Seinaru Sekai: Melodic Death Metal Mastery
There are some updates to cover on the current happenings of Germany’s Seinaru Sekai, who’s sophomore single, “In Fear,” was featured on the blog last March. Since then, the band has released two more singles and has an official music…
Brett Poindexter’s Heavy Rocker “Echoes of Creation”
It only takes but a few seconds of listening to Brett Poindexter’s album “Echoes of Creation” to realize that this guy shreds and is someone with admirable guitar skill. His love for music, particularly guitar, began at the young age…
Scott DL’s Enlightenment Saloon – Q&A
It’s not often that you find an album these days that is so melodically pleasing that listening to the entire thing front to back is a seamless, almost timeless experience. Welcome, my friends, to the Enlightenment Saloon. More specifically, Scott…
Seinaru Sekai releases “In Fear”
Oettingen, home of Germany’s best-selling beer and the Schloss Oettingen Castle, is also home to the Melodic Death Metal band Seinaru Sekai. A project whose musical style combines aspects of traditional Swedish Death Metal with synth-core dynamics, Seinaru Sekai adds…
Band w/o Band’s Latest Single
German multi-instrumentalist known only by his stage name “Marc,” has amassed a total of thirteen official Spotify releases by way of his project Band w/o Band. The aesthetic component of his latest release is what I see as a continuing…
“Lotus Head” by T.F.A
Howdy there Bandcampers! How is your apocalypse going? Mine’s been pretty good. Relatively okay. How about all of them UFOs lately, huh? Good times. Dystopian hero “Friendly Timo” has just released a new single as of a couple of weeks…
Scoopski’s “Babble” Features a Guest Appearance – Q&A
It’s been a long time coming that I’ve wanted to write about this band. Roughly about 365 days to the date, in fact. Back in October I had written about a newly released album, “The Ghost of Dancing Slow,” by…
Nemesis Inferi Announces New Album
There was some exciting news announced via press release from Metal Jacket Magazine a couple weeks ago. The news is a two-parter. First part being that Nemesis Inferi will be dropping a new album, a follow up to 2018’s crusher…
Exit the Matrix
Adhering to a schedule set forth by their Spotify bio that began with a Press Release in August here on the blog, Belgium/Australian based Exit the Matrix has returned with a new single titled, “Dream State.” Self-produced by Exit the…
A Ghost’s Vengeance – Love Ghost
Closing out the year proper, as it appears that one of the last reviews of the year is to be of a band I am openly a fanboy of, Love Ghost. Fitting, as they were subject of one of the…
Indie Archives: Tomas Bergsten’s Fantasy
This is the first in a series I’ll be doing periodically from time to time that I intend to call “Indie Archives.” You might have noticed that AMS Radio has a few playlists titled by this series name. The original…
Mal Fantome DEBUTS New Video!
Where does the time go? I can hardly believe how fast we are closing in on a a year since AMS Radio had the pleasure of premiering two new music videos by Quebec City’s Mal Fantome. During that time and…
Alwayne’s Fire -Q&A
If there’s one thing to be said about Ghana’s Alwayne, it’s that he is always grinding. “Always Alwayne,” if you will. It takes all but a few seconds into an interaction with Alwayne to understand right up front that the…
Welcome to the “Lair of The Gloomweaver” – BrunDarkh
A fascinating sub-genre to me has always been Melodic Death Metal, or “Melodeath” to some. Like most genres or sub-genres, the beginnings of it are of topical debate and have lots of credit to go around. Many point back to…
Q&A with Wise John: Wedding Crasher
“Who ate all your sad day sorrows?” That is very much a real question for you, because there is a definitive answer to it. There are two types of people in this world: ones who know the answer to that,…
Dunwhich Dreams Announce New Single “The Black Wings of War” (pre-save)
Albuquerque, New Mexico is a place that fascinates me. I’ve never been, so my fascinating is purely speculative. When I think of it, I think of two things: Bugs Bunny and Walter White. Quite a spectrum. And now that I…
The Fades have “Night Terrors”
Punk Rock. Let’s talk about it. It’s a topic of much debate in sub-culture regarding where it started, who started it, who’s the “punkiest” of them all, etc. None of that is of much consequence for me, honestly. I just…
Jackson Watson’s Concept Album and Outlook – Q&A
The idea of a “concept” album was first adopted, as far as I can tell, with The Beatles “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and The Who’s “Tommy”– which might be more in the “rock opera” vein– but that’s neither…
Band w/o Band Gets Down
