Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Wednesday evening (or when we receive 200 submissions, whichever is sooner) - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 6th November: from Friday afternoon you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch508

If a track you submitted does not appear in this list, it’s probably because another of your tracks appeared in our Fresh Faves or on the BBC Music Introducing Mixtape during the last three months — we ask that artists featured on either wait three months before resubmitting to give others a chance. 

We also don’t accept short previews or SoundCloud Go tracks that can only be heard as 30 second previews, and tracks made private after submission, which cannot be included in playlists. You will be able to resubmit the track in future. Tracks (and remixes of tracks) that have been previously submitted, and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

Christmas songs and the like are also not eligible for the Listening Post, although we will collect these into a playlist that will be published on 24 December.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 508

Darkwave through wanting more in life. Sub bass to move you through dark times, like chocolate cake on a Thursday evening

Down Vampire Grove

After 2 years since the release of their debut single, Fuzziliers re-found themselves in Istanbul and are showing off a new track. Straight beat, guitar riff, distorted vocal tells about no sympathy for new time devils (guess who?) + screaming fuzzy solo in the end. Isn’t that what you call rock music?

Can't See Me

Losing My Faith.mp3

Apocalyptic Bristol art rock outfit Erotic Secrets of Pompeii return
with new single 'Osiris at the Large Hadron Collider', due for release 2nd November 2023.

Following their UK tour in promotion of their debut EP earlier this
year, ESOP have been amassing a passionate fanbase with their incendiary live performances, laying the foundations for their highly anticipated debut album Mondo Maleficum, out 25 January 2024.

‘Osiris at the Large Hadron Collider’ showcases ESOP's abilities to straddle multiple genres, bringing together post-punk and art rock to create something dark, mischievous and immersive - an encapsulation of the band's febrile and unique sound.

On the surface, the song finds the Egyptian god of the dead confronting the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator – the pinnacle of man’s technological advances. A dichotomy of the old world and the new. However, peel back the layers and it is a song about hubris, supersedence and the fragility of the human condition – especially humanity's obsession with death, faith and power.

Speaking about 'Osiris...’, frontman Thomas Hawtin said: "It’s a regretful realisation set to frenetic, staccato guitars and a pounding rhythm section which drive the song in a maniacal, mechanical motion, while the choruses ring out with vocal harmonies chanting with cult-like conviction."

Set for release in Jan 2024, and available on limited edition blood-red vinyl, Mondo Maleficum is an album of angular, agitated art-rock and death-trip soliloquies, where ESOP flaunt their vile pageantry and conjure new gratuitous myths. The band invites you to join their bizarro death cult and act out grand magickal gestures at the grindhouse. Behold a new age of
revelations where the secret to survival is to embrace your true authentic self, to accept death and be reborn in a weird, beautiful image of you.

Osiris At The Large Hadron Collider

FEEL LIKE HOME

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Erotic Secrets of Pompeii - apocalyptic art rock from Bristol, UK. 

contact: eroticsecretsofpompeii@gmail.com