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In her new album, "These Killing Times", Emma Ruth Rundle draws on a wellspring of energy, channeling her anger to resist despair, as if caught between two opposing poles. It’s a masterful blend of anger and determination, a secret formula that only Emma Ruth Rundle knows, which she has just shared with the world as a call to action.

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it took five years for us to hear It’s Been Awful, a title that’s by no means an exaggeration: On it, the rapper addresses addictions of all kinds and settles some scores, painting a wild portrait of his family and loved ones—a portrait that, on its own, explains his inability to produce music.

Across the Pond, more than ever, draws on the intimate repertoire of the Quebec-based band Ghostly Kisses—snapshots of life, moments of doubt, happiness, or insight—to be shared, like a vibrant, fragile, almost incantatory trace of the thousands of coincidences and intertwined choices that make up every moment of our lives.

Less experimental than its predecessor, the new album by the Swedish band Les Big Byrd, titled Ruin Everything, is a fireworks display of krautrock melodies that blend ’70s guitars with ’80s keyboards, all carried by spellbinding choruses that evoke both disillusionment and nostalgia, in both English and Swedish, giving the whole a lanky pop vibe.

what stands out in this new solo venture, titled Vox occulta, is Einar Solberg’s talent for rhythmic composition, which transforms these pieces into components of a soundtrack brimming with vocal and instrumental textures that cast a spell on you.

Here are our Canadian Cancer Bats, back on Marshall Records with the thunderous Give Me Dirt —a whirlwind of razor-sharp socio-political tracks brimming with incredible energy and musicality.

For over 20 years, Gozu has been crafting an unapologetic brand of stoner rock that stays true to its Black Sabbath roots but has been shaped just as much by the sounds of Kyuss, Alice in Chains, and Metallica.

The powerhouse duo of rapper Freddie and producer The Alchemist has delivered a natural follow-up, featuring polished American hip-hop—refined in both lyrics and flow as well as in the production, which is simply perfect.

With High on the Low Brow, Datura 4 deliver an album of great sonic maturity, summoning the spirits of the desert in their trippy stoner rock, boogie, and even jazz when the mood strikes, with heavy use of organ and saxophone, for nearly 45 minutes of auditory pleasure.

The seven tracks on this EP are truly beautiful songs—the kind that Europe (in this case, the Netherlands) seems to have a knack for. A songwriter and a voice to watch out for!

This Through Zero is already establishing itself as a truly great album, built on a clearly progressive foundation into which the band injects—with remarkable energy and intelligence—the best of stoner and heavy metal riffs. With six tracks ranging from 5 to over 10 minutes, Elder once again commands respect, without veering into either showboating or tedium, making this 2026 release an excellent progressive rock album that you should listen to right away!

Let’s hear from the artists in our “Shakin’words” column! Jazz artist Katerina Pipili agreed to speak with SHAKERS Magazine to mark the release of her new album, Room for Blue, now available everywhere—a gem that’s sure to shake you up, and not just your ears!

In Abyss, the artist synthesizes, with a particularly rocking personal anger, half a century of injustices and divisions that have brought us to where we are today: on the brink of the abyss. Powerful as a megaphone, caustic as a Maldororian chant, inhabited as a shamanic dance at the foot of the Wall.

Myrath's performance was an unforgettable encounter: the band set the Espace Julien stage alight! The Tunisians are happy to be in France, confiding that they don't have the same freedom to perform at home, and we're proud to welcome them, for their classy metal, their values and their generosity. The show is intense, colorful and warm, and we dance as much as we sing, to the frenzied rhythm of tracks from all their albums.

We know where we stand: Vanden Plas, with a 30-year career behind them, have some choice tracks in store for us, revisiting almost all their works in turn, including four tracks from their latest The Empyrean equation of the long lost things. The band's line-up remains unchanged until 2023, with Alessandro del Vecchio (replacing Günter Werno), known for his work with Edge of Forever and Jorn.