Pothamus is a psychedelic sludge-metal trio from Mechelen, Belgium, known since 2013 for their entrancing blend of crushing riffs, tribal percussion, and spiritual intensity. Their second album, ‘Abur’ (out February 14, 2025 via Pelagic Records), dives even deeper into their ritualistic sound. Expect a gripping journey through drones, Surpeti tones, and layered vocals that balance destruction and serenity. Following their acclaimed debut Raya, Abur cements their place at the forefront of Belgium’s heavy music scene.

Endlingr is an instrumental, psychedelic scape-rock trio hailing from Ghent. Their music can be described as obscure, cinematic, compressed with riff- and scape based passages. There’s an inseparable visual hatch closely interwoven in the identity of the music, it carries the listener in a more intense total experience.

In the universe of Endlingr we collide unmistakable on concepts such as disconnection, alienation, desolation, isolation, dystopia, nostalgia for pristine nature, a cinematic connotation (film noir) with metropolitan allures. ”From The Molten Vaults” was released in January 2020 through Consouling Sounds.

Mother. A counsellor, consoler and companion.  A deceiver, traitor and narcissist. Mother is a collection of tales in which a mother figure leads a protagonist through several junctures. She is the embodiment of help and comfort, likewise of self interest and centrism. These stories are being expressed by three musicians in a genre that reflects the severity of the matter.
 
Mother is a Belgian post-blackgaze band from Ostend. Founded at the end of 2017 they started writing a first album where songs fade into one continuous story. An intense journey in which fragile melodies are being alternated with heavy guitars and drums smashing back and forth until they intertwine into an enormous soundscape. The journey they create is a complete experience, musically as well as visually. Like their hometown’s North Sea there is a constant ebb and flow of sludge-soaked noise, with terrifying roars tearing through frenzied and impactful guitarwork. Mother is no-nonsense. Hard, intense, emotional yet unforgiving.