post-rock

Track Premiere: Shipwreck Karpathos – “SCENE XI: Life as War”

November 8, 2023

Midwestern post-rockers Shipwreck Karpathos navigate stormy seas with their new single from Being Human. Out November 17th.

Video Premiere: Bassoon – “Cyclops”

October 26, 2023

No woodwinds, only mathy instrumental prog rock, in the new new Bassoon video, “Cyclops.”

Video Premiere: Houston – “What Doesn’t Kill You”

April 7, 2023

Minneapolis based alt/space rock band Houston pilot you back to the mid-’90s alt-metal heyday of Failure and Hum.

Album Premiere: Raum Kingdom – ‘Monarch’

January 25, 2023

Hear Irish sludge and doomsters Raum Kingdom return with their first new LP since the passing of bass player Ronan Connor in March of 2021.

Q&A: City Of Caterpillar’s Ryan Parrish On Genre Tags and Underground Ethics

September 6, 2022

Richmond noise rock heroes City Of Caterpillar discuss their 20-year “hiatus” and the unlikely-awesome new LP, Mystic Sisters.

Five For Friday: August 19, 2022

August 19, 2022

This week’s hand-picked set of new releases feature the latest from Russian Circles, Soilwork, Morbid Evils and more!

Track Premiere: DROTT – “The Marauders”

July 16, 2021

Enslaved’s Arve Isdal and Ulver’s Ivar Thormodsæter join forces with the jazz, post-rock, chamber music, folk, drone and ’70s prog sounds of DROTT

Video Premiere: Bruit – ‘The Machine is Burning’

March 15, 2021

French post-rockers Bruit get elaborate with a brass-accompanied performance of “The Machine is Burning.”

God Is An Astronaut Sends You “Adrift” In New Video

February 12, 2021

Ghost Tapes #10 is everything you’d want from this instrumental post-rock, packed with oceans of power and energy.

Hall of Fame Countdown: Slint’s “Spiderland”

August 13, 2020

Ranking the songs on Slint’s Hall of Fame-inducted, post-rock-creating Spiderland from worst to best.

Unreqvited Guides You as Night Falls

December 6, 2019

Unreqvited are uniquely talented at keeping their influences intact while still merging them into a cohesive force of blackened melancholy.

Retrospective: Cerberus Shoal’s “…and Farewell to Hightide”

April 4, 2019

Revisiting Cerberus Shoal‘s 1997 post-rock masterpiece …and Farewell to Hightide.

Track Premiere: Set and Setting – ‘Ecdysis’

August 28, 2018

Instrumental post-metal group Set and Setting return with their heaviest offering to date.

Video Premiere: MONO – ‘Requiem for Hell’

September 27, 2016

MONO‘s video for “Requiem for Hell” is an emotional and visually beautiful companion to the song. Also included: Exclusive Q&A with MONO’s Takaakira “Taka” Goto.

Track Premiere: Pray for Sound – “I Have Seen Hell And It’s White”

September 20, 2016

“I Have Seen Hell And It’s White” is an instrumental rollercoaster, capturing excited and calm, collected energy throughout the song. 

Video Premiere: MONO – ‘Requiem for Hell’

September 20, 2016

MONO have spent the past almost-two decades crafting vibrant soundscapes and instrumental rock albums. The upcoming Requiem for Hell, MONO’s ninth studio album, treads similar territory.  In a video for the title track, the Japanese instrumentalists tell, visually and audibly, an exhilarating yet terrifying story. The entirely black and white video features a man running…

STREAM/DOWNLOAD: Ferocious Fucking Teeth “Hinkley”, Albini-produced downcast noise-rock.

January 24, 2012

We’ve never been over to visit and the tourist information website was fucking useless, but we’d like to think that New London, Connecticut is just the sort of place where parents just vacate their family homes en masse for months at a time, and leave their surly offspring to mulch around in unwashed jeans and…