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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 ______________________________________________________ Picture Credit: Johan Cronqvist Havok - Rorschach Release Date: September 09, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Duration: 52:02 Genre: Progressive Death Metal Origin: Sweden A slow but consistent duo (including Stygian Tomb’s drummer) has finally blessed us with a new release. The last full-length from the Swedish colossus Havok was released nine years ago - and as massive as Statues of Sisyphus was, the new album manages to develop the band's progressive vector even further. Rorschach distants itself a bit more from the signature Gothenburg sound and dives deeper into the experimental landscape. The album begins with a clear Grammy nominee pop metal sound, however, it is quickly replaced with downtuned chugging riffs, weird time signatures, and intense blasting worthy of early Dark Tranquility...

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: Humaniac Humaniac - Until the Light Fakes Us Release Date: August 26, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Duration: 50:38 Genre: TecDeath / Progressive Death Metal Origin: Moscow , Russian Federation Moscow-based Humaniac is an established unit in their homeland scene - being around for more than a decade, band consists of skilled local musicians from relatively well known bands (check Backdoor to Asylum, Disdained Grace, and Renunciation). Still Humaniac remains the long living and the most diverse creative outlet among them all, standing their grounds in the world of technical metal. Until the Light Fakes Us is the third full length album and with it the band becomes bigger than it has ever been. From the very beginning Humaniac starts unrelenting tech-death assault, based on the ...

    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: InDecision InDecision - ID Release Date: April 29, 2022 Label: selfrelease (Vinyl) / Krachige Platten (Tape) Format: Vinyl / Tape / Digital Duration: 32:22 Genre: Post Punk / Coldwave  / Dream Rock Origin: Karlsruhe , Germany InDecision are a quintet from Karlsruhe, the biggest city in the German region of Baden. In 2018, they released their first EP " Ghost ", and now their album debut "ID" has followed. The five members of InDecision have played in various bands before, Diego, The Bone Idles, Noisome, to name a few. As they started playing music together in their new-found formation, the lowest common denominator was found quickly - and to everyone's pleasure it is the Wave and Post Punk sound of the 1980s. As these melancholic and velvet sounds are experiencing a ...

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: Mads Skou Karstens Jorgensen Psychic Seizures - Viral Control Release Date: June 26, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: Cassette/Digital Duration: 27:47 Genre: Garage Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Noise Origin: Berlin , Germany The album "Viral Control" was recorded in early 2022 when Psychic Seizures-mastermind Mads Skou Karstens Jorgensen  was visited by Codey Corso  who is based in Los Angeles, California. The recording took place in Mads ' living room in German capital Berlin except for the drum tracks of the songs 'My Burned Brain' and 'Dr. Scientist' which were recorded by a person called Rafaele  at Berlin's Wong Studios . The result of these sessions are an eight-track album avalaible for streaming and on cassette tape. It contains six songs written by Mads  a...

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: Tim and Verena Schulze Sh!t out of Luck - Afraid of Peace Release Date: June 01, 2022 Label: R.O.O.T. Records / selfrelease Format: CD / Cassette / Digital Duration: 36:41 Genre: Punk Rock / Indie Rock / Garage Rock Origin: Stuttgart , Germany Not too long ago, Sh!t out of Luck was still an acoustic duo from the metropolitan area of Swabia. Their Acoustic Punk or Anti-Folk sound can be compared to the works by Harry Gump , and it can be streamed and bought on bandcamp . Nevertheless, things have changed. Sh!t out of Luck are still based in the greater region of Stuttgart and they still play dynamic music with antifascist lyrics. But since the release of " Acoustic as Fuck " SooL have grown to become a quartet. Founding members Quentin  (tambourine and drums) and Tim  (guitars, bas...

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: Christian Frank Zeremony - Survivin' Rock'n'Roll Release Date: July 01, 20222 Label: selfrelease Format: Vinyl/CD/Digital Duration: 51:22 Genre: Retro Prog / Blues Rock Origin: Würzburg , Germany In 2015, Lower Franconian trio Zeremony was born from the ashes of several half-baked projects and bands. It was a like a rise like phoenix from burned remains. Within short time, a first demo and the debut album " Soul of the Zeremony " were crafted, on which the band presented a heavy, blues-laden, and organ-driven Heavy Rock with tendencies towards Psych and Stoner Rock. A strong caesura or change of paradigms could be spotted when Zeremony released their stunning EP " Cosmic Dystopia " in 2019 - a powerful and heavy Retro Prog banger. Click here for a (German) conce...

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: Mengi Phiasco phiasco - Kessel Release Date: June 05, 2022 Label: Fuzzermocker Records / selfrelease Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital Duration: 45:30 Genre: Fuzz Rock / Heavy Rock Origin: Köllefornia (Cologne) , Germany If you don'like to read my rambling, the music-focused part begins after the second video. Three years ago, phiasco from German city Cologne played a concert at Immerhin Würzburg together with the three dead men from Bone Man . As a result of this event, a little artist introduction was published on MangoWave . Six years after the release of phiasco's debut album "Vieh" (German: "beast" or "animal", derogatory term for livestock, and homophone with φ), the quartet has published their sophomore longplayer "Kessel" (German: "kettle...