, Architects, Alter Bridge, Roy Bianco & Die Abbrunzati Boys, Sepultura, All Time Low, Feine Sahne Fischfilet, President, Lemo, The Rasmus, Future Palace, Just Mustard, Kaleo, and more.

Tickets for The Cure’s 2026 European Festival Live Dates:

Nova Rock (June 11–14, 2026, Nickelsdorf): Festival/day passes via novarock.at (also on sale at Eventim/Öticket).
Rock en Seine (Aug. 26–30, 2026, Paris): The Cure headlining Sunday, Aug. 30—details via rockenseine.com.

Meanwhile, speculation over new music from The Cure continues. In a January interview, Robert Smith said the follow‑up to 2024’s Songs of a Lost World is “virtually finished” and aimed for release “before next summer,” with a third, more experimental project also teased. Last June, the band released the 24-track charity remix set, Mixes of a Lost World, featuring reworks by Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Chino Moreno, Orbital, Trentemøller, and more, with recording royalties pledged to War Child UK.

Follow The Cure:

Facebook
Instagram
YouTube
Website

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Der September ist launisch – und das passt bestens zu der Stimmung, die seit dem 19. September in vielen Kopfhörern herrscht: ’DeVision Redux’ haben mit ihrer Debüt-EP...

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Manche Freundschaften sind irgendwie wie Kleber – sie halten auch dann, wenn das Leben dazwischenfunkt. Bei Jan Loges und Markus Wiese war es früher der Ford Escort,...

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Orkus! newcomer album of the month for SeptemberExceptional symphonic metalACANTHUS“Pay for Impressions”Album (own production) Acanthus from Reutlingen have dedicated themselves to symphonic metal and explicitly refer to Nightwish in the phase from 2004 (“Once”) to 2011 (“Imaginaerum”) as a role model. These are very big shoes to fill, which Acanthus naturally can’t fill from a […]

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SPONSORED POST Night Tapes will release their album “portals//polarities” on September 26, 2025. Their musical style, which relies heavily on field recordings that the band incorporates fluidly and often spontaneously into their sound, could best be described as experimental dream pop. The London-based band explains the meaningful album title “portals//polarities”: “We found the name thematically […]

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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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Die Grindcore-Band CHAIRMAKER hat mit „Leviathan Carcass“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist der erste Release des Solo-Projekts von Neil Erskine (CHRONOCIDE) und wurde von Kevin Hare bei Deep Storm gemixt und gemastert. Das Cover-Artwork stammt von Arif Rot. Release-Termin ist der 14. November 2025. Vorab gibt es den Opener „Ratlicker“ zu hören.

CHAIRMAKER „Leviathan Carcass“ Tracklist
01 Ratlicker (Audio bei Bandcamp)
02 Powdered Nostalgia
03 Making Nails
04 Leviathan Carcass
05 Dead Optimists
06 Pigfucker
07 Micron-Thick Skin
08 Good Art by Shit People
09 Hagiographers
10 Loud, Confident and Wrong
11 Others’ Interests
12 Half a Puppy

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Die Extreme Metal-Band IN LIMINE hat nach „Unfollow“ mit „Misleading“ einen zweiten Track ihres kommenden Albums „Inveteratus“ veröffentlicht. Es ist der erste Release des von Gitarrist Matteo Galimberti geführten Projekts, der sich als Session-Musiker Drummer George Kollias (NILE, CONTRARIAN) und Sänger Laur Lindmäe (GORESOERD) mit ins Boot holte.

Das Album, welches am 24. Oktober 2025 via Rockshots Records erscheinen wird, untersuche die zyklische Natur von Zeit, Transformation und kulturellem Niedergang durch eine symbolische und visuelle Linse.

