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EP: Jakarta Project - Geographic

2012-02-01T10:49:00.002+02:00

Band: Jakarta Project
Album: Geographic EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. Siberia
02. Alaska
03. New York
04. Vietnam
05. New Earth
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Jakarta Project is a post-rock band from Russia. No further info is available.

Video: Nahrayan - Red Moon Last Sunrise

2012-01-31T18:10:00.001+02:00

Album: Capilaries - Into The History Of Light

2012-01-31T11:07:00.000+02:00

Band: Capilaries
Album: Into The History Of Light
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. The History Of light
02. Metals Of Callisto
03. Summit
04. Lumen
05. Extraction Point
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Capillaries is an instrumental band of four from Atlanta, GA. The music of Capillaries captures a dark history and remains willing to stay behind and investigate it. There are hints of ambiance with a sense of immediacy driving it along. Noise and melody become unintended bedfellows. Bass-driven leads and non-traditional rhythms become the substratum for soaring guitars that take listeners to new heights just before pummeling them back into the earth.

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Album: In Each Hand A Cutlass - Universe Made Of Strings

2012-01-30T12:18:00.000+02:00

Band: In Each Hand A Cutlass
Album: Universe Made Of Strings
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. The Escape
02. Inspector Cutlass
03. Glaciers
04. The March
05. Helmets And Fiery Endings
06. Chocolate And The Lovelorn Girl
07. Marauder
08. White Boxes
09. End Of The Line
10. Hammering The Bones
11. A Universe Made Of Strings
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In Each Hand A Cutlass are an instrumental act comprising of some well known musicians in the Singapore music scene.

This band of sonic pirates blends progressive rock, ambient, post-rock and metal elements, casting all music boundaries aside, to create epic sprawling yearning songs that alternate between lifting your spirit and kicking your butt.

Proof of this can be found in spades in their debut album "A Universe Made of Strings". The album was produced by Roland Lim and mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren (of Opeth / Soilwork / James LaBrie fame) at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden. The album was released in conjunction with their album launch show entitled "The Amaranthine Voyage" at the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, where they played a triumphant and high-octane set to a sold-out capacity crowd of 250 at the Recital Studio.

There’s nothing like creating a soundtrack to life’s unspoken moments and the childlike landscapes that we all paint within ourselves. And that’s exactly what In Each Hand A Cutlass hopes to create by weaving through the rich tapestries of different musicalities; constantly exploring new grounds just like how we as human beings constantly grow and learn.

In Each Hand A Cutlass is not just a band with a fancy name. It is a statement of intent.

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Album: The Bear Romantic - Firewood

2012-01-28T12:20:00.001+02:00

Band: The Bear Romantic
Album: Firewood
Label: A City Inside
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. Stay Mine
02. Farmers
03. Kings
04. Desantes
05. The Shed
06. Point Of View
07. Yellow
08. Sparrows
09. The End
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If you’re a fan of Harvard, you should already know some things about Jesse Clasen. To name a few, he has an incredible voice and knows how to use it, he plays piano, and occasionally, he will play some horns. What Firewood immediately teaches us is that Jesse had a hidden talent up his sleeve. Sure, he played acoustic guitar on The Inevitable and I, but the guitar on Firewood is much more intricate and it draws you into the song immediately, catching your interest and allowing Clasen to do, well…all the other things he does really well. Don’t come here looking for the pounding drums, groovy bass lines, or dizzying guitars that can be found when listening to Harvard. Just sit back and introduce yourself to the truly one of a kind talent that is The Bear Romantic.

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EP: Ash Of Nubia - Ash Of Nubia

2012-01-28T11:52:00.000+02:00

Band: Ash Of Nubia
Album: Ash Of Nubia EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Be What You Breath
02. Wrong Mistakes In The Right Place
03. Dust Of Hope
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Ash of Nubia started in august 2011 from the end of “Nope” experience. Marco, Aldo and Fab decided to raise up a new musical project involving all the experience gained during their common musical path.

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Album: Ruído/mm - Introdução à Cortina do Sótão

2012-01-27T09:00:00.000+02:00

Band: Ruído/mm
Album: Introdução à Cortina do Sótão
Label: Sinewave
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Ciclotimia
02. Zarabatana
03. Petit Pavé
04. Valsa Dos Desertores
05. Esquimó
06. O Prestidigitador
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The band’s name is “noise per millimeter”. An imaginary measure that could explain the weird experimental sounds achieved by the group. Whether post-rock, art-rock, alternative rock, Tex-Mex Brazilian, experimental, jazz-rock or any other label that best suits you to define the sound of them. Instrumental tracks, playing with our senses, exploring synesthesia to a better understanding of their music. This is Ruído/mm, a brazilian instrumental band with no frontiers.

"Yes, you may call us a post-rock band, but we'd rather no tags. Or maybe as many tags as possible. It's up to you.
We are no musicians. We are doctors, geologists, biologists, designers and businessmen. We are a family..... oh wait, our doctor is a musician (and we're glad to say he is crazy as well).

We were born from the grey series.
We washed out the evil in a tribe of electronic indians (our guitar fx lab).
After that, we took a long vacation at the beach.
And now....we are at the top of the most sacred mountain, ready to jump into a dream of noise and colors." - Ruído/mm

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Video: This Will Destroy You - Black Dunes

2012-01-26T18:40:00.000+02:00

EP: AMNPTN - Seasons (Winter EP)

2012-01-26T13:21:00.001+02:00

Band: AMNPTN
Album: Seasons (Winter EP)
Label: Dancing On Sharks Records
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. Flare
02. Pale
03. Stare
04. Fade
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"AMNPTN (Amineptine) has been a side project for several years.
Whenever I was playing and writing for my bands, it has always been on the side, dealing with a more introspective and intimate approach of music. This project is relatively periodic and lived through different levels of activity across the years."

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Album: The Beauty Of Drowning - The Beauty Of Drowning

2012-01-26T09:30:00.000+02:00

Band: The Beauty Of Drowning
Album: The Beauty Of Drowning
Label: Dedicated Records
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. The Lie
02. Time
03. Particles Divide
04. Android
05. Even Walls
06. The Moving Mirror
07. Frame
08. Lullaby
09. Clean
10. Un Altra Mondo
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The Beauty Of Drowning was founded in october 2009 by Daniel La China (vocals, guitars) and Jan Liesefeld (vocals, guitars & keys). After the first songs had originated in home recording-sessions, they decided to recruit Thomas Woite (bass) and Timitheus Schlösser (drums) as permanent band members to vivify the electronic sound of the recordings with the esprit of a rockband.

The stylistic range of The Beauty Of Drowning is set somewhere between electronic post-rock and psychedelic doom metal. A variation that manifests itself in melancholic, dream-like ballads, as well as in brute progressive metal songs.

Vocals and songwriting are partitioned between Liesefeld and La China. While La Chinas intones the warm character of the music, Liesefeld, mostly tends the brute side of The Beauty Of Drowning.

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EP: Valve - Self Titled Demo 2012

2012-01-26T09:00:00.000+02:00

Band: Valve
Album: Self Titled Demo 2012 EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. Humanae Libertas
02. O'Alquemista
03. Into The Shadow Of The Black Sun
04. Siren
05. Great Architects
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Valve is a sludge, stoner, doom band from Paris, France.

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EP: Colaris - The Disclosure

2012-01-25T09:30:00.000+02:00

Band: Colaris
Album: The Disclosure EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Disarmed
02. Guiding Lights
03. Reconsidering
04. Consolation
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Colaris is a post-rock band from Pirmasens, Germany and The Disclosure is their debut EP. The band is planning to release thei first full length albun on March.

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EP: Glories - Glories

2012-01-25T09:00:00.000+02:00

Band: Glories
Album: Glories EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. Mechanical Mariner
02. Ivory Towers
03. At This Depth
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Glories is a band from Birmingham, UK and their music a mix of assorted sounds and sonic textures.

No further info exist for this band, so if someone can provide it, feel free to do so.

Video: The Bookhouse Boys - Fever Lullaby

2012-01-24T12:33:00.000+02:00

EP: Schematics For Gravity - Schematics For Gravity

2012-01-24T12:29:00.003+02:00

Band: Schematics For Gravity
Album: Schematics For Gravity EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. The Art Of Taming Waves
02. Antithesis To Bliss
03. An Entire Ocean Under Scarred Skin
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Schematics For Gravity is a post-rock/metal band from Malmö, Sweden, formed by Chris Campbell and Anders Lundgren in early 2010 as a hardcore/metal band.

The musical direction changed quickly as drummer Pontus Landgren joined the group and as they got their eyes open for a more atmospheric and post-rock influenced approach to their once very clear metal foundation. The band stayed underground for a longer period of time during their early days experimenting with sounds, influences and members.

When Martin Nilsson joined on guitar, the band finally had a steady line-up instrumentally and got booked for their first gig. A week before the concert the band still hadn't found any vocalist, Pontus contacted Erik Silverberg, a member from previous bands and projects who agreed to help the band out until a steady vocalist was found to take his place, but later on decided to stay as a permanent member.

The current line-up made their first appearance in December 2010 in Malmö Sweden under a different name.
After a few gigs to try out their style Schematics For Gravity got the confidence to record and release their first self titled EP for download at Christmas 2011 through their bandcamp-site.

Erik Silverberg - Vocals
Chris Campbell - Guitar
Anders Lundgren - Bass
Martin Nilsson - Guitar
Pontus Landgren - Drums

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EP: Icaro - Icaro

2012-01-24T12:16:00.005+02:00

Band: Icaro
Album: Icaro EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. Matryoshka
02. Ascend
03. Sonmi~451
04. Munich
05. Samanco
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Icaro is a three-piece post rock band from Auckland. Icaro is an amalgamation of several different bands, backgrounds and styles. They have been playing together since late 2011, and released their first EP on late January 2012. A surprise release, as it's filled with beautiful and astonishing melodies and riffs. For fans of Jakob.