No stranger to AMS Radio, nor our blog, Band w/o Band is back with a brand new single entitled, “Get Down” released just yesterday October 27th! I took up the opportunity to listen to it a few times yesterday. And…
A conversation with film and pop music composer Amaury Laurent Bernier
Interesting read of a NAS artist / composer. Click the link for the full article
A Journey into the Mind of one William Sanford
I have written a lot about William Sanford’s music, but this time around I got to chat with him more about his roots, influences, and inspirations behind his intricate and trippy compositions
Pent Up! -“The End” was the Beginning of “The End”
Pent Up! Had a new single out TODAY entitled, “The End.” And they have a show TOMORROW opening up for Tantric. Check it out:
William Sanford Putting Out Boomer Vibes
I’m not saying I want to do drugs with William Sanford, but I’m also not saying that I don’t want to. Hard to believe that it was just eight months ago when we were all “Doin the Buttcrack,” Sanford’s satirical…
The Long Lost Album by The Star Crumbles
Where does one even begin with The Star Crumbles? This band has a time-honored backstory, a tongue-and-cheek spellbinding documentary, and an energetic Twitter following. And I don’t even mean that to be “taken with a grain of salt.” Ever since…
Red Skies Mourning: New Single “Something About Her” + Q&A
Re-uniting once again with co-writer Ryan Curtis and Producer Cesar Da Emperor (Post Malone, Tyga, Yaweh); Red Skies Mourning returns with an amazing new single, “Something About Her”
The Star Crumbles: Beyond the Music
I’ve been in wait with great curiosity to finally watch this. Good stuff. Looking forward to hearing that lost album soon!
Lo Monaco Pens an Apology
Nathan Lo Monaco is a solo artist that hit the scene with his heartfelt and melodically tasteful debut single “Take Me,” back in February of 2020. Going simply by Lo Monaco as an artist name, his sound is lock and…
Hostage of Emotions – Vidjigeria
If you were to take note of the tag line on the AMS link tree page, you would find a famous quote from the author Hans Christian Andersen: “Where words fail, music speaks.” In the case of Ukraine’s Vidjirgeria, that…
The Fair Attempts Dance into Apocalypse
Dystopia as a concept, is one that has been at the forefront of our imaginations as far back as 1927’s silent film “Metropolis.” Or at least, that’s what I know to be the first adaptation of it, I am not…
Love Ghost’s Compilation LP & Worldwide Collab
**In my best John Lennon impersonation: “I read the press release today, oh boy…”** Okay, enough of that, you are lucky blogs are not audible. I came across a press release today for Love Ghost’s new compilation album entitled, “A…
Starchild Yeezo’s “Lola” Q&A
It is with great pleasure to announce that the second installment of Audio Mirage’s “Q&A” blog series is with an artist I’m super stoked to have found out about recently: Starchild Yeezo. The band’s seventh release of their catalog and…
Sussuro: “Old Story” = NEW Music
Allmersbach is a small village in Germany with a comprehensive history. According to Wikipedia, it was first referenced by name in the year 1291. Many reforms, administrative restructures, and state dissolutions took place throughout the years in the town, including…
Doom Groove Orchestra
The gloomy, doomy, virtual hard rock trio Doom Groove Orchestra are back with a new A/B side single entitled “Only Here To Die/The Traveller,” released last month on July 2nd. Since having released “The Hunter / Falling Into Shadow” back…
Indie Press Release: Exit the Matrix
The band Exit The Matrix debuted in June of 2020 with an 8 track album, “The Anomaly Traces.” Not much info is out there about this obscure prog metal band from Belgium, but there is some buzz in parts of…
Band without Band Releases New Single
The multi-instrumentalist, to whom through my research I’ve only been able to refer to as Marc (…*in my best Tommy Wiseau voice* “Oh, hi Mark”… ) or perhaps better known by the name of his Goth Metal project Band w/o…
Big Dog: Love Ghost Releases New Single and Announces Contest
In just 17 days since dropping what was previously the most recent single, “Beamer Boy,” and 36 days since I covered “Get Faded,” which was officially released just six days before that, the content mega-machine that is Love Ghost is…
The Power of a Velvet Pain
Velvet Pain is a hard rock project born of multi-instrumentalist Tobias Sacher from Heilbronn, Germany. Although he has been playing guitar since 10 years old, the brainchild that is Velvet Pain is a relatively brand new project in terms of…
Killing In Apathy: Conductors of Madness
According to their Spotify Bio, a reunion of the project transpired with not much more explanation other than “a fight over an empty beer cooler,” and a mission statement to “leave no ass un-kicked.”
