Pretoria based South African experimental rock band Acid Magus have been making waves in the music scene since their 2021 debut release Wyrd Syster. The album was well received by international media, with the likes of tastemakers The Sleeping Shaman saying it’s “cracking with both light and darkness, melody and cacophony and worthy of multiple…
Inhale is the new album from UK based, South African guitarist Jonathan Crossley with backing from fellow South African’s Carlo Mombelli on bass and drummer Jonno Sweetman. Crossley fell in love with music at the age of five, lying flat on the floor, just outside Belfast, with an old set of (loud) Rotel headphones on,…
The Boys Scribbled Like Mad is the new album from Yndian Mynah, a South African instrumental band based in Cape Town. Their sound can be described as post-rock music with hints of dreamy psychedelia, post-punk and prog rock that vacillate sounds between explosive edges and nostalgic narratives. Influenced by DIY culture, the band started off…
“Expertly crafted prog metal songs full of expanse and raw emotion” – Metal Hammer Produced by Deity’s Muse and Dead Letter Circus guitarist Clint Vincent, Ennui sees the South African progressive alt-rock unit on a song crafting high, delivering fiery, emotional riffs with dynamic, potent grooves, inspired by the collective chaos of the current times.…
All This For Nothing are a progressive rock band from Pretoria, South Africa. Formed in 1998, the band fuse elements of punk rock, alternative, metal and prog into a hybrid that is unmistakably their own. Today sees the release of their new single Wander, their second release with mix engineer Scott Hallquist at the helm,…
After the dystopian pyjama-scape that was 2020, All This For Nothing are coming back to your playlist with their first single since their release of ‘Reverence’ in late 2019. Having spent lockdown hard at work writing and creating demos, Pathology or Pantomime? is the first of the band’s new offerings. Having recently signed to Mongrel…
Die ek is a progressive Afrikaans rock band founded in Pretoria by Riaan le Roux in 2014. Since then, there have been many obstacles. These obstacles, while preventing the project from seeing the light of day, where instrumental in the growth and ultimately invaluable in its creational processes. Towards the end of 2019 the first…
South African progressive instrumentalists Savage Lucy have surprised their fans with the release of a live album. The album was recorded during the band live stream session in July this year on Urban Sessions. The band have decided to release the album exclusively on Bandcamp at special Christmas fee for the 24th and 25th December.…
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HOKUM (previously known as Marlowe) is a three-piece progressive rock band, hailing from Johannesburg, South Africa. As Marlowe, they played all the major festivals in South Africa, and at the time were the biggest heavy rock band in the country. Under HOKUM, the band have plied countless more hours in the practice room and on…