E-L-R – Atropa
Bern’s E-L-R released their third album, “Atropa”, on Prophecy Productions on 6 November, a record shaped by illness and now made as a duo.
Post-rock
Post-rock: instrumentals extensos, crescendos i textures que construeixen l’emoció sense lletra. Tótum Revolútum Press segueix les novetats discogràfiques i els concerts del gènere a Catalunya, des dels referents que el van definir fins als projectes que hi aporten sons nous.
Pizarnik
Pizarnik is a Barcelona band that describes itself as post dark rock and released the record Pizarnik on 30 June 2023, recorded at Hukot Studio in Barcelona.
Sólstafir
Sólstafir, the Icelandic band formed in Reykjavík in January 1995, with roots in black metal, which released Hin helga kvöl in November 2024.
hubris. – White Shores
The six titles on this Fribourg quartet’s fourth album spell out a line of Gandalf’s. The post-rock holding it up is impeccable and almost never surprises.
Prize Horse sign to Closed Casket Activities and release “The Big Picture”, the first song they wrote for the new album
The Minneapolis trio swap New Morality Zine for the Troy hardcore label. The song has demos going back to 2023 and, they say, ends with the heaviest section they have ever written.
Sweden’s Domkraft close the run of advances from “Night Songs” with “Aurora”, the album they wrote while the guitarist recovered from surgery
“Aurora” is the last of three advances from the trio’s fifth album, out on Magnetic Eye on 20 November. Seven tracks cut at Studio Gröndahl in Stockholm with David Castillo.
The Ocean – Solaris
The Ocean’s twelfth album, with four of the seven core musicians newly arrived. It opens and closes on celesta, and the label admits it wanted to sound recognisable.
Shy, Low – Purity Spiral
Seven tracks and forty-seven minutes of post-metal from Richmond: the only one where they switch the distortion off runs three and a half minutes, and the record uses it as a pause when it could have been a way forward.
Solimpulse release “Tidefall” on 20 November, five pieces of atmospheric post-rock recorded by one person
Serhii Lykhotvor writes, plays, produces, mixes and masters the debut EP of his Ukrainian project. Yulia Lykhotvor of Sidus Atrum sings on two of the five tracks.
Unité Douleur – Sun Burns
A third EP in ten months and a third with four tracks: twenty-three minutes of post-metal from Caen in which the shortest song the band have ever recorded arrives second and never returns.
Giantsky – III
Erlend Viken, Soup’s singer, plays almost everything here and did the artwork as well. The one thing he can’t do alone is the strings, and they’re what decide the record.
Let It Eat You For Fun – Upon the Forest Floor
Aaron Richardson plays, mixes and masters all of it on his own, and his first album gives forty-six minutes of textbook post-rock executed very well: seven tracks, no surprises.
Toundra – Siete
The Madrid quartet’s first album without founder Esteban Girón and the first they have put out themselves: seven tracks mixed by Santi García, with the synths as the floor and a drum machine on “Costa Roja”.
Toundra put out “Siete”, their first album without Esteban Girón and the first they release themselves
Seven tracks and forty-one minutes mixed by Santi García in Sant Feliu de Guíxols. The Madrid quartet have left InsideOut and Jorge García has come in on guitars and synthesisers.
Deafheaven put out “At Work in the Fields of the Bomb” unannounced, three tracks on Roadrunner
The EP holds “Hunter”, “Three Princes” and “Sorry Laid the Hearth”. The title comes from a 1987 book of photographs about the people who build nuclear weapons.
Jespfur – Iftangible
Ten tracks and thirty minutes of electronics, lo-fi and shoegaze about having nowhere to live. Jesper Vervoort says the record was building the home while he made it.
Deafheaven – At Work in the Fields of the Bomb
Three tracks, twenty-three minutes and a twelve-minute-forty-seven closer. The surprise EP on which Deafheaven get closer to black metal than they ever have.
Giant Sky – III
Erlend Aastad Viken, of Soup, closes the Giant Sky trilogy with eight tracks cut in 2024 and a guitar from Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite on the final song.
