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5 BEST ALBUMS OF THE MONTH – FEBRUARY 2026

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28 February 2026

Band: KULA SHAKER
Who: British psych rock vets, fronted by charismatic
vocalist/songwriter Crispian Mills. Their 1996 debut LP,
titled K made them instant indie stars.

Album: WORMSLAYER
Their 8th one.

Press info: “Named after a 9th-century Indian poet king, the band have always existed
in an alternate reality, mixing mysticism, psychedelia, and raucous rock ‘n’ roll energy. With Wormslayer, they continue that quest, creating a kaleidoscopic journey that feels both
timeless and urgently fresh.”


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TUTV: KS show again their passion for 60s psychedelic rock/pop flavered with
Indian sitar vibes and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds symphonies. Think early Pink
Floyd, The Kinks, The Pepper Beatles, Traffic and Arthur Lee’s Love.

And they are very good at it. Wormslayer is stuffed with top-flight pop-edelia tunes, elevating this 8th LP to a must-hear on repeat level. Voice/face/songwriter and vibrant guitarist Crispian Mills lifts his troops to ecstasizing heights of nostalgia. Retro delirium
at its todays best. Formidable record.

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Band: THE NUDE PARTY
Who: North Carolina collective THE NUDE PARTY, active
since 2012, are a well-oiled 7-piece machine of choogling
rock‘n roll

Album: LOOK WHO’S BACK

Press info: “Look Who’s Back took shape in a homegrown, late-night party atmosphere, playfully debaucherous sessions ran late into the night, the cozy room as crowded with mics, cables, and recording equipment as it was with friends, pizza boxes, and beer cans.”

TUTV: This party squad keeps it simple, but oh irresistibly efficient with laid-back
melodiousness, sparkling guitar play, euphonious harmonies, and top-drawer sing along/tap along/clap along tunes with at times, a cosy country feel. It’s called pop-ular music. Instantly entertaining, chipper and ear-pleasing fun.

Trust me, the cliché, no fillers, all killers, is 100% accurate here.

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Artists: DEAD ANYWAY
Who: British duo who set the dark lyricism of Kate Arnold against the music
and soundscapes of Marc Symonds. They offer a mix of poetry, electronica
and guitars. A heady brew of dark, glitchy head-messing wonder.

Album: SQUEAK PIGGY SQUEAK
Their 7th one.

TUTV: Again, DA takes you on a relaxing wander, entertaining your ears, mind,
and psyche en route. They trip and hop their way through eight new pieces. Sonically,
as we experienced so many times before, Tricky, Arab Strap, and Portishead come
to mind.

Sydmonds designs a fitting, easy-listening atmosphere, flavored with scintillating guitar
sparks, shiny synth,s and bass-dipped Massive Attack-like percussion, for Arnold‘s spoken
word reflections.

Her laid-back vocals suit the whole sonic picture organically, and her hush-hush
tonality creates an inviting, intimate ambiance. Thematically, the songs are Arnold reflections on her mental issues. The overall outcome of this new LP is engrossing
once again.

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Band: RONKER
Who: Belgian most terrifying noiz turbine,
fronted by manic demon Jasper De Petter.

Album: RESPECT THE HUSTLE, I WON’T BE YOUR DOG FOREVER
Their sophomore.

Ronker about the record: “The initial plan was to write half of the record completely sober. We mostly succeeded in that effort. Not quite. We noticed that the songs we wrote in those sober sessions had a very distinct nature compared to the more fierce banger-like
songs we hammer out when we have some sort of intoxicants in our veins.”


📸 Nathan Dobbelaere

TUTV’s impressions.

Ronker rage and race once again.
These volcanic punk hyenas develop
an earsplitting havoc that crushes
your mind, your psyche and your
shaking stereo.


Manic demon Jasper De Petter – Trix, Antwerp – Photo by Turn Up The Volume

Vociferous vocalist Kasper has 4 lungs
and iron pipes. He growls, barks, howls
and spits and sneers at a sizzling speed.

His backing crew hits hard, really hard.
Schizo riot gun riffs and a Herculean
bass/drum tandem. What you hear
is what your terrified ears get.

On the short & soft, classical piano-driven
instrumental in the middle, you can take
a breather, and the closing ballad, an
intensity-growing ballad Using Eyes is
one of my favorite pieces on the record.

This 2nd LP could easily be the soundtrack
to Quentin Tarantino‘s first horror movie.

