post-rock
Full Album Stream: American Motors –Content
September 25, 2024 Adem Tepedelen
Pennsylvania post-everything duo/trio America Motors roll out noisy debut Content on the Ghost Is Clear Records.
CITY OF CATERPILLAR to Release Exclusive New Track, “In the Tall Grass,” via the Decibel Flexi Series
March 29, 2024 Decibel Magazine
Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, April 1 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from Richmond post-hardcore legends City of Caterpillar.
Track Premiere: Shipwreck Karpathos – “SCENE XI: Life as War”
November 8, 2023 Sean Frasier
Midwestern post-rockers Shipwreck Karpathos navigate stormy seas with their new single from Being Human. Out November 17th.
Video Premiere: Bassoon – “Cyclops”
October 26, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
No woodwinds, only mathy instrumental prog rock, in the new new Bassoon video, “Cyclops.”
Video Premiere: Houston – “What Doesn’t Kill You”
April 7, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Minneapolis based alt/space rock band Houston pilot you back to the mid-’90s alt-metal heyday of Failure and Hum.
Album Premiere: Raum Kingdom – ‘Monarch’
January 25, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear Irish sludge and doomsters Raum Kingdom return with their first new LP since the passing of bass player Ronan Connor in March of 2021.
Track Premiere: Phal:Angst – “Unhinged (Lustmord Version)”
January 5, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Austrian post-rock quartet Phal:Angst enlist dark ambient pioneer Lustmord to get “Unhinged.”
Q&A: City Of Caterpillar’s Ryan Parrish On Genre Tags and Underground Ethics
September 6, 2022 Justin Norton
Richmond noise rock heroes City Of Caterpillar discuss their 20-year “hiatus” and the unlikely-awesome new LP, Mystic Sisters.
Five For Friday: August 19, 2022
August 19, 2022 J. Andrew
This week’s hand-picked set of new releases feature the latest from Russian Circles, Soilwork, Morbid Evils and more!
Q&A: Paul Masvidal Explores The Renewel Of Æon Spoke (Aeon Spoke)
May 9, 2022 Chris Dick
Paul Masvidal (Cynic) finds rebirth in the Season of Mist reissue of the final Æon Spoke (Aeon Spoke) full-length.
Album Premiere: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster – ‘The World Inside’
August 18, 2021 Sean Frasier
Progressive heavies Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster offer a treacherous post-rock expedition with The World Inside.
Track Premiere: DROTT – “The Marauders”
July 16, 2021 Brad Sanders
Enslaved’s Arve Isdal and Ulver’s Ivar Thormodsæter join forces with the jazz, post-rock, chamber music, folk, drone and ’70s prog sounds of DROTT
Video Premiere: Bruit – ‘The Machine is Burning’
March 15, 2021 Emily Bellino
French post-rockers Bruit get elaborate with a brass-accompanied performance of “The Machine is Burning.”
God Is An Astronaut Sends You “Adrift” In New Video
February 12, 2021 J. Andrew
Ghost Tapes #10 is everything you’d want from this instrumental post-rock, packed with oceans of power and energy.
Hall of Fame Countdown: Slint’s “Spiderland”
August 13, 2020 Greg Pratt
Ranking the songs on Slint’s Hall of Fame-inducted, post-rock-creating Spiderland from worst to best.
Video Premiere: Coastlands – ‘Lay Waste’
July 17, 2020 Emily Bellino
Post-rockers Coastlands “Lay Waste” to past relationships.
Unreqvited Guides You as Night Falls
December 6, 2019 J. Andrew
Unreqvited are uniquely talented at keeping their influences intact while still merging them into a cohesive force of blackened melancholy.
Q&A: Alex From Post-Rock Curio Villagers of Ioannina City Interviewed
December 2, 2019 Chris Dick
Alex, guitarist/vocalist, from Villagers of Ioannina City weaves Decibel under his spell.
Retrospective: Cerberus Shoal’s “…and Farewell to Hightide”
April 4, 2019 Greg Pratt
Revisiting Cerberus Shoal‘s 1997 post-rock masterpiece …and Farewell to Hightide.
Track Premiere: Avast – ‘Mother Culture’
August 29, 2018 Emily Bellino
Hear a new song from blackgazers Avast.
Track Premiere: Set and Setting – ‘Ecdysis’
August 28, 2018 Emily Bellino
Instrumental post-metal group Set and Setting return with their heaviest offering to date.
Full Album Stream: Charun – “Mundus Cereris”
February 15, 2018 Emily Bellino
Stream the new Charun album now.
Track Premiere: INTRCPTR – ‘Turbines’
July 14, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream a new track from Pelican/5ive offshoot, INTRCPTR.
Track Premiere: Impure Wilhelmina – ‘Great Falls Beyond Death’
April 5, 2017 Emily Bellino
Impure Wilhelmina are streaming the first track from their new album, Radiation.
Track Premiere: Set and Setting – ‘…The Idyllic Realm’
January 17, 2017 Emily Bellino
No words are used (and none are needed) to tell a story on “…The Idyllic Realm.”
Video Premiere: MONO – ‘Requiem for Hell’
September 27, 2016 Emily Bellino
MONO‘s video for “Requiem for Hell” is an emotional and visually beautiful companion to the song. Also included: Exclusive Q&A with MONO’s Takaakira “Taka” Goto.
Track Premiere: Pray for Sound – “I Have Seen Hell And It’s White”
September 20, 2016 Emily Bellino
“I Have Seen Hell And It’s White” is an instrumental rollercoaster, capturing excited and calm, collected energy throughout the song.
Video Premiere: MONO – ‘Requiem for Hell’
September 20, 2016 Emily Bellino
MONO have spent the past almost-two decades crafting vibrant soundscapes and instrumental rock albums. The upcoming Requiem for Hell, MONO’s ninth studio album, treads similar territory. In a video for the title track, the Japanese instrumentalists tell, visually and audibly, an exhilarating yet terrifying story. The entirely black and white video features a man running…
STREAM/DOWNLOAD: Ferocious Fucking Teeth “Hinkley”, Albini-produced downcast noise-rock.
January 24, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
We’ve never been over to visit and the tourist information website was fucking useless, but we’d like to think that New London, Connecticut is just the sort of place where parents just vacate their family homes en masse for months at a time, and leave their surly offspring to mulch around in unwashed jeans and…