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Album: Mental Architects - Patience, Communication, Understanding, Go! EP

Band: Mental Architects
Album: Patience, Communication, Understanding, Go! EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011








Tracklist
01. Count To Eleven
02. Ash On Your Tongue
03. We Shall Make Each Other
04. Go!
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Mental Architects are a math/post/rock trio which is currently fresh out of the studio for our debut EP in the genre.The raw material was recorded here in Bulgaria and mixed/ mastered/ produced by Chris Common of These Arms Are Snakes fame at Red Room Recording studios in Seattle. The effort was dedicated to the process of strengthening the relationship of the members within the band. Right now they are in the middle of writing our full length album and Aaron Harris of Isis is going to produce and engineer it.

Mental Architects are going to perform in Bulgaria with Khuda (UK), Rosa Parks (HUN), Talbot (EST) and Tides From Nebula (POL).

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Album: Black Spires - --

Band: Black Spires
Album: --
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011






Tracklist
01. Scars
02. Exit
03. Smoking Out The Coward
04. Reunite
05. She Likes Superior
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Black Spires are from Ghent, Belgium and this is a collection of their demo songs.

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Album: Beware Of Safety - Leaves/Scars

Band: Beware Of Safety
Album: Leaves/Scars
Label: Mylene Sheath
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Meridian
02. Kevin Spacey
03. Lowercase West
04. Crooked Nails For Catching Skin
05. Moorpark Ends
06. Small Victories
07. Memorial Day
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Beware Of Safety made the conscious choice to create instrumental music. To create sounds that words could not express. To leave out the vocal monologue that is without interpretation or insight, but instead, create music which traverses emotional and textural hollows that teeter between concealment and proclamation; between rapture and affliction; between conviction and deprivation; between opulence and destitution; between choice and coercion; between boldness and apathy.

Beware Of Safety calls the unspeakable from it's hiding place and imparts it to their listeners with gentle tact and deliberate action.

The inexpressible has found it's voice.

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Album: Nevermind The Name - A Gaze Into The Abyss

Band: Nevermind The Name
Album: A Gaze Into The Abyss
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. In A Second
02. In A Lifetime
03. Walking The Endless Road
04. Memories
05. Beat Death
06. Empty Cities
07. The Righteous
08. Washed Ashore
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Nevermind The Name is a one-man-bedroom-project that started in April 2010.Inspired by multiple genres of music, Nevermind The Name combines different influences.With the focus on a tense atmosphere, Nevermind The Name’s music is laid out to produce specific emotions that shall help to bring up a kind of dreamworld in listeners minds.The music is produced with a laptop, a line6 audio interface, some pedals, cheap drum-samples and affordable recording-software.

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Album: we.own.the.sky - Demo 2011

Band: we.own.the.sky
Album: Demo 2011
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Blue 88
02. The Great Unseen
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we.own.the.sky is a five-piece hailing from Athens, Greece. Coming together in the spring of 2010 and taking its final form in October of the same year, the band has been working solely on original material, in the area of the post rock/metal/ambient/you-name-it genre. The band aims at creating musical landscapes with multi-layered guitar-parts, maintaining a balance between soulful melodies and crushing walls of distortion, while trying to blend various influences from many fields of experimental music in general.

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Album: Event Horizon - 2011 Demo

Band: Event Horizon
Album: 2011 Demo
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Insense
02. Divisions
03. Shaping Radiance
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Event Horizon released a 3 track demo on March. It's a raw demo, but nevertheless is worth to listen. Hopefully they will release an album with a proper production.

Event Horizon started mid 2010 by some friends and they were influenced by bands such as Boskk and Rinoa to form a post-metal band and have just carried on.

After their demo they are planning to do a spilt with a band called Eora.

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Album: Atlantic Drop - ae

Band: Atlantic Drop
Album: ae
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Walking Through You
02. The Other Side
03. Awoken By Night
04. Flight Over The Atlantic
05. Broken Balance
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Two long time friends in France, trying to make good music. We have a lot of different influences that comes from indie-rock, post-rock, instrumental and progressive music...

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Album: *Shels - Plains Of The Purple Buffalo

Band: *Shels
Album: Plains Of The Purple Buffalo
Label: Shelsmusic
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Journey To The Plains
02. Plains Of The Purple Buffalo - Part 1
03. Plains Of The Purple Buffalo - Part 2
04. Searching For Zihuatanejo
05. Vision Quest
06. Atoll
07. Butterflies On Luci's Way
08. Crown Of Eagle Feathers
09. Bastien's Angels
10. Conqueror
11. The Spirit Horse
12. Waking
13. Leaving The Plains
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The band was formed in 2003 by vocalist Mehdi Safa and drummer Tom Harriman, after the break-up of their former band Mahumodo. *shels took their name from the 1999 Mahumodo EP, entitled Shels. They released an EP, Wingsfortheirsmiles, in 2004 on Shelsmusic, a record label founded by Safa in 2002. The band released their debut full length studio album, Sea of the Dying Dhow on June 18, 2007, in partnership with Undergroove records. The album attracted positive reviews from critics, culminating in it being named one of the top albums of 2007 by Rock Sound magazine.