Bands to keep on your radar: Dead Cassette
Since dropping “Revive” in November of 2021 and “Neverending” in March of 2022, the band Dead Cassette from Akron, Ohio has managed to drum up quite a buzz for the anticipated album that followed in April of 2022, also entitled…
Band w/o Band – “When Death Comes”
Hamburg, Germany, a city rich in history, is home to an independent artist named Marc who is in a band… without a band. Hence, the name of his project, “Band w/o Band,” or by the more SEO friendly nomenclature: “bandwithoutband.”…
Hysterical Blindness – New LP Coming out 06-30-2022
The project once featured by Metal Injection as “The One-Man Black Metal Album You Need Today,” has a new album dropping on June 30th called “Notre Héritage.” That project is none other than Montréal’s Hysterical Blindess and the new LP…
Get Faded on Love Ghost’s new single
The L.A. based, genre bending, Trap Metal band Love Ghost have released a brand new single as of last Friday, May 27th, entitled, “Get Faded.” Lots has been going on with Love Ghost since reviewing their first single of the…
Juha Jyrkäs – Finnish Folk Metal
Juha Jyrkäs is a Folk Metal artist based out of Finland. His discography on Spotify is comprised of an 11-track album (“Sydämeni Kuusipuulle”) that was released in September of 2019. However, over the course of time since then he continues…
“Immortal Eyes”- new single by Flavio Brandão
Flavio Brandão and his “Stratosphere” project is back again with their first single of 2022 entitled “Immortal Eyes,” featuring vocals from Ricardo Janke. The single was released on May 13th and is the latest addition to the project’s catalog since…
Red Skies Mourning “Where You Been?”
Maryland based, Alt-Pop favorite @redskiesmourning releases a third single in 2022 entitled, “Where You Been.” Available for streaming everywhere and in rotation on AMSradio.com
Press Release: Weed N’ Stiff Unleash 80’s Swagger on New Album
The mighty comedic duo Weed N’ Stiff are back with a 15 track full length album, “Ron.” Pre-Save and/or Pre-Order Now! @WeedNStiff
Kargyr drops 2 new singles
From the nether of a garage in Lyon, France, an artist by the name of Kargyr has dropped two new singles yesterday (“Aura” and “Sword.”) These mark the third and fourth releases of Kargyr’s catalog, all of which were released…
Doom Groove Orchestra
Formed as an online collaborative project in 2021, the Doom Groove Orchestra has officially released their second single entitled “The Hunter” on 03-25-2022. As the name would imply, the music is presents an element of theatric and dramatic type of…
“Dead Planet” by The Obsidian Complex
Approximately one month after the release of their debut EP on February 24th, New Jersey’s The Obsidian Complex have released an instrumental version of “Dead Planet” showcasing their impressive technical abilities and elaborate rhythmic complexities
Aeon of Awareness: NEW EP out this Spring (press release)
The Melodic Death Metal band Aeon of Awareness from Leipzig, Germany have released the latest single “Te Kore” on 12-23-2021. They are in the midst of releasing their second EP this Spring. #NewIndieMusic #DeathMetal #NewMusicAlert @AoA666
Hyperiff is back with Rockin’ new single
#NewMusicAlert #IndieArtist #NewIndieMusic #DetroitRockCity It’s been such a busy month for new music! This is a fantastic problem to be experiencing. Case and point, Hyperiff’s brand new single that was released 2 weeks ago on March 11th. I’ve been listening…
Indie Artist Radar: Darinka’s Debut Single
The artist Darinka, is described as the “alter-ego” of Los Angeles actress Chloe Berlinger, originally from Austin, Texas. Her debut single dropped earlier this week on March 15th, entitled “How’s The View?”
