Music News 20251014 (Oct 14, 2025)
featuring THE ANSWER LIES IN THE BLACK VOID , GIÖBIA , BLUE HERON , THE VINTAGE CARAVAN , EIHWAR , MESSA , REVOCATION , TORTURE HAMMER , WARCOE , VULTURE and Monuments in Ruin EP285.
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THE ANSWER LIES IN THE BLACK VOID, the alchemical collaboration between vocalist Martina Horváth (Thy Catafalque) and composer/multi-instrumentalist Jason Köhnen (Celestial Season, Bong-Ra, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble), have released the third and final single from their forthcoming full-length album "Transcendental", due out on September 26 via Lay Bare Recordings.
Photo by Peter Palotas
Italian acid and psychedelic rock pillars GIÖBIA team up with It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine to premiere a hypnotic new sonic exploration from their sixth album "X-ÆON", to be issued on October 17th via Heavy Psych Sounds Records.
For the first single from the companion album "Best of Nine Inch Nails Redux" to be released parallel to the forthcoming MER Redux Series installment "The Downward Spiral Redux", Albuquerque stoner metal outfit BLUE HERON pay a fierce and sizzling tribute in the shape of the somewhat caged video clip for the track 'Head Like a Hole'.
In support of their critically-acclaimed, new studio offering, Portals, Icelandic retro-fueled prog rock torchbearers THE VINTAGE CARAVAN have released a visualizer video clip for their latest single “Alone”. Portals will drop this Friday, September 26th on Napalm Records, and sees the trio deliver another testament to their endlessly creative, modern take on the psychedelic retro rock sound, cementing THE VINTAGE CARAVAN’s leading position in the scene!
photo credit: Stefán Ari Stefánsson
The enfants terribles of Season of Mist’s roster, Eihwar, are releasing a new single. Known for their explosive fusion of Nordic folk and electro-industrial chaos, the clan continues to defy the solemnity of most pagan acts on “Hugrheim” with a style that is wild, cartoonish, and fiercely ritualistic.
Photo by © Eihwar
Italian doom metal outfit MESSA are pleased to unveil their new video for “Reveal.” The track comes off the band’s critically-adored new full-length, The Spin, released in April via Metal Blade Records.
Photo by Nicola Pianalto
REVOCATION is pleased to unleash a video for “Dystopian Vermin,” the latest single from their savage new full-length New Gods, New Masters, released September 26th via Metal Blade Records.
Photo by Alex Morgan
Santa Cruz, California-based death metal squad TORTURE HAMMER will attack the population with their cruel, eponymous second EP through Creator-Destructor Records on October 24th.
photo by Arjuna Sabio
Northern Italian classic doom metallers WARCOE release their new studio album "Upon Tall Thrones" on Californian label Ripple Music, and present their new video for "Brown Witch" exclusively via Doomed & Stoned.
https://doomedandstoned.com/post/795756201137831936/warcoe
Ten years of razor-sharp riffs! Ten years of ferocious speed! Germany’s VULTURE are celebrating their first decade of destruction with a brand-new digital single fittingly titled, “Power Thrash!”
Photo by Lea Heindl
and of course, Monuments in Ruin - Chapter 285 (music podcast)
Monuments in Ruin EP285
Carving paths in stone
Track List:
00:00 Monuments in Ruin Intro
00:10 GOD REST by TRUDGER - VOID QUEST (FLOODLIT RECORDINGS)
03:57 FIRST BREAK
04:35 Windbourne Sorcery I (one) by VÖLUR & CARES - Breathless Spirit (Batke Records)
11:15 Straight Into the Grind by Alpha Destroyer - Fast Lane (Necromantic Press Records)
15:35 Josephine's Dream by Dan Rosenboom - Coordinates (ORENDA RECORDS)
21:01 Loneliness For Sale by Nord Electric - Loneliness for Sale (Outer Battery Records)
24:08 SECOND BREAK
24:58 Promin by Vøvk - Litera (kontrabass)
32:42 Theonemesis by ABRADED - Ethereal Emanations from Cthonic Caries (Redefining Darkness Records)
35:31 Everyday Is Saturday Night by Danko Jones - Leo Rising (Perception)
38:53 Menetekel by Gorleben - Menetekel (Darkness Shall Rise)
48:36 THIRD BREAK
50:01 On the Hunt (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover) by SOLACE - Further (reissue) Magnetic Eye Records
56:46 take us home (faux)
57:40 add on section
58:14 Racetrack Playa by Birds of Nazca - Pangaea (Independent)
01:40:00 Eradicate Taciturnity by HAERESIS - Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (Vendetta Records)
01:13:20 take us home (redux)
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