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Veteran music journalist José Carlos Santos nerds out about underground music. Come hang out.

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15/10/2025

Author & Punisher have been smashing boundaries and pushing envelopes and, erm, fiddling with k***s and whatever else kind of images you’d like to use, for so long and with such constantly overwhelming results, that by now, unfair as it might sound, it really takes something a little out there for us fans to be impressed straight away. So hey, how about an album literally based on birdsong, where a lot of the riffs are coming straight from the melodies of the birds themselves? Yeah, that’ll do it.

‘Nocturnal Birding’ is obviously fu***ng special, and Tristan is starting to amass a catalogue with Author & Punisher that truly demands respect.

Therefore, on the week where a new European tour will begin, we brought in Tristan for a long-awaited Ten Rounds, and this fellow pizza-and-football enthusiast showed that he is as good at listening and recommending music as he is at making it.

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12/10/2025

Sivert Høyem played an intimate solo show last night in Lisboa and it was rather special. Here’s my two cents.

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09/10/2025

On the day of the release of Menace Ruine’s extraordinary new album ‘The Color of the Grave is Green’, we had an in depth conversation with Geneviève Beaulieu about it.

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06/10/2025

Volume 7 of our regular BANDCAMP BASEMENT feature is now up.

We scour the depths of Bandcamp so you don’t have to!

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05/10/2025

Last time we hung out with Sivert Høyem (episode #129), aside from his extraordinary ten picks of songs that we nerded out about, we were excited about his first solo album in a few years (the last had been 2016’s ‘Lioness’, of course with the Madrugada reunion album+shows in the middle of that period), the wonderful ‘On An Island’, which was about to be released. That chat wasn’t that long ago - it was the first episode of 2024, in fact - but since then a lot has happened in Sivertland. Not only have we learned to live with that impactful record as if it became a part of our blood, but Sivert has shot off a looser, more rock’n’roll kind of effort early in 2025 too, called ‘Dancing Headlights’. Now that he is about to embark on a few important shows, including a couple of acoustic, intimate concerts in Portugal, followed by a bunch of Autumnal Norwegian dates, and a bigger European tour to follow early in 2026, we thought it would be a great time to sit down with the owner of the golden voice yet again.

We’re very glad we did - from the hindsight of the perspectives on ‘On An Island’, to all the stories behind ‘Dancing Headlights’, not to mention a few revelations (the metalhead in me is way too excited about Sivert’s yearning for “violent” music and wanting to do something exploring “black metal connections”) and some hints about future projects, it really was a cool, relaxed conversation. Thank you Sivert for your presence on our show once more - bring on the live music now!

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02/10/2025

A few days ago, one of the magazines I write for already asked for my list of best albums of the year. Before any of you give me the unbearable “but it’s not even December yet” line, please be aware this isn’t a big deal, or even unusual. Apart from the lazier or less competent PRs who are still scrambling to get stuff to us (or bands trying to be cute and releasing “surprise” albums - newsflash, that’s a very stupid idea, especially if it happens in the last three months of the year), any writer who’s in any way involved with the underground scene should already have promos for pretty much all the records that are still being released in 2025. However, I have to confess this year felt like I wasn’t so prepared to commit to my list yet, as there is so much fantastic music being released in these last few months. This past month of September that is the focus for this feature, in particular, has provided an embarrassment of riches, some of which will only grow in importance as they are absorbed and digested by our overwhelmed brains and hearts, and I’m sure some of these picks right here will get talked about again in a couple of months when we start publishing our infamous year-end lists here at TDM.

Anyway, what are your favourite albums of the year so far? And how many of them were provided to you by our wonderful friends at Mondo Negro record store, eh?