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Band: GORILLAZ
Who: The brainchild of Blur’s Damon Albarn and comic book artist
Jamie Hewlett, who celebrated the 25th anniversary of their top-ranking
project this year.

Album: THE MOUNTAIN
Their 9th.

Press info: “The album is a collection of 15 new tracks featuring artists and
collaborators, living and dead, including: Ajay Prasanna, Anoushka Shankar, Asha
Bhosle, Asha Puthli, Bizarrap, Black Thought, Gruff Rhys, Idles, Jalen Ngonda, Johnny
Marr, Kara Jackson, Omar Souleyman, Paul Simonon, Sparks, Trueno and Yasiin Bey;
as well as the voices of the late Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Dennis Hopper and
Mark E. Smith

TUTV: Gorillaz offer us the first summer record of the year. And if you’re a longtime
G fan you know what that means. Yes, a soft stream of easygoing, feel-good, and bubbly reggae-tinted tunes. But it’s not all sunlight and carefreeness.

Albarn and Hewlett both lost their fathers, in between two trips they did together to
India. Those sad happenings resonate in several melancholic musings, embedded in
Indian instrumentation (lots of sitars) and Eastern vibes, yet they obviously want to
keep up the good spirits and look to the future.

It results in one of their most entertaining longplayers in their 25-year career.

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RONKER – Belgian Volcanic Punk Hyenas Have Their 2nd Earsplitting Album Out

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2 February 2026


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Band: RONKER
Who: Belgian most terrifying noiz turbine,
fronted by manic demon Jasper De Petter.

New album: RESPECT THE HUSTLE, I WON’T BE YOUR DOG FOREVER
Their sophomore.

Press Info: “It’s a concept-album about coping mechanisms and the antics of a rock & roll lifestyle. The band is presenting a more layered and sophisticated sound than its predecessor; the result is a record that is equally shaped by the likes of David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars as it is by Refused or Slayer. Still as aggressive as before, but with a more old-school approach to songwriting with big choruses and even bigger riffage.”

Ronker about the record: “The initial plan was to write half of the record completely sober. We mostly succeeded in that effort. Not quite. We noticed that the songs we wrote in those sober sessions had a very distinct nature compared to the more fierce banger-like
songs we hammer out when we have some sort of intoxicants in our veins.”

TUTV’s impressions.

Ronker rage and race once again.
These volcanic punk hyenas develop
an earsplitting havoc that crushes
your mind, your psyche and your
shaking stereo.

They come at you like a rush of blood
to the head. No rest for the wicked.

If Ronker was an animal, it would
be a Tyrannosaurus Rex on dope.


Manic demon Jasper De Petter – Trix, Antwerp – Photo by Turn Up The Volume

Vociferous vocalist Kasper has 4 lungs
and iron pipes. He growls, barks, howls
and spits and sneers at a sizzling speed.

His backing crew hits hard, really hard.
Schizo riot gun riffs and a Herculean
bass/drum tandem. What you hear
is what your terrified ears get.

On the short & soft, classical piano-driven
instrumental in the middle, you can take
a breather, and the closing ballad, an
intensity-growing ballad Using Eyes is
one of my favorite pieces on the record.

This 2nd LP could easily be the soundtrack
to Quentin Tarantino‘s first horror movie.

If these bazooka rockers were to play
a gig in Minneapolis today, ICE would melt
right in front of our eyes, in no time.

Welcome to Ronker’s Dante Inferno.

The singles.

– SNUFF –
Scorching jam

– LIMELIGHTER –
Louder than war

– NO SWEAT –
Aaaarrrggghhh

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RONKER – Belgian Most Terrifying Noiz Turbine Launch Half Sober/Half Drunk 3rd LP On January 30

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Coming up

9 January 2026


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Band: RONKER
Who: Belgian most terrifying noiz turbine,
fronted by growling demon Jasper De Petter.

New album: RESPECT THE HUSTLE, I WON’T BE YOUR DOG FOREVER
Their sophomore.

Release date: 30th January
Pre-order info here.


Mindboggling album artwork

Press Info: “It’s a concept-album about coping mechanisms and the antics of a rock & roll lifestyle. The band is presenting a more layered and sophisticated sound than its predecessor; the result is a record that is equally shaped by the likes of David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars as it is by Refused or Slayer. Still as aggressive as before, but with a more old-school approach to songwriting with big choruses and even bigger riffage.”


