Reviews

Cavan’s alt-rock underground gets a serious jolt of electricity with Little White Hair, the debut album from Muddshovel, released on November 28, 2025. The record arrives as a full-throated introduction to a band that thrives on grit, volume, and lived-in storytelling. Built from snarling guitars, bruising rhythms, and lyrics that…

Emerging from more than a decade of underground work, Daedric Death steps fully into the shadows with Dark Templars, an EP that feels less like a debut and more like the unveiling of a long-buried grimoire. Rooted in the artist’s former Spanish black metal project Conjuro Nuclear, this release draws…

With Watching The World Go By, Jernej Zoran delivers a quietly confident milestone in an already prolific career. Released on November 28, 2025, the record is his seventh studio album and, notably, his first written entirely in English, marking a natural widening of perspective rather than a reinvention. Known across…

New York–born, London-based singer-songwriter Lola Consuelos steps into the spotlight with her debut EP Sorry, it’s all about me, a bold, self-aware, diaristic and sharply produced introduction. Having honed her craft at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute and built early momentum with hundreds of thousands of streams on her debut single,…

23 Fields step into a powerful lane with their new single “You’re Alright,” through empathy, restraint, and emotional clarity. Known for crafting genre-blurring songs that sit somewhere between alternative rock, indie, and cinematic folk, 23 Fields continue to refine a sound, as a gentle counterweight to an anxious world, built…

Virginia-based hard rock outfit KuF digs deep into the tension between collapse and survival as they return with “Quicksand Serenade,” sounding like a band very aware of what it wants to say and how loudly it wants to say it. Originally formed in the early 2000s and reborn years later…

Steam Lizard, the creative project of Fleetwood, Lancashire songwriter and producer Steve Bonham, continues his quietly confident comeback with “Sloth Mode On (aka Slothing It Song),” a playful and oddly timely single that leans into rest as rebellion. After years moving between solo success, club-focused projects, and a long pause…

Burning Plains don’t just return with “Burning Plains,” they arrive like a warning siren that never stopped echoing. Originally written back in 2008 during a raw garage rehearsal, the track has been resurrected with brutal clarity, now sounding less like a debut and more like a prophecy fulfilled. Scarred by…

MikroBrute, the Sligo-based Irish artist steadily carving out a personal lane in heavy music, released the original single “Kneel” on November 28, 2025, as a vulnerable and visceral statement. Written, recorded, and produced primarily at home on a modest mini PC, the track brings substance over spectacle. Additional musicians were…

Palpitate returns from Šumperk, Czechia, with a striking new single, “Devour,” released on December 5, 2025, and it feels like a band fully leaning into atmosphere, memory, and emotional weight. Led by Milan Skřivánek, Palpitate have carved out a space where heavy music meets introspection, and “Devour” arrives as a…