IN LIMINE „Inveteratus“ Tracklist
01. Soldier Child
02. Same Language Babilonia
03. Misleading (Audio bei YouTube)
04. Instinction
05. Echoing To Nothing (Instrumental)
06. Ruins Of Flesh
07. Psychic Frame Subsidence
08. Silence Completion
09. A Veil, A Shield (Instrumental)
10. Unfollow (Audio bei YouTube)
11. Misoneism

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Die Mittelalter / Folk Metal / NDH-Band RABENSCHREY meldet sich mit einer neuen Single zurück: Pünktlich zum 25-jährigen Jubiläum der Band hat das Duo bestehend aus Peter Wohlers und Wladlen Schoener (ABANDON HOPE) mit „Der Raben Schrey“ einen neuen Song veröffentlicht. Davor hat die Band elf Alben veröffentlicht – das letzte Album („Hart aber ehrlich“) datiert allerdings schon aus dem Jahre 2012.

RABENSCHREY Line-Up:
Donar von Rabenschrey – Vocals
Wayk – Guitars

RABENSCHREY „Der Raben Schrey“ (Audio bei YouTube)

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Die Grindcore-Band SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT hat mit dem Lyric-Video zu „Grindimus Prime“ eine dritte Single ihres kommenden Albums „Exit Humanity“ veröffentlicht. Es ist nach „Children of the Atom“ (2010) das zweite Album der Rumänen und wurde von Tudor Scânteie und Drummer Andrei JumugÄ� gemixt. Release-Termin ist der 18. Oktober 2025 via Loud Rage Music. Vorab gibt es mit „Enemy Mine“ einen Video-Clip.

SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT Line-Up:
Cosmin Purge – vocals
Stancu Sebastian – vocals, bass
Andrei Bejușca – guitars
Andrei JumugÄ� – drums

SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT „Exit Humanity“ Tracklist
1. Harbinger (Video bei YouTube)
2. Fed To The Ground
3. Tools Of Your Betrayal
4. Enemy Mine (Video bei YouTube)
5. Feed The Crows
6. Grindimus Prime (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
7. Shrapnel Messiah
8. Fukushima Nuclear Samurai
9. Rid The Parasites
10. Laugh Of The Seagulls
11. Great Grindfather
12. Behead The Tyrant
13. Exit Humanity
14. Outro

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Die Alternative Rock-Band FOXHAUNT hat mit „A New Beginning“ eine neue Single veröffentlicht.

„Der Song handelt von der Suche nach der eigenen Identität und Freiheit, nachdem man in eine toxische, manipulative Dynamik verstrickt war. Es geht darum, Täuschungen zu durchschauen, emotionale Folgen zu verarbeiten und sich letztendlich für einen Neuanfang zu entscheiden. Im Kern handelt es sich um eine Erzählung über Selbstermächtigung – darüber, die Vergangenheit loszulassen und mit Klarheit und Zielstrebigkeit ein neues Kapitel aufzuschlagen“, sagt die Band.

Davor hat die Band die Single „The Daylight Between Us“ mitsamt Video-Clip veröffentlicht. Als Gast-Sängerin wirkte Rebekah Kirk (SIXTH WONDER) mit.

„Der Song ist inspiriert von der wachsenden Kluft in der Gesellschaft, die von Macht und Reichtum bestimmt wird. Der Text hebt hervor, wie diejenigen, die an der Spitze stehen, Entscheidungen treffen, die sich negativ auf die normalen Menschen auswirken – Entscheidungen, die getroffen werden, ohne jemals in deren Schuhen zu stecken. Diese Kluft ist etwas, das wir im täglichen Leben sehen, und sie ist besonders offensichtlich in der Musikindustrie, wo Kunst zunehmend als Wegwerfartikel und unterbewertet angesehen wird. Dieser Song entstand aus Frustration, und wir wollten durch unsere eigene Kunstform eine Botschaft senden“, erklärt die Band.

Zuvor haben die Engländer aus Leeds mit der EP „Their Division Culture“ debütiert.

