Ethel Cain
Perverts
Ethel Cain
Perverts
- release date /2025-01-08
- country /US
- gerne /Ambient, Dream Pop, Drone, Ethereal Wave, Experimental, Gothic, Industrial, Slowcore
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The second album from Tallahassee, Florida singer-songwriter Ethel Cain. Sorrowful melodies unfold within meticulously sculpted soundscapes, while drone noise powerful enough to overwhelm even hymns creates a near-death-level sense of immersion. A monument of dark beauty encompassing dark ambient, gothic music, and shoegaze.
Pale
Our Hearts In Your Heaven
Pale
Our Hearts In Your Heaven
- release date /2025-01-10
- country /Japan
- gerne /Blackgaze, Noise, Post-Black Metal, Post-Hardcore, Shoegaze
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Tokyo post-black metal / blackgaze band Pale’s debut album. Blast beats drive through frenzied vocals and frostbitten melodies, while piercing noise howls like a storm—an ultimate ensemble where violence and beauty collide at their peak.
Shedfromthebody
Whisper and Wane
Shedfromthebody
Whisper and Wane
- release date /2025-01-17
- country /Finland
- gerne /Doomgaze, Drone, Folk, Gothic Metal, Post-Metal
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Finnish solo artist Shedfromthebody’s fourth album. A mystic doomgaze work where Nordic folk, drone / doom heaviness, and gothic–shoegaze resonance intertwine in dense, ritualistic sound.
Autumn's Grey Solace
The Dark Space
Autumn's Grey Solace
The Dark Space
- release date /2025-01-25
- country /US
- gerne /Darkwave, Dream Pop, Ethereal Wave, Folk, Gothic, Shoegaze
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St. Augustine, Florida ethereal wave duo Autumn’s Grey Solace’s seventeenth album. Shimmering guitars and fairy-like soprano vocals dissolve into deep melancholy reminiscent of autumn nights. A dreamlike and decadent sound carrying the genetic legacy of 4AD.
Self Destruction in Your Dreams
焦葬
Self Destruction in Your Dreams
焦葬
- release date /2025-02-08
- country /Japan
- gerne /Black Metal, Blackgaze, Depressive Black Metal, Post-Black Metal, Progressive, Shoegaze
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Gifu depressive blackgaze band Self Destruction in Your Dreams’ debut album. A world of madness consumed by loneliness, self-destruction, and suicidal ideation—once trapped by these sounds, you will never make it out alive.
Kuyuru
Lovescape
Kuyuru
Lovescape
- release date /2025-02-19
- country /Japan
- gerne /Alternative Rock, Blackgaze, Doomgaze, Grunge, Post-Rock, Shoegaze, Slowcore
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The debut album by Tokyo shoegaze band Kuyuru Driven by crushing triple-guitar intensity and ethereal vocals, it fuses “destruction” and “beauty” on a higher plane. A contemporary form of alternative expression that moves fluidly across genres while continuously expanding its scope.
Mary Mortem
Phantoms of the Fall
Mary Mortem
Phantoms of the Fall
- release date /2025-02-26
- country /US
- gerne /Doom Metal, Doomgaze, Funeral Doom, Gothic, Post-Metal, Shoegaze, Sludge Metal
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The debut album from Tulsa, Oklahoma post-metal/doomgaze artist Mary Mortem, transmuting trauma forged in an unforgiving environment into dark doomgaze.
An Empty City
a lucid dream last night
An Empty City
a lucid dream last night
- release date /2025-02-28
- country /China
- gerne /Alternative Metal, Breakcore, Drum&Bass, Gabber, Hardcore, Metalcore, Nu Gaze, Shoegaze
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4th album by Guangzhou-based metalcore band An Empty City. Is it a nightmare or a moment of rest—where metalcore aggression and shoegaze ethereal beauty collide in a groundbreaking crossover that dismantles genre boundaries.
