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Bang Of Hearts – Through The Water (Self-Released)

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All Winter we’ve been hiding in the Barn, experimenting, improvising and nourishing our souls from a dying world.

These recordings are a testimony of the dark times we are living in, to uplift, to manifest and to divert our ways.

Recorded between December 2025 and February 2026 at the Barn, Betekom, Belgium.

Bang of Hearts is a musical entity consisting of Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock (Baby Fire, Veda, Fleur de Feu,…) on vocals and spoken word, Timo Jacobs / Forestaal (Schim, the Moondig, Myaelin, Pilod,…); vocals, electronics, drums and percussion and Peter Verwimp / Ashtoreth ( Maya, Emptiness, Building Transmissions,…) on vocals, bass and guitar.

Together they conjure up an eclectic form of vast, improvised drone pieces with a ritualistic character.
Every now and then they gather at the Barn in Betekom, Belgium and pour their hearts out. They play what they feel and this may result in a patchwork of styles and influences: dark ambient, sludge, kraut rock, ritual drones, gothic doom, electronic soundscapes…one never knows what to expect as it is always delivered in a free form; a hypnotic sonic adventure for both the players as well as the audience.

Spoken Word and voices: Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock
Drums, Electronics & voices: Forestaal / Timo Jacobs
Guitars, Bass & Voices: Ashtoreth / Peter Verwimp
Live mix: Timo jacobs
studio mix: Peter Verwimp
Mastering: Ronald Mariën
Artwork: Peter Verwimp

John Reidar Holmes – The Ground Grows Hungry for Us (Self-Released)

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Songs of life and death, of magic and the empirical, of dreaming and waking.

Included with this album are free download codes for the following albums:
‘We have met before,’ the shadow spoke…
These Are The Days of Burning Books
Reflections from a Sacred Pool
In the Palace of Joy
Starfall
Manichees and Madmen
The Lord of Shades Decides
Live Soundtrack #69
A Thousand Twangling Instruments

You’ll receive your codes via direct message in the Bandcamp app.

Thank you for listening and enjoy the music,
JRH

Dan Moore – Kielder Water Music (Self-Released)

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Named Bandcamp New & Notable, March 2026.

Built for an industrial expansion that never came, Kielder Dam in Northumberland is a monument to a forgotten future. Kielder Water Music explores this engineered landscape through field recordings, electronics, and string quartet.

The four pieces draw on sounds from the valve tower, reservoir, and surrounding forest, alongside interviews with those who live and work at the site. These recordings are woven together with strings, samplers, and analogue and digital synthesizers to create a dream-like sonic portrait of this unique post-industrial space.

Supported by Arts Council England.

Jo Silverston – Cello
Drew Morgan – Cello and Bowed Electric Guitar
Laura Wilson – Viola
Caelia Lunniss – Violin
Hugh Blogg – Violin

Mike Roberts – Words

Dan Moore – Fender Rhodes Electric Piano, Field Recordings, Samples and Synthesizers

Strings recorded and engineered by Luke Cawthra

Mixed by TJ Allen

Mastered by Shawn Joseph at Optimum Mastering

Cover Design by Oliver Batho

Thanks to Dan Jones, Andy Sheppard, Jonty Hall, Mike Roberts, Northumbrian Water, Alison Freeman, Hilary Ashton and the estate of Ernest Tomlinson, Riaan Vosloo, Jennifer Bell, Seb Reynolds, James Hester, Ned Rush, Jaqueline Ewers and Jenny Lindfors.

Passenger Pigeon – Another New Low (Self-Released)

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Improvised and recorded by Levi at home, April–September 2025. Mastered by Andrew Weathers. Cover photo: Pacific Bobtail Squid (Rossia pacifica) by Bill Horist, Salish Sea, 2024.

Thank you: Meghan and Rowan, Eric Acosta, Bill Horist, Leanna Keith, Kate Olson, Scott Schaffer.

Lasse Marhaug / Bruce Russell – Re-Make Re-Model (Self-Released)

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“Re-Make Re-Model” is the result of a five-year dialogue between Norway and New Zealand sound artists Lasse Marhaug and Bruce Russell. What first started as a friendly challenge during the Covid19-lockdown to re-work selected works from each other’s catalogue – using different techniques and experimental approaches, challenging each other to go to extremes – extended to what is now a double-CD and a 100-page book package of writings and photos. Each CDs has eight tracks, a total of 100 minutes of music. The book has extensive notes to each track (often with comments by the corresponding artist). In addition there’s a lengthy essay by Bruce Russell on the project’s origins and the nature of collaboration and noise making; a photo series by Lasse Marhaug; a series of stills by Bruce Russell taken from a video piece; as well as cover artwork and biographical notes.

