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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 ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: Gogo Melone Ophelia's Eye - Hopeless World Release Date: April 15, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Digital Duration: 25:28 Genre: Progressive Metalcore / Death Metal Origin: Dulliken , Switzerland Ophelia's Eye are a young band from Dulliken, in the Swiss Canton of Solothurn. In this triangle between the three cities of Bern, Zürich, and Basel, great music for those who love to bang their heads or to go savage in the moshpit has been born. In 2021, Ophelia's Eye have released two singles in which they presented their very own approach to grooving, brachial, and yet innovative and sophisticated Metal. You can read the reviews on the singles here: 'Speak Words of ...

  Picture Credit: Mickey Mithrid Art   Ophelia's Eye - The Demon behind my Mind Release Date: October 10, 2021 Length: 04:12 Genre:  Metalcore  /  Death Metal Origin:  Dulliken ,  Switzerland The single on hand is the latest release by Solothurn's rising star Ophelia's Eye. As the title already tells us, this song is about demons. But it is a very special of demons that is dealt with here: it is everyone's very own and unique demon - the voice in our head, the power that makes us do stupid things sometimes, and helps us out of misery some other times. And thus, here is what Ophelia's Eye have to say to us: know your demon, and embrace your demon - love it if you want. The band's very first music video is accompanied by the mélange of Death Metal and Metalcore, Ophelia's Eye are known and loved for. The staccato leads add some Black Metal-like cold to te rough soundscape. And so, Ophelia's Eye present an empowering sound that combines the headbanging dy...

  Picture Credit: Never Knew An impressive one-man-band Never Knew, has released a brand new banger “Better Views”. Well, I hope it’s gonna perform better than the previous album " Internal Relapse ", because it's totally worth it - even though it got featured in the All Things Heavy on Spotify and gained some traction in 2020, it clearly wasn’t enough to amass a somewhat decent following. "Internal Relapse" sometimes tended to enter the more mainstream metal niche with tracks like 'Castaways' (which was a few steps away from cloud rap), and contained a lot of clean singing alongside the screaming. “Better Views” however demonstrates a more metalcore-focused approach, with intense guitars, djenty riffing and way less clean vocals, while still remaining in the modern post-hardcore/metalcore division and zeitgeist: imagine if Architects banged Between the Buried and Me, while Currents were taping it. A...

Picture Credit: Guest of Rapture   Guest of Rapture - EGoR6: Scream Release Date: August 03, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 51:52 Genre: Dubstep / Horror / Metalcore Origin:  Los Angeles ,  CA ,  USA Measured by how rarely the genres EDM and Dubstep are featured on MangoWave, you can assume that only certain pearls and special works manage to convince me. One of those exceptional pieces is "Scream", the sixth part of Guest of Rapture's "EGoR" series. The artist from LA provides us with genre-merging innovative energy, a pitch-black horror story, and sonic narrative techniques that are absolutely unique. Guest of Rapture · Terrified (sOuNdS) "Scream" is a fifty-minute journey through the darkest and most horrifying chasms of our reality. Blood, gore, murder, violence, damnation, and fear spat out straight from infernal depths are bound in sound and noise. Mastermind Tom Berry  uses samples from horror movies, and creates a violent so...

Picture Credit: Primal Odd Communication Matriarchs - The Shape of C#NT$ to come Release Date: October 05, 2021 Label: Knucklehedz Inc Format: Digital Length: 20:30 Genre: Hardcore / Nu Metal Origin: Los Angeles , CA , USA   Last October, LA’s Matriarchs released their amazing album “Year of the Rat” which pleased me a lot. Read the review   here . Now, in the year of the buffalo, Matriarchs are back with their newest work “The Shape of C#NT$ to come” which features seven new kick-ass metallic Hardcore tracks by   Ben Levi, Carlos Pagan and K Enagonio,   as well as a guest appearance by   Jarren Benton . If you loved “Year of the Rat” for its inexorable soundscapes, “The Shape of C#NT$ to come” will blow your mind. On their new album, the Californian band is notching up their performance in multiple ways. The brutality of the metallic riffs is way more intense than before, the Hardcore breaks are even harsher, and finally even the melodic passages of t...

Picture Credit: Mickey Mithrid Art   Ophelia's Eye - Speak Words of Destruction Release Date: July 10, 2021 Length: 03:35 Genre: Metalcore / Death Metal Origin: Dulliken , Switzerland 'Speak Word of Destruction' is the second single off Ophelia's Eye's EP " Fight for us ". If the band name confuses you, that might because the Swiss quintet has changed their name from Project Penny to Red Fire Dragon to Ophelia's Eye. The final name derives from the novel 'Der Sandmann' by German romanticist ETA Hoffmann . The stunning narrative features a character named Olimpia  whose name was changed to Ophelia  in this case. 'Speak Words of Destruction' deals with chasms of human behaviour, like the rest of the EP does, too. In this special case, the lack of communication that often leads to division, separation and conflicts is concerned. Once, communication is lost, a single misunderstanding can lead to major escalation. First time, I listened to ...

