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First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Cover photo by  Steffen Albrecht;  Cover parts by  Engin Aykurt  and  Vino Li;  Cover composition by  Eric McQueen The Mountain King - Tsunami of Hope Release Date: July 01, 2022 Label: Analog Scum Recordings Format: Cassette/USB-Stick/Digital Duration: 19:46 Genre: LoFi / Ambient Origin: Mainz , Germany The Mountain King from Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate keeps releasing new music on high frequency. Only five months after the release of the last Drone Doom opus and celebration of palindromes " WolloW ", the latest release "Tsunami of Hope" is here. If you are acquainted with Eric McQueen  and his music, you know that The Mountain King's releases can roughly be categorized in two spheres: the Drone, Doom or Metal releases on the one hand, and the more experimental outpu...

First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Picture Credit: Heartfalls Heartfalls - Heartfalls Release Date: June 15, 2022 Duration: 02:45 Genre: Post Metal / Post Rock Origin: Queens, NY, USA Heartfalls is a product of its age. Based on the remains of the currently defunct metal band Ashes Forever. Rising from its, ehem, ashes, Heartfalls became a new outlet for Matt Dillon on drums and Josh Williams on guitar and bass. The newly-created band explores different territories, pretty far from the tech-metal agenda - it is post rock in its purest form, inspired by the titans of the genre like Caspian, Boards of Canada and Pelican. To this day Heartfalls remains a mysterious act, with little to no backstory behind it; and a single recorded track under the name 'Endless Year'. The artwork for it is an abstract black and white photo. Taking into consi...

Kravt durch Krebs – Schmerzkörper Release Date: September 11th 2021 Label: independent Format: LP Length: 31:22 Genre: Ambient , Black Metal, Noise , Avantgarde , Spoken word, Doom, Dissonant , Metal , Lo-fi Kravt durch Krebs is a fresh one-man black metal act, hailing from Germany with it’s newest installment Schmerzkörper - the body of pain or the pain of the body, I guess. From the first seconds of the opening track the artist distinguishes the area of his operations, establishing a strong new school of black metal feel - “Ich bin” is dedicated to personal reflections on life, as the lyrics are built around the author’s diary. I couldn’t get what exactly is being transmitted, but the raw emotion of despair that goes perfectly with its music video - beautiful landscapes and pictures of nature. The opener is produced in the closest to your classic black metal style, with fast paced rhythm section, grainy guitar sounds and constant screaming, and the whole thing is intentionally monoto...

Picture Credit: Year Of No Light   Year Of No Light - Consolamentum Release Date: July 02, 2021 Label: Pelagic Records Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital Length: 55:17 Genre: Post Metal / Drone Doom Origin: Bordeaux , France "Consolamentum" is not only the fifth full-length release by Bordeaux' Post Metal giants Year Of No Light. With this album, the band also celebrates their 20th anniversary. And therefore, a special bundle is available in the webshop of German label Pelagic Records . The wooden box contains all five studio albums, several Split EPs, a recording from the Roadburn Festival together with composer Dirk Serries , and several other goodies. You can either get a CD bundle or a vinyl bundle. With "Consolamentum", Year Of No Light prove once more that they belong to the crème de la crème of heavy and atmospheric music. Masterfully, the band merges coldly waving Drone sounds with the vast atmosphere of Post Metal and the massive brachiality of Sludge. The f...

Picture Credit: Beelzedüb   Beelzedüb - Interplanetary Degradation Release Date: June 01, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 94:53 Genre: Ambient / Trip Hop / Synthwave Origin: Plymouth , England With "Interplanetary Degradation", South England's Beelzedüb has released their first long player. The emphasis here is on long since the album with its twelve tracks contains more than one-and-a-half hours of post-apocalyptic ambience. An interesting fact about this album is its unique sonic appearance. Each of the twelve tracks were recorded during live performances including improvisation and spontaneous interjections. Thus, you can watch Beelzedüb perform several times, and be assured that each gig is a unique events with details that will never be repeated. The music presented by the Plymouth-based act with a love for umlauts covers the whole spectrum of post-apocalypticism. "Interplanetary Degradation" is the soundtrack of a world in rubble and debr...

