Album: Monkey3 - Beyond The Black Sky

Band: Monkey3
Album: Beyond The Black Sky
Label: Stickman Records
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Camhell
02. One Zero Zero One
03. Black Maiden
04. Tuco The Ugly
05. K.I
06. Motorcycle Broer
07. Gate 57
08. Through The Desert
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Monkey3 are a psychedelic rock band from Lausanne, Switzerland, that is similar in style to bands like Beaver, latter day Celestial Season, Pink Floyd and especially 35007.

They rely on hypnotic riffs and repetitive nature of music. In live situation this is all enhanced by light shows and by projecting images and snippets from movies on to the stage or a backdrop.

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Album: Allochiria - Allochiria EP

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







Tracklist
01. Aokigahara Forest
02. Lust Awakens The Desire To Possess. And That Awakens The Intent To Murder
03. Man Is The Measure Of All Things
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Allochiria is a Greek post-metal band from Athens creating music influenced by Neurosis, Isis, Pelican, Cult of Luna, and various post-metal bands.The lineup consists of Vaggelis (vocals), Stavros (guitar), Giannis (guitar),Ted (bass) and Ilias (drums).They released their self titled EP in 2010.

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Album: Ocoai - The Electric Hand

Band: Ocoai
Album: The Electric Hand
Label: Missing Words Records
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Waking Fear
02. Niveus Hills
03. Grimpeur
04. Somnium
05. La Main d'Electrique
06. Marchand De Sommeil
07. Morte Audaciter
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Ocoai is a 5 piece instrumental band from East Tennessee. Their sound has been called everything from post rock & doom metal to Pink Floyd killing a dinosaur. Whatever the categories they've been put into, mainly they're a loud rock band that loves what they do & the bandmates they're doing it with. Having started as a 4 piece, losing an original member & gaining 2 new ones, Ocoai have a sound that has evolved over its six year life span