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Today is a Bandcamp Friday, which means that more of the money you spend on music on the platform goes to into the pockets of the bands and labels that you love.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Zetra – Pull Me Under (Children of the Vortex)

Perturbator x Health – Excess (Blood Music)

Deathsomnia – Void Oblivion (Isolation Rec.)

Zeal & Ardor – Bow (Redacted GmbH)

Full of Hell – Reeking Tunnels (Relapse Records)

Portrayal of Guilt – Possession (Run For Cover Records)

MØL – Serf (Nuclear Blast)

Fluisteraars – Het overvleugelen der meute (Eisenwald)

Wormwitch – Canadian Denim Mountain Attack (Prosthethic Records)

Green Lung – Graveyard Sun (Svart Records)

Spirit Adrift – Invisible Enemey (Century Media)

Hour of 13 – Within the Pentagram (Self-Release)

Iron Maiden – Death Of The Celts (Parlophone)

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The Lovecraft Sextet marks the long-awaited return of all round multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Jason Köhnen into the realms of Darkjazz. The forthcoming debut album, ‘In Memoriam’ (out on Denovali Records on September 24), sees Köhnen further explore his unbridled love for cinematic jazz-oriented compositions.

Inspired by death, release and rebirth, ‘In Memoriam’ also incorporates funereal aspects of classical, operatic and Gregorian music, adding tonal depth to his previous work with The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation.

Today, we’re thrilled to premiere “De Mysteriis [Musicorum],“ the second single of ‘In Memoriam’, which, like the whole record, also ties in with his first narrative short story that will be part of the album release.

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We’re opening this week’s playlist with the Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” and Trouble’s “Pray For The Dead” in tribute to Charlie Watts and Eric Wagner, and all those who we have lost during these unprecedented times. Let’s stick together, as we all need something to hold onto.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter (ABKCO Music)

Trouble – Pray for the Dead (Hammerheart Records)

Voivod – Clouds In My House (Geffen Records)

Nothing – Amber Gambler (Relapse Records)

Platon Karataev – Partért kiáltó (Self-Rlease)

The Holy Road – The Minotuar (Outpost 13 Recordings)

A.A. Williams – Control (Bella Union)

Marissa Nadler – Bessie Did You Make It (Bella Union)

Lyssa – Blood (Self-Release)

Lonnie Gunn – Hammerhead (Fool Moon Party)

Body/Negative, Vinyl Williams – Song To The Siren (Track Number Records)

Vanishing Twin – Phase One Million (Fire Records)

Upupayãma – Green Cabana (Alessio Ferrari)

Liila – Appa Wú Wéi (Not Not Fun)

Nero Kane – Angelene’s Desert (Nasoni Records)

Horte – Kun joki haihtuu (Pelagic Records)

Mono – Innocence (Pelagic Records)

Deafheaven – Mombasa (Sargent House)

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Let this week’s playlist be the soundtrack to your weekend – whether you’re venturing out, or staying home. As ever we hope you find something new, or are able to reconnect with an old favourite. If you like what you hear, please hit that “heart” button on Spotify – we update the playlist every Friday with new tunes.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Deafheaven – Shellstar (Sargent House)

Circuit des Yeux – Dogma (Matador Records)

Fly Pan Am – Parkour 2 (Constellation)

Hoaxed – Candle Master (Relapse Records)

Chat Pile – Brutal Truth (Self-Release)

Portrayal Of Guilt – Touched by an Angel (Self-Release)

Succumb – Aither (The Flenser)

Wolves In The Throne Room – Through Enternal Fields (Century Media)

Ulver – Bounty Hunter (House of Mythology)

Wreck and Reference – Change (In The House of Flies) (The Flenser)

Alora Crucible – Bottomless Madraguda (House of Mythology)

Massimo Pupillo, Gabriele Tinti, Márton Csókás – The Lyre of Blood Will Drive off All Evil (House of Mytholgy)

The Lovecraft Sextet – Funebre Macabre (Denovali Records)

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This week’s playlist is jam-packed with Roadburn alumni, as well as some up-and-comers who have caught our ear lately. The second half of 2021 is shaping up to be flush with exciting albums exploring heaviness in such a diverse array of ways. Bring it on!

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Full of Hell – Industrial Messiah Complex (Relapse Records)

Enslaved – Caravans to the Outer Worlds (Nuclear Blast)

Wolves In The Throne Room – Primal Chasm (Gift of Fire) (Century Media)

Wormwitch – Hammer of the Underworld (Prosthetic Records)

King Woman – Coil (Relapse Records)

Møl – Photophobic (Nuclear Blast)

Kayo Dot – Void in Virgo (Prophecy Productions)

Soen – EMDR (Silver Lining Music)

Green Lung – Reaper’s Scynthe (Svart Records)

Hail Spirit Noir – The Monsters (Agonia Records)

Deathsomnia – Akinesia (Isolation Rec)

Deafheaven – In Blur (Sargent House)

Slow Crush – Hush (Church Road Records)

Michael Love Michael, Chelsea Wolfe – Have (MLM Loves You)

Lingua Ignota – Man Is Like A Spring Flower (Sargent House)

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Opening this week’s playlist with ZZ Top’s classic anthem “Tush” is a fitting tribute to the late Dusty Hill, and also a nod to all of the great, new music that’s out there, too!

