If you spend enough time digging through scenes that exist far from the usual Western hubs, you eventually hit a band whose backstory snaps everything into focus. Xain — split between Moscow
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BLEACH have been writing and playing together since 2020, coming out of the post-pandemic haze with a sound that leans
AVL come out of a crust and sludge background, and that weight is already moving in the first seconds of
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On February 6, Unsane’s Relapse Records debut “Occupational Hazard” comes back in a newly remastered reissue via Lamb Unlimited, with
Our dear friends from JAGUERO are back with “Lit,” a new single that quietly but decisively sets the direction for
Samskara’s re-release EP arrives as a revised version of the band’s first recorded work, newly tracked, mixed, and produced by
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“It’s complicated” is the second full-length album by Twins, released on November 21 through a loose coalition of DIY labels including Through Love Records, Zegema Beach, No Funeral, Fireflies Fall, Clever Eagle,
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The new single “Breaking Waves” lands today as Chalk Hands’ opening gesture toward their upcoming record “The Line That Shapes the Coast of Us”, out March 27th next year through Dog Knights Productions. It’s the first song they’ve chosen to let out into the
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Carrion Sky formed in Warsaw in late 2022 as a three-piece, without a fixed concept or long-term plan. The band brings together musicians previously active in Black Tundra, Major Kong, and Chainsword, but the starting point was deliberately open. As they put it themselves,
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It didn’t start with a plan to become a band, and it
“All Uncertain” arrives together with “Exile”, the debut EP by Ko.Ma, recorded
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