Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Norwegian psychedelic drone rocker PIA ISA recently announced the release of her new full-length album, 'Dissolve,' featuring Gary Arce of Yawning Man as a special guest. The album will be available on vinyl via Argonauta Records on June 28th. Today, Pia Isa presents her new single, 'New Light,' now available also on all streaming platforms: songwhip.com/piaisa/newlight
"New Light is about trying to see things in a new way when everything feels upside down and confusing. To me, the song also feels open somehow, both musically, sonically and lyrically. Especially when Gary's guitar comes in after the two first verses I feel like a new opening of light and dreams is happening, which really fits with the whole idea of the song." - says Pia.
Having played and written music for most of her life and always played in bands a solo project was been brewing in Pia's mind for a long time until she started her solo endeavour in 2021. Her debut album Distorted Chants was released in 2022 followed by the ep Burning Time early 2024, both on Italian label Argonauta Records.
Her solo music is rooted in slow heavy drones but also has a lighter, dreamy and hopeful side. Her riffs are slow, heavy and minimalistic and her vocals dreamy and haunting.
On the new album Pia has worked more with layers of vocal harmonies and has given an old dark sounding nylon acoustic guitar more space in her massive distorted soundscape. In addition to singing she plays bass, riff guitars and mini- malistic guitar leads while Gary Arce (Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson, Big Scenic Nowhere, Ten East etc) plays additional guitar melodies on six of the album's eight songs. The drums are played by Ole Teigen (Superlynx etc) who also record- ed, mixed and produced the album with Pia co-producing at Crowtown Recordings.
Pia's lyrics are always personal and honest. She wrote Dissolve at a time where a lot of major things in her own life, but also in the world, changed, were uncertain and seemed to dis- solve. Dissolvement is a recurring theme in the songs, but so is the idea of moulding things back together in a new form. As Pia often writes what she needs to hear herself, and needs to tell her- self, in her lyrics she wonders if there are others out there needing to hear similar things. On this album she is trying to create hope that no matter how scary major changes and the unknown is it can also be an opportunity for new and better ways and ideas.
In addition to her solo project Pia has spent a decade playing bass and doing vocals in heavy psych band Superlynx and recently started the new project SoftSun with Gary Arce and Dan Joeright (Earth Moon Earth, The Rentals etc).
For more info:
https://linktr.ee/piaisa_distortedchants
facebook.com/ArgonautaRecords
#newmusic #shoegaze #doommetal
Norwegian psychedelic drone rocker PIA ISA recently announced the release of her new full-length album, 'Dissolve,' featuring Gary Arce of Yawning Man as a special guest. The album will be available on vinyl via Argonauta Records on June 28th. Today, Pia Isa presents her new single, 'New Light,' now available also on all streaming platforms: songwhip.com/piaisa/newlight
"New Light is about trying to see things in a new way when everything feels upside down and confusing. To me, the song also feels open somehow, both musically, sonically and lyrically. Especially when Gary's guitar comes in after the two first verses I feel like a new opening of light and dreams is happening, which really fits with the whole idea of the song." - says Pia.
Having played and written music for most of her life and always played in bands a solo project was been brewing in Pia's mind for a long time until she started her solo endeavour in 2021. Her debut album Distorted Chants was released in 2022 followed by the ep Burning Time early 2024, both on Italian label Argonauta Records.
Her solo music is rooted in slow heavy drones but also has a lighter, dreamy and hopeful side. Her riffs are slow, heavy and minimalistic and her vocals dreamy and haunting.
On the new album Pia has worked more with layers of vocal harmonies and has given an old dark sounding nylon acoustic guitar more space in her massive distorted soundscape. In addition to singing she plays bass, riff guitars and mini- malistic guitar leads while Gary Arce (Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson, Big Scenic Nowhere, Ten East etc) plays additional guitar melodies on six of the album's eight songs. The drums are played by Ole Teigen (Superlynx etc) who also record- ed, mixed and produced the album with Pia co-producing at Crowtown Recordings.
Pia's lyrics are always personal and honest. She wrote Dissolve at a time where a lot of major things in her own life, but also in the world, changed, were uncertain and seemed to dis- solve. Dissolvement is a recurring theme in the songs, but so is the idea of moulding things back together in a new form. As Pia often writes what she needs to hear herself, and needs to tell her- self, in her lyrics she wonders if there are others out there needing to hear similar things. On this album she is trying to create hope that no matter how scary major changes and the unknown is it can also be an opportunity for new and better ways and ideas.
In addition to her solo project Pia has spent a decade playing bass and doing vocals in heavy psych band Superlynx and recently started the new project SoftSun with Gary Arce and Dan Joeright (Earth Moon Earth, The Rentals etc).
For more info:
https://linktr.ee/piaisa_distortedchants
facebook.com/ArgonautaRecords
#newmusic #shoegaze #doommetal
![MOLDERA - Falling Through the Ashes (official visualizer) [Octopus Rising / Argonauta]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oneHQxP_JsU/mqdefault.jpg "MOLDERA - Falling Through the Ashes (official visualizer) [Octopus Rising / Argonauta]
Argonauta Records and its (un)parallel label Octopus Rising are thrilled to welcome MoldEra to their growing roster of visionary heavy acts. To mark the signing, the Belgian post-sludge outfit unveils their brand new single and official video, “Falling Through the Ashes”. The track offers a powerful and immersive introduction to their upcoming second album “Colonize”, due out later this year.
MoldEra was born in 2018 from the fusion of four anthropomorphic mold spores thriving in the post-industrial wastelands of Liège. Drawn together by a passion for slow, heavy, deep and hypnotic sounds, rooted in stoner rock meadows and sludge-doom marshes, the band cultivated their first sonic experiments during the pandemic and released their debut album “Waste Pile Dunes” in 2022.
Now, after years of refining their live presence and expanding their musical palette, MoldEra return with “Colonize”, a conceptually rich and sonically massive exploration of ecological collapse, industrial ruin and societal decay. Their latest single “Falling Through the Ashes” sets the tone: meditative yet crushing. It is a soundtrack for a world teetering on the edge of self-destruction, and a tribute to the resilience of life in the ruins of late capitalism.
The video, available now on YouTube, captures the essence of MoldEra’s aesthetic. It is immersive, symbolic and unflinchingly raw. Fans of Sleep, Om, Yob, Elder, King Buffalo, Isis and The Melvins will find familiar textures, yet MoldEra’s voice remains uniquely their own: organic, conceptual and deeply rooted in the decay of our time.
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![ELBE - Place to Die (official video) [Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/roqr_JLVZt8/mqdefault.jpg "ELBE - Place to Die (official video) [Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records]
Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records will release ELBE’s third full-length album, Peculiar, on September 26th, 2025. To celebrate, the band unveils their brand new single and official music video “Place to Die.”
Blending post-metal, post-rock, doomgaze and atmospheric intensity, ELBE delivers an album that reflects on struggles, loss and renewal, while carrying an underlying sense of hope.
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Bandcamp: https://elbeband.bandcamp.com/
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