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Album: Powder! Go Away - We Don't Know When It Has Begun, But We Know That It Will Never End

2012-01-22T14:11:00.003+02:00

Band: Powder! Go Away
Album: We Don't Know When It Has Begun, But We Know That It Will Never End
Label: Flowers Blossom In The Space
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. That Is What Everybody Fears And Wants
02. It Will Never End
03. 10 July 2011. Storm.
04. 37th Parallel
05. The Universe Is A Huge Black Square
06. Hindenburg 1937
07. Listen To This Track When You Are Left Alone At Least For 3 Minutes And 28 Seconds
08. Stories Told By The Falling Autumn Leaves
09. Storm Warning!
10. File-Open-Trojan32.exe
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Powder! Go Away are an instrumental post-rock band from Russia.

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Video: In Transmission - Collections Create

2012-01-22T13:50:00.000+02:00

Album: Love Sex Machine - Love Sex Machine

2012-01-22T13:49:00.001+02:00

Band: Love Sex Machine
Album: Love Sex Machine
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. Anal On Deceased Virgin
02. Deafening Peepshow
03. Fucking Battle
04. Antagonism Can STFU
05. Plenty Of Feelings
06. Vagina Curse
07. Killed With A Monster Cock
08. Warstrike Takes The Piss
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Ultra crushing sludgecore from Lille, France for fans of Admiral Angry, The Abominable Iron Sloth of Black Sheep Wall

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Album: Nahrayan - The Beginning Of The End · The End Of The Beginning

2012-01-20T12:40:00.000+02:00

Band: Nahrayan
Album: The Beginning Of The End · The End Of The Beginning
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. Demons Without Face
02. Barathrum Fields
03. When Sun Sets Down
04. Red Moon Last Sunrise
05. A Dying Sun
06. Hollow Grief
07. The End
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"After seven years of existence (2000 · 2007) and being dead for four years more, Julian and Miguel have decided to rescue Nahrayan from the world of the dead, and re-record some songs of the band, adding two unreleased tracks. The main reason to do that is that now, they can offer a better sound quality, better arrangements and at the end, do the songs as they had in their mind, more powerful, dark, melancholic and heavy than the old recordings. This is the way to express the things that they tried to express in the past, but they couldn´t do for various reasons.

Let´s begin the end, let´s end the beginning."

Nahrayan have been Miguel (drums), Julian (guitar), Juanjo (bass), Antonio (vocals), Pablo (guitar and keyboards), Miguel Palazón (guitars), Antonio Ramón (keyboards), Victor (vocals), José Alberto (guitars), and all the people around the world who always supported us, in the past and in the times to come.

Thank you very much.

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EP: The Entropy Theory - This Place Holds Just Empty Shells

2012-01-20T11:33:00.001+02:00

Band: The Entropy Theory
Album: This Place Holds Just Empty Shells
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. This Place Holds Just Empty Shells
02. Pretended Grace
03. The 9th Return
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The Entropy Theory is a project born in 2011 from Lifend's ashes.
It has soon become a collective where they have gathered the influences of musicians coming from different projects (Forgotten Tears, Through Your Silence, Bring Me To Chaos...)

This Place Holds Just Empty Shells (2011) is their first EP, an hybrid between postcore, post-metal and some shades of rock.

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Video: There Will Be Fireworks - Midfield Maestro

2012-01-19T14:26:00.000+02:00

EP: Surgeon - Surgeon

2012-01-19T14:24:00.000+02:00

Band: Surgeon
Album: Surgeon EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. Spectrum
02. Octomom
03. Silverfish
04. Doso
05. Solar
06. Rat King
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Surgeon are an instrumental prog-rock group from St. John's, NL, Canada. Combining epic guitar wizardry with a rock solid rhythm section, Surgeon will take the listener through a moody, multi-layered groove-fest that is often aggressive and always fun.

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EP: Milhaven - Automata

2012-01-19T14:00:00.000+02:00

Band: Milhaven
Album: Automata EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. DRZ
02. Zombi
03. Automata
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Milhaven are a 4-piece post-rock band from Bochum, Germany. Their sound has been compared to that of various post-rock bands, most notably Godspeed You! Black Emperor, whom the band has quoted as an influence. According to the band's biography, their title roots from the name of a German town with significance to their parents. The band has toured with notable acts such as Caspian and Boris.

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Video: All Shall Be Well (And All Shall Be Well And All Manner Of Things Shall Be Well) - Something Happened On Our Way Home

2012-01-17T21:24:00.000+02:00

Album: Syndrome, Monotonos & Sequences - Fall Of Man

2012-01-17T20:29:00.000+02:00

Band: Syndrome, Monotonos & Sequences
Album: Fall Of Man
Label: ConSouling Sounds
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Syndrome - Moon when Wolves run together
02. Monotonos - All seemed so clear, yet now so distorted
03. Sequences - Shattered Gleam
04. Syndrome, Monotonos & Sequences - Layered

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Monolithic riffing and ambient drones by Syndrome, Monotonos and Sequences.
Fall of Man was conceived to commemorate their combined Paris show on the 3d of November 2011. Each band contributed one track, with the last track of the album being a collaborative effort.

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EP: Sobre A Máquina - Anomia

2012-01-16T12:33:00.001+02:00

Band: Sobre A Máquina
Album: Anomia EP
Label: Sinewave
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Progresso
02. Anomia
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A curious mix of chaos and chilling atmospheres, Cadu T.’s Sobre A Máquina relies on trippy beats and meticulous, beautifully crafted timbres, bringing together minimalistic melodies and the complex, worn-out, “urban” sounds of the big city.

Influenced by bands and artists like Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Tim Hecker, Fennesz and Can, the trio first got together when Cadu T. invited Emygdio C. and Ricardo G. to record some songs in 2010. Decompor, their first album, released in November 2010, garnered many compliments on countless alternative media sites.

Sobre A Máquina released their second album, Areia, in July 2011. Areia is a new step that preserves their aforementioned simplicity with a new, wider array of complex influence, ranging from early industrial to free jazz. Areia features guest artist Alex Z. on tenor saxophone.

Now, in December, Sobre A Máquina’s Anomia, an EP with two tracks, completes the cycle of ideas which began on Decompor.

The band has already started the arrangements for a new record conceptualized from absolute zero, which was sworn to be released within 2012.

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Album: Illuminatus - Glasnost

2012-01-14T12:10:00.000+02:00

Band: Illuminatus
Album: Glasnost
Label: Headroom Records
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Glasnost
02. Murdocracy
03. Division
04. Reconnect
05. Cave In
06. Keep Calm And Carry On
07. You'll Never Know What This Means
08. Red
09. Gosling
10. Clarity
11. Wolves!
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With the release of ‘Glasnost’, their second full length studio album, Illuminatus have established themselves as the up-and-coming band of 2011. Recorded in Hannover, Germany, in June 2010 by producer Willi Dammeier (Apoptygma Berzerk, Fony, Symphony Cult) and released via Headroom Records in February 2011, the press reactions for the album were again extremely positive – “A fusion of explosive but controlled heaviness, melody and nerve-jangling emotion” (Metalteam UK), “Such an organic, rounded and great album is rarely heard” (Legacy Magazine, Germany), “An absolute highlight, and not just for this year” (Big Five Magazine, Germany).

The band’s unique brand of melodic and powerful music continues to find them airplay on many of the UK’s and European rock radio shows – Bruce Dickinson's Rock Show (BBC6, UK), A-listed on Total Rock Radio (UK), Aardschok Radio (Kink FM, Netherlands), Metal Zone Radio (Belgium), Symphonium Radio (Radio 5, Norway). And a club promo campaign run in March and April 2011 consistently returned a 90% approval rate from both DJ’s and clubbers.

Building on the success of their touring experiences with Ministry (C-U-LaTour 2008), My Ruin (Religiosi Tour 2008), Breed77 & Susperia (Insects & Attitude Tour 2009) and Rise To Addiction (Co-Headline Tour 2009), and previous festival appearances at the Bloodstock Festival, the Fordham Music Fest, the Bulldog Bash and Denmark’s Midwinter Meltdown Festival, Illuminatus have just completed a further successful headline tour promoting Glasnost in the UK and Europe and are now preparing for their first time appearance at the Download Festival on Sunday, 12 June 2011, and a return to the European continent for later in the year.

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Band: Out Of Sight

2012-01-13T17:38:00.001+02:00

Band: Out Of Sight
Album: Astray EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. Departure
02. Remember
03. In Dreams
04. Tonight We Will Sleep As Killers
05. Regret
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Band: Out Of Sight
Album: Silence Speaks The Words Unspoken
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Separation
02. Breathless
03. Reasons
04. Disintegration
05. Denial Within
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Out Of Sight was founded in 2009 by Christian S. After a couple of demo songs Out Of Sight finally became what it is today... A musical solo project that combines the emotions and atmosphere of post-rock and the characteristics and heaviness of metal. Following the successful and sold out EP "Astray" now finally the new Album "Silence Speaks The Words Unspoken" is ready after a long period of songwriting, recording, mixing and producing. It contains 5 Songs of soul crushing post-rock and has a runtime of 34 minutes.

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EP: Blonde Bear - Blonde Bear

2012-01-12T20:04:00.000+02:00

Band: Blonde Bear
Album: Blonde Bear EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

Tracklist
01. Transcend
02. Canvases
03. I Didn't Plan For That
04. In Light Of This Catastrophe
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Blonde Bear is two brothers playing rock music together from Gold Coast, Australia.

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EP: Chronos - The Grips Of Winter

2012-01-11T11:13:00.000+02:00

Band: Cronos
Album: The Grips Of Winter
Label: Dog Knights Production
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Umedalen: The City Of Birches
02. Veil
03. Palaces
04. You And The Cold Weather
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Hardcore is a notoriously difficult thing to make a name in. So many bands are throwing on their basketball shorts and caps, blazoned with the latest short man syndrome band, and punching the floor to shoddy beatdowns. It’s all become a bit too easy. So when a band comes along like Chronos it’s something truly special.

