The French post-metallers LOST IN KYIV discuss the fifth album, new drummer, a Jung sample, and more

Metal/hardcore hybrid OMIT ALL traces AI outsourcing, parasocial dependence, and endless war across “Lights Up on The End Stage”

Brighton emo band HAD SANDY talk spirituality, Citizen, Trophy Eyes, and “t’other side”

“Those Dark Roads”: Cleveland punks SAINTS OF LORAIN premiere debut album

THE DHARMA CHAIN unlock a hypnotic journey with “Some Kind of Pure State”

New wave goth rockers VELVET MIST unveil a five-track concept EP about almost losing the light

Dresden hardcore powerhouse RISK IT! drop “The Bottom Line”, new LP on War Records coming up!

IF THESE TREES COULD TALK break their no-vocals rule on “Blurry Creatures”, “The Hidden Hand”, first album in a decade coming up!

Australian synth post punks SCREENSAVER send a mid-tour dispatch from Europe, reflect on community, landlords, and why creative expression matters

Swedish post rockers OH HIROSHIMA talk T.S. Eliot, church organs, and pulling tracks out of the archive on their new album

Milwaukee noise rockers PRIMITIVE BROADCAST SERVICE explain the field recordings, fire escapes, and ICE response that shaped “Monsters”

MISERE debut “Lichtschacht”, a German-language post-hardcore track about strength in togetherness

Manila straight edge band FIGURE OUT storms “Through The Tides”, with Pat Flynn, Riz of Eskrima and Kyo of Monument X across three tracks

50 years of hard drinking: The Real McKenzies return with “On Yer Bike,” their first album after Paul got sober

HARM DONE and DIREWOLVES members regroup as MERVILLE on the “Side Lines” demo

Emo punk rockers RACOONHEAD premiere “Same Old Haunts” video, shot on a live Melbourne airport runway

SINECURES made “Brace” for two bottles of tequila, fuelled by a professor’s unease with big tech

DEARHEART trace the later stages of grief on their second album “Until All the Light in Us Is Given Up”

THE VENUS CHILDREN turn “Amygdala” into a cult chant and a summoning of the brain

THROWNNESS ulock “Marrow Part II”, a place for the dead, somewhere between Neurosis and Dylan Thomas