shoegaze

Full Album Stream: Cwfen –Sorrows

May 28, 2025

Hear the new lush and lethal full-length debut, Sorrows, from Scottish gothic doom outfit Cwfen.

Track-by-Track: vide – “Decorated in spiderweb”

May 8, 2025

Louisiana- and Texas-based black metal shoegaze band vide just dropped their new EP, Decorated in spiderweb, on May 2. Check out their track-by track rundown of the release here.

Track Premiere: Faetooth – “Death of Day”

April 18, 2025

Check out the new song from LA’s Faetooth and immerse yourself in the blend of doom, sludge and shoegaze they call “fairy doom.”

Track Premiere: Museum of Light – “Soft Openings”

April 7, 2022

If you’re looking for a soft, introspective lunch break soundtrack that still delivers doomy riffs, “Soft Openings” from the upcoming Museum of Light LP Horizon is four minutes of bliss.

Full Album Premiere: Waternoose – “All Pain, No Feeling”

May 4, 2021

If you are a fan of any era of Daughters, the Locust or Saetia, it’s time to tune into the powerviolence/screamo/shoegaze hybrid of Waternoose.

Blast Worship: Sugar Wounds

April 13, 2021

Are Myrtle Beach’s Sugar Wounds the world’s first “shoegrind” band? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t listen to their Calico Dreams release right now.

Q&A: Bryan Buchanan (Bound) Lures Us Into The Rabbit Hole

November 16, 2020

Washington, D.C.’s Bound multi-thread into the darker recesses of the sonic rift on new album, Haunts. New interview with guitarist/vocalist Bryan Buchanan is just the start of our journey together.

Album Premiere: Sylvaine “Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone” + Q&A With Sylvaine

October 30, 2018

Norwegian post-black metal outfit Sylvaine premieres dreamy new album, “Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone,” on Decibel.

Dust Moth Premiere Haunting New Video For ‘A Veil In Between,’ Announce Tour Dates

January 25, 2017

Dust Moth premiere a new video and announce a tour with He Whose Ox Is Gored. 

Dust Moth

July 18, 2016

Scale
Rejoice, potential lovers of proper Gothic psychedelic shoegaze lounge metal
dB rating: 8/10

Funeral Moth

May 31, 2016

Transience
Quiet bloom of the soul
dB rating: 8/10

Eye On the Baal: Exclusive Das Rad Premiere!

September 9, 2014

Check out our exclusive stream below of Toronto psych-metallers Das Rad cleverly embedding a subversive catchiness into the fuzzy, atmospheric doom of “Eye of Baal,” a track off the band’s upcoming debut full-length Radiation. And if you like the Hawkwind-meets-shoegaze-meets-Can vibe, there’s another preview track here.