EUROGAZE: ETERNITY AGAIN//HEALEES//SCOREBAORD//BLEAK PARADISE
ETERNITY AGAIN is a shoegaze/indie/noise rock band from Prague. Founded by singer/songwriter Barbora Cihak, who emerged onto the Czech music scene at 16 through radio competition successes and performances alongside artists, such as Orla Gartland and Francis of Delirium before later performing alongside Alex G.
Towards the end of high school, Barbora joined forces with her classmate Erik Petrina,transforming what once began as a bedroom project into a full-band endeavor. Together, they found like-minded musicians Vojtech Kouril and Miki Papez, who fully understood and completed the vision. As a full band, Eternity Again went on to play shows across the Czech Republic and Europe, opening for artists like They Are Gutting a Body of Water and Stella Rose Gahan. In summer 2025, the band released their debut record, Prophecy — 13 sonic mosaics built from countless layers of sound — instrumental lines intertwined with samples of children’s toys, passing cars, sighs, and soft scratches. Their goal was to assemble restless, textured sound clusters
inspired by pioneers like Cocteau Twins and later Sonic Youth, wrapped in the melancholic haze of Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. This record offers an intimate glimpse into her deeply personal predictions, fates and prophecies.
HEALEES was formed in Paris by American expat Bryan Quinn and Breton transplant
Renaud Chaure in 2016. Together with swedish born Hillevi Robertsson on bass
and Hugo Renaud on drums, the 4-piece blend shoegaze, new wave, noise and
power pop into a style as mesmerizing as it is catchy. A set of demos in 2020 led
to a self-titled maxi-EP on Toulouse’s Hidden Bay Records in 2022, with a full-
length LP released in october 2024 by Hidden Bay Records, Safe Suburban Home
Records and Indie or Die Records.
Healees has been described as ‘21st-century shoegazers amazingly as great as
1988-1995’s originals” (the Big Takeover), ‘the best shoegaze band in France’
(Paris Popfest), and ‘one of the most interesting bands on the European scene in
recent years‘ (JustAnotherPopSong)!
The new shoegaze trio SCOREBOARD was formed by members from FOAMMM and Clowder at the end of 2023.
The Oslo trio plays noisy and atmospheric shoegaze with drowned vocals, soul-piercing guitars, and laid-back drumming, stylistically reminiscent of bands like Slowdive, The Megaphonic Thrift and They Are Gutting A Body of Water.
The band’s first two singles, “ropey rampage” and “rush spells,” have both been recommended and played on radio stations in Norway, the UK, and the US. An EP release is around the corner and a full LP on the way soon too.
Norwegian music magazine Gaffa.no hails the group as being at the forefront of Norway’s shoegaze revival, writing about their second single “rush spells”: “a soft wall of guitars padded with marshmallows, the ’90s, and electric soundwaves.”
The band have played at many various venues around Norway such as Landmark, John Dee, Revolver and Goldie. In August 2025 they played at Øyafestivalen, one of the biggest music festivals in Norway and later that year headlined in London for Other Side Promotions.
BLEAK PARADISE are the homegrown talent, looking to project an ‘existential wall of fuzz’.