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Release Friday: 21 November 2025
The past two weeks have been full of great releases and since they’re already piling up several metres high, I can’t keep myself from telling you about my current fave releases: Starting with last week Samurai Pizza Cats released a new song called City of Gold. It carries a strong 80s vibe (kinda reminded me of One Morning Left – whom I miss incredibly much) and I really love it. VÆNTIS (former Neverland in Ashes) released the second single under their new name: It’s called Eject and holy cow, it’s good. It’s really damn good. Catchy, nice, I’m honestly looking forward to seeing them live in January next year: Perhaps something most of you have taken notice…
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Release Friday: 8 November 2025
Once again I missed a few Fridays. Life is busy right now. But there’s been pretty good stuff released lately, so here’s my personal selection of releases of the last few weeks: A song that slipped through the last time but is pretty iconic is The Laugh Track by Ice Nine Kills. For some weird reason, this band keeps sneaking out of my radar, although they’re amazing, The Laugh Track is no exception: On 24th October, Versengold released a new single called Dans op de Deel. The title is Low-German (and so are some parts of the songs) and refers to an event where a big group of people dances or celebrates together (that’s what Wikipedia told…
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Album review: Erdling – Mana
While I knew that Erdling were about to publish a new album called Mana this year, I definitely did not have it on my personal watch list. I might’ve mentioned it before, perhaps in my concert review on the Erdling show in Oberhausen last year: They’re usually not exactly a band I listen to at home, but one of those artists I really enjoy seeing live since I first saw them in Merseburg. I can’t even pinpoint why exactly their music so far was catchy enough for live shows, but hardly ever made me listen to them at home. So while I was somehow following the single releases, I honestly didn’t have an eye…
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Release Friday: 10 October 2025
It’s been a while. Life’s been busy. So let’s catch up with the most recent releases because quite a bit has happened release-wise since I last posted here, so I’m working my way through 3-4 weeks of releases here 😀 The German band Neverland in Ashes recently announced a new beginning, which comes with a new name: As VÆNTIS they are now back with their first new single Paradigm. For me it’s as much an earworm as their older songs were and I’m excited for what’s yet to come: I’m not the biggest listener of The O’Reillys and the Paddyhats, although their musical style is pretty much my taste but somehow they never really caught my…
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Release Friday – 29 August 2025
I am lacking the words to describe what’s currently going on. Last week there was a new release of Private Line, who hadn’t been active since *checks notes* 2011 when they released their album Dead Decade. This week, one of my fave Gothic Metal bands from my teenage days returned and melted my heart once again with a fresh, super damn beautiful song! Teenage-me would be very excited to know that all those bands I loved dearly when I was young will also be a part of my adult life. I am speaking of Charon and their new single Fall of Angels. Super damn powerful, beautiful song, 10/10, Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto’s voice is still one of…
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Album review: Eluveitie – ÀNV
It took me a while to finally find the time to review this album, but here we go. I could not not review it, as Eluveitie’s been one of my favourite bands since … I don’t know, 2008 at least. I was waiting for this album with mixed feelings – excitement on the one hand, but also a little worried. Worried because after their decision to continue without a hurdy-gurdy player, I did not know what to expect from the new album. Also worried because when The Prodigal Ones was released, I didn’t quite feel like it sounded much like an Eluveitie song during the first listening. So let’s dive deeper into my final…