Mixing hardcore with sludge and then peppering with angsty emo riffs this four track E.P. creeps by slowly. Pulling you into a web that allows you to relax and enjoy nine minute tracks like opener Umedalen: The City of Birches, despite our collective attention spans dropping by the week, and after that you’re hooked; revelling in the power of second track Veils.

Veils continues the down tuned, sludgy path that Umedalen started but constantly improves on it, growing heavier and angrier until it drops into gentler guitar passages. It’s this mix of brutality and beauty that keeps you interested. We’ve all heard guys shouting before, no matter how good it sounds, and we’ve all heard people batter their instruments all for the sake of a heavy sound so to see Chronos embrace the softer side of things is refreshing and when Veils so easily drops into the massive sounding Palaces the admiration grows.

It’s not perfect, not by a long shot, and they are plenty of bands before that have mixed light and dark together and come out trumps. What these four tracks represent is a band to watch out for. A band that will improve and transcend genres to find their own, but as a starting point The Grips of Winter swirls round the listener with its gorgeous sound all the way until the last note of instrumental closer You And The Cold Weather. If you want something original these guys might just be your new favourite band. - Sonic Shocks

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Video: CHVE - She Never Left

2012-01-10T02:21:00.000+02:00

CHVE is Colin H. Van Eeckhout's, the Amenra vocalist, solo project.

Album: Fourteen Nights At Sea - Untitled

2012-01-09T18:16:00.001+02:00

Band: Fourteen Nights At Sea
Album: Untitled
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. The Dead House
02. Clubber Vs
03. Hornacek
04. In Violent Times
05. Last Night Of The Earth
06. Woods
07. We Have Reason To Be Afraid, This Is A Terrible Place
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Fourteen Nights At Sea. In a sinking vessel. No captain. No crew. Only a map of the stars and coordinates of the past. Celestial navigation. Longitude and latitude. Pull the anchor and head for the ocean floor.

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Album: At All Times - The Writhing Sea

2012-01-09T18:16:00.000+02:00

Band: At All Times
Album: The Writhing Sea
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Ghost Tides
02. The Writhing Sea
03. Washed Away
04. To Reach The Edge
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At All Times is a band from the San Francisco bay area in California. The band consists of:
Justin Divver: Drums/Percussion and samples in most of the songs
Mikey Bodulow: Bass and Vocals
Topher Divver: Guitar, Vocals, and loops.

They recorded and released their first album, Ascending Sun, on their own. It was recorded December of 2007 and January and February of 2008. The album was released in late April.

In December of 2011 they released their second album by the name The Writhing Sea.

Battling time restrictions brought on by school, and inconsistent schedules between affiliated peoples, At All Times slowly but surely continues working towards writing, recording, and performing their music.

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Album: Bréag Naofa - Untitled

2012-01-08T12:41:00.000+02:00

Band: Bréag Naofa
Album: Untitled
Label: Panic Records
Year: 2012

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01. I
02. II
03. III
04. IV
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Seattle, WA's Panic Records has signed Bréag Naofa. The Seattle based band (which features members of Trial and Love Is Red) will release its self-titled LP on Valentines Day 2012.

Bréag Naofa (Old Irish Gaelic name pronounced Bray-G Nay-Fuh) which simply means "holy lie," was formed of a core of six members whose socio/political ideas all differ slightly. The common thread throughout Bréag Naofa's ideology is that religion still poisons every aspect of the human experience. Set lyrically in a narrative style, Bréag Naofa uses both lyrics and their music as a vehicle to convey this mutual feeling of disgust, despair, and disillusionment with the effects that belief and reliance in the "supernatural" has had upon human existence from past to present.

On their debut self-titled LP, Bréag Naofa brings on a sound that is of the slow, crushing, heavy repetitive nature while adding layers of ambience to almost give you the feeling of being "lost" along with them in the music. Bréag Naofa will surprise you with heavy crushing riffs that start out like a slow locomotive to full force driving "d-beat" style riffs and rhythms. Creating enough anxiety to then calmly bring you back down into yet another ambient wave of music that continues to still hit hard while at the same time hypnotize. Following in the footsteps of other primogenitor artists such as Cult of Luna, Fall of Efrafa, and Isis, Bréag Naofa want to further extend the boundaries that their music can take them and evolve with the music and the message.

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EP: The Mire & Chronos - 10'' Split

2012-01-08T12:32:00.000+02:00

Band: The Mire & Cronos
Album: 10" Split
Label: Dog Knights Production
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. The Mire - Dreamwrecker
02. The Mire - Palmreader
03. Chronos - Old Toby
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The Mire is a progressive post-metal band from Brighton, UK originally featuring members of celebrated UK underground acts Centurion and Bossk.

The Mire’s most recent CD/EP, ‘Volume II’ was released by Eyesofsound on December 13th. This was their debut album. One year later they released a 10'' split with the band Chronos.
The band’s current line up consists of guitarist/vocalist Robin Urbino, guitarist Stan Critchley, drummer Blake Mostyn and bassist Jack Loudoun.

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Chronos

A post-metal band from Kent in the UK. Formed in 2010, Chronos have self released a 4-track demo digitally and released debut EP "The Grips Of Winter" via Dog Knights Productions.

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Album: Equal Minds Theory - Equal Minds Theory

2012-01-08T12:29:00.000+02:00

Band: Equal Minds Theory
Album: Equal Minds Theory
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Intro
02. Oceanbound
03. At The Golden Sea
04. The Nomads
05. Lost Cosmonauts
06. Bad Moon
07. The Flood
08. Grindiac
09. Hollow Earth
10. Thoughts Of A Giant
11. The Icebreaker
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Equal Minds Theory is five-headed beast from North of Russia. Music of this band forces even the most evil demons of hell to hide in a corner and beg for mercy. But no quarter will be - it's known for everyone who has ever watched Equal Minds Theory live: the band is famous for their insanely intense live shows. Equal Minds Theory also gave countless concerts and shared a stage with bands like Cephalic Carnage, Psyopus and Ion Dissonance.

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Video: M83 - In The Cold I'm Standing

2012-01-07T13:49:00.000+02:00

EP: The Echelon Effect - Seasons

2012-01-06T21:15:00.000+02:00

Band: The Echelon Effect
Album: Seasons Part 1 EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Recalling Winters Casualties
02. Handing Over To Summer
03. Your First Light My Eventide
04. Vernal Equinox
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Band: The Echelon Effect
Album: Seasons Part 2 EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. The Protection Of Night Static
02. Our Storm
03. Longwave
04. For The Shimmer Of Highways
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Band: The Echelon Effect
Album: Seasons Part 3 EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. The Letter Zero
02. Branches And Constellations
03. The Last Warmth
04. FL350
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Band: The Echelon Effect
Album: Seasons Part 4 EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. With A Warmth Inside, I Walk Into The Dark
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The Echelon Effect came to life amid the long winter nights of February 2009, born from a burning desire to fall in love with music again. It started with a laptop and an idea: write a track, and make it huge. But one track became four, an EP that needed an audience. The tracks were posted on MySpace. And people began to listen.

‘Leaving It Behind’ was followed by two more EPs and remixes for The Appleseed Cast and City Breathing. Word spread, and the tracks began to attract positive reviews and gather airplay. What had begun as a way to stave off the dark and the cold had turned into something more.

The Echelon Effect’s debut full-length, ‘Reunion’, was the final part of a quartet of recordings that form ‘Wires and Tapes,’ an 141-minute sequential loop of tracks, each bleeding into the next and the last into the first. As a thank-you to the people who had been instrumental in the evolution of The Echelon Effect, fans were invited to record spoken statements about what home meant to them, which were incorporated into the album’s title track.

More remixes followed, for God Is An Astronaut, Codes In The Clouds, Our Ceasing Voice, Good Weather For An Airstrike and EVOLV among others. In March 2010 The Echelon Effect began work on ‘Mosaic’, their second full-length, featuring the addition of Steve T on drums. The next stage of The Echelon Effect’s journey was released on August 9th 2010.

On December 2010 "Fracture And Fragments" was released and 2011 was the year of the "Seasons" EPs collection. One for each season.

In 2012 the band will be playing live, but no more music will be recorded.

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EP: Hourvari - Hourvari

2012-01-06T18:32:00.000+02:00

Band: Hourvari
Album: Hourvari EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. I
02. II
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Post-hardcore band from Laval with As We Draw & Birds In Row members.

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News: Throwers And Vyst Involved In A Car Crash

2012-01-06T15:21:00.000+02:00

Both bands Throwers and Vyst got involved in a terrible car crash on their five day tour on the way from Chemnitz to Vienna.

Our rented trailer including most of our valuable equipment got wrecked. Also our driver's VW T4 van got unrepairable destroyed. Gladly, no one got seriously injured. Only minor complainments like whiplashs and bad bruises.

We are truly grateful about everyone who helps us getting out of this miserable situation, no matter in what way.
We seriously thank you!

Incase you are interested in getting shirts, patches or records of any of both bands, you can go to throwers.bandcamp.com and vyst.bandcamp.com. It would help us so much, since we're financially broken.

We are deeply sorry, but we have to cancel the tour.

It is going to take some time to get reorganized and to progress through all the things happened today.

Thank you for caring!

Much love,
Throwers & Vyst

Update:

We are overwhelmed!
People asked us about direct donations. You can write to vyst@ymail.com and Im going to send you the bank information for donations. You can also donate via Paypal to vyst@ymail.com, but Paypal substracts senseless fees.

Thank you!

Throwers & Vyst

EP: The Circle Ends Here - Where Time Leaves The Rest

2012-01-05T13:00:00.000+02:00

Band: The Circle Ends Here
Album: Where Time Leaves the Rest EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Trace The Line
02. Shapes To Black
03. Annihilation Of Entire Cities
04. Nam
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The Circle Ends Here born in 2010 in Udine, Italy. Their music is a blend of post-rock, hardcore, metal, ambient and sludge.
In 2011 they released their first EP, "Where Time Leaves The Rest".