Growling demon Jasper De Petter – Trix, Antwerp – Photo by Turn Up The Volume

Ronker about the record: “The initial plan was to write half of the record completely sober. We mostly succeeded in that effort. Not quite. We noticed that the songs we wrote in those sober sessions had a very distinct nature compared to the more fierce banger-like
songs we hammer out when we have some sort of intoxicants in our veins.”

So far, we have 3 singles to test our stereo’s resilience with.

– SNUFF –
Dante’s Inferno in motion

– LIMELIGHTER –
Louder than war

– NO SWEAT –
Aaaarrrggghhh

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10 BEST DEBUT ALBUMS OF 2024 According To TURN UP THE VOLUME

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17 December 2024

Band: ILA
Who: Vigorous Belgian rock quartet led by formidable singer-songwriter/guitarist,
with Turkish roots, Ilayda Cicek who’s blessed with a unique voice and shares
unadulterated emotions, sonically and lyrically.


Photo by Turn Up The Volume

Album: AYNA

TUTV: The imperishable cliché is totally accurate here. No fillers, all killers. Heartfelt ardency in motion. 12 heart-and-soul stirring pieces of poignant music that put you in
a feverish trance. Cicek‘s devout voice is the seductive heroine in the middle, surrounded
by a rock-solid band that got better and better over the past couple of years. You can hear/feel her genuine vocal/lyrical passion throughout this highly emotionally striking record.

Prominent artist, high-quality songwriting,
astonishing debut, very bright future.

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Band: FAT DOG
Who: Five London disco-punk cowboys
who found each other during the awful
2020 lockdown year.

Album: WOOF.

NME said: “Unserious, unhinged and sensational London’s must-see
live band justify the hype with a reckless and raucous debut album
pumped full of adrenaline.”

TUTV: Expect a punk disco drone machine with a, yes, Eastern music-inspired sultriness
on the orgasmic choruses. This turbulent ride will create maddening moshpits around
our messed-up planet with people who desperately want to escape their straight jackets and the exhausting rat race as we know it, at least on the weekends.

They build up their songs, then zigzag their way to a mind-blowing refrain, smack them
down afterward, and start all over again. This barking gang is chaotically awesome,
on record and on a podium.

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Band: SPRINTS
Who: Irish talk-of-the-town
post-punk misfits.

Album: LETTER TO SELF

Pitchfork wrote: “Sprints channel rage into communal uplift Letter to Self
is a bracing, frantic record designed for both thrashing mosh pits and solo
meltdowns, best heard with the volume turned up loud.”

TUTV: ‘Letter To Self’ landed on the first official album release day of 2024
and is still spinning regularly, out loud, on my headphones. These Irish
indies burst with astounding vehemence and sharp-teethed gusto. Their
high-voltage riff-rippers trash and slash along their build-up/break-down
course.

Schizo guitars, unrestrained bass/drum forcefulness, and Karla Chubb‘s
borderline vocality combine for exorcistic flare-ups. Sprints hit the scene
with a big bang on record and on stage. They’re here to stay. Fact!

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Artist: ELIAS RøNNENFELT
Who: Flamboyant frontman of glamourus
Danish power pop band Iceage.

Album: HEAVY GLORY

Pitchfork said: “The Iceage frontman experiments with a newfound sincerity and
an Americana-inspired sound, searching for beauty in the small and insular.”

TUTV: We already knew from his work with Iceage that Elias Rønnenfelt is a genuine
singer-songwriter-performer and he confirms that status on his debut with engrossing
pop songs, slow and fast, intimate and upbeat.

He’s a romantic at heart and wraps his personal daily-life impressions, desires, demons, going-ons and anything that impacts his existence in through-and-through heart-melting stories and melodramatic melodies.

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Artist: KIM DEAL
Who: For those who lived on another planet the past years,
Kim is best known as the utterly cool bass player of indie
icons Pixies and from her own band The Breeders, featuring
her twin sister Kelley.

Album: NOBODY LOVES YOU MORE

MOJO (British music monthly) said: “Nobody Loves You More is a singularly
uplifting, life-affirming listen, where joy and despair, love and loss, are irrevocably
entwined, and kept afloat by Deal’s unfailing lightness of touch.”

