PALESKIN's Euphoric End Is the Shoegaze-Metal Record Worth Going Back For
Some records take a while to find you. Euphoric End, the second album from Stockholm's PALESKIN, came out in June 2025 on Out Of Line Music, and it's well worth going back for if it slipped past you.
The trio of Casper Frisk, Jimmy Fransén and Adrian Bellan pull from a few directions at once. There's the hazy, chorus-soaked guitar of shoegaze, the open-string riffing of early-2000s nu-metal, and an emo streak in Frisk's voice as he flips between soft cleans and full screams. If Loathe or Deftones are in your rotation, you'll find your footing fast.
The album plays like a breakup told in ten chapters, and it's short, about 36 minutes. The title track opens on a palm-muted verse and a hook that sticks around. "Valentina," with Love Is Noise, slows everything down to a heavy crawl. "Near Heaven" is the curveball, starting on blast beats before dropping into clean guitar, while "Do You Believe Me?" holds its one real eruption until exactly the right moment.
It's the band's first full-length for Out Of Line, following their 2021 debut Joy Is Temporary, Pain Is Constant and the self-released HONEY POISON EP. Stream or buy Euphoric End here, or pick up the CD on Bandcamp.