Using the break from touring presented by the covid lockdowns to perfect songs that didn’t make it onto their 2017 release, “Seekers and Finders”, the undisputed monarchs of New York Gypsy Punk in Gogol Bordello are back with a new album.

Labelling themselves as a voice for the voiceless, few bands have mastered dark atmospheric rock music to the extent that Crippled Black Phoenix have.

Following an ever-growing success that has seen their powerful and transformative music travel from their native Denmark to on stages around the whole world, Heilung have returned with another album of “newly unearthed amplified history”.

A year after the release of their previous studio effort, neofolk titans Wardruna are ready to present the world with their debut “virtual live experience” as an accompaniment and prelude to their upcoming live tour.

With the release of their last album Crux, New York-based progressive rockers Moon Tooth firmly established themselves as an upcoming force to be reckoned with on the prog rock and metal scene. Now, three years and one pandemic later, the group are ready to unveil their follow-up album Phototroph.

Despite having no prior music released, and the fact that there is precious little information to be found about the band online, Chinese progressive-metal quartet “Ou” (pronounced “O”), recently signed to Germany-based Inside Out records for the release of their debut album, “One”.

The past couple of years have seen James And The Cold Gun taking aim at the national scene. Now they're shooting their shot.

Promising to interweave elements of brass band theatrics, rhythm and blues, funk, and hard rock, the sophomore release from San Francisco-based “Just Friends” already sounds like an intriguing mix of styles before the opening track, “Love Letter”, gets underway.

For over thirty years, Finnish melodic metal troupe Amorphis have carved out a name for themselves as one of the most vibrant groups of storytellers in the metal scene. Their latest album effort, “Halo”, is described by the band as a “lively and touching beauty”, melancholic, and metal.

Boasting a "veritable shit-tone of content", Australian rock-fusion group Twelve Foot Ninja claim that, with their new record, they have done something that no other musical act in history has ever done with a concept piece that spans not only an album, but also a video game, comic book, and fantasy novel.

With Lurk billed as “Chicago’s most inventive punks” for their “whirlwind blend of proto-punk eccentricity, new wave swagger, and hardcore ferocity,” Around the Sun, the band’s debut release, is an album that promises to help us all “lean into the absurdity” of modern life.