Author: Yannick Chauvet

Zespół Sztylety Drop “Niedoczas”, A First Strike From “Wszystkie Rany Niezabliźnione”

Zespół Sztylety Drop “Niedoczas”, A First Strike From “Wszystkie Rany Niezabliźnione”

“Niedoczas” by Zespół Sztylety, the lead single from their forthcoming album “Wszystkie Rany Niezabliźnione”, is out now on all streaming platforms. Let’s get one thing straight: this band is the real thing. We’ve seen them live more than once, and every single time it’s been […]

Four Bands, One Night, No Excuses: The Polish Metal Summit Lands At Drizzly Grizzly

Four Bands, One Night, No Excuses: The Polish Metal Summit Lands At Drizzly Grizzly

On the 10th of April, Drizzly Grizzly, four Polish bands. Two co-headliners. Zero filler. This is what a proper metal night looks like. Frontside and Hamulec share the top of the bill, and what a pairing it is. It is the kind of co-headliner announcement […]

EIHWAR’s “Hugrheim”: War Drums, Ancient Spirits, and a Pagan Dancefloor

EIHWAR’s “Hugrheim”: War Drums, Ancient Spirits, and a Pagan Dancefloor

The sound they have built is harder to pin down than it first appears. Yes, there are war drums. Yes, there are chants in ancient languages and the haunting scrape of a tagelharpa. But underneath all that, there is genuine electronic pulse, trance architecture, and […]

Impure Wilhelmina: Thirty Years In and Still Plugged Into Something Dangerous

Impure Wilhelmina: Thirty Years In and Still Plugged Into Something Dangerous

Impure Wilhelmina have spent three decades doing exactly what they want, and the Geneva underground has never quite contained them. Six albums deep, the Swiss quartet have always operated in that uncomfortable space where hardcore aggression meets atmospheric weight, where melody refuses to soften the […]

A.A. Williams Holds It Together, Just About

A.A. Williams Holds It Together, Just About

A.A. Williams has never been an artist who shouts. She whispers, she builds, she lets the weight do the talking. And on ‘Hold It Together‘, the latest single from her forthcoming third album “Solstice“, that restraint becomes something devastating. The London-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist […]

This Week’s Videos, Our Selection: Five Worlds, One Playlist

This Week’s Videos, Our Selection: Five Worlds, One Playlist

Five videos. Five completely different worlds. This week we’ve got Nashville metalcore that hits like a court summons, a New York folk-jazz duo building entire conceptual universes from newspaper clippings, Southern California pop-punk with something to prove, one of underground indie’s most quietly influential bands […]

ALT. Land The First Punch Of 2026 With “Sucker Punch”

ALT. Land The First Punch Of 2026 With “Sucker Punch”

Adelaide’s finest problem children are back, and they are not in the mood for pleasantries. alt. have dropped “Sucker Punch“, their first new music since 2024’s “Conversations That Hurt“, and it lands exactly like the title promises, fast, targeted, and with the full force of […]

Darkness Born in the Sun: Slow Crush Drop Two Stunning B-Side Gems

Darkness Born in the Sun: Slow Crush Drop Two Stunning B-Side Gems

There’s a particular kind of creative alchemy that happens when a band generates more heat than any single album can contain. The sessions overflow. Ideas spill out the sides. And sometimes, what gets left on the cutting room floor turns out to be as essential […]