Doom/Post-Metallers Coltaine Release New Video For COLTAINE

Post-Doom/Post-Metal collective Coltaine release a new video for Mogila from their critically acclaimed 2024 album Forgotten Ways with flashes of Black Metal, Psych Rock. Post-Rock and Drone appearing throughout. Quite a bold move releasing a music video from two albums back but when have ever Coltaine played by the rules. 

The band will be supporting Doom/Stoner Metallers FAETOOTH on their forthcoming 2026 European Tour. Dates listed below. 

EU/UK Tour with Faetooth

Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/15513861-coltaine

22/01 - 🇩🇪 Berlin, Lido

23/01 - 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Hafenklang

24/01 - 🇩🇪 Bochum, Die Trompete

25/01 - 🇩🇪 Mainz, Schon-Schoen

27/01 - 🇳🇱 Utrecht, De Helling

28/01 - 🇧🇪 Brussels, AB Club

30/01 - 🇮🇪 Dublin, Workman's Club

31/01 - 🇮🇪 Galway, Roisin Dubh

01/02 - 🇮🇪 Cork, The Pav

03/02 - 🇬🇧 Birkenhead, Future Yard

04/02 - 🇬🇧 Shipley, Kirkgate Community Centre

05/02 - 🇬🇧 Newcastle, Anarchy Brewery

06/02 - 🇬🇧 Glasgow, Classic Grand

07/02 - 🇬🇧 Manchester, Rebellion

08/02 - 🇬🇧 Nottingham, Rescue Rooms

10/02 - 🇬🇧 Bristol, The Fleece

11/02 - 🇬🇧 Wolverhampton, KK's Steel Mill

12/02 - 🇬🇧 Southampton, Papillon

13/02 - 🇬🇧 Swansea, Sin City

14/02 - 🇬🇧 London, The Garage

15/02 - 🇬🇧 Brighton, Patterns

16/02 - 🇫🇷 Lille, Bulle Cafe

17/02 - 🇫🇷 Paris, L'Empreinte Savigny Le Temple

18/02 - 🇫🇷 Lyon, Rock N Eat

20/02 - 🇮🇹 Milan, Slaughter Club

21/02 - 🇮🇹 Bologna, Freakout Club

22/02 - 🇨🇭 Lucerne, Sedel

23/02 - 🇨🇭 Düdingen, Bad Bonn

24/02 - 🇩🇪 Munich, Feierwerk

25/02 - 🇩🇪 Leipzig, UT Connewitz

27/02 - 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Hydrozagadka

28/02 - 🇵🇱 Wroclaw, Lacznik

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Coltaine - Brandung (Album Review)

Release Date: September 05th 2025. Record Label: Lay Bare Recordings. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl

Brandung - Tracklisting

1.Tiefe Wasser 01:51

2.Memories Of Ice 04:38

3.Keep Me Down In The Deep 05:50

4.Black Coral 02:06

5.Wirbelwind 02:14

6.Above The Burning Sand 06:04

7.Maelstrom 03:06

8.Brandung 07:43

9.Solar Veil 02:46

Members

Julia Frasch - vocals, percussion

Moritz Berg - guitar

Benedikt Berg - bass, cello, percussion

Amin Bouzeghaia - drums

& additional guitar on Black Coral,

Wirbelwind, Brandung, and Solar Vein

Review

Coltaine are back with their latest offering Brandung and whilst the songs maybe shorter than the ones held on their previous release that doesn’t mean Coltaine are cutting corners with the emotionally charged grooves they’ve made their name with. Far from it. As Brandung is an emotionally charged release that transcends multiple genres, themes, sounds and delicate ambient passages for a record that’s musically complex but also emotionally rewarding throughout.

Coltaine are perhaps defined as a Post-Doom/Post-Metal collective with flashes of Black Metal, Psych Rock. Post-Rock, Drone and Orchestral sounds for a bold, grand and musical statement that has influences such as Chelsea Wolfe, Wolves In The Throne Room, Godspeed You Black Emperor helping their creative cause.

The music is stripped back to its rightly cold hearted score which is also helped by the excellent recording duties and production values contained on the record. I was quite surprised to see my Jan Oberg (EARTH SHIP and GRIN) on mixing and mastering duties on this album. He pulls out all the stops as usual making Coltaine sound absolutely unique with a fresh spin on the whole Post-Doom/Blackened Post-Metal sound. Credit must also go to recording engineers Gregor Rieth & Amin Bouzeghaia as well. So production values get a major THUMBS UP from me.

Now back to the actual album itself with Brandung being quite a highly original style of evolving Post-Metal sounds with that ice-cold Blackened Metal drive with Julia Frasch’s vocals being beautiful, dynamic, aggressive and quite destructive within the heavier moments especially on tracks such as Memories Of Ice, Keep Me Down In The Deep, Above The Burning Sand and Brandung.

The album itself feels like one lengthy song broken down into individual chapters with each offering haunting melodies, ice-cold lyrics and captivating storylines to show how Coltaine have evolved brilliantly ever since their inception back in 2022 though some members were part of the much missed WITCHFUCKER. The excellent use of different musical instruments adds a sublime ETHEREAL vibe that appears within the shorter tracks of Tiefe Wasser, Black Coral and Wirbelwind.

The shorter tracks are perhaps the most dominated by Orchestral and Post-Rock movements which adds a sense of CINEMATIC sounds to the whole album. Though, Coltaine does add “extra” spice to the mix within the shorter tracks with outbursts of Julia’s intense screams and sudden shift into Psychedelic paranoia laced with Post-Black Metal intrigue. 

Brandung is a richly observed and emotionally charged album with Coltaine breathing new life into the whole Post-Doom scene with complex rhythms, vocal harmonies and epic Post-Metal soundscapes combining for one of the most intense and beautifully realized records you’ll hear this year.

Words by Steve Howe

 

Thanks to Coltaine and All Noir PR for the promo.

Brandung is available to buy now on CD/DD/Vinyl via Lay Bare Recorrdings.

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San Jose Instrumental Post-rock Duo to Release The Last Stop Ranch EP Via Entelodon Records in September

On the heels of their second EP Fever Canyon, San Jose-based instrumental post-rock duo IN THE PONDS will release their third EP, The Last Stop Ranch this coming September.

Photo credit: Marissa’s Garden / @marissas.garden

The Last Stop Ranch works with a classic rock tone palette—sizzly SG humbuckers and wobbly delays, to name a few primary colors. For the band, discovering the tracks was like stumbling across the mouth of a cave; something about it makes you crane your neck towards the dark. This is the music they imagine you’d hear from a dried-up well if you lowered yourself down and listened to what the walls had to say.

The Last Stop Ranch was recorded by guitarist David Perez and mixed by Art Bertik. The front cover artwork was created by bassist Jennifer Gigantino.

The Last Stop Ranch Track Listing:

1.You Can Kill Me Anytime (But You Won’t)
2.Playing with Matches
3.Hide and Seek

IN THE PONDS is a poet and a filmmaker getting married and starting an instrumental post-rock duo during pandemic lockdowns and California wildfires. It’s a honeymoon spent in quarantine, staring at soot-filled skies wondering how to capture feelings of isolation, dread, and love without using words. Their music pays homage to classic rock while experimenting with atmospheric textures for a sound that’s both familiar and otherworldly.

IN THE PONDS is:

David Perez – Guitar

Jennifer Gigantino – Bass

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