Help’s Record Release Show
T-minus 5 hours Portland!! Help is playing tonight at the Bunk Bar in celebration of the release of 2053 that just dropped last Tuesday on the 15th. I’ve been waiting anxiously for this event ever since AMS Radio had the…
Dangerous Times for the Dead release second single of 2022
One of the Netherland’s finest, Dangerous Times for the Dead, are releasing the new single, “As the Iron Curtain Falls,” and I had the opportunity to talk with front-man Bjorn Ciggaar about the single, future plans, and settle once and…
Help hard charges into “2053” and debuts NEW unreleased single
Help, a Portland based Punk trio, have announced that they are hitting the road for a mini Pacific NW tour in support of a brand new album dropping March 15!
Anger So Divine: A NEW Interdimensional Anthem
The most epic of interdimensional bands is back with a new single. Naturally, I am talking about Devine Anger, the band that inexplicably arrived on the scene from their parallel dimension, in Wacken. Their arrival left them feeling “alien” as…
William Sanford Unveils a New Tik Tok Dance Fad
Read about William Sanford’s humorous contribution to the trend of Tik Tok, IG Reels, and YouTube Shorts via his latest single, “Do the Buttcrack”
Escape Ring
Hailing from Melbourne Australia, Escape Ring and following on from placements on US primetime TV (NBC), Escape Ring drop debut single “Winning The War” on Dec 10th written by main songwriter Darren Moss.
#NewMusicAlert – Skipping Stone’s EP comes out in February
Holy “blogger fringe benefits, Batman!” I had an awesome opportunity to hear the 3 soon to be released songs from Skipping Stone’s upcoming “Monsters of Men” EP prior to it’s release date on February 18th, 2022. Skipping Stone is an…
Listen up you Skallywags, Hell Beings have a new one for you
One of the best parts about being able to write about the indie music I find is that I get a “B” line to much of it before it comes out. Whether or not I get to share that with…
NEW Love Ghost Single released
Holy mother of mayhem. The review today is from a band that, at least in my mind, represents the epitome of what’s going on right now at the forefront of so much popular music. Generally speaking, it’s what’s happening with…
Exclusive: Mal Fantome debuts new videos from “Volcano”
Mal Fantome is letting us debut their last two unreleased music videos from “Volcano” here before publicly publishing! Please check it out
Burning’s “Scourge of Humanity”
My good friends at Hard n Heavy always come through for me. Just when I start to need my fix for some heavy music in my diet, it’s almost like clockwork or fate that I end up getting the insider…
Clifford’s latest Single, “I’m so Bored”
A melodically infectious, modern Alt-Indie Pop single, Clifford’s “I’m so Bored” was released just this last month on the 3rd of December 2021. It’s the latest release in a catalog that spans back to July of 2020 according to Clifford’s…
Funk the World, here’s Mr. Griff
Think Stevie Wonder and Funkadelic meets Roadhouse Blues. Mr. Griff is an exciting fusion of several influences.
Red Skies Mourning – “Deep Moonlight”
Alt Pop perfection for those who like Post Malone, The Weeknd, and Retro NES tones
Hyperiff – “Take Me Back”
Fresh, new, indie music alert! Like, officially just formed in 2021, new. Hyperiff is a dynamic three piece band comprised of Jay Guillo (vocals and guitar), Serena Slade (vocals and piano), and Nathan Schneider behind the kit. Today we’ll be…
Hysterical Blindness: “Mysterious Dogma”
Hysterical Blindness is a Black Metal band from Canada. In today’s review we’ll be looking at the 2020 release “Mysterious Dogma.”
Flavio Brandão Stratosphere Project
Power Metal. What do you think of when you hear the name of that genre? I mean, aside from the giants we all know and love: Iron Maiden, Rainbow, Scorpions etc. Me? I personally think of sonic guitar licks, double…
New Quizboy EP Available on Bandcamp
It has been a long year that has dragged out the subsequent release to December 2020 / January 2021′ s “Quarantine Barbie,” but alas, here we are
THE LEGEND OF WEED N’ STIFF: NES Glory
Weed N’ Stiff, my friends and yours, have done it. They are now conquering gaming…. Nintendo 8 bit NES.. albeit. I’m still planning on doing a full walk through of the game, go live on Twitch (or YouTube- haven’t decided…
Beach Bunny’s “Blame Game”
With a Bandcamp bio that simply reads “sad lady,” the band Beach Bunny definitely articulates that sentiment. As I write this, I can hardly hold back the “I love this song” swirling around the back of my head regarding the…
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