TUTV: In the past Deal wrote/shared some of her self-made songs without any real attention from the outside. Now, finally she expresses her mixed emotions about past
and present personal experiences on a full debut LP with several meditative, moony,
and subtly orchestrated reveries. All charming songs for a quiet winter night inside.

Deal‘s slightly hoarse voice is instrumental. Its tender-hearted aura creates a relaxing ambiance, interrupted now and then by more uptempo, upbeat tracks like stand-out
vibe Crystal Breath, the vigorous guitar-frisky Disobediece and the buzzing Big Ben Beat
jam. Forget those past bands, Kim, come back solo. Nobody loves you more than TUTV.

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Band: RONKER
Who: 4 noizzz junkies
from Belgium.

Album: FEAR IS A FUNNY THING, NOW SMILE LIKE A BABY


Photo © Nathan Dobbelaere

TUTV: No pop tunes, no songs about the bees and the trees. This album is stuffed with manicial mind-fuckers and badass brain-breakers that trash and slash your poor stereo relentlessly and mercilessly. The maddening man in the middle, mental vocalist Jasper, screams and howls, and spits and sneers, with bone-chilling and psychotic horsepower.

Think Kurt Cobain with 4 lungs, fronting a hellish hardcore gang featuring 3 other ruthless punks on an ear-splitting mission. No brakes, no breaks. No rest for the wicked. Ronker is
a barbaric force, their singer is an out-of-this-normal-world performer, their debut is a flabbergasting monster. AARRGGHH!

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Band: BAD RITUAL
Who: Polish trio formed at the beginning of 2020 by three architects.
They play songs immersed in a dark and unsettling atmosphere. Their
music is a blend of indie-folk, swampy blues, and rock ‘n’ roll. It often
evokes associations with David Lynch‘s films, spaghetti westerns, and
film noir.

Album: BAD RITUAL

TUTV: As mentioned in their bio this trio’s music has a shadowy cinematic film noir resonance. They offer songs for the midnight hours, songs for nightclubs where misfits, loners, marginalized characters and dropouts seek some human warmth and a free drink. The tone is melancholic, the timbre is heavyhearted. Think glam legend Chris Isaak, famous crooners The National, and moody Bad Seeds moments. Splendid debut.


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Band: VIRGINS
Who: Belfast-based shoegaze band who transcend that reductive
tag to deliver a noise that is thrillingly loud and weightily light.

Album: NOTHING HURT AND ANYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL


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TUTV: Virgins take you on a flight at supersonic speed way up into the sky above the clouds, where reality becomes surreality, where layers of seventh heaven shoegaze symphonies blast from the space shuttle’s speakers. For 40 phantasy-stimulating minutes, you’ll forget all about what happens down there, on our dramatically disturbed planet.

Layers of glowing guitars, hallucinatory vocals, and an overall lyrical sonority will trigger your fantasies and will make you feel floating high(er) forgetting all about our daily, mind-boggling rat race.

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Band: ENGLISH TEACHER
Who: Fast up-and-coming inventive
indies from Leeds, UK.


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Album: THIS COULD BE TEXAS

NME: “The fantastic and the everyday collide on this landmark debut – an adventure in
sound and words. What you have in ‘This Could Be Texas’ is everything you want from a
debut; a truly original effort from start to finish, an adventure in sound and words, and
a landmark statement.

TUTV: English Teacher are special, their debut LP is special. It sounds indie,
but certainly not in a familiar way when it comes to the stunning creativity
and striking architecture of the songs.

Expect a mix of prog-rock dynamics, bits and pieces for a reality musical, wayward euphony and sudden, yet accessible changes of pace and flow, rhythms and moods.

You really need several spins to get into This Could Be Texas but once the mist is gone
you’ll be dazzled by its sheer ingeniousness and the impact of frontwoman Lily Fontaine, vocally and emotionally.

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Artists: THE GLASS HOURS

WHO: Seasoned American songwriters Brad Armstrong and Megan Barbera.
Their music blurs between Sunday afternoon country folk and the golden age
of the 1970s. Combining influences from Megan’s mountain roots and Brad’s
southern roots, The Glass Hours is currently based in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Debut: THE GLASS HOURS

TUTV: This is the kind of music I love to play at the end of a busy day and after
listening to (too much) noisy stuff. The soothing mix of melancholic country, musing
folk, sepia-colored blues, some bluegrass, roots, and pop/rock influences can work magically to slow down your stressed mind, as it happens here.

