Music News 20251104 (Nov 04, 2025)
featuring WOLFBRIGADE , On Your Inland Empire , AGNOSTIC FRONT , Stone Nomads , OROMET , NUCLEAR DUDES , AUDITORY ANGUISH , BASTARD CRÖSS , EF , Der Weg einer Freiheit and Monuments in Ruin EP288.
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Formed in 1995 in the small Swedish city of Mariestad by key players from Sweden's legendary hardcore scene, WOLFBRIGADE (known as Wolfpack until 1999) remains among Scandinavia's most respected, influential, and reliable purveyors of real-world, brute-force, political hardcore punk.
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From the ashes of Crown, rises a shiny new banner for dark wave. On Your Inland Empire, the duo of Stéphane Azam and David Husser take the heavy electronics that they first donned on Crown’s last album a step further into the darkness of the club.
Photo by © Jennifer Brachet Photography
New York City offers a world of collisions of cultures, sounds, and attitudes; and the latest scorching offering from the city’s underground veins proves that this legacy lives on. Hardcore legends AGNOSTIC FRONT have teamed up with Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of RUN-DMC for a new single and music video, “Matter Of Life & Death” to reignite the flames of New York hardcore.
Since their ignition in Houston in 2021, Stone Nomads has channeled the journey of life and death into a signature sound built on sludged-out, powerful riff-based sonics and shapeshifting heaviness. The product of a turbulent era marked by personal tragedy, their third full-length "Empires of Stone" channels themes of fear, societal struggle and mortality into a boiling and earth-rumbling formula that showcases the trio's devastatingly crushing firepower, while also revealing a deeper, progressive side; brooding and expansive. Fans of heavier-than-thou acts à la High On Fire, Crowbar or Obituary should love it!
Sacramento funeral doom duo OROMET will release their stunningly immersive second full-length, The Sinking Isle, on November 7th via Hypaethral Records.
OROMET was forged in 2022 by guitarist/vocalist Dan Aguilar and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Hills with the aim of creating powerful music where melody is the focal point, rather than an afterthought. OROMET sculpts towering, monumental funeral doom epics. Transcendent guitar harmonies soar over immense, swirling soundscapes while agonizing vocals howl from cavernous depths. Their self-titled debut captured that vision: an epic exploration of grandeur intertwining a profound sense of beauty with crushing heaviness.
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Electro powerviolence project NUCLEAR DUDES will unleash a new full-length, Skeletal Blasphemy, on November 14th via The Ghost Is Clear Records.
NUCLEAR DUDES is the inventive, anarchic yet sophisticated project of multi-instrumentalist and underground mainstay Jon Weisnewski (Sandrider, Akimbo). Originally conceived as a COVID-19 lockdown hyper hybrid, clever blend of Gary Numan meets Carcass, the project has since grown longer legs to include collaborations and a wider array of influences.
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Creator-Destructor Records is proud to welcome Southern California’s AUDITORY ANGUISH to the label for the November release of their new EP, AFA.
Having brought their crushing blend of death metal-infused metalcore to cities across the West Coast over the past few years, AUDITORY ANGUISH self-released their Tragedies Of Western Existence three-song promo in 2023, followed by the Crime Rituals EP in 2024. Now aligned with Creator-Destructor Records, the band arrives with their new EP, AFA, delivering their most critical material to date. Here, the band’s vast array of influences is infused into a crushing alloy of hardcore/death metal, with everything from Xibalba, Deftones, Trash Talk, and Cannibal Corpse converging to create the DNA of the band’s sound with unrelenting heaviness.
photos by Oscar Rodriquez
Devasting and brutal, "Behead The Priest" is the latest blood-soaked single to land from blackened metalpunk act BASTARD CRÖSS. Their forthcoming album, Crossripper, explores a shadowy array of themes from horror movies to violence in religious histories. "Behead The Priest" delves into the latter through an eerie and disquiet assault driven by intense riffs and unforgiving screams.
Long regarded as singular architects within European post-rock, EF have built a catalogue defined by dynamic patience, melodic clarity, and widescreen emotional reach. Across two decades of touring, the Gothenburg ensemble have carried that language to clubs and theatres at home and abroad, earning a reputation for meticulous, high-impact live shows and a body of work that has steadily gathered critical regard and a devoted international following.
On 28th November, EF will release a re-recorded version of their now classic debut album, Give Me Beauty… or Give Me Death! via Pelagic Records, also marking the famed label's 300th release.
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Since their formation in 2009, Der Weg einer Freiheit have carved out a singular place in modern black metal. While rooted in the genre’s foundations, the band are constantly evolving. Their latest critically-acclaimed album once again pushes boundaries. Only this time, they’ve turned inward, gazing upon humanity’s fragile nature with devastating clarity.
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and of course, Monuments in Ruin - Chapter 288 (music podcast)
Welcome to Monuments in Ruin EP288
Rhythmic Universe, Heart of Design
Track List:
00:00 Monuments in Ruin Intro
00:10 Chain Gang by Holy Sons - Puritan Themes (Thrill Jockey)
04:30 first break
05:06 Bloodfeather by COSMIC REAPER - Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned (Heavy Psych Sounds)
11:12 Awakening by INSOMNIAC - Om Moksha Ritam (Blues Funeral Recordings)
18:18 Croak by STONEBIRDS - Perpetual Wasteland (Ripple Music)
23:40 second break
24:15 Guidelines by CRANIAL - Structures (Moment of Collapse Records)
35:22 Matins by EVOKEN - Mendacium (Profound Lore Records)
44:59 Towards Oblivion by Desaster - Kill All Idols (Metal Blade Records)
49:28 third break
50:35 Like Moths by Corridoré - Abandon (Hypaethral Records)
01:00:04 fourth break
01:01:04 Edge of the Bay by Holy Sons - Puritan Themes (Thrill Jockey)
01:04:25 Verbrannte Reigen by Siechknecht - Pestmond (Purity Through Fire)
01:09:01 take us home
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