Myriad Drone
A World Without Us
Myriad Drone
A World Without Us
- release date /2025-03-08
- country /Australia
- gerne /Blackgaze, Doomgaze, Post-Metal, Post-Rock, Progressive, Shoegaze
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The second album from Melbourne cinematic post-metal band Myriad Drone. It draws a stark contrast between tender lyricism and fierce passion. A beautiful requiem dedicated to the end of the world.
Deafheaven
Lonely People With Power
Deafheaven
Lonely People With Power
- release date /2025-03-28
- country /US
- gerne /Blackgaze, Dream Pop, Post-Hardcore, Post-Metal, Post-Punk, Post-Rock,Shoegaze
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The sixth album from California blackgaze/post-black metal band Deafheaven. Crystallizing the ferocity of black metal, the emotional wall-of-sound grandeur of Sunbather, and the ethereal beauty of Infinite Granite into the band’s most definitive statement yet.
Sanzameku
Karyu Ni Naku
Sanzameku
Karyu Ni Naku
- release date /2025-03-29
- country /Japan
- gerne /Alternative Rock, Ambient, Grunge, Post-Rock, Shoegaze, Slowcore
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Debut EP by Osaka-based rising dark shoegaze act 散▽巡 (Sanzameku). Melodies steeped in Japanese melancholy sway between silence and overwhelming noise, where whispers and screams intertwine, igniting dark emotions.
Slow snow slide
THE EXHIBITION
Slow snow slide
THE EXHIBITION
- release date /2025-05-03
- country /Japan
- gerne /Alternative Rock, Gothic Rock, New Wave, Post-Punk, Post-Rock, Shoegaze
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The second album by shoegaze band Slow Snow Slide from Sakata, Yamagata. Inspired by Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, it builds a dense soundscape centered on triple guitars and dual vocals, incorporating post-rock and classical elements.
kuragari
天和
kuragari
天和
- release date /2025-05-05
- country /Japan
- gerne /Alternative Rock, Bedroom Pop, Noise Pop, Shoegaze
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Japanese bedroom shoegaze artist kuragari’s fifth album. An “auditory destruction” strain of shoegaze driven by vicious noise pushed to the absolute limit. Melancholic melodies and lingering memories dissolve into overwhelming walls of sound.
PLOTOLEMS
para?anomaly
PLOTOLEMS
para?anomaly
- release date /2025-05-28
- country /Japan
- gerne /Alternative Rock, Darkwave, Gothic, Industrial, New Wave, Noise, Shoegaze
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Tokyo alternative rock band PLOTOLEMS’ debut mini album. Cold electronic textures and manic screams drag the listener into an inescapable nightmare—an omnibus horror experienced through sound.
Seasurfer
Electronic Monsters
Seasurfer
Electronic Monsters
- release date /2025-05-30
- country /Germany
- gerne /Darkwave, Electro Pop, Gothic, Post-Punk, Shoegaze, Synth Pop
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The fourth album from Hamburg-based dream punk/shoegaze duo Seasurfer. Dream pop echoes are gradually overtaken by darkwave coldness, forming an 80s-tinged, nostalgia-driven soundscape.
Slowwves
Perfect Evasion
Slowwves
Perfect Evasion
- release date /2025-06-04
- country /Thailand
- gerne /Alternative Rock, Dream Pop, Grunge, Shoegaze
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Debut album by Bangkok-based shoegaze band Slowwves. Dreamy yet heavy guitars merge with melancholic melodies, drawing listeners into an escape from reality.
fromjoy
Ataraxia 19.13.8.1.19
fromjoy
Ataraxia 19.13.8.1.19
- release date /2025-06-13
- country /US
- gerne /Ambient, Alternative Metal, Electronica, Industrial, Metalcore, Nu Gaze, Shoegaze
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3rd EP by Houston, Texas metalcore band fromjoy. A mythic arc of a fallen Icarus reborn as a radiant angel, forging new ground as a metalcore × shoegaze crossover.
