Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
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Windchimes - Religious Zealot
No Clean SingingFollow “(Andy Synn kicks off “List Week” a little early with a round-up of all the EPs he’s checked out this…” 3 days ago →
16 - Proudly Damned
The ObeliskFollow “Fucking hell, I hope I get to go to Desertfest Oslo. Conan and Dopelord and 16 on top of the…” 3 days ago →
Celeste - Ces belles de reve aux verres embues
The QuietusFollow “At a distance of 15 years, says Dan Franklin, it's easier to sense the liberating power in CELESTE's concoction of…” 3 days ago →
Pelican - Cascading Crescent
The QuietusFollow “JR Moores finds some comfort in his favourite psych and avant-rock albums of the year Orcutt Shelley Miller, photo by…” 4 days ago →
HELL - Hevy
The QuietusFollow “Kez Whelan picks out the 20 best records from 2025 in metal, year of heartening cross-pollination and pushed limits, as…” 5 days ago →
Friendship - Tree of Heaven
said the gramophoneFollow “Voilà and please enjoy - for the 21st time - Said the Gramophone's favourite songs of the year. One hundred…” 6 days ago →
GURT - Walking in the Air
Christmas a Go GoFollow “Walking in the air is a recurrent on this blog, the song from the 1982 animated film 'The Snowman' popped…” last week →
Monolord - The Weary
The ObeliskFollow “Monolord are done recording their next album. The Gothenburg, Sweden, three-piece tracked their impending sixth full-length in Oregon with Sylvia…” on Nov 24th →
California X - Nights In The Dark
I Thought I Heard A SoundFollow “For a LONG minute there in the late '00s and early '10s, it seemed like every band wanted to be…” on Nov 24th →
Mastiff - Decimated Graves
Everything Is NoiseFollow “Metalcore is finding the most niche, darkest corners to occupy. Mastiff’s sludge-ridden barrage of riffs and callous brutality reveals how…” on Nov 21st →
Stonebirds - Croak
The ObeliskFollow “Thus ends my favorite Quarterly Review since the last one. Yeah, some of my motivation was in bookkeeping, in wanting…” on Nov 21st →
Like Rats - World Devourer
I Thought I Heard A SoundFollow “Harm's Way is literally why I'm into hardcore... at all, as in completely, as in no Harm's Way and I'm…” on Nov 20th →
GNASCH - ALCOHELLIC
No Clean SingingFollow “(Andy Synn presents another terrific trio of albums from the UK underground) I’m going to level with you, I’m running…” on Nov 20th →