Tell us in the comments, we’d love to know. Also, let us know what September has brought you that made your life better. For me and Andy, it was these ones, hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

José’s picks:
Ameretat - Ameretat ()
Crippling Alcoholism - Ca***rl ()
Esoctrilihum - Ghostigmatah - Spiritual Rites Of The Psychopomp Abxulöm ()
Motherless - Do You Feel Safe? ()
Sanam - Sametou Sawtan ()

Andy’s picks:
Chalk - Pain ()
Hilary Woods - Endgames ()
Home Front - Light Sleeper ()
Paradise Lost - Lay a Wreath Upon the World ()
Test & Deafkids - Sem Esperanças (.fogo / / )

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29/09/2025

When we last caught up with Stefania Pedretti and Bruno Dorella (episode #106!), the two “symbiotic animals”, as Bruno himself describes their musical relationship during our conversation, who make up the unique beast that is OvO, they were just beginning the cycle for their previous album ‘Ignoto’, which took them on a lengthy and inspiring journey of almost three years. Now, we caught them on the exact day after the last show of that cycle, totally ready to embrace the new chapter provided by the new album ‘Gemma’, out on October 3rd via Artoffact Records. As the duo make it abundantly clear - and as it will also become apparent once you listen to the whole album in a few days -, this record is set to become a milestone in the lengthy and constantly restless career of the pair, as it signals an entirely new perspective and outlook on their music (“doom dance” seems to be the catchiest way to half-describe it for now!) which will surely open doors to other creative endeavours in the future. After a career of 25 years enriched with eleven wildly different albums, that’s saying something. But don’t take it just from us - check out the cool chat we had with Stefania and Bruno, and don’t forget to add ‘Gemma’ to your shopping basket along the way. You won’t regret it!

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26/09/2025

BAND OF THE WEEK: Traidora

Traidora’s new album is out TODAY on La Vida Es Un Mus and we celebrate the importance of this intense slab of raw punk through a really great interview with frontwoman Eva Leblanc. Check it out now!

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23/09/2025

We’ve had them as Band of the Week before on our website, earlier in the year, based on their already fascinating catalogue of eerie, evocative, deeply atmospheric music, but then Avi C. Engel dropped ‘Mote’ on us in late August and it just felt deeply wrong to not give this extraordinary work the spotlight it so deserves.

So we called Avi again and invited them for a longer chat, specifically the ten rounds on our podcast. That Band of the Week interview had been a great way to discover more about this Canadian artist, but now we really went deeper into their thought process, creativity, origins and of course, all about this new piece, ‘Mote’, which has been totally consuming us here at TDM.

If anything, we came out of this conversation even more in awe of Avi’s powers, their poetic sensitivity, their artistic versatility, their thought-provoking insights and their absolutely fascinating musical recommendations too.

Oh, and let’s do the Weird Al special soon, Avi! ;)

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18/09/2025

The Atlas Moth is one of the most awesome bands out there, as well as one of the most underrated. So we obviously have had Stavros on the podcast already, doing the ten rounds when the last The Atlas Moth album came out. A few years have gone by since, his main band has been a little asleep (but they’re back! And we talk about them on this episode too), but Stavros is back in action with another entity called Motherless. We won’t lift too much of the veil since introducing Motherless and its debut album ‘Do You Feel Safe?‘ is kinda the whole point of this conversation, but be prepared for something pi**ed off. Really pi**ed off.

Tune in now on thedevilsmouth.com and listen directly from Substack or wherever you get your podcast fix (mixcloud, apple, spotify, the “conversation” episodes are fkn everywhere) to listen to our very animated chat with Stavros about this new thing and everything else he’s up to, including the next The Atlas Moth and, hell yeah, the next Motherless already! And go get ‘Do You Feel Safe?’, like, now.

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12/09/2025

BAND OF THE WEEK: Slutavverkning

Noise rock, hardcore punk, acid jazz and more, all melted onto the wildest ten minutes of music you’ll listen to all year.
Includes interview as usual!

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22/07/2025

Well, immediately calling Zak up for a chat was the very definition of a no-brainer after the new CLAWFINGER album was announced - which is interesting, because their music, for all its direct impact, has nevertheless always been about using your brain. And s**t, the pun is not even necessarily intended though they do have that kickass album called ‘Use Your Brain’.

But yeah, eighteen long years (where does time go?!) after ‘Life Will Kill You’, the Swedes are back with a new record, the recently announced ‘Before We All Die’, to be released next February. In this awesome conversation, we discuss a lot of the album’s finer details, as well as Zak’s and the band’s current motivations and inspirations, and the whole process that led to the new record. Tune in now!

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