Picture Credit: QUANTUM   QUANTUM - RISE. Release Date: July 09, 2021 Length: 03:11 Genre: Modern Metal / Drum and Bass Origin: Zürich , Switzerland I guess we can all agree that a lot of things need to change. Improvement is necessary in many aspects of our lives, no matter where we live, what we seek for, and how big or small or problems may be. For more than half a century we have sung the anthems of the Summer of Love, and many people - including me - still adore them. But the anthem for the fight for a better future does not mandatorily have to be presented via Psychedelic Rock or Anarcho Punk. Thus, here is something you might most likely have not experienced before. Here's the new anthem by Zürich's QUANTUM: The thrilling and powerful spoken word sample ends in "Let us fight for a new world", and then the band kicks in with there unique style. Harsh Metal and Hardcore riffs create a rough foundation for this impressive hymn. Interspersed by brutal breaks and d...

Picture Credit: Alfa Bravo   Alfa Bravo - Zulu Release Date: July 21, 2021 Length: 02:25 Genre: Hardcore / Deathcore Origin: Stoke on Trent , England In the NATO Phonetic Alphabet 'Alfa Bravo' stands for 'A B', and 'Zulu' means 'Z'. Alfa Bravo is also the name of an artist from Stoke-on-Trent in the English Midlands. A year ago, the musician began posting anti-racist, pro-animal rights, and pro-straight edge content on their Instagram profile. A whole year later, the first demo track " (demo)ns " was published. The song features the TikToker TexanDeathVocals. The vocalist has contributed to the latest release "Zulu" as well. "Zulu" is the first official single by Alfa Bravo and it can be streamed via Bandcamp, AppleMusic, SoundCloud, Spotify, and YouTube. Driven by brachial Hardcore an Deathcore, Alfa Bravo and TexanDeathVocals spread their message. The raw sounds perfectly fit the call for action against racism and its sup...

Picture Credit: H3llDuck H3llDuck - Opportunist Release Date: June 10, 2021 Length: 04:39 Genre:   Metalcore /   Deathcore / Djent Origin:   Norway   Talking about mainstream metalcore music is getting harder from year to year. Globally, bands of this style, in my opinion, have not offered anything new for a long time, and therefore it is an incredibly difficult task to highlight in their music something other than pleasant clean vocals and atmospheric electronics.   I would call the debut single Opportunist from H3llDuck a typical representative of modern metalcore with djent and deathcore influences. The overall sound production is tight, screams and growls are ripping through the mix, riffs are chunky and proggy, lyrics are thought provoking so all of these make this debut strong and promising! The main highlight is the clean vocal part in the chorus which perfectly fits the lyrics! Guest feature written by Dmitriy Churilov Content from the...

Picture Credit: Crimson Clean Sweep   Crimson Clean Sweep - Hexes Release Date: May 07, 2021 Length: 03:38 Genre: Metalcore / Alternative Metal Origin: Viola , Illinois , USA Viola-based quintet Crimson Clean Sweep are one of those bands that do not merge or combine genres. Instead, they just run through the boundaries between styles with the power of an army of jackhammers. If you are interested in a modern approach to raw and brachial music, you are ready the right post. In the press kit, Crimson Clean Sweep say they "sound like The Hex Girls if The Hex Girls were boys, tuned really low, and screamed". Well, that is one way to describe it. Crimson Clean Sweep's "Hexes" is a savage mix, combining the raw force of Nu Metal with merciless Metalcore blows, a dark Alternative Metal atmosphere, and the morbid aftertaste of Gothic Metal. So, Alternative Gothic Nu Metalcore? Crimson Clean Sweep bring Nu Metal to a new level. Fans of raging moshpits and sheer loudness...

Picture Credit: Far From Who We Are   Far From Who We Are - Sleep in Shadows Release Date: May 15, 2021 Length: 03:12 Genre: Metalcore / Alternative Metal Origin: Johannesburg , South Africa Half a year ago, Johannesburg's Far From Who We Are were featured in the Discoveries of the Week with their song "Rise". Six months later, I am glad to present their latest single "Sleep in Shadows" to you. The new track is the teaser for the eponymous EP that will be out via HopePunk Records later in June 2021. Besides band members Kyle Williams  (drums), Maarten Heyns  (bass), and Johan Heyns  (guitar, synths, vocals) get further vocal support by Gideon Kretschmer . "Sleep in Shadows" is a massive powerload made from (Nu) Metalcore and Alternative Metal. Riffs that weigh tons hover over heavy rhythms, but not without leaving space for emotive melodic leads. Far From Who We Are combine the gloom of late-90s Alternative with the intense force of post-Millenium Me...

Picture Credit: Atlas of Elysian Atlas of Elysian - Through the Threads of Reality Release Date: April 21, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 21:19 Genre: Nu Core Origin: Cardiff , Wales “Through the Threads of Reality” is the sophomore release by Welsh quartet Atlas of Elysian. The seven-track EP is a powerful demonstration of brachial, modern, and yet emotional music. The style the band calls Nu Core can be described as a mix of Metalcore, Post Hardcore, Rapcore, and Industrial. Pitch-black post-industrial soundscapes create an atmosphere of dystopian darkness on which harsh and brachial breaks go down like hammers to an anvil. The songs are defined by exciting and energetic structures which increase tension over time. This energy sometimes discharges in a brutal thunderstorm of Metalcore, but other times it stays – like the forceful track ‘Fire’ which leads into the spoken word section of the title song. Here, it becomes obvious that Atlas of Elysian have not just put s...