Italian duo OvO—Stefania Pedretti‘s razor-wire vocals and guitar, Bruno Dorella‘s percussive electronics and drums—have long been sonic saboteurs, dismantling noise rock and avant-doom since 2000. Their eleventh album, Gemma (Artoffact Records, October 3, 2025), arrives as a 25th-anniversary manifesto: a seed bursting through concrete, promising regeneration amid entropy. It’s their boldest fusion yet—industrial grind meets electronic pulse, birthing “new weird life” from elemental chaos.
I’ve Given You Everything stakes its claim as a bold, emotionally textured rock record. Year of October, the Nashville-based trio with vocalist Phlecia Sullivan fronting, deliver a set of eleven tracks that mix grit and melody.
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From the very first track of Fish, it’s clear that ShitKid isn’t interested in glitzy production or playing it safe. Swedish artist Åsa Söderqvist (the brain behind ShitKid) delivers a debut that is feral, raw, playful and defiantly singular. The lo-fi approach — recorded on a laptop, GarageBand and minimal studio gloss — immediately sets the tone: edgy, intimate, and a little ragged around the edges.
In the hazy glow of 2025’s nostalgia boom, After‘s self-titled debut EP arrives like a forgotten flip phone rediscovered in a drawer—charming, unapologetically retro, and brimming with that early-aughts sparkle. The duo of Graham Epstein and Justine Dorsey, both born on the same day in 1995, channels Massive Attack‘s brooding atmospheres with Michelle Branch‘s pop wistfulness, crafting a 16-minute fever dream of trip-hop laced with Y2K gloss. It’s Frutiger Aero aesthetics in audio form: glossy waves, dolphin motifs, and hashtags screaming #livelaughlove revival.
In the hazy crossroads of ’70s heavy blues and modern stoner grit, Germany’s Paralyzed bellow back with Rumble&Roar, their third full-length and Ripple Music debut. Released on May 9, 2025, this nine-track beast clocks in at just over 41 minutes, but it hits like a freight train derailed in a dust storm. Formed in Bamberg in 2019, the quartet—Michael Binder on vocals and lead guitar, Caterina Böhner on organ and rhythm guitar, Philipp Engelbrecht on bass, and Florian Thiele on drums—channels the ghosts of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and The Doors into something raw, infectious, and unapologetically alive.
