Music News 20250805 (Aug 05, 2025)
Items of interest and spreading the word.
Featuring: WARCOE , Bask , lowheaven , Arcadea , Black Charger , SUPERNAUGHTY , KAUPE , Stoned Jesus , THE SORROW OF BEING IMMACULATE , Supernatural Cat (publishing) , DEGRAVE , MOUNDRAG , Between the Buried and Me , LITANIA , Beyond Creation , Wreck and Reference and Monuments in Ruin EP275!
Italy-based classic doom trio WARCOE have signed to Ripple Music for the release of their third full-length, "Upon Tall Thrones" this September 26th, and unleash its debut single "Octagon" on all streaming platforms!
While they've shared bills with fellow Southern trailblazers, after 12 years, Bask still sound like they belong to their very own time and place. On their upcoming fourth album, the Asheville natives take their signature style of Heavy Americana to a whole new dimension. But as laid bare by its latest single, to reach The Turning, the band had to go through one hell of a trip.
"This is the heaviest and most emotionally challenging song on the record", Bask says about "Long Lost Light". "There were times when we had to walk away from it. You can feel the emotion in every single note".
Watch the hypnotic video for "Long Lost Light" on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.
Toronto post-metal artisans lowheaven today unveil their latest single, “Amherst.” The stunning new track comes off the band’s Ritual Decay debut full-length, set for release on August 29th on MNRK Heavy. “Amherst” evokes an emotion of decomposition. A deadness that stays.
Arcadea, the futuristic synth-rock outfit featuring Core Atoms, Brann Dailor, and João Nogueira, have released a second preview of the trio’s forthcoming album, The Exodus of Gravity (Aug. 22, Relapse Records), with today’s arrival of the collection’s title track, “Exodus of Gravity”
Black Charger will release their debut album SMALL TOWN digitally on October 31st, and
the lovely people at CLOSTRIDIUM RECORDS will release the vinyl version
on November 1st.
Tuscany-based stoner metal powerhouse SUPERNAUGHTY's molten blend of stoner rock, sludge and hard rock built on colossal grooves, raw guitar tones and singalong-ready choruses that will have fans of the likes of 1000mods, Dozer or Sasquatch hooked from the get-go. Don't miss their latest video for Black Witch Mountain! To be issued on August 22nd through Ripple Music.
Florida-based progressive metal innovators KAUPE have released the first single from their upcoming full-length album Destroyer of Worlds, due out October 17, 2025 via Morbid Subculture. The track, titled "RMR-1029", is now accompanied by a gripping new music video.
Whether climbing to doomy peaks or bouldering through a radio-friendly banger, over the course of the past decade and a half, Stoned Jesus have left a mark on the world of rock as true trailblazers. "Five albums in, the band have grown well beyond their monolithic roots", wrote Doom Charts, who named their last album one of the 2023's best.
This year, following a successful showing at Hellfest and ahead of their long-awaited return to Latin America, Stoned Jesus are embarking on their most expansive journey yet. Songs to Sun is the first in an upcoming trilogy of albums that promises to take these heavy progressive rockers to the dark side of the moon and back. While well-marked by their mind-melting heaviness, the album's lead single is haunted by shadows of doubt. But on "Shadowland", frontman Igor Sydorenko and his new mates outrun their demons with fresh twists and the catchiest hooks of their career.
"This song is about finding solid ground amidst the instability of the past few years", Sydorenko says. "The opening hook screams Alice In Chains, while the pulsating verses evoke Mastodon at their poppiest. And the climax is something else entirely!"
Watch the high-speed video for "Shadowland" on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.
Emerging once again from the shadows of rural Britain, anonymous solo project THE SORROW OF BEING IMMACULATE has announced the release of their new full-length album Suicide Forest, arriving September 26, 2025 via Drone Alone. Alongside the announcement, the title track "Suicide Forest" is now available for streaming.
Italy-based Supernatural Cat Records, the label operated by members of Ufomammut, Malleus Rock Art Collective, and more, has expanded its artistic vision once again, now also operating as a small independent publishing house.
Missouri metal band DEGRAVE are threatening the status quo with the impending release of Metalithic. The band's fourth and most maniacal album boasts 9 unyielding tracks of pure, bullshit-free metal. Via ShredHead Records, 27 September 2025.
French hard psych and prog duo MOUNDRAG take us on a compelling daydream with their new single and video "Morning Epitaph today". This dreamy new song is taken from their sophomore album "DEUX", due out on October 17th through Spinda Records and Stolen Body Records.
Between the Buried and Me offer fans a second preview of the prog-metal titans’ upcoming album, The Blue Nowhere (Sept. 12, InsideOutMusic) with the release of the new track, “Absent Thereafter”
Mediterranean psychedelic doom foursome LITANIA unveil a new track taken from their mystique-laden self-titled debut, to be issued on October 10th via Heavy Psych Sounds and Subsound Records.
Before appearing out of the Canadian woodwork back in 2011, Beyond Creation had already undergone multiple permutations. But with the band's full-length debut, the Montréal four-piece quickly revealed themselves as the next evolution in technical death metal. With microscopic precision, The Aura splices together classic brutality and prog's insatiable curiosity with a refreshing knack for melody. The resulting triple helix has been encoded in the genre's DNA ever since.
The Aura is now available on Season of Mist.
Wreck and Reference Return with New Album Stay Calm.
How can one stay calm when it is inherently terrifying to be alive in the first place? For Felix Skinner and Ignat Frege, staying calm means facing the void head-on.
Listen to Wreck and Reference's new single Burning from their forthcoming full-length album Stay Calm, out August 22, 2025.
and of course, Monuments in Ruin EP275
The Crushing Weight of Cosmic Tides
Track List:
00:00 Monuments in Ruin Intro
00:10 Renumeration by Viogression - Thaumaturgic Veil (Independent)
04:12 first break 4:50 The Sulphur Brigade of the Morning Star by SIGNERI - SIGNERI (ViciSolum Productions)
09:22 With No Eyes I See feat. Zack Simmons by ANGEROT - Seofon (Redefining Darkness Records)
14:12 Poison Bite by Hollow Leg - Dust and Echoes (Third House Communications)
17:40 Gooboo by by ATOM JUICE - Self Titled (Heavy Psych Sounds)
24:02 second break
24:50 WIZARD by CASTLE RAT - The Bestiary (King Volume Records & Blues Funeral Recordings)
29:49 Mountain by INSOMNIAC - Om Moksha Ritam (Blues Funeral Recordings)
37:09 Manasi Devi by LITANIA - Litania (Heavy Psych Sounds and Subsound Records)
42:46 Witches Candle by MARGARITA WITCH CULT - Strung Out In Hell (Heavy Psych Sounds Records)
45:25 King Mustard II by by SHEEV - Ate's Alchemist (Ripple Music)
51:30 third break
53:29 Bar Open by Caspar Brötzmann Massaker - it’s a love song (Exile On Mainstream, Corbett vs. Dempsey)
56:47 take us home
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