When VEGA and Basement in Copenhagen, Denmark invite audiences into the darkness on May 7–9, it will be with a strong, experimental, and not least multifaceted program. No fewer than 34 acts appear on the bill — some will be well known, but many will be entirely new acquaintances for most people.
The new additions are BACKENGRILLEN, which consists in part of ¾ of Refused. Also added are MORPHOLITH and...
Copenhagen trio Farveblind have enlisted K.Flay for new single 'Things' - a snarling electro-punk dispatch lifted from their highly anticipated debut album 'Micro Pleasures', out 15th May.
'Things' interrogates the allure of consumerism, guided by K.Flay's effortless cool deadpan delivery: "Use it, lose it, find it buy it / Then repeat the process / Funny how the price tag isn’t really what the cost is".
Want to learn how to DJ? Or finally get a solid foundation behind the decks? NIGHTLAB is a new learning program by Blck Mamba at Ancienne Belgique, built around coaching, practice and community. Powered by Proximus.
After more than a decade behind the decks, Blck Mamba is now turning all that experience into impact. NIGHTLAB enables people to join in at the level they're at and take their skills to...
DIRE END follows up their debut track "Burned To Death" with "XI", a moodier, more absorbing piece that stands out as the band’s first composition entirely in Basque. Hailing from Bilbao, the group dives deep into intricate layers, balancing raw intensity with brooding ambiance as much as swift, meticulous execution.
The words pull from ancient Basque legends, weaving a tale of a lamia, an alluring yet eerie presence lurking beneath....
Infamously the first artist signed to Warp that used guitars, Seefeel return with their first full-length album in fifteen years – Sol.Hz - a beautiful, hazy and blissed out collection of fractured melodies and vaporous textures.
In some ways, this can be regarded as Seefeel’s ‘dub’ album – the deceptively cloud-like arrangements of Mark Clifford are somewhat ambient adjacent at low volume, but blasting out of a proper sound system,...
Fully independent, with no label or management, the band have built serious traction off their own back, generating hundreds of thousands of streams and views, landing placements in Spotify’s All New Metal and Knotfest’s Pulse of the Maggots, playing Brutal Assault and other major festivals, reaching the regional Top 5 of Wacken Metal Battle, and appearing as a special guest in Bloodstock’s Metal to the Masses.
Vanderlust unveil “Golden Shackles”, the new single extracted from their forthcoming concept album "The Human Farm", a sci-fi driven metal release centered on a stark moral dilemma: is a life of comfort worth the surrender of freedom?
Vanderlust continues to consolidate its artistic identity by integrating melodic power metal foundations with progressive architecture, articulated riff construction, and carefully layered atmospheric elements. At the core of the compositional process stands guitarist...
Italy's FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE are preparing to shroud stages across North America in their haunting, symphonic-infused death metal and have unveiled a series of headline dates for this spring. This follows the announcement that the band will be joining AVATAR on their "Don't Go in the Forest 2026" tour with guests FROZEN SOUL.
The band comments, "Could we come to North America and completely forget Dallas (TX), St. Louis (MO), Albany...
After three monumental shows in 2025, Hardwell is returning to the USA, and this time he’s bringing even more heat. The global electronic titan has now officially unveiled his 2026 North American tour, marking a powerful return to the United States this June with five headline performances across key cities.
Set to take in New York, Washington D.C., Dallas, Denver and San Francisco, the run signals Hardwell’s biggest capacity US...
Recharged and looking sharply at a world gone sideways, Staines’ finest Hard-Fi make their long-awaited return with brand new studio album Sweating Someone Else’s Fever, their first in 15 years, out on June 19th via V2 Records.
Written and recorded throughout 2025 in their synonymous ex-taxi-office-turned studio Cherry Lips, and produced by frontman Richard Archer alongside longtime collaborator Wolsey White, the album looks outside the window to the fractured...
