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Burner – “No One Is Coming To Save Us”
Release date: September 25, 2026 | Church Road Records | Bandcamp | Tidal | Spotify | Facebook | Instagram Burner are fire (pun intended) and hands down one of the gnarliest and angriest bands currently out there. Over here at Everything is Noise, we love this kind of stuff. If you’ve never heard of Burner before, we did a WFA on them and reviewed their previous album, so you can check those out for an introduction. Ever since I first heard their music, I was immediately hooked.
Protest the Hero – “Within”
Release date: July 17, 2026 | Independent | Bandcamp | Tidal | Spotify | Website | Facebook | Instagram I think a short crash course is in order for whoever isn’t really acquainted with the band and needs a good sell. Protest the Hero is, basically, what happens when five Canadian nerds marry prog-metal, skate punk, and a Red Bull sponsorship and then decide music theory is a harshly judged Olympic sport.
DeadTrees – “New World”
Release date: February 19, 2026 | Pest Productions | Bandcamp I never figured I’d be reviewing a black metal band, namely DeadTrees today, given my tenuous relationship with the genre. Although it’s worth noting right away that New World is, at least by my judgement, far from what would normally constitute a black metal record. It’s more that it has some black metal elements, heavily masked, and sparsely peppered throughout.
A SCENE IN RETROSPECT: Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra – “Promises”
I’m a latecomer to this album, well, to Floating Points (Sam Shepherd) in general, only hearing him for the first time with 2024’s Cascade, and that album took me a few listens to really get into. I’m no aficionado the dance or club scenes. Once I did get into it, I was very impressed, was recommended Promises by a good friend. Oh, and it features jazz legend Pharoah Sanders and the fucking London Symphony Orchestra?
BLACKSHAPE - "Prismer I" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: October 24, 2025 | Papercut Recordings | Facebook | Instagram | Bandcamp | Purchase/Stream I already spoke about BLACKSHAPE around the time of their eponymous debut album here. You can pop over there to get a glimpse if you’ve never heard of this band before. If you aren’t into that, cool, let’s just see what’s up with Prismer I. To kick things off, I just want to say that it is supremely serendipitous that Prismer I turned out like this.
In Spite of Me Is Laying It Down Hard With a Hail of Blightflowers
I was honestly starting to lose hope for metalcore as a whole. Very few bands felt like they were keeping things alive enough to say that it’s all still kicking. Out of the blue comes In Spite of Me, ready to shake things up. Like any good metalcore-adjacent record, In Spite of Me‘s blightflower is foaming at its seams with blindingly hot anger, churning riffs, hard hitting hooks, soaring melodies, and enough power to demolish a mountain.
An Abstract Illusion - "The Sleeping City" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: October 17, 2025 | Willowtip Records | Facebook | Instagram | Bandcamp | Purchase/Stream In the unforgiving tundra of progressive death metal, An Abstract Illusion’s The Sleeping City emerges as a colossus, hewn from the frozen marrow of innovation and ambition. Following the seismic impact of Woe a mere three years prior, this latest offering arrives with the ferocity of a winter gale, its synth-laden expanse reshaping the genre’s horizon.
Mad Vantage Bring Flash and Fluidity to Fusion on "Matriarch"
Being an Art As Catharsis fan, it’s no surprise that sooner or later I’ll find myself musing on some new thing going on in their camp. This time, I’ll be looking at “Matriarch”, Mad Vantage‘s second single from their upcoming debut in early November, MINUTIAE., which, if this and the first single are any indication, will be one smashing album.
ArcTanGent Festival 2025 - Where The Outliers Belong
Ah, the sweet ache of post-festival blues, that familiar mix of exhaustion and euphoria that lingers long after the final notes fade into the Somerset sunset. As music journalists with a shared passion for the weird and wonderful fringes of rock, metal, and everything in between, Thomas and myself have teamed up for this duo retrospective on ArcTanGent 2025. It’s our way of unpacking the magic, the madness, and the moments that made this year’s edition an unforgettable pilgrimage.
Challenger Deep - "Point of No Return" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: August 1, 2025 | Independent | Facebook | Instagram | Bandcamp | YouTube | Spotify | Website When you say instrumental rock or instrumental metal to people who know what that entails, you either get an excited look, almost frenetic or an eye roll so dramatic that you swear that person will be able to see the back of their head. It’s no secret that the genre has been riddled, for many years, (arguably still is) with a large amount of bands who are rehashing copies of copies.
Antethic Have New Material Coming Under New Label
Antethic, for those of you that aren’t familiar with them, are a very interesting trio hailing from Russia. Based in Saint Petersburg, they produce a fine blend of post-rock infused with various strains of electronic music, all wrapped up in a lovely ambient package. The band has been going at it for the better part of the past decade, and now they are ready to start the new one with fresh material and a new label.
prdr Doesn’t Leave Us "waiting in the light" Any Longer
Not so long ago I revisited the 2021 debut EP from prdr, as it’s been a while since I gave it a good listen. I have to say, it aged quite well. I was left wondering if there’s going to be a follow up what with almost four years since. Of course, quite serendipitously, I get wind of the single we’re looking at today along with a new EP coming soon.
Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a Plăcut
Release date: February 27, 2025 | dunk!records/A Thousand Arms Records | Facebook | Instagram | Bandcamp | YouTube | Spotify Every three years (since 2019 and give or take a few weeks) we get a new Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a Plăcut album and you know what? I love that. Never heard of Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a Plăcut? No problem, you have a bunch of links above and even more of my ramblings to check, but on their previous record, right here.
Danefae - "Trøst" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: January 31, 2025 | Independent | Bandcamp | Facebook | Spotify Out of the blue, Danefae delivers Trøst, a prog masterpiece that unfolds like a fantastical fairytale, yet carries the weight of philosophical introspection, all draped in the fabric of poetry.
Karmic Thread - "Instruments of Passing" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: January 19, 2025 | Independent | Facebook | Bandcamp | Spotify I can almost feel your eyes rolling back so hard that you’re seeing the back of your head from the inside at the mere mention of instrumental prog. I know, I’m also guilty of this knee jerk reaction sometimes, but with other styles as well. Hear me out though, this isn’t some ‘dime a dozen’ type prog, despite not being something that single handedly revives an entire genre.
Maud the Moth - "The Distaff" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: February 21, 2025 | The Larvarium | Facebook | Bandcamp | Spotify Maud the Moth isn’t an artist who simply follows a path. Instead, she carves out her own, with every album feeling like a step deeper into a world which is hers alone. With her latest release, she once again pushes the boundaries of what we’ve come to expect, showcasing more of the profoundly evocative atmospheres that have define her sound.
MASTER BOOT RECORD - "Hardwarez" - Everything Is Noise
Hardwarez is easily the most refined offering from our 100% synthesized, 100% dehumanized, go to metalwave programmer. Release date: October 11, 2024 | Metal Blade Records | Facebook | Bandcamp | Spotify If you haven’t heard of MASTER BOOT RECORD by now, you’re either living under a rock, or synthwave metal isn’t your thing. However, just in case neither applies, let me give you a crash course.
Sans Froid - "Hello, Boil Brain" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: September 13, 2024 | Independent | Facebook | Bandcamp | Spotify As the chill of autumn sets in, Sans Froid’s dynamic art rock brings a refreshing intensity, warming up the season with their raw, unfiltered sound. This young, sharp-edged band channels energy and passion, unafraid to deliver their message with bold honesty. My first contact with Hello, Boil Brain was right on its release day, not long ago. I was head over heels on the first spin.
Wyatt E. Waft Us Through Time and Across the Endless Dunes Yet Again on "Im Lelya"
I already spoke highly about Wyatt E. before here. So, in case you forgot, or missed the memo, take this preamble as a refresher/introduction. Wyatt E. seek to encapsulate far away and outstanding soundscapes in the pursuit of bridging us, mere mortal listeners, with awe inspiring mythos, arcane occult, and so much more. In this pursuit, the group has ditched the conventional approach of expression via a single stylistic path, in order to enhance the potency of their sonic storytelling.
Nala Sinephro - "Endlessness" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: September 6, 2024 | Warp Records | Bandcamp | Spotify What’s the first thing you think of when I say ‘space’? Jazz, right? No?? Yeah, me neither. It’s not even the eighth thing I’d think of. It’s unsurprising to say the least, however, that Nala Sinephro might just be the reason, I have started to create a more immediate association between the two terms.
Alora Crucible - "Oak Lace Apparition" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: August 9, 2024 | House of Mythology Records | Facebook | Bandcamp | Spotify Have you heard of Alora Crucible? Well, you’re in luck, if you haven’t, I already talked here, about their debut which was released three years ago. That should give you a bit of background in regards to what we’re dealing with.
Sokoninaru そこに鳴る - "KAIGAN SYOUMEI 開眼証明" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: July 24, 2024 | NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan | Facebook | Spotify | YouTube | Website This isn’t the first time I’m talking about Sokoninaru and their tunes. When I first touched on them here, taking Choetsu apart, I spared no expense with exposition, details, and technical breakdowns. So check that out if you want some background, but you can check it out anyway even if that’s not the case. I honestly can’t believe it’s been four years since then.
Kashiwa Daisuke - "Ice" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: July 20, 2024 | Virgin Babylon Records | Bandcamp | Facebook I like to throw around ‘otherworldly’ a lot when I refer to music, which tends to defy most of the words that come quickly and easily to mind. I know other people like to do this as well. Of course, this sort of action can inadvertently devalue a word, or even change its meaning over time.
A SCENE IN RETROSPECT: Casualties of Cool
Devin Townsend. *uproarious standing ovations* I genuinely believe I might as well have left it at that, because what the hell am I going to say about the man without risking repetition? His body of work speaks for itself quite eloquently, too.
A SCENE IN RETROSPECT: maudlin of the Well
‘Enigmatic’ doesn’t even begin to cut it when talking about Toby Driver and his longstanding career of presenting audiences with the most brain-twisting, progressive, and artful rock/metal imaginable. Kayo Dot is somewhat of a household name these days, but it was with his previous project maudlin of the Well that he left his first synapse-contorting impact on the music scene.
A SCENE IN RETROSPECT: Children of Nova
Progressive rock and metal have long been the bedrock of our community. You might remember that we evolved from a site dedicated to certain technical and progressive leanings within the heavier music sections, and as much as we’ve branched out since then, the influence those times had on our tastes is insurmountable.
A SCENE IN RETROSPECT: Hacride
The ’00s were a prime time for forward-thinking metal with absolutely devastating stompy riffs. Think Gojira, for example – that was the sound of flying whales doing a friggin’ frogsplash from the top rope onto your unsuspecting ass. Proper flattening. There must’ve been something in the water in France back then, because their compatriots in Hacride had that kinda riffs for days, too.
A SCENE IN RETROSPECT: A/T/O/S
I can’t believe it’s only been the second time in almost eight years of running this feature that I had to postpone an episode. Oh well. No content without its creators, and life can get in the way at any given moment. Luckily the circumstances were positive, so let’s move on to today’s main point of interest: A Taste Of Struggle by enigmatic Belgian electronica duo A/T/O/S. Electronica allows such elasticity as a genre.
A SCENE IN RETROSPECT: Hypno5e
Ah, so we meet again, Acid Mist Tomorrow. When I plucked this record off the virtual shelf to place into the ASIR continuity, I knew it would get an almost visceral reaction from our team. Why? Because it’s one of the most widely celebrated (post-)metal records within the diverging flows of interests that intersect at EIN. Ever since I joined 8 years ago, Hypno5e and Acid Mist Tomorrow popped up at irregular intervals, slowly becoming ingrained in my perception of our shared cultural space.
SOARS - "Repeater" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: November 17, 2023 | Pelagic Records | Bandcamp | Facebook This is right about where I say that, post rock has a profoundly poetic nature, due to some kind of cosmic coincidence and as a direct consequence, it’s beautiful and blah blah blah. Something along those lines, eh? Nope. Not today. What I will tell you though, is that post rock is much like pizza, generally speaking.
mingjia - "star, star" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: November 17, 2023 | Independent | Bandcamp | Spotify | Website In a whirlwind of shared excitement and mutual discovery, Jean Pierre and I, stumbled upon a hidden gem within the expansive world of music — an album called star, star by mingjia. star, star unfolds as an immersive experience, demanding undivided attention from start to finish, weaving a narrative that transcends mere music and delves into a realm of emotional connectivity and storytelling.
Texas in July - "Without Reason" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: November 17, 2023 | Equal Vision Records | Facebook | Spotify It feels like 00s and 10s band revivals are the hypest trend lately, no? What with Maybeshewill, Misery Signals, Textures, to name just a few, announcing they are reuniting or already released new music. Some bands do a better job than others pulling off a move like this. The qualities of the result are directly proportional with the intent of the revival, as I see it.
The Ritual Aura - "Heresiarch" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: November 10, 2023 | Independent | Facebook | Bandcamp | Spotify I was fairly generous with my assessment of The Ritual Aura’s previous record, Velothi. This is due in no small part to my excitement at the time with it. Today, to be perfectly honest, I wouldn’t be quite as generous, even though my impression would technically remain in that ballpark. Presently I don’t have particularly wild expectations from metal in general, even though I still very much enjoy the genre as a whole.
Hashshashin - "Śaraṇaṃ" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: November 10, 2023 | Art As Catharsis | Bandcamp | Facebook It’s hardly any surprise that I’m taking my microscope and having a proper look at the new offering from Hashshashin. While boasting easily one of the most annoying band names to spell, their tunes are on a level of good that’s out of this world. I talked with fervor about Badakhshan, Śaraṇaṃ’s predecessor.
Night Rider - "Night Rider" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: November 3, 2023 | Many Hats Distribution | Spotify | Instagram Honestly, I was very close to never even hearing this album, until who knows how much later. It just so happened, that I saw it on our review list labeled as synthwave/metalcore and that kind of piqued my interest. I expected this to be either terrible or amazing. I can’t really go as far as to say that it’s an amazing album, but it turned out to be a lot of fun, in spite of its shortcomings.
PoiL Ueda - "Yoshitsune" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: November 3, 2023 | Dur et Doux | Bandcamp | Spotify Imagine that I am screaming, at the top of my lungs, yet very enthusiastically, the following sentence: ‘Have you heard of PoiL?!’. That’s a rhetoric question, I’ll tell you what’s up anyway. PoiL is just one of those bands which hear about ridiculous things such as ‘limits’, ‘boundaries’, and ‘rules’ and laugh them out of the room with utter dismissal.
Spiritbox - "The Fear of Fear" - Everything Is Noise
Release date: November 3, 2023 | Rise Records | Bandcamp | Spotify Do the most hype metalcore sweethearts/darlings even need an introduction at this point? Thankfully for me, no. I still can’t understand how Spiritbox managed to drum up so much hype around their name, to be perfectly fair. Good for them, though, looks like the hard work and that pinch of luck paid off. I did discuss Eternal Blue at length with fellow writer Jean Pierre a while back, for those interested.
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