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2012-01-04T20:34:00.000+02:00

Band: 36

2012-01-04T13:00:00.000+02:00

Band: 36
Album: Hypersona
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2009

Tracklist
01. Signal
02. 2249
03. Inside
04. Intercept
05. The Box
06. Nephyr
07. Beacon
08. Hypersona
09. Juliet
10. Dream Window
11. Forever
12. Untitled
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Band: 36
Album: Hollow
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. Hollow
02. Find Me
03. Home
04. Tunnel
05. Geiga
06. Ghostfields
07. Fiona's Room
08. Siren
09. Darkroom Distortion
10. Equassa
11. Freefall Peak
12. Arc
13. Lightout
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Band: 36
Album: Tape Series: Blue
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. Inside (2:56AM Mix)
02. The Box (Closed Mix)
03. Forever (Universe Mix)
04. After Time
05. Glint
06. Ghostfields (Midnight Mix)
07. Far From Home
08. Darkroom Distortion (Distant Mix)
09. Siren (Seduced Mix)
10. Somewhere
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Band: 36
Album: Tape Series: Red
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. Transmission
02. Theme For Red
03. Decode
04. Lights Over Wibsey
05. Peripheral Shadow
06. Null
07. Tongue Depressor
08. Lost
09. False
10. Consumed
11. End Credits
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Band: 36
Album: Memories In Widescreen
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. Before Time
02. After Time
03. Drifta
04. Drowning
05. Disappear
06. The Mirror
07. Lucid
08. Memories In Widescreen
09. Melt
10. Slide
11. Vesl
12. Revert Time
13. It's You (It's Me)
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Band: 36
Album: Bass Communion Remixed by 36
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. Untitled (Track 1)
02. Untitled (Track 2)
03. Untitled (Track 3)
04. Untitled (Track 4)
05. Untitled (Track 5)
06. Untitled (Track 6)
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Band: 36
Album: Cocoon / Saphron 7"
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Cocoon
02. Saphron
03. Saphron Drowning
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Band: 36
Album: Reunion / Deluge 7"
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Reunion
02. Deluge
03. Wraith
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Band: 36
Album: Tape Series: Green
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Nistarim
02. Bergensbanen (Part 1)
03. Bergensbanen (Part 2)
04. Neon
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36 (pronounced three-six) is the ambient/experimental project of Dennis Huddleston from the United Kingdom. Since 2008, the focus for the project has been to develop warm, hugely emotive loop-based compositions, with particular emphasis on melody and melancholy. He also runs the label 3six Recordings, which is used to publish his self-released works.

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Album: Drop Electric - Finding Color In The Ashes

2012-01-03T19:45:00.000+02:00

Band: Drop Electric
Album: Finding Color In The Ashes
Label: Self Released
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. We Will Be Humans, Finally
02. Brooklyn's Nightmare
03. Ruthless Youth
04. Bankrolled Hominid
05. For The Commonwealth
06. What Now, Of Paradise?
07. Scraping Herself Off The Bottom Rock
08. Bones Beneath The Bridges
09. Finding Color In The Ashes
10. Fevered Egos
11. Dagger
12. ...And Then We Lost Our Names
13. Do Not Wait For Leaders
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Drop Electric is a post-rock band based in Washington D.C. and NYC. Their music has been described as "sample based, emotive, post-rock." Based in melody and distortion and deeply inspired by cinema, their live show is a combination of evocative music and narrative film that complement the themes and emotions expressed by their mostly instrumental songs.

In December 2010, they released their debut album, "Finding Color in the Ashes" at the Black Cat Mainstage in Washington, D.C. The album has been reviewed and or featured in The Washington Post, Mixtape Muse, Musigh, and a number of other fine publications.

“If the title of Drop Electric’s debut album, ‘Finding Color in the Ashes,’ sounds dramatic, it’s because these songs grew out of a personal tragedy: The family of the group’s former vocalist, Padma Soundararajan, died in a car accident in India in 2008.

That sorrow is apparent in these mostly instrumental songs. Still, the locally formed group (its members met as students at St. Mary’s College of Maryland) also imparts a soaring serenity that recalls post-rock groups Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky. When guitarist Neel Singh plays with a violin bow on the trancelike “Scraping Herself Off the Bottom Rock,” the effect is a fluttering drone that lends the song a rumbling, expansive sound.

Elsewhere, the band’s use of volume swells is striking. “Bones Beneath the Bridges” begins as a smoldering growl before bubbling over to a dramatic climax, while the title track sounds like a dream that awakens with a vibrant xylophone melody. Though shaped by a sorrowful event, this album surges with a tranquil hopefulness. ”

- Washington Post, 12/17/2010

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Video: Steak Number Eight - The Calling

2012-01-02T14:30:00.000+02:00

Happy New Year (until May at least...)

2011-12-31T13:05:00.006+02:00

The Post-Engineering crew wishes you all the best for the new year! May 2012 be productive for each and everyone of you and of course for the bands we already love and those that will be discovered!

Happy New Year everyone!

Album: Watered - To Those Who Will Never Exist

2011-12-30T15:26:00.002+02:00

Band: Watered
Album: To Those Who Will Never Exist
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Paint A Smile
02. ...On The Mirror Of Disgrace
03. Monochrome Nights
04. Nothing Left
05. We Reversed This Winter
06. Dans Les Rues
07. To Those Who Will Never Exist
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Watered is an atmospheric hybrid of post-rock, ambient soundscapes, some metal influences and also electronic elements.

The huge sound and the change between beautiful melodies and massive, distorted guitar walls thrill everyone's ear and leave marks in the short and long-time memory.

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Album: Bridges Of Königsberg - The Five Colors

2011-12-29T13:30:00.000+02:00

Band: Bridges Of Königsberg
Album: The Five Colors
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Foresight
02. Five Colors
03. The Moon Cries For Mars
04. A Grain In A Sea
05. Seals & Sanctions
06. Feathers Wrapped In Metal
07. Gathering Spirits (Soon To Be Butterflies)
08. Irrational Dream
09. No Longer There
10. Number Seven
11. Have You Ever Even Seen A Forest
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Hailing from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, Bridges Of Königsberg was born in 2009 from the minds of frontman Paul Petrosyan and guitarist Matthew Brakel. With the recruitment of drummer Aaron Krause and keyboardist Beth Hoffman, Bridges Of Königsberg came into being as a skillful and capable four-piece group. Blending elements of rock, electronica, and a number of obscure genres, We Have Many Faces (EP) was released in June of 2010 and demonstrated the bands diverse sound and emotional range. Ever since the initial release Bridges Of Königsberg have been playing shows and writing new material. Their debut full-length, The Five Colors, was released in December of 2011.

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Album: Cosmonauts Day - Paths Of The Restless

2011-12-28T13:30:00.000+02:00

Band: Cosmonauts Day
Album: Paths Of The Restless
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. The Captain
02. The Art Of Being Nothing
03. Cave Of Trees
04. Rift
05. Blackout
06. Satellite
07. The Great Disease
08. The Last Watchman
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Cosmonauts Day is an instrumental atmospheric post-metal, post-rock and sludge music, “the inner and outer space” inspired band from Moscow, Russian Federation, formed in 2010. Intense guitar riffing, crushing to the ground and below drum stabbing, wicked bass, dreamy solos and an atmosphere of a cold space - their music is a mind journey to the places you've never known.

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Video: The Circle Ends Here - Shapes To Black

2011-12-28T13:16:00.000+02:00

EP: Moanaa - Moanaa

2011-12-25T20:00:00.000+02:00

Band: Moanaa
Album: Moanaa EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. From Deepest Place
02. Disappear
03. Alight
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Moanaa was founded in 2008 in Bielsko-Biala, Poland. The band plays music that could be categorized as post-metal and psychedelic. They have shared the stage with bands such as Rosetta, City of Ships, Jarboe, Nachtmystium and At The Soundawn. In May 2010 they released their debut self-titled EP.

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Merry Christmas to you all!

2011-12-24T12:43:00.000+02:00

Merry Christmas to all of our readers and to their families and friends!

I hope that everyone is going to have a great time during the holidays, and if not...

be patient,better days are coming!

Album: Baulta - Deeply Sorry To Interrupt Your Megalomania

2011-12-24T12:30:00.000+02:00

Band: Baulta
Album: Deeply Sorry To Interrupt Your Megalomania
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Baldwins Ugly Lamb
02. Grr Grr
03. Black Lodge/ White Lodge
04. Be Careful With That Tomahawk, Eugene.
05. Arctic Hymn
06. This Floating Girl Above Us
07. Uncle Harrys Bear Chase
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Baulta is a band from Jyväskylä, Finland and "Deeply Sorry To Interrupt Your Megalomania" is their debut album.

Band Members
Matti - Guitar
Iiro - Guitar
Jami - Bass
Tom - Drums

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Album: Cassiopeia - Cassiopeia

2011-12-22T13:30:00.000+02:00

Band: Cassiopeia
Album: Cassiopeia
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. -
02. The Highest Step On Earth
03. The Slow March
04. Descent
05. Sun Halo (Beyond Stockholm)
06. Stargazer
07. --
08. Collapse
09. The Ascension
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Formed in late 2010, Cassiopeia has aimed to forge a new sound in the shoegaze and space rock genres. Working out of Phoenix, Arizona, Cassiopeia has taken the DIY attitude and applied it to all aspects of their work. Within one month of forming, their debut demo EP was written, produced, engineered, and mixed by the band themselves and 50 hand made copies, also by the band, were released during their first show at local Phoenix record store and downtown hot spot, Revolver Records. While continuing to play shows all around the Phoenix area in the last 4 months, the buzz is beginning to grow and a small, southwest tour is set to take place in early June 2011. Taking various influences from all four members, the album was well received among local and international listeners. After posting songs online, their fan base grew to as far away as Japan and France and is steadily growing.

After raising funds throught their Kickstarter page, they entered their local studio Pyramix around mid to late June and record the whole thing live for 2 days straight. They released their debut album on 6th December and the whole thing was once again DIY, but it was a lot more polished looking and sounding than the first release. While the initial plan wass to have physical copies as well as digital copies on itunes, amazon, rhapsody, etc... Cassiopeia hope to have copies pressed on a limited amount of vinyl.

*Thanx to Cassiopeia for letting me upload their album. Support the band!