FOXHAUNT Line-Up
Ollie Swift – Vocals
Thom Clayton – Guitar
Jamie Scott – Drums
Sam Whittle – Bass

FOXHAUNT „The Daylight Between Us“ (Video bei YouTube)

FOXHAUNT „A New Beginning“ (Audio bei YouTube)

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Mit "Kerosene" haben The Original Sin (ehemals Sündenrausch) die zweite neue Single nach der Umbenennung ausgekoppelt. Mehr Infos und das Video hier bei uns!

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Mit "Tolerate" haben Assemblage 23 die erste Single vom kommenden Album "Null" ausgekoppelt! Mehr Infos und den Track im Stream hier.

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Dieser Tage feiern Fields Of The Nephilim das 40. Jubiläum ihrer Debüt-EP "Burning The Fields". Außerdem hat es den Anschein, dass die Band nach vielen Verschiebungen endlich wieder live spielen wird - mehr Infos hier!

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Jetzt Sonic Seducer abonnieren und eine von vielen teils limitierten und signierten CD-Prämien sichern! Aktuell im Angebot: Nine Inch Nails, Faun, Saltatio Mortis, The Cure, Tyske Ludder, Peter Murphy, Mono Inc., Lord Of The Lost, Feuerschwanz, Epica, Lacrimosa, Eisbrecher und Blutengel!

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Fans von Rammstein Vinyl dürfen sich auf eine riesige, limitierte 7''-Single-Box freuen - mehr Infos und einen Trailer zur Veröffentlichung gibt es hier!

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Icon Of Coil: ‘Serenity Is The Devil (25th Anniversary Remaster)’

Icon of Coil is a Norwegian futurepop/EBM band formed in 1997 by musician and producer Andy LaPlegua (who later went on to create Combichrist). Initially started as a solo project, it quickly grew into a full band with the addition of Sebastian Komor in 1999 and Christian Lund in 2000.

Blending driving electronic beats, melodic synth lines and moody yet accessible vocals, they swiftly became one of the most influential acts in the dark electronic genre. Their debut album, ‘Serenity Is The Devil’ (2000), charted in the Top 3 of the German DAC Alternative Chart, with its follow-up ‘The Soul Is In The Software’ (2002), reaching the coveted no. 1. ‘Machines Are Us’ (2004) further solidified their reputation for combining club-ready energy with introspective, futuristic themes.

Known for their energetic live performances and a polished electronic sound, Icon of Coil toured extensively across Europe and North America, often alongside other scene leaders such as VNV Nation and Covenant. While the band has been largely inactive since the mid-2000s as members pursued other projects, their work continues to inspire the futurepop, industrial and electronic music scenes.

‘Serenity Is The Devil’ had been licensed to Metropolis Records for North America upon its original release. The label is now making an expanded 25th anniversary remastered edition available worldwide on 2xLP translucent orange vinyl and digitally.

The vinyl package features the previously unreleased ‘SEC FOUR’.

SERENITY IS THE DEVIL – TRACKLISTING:
1  Activate
2  Regret
3  Shallow Nation
4  Down On Me
5  Former Self
6  Everlasting
7  Situations Like These
8  Fiction
9  You Just Died
10  Floorkiller
11  SEC FOUR

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Based in Flensburg, North Germany, Moons in Retrograde is the Nightmare Trip-Pop / Dark Alt-Electro Hyperpop project of US-born musician and multimedia performance artist, Kara Kuckoo.

The new Moons in Retrograde single and video, ‘Mirror Obscura’, is released today (Friday 5 September 2025) for Bandcamp Friday, launching presales for the project’s forthcoming debut album, The Third Side of the Coin.