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

ZZ Top – Tush (Warner Records)

Jerry Cantrell – Atone (Self-Release)

Healthyliving – Until (Self-Release)

King Woman – Coil (Relapse Records)

Zetra – Care (Children of the Vortex)

Sculptured – Dead Wall Reveries (The End Records)

These Hidden Hands, Zanias – Shackles (Hidden Hundred)

Blak Saagan – La Firma del Legionairo Maple Death Records)

Mightyhealthy – Peppered Jab (Grimey Nobody Records)

Pleasure Plateau – Cortisol (Self-Release)

The Bug, Flowdan – Pressure (Ninja Tune)

Tropical Fuck Storm – New Romeo Agent (Joyful Noise Recordings)

Angel Olsen – Safety Dance (Somethingscosmic)

Grouper – Unclean mind (Kranky)

Torment & Glory – No Big Crime (Sargent House)

Underdark – Qeres (Surviving Sounds)

Succumb – Okeanos (The Flenser)

Ungraven – Onwards She Rides to a Certain Death (Black Bow Records)

Slomatics – Monitors (Black Bow Records)

Papangu – Bacia das Almas (Self-Release)

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Let this week’s lengthy playlist start a summer holiday of sorts, or at least launch a trip into an imaginary festival without any restrictions, as the current state of affairs is still way too to difficult to navigate, and we really need a brief escape. Enjoy!

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Cave In – Youth Overrided (Sony Music)

Illudium – Soma Sema (Prophecy Productions)

Mono – Riptide (Pelagic Records)

Eskina – We Were the Moon (Challenge Records)

Horte – Pelko karistaa järjen (Pelagic Records)

Midwife – Colorado (The Flenser)

Low – Disappearing (Sub Pop)

Alexis Marshall – Drink from the Oceans . Nothing Can… (Sargent House)

Desire Marea, Gyre – Studies in Black Trauma (Izimakade Records)

Moor Mother, lojii – Shekere (Self-Release)

Dame Area – La Doble Luna (Mannequin Records)

Alessandro Cortini – Lo Specchio (Mute Artists)

Hooveriii – We’re Both Lawyers (The Reverberation Appreciation Society)

Restive Plaggona – Swimming In The Rain (Fleisch Records)

Elektro Hafız – Ali Rodrigez (Ironhand Records)

Kutiman – Guruji (Siyal Music)

The Holy Family – Chasm Second Part (Rocket Recordings)

Drott – The Marauders (By Norse Music)

Ghorot – Charioteer of Fire (Self-Release)

God’s Bastard – To the Last Standing Village (I, Voidhanger Records)

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“Sometimes, on a Thursday night (or a Friday morning, or a Saturday afternoon), it turns out that a new track from Iron Maiden is just what’s needed to get your blood pumping. ‘Is the Roadburn Essential Sounds playlist the place for Iron Maiden?’, I pondered. As you’ll see – the conclusion was definitely yes.

“If the mighty Maiden aren’t your bag, there’s plenty more to tickle your fancy this Friday. Enjoy!”

— Becky Laverty

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Iron Maiden – The Writing On The Wall (Parlophone Records)

Spirit Adrift – Forge Your Future (Century Media)

Fawn Limbs – Noose Gestures (Roman Numeral Records)

Chat Pile – Roots Bloody Roots (The Flenser)

Four Stroke Baron – Friday Knight (Prosthetic Records)

La Femme – Paradigme (Disque Pointu)

Crippled Black Phoenix – Dead is Dead (Season of Mist)

King Woman – Boghz (Relapse Records)

Deathsomnia – Katabasis (Ft. Kyle Kimball) (Isolation Rec)

Howlin Rain – Dharma Wheel (Silver Current)

Kurt Vile – Run Run Run (UMG recordings) (Header image)

Midwife – Enemy (The Flenser)

Lingua Ignota – Perpetual Flame Of Centralia (Sargent House)

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Dive in to our newly updated Essential Sounds playlist below…

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

King Woman – Psychic Wound (Relapse Records)

Outlander – Sundowning (Church Road Records)

Year of no Light – Alètheia (Pelagic Records) (header image)

White Ward – Debemur Morti (Eitrin Editions)

Amenra – Het Gloren (Relapse Records)

Cloud Rat – Mother Tongue / Glitter Belly (Artoffact Records)

Hellish Form – Another World (Translation Loss Records)

Duma KE – Cannis (Sub Pop)

Perturbator, INVSN – Excess (Blood Music)

Zetra – Life Melts Away Pt.2 (Children of the Vortex)

Hail Spirit Noir – Mannequins (Agonia Records)

Hante. – Two-Faced Angel (Synth Religion)

Dana Dentata – Do U Like Me Now? (Roadrunner Records)

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Who’d guess that one day Sir Tom Jones would kick off our weekly playlist, let alone with a 9 minute spiritual psych exploration? Well… he’s doing exactly that with “Lazarus Man,” and we couldn’t be more excited. This week’s playlist is full of other surprises, too! Enjoy.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Tom Jones – Lazarus Man (Universal Music)

Spellling – Boys at School (Sacred Bones (header image)

Low – Days Like These (Sub Pop Records)

Tropical Fuck Storm – G.A.F.F. (Joyful Noise Recordings)

Zahn – Tseudo (Crazysane Records)

Delving – Delving (Stickman Records)

Zement – Soil (Crazysane Records)

Polypores – Exopheromones (Behind The Sky)

Thief – Apple Eaters (Prophecy Productions)

Otay:onii – Child No.22 (WV Sorcerer Productions)

Nuha Ruby Ra – Cruel (Brace Yourself Records)

Backxwash, Michael Go – Burn To Ashes (Ugly Hag Records)

Sugar Horse – Fat Dracula (Small Pond Recordings)

Splinter – Brand New Future (Robotor Records)

Cobra Man – Powered Up (Cool, Nice)

Green Lung – Leaders of the Blind (Svart Records)

Comet Control – Secret Life (Tee Pee records)

Yagow – Getting Through… Is The Where The Magic Happens (Crazysane Records)