The heroes of the sensitive songs here are the duo’s wholehearted voices, solo or harmonizing together. Armstrong and Barbera are both blessed with a characteristically warm, tender and yearning Americana voice.

References? Young and old(er) artists such as Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, Lana Del Rey, Willie Nelson, Crystal Gayle, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. Impressive, right? Definitely.

Add romanticized stories about all things good and sad, bright and
dark in life, and you have a sonic companion for relaxing moments.

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5 BEST ALBUMS OF THE MONTH – MAY 2024

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31 May 2024

Artist: BETH GIBBONS
Who: The voice/face of renowned British trip-hop outfit
Portishead who released (only) 3 LPs between 1994
and 2008.

Album: LIVES OUTGROWN

Gibbons about the album: “I realised what life was like with no hope. And that was
a sadness I’d never felt. Before, I had the ability to change my future, but when you’re
up against your body, you can’t make it do something it doesn’t want to do. People
started dying.

TUTV: Gibbons processes her pains of loss on this shadowy solo debut.
She still has that ghostly vocal vulnerability, as if she wanders, in slo-mo,
in a thick fog far away from the real world, to to get away from her
harming demons.

Musically, the tone is both delicate and tender, mysterious and introspective, with an overall sense of disturbing catharsis, accompanied by mourning strings, big drums and acoustic melancholia. You need several spins to connect with Gibbons‘ enigmatic world, but in the end, the result is truly affecting.

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Two months ago renowned noise rock producer STEVE ALBINI
announced a new LP with his band SHELLAC, titled TO ALL TRAINS.
Their 6th and first in 10 years.

Unfortunately, Albini couldn’t experience its release (May 17)
as the fatal news came in, on May 7, of his passing following
a heart attack.

It wasn’t really certain if the release would go ahead or not. But here it is,
featuring his long-time, faithful friends/musicians Bob Weston (bass) and
drummer Todd Trainer.


(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Belgium 2017)

The recordings already started in 2017 featuring several songs
the band used to play live for quite some time by then.

TUTV: It’s vintage Shellac/Steve Albini with its fractured song structures, its capricious and minimalistic resonance, its broken riffs, edgy hooks, sinewy drumming, Albini‘s poignant vocals and the raw and rough post-punk dynamics at play. Absolutely weird to listen to
it, with the incredible knowledge that Albini is no more.

The album closes with the ominous track I Don’t Fear Hell, including these lines
“I don’t fear hell. Their baseball team is undefeated. If there’s a heaven, I hope they’re
having fun. ‘Cause if there’s a hell, I’m gonna know everyone.” Sounds quite bizarre and macabre at this very moment. Maybe, just maybe, Albini is happy, wherever he might
be. Rest in peace.

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Band: RONKER
Who: 4 noise junkies
from Belgium

Album: FEAR IS A FUNNY THING, NOW SMILE LIKE A BABY

Info: “FIAFTNSLABB is not only an ode to celebrating naivety, the record is
deliberately kept very raw and playful. The band plays a kind of duplo-metal
that opts for simplicity and a wide color palette.

The band sounds hungry, nervous and exaggerated in its bipolar nature: the je-m’en-foutism of post-punk and the concrete character of 90’s alt-metal both contribute equally to their DNA. In their brew where chunks of hardcore are mixed with noise, indie, prog
and punk, no house is sacred anymore.”


Aaaarggghhhhh (photo by TUTV)

TUTV: No pop tunes, no songs about the bees and the trees. This record is stuffed with manicial mind-fuckers and badass brain-breakers that trash and slash your poor stereo relentlessly and mercilessly. The maddening man in the middle, mental vocalist Jasper, screams and howls, and spits and sneers, with bone-chilling and psychotic horsepower.

Think Kurt Cobain with 4 lungs, fronting a hellish hardcore gang featuring 3 other ruthless punks on an ear-splitting mission. No brakes, no breaks. No rest for the wicked. Ronker is
a barbaric force, their singer is an out-of-this-normal-world performer, their debut is a flabbergasting monster.

All you loonies out there, get out of your straitjackets, escape from the asylum
and jump up and down on your way home like post-punk kangaroos on speed.

The four mustache horsemen of the Apocalypse have arrived.

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Act: LEG PUPPY
Who: EBM fabricators of the third kind.