Discussing the themes behind ‘Mirror Obscura’, Kara says:

“Carl Jung said, “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Mirror Obscura is about facing one’s own darkness through the infinite mirrors of other people. We tend to avoid and push away that which makes us uncomfortable, and therefore we cannot recognize ourselves within these mirrors. The song is about diving deep into the reflections, embracing one’s own dark side and accepting ourselves and others as flawed in the Mirror Obscura. When we can see ourselves fully, we can recognize all facets as being on a spectrum and not the perceived dualistic nature, which is the theme of The Third Side of The Coin. The video portrays the perceived duality of black and white and the madness within us as we avoid our own darkness. The elements of color are glimpses into the spectrum of wholeness. I especially wanted to shoot at sunrise because those moments of dusk and dawn are the magical spaces between day/light and night/dark, and the reflections of color and shadow dancing on the surface of the vast and deep ocean are the perfect representation of The Mirror Obscura.”

Performing as Moons in Retrograde since 2022, Kara Kuckoo is not only a musician but a theatrical multimedia installation artist, using costuming, staging, body-paint, dance, film and other media to create the dark and unsettling atmosphere of her online videos and unique performances.

Citing vast-ranging references to everyone from Heilung, IAMX, NIN, and The Birthday Massacre, Kara says: “Moons in Retrograde is about digging up and reflecting on buried emotions. Just like the moon, everyone and everything has a dark side and MIR dives into the dualistic nature of the universe and explores the tension of these two opposing forces. The music plays a tug of war between the perfection of universal chaos, the violent nature of life and an idealistic desire to bridge the growing gap in our polarized society. MIR weaves a soundscape which shines a light into the deepest corners of the mind and exposes the truth about the dark side of humanity while simultaneously discovering the core of the human soul.”

 

In the US, Kara’s previous music projects included prominent dark electro-industrial rock band In Winter, formed in her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio in 2003. Quickly becoming local favourites in the dark alternative scene, In Winter opened for The Birthday Massacre, Wednesday 13, The Genitorturers and others, and released one album, Murmur, in 2005, before Kara left the group the following year. She next embarked on the All Hamerican Tour (2006) as a backing vocalist with , before relocating to Las Vegas, Nevada. In Vegas, Kara and MC / producer Kielen King formed the dark trip-hop / ambient / downtempo duo, Azure Noir in 2007. Officially, Azure Noir disbanded in 2009 when Kara moved to Germany. However, Kara and King have continued to collaborate, with singles being released in 2010 and 2012, and murmurs about releasing new music together in the near future.

‘Mirror Obscura’, the new single and video from Moons in Retrograde, is out now: streaming from Spotify and all the usual outlets, and as a digital download from Bandcamp with all presales for Third Side of the Coin. The debut album is scheduled for release in “double EP” format on 20 October 2025.

 

Find / follow Moons in Retrograde:

www.moonsinretrograde.com

Spotify – Instagram – YouTube – Facebook

Source: ElectroWelt.com

20 years of Amphi Festival – 20 years of Amphi Family – 20 years of favourite bands!

They can’t be missing from the anniversary celebrations: bands that have shaped our Amphi Festival and were once again at the top of your wish lists this time around.

Yes, some of them have been on our stage many times before. But that’s exactly why they belong to this special year – because they are part of Amphi history and have provided many unforgettable moments. At the same time, we also have some fresh faces in the programme: some bands are appearing for the very first time, while others are making a comeback after many years.

We are celebrating 20 years – with a line-up that connects the past and the present. And we would like to say thank you: to you, to the artists and to 20 years of festival history!

Festival Line-Up HERE

Join us and spend a magical anniversary weekend with us on 25 & 26 July 2026.

Tickets for Amphi 2026 and the pre-party are available here: www.amphi-shop.de

We look forward to seeing you!

Best regards
Your Amphi Team

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Ungekürzt, unzensiert und unglaublich lustig: Das Hörbuch zu ‚Pommes! Porno! Popstar!‘ von Purwien & Kowa erscheint am 25.08.2017, überall wo es was auf die Ohren gibt. Zeitgleich wird die zugehörige Musik-CD ‚Zwei‘ von Purwien & Kowa veröffentlicht, quasi der Soundtrack zum Hörbuch. Kein Hit, zwei Musiker, drei Probleme. Millionen haben ihre Platten nicht gekauft, Hunderttausende […]

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