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Video: YOUAREHERE - Tape

2011-12-21T14:21:00.000+02:00

Band: Saåad

2011-12-21T11:30:00.000+02:00

Band: Saåad
Album: It Was
Label: Lacrymal Records
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. Predivan Si
02. Evermoore
03. Try Everyday to Destroy The World
04. Sister
05. The Garden
06. It's Gone
07. Heather
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Band: Saåad
Album: Pink Sabbath EP
Label: BLWBCK
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Pink Sabbath
02. HIIMVLYYV
03. Onkalo
04. Southberry Tower
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Band: Saåad
Album: Raincoats EP
Label: BLWBCK
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Love Is A Rent
02. She Is Electricity
03. The Frontier
04. Back Pain / Pain Back
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Band: Saåad
Album: A Recovery Wish (Single)
Label: FeedbackLoop Label
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. A Recovery Wish
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Band: Saåad
Album: Delayed Summer
Label: BLWBCK
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Pole (Jam XIV)
02. Missing Parts (Jam VI)
03. I Can Feel You (Jam III)
04. You Showed Me The Way (Jam V)
05. Utopie (Jam XI)
06. Back Pain / Pain Back (Reprise)
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Drone & Ambient duo based in Toulouse, France.

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Album: YOUAREHERE - As When The Fall Leaves Trees

2011-12-20T13:30:00.000+02:00

Band: YOUAREHERE
Album: As When The Fall Leaves Trees
Label: 51beats
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. You Are Here
02. Montevideo
03. May The Wind Always Be At Your Back And The Sun Upon Your Face
04. As When The Fall Leaves Trees (part 1)
05. Tape
06. Asyndeton
07. As When The Fall Leaves Trees (part 2)
08. A Dull City
09. Relative Sweetness
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YOUAREHERE are an electronic/post-rock group based in Rome, Italy, formed by edPorth, French Teen Idol and micro (µ) in 2011.

On December 15, 2011, As When The Fall Leaves Trees, the band’s debut album, has been released by 51beats label.

Inspired by the likes of Apparat, M83 and Sigur Rós, this 9-track album offers a fusion of styles reflecting the previous musical releases of its three members: the glitchy and powerful beats of micro, the wrapping, rhythmic patterns of edPorth, and the melancholy crescendos of French Teen Idol, resulting in extremely addictive, soothing melodies.

A limited CD edition, featuring the 9 original tracks as well as 2 remixes, will be released in 2012 by 51beats.

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Album: Spook The Horses - Brighter

2011-12-19T20:30:00.000+02:00

Band: Spook The Horses
Album: Brighter
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Very Little Is Certain, But
02. My Memories Will Be Of Muted Greys
03. Ashen Smiles And Backlit Clouds
04. Paper Harbours, Hanging Skies
05. My Songs Will Be Sung In White
06. My Photographs Will Be Of Skylines
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Spook The Horses have been around since February 2009, but some of their sounds have been around for longer.

In 2010 they got a new drummer and started arranging and finalising work for their first album, 'Brighter' which was released in December 2011.

Spook The Horses' debut album, 'Brighter'. 60 minutes of atmospheric soundscapes and crushing heaviness. The band layers three guitars, synthesizer and samples with bass and drums to create monumental songs that are at once saturated and spacious. Desperate vocals sparsely punctuate the mostly-instrumental tracks.

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Video: Collapse Under The Empire - There's No Sky

2011-12-18T07:58:00.000+02:00

Album: Destroy Judas - Wake

2011-12-17T17:09:00.000+02:00

Band: Destroy Judas
Album: Wake
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Wake
02. To The Sea
03. Seek The End
04. Drown
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"From many bands we come together to create one. Creating heavy, moving, emotion filled music. With intense volume and no mercy. We have come together to destroy our Judas'.

We are a band. We play loud. We have depressing songs. Some of us drink. Some of us smoke. All of us breathe. " - Destroy Judas

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Album: Nice Wings, Icarus! - Aurora

2011-12-14T17:55:00.001+02:00

Band: Nice Wings, Icarus!
Album: Aurora
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Kids vs. Machinery
02. Mastodon
03. Aurora
04. Haunted House
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Formed in February 2008 by Yuriy Nagorniy (guitar) and Yuriy Kasyanenko (drums), Nice Wings, Icarus! played their first live show ten months later, with Sergiy Zaika (guitar), Vadim Matuzenko (bass) and Daniil Grudzinskiy (violin) being the official members of the band as well. They shaped their material during 2009, bearing influences from Tool, Envy, Pelican, Isis and some other bands, but never imitating someone’s manner or sound. Neither post-rock nor post-metal, Nice Wings, Icarus! exist somewhere in between, adding some quirky math-rock overtones and a classy violin-driven progressive rock signature to their sound.

Their self-titled debut album (released December 2009) and their brand new album "Aurora" are available for free download through Nice Wings, Icarus!’s website, but you may also get an exclusive "limited edition" CD directly from the band if you contact them. Enjoy and spread the word!

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Album: Lorena B - Siblings

2011-12-14T17:30:00.000+02:00

Band: Lorena B
Album: Siblings
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Flamingo Pink
02. Intro
03. Swallow My Gum
04. Swallow My Gum 2
05. The Queen's Speech
06. I'm Not Into Anything
07. Limbo Love
08. I Am Something
09. Bonus Track
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Lorena B is a four piece electronic band, whose music is a fusion of soft Icelandic sounds and harsh electronica.

Following the release of their self-produced debut album, they went on a short tour in the UK, and since had their songs played on BBC radio, XFM radio, the BBC Music Video Festival and popular blogs.

They have played the main support for Blonde Redhead and for the Junior Boys, collaborated with international producer Borgore and other local artists and have been invited to play in showcases in the CMJ Music Marathon in New York and in the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg.

Their passion for UK’s alternative and electronic music, which they frequently play on DJ sets and their radio show, is also apparent in their upcoming EP, with strong influences from leading producers like James Blake, Hudson Mohawke and SBTRKT.

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Album: Our Last Hope Lost Hope - Persist

2011-12-14T13:00:00.000+02:00

Band: Our Last Hope Lost Hope
Album: Persist
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Kortege
02. A Woodland Passus / Places To Dream
03. Flickering Illuminations (+Falling)
04. Dagsvärk / The Underpass
05. The Voice Of Open Spaces & Soaring Structures
06. Sweethearts Revisited
07. Fog Light Exposure
08. Knox
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The new Our Last Hope Lost Hope album "Persist" has taken a few years to complete but it is now ready. It was recorded by eight musicians in various locations in Sweden and the U.S. between 2007 and 2010. There are no current plans for a physical release, but they're open for suggestions if anyone would be interested.

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Video: Access To Arasaka - Lysithea

2011-12-13T18:25:00.000+02:00

Band: A Hope For Home

2011-12-13T11:30:00.000+02:00

Band: A Hope For Home
Album: Here, The End
Label: Self Released
Year: 2007

Tracklist
01. Casting Light Through Such Thin Shadows
02. The Residuum
03. (Grace) We Are The Heirs!
04. Verily I Say, Unto You
05. Of Water And The Spirit
06. My Path,Ascending
07. Kyle
08. If, And Only If
09. The Human Project Lives
10. Yea, The Cold Embrace Of The Sea
11. Here, The End
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Band: A Hope For Home
Album: The Everlasting Man
Label: Facedown Records / Strike First Records
Year: 2009

Tracklist
01. Covenant
02. Iniquity: An Offering
03. Affliction: The Witness, The Advocate
04. Infidelity: Kingdom's End
05. The Exile
06. Babylon: The Insatiable Thirst
07. Absolution: Of Flight And Failure
08. Masada: The Spiral Staircase
09. Restoration: The Return From Exile
10. Redemption: A Grief Observed
11. The Thousand Years
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Band: A Hope For Home
Album: Realis
Label: Facedown Records
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. Nightfall
02. The Overman
03. Withering Branches
04. The Machine Stops
05. No Light
06. Post Tenebras Lux
07. First Light Of Dawn
08. The Crippling Fear
09. The Warmth Of The Heavens
10. Seasons
11. Ascension
12. After
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Band: A Hope For Home
Album: In Abstraction
Label: Facedown Records
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Calm
02. Out Of Ruin, Misery
03. Firewind
04. Tides
05. The House Where You Were Born
06. Fire: Spread
07. Everything That Rises Must Converge
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A Hope For Home (commonly abbreviated to AHFH) is a band based in Portland, Oregon that formed in 2006. They have 3 studio albums, two of which were released on Facedown Records and Strike First (the imprint label of Facedown Records). Throughout their career, A Hope For Home has controlled many of the aspects of their music including the recording, production, mixing, art direction, and art design. These commitments have allowed them to achieve the precise sound and imagery of their intentions, and have become part of the band’s dynamic.

Founded in 2006 by friends Kyle Cooke and Matthew Ellis, A Hope For Home has come a long way from their local showcase beginnings. After a long struggle with cancer, founding member Kyle Cooke died of cancer on August 5, 2006. A Hope For Home has since continued with new members, while still bearing the name created by Kyle Cooke as a sort of remembrance to their formation. After their first release Here, The End in 2007, A Hope For Home gained both praise and a loyal fan base.

After signing with Strike First records in 2008, they re-released their sophomore effort “The Everlasting Man” and a very busy tour schedule followed in the year to come. However, their following album, and Facedown Records debut “Realis”, proved to be a turning point for the band stylistically. Abandoning certain cliches and striving toward a more experimental and ambient sound, they quickly found themselves without a stylistic home in the current scene. They began to experiment even further by 2011 with the release of their fourth album, In Abstraction, on Facedown Records.

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Album: ENO - -t

2011-12-12T13:35:00.000+02:00

Band: ENO
Album: -t
Label: Ikarus Records / Synalgie Records
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. 55:30
02. Eero
03. Lento
04. Georgson
05. Malin
06. BoOow
07. Str.y.c
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ENO is a Swiss two-piece that creates an elegant mix between post-rock and ambient music. Ivo Münger and Christian Mikolasek manage to carefully craft instrumental structures and tunes into dense but light songs and soudscapes. In an incomparable effort of multitasking, these two guys are able to sound like a four-piece.