The band toured the UK in June and July of the same year in support of the album, performing with various groups such as Bossk and The Ghost of a Thousand. The tour included a performance at GuilFest, where the band share a stage with My Vitriol and Zico Chain.

The band's second EP, Laurentian's Atoll, was then released in November 2007. This was composed of remastered versions of the three tracks from Wingsfortheirsmiles, four new recordings and an extended version of "water", from Sea of the Dying Dhow.

The band embarked on a second UK tour in November 2008, which included a performance at Damnation Festival, where they shared a stage with the likes of Cathedral and Devil Sold His Soul.

Their second full-length, entitled Plains of the Purple Buffalo, was released on July 11, 2011.

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Album: To Destroy A City - To Destroy A City

Band: To Destroy A City
Album: To Destroy A City
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Metaphor
02. Narcotic Sea
03. Ilium
04. Philosophy Of A Knife
05. Before The Outside's Gone
06. The Marvels Of Modern Civilization
07. Goodbye, Dear Friend
08. March
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To Destroy A City is an instrumental three-piece from Chicago, Illinois. Formed in 2010 and combining elements of post-rock, ambient, electronic, and industrial, their music often builds on a theme, weaving instruments and melodies together to create compositions trance-inducing in their simplicity, yet layered with meaning.

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Album: Hands - Give Me Rest

Band: Hands
Album: Give Me Rest
Label: Facedown Records
Year: 2011










Tracklist
01. I Will
02. Water
03. Cube
04. The Helix
05. Here I Am
06. Jovian
07. Northern Lights
08. 2005
09. Restart
10. Give Me Rest
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Shane Ochsner, Josh Silbernagel, and Chris Schwartz collectively are Hands, a band that combines circling atmospheric guitars punctuated with hard hitting progressions and a thundering rhythm section. They are a band in which rock and roll meets ambient hardcore and warm silvery singing rivals hardcore screams. Their songs are carefully crafted and layered with hope and strength, their evocative lyrics and emotional vocals leave Hands open-hearted to listeners. Ochsner's voice carries seamlessly from throaty growl to melodic yell and settles beautifully into sweet harmony as the songs progress.

Hands diverse musical pallet is exemplified in their ability to unfurl hugely anthemic post-rock ballads bearing the influence of Isis or Cult of Luna while at the same time laying out both solidly progressive hardcore tracks inspired by bands such as Life In Your Way and Misery Signals and even experimental alternative rock reflecting their love of bands like Jimmy Eat World, Hum and The Violet Burning.

Since forming in Fargo, North Dakota in 2007 Hands have desired to present a passionate and intense live show. Though they have pulled back from touring full time, those who are lucky enough to witness the band in a live setting experience a performance that is characterized by what drummer Josh Silbernagel calls "beautiful chaos."

After independently releasing their debut e.p. entitled "The Everlasting" and writing their epic concept album "The Sounds Of Earth" for the now defunct Lobster/Oort Records, Hands brought their progressive hardcore and post-rock stylings to Facedown Records for their critically acclaimed 2009 sophomore full-length entitled "Creator". After much touring in support of that record and a brief hiatus to catch their breath the band began work on their second Facedown Records release "Give Me Rest". This project finds the band at their most innovative and bringing forth their heaviest, most melodic and possibly their most creative work to date.

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Album: Killington Fall - At The Soundless Dawn

Band: Killington Fall
Album: At The Soundless Dawn
Label: Self Released
Year: 2010






Tracklist
01. Empress
02. We Spoke In Flames
03. This City Is Covered In Water
04. Soft-Point
05. To A God Unknown
06. Paths/Trails (Pt. V)
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Killington Fall is a four-piece alternative, post-rock band from South West London. The band is predominantly instrumental, however vocals are present intermittently.

Killington Fall is:
Cameron Stewart - guitar, vocals, and keys
James Simpson - drums, vocals
Max Templer - guitar
Patrick Jordan - bass

Each member cites a number of influences ranging from Explosions In The Sky and 65daysofstatic, to Thrice and Minus The Bear.

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Album: Anna Coralie - Untitled (Single)

Band: Anna Coralie
Album: Untitled (Single)
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Untitled
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The group was formed in the end of spring of 2010 in Minsk. At present the group writes the debut album which is planned to be released in autumn 2011.

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