Caspian trail “Far Country”, the last track before the self-titled album of 16 October
Second and final preview of the sixth album by the Massachusetts band, with a short film by Luke Webster Brown and Elijah Sussman. The European tour starts the day before and skips Spain.
AetheR – III
Third album from Italian quartet AetheR: six tracks running from a piano miniature to a ten-minute finale, with Andrea Serino’s Fender Rhodes as the house colour.
I Sincopatici – La Corazzata Potëmkin
Francesca Badalini’s Milan quartet scores the centenary of “Battleship Potemkin”: five movements, forty-one minutes and no period pastiche.
Alcest release “Live at Hellfest 2022” on 4 December, billed by Nuclear Blast as their first live album
Eight tracks recorded at Hellfest in June 2022, on digital and limited double vinyl. The preview is “Protection”, with video of the performance.
Rise Above Dead get their original singer back and release “Voidmass” on 27 November
Andrea Rondanini sings on it again and the first advance track is “Drowning Slowly”. Six tracks through Argonauta Records.
Ogives Big Band / POHL – Split
Thirty-seven minutes shared two ways: four tracks from Ogives Big Band and a single seventeen-minute stoner epic from POHL, with a sax solo in the middle of it.
Oh Hiroshima start eleven European dates on 15 October with Barrens, and none of them is in Spain
From Warsaw to Hamburg in eleven days, touring “And The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter”, out on 5 June. Sweden’s Barrens join from the 20th.
Hypno5e share “Trame Noire”, the title track of the album out on 6 November
It is the third advance track, after “Lost Fires” and “Molecular Angel”. Five tracks on Pelagic Records, produced by Emmanuel Jessua and mixed by Chris Edrich.
Deafheaven play “Hunter” for the first time in Chicago, from the EP they call the heaviest thing they have done
It happened on 2 October, on the North American tour with Mastodon and Alcest. The EP has no title and no date, and physical copies were on sale at the show.
Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound, Live in Europe 2026
Seven of the ten tracks come from the Roadburn set and the other three from Glasgow, Milan and Cologne: a live record stitched together from four rooms, and it shows.
Hollie Kenniff & Kazuma Okabayashi – The Last Bright Place
Eight tracks and thirty minutes of four-handed ambient between Tokyo and the United States, six of which had already come out as singles.
Hippotraktor – Annihilist
Third album from the Mechelen five-piece, and the third with exactly seven tracks: thirty-eight minutes, the shortest of the three, with Loïc Rossetti guesting.
Rebecca Vernon releases The Keening’s second album, “Devotion”, on 16 October, in memory of her father
“Devotion” is out on 16 October through Relapse, dedicated to Rebecca Vernon’s father, who died in May 2025. She recorded it in Portland in 2022, three years before that death.
Iggy Pop sings on “Underground”, the new track on Mogwai’s “Happy Tears” collection
“Underground” closes the double LP of “Happy Tears”, out on Rock Action on 8 January. Matt Sweeney arranged Iggy Pop’s vocal.
Sargent House reissues Emma Ruth Rundle’s “Marked for Death” and “On Dark Horses”, in shops on 4 December
“Marked for Death” is ten years old to the day, and the label has used the date to open pre-orders on both records, with two runs of five hundred copies and tour-only variants.
ArcTanGent opens a new site in 2027 with Blood Incantation and Neurosis headlining
19 to 21 August at Todenham Manor Farm, Gloucestershire. Neurosis arrive with Aaron Turner on vocals and neither headliner has ever played the festival before.
Exxasens
Exxasens, a Barcelona cosmic post-rock project influenced by Pink Floyd and Explosions in the Sky.
Audiolepsia
Audiolepsia, the Cornellà de Llobregat instrumental post-rock band with emotive landscapes and intense atmospheres.
Maat
Maat, a Barcelona instrumental post-rock and math rock band.
Pardals
Pardals, the instrumental post-rock project of four musicians from Ibiza, with Toundra and Böira as reference points.
We Are Impala
We Are Impala, the “BCN Cosmic Twisters”, a Barcelona instrumental psychedelic post-rock band.
Ursa
Ursa, the Terrassa trio of instrumental and experimental progressive rock.