Split Chain
motionblur
Split Chain
motionblur
- release date /2025-07-11
- country /UK
- gerne /Alternative Rock, Emo, Grunge, Nu-Metal, Post-Punk, Shoegaze
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The debut album from Bristol, UK shoegaze band Split Chain. Blending shoegaze, post-hardcore, nu metal, and gothic melancholy, it fuses crushing heaviness and emotional haze into a restless, charged sound, releasing suppressed emotion through raw impulse in a striking new generation of heavy shoegaze.
Slow Crush
Thirst
Slow Crush
Thirst
- release date /2025-08-29
- country /Belgium
- gerne /Alternative Rock, Grunge, Post-Metal, Post-Rock, Shoegaze, Slowcore
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The third album from Belgian shoegaze band Slow Crush, expanding their immersive wall of sound with grunge, post-metal, and slowcore influences, further fusing crushing heaviness with ethereal melancholy in a definitive culmination of their sound.
Heretoir
Solastalgia
Heretoir
Solastalgia
- release date /2025-09-19
- country /Germany
- gerne /Blackgaze, Post-Black Metal, Post-Metal, Post-Rock, Progressive
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The fourth album from German post-black metal band Heretoir, blending black metal ferocity with shoegaze and post-rock’s ethereal beauty. Centered on ecological grief and apocalyptic melancholy, it unfolds as a cinematic requiem for a dying world.
Shedfromthebody
Everything Out There Has Teeth
Shedfromthebody
Everything Out There Has Teeth
- release date /2025-10-23
- country /Finland
- gerne /Doomgaze, Drone, Folk, Gothic Metal, Post-Metal
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The fifth album from Finnish doomgaze project Shedfromthebody, blending Nordic folk mysticism with crushing doom-laden heaviness. Drifting through hypnotic grooves and shadowed emotional depths, it descends into the abyss within Nordic forests, forging a new dark mythology.
The Velvet Eclipse
A Garden Full of Lilies and Sorrow...
The Velvet Eclipse
A Garden Full of Lilies and Sorrow...
- release date /2025-10-31
- country /US
- gerne /Dream Pop, Emo, Indie Rock, Noise Rock, Post-Punk, Post-Rock, Shoegaze
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San Francisco shoegaze band The Velvet Eclipse’s 5th album. Deep sorrow wrapped in the impulse of emo and hardcore blazes through the record like black flames consuming a garden. A singular point of Japanese shoegaze born from the cultural exchange between the US and Japan.
robounoishi
HUMAN
robounoishi
HUMAN
- release date /2025-11-12
- country /Japan
- gerne /Alternative Rock, Grunge, Noise, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Shoegaze
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Tokyo vocaloid producer and alternative rock project robounoishi’s tenth album. A comprehensive work reconstructing its vocaloid track catalog through full band arrangements. A beautiful angel descends into a world steeped in despair. Is it salvation, or destruction──?
KRISHNV
Craving and dirges
KRISHNV
Craving and dirges
- release date /2025-12-12
- country /Japan
- gerne /Alternative Rock, Dark Ambient, Doomgaze, Experimental, Folk, Noise, Post-Metal, Post-Rock, Progressive
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The 2025 release by Tokyo-based experimental rock band KRISHNV. Tribal rhythms, sludge-like waves of distortion, and mantra-like vocals intertwine into a ritualistic sonic form. A forbidden dark rite resurrected in the modern age, beyond genre boundaries.
The Florist
(a)estheticism
The Florist
(a)estheticism
- release date /2025-12-24
- country /Japan
- gerne /Alternative-Rock, Emo, Hardcore, Indie Rock, New Wave, Shoegaze
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Tokyo alternative rock / shoegaze band The Florist’s 2025 EP. A manifesto of outstanding aestheticism, rigorously distilling beauty from diverse veins of goth and new wave.