“It quickly became apparent to me that the distinguishing aspect of this collaboration was that it was a competitive exchange, an ongoing game of ‘one-upmanship’ in which we each sought to outdo the other in terms of the inventiveness; the baroque and pointless complexity; or the sheer bloody-mindedness of the studio processes which we were inventing to transform the other’s work into something ‘rich and strange’”
– Bruce Russell from his essay

Digital album comes with the book in PDF format.

Fathomless – II: Thy Desolation (Self-Released)

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The second full length from Fathomless started out as an homage to Star Trek villains and anti-heroes. But when it came time to write lyrics the realization dawned that life is imitating art a little too well these days and it morphed into an anti-fascist, anti-theocratic, anti-AI album.

The same lineup from the debut album returns, but this time with some special guests joining. Steve Wiener (Am I in Trouble?, Ashenheart, Eveale, Negative Bliss) contributes the albums only clean vocals in the title track. Josh Turner (Dischordia) contributes backing/additional vocals to “Spectres,” and Alicia Cordisco (Transgressive, Ex-Judicator) contributed a ripping guitar solo in “Intangibles.”

Stylistically this album embraces the Vulcan concept of “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.” While firmly rooted in Black Metal it also draws heavily from Death Metal, Thrash, Punk Rock, Blackgaze, Prog, and Stoner metal.

Fathomless II:Thy Desolation takes a more organic approach to production than the debut album. Mics on loud tube amps, live drums, no VSTs/amp sims, no sample replacement. The result is a wall of sound with a natural “live” feel.

Tyler Blake – Bass, Keys/Synths, Theremin, Backing Vocals
Kyle Clark – Vocals
Clayton Eckert – Guitars
Josh Fallin – Drums, Guitars
Jon Reid – Guitars

Guest appearances:
Steve Wiener (Am I in Trouble?, Ashenheart, Eveale, Negative Bliss)- Clean vocals on “Thy Desolation”
Josh Turner (Dischordia) – Additional vocals on “Spectres”
Alicia Cordisco (Transgressive, Ex-Judicator) – Guitar solo on “Intangibles”

All music and lyrics by Tyler Blake
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Tyler Blake

Recorded at ToneTrip Studios and Fathomless Studios
Reamping at ToneTrip Studios by Tyler Blake and Jon Reid

Artwork by Holy Forest Design

greyfleshtethered – The Dark Being (Self-Released)

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“On a fateful stormy night you receive a panicked phone message from your eccentric and mysterious neighbor Dr. Krick stammering that something terrible has happened and he must flee, begging you to watch over his infant daughter Amanda in his absence. After arriving at the monolithic lighthouse, you learn more about the doctor’s work – Krick’s research navigates the treacherous and unexplored territory of reducing the linear distance between planets and creating a proximity point by focusing electricity across a Fresnel lens, thus harnessing the electrical power stored in lightning to generate a portal to parallel universes. Before you have a chance to admire the vastness and complexity of the laboratory equipment, Amanda is snatched from her cradle by a dark ethereal creature and taken to a distant land in another dimension. Determined to rescue both Amanda and Krick, you follow them through the portal and into a strange world filled with sophisticated machines and bizarre architectures, a world once flourished but now largely destroyed, rendered nearly uninhabitable through the Dark Being’s malicious actions.”

“The Dark Being” is a journey through fantastic and harrowing cosmic realms. From torpid starfields to turbulent seas, from sunken submarines to a volcanic fortress, The Dark Being cascades through time & space as a veritable rollercoaster of sound & emotion. Intended to be perceived in its entirety, The Dark Being represents only one iteration of many possible journeys the listener can take as endless and infinite existential probabilities swirl around us at any given instance in time.

A world of thanks and gratitude to Brian Min for his masterful score to Lighthouse: The Dark Being, which on many occasions was the sole reason for this album’s continuation. Min’s compositions enthralled and captivated my young mind when I first played the game and were largely the reason I even considered this project in the first place.

Album mastered by Dan Paoletti, support their music here:
apostrophebeats.bandcamp.com

Synth work/dark ambience on track 4 composed by Luciform, support them here:
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Album art by 0ceanfloor, support them here:
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Thanks to Krrrrrrk for the awesome promotional video, support them here:
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And finally, a huge thanks to everybody else who contributed physically or emotionally to this project, you all mean so much to me. And biggest thanks to my prince Kodie ❤