Album: HUMANITY 2.0
Their 8th longplayer

TUTV: Ever heard of politically and society-caring techno?
Well, thematically, it’s what this record is about. And the
alarming music is its perfect soundtrack.

As theoretical physicist Einstein said (1879-1955): “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth” and English modernist novelist D.H. Lawrence (1985-1930) wrote: “Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically“. Two quotes, so relevant in 2024, meaning that nobody, especially all power-greedy world leaders/politicians, ever listened carefully to what these geniuses had to say. No wonder these two masterminds show up on this record.

As Leg Puppy states about his UK country: “This used to be a hell of a great country.”
Again the narcissistic Tories fucked up. Brexshit is their awful work. Unfortunately,
they get away with their bullshit.

Sonically, Humanity 2.0 is heavily influenced by Puppy‘s natural musical habitat:
the 90s techno/acid house revolution, developed around the mid-1980s by DJs
from Chicago and British trance-dance and (il)legal rave-orientated acts such as
Chemical Brothers, The Orb, Leftfield, The Prodigy and lots of other e-tastic
crusaders. Throw all this together and you get Humanity 2.0.

Again LPI (Leg Puppy Intelligence) created an intoxicating
roller coaster with mind-exploring, electronic symphonies
for a 2024 space Odyssey.

Leg Puppy 1.0 is canceled, welcome to Leg Puppy 2.0

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Band: SEADOG
Who: The project of Brighton (UK) musicians
Mark Benton and Tom Chadd

Album: INTERNAL NOISE
2nd LP following their 2018 debut
Cabin Fever Blues.

Info: “The album explores the dichotomy between an inner turmoil that can plague a fragile mind and the euphoria of letting go and tuning out the outside world. The heavy burden of insomnia is a recurring theme while the album also celebrates the static hums and pulsating rhythms which contrast humans and machines.”

TUTV: Seadog alternate trippy synth dream-pop symphonies with delicate and subtle acoustic musings and with inventive, compelling compositions. Stylishly crafted melodies and crystalline harmonies are omnipresent, but in different tones and timbres, which makes Internal Noise a sonically multi-colored record.


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Its production is spot-on, not over or underdone, the arrangements and orchestrations match the overall sparkling sonority. It’s obvious that a lot of work, creativity, energy and love went into this album. Give it a couple of spins and you’ll discover a high-songwriting-quality opus.

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RONKER – The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Dropped Second Mindfucker ‘HIITT’ From Their Upcoming Debut LP

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

20 April 2024


Photo © Nathan Dobbelaere

Band: RONKER
Who: 4 noise junkies from Belgium

New single: HIITT
Second shared piece following lead track Slow Murder from their debut album, baptized Fear Is A Funny Thing Now Smile Like A Big Boy, that will land on 10 May via Labelman


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TUTV: These schizo noiseniks take you once again on a brain-breaking
roller coaster. HIIT is a maddening mindfucker that will trash and slash your
speakers about halfway when these four Belgian horsemen of the Apocalypse go
in overdrive and aim for a kick-ass knockout.

The ferocious vocalist screams his 4 lungs out again. He’s your next favorite exorcist.
Now, all you psychos out there, get out of your straitjackets, escape from the asylum
and jump up and down on your way home like a kangaroo on dope. Helter skelter.

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RONKER – Belgian Noizzz Maniacs Go Bonkers On Their New Razorblade Blast ‘SLOW MURDER’

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Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

20 February 2024


Photo © Nathan Dobbelaere

Band: RONKER
Who: Post-hardcore-punk 4-piece from Belgium.
They released their cooking debut EP Self Loathing Self Help
last year.

New single: SLOW MURDER
The first shared piece from their upcoming debut LP Fear Is A Funny Thing Now Smile Like A Big Boy (FIAFTNSLABB). It’ll hit planet Earth on 10 May via Labelman. Pre-order info here.

“‘Slow Murder’ acts like a hand grenade sized song full of dissonant aggression, fueled by the ability to put things in perspective. The song is the ideal appetizer for the upcoming record. It kickstarts a new campaign for RONKER in which the goal is simple: take on all naysayers of crossover.”


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TUTV: Ronker grab you by the throat from the get-go with psychotic guitars, freaked-out drumming and demonic vocals. They waste no time, they commit slow murder in exactly 131 seconds. The sign is on the wall. This 4-motor generator is coming after your soul and wants to mess up your mind. We don’t know yet if it helps to smile to avoid fear for the final breakdown, what we do know is that there’s much more hectic punk havoc to come.

Wake up world,
these motherrockers
only got started.

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BEST EP OF APRIL 2023 – ‘SELF LOATHING SELF HELP’ By Noise Exorcists RONKER

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1 May 2023

Band: RONKER
Who: 4 Belgian misfits producing a mix between Danzig-era, Misfits meets Helmet, equally influenced by the earliest of hardcore punk and 90’s guitar music and thrash metal.

EP: RONKER
2 previous released singles
and their B-sides.

“‘Self Loathing Self Help’ tells a story about depression, suicide and the ones left behind. It was therefore deliberately chosen to bundle these four numbers. The songs clearly written as a process of coming to terms with losing loved ones, while struggling mentally yourself. The artwork by American artist Grant Fuhst shows both the flattened feeling of survivors guilt and the hopelessness that is so prominently felt in contemporary society. Throughout the four-part EP, singer Jasper De Petter rattles death wishes together, urgency is the central mood during the 17-minute playing time.”

TUTV: The first two jackhammers (previous singles) are the ones that can be dangerous
for your stereo’s well-being. Frontman De Petter‘s screaming is sky-scraping. Holy smoke, that guy has four lungs. His hurly-burly howls are fueled by anger, by fear, by grief and by any state of mind that transfers one’s mind to dark places, pitch-black places that is.

Goliath and Shame are merciless post-punk drones that resonate like Canadian hard-core gang Fucked Up fronted by Kurt Cobain at his worst mental moments. Flipped-out guitars and the hammering rhythm section push the decibels over the legal limit.

Excorsism at its disturbing best.

Solid and Old Reliable have a more reflective and a quiet/Loud/quiet/Loud timbre. Think
The Murder Capital. Mind you, De Petter‘s vocal range is still intact. These two mindfuckers emphasize once more the content of the EP: the crushing power of mental turmoil and soul-destroying guilt. It feels as if Ronker are still trapped in an endless dark tunnel and there’s still not a trace of light. On the other hand, this standout EP can be the first step
to healing.

STREAM/BUY
the EP here
via Bandcamp.


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On Spotify

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RONKER: Facebook – Instagram

(Photos by Turn Up The Volume – We Are Open Fest in Antwerp, Feb 2023)

Belgian Motherrockers RONKER Hit Hard Last Night In Antwerp

Posted on by JL

11 February 2023

Band: RONKER
Who: Noise 4-piece from Belgium.

A couple of weeks ago these misfits’ unleashed their new hot steaming
single SHAME which Turn Up The Volume experienced as: a sharp-cutting razor blade,
a severe cry-out that you expect to erupt any second with the vocalist’s pipes sounding creepy and desperate, while fipped-out guitars, a manic drum/bass tandem, and an ominous sonic progression grab you by the throat from the first spin on. Post-punk at its disturbed best.

And last night my ears and my eyes went apeshit when I saw these maddening motherrockers for the first time going bonkers on a stage in Antwerp, Belgium.

And? Man oh man, a half-hour tsunami of chainsaw punk ‘n’ roll with no brakes
and no breaks. The neurotic frontman acts like he just jumped out his straightjacket
and runs around like a manic crackpot while his turbo band have all cylinders and
burners on all the way. This is what flabbergastng live music is all about. Fucktastic!

Here’s an idea.

In case you missed new single SHAME, here’ s another chance to test your speakers.

RONKER: Facebook


Ready to jump


I support lots of bands in writing,
but yesterday I did it literarily
(me, in the middle)

Post-Punk At Its Disturbed Best – Here’s Belgian Outfit RONKER With Their Intense Cry-Out ‘SHAME’

Posted on by JL

Daily electricity to load your batteries

29 January 2023

Band: RONKER
Who: Poignant 4-piece
from Belgium.

Pick: SHAME Their newest single.
Part of an upcoming EP, out in April.

TUTV: The distress of English outfit The Murder Capital and the anger
of American hardcore bulldozer Fucked Up. Oh yes, intense, indeed.

Shame is a sharp-cutting razor blade. A severe cry-out that you expect to erupt
any second. The vocalist’s pipes sound creepy and desperate. Flipped-out guitars,
a manic drum/bass tandem, and an ominous sonic progression grab you by the
throat from the first spin on. Post-punk at its disturbed best.

Impressive piece.
Impressive video.

RONKER: Facebook