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EP: Atlantic Drop - And Then They Fell From The Sky

2011-12-12T13:09:00.001+02:00

Band: Atlantic Drop
Album: And Then They Fell From The Sky EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. New Beginning
02. Bitter Sweet Irony
03. Fields Of Life
04. Echon
05. Dead Souls
06. Where There Is A Light
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Two long time friends in France, trying to make good music. They have a lot of different influences that comes from indie-rock, post-rock, instrumental and progressive music...

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Album: Wess Meets West - Chevaliers

2011-12-11T10:26:00.001+02:00

Band: Wess Meets West
Album: Chevaliers
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. The Mountains Are Shaking At Their Roots
02. Deadlock Arms
03. Leaving Behind A Whaling Economy
04. Stealing From Overseas
05. Chandeliers
06. If What I Think Is Happening Is Happening, It Better Not Be
07. The Wars Of Men
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Wess Meets West began in late 2005 and was created by Sam Stauff (The Morning After, My Holy Ghost, A Paper Tugboat). Initially, it was intended solely as an electronic music project supplemented by Sam on guitar. The project stayed this way until February 2008 when Sam recruited bass player Bryan Gottshall and drummer Jesse Vengrove, turning Wess Meets West into a live band. The band fused it's electronic roots with it's newly found live elements, bringing the music to a whole new level and finally allowing the music to be performed in a live setting.

Wess Meets West's first Album, "You Women..." is a small collection of songs and experiments, mostly consisting of guitar driven atmospheric jams with electronic undertones. This EP was produced when it was still Sam's solo project. However, with the addition of Jesse and Bryan, Wess Meets West wrote new material that showcased their new sound. "How To Kill A Mammoth" is the result of taking Wess Meets West to a full band and live setting, yet still incorporating electronic sounds. "How To Kill A Mammoth" was recorded by Port City Recording--operated by Sam and Bryan--at Mercy College in White Plains, New York.

2009 found Wess Meets West as a solo project again, still will the help of friends when needed. "A Collection Of Explosions And Death Threats" is the third release from Wess Meets West. A darker electronic EP consisting of B-sides.

"The Sun The Moon The Master" featuring Steve "Woody" LaCerra on drums and Bryan Gottshall on bass, was released late 2009.

In January 2010 Brian DiCrescenzo (Drums) and Erick Alfisi (Bass) joined the band enabling the band to play more shows and tour. In 2010 alone, Wess Meets West played more shows than all the pervious years combined, sharing the stage with: This Will Destroy You, Trophy Scars, ...And You Will Know Us by The Trail of Dead, The Dear Hunter, Henry Gale, Via Audio, Pattern Is Movement, Irepress, Constants, Gavin Castleton, Kilimanjaro, Fugue and The Files and Fires.

"Chevaliers" is their latest album, recorded beteween January 2010 - August 2011 and released on 29th November 2011.

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Album: Oh Hiroshima - Resistance Is Futile

2011-12-11T10:00:00.000+02:00

Band: Oh Hiroshima
Album: Resistance Is Futile
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. This Is Not the End
02. Insignificant Numbers
03. The Fog of War
04. What Once Was
05. Catch-22
06. Richard D. Anderson
07. Waves
08. Capitalistic Cataclysm
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Oh Hiroshima is a post-rock band from Kristinehamn, Sweden, formed in 2006 by Leif Eliasson and Jakob Nilsson. Two friends who met in high school and formed a close friendship. What started off as a solo project became a project between two friends who wanted to create and experiment with the music they loved.

After a few months Jakob’s younger brother, Oskar, joined the duo to play bass, but later switched to drums. The three has since been a solid line-up, but it wasn't until 2011 that they found the missing link in the band when Simon Axelsson joined them to play bass.

They released their first EP in 2009 titled 'Empty Places Full of Memories', and in 2010 they released their second EP titled 'Tomorrow'. Oh Hiroshima's first full-length, titled 'Resistance Is Futile' was released in 2011. All of their albums are self-released.

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2011-12-09T19:02:00.001+02:00

Album: Across Waters - More Light Is Never Ending

2011-12-09T11:59:00.001+02:00

Band: Across Waters
Album: More Light Is Never Ending
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. More Light Is Never Ending
02. The Spoken Earth
03. From Dust And Flesh
04. The Fall Of Man
05. 40 Days Of Rain
06. All Creation Groans
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Across Waters is history in the making. When four not-so-average guys from a small town known as Denton, TX band together to create an amalgamation of progressively styled music, nothing magical or profound happens instantaneously; this takes practice and the work of a Greater Power, if you know what I mean. Indeed it takes four insane, Jesus-loving men: Sterling Archer (guitar), Tyler Burditt (guitar), Leighton Pustejovsky (drums), and Levi Shultz (bass).

It all started with two guys and a dorm room during the fall of 2008. Leighton Pustejovsky and Tyler Burditt began a rampage of jam sessions only to find that their love for music would not cease. A year later after being approached by the rambunctious duo, Sterling Archer made his way into the ongoing embryonic stages of Across Waters. Finally, Levi Schultz, once a fill-in for shows, became the last addition, thereby completing the awkward quartet of talented musicians.

To say that these men had to overcome several adversities is certainly an understatement. One such case is the first time they ever performed, a day that will be remembered in infamy. “We stumbled through our set as Leighton couldn’t hear anything, me and Tyler were out of tune, and our fill-in bassist had forgotten 75% of his parts… When we stopped it had turned out that most people had ventured inside for snacks and silence. We felt like great shepherds. Interesting enough, our name was My Great Shepherd”, says Archer. Several venue and house shows later, the instrumental post-rock outfit has blossomed into maturing spiritual leaders of a broken generation. They are story tellers and music is their medium.

“Originally our intent was to just play together for fun and for the camaraderie that comes through playing in a band, but over time through observation of the culture we found ourselves in, our own convictions/intent shifted from personal enjoyment to a sense of calling. Our purpose now is to declare the story of God’s redeeming work in places and to people who would otherwise never hear or be engaged with this narrative; to tell and reflect the beauty of our Creator and the wonder of His creation”, declares Archer.

After three years of engaging the community in the artistically confused city of Denton, Across Waters has finally decided to release their first full-length album entitled More Light is Never Ending, all-encompassing of melodic guitar riffs, intricate drum beats, steady bass lines, and impacting spoken word. The upcoming album focuses on “the story of God’s great narrative… in the creation story,” says Archer. In a sense, the album is a multi-translatable version of what occurs on stage, which any show-goer will find to be a unique, challenging and spiritual encounter. “Our album is just a capturing of what we do on stage. Declare and reflect,” claims Archer. Along with sharing a metaphoric story through music, Across Waters uses spoken word to convey a more specific message, reinforcing what is already happening in the music. Archer describes, “Much like a song does in inspiring the mind to wander and get caught up in something much more abstract, we use spoken word to direct where those thoughts are going in setting the stage for what is about to take place in the song itself.”

With a melodramatic flare and an impeccable ability to perform the narrative of the Gospel, Across Waters continually cultivates a spirit of love towards all they come across. With the release of their debut album, the wacky men of Across Waters seek to relish in the gospel, sharing it with larger audiences and opening doors to minister to the lost. After all, they have always wanted to be great shepherds.

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EP: Lergrev - Medusa

2011-12-09T11:30:00.000+02:00

Band: Lergrev
Album: Medusa EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Ghost on my Back
02. Azul Del Océano Construye Mi Mar
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Lergrev was formed in Santiago, Chile in 2006-2007, as a solo project by Throudos (not to be confused with his side project (drone/doom) named as himself ‘’Throudos’‘). In the same year, Throudos search other musicians to make live performances, in that year Mørket integrate the band as drummer. In 2007 record their first demo entitled ‘’Winter Seasons’’ which contained 4 tracks. In 2011 they released a new 2 track EP called "Medusa".

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Album: Sleepstream - A Waltz With The Seventh Crane

2011-12-07T15:06:00.001+02:00

Band: Sleepstream
Album: A Waltz With The Seventh Crane
Label: Fluttery Records
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. You Gave Me Butterflies, I Gave You Loss
02. The Spirit
03. Sunlight
04. A Waltz With The Seventh Crane
05. Blue (Ascension)
06. We Are But Divers In The Ember
07. The Light
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Sleepstream are a post-rock band originating from Thessaloniki, Greece. They were formed by Steven (guitars and synths) and Nio (drums, percussion) during winter 2008, with Gus V. on the bass, as an experimental-progressive trio. By summer 2009 Nio and Gus left the band for occupational reasons, leaving Steven experimenting with different musicians, leading to a more polyphonic-atmospheric result. Nio’s return six months later closed any remaining gaps and the band’s music gradually got to today’s form. By December 2010 the band came to an agreement with Fluttery Records for releasing their debut album, and the “incomings” of Stratos on the violins, John on the bass and Kostas (ex-Intensity band) on the guitars finalized the core form of today’s band.

The debut album, called A Waltz With The Seventh Crane, is one of the best albums released in 2011, along with Barrows and Obscure Sphinx. From it's epic compositions and melodies, to the great production, is a solid release and has nothing to be jealous of released from well establish post bands. From the very first note, 'till the end, it manages to fill the listener with emotions and carry him away.

Sleepstream have supported Tides From Nebula and Midas Fall, and will share the stage along with Long Distance Calling as co-headliners in Thessaloniki,

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EP: jakeL - Shelter

2011-12-06T11:17:00.001+02:00

Band: jakeL
Album: Shelter EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Light.
02. TSG Threshold.
03. The Great Forgetting.
04. Black Tar Empire.
05. TLD Grove.
06. Pelican Bay.
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jakeL is Jade F. from Montreal, Canada and it's a one man instrumental project.

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2011-12-04T23:30:00.001+02:00

Album: Tunturia - Invisible City

2011-12-04T11:26:00.001+02:00

Band: Tunturia
Album: Invisible City
Label: Oxide Tones
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Kitezh
02. Betrayal
03. Battle
04. Sinking
05. Discovery
06. Reflection
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Describing anything by Tunturia is difficult. While not media shy, their focus is clearly their music and not their presence. Invisible City, their second album after Maps, is a mesmerising mix of ambient sounds, post-rock riffs and waves, and the feeling that only dedication can put into music. Every sound and tone sits where it should, there seems to be a place for everything and everything is in its place. If you’re looking for an album on the same level as Maps, Tunturia does not disappoint with Invisible City.

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EP: Architecture Of The Universe - Parallel Void

2011-12-04T10:40:00.001+02:00

Band: Architecture Of The Universe
Album: Parallel Void EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. White Emperor
02. Timeline
03. Brand New Morning (6 A.M.)
04. Mantra
05. Parallel Void
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Architecture Of The Universe born in early 2011 from the ashes of Akira is. The new project is geared true experimental sounds marking a sudden change of direction of the band.

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Video: FareWell Poetry - As True As Troilus (live @ Eglise St. Eustache)

2011-12-04T10:38:00.001+02:00

EP: Huldra - Signals From The Void

2011-12-04T10:21:00.001+02:00

Band: Huldra
Album: Signals From The Void EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. A Signal Permeates The Sky
02. The Beginning Of All Things That Will Ever Be
03. Ashen Lips
04. The End Of All Things That Ever Were
05. A Foothill Lies On The Backside Of The Mountain That Looms Before Us
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Huldra is a post-metal band from Salt Lake City, UT USA, formed in the summer of 2009 and went through multiple line-up changes over the next year. In October of 2010 saw the line-up solidify with Eric Smith on guitar, Levi Hanna on guitar, vocals Matthew Brotherton on bass, vocals Scott Wasilewski on keys, synth and Chris Garrido on drums. Huldra finished recording their first EP, "Signals From The Void, in October of 2011 and they are currently working on a split album with another Salt Lake band, Dustbloom.

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EP: Heirs - Hunter

2011-12-03T09:30:00.000+02:00

Band: Heirs
Album: Hunter EP
Label: Denovali Records
Year: 2011

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01. Hunter
02. Symptom
03. Never Land (Sisters Of Mercy Cover)
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Hailed as one of the best post-metal albums of 2009, Heirs' debut, Alchera, established the band amongst Australia’s foremost instrumental acts. Released by German label Denovali Records, the album contained distant echoes of industrial metal deviants Godflesh, the misanthropic catharsis of early Swans and the gloomy noise rock of Slint, but these influences are something they have been steadily outgrowing. The album’s accompanying tour saw the band play 69 shows across Europe, UK and Japan, cementing their reputation for delivering an engulfing and all-consuming live experience. On stage, the band maintained a relentless, ear-splitting offensive, defying audience expectations by refusing to offer an immediate sense of resolution.

2010 saw the release of Heirs' second album, Fowl, displaying a shift towards a broader sonic palette, taking further influence from industrial, darkwave and gothic rock. Incorporating a pugilistic rhythmic foundation with coarse, threatening guitar textures and a stronger electronic presence, Fowl marked a great leap forward for Heirs, taking them beyond genres into a realm that is almost hermetic in its vision. The album also featured the bands first collaborations with multi instrumentalist and world renowned Theremin maestro, Miles Brown. Receiving much praise from critics and fans alike, Heirs returned to Europe to promote the album, performing Denovali Swingfest in Germany, Bracara Extreme Festival in Portugal, as well as headline shows across France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Germany. An Australian tour with post-rock heavyweights Laura followed in March 2011, which saw the band courting a confronting visual presence to compliment the weight of their sound.

In September 2011, Heirs released the first single from their forthcoming third album in the form of a 10″/CD titled “Hunter”, again on Denovali Records. The material sees Heirs strengthening their melodic resolve, and while equally intense, inhabits a less oppressive atmosphere, with the band citing Cocteau Twins & Sisters of Mercy as being influential to their process. It also sees the band taking their visual explorations to new heights, with artwork and video production taking even greater significance, where light, colour and sound are distorted in to a monochrome, hyper-real coition.

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Video: The Mire - Shadows

2011-11-30T19:11:00.001+02:00

Album: Three Way Plane - Give Us Something New To Shout

2011-11-21T21:03:00.001+02:00

Band: Three Way Plane
Album: Give Us Something To New Shout
Label: Spinalonga/TFK
Year: 2010

Tracklist
01. Let's Pretend You Don't Exist
02. Wipe out
03. Bittersweet Hit of The week
04. Fade Away
05. Scare The Hippie
06. 36DD
07. Tell Me
08. Dispute
09. Life in This City
10. Is it Over or What?
11. Straightjacket Society
12. Let's Pretend You Don't Exist (Barbara's Straight Son Remix)
13. Fade Away (Lowtronik Remix)
14. Dispute (Urbanoise Remix)
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Three Way Plane is a three piece (?) band from Athens, Greece which was formed at the end of 2003. They try to be open-minded and create music spontaneously through jamming and improvisation. Therefore they combine their ideas and write music for their songs.

Stratos and Dio write lyrics talking about anything that distracts their minds.

Music is something like a drug for them and they don't give a fuck in being categorized but you could say they are playing something between indie noizy rock and post-hardcore.

In 2006 they released our EP "Bright Days" in DIY terms and the song "My Best Friend" was also included in the second Spinalonga Records compilation: "In The Junkyard Vol 2".

Debut LP entitled: "give us somethiing new to shout" was released in May 2010 from Spinalonga Records.

Since April 2011 they have a second drummer! Don't ask why..long story.

Just think something inbetween of At The Drive-in meets Shellac meets Jesus Lizards meets Fugazi meets Clash.

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Album: Meniscus - War Of Currents

2011-11-21T20:22:00.001+02:00

Band: Meniscus
Album: War Of Currents
Label: Unsigned
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Room 3327
02. 130
03. Immersion
04. Fight Club
05. Cursed
06. Infant
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Meniscus's lush ambient soundscapes, driving bass lines and poly-rhythmic beats create a unique musical experience that has been hypnotising Australian audiences since 2005. The Sydney trio's unique brand of instrumental post rock blends the moody dynamics of acts like Mogwai and Sigur Rós with the prog rock technicality of King Crimson.

The critical success of the band's 2007 EP The Absence of I elevated Meniscus's profile globally with rave reviews from The Silent Ballet (“Beautifully crafted and impeccably conceived....very good doesn't quite sum this up, it's amazing”) and Sputnik Music (“Meniscus have a wizardly sense of dynamics, songs flowing with the purity of water....technically brilliant and tightly composed”).

Despite this success, the departure of drummer and co-founder Duncan Wilson forced Meniscus into hiatus in 2008. In early 2009, founding members Daniel Oreskovic (guitar) and Alison Kerjean (bass) made a comeback to the live circuit with new drummer Cameron Brennan, showcasing new songs and arrangements.

In late 2009, friend of the band, Marty Wong joined the band to mix visuals during live performance. Marty’s tasteful use of different visual themes for the bands live shows provided an extra texture and added to the cinematic style of the music. 2009 was rounded off with the band playing at their first music festival – The high and dry festival which was definitely a highlight of the year for the band.

In 2010, the band spent a great deal of time working on new material and recording demo versions of the tracks that would later be recorded professionally by Ash Maklad at Eargasm studios and mastered by Paul Stefanidis at Viking Lounge mastering.

2011 looks to be a very exciting year for Meniscus, with the release of their first studio album entitled “war of currents”. The new album was officially released on July 15th and Meniscus will be taking their new music to several cities around Australia soon after.

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Album: Battlefields - Agassiz

2011-11-21T20:03:00.001+02:00

Band: Battlefields
Album: Agassiz
Label: .init records
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Entangled Mess
02. An Entire Epoch
03. Forced Abandonment
04 Laurentide
05. Manitoba Winds
06. Structured Delusion
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After the release of their 2009 full-length, "Thresholds Of Imbalance", Battlefields lost founding guitarist Andrew Wallin, and went on a brief hiatus from playing shows. "Agassiz" is the band's return to the trenches with two new members and a more sonically assaulting blackened blend of metal and hardcore. Agassiz blasts through six songs in under a half-hour, presenting a concept EP of the glacial lake Agassiz, whose dried up geographic location is where the band's base of operations lies. Fans of the band's previous work my be taken aback by the sheer force of this new material, with pummeling blast beats, but there is still the familiar sound throughout the EP that Battlefields has perfected since it's conception in 2006. Agassiz lyrical content deals with when Lake Agassiz's ice dams broke and rose sea levels, destroying the old world, and setting up the new world for corrupt religious control. Featuring artwork and layout by Seldon Hunt.

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Video: Tesseract - Eden 2.0

2011-11-16T20:20:00.001+02:00

Band: Powder! Go Away

2011-11-16T01:30:00.000+02:00

Band: Powder! Go Away
Album: Laika Still Wants Go Home
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist

01. Nobody Knows What Do The Clouds Think When They See Themselves In The Sea.

02. Laika Still Wants Go Home.

03. 13.125 Miles Exploded By Hundred Oscillators.

04. Einstein Is So Sad On The Pictures Because He Wanted To Work A Lighthouse Keeper. Lighthouses Are So Lone On The Pictures Because Einstein Is Dead.

05. Locomotive Comes In Your Dreams.

06. Stephen King Likes Electric Transmition Lines.

07. Lost Touch.

08. The Water Tower.

09. 13.125 Miles Exploded By Lights.

10. Mushroom's Radiation Can't Make You Ugly And Ill, But Thoughtful.

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Band: Powder! Go Away
Album: 37th Parallel EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist

01. 37th Parallel

02. Hindenburg 1937

03. There Are Several Airliners Over The Chertanovskaya Street

04. Don't Be Afraid Of A Night Broadcast

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Powder! Go Away is a post-rock band from Lukhovitsy - outside Moscow - formed in March 10, 2010. Since its creation, the band recorded a demo EP of 6 songs, their debut album «Laika Still Wants Go Home» and a 4 song EP called «37th Parallel». The band's debut took place on May 6, 2011 on the stage of CMC "Rus" (Kolomna). At the same time a presentation of their debut album took place. At present the Powder! plans some concerts and is actively engaged in writing material for their next album.

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2011-11-15T12:44:00.001+02:00

Album: Näo - Näo

2011-11-14T11:40:00.001+02:00

Band: Näo
Album: Näo
Label: Ant-Zen
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Glad
02. Ilogic
03. Uusi (V3.0)
04. Calibrate
05. Nope
06. Imago
07. Mechanical
08. Somme (V2.0)
09. Trent
10. Killing Time
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With a computer at his fingertips and a mind full of ideas, Pierre-André Pernin started Näo in 2002 as a one-man project, joined later by the drummer Thibault Fellmann, the guitarist Jordan Daverio and the video designer Matthieu Tercieux. So in it’s current form Näo comprises 4 members.

The band's musical influences range from Amon Tobin and Nine Inch Nails to Krush or 65daysofstatic - over the years Näo have gone beyond these influences to amaze audiences at already a hundred concerts and festival appearances in France and Germany with their unique, previously unheard sound. At the studio as well as on stage, Näo develop and shape melancholic and aerial music, exploring moods from contained rage to lyrical digital outbursts. Like a surgeon, Pierre-André meticulously crafts mesmerizing melodies and down-tempo beats.

His penchant for synthetic layers and for skillfully chiseled keyboard compositions gives his' music a unique and strange atmosphere, progressively immersing the listener into Näo's world. To this already enriched enchantment Thibaud and Jordan add their rhythmic impulses and abrupt riffs, creating a mixed beast of electro-noise, melded with brute, highly energetic guitars and spliced with elements of post-rock, metal and IDM into something very unique and powerful.

With Näo the album, Näo the band presents a mesmerizing combination of playful electronica and anthemic, impulsive rock elements. Join in, and be warned - their electronic odyssey has only just begun...

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Album: Integral - The Past Is My Shadow

2011-11-14T11:39:00.001+02:00

Band: Integral
Album: The Past Is My Shadow
Label: Tympanik Audio
Year: 2011

Tracklist
Disc One:
01. Als Wären Wir Niemals Gewesen
02. Pop Realtá
03. Work With The Mind
04. No Peace
05. Synthie Raga
06. Rubikon
07. ?
08. Die Revolution Des Verstandes
09. A Taste Of Your Future
10. Atakama
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01. Asphalt Architechture
02. Bells
03. CPU Fairytale
04. Waiting
05. And Never Lose Hope
06. Githarsis
07. Radio Sehnsucht
08. The Past Is My Shadow
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In 2008, Tympanik Audio introduced the listeners to Integral, an esoteric duo from Germany, and their debut album ‘Rise’. With a very personal approach to a wide range of multi-layered and hauntingly beautiful compositions, ‘Rise’ proved to be a gem in the Tympanik catalog and a highly appreciated aural experience for its listeners.

As we all waited patiently for a new album, Integral began sifting through their minds and hard drives seeking the origins of their creativity. The results of that search took on the title of ‘The Past Is My Shadow’, eighteen unreleased and newly mastered songs that expertly construct the foundation for what would eventually become the Integral we know and admire today.

From their earliest beginnings, David and Rafael seemed to have a firm grasp on the tone and direction they wanted for Integral. Songs originating from as early as 2002 up until post-‘Rise’ 2006 manage to sound as bright and purposeful as if they were just recently produced. Each selection on ‘The Past Is My Shadow’ reveals a rich collage of sounds and ideas, with a level of depth and intricacy that is uncommon these days. Beat-driven and rhythmic, but never overpowering, with vast swirling ambiance, layer upon layer of dense atmospheres, poignant melodies, and a smooth complexity that allows the listener to uncover new levels of aura with each ensuing listen.

In David and Rafael’s own words, “For us, this is the real debut album… a release of the past and an opening for the future. We invite you to take a journey with this album and find your own place somewhere in this universe of sound.”

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Video: Moving Mountains - The Cascade

2011-11-11T14:51:00.001+02:00

EP: Alinda - Ruins

2011-11-10T15:57:00.000+02:00

Band: Alinda
Album: Ruins EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Nuclear Fall
02. Ruins
03. Home
04. Greendao
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Alinda is a band from Kiev, Ukraine and after releasing some demos, 'Ruins' is their debut self released EP. The production of the EP is great, mixing post-rock with metal and featuring screamo vocals in one track. The result is a solid EP leaving big expectations for the next release.

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EP: Iroha - End Of An Era

2011-11-08T10:28:00.001+02:00

Band: Iroha
Album: End Of An Era EP
Label: Denovali Records
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. End Of An Era
02. Where Summer Thrives
03. Fallen Angel
04. Runaway
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After a collaboration record with Fragment. from France and the self titled debut full length, 'the End Of An Era' constitutes the third release of Iroha – the new project consisting of Andy Swan (Final), Diarmuid Dalton (Godflesh, jesu) and Dominic Crane (The Boaty Man, Rumble Fish).

The 4 tracks (with a total playing time of 25 minutes) express their love to shoegaze just as much as their interest in the sound of new wave acts like New Order – all this mixed with a metal orientated sound basis and little ambient influences. Iroha have a great feeling for melodies and know how to combine them with powerful sound elements to create a fuzzy warm mood in every new track.

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EP: Our Ceasing Voice & Satory Split

2011-11-08T10:04:00.000+02:00

Band: Our Ceasing Voice & Satory
Album: 7'' Split
Label: Truelove Entertainment/Revolvermann Records
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Our Ceasing Voice - For Darkness Fears The Light
02. Satory - The Translator
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For Darkness Fears The Light poses the deeply moving return of Our Ceasing Voice after the success of their debut album 'When the Headline Hit Home'. Striking vocals and powerful drumming enable the band to dare the leap and take their ambient based tunes a step further, while retaining the outfits's full melodramatic force.

Originated in a time of change, Satory's track, The Translator, defines an important turning point in the story of the beast that was introduced in their 2009 EP. Expressive heaviness and valleys of hope constitute their new sound, bringing the powerful machinery back to the post-metal front.

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EP: Autumn In Hiroshima - A Sleeping Portrait Of Klara

2011-11-04T14:58:00.002+02:00

Band: Autumn In Hiroshima
Album: A Sleeping Portrait Of Klara EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. A Sleeping Portrait Of Klara
02. Hollow Walls
03. Indián Blanket
04. Daughter Moon
05. Arizona's Ground Zero
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Autumn In Hiroshima is a band from Canterbury, South East UK, and just a few days ago they released their first EP. The playtime is just under 30 minutes, is a mix of post-rock, ambient & drone sounds and leaves some great expectations for a full album.

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Video: Arktika - A Fire To Everything

2011-11-04T14:06:00.000+02:00

Album: Ermo - Collection

2011-11-03T12:43:00.002+02:00

Band: Ermo
Album: Collection
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. O Ritual
02. Montalegre
03. Cães
04. Ágora
05. Robert Johnson / Poços
06. Traços
07. Cântico Negro
08. 1998

Ermo is a project that was born in the summer of 2011, founded by Antonio Costa and Bernardo Barbosa, both natives of Braga. Their music is a mix of the Portuguese folk music with the industrial spirit, which exist for 80 years now in Braga. Ermo may better fit the category of post-folk, if really needed this type of label.

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Album: Immanu El - In Passage

2011-11-03T12:19:00.000+02:00

Band: Immanu El
Album: In Passage
Label: And The Sound Records
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Skagerak
02. Conquistador
03. The Threshold
04. Comforting Dawn
05. Into Waters
06. To An Ocean
07. While I'm Reaching For You
08. On Wide Shoulders
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Immanu El started as a musical experiment in 2004 by 16-year-old Claes Strängberg, soon joined by his twin brother Per and old childhood friend Emil Karlsson. The ambition has, ever since the start, been to create something captivating and beautiful - and the ways of achieving this have been evolving differently. During the first year, while studying in high school, they started to create music in an old barn in the countryside outside the town of Jönköping. The first demo 'Killerwhale EP' was sold out, spread all over the world and the band got the chance to make numerous shows around Sweden after being selected as "Rookies of 2005" by Hultsfredfestivalen. After finishing high school the band signed with And The Sound Records, moved to Gothenburg and got two other friends who joined the band, David Lillberg and Jonatan Josefsson. The debut album "They’ll Come, They Come" was released in 2007 and was followed by the first tours in Europe the next year.

Together with the labelmates in EF, the band took over And The Sound Records, made it completely independent and runned by the artists themselves with licensing- and distribution partners all over the world. The second album "Moen" was released in late 2009 and the band continued to focus on making live shows all over Europe. With more than 150 concerts in 25 countries for the last three years, the band has gained a growing reputation to be one of the most promising bands from Scandinavia today. As a result of hard work, heavy touring and two well received albums; established magazines and medias (Visions, Metro, Vice, Uncle Sally's, Vodafone Live, Eclipsed and many more) also started to pay attention to Immanu El.

With a lot of new inspiration and experience from earlier adventures, the band started to work with a third album, called "In Passage", that was recorded in the summer of 2011 together with the old friend Kristian from pg Lost in Norrköping. The release date was set to October 29th with tours following in Europe during winter and spring 2011/2012 as well as a first tour Asia in beginning of 2012.

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Video: M83 - Midnight City

2011-11-02T12:08:00.000+02:00

Band: Sugar Factory

2011-11-02T12:05:00.002+02:00

Band: Sugar Factory
Album: 440 / Explosions 7''
Label: Sudden Pause Records
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. 440
02. Explosions
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Band: Sugar Factory
Album: Remix
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

Tracklist
01. Explosions (Through The Eyes Of Mañu)
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Sugar Factory were created in 2009 by Stelreverb (guitars, samples) and Sophie K. (accordion, bass guitar, samples). Inspired by the ad-lib contemporary music and the melodic lines of Greek and foreign artists, they blend 'sweet' melodies while winking at industrialized sounds.

*Thanx to Tzo for pointing this band.

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