Picture Credit: The Mountain King Artwork: Agromira   The Mountain King - C.A.O.S.D. Release Date: May 01, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Digital Length: 25:31 Genre: EDM / Nintendocore / Electro Punk Origin: Mainz , Germany And now, something completely different, or: Wouldn't it be nice if the police had cooked asparagus instead of tonfas, tazers, and guns? Labour Day 2021 was the release date of the third The Mountain King release in 2021 alone. After the artist from Rhineland-Palatia has recently provided us with Space Doom , and Black Metal , this eight-track album is the most electronic release by Eric McQueen  since "Super Dead Isle 2" . C. A. O. S. D. by The Mountain King The limited special edition of this CD comes with an (empty) molotov cocktail and a USB drive by the way. You might want to have one of those 10 pieces. "C.A.O.S.D." is an instrumental albu except for the voice samples of the skits. The music is defined by minimalist but atmosp...

Picture Credit: Sounds Of New Soma Sounds Of New Soma - Trip Release Date: April 16, 2021 Label: Tonzonen / Soulfood Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital Length: 42:48 Genre: (Neo-) Krautrock / Berliner Schule Origin: Krefeld , Germany "Trip" - a four-letter word with ony syllable, and yet a term full of different meanings, interpretations, and nuances. The title of Sounds Of New Soma 's newest work is a perfect fit. Dirk Raupach  and Alex Djelassi  present a deep, colourful and versatile instrumental track. On the CD and the digital version, "Trip" is contained as one single track. The vinyl record though has to be flipped around after the first 23 minutes. Trip by Sounds Of New Soma From the first tone on, this album invites you to lean back comfortably, maybe grab a glass of orange juice, and keep some crisps or cookies nearby. This trip is a good and healthy one. The shimmering sounds dance through the sedative atmosphere like tiny flickering lights. Instead of h...

Picture Credit: Kontroll-Raum Photograph: Gerd Wienekamp Artwork: Stephan Knull Kontroll-Raum - Check in Release Date: April 04, 2021 Label: Manikin Records Format: CD / Digital Length: 73:07 Genre: Berliner Schule / Electronica Origin: Berlin , Germany  / Schönefeld , Germany / Wesertwolde , Netherlands Kontroll-Raum (German: "control room") is a new project featured on Berlin's Manikin Records. The trio consisting of Mario Schönwälder , Bas Broekhuis , and Frank Rothe  has found themselves in a situation where time and space seemed to shift and halt simultaneously. Unable to meet in person, Schönwälder , Broekhuis , and Rothe  worked in three different studios and exchanged audio files until the album was considered ready and Frank Rothe  took care of the final mastering. Check In by Kontroll-Raum After the introductory 'Gentlemen, start your engines!' which has a very strong Clockwork Orange vibe to it, the polyrhythmic journey into post-industrial reverie be...

BSÍ stands for Brussels Sprout Intl, and it might be one of the most depressing spaces in Iceland's capital Reykjavík. Sigurlaug  and Julius  have thus decided to call their Shoegaze / Ambient / Post Punk band BSÍ. The band calls their music LoFi Indie Cute Pop Punk. BSÍ have recently announced that their new album "Sometimes depressed... but alway antifascist" will be released on 21 May, 2021 via Tomatenplatten. As a little teaser, they have released two ex ante singles today. "Dónakallalagið" (Icelandic: "The rude Song"; video above) is a crunchy and intense Post Punk banger. "25Lue" (video below) instead shows the melancholic Ambient by BSÍ. Content from the  MangoNews  will always stay in the  MangoRotation  playlist for 14 days. BSÍ Online: Facebook Instagram Bandcamp YouTube Spotify Looking for affordable and high quality promotion for your music? Here's MusoSoup! Follow MangoWave on Telegram DONATE

  Picture Credit: Manikin Records Manikin Records steht seit bald dre Jahrzehnten für elektronischen Sound aus Berlin. Wer sich für Klänge wie Ambient, Berliner Schule, Electronica interessiert, wird an diesem Namen kaum vorbei kommen. Im dreißigsten Jahr des Bestehens konnte ich Labelgründer Mario Schönwälder  interviewen und auf das bisherige Schaffen von Manikin Records zurückblicken. " Es wird immer weitergehen, Musik als Träger von Ideen“ ( Ralf Hütter , Kraftwerk)." Yellow by Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder Hallo Mario, danke dass du dir Zeit nimmst. Lass uns ganz locker einsteigen. Möchtest du dich und das Label Manikin Records kurz vorstellen? Hallo liebe Leser, hallo Raphael, ich bin ein waschechter Berliner Junge, Jahrgang 1960. Nach einer eher unmusikalischen Jugendzeit lernte ich Anfang der achtziger Jahre Bernd Kistenmacher in Berlin kennen und durfte bei ihm an seinen ersten Synthies etwas spielen und an den Knöpfen drehen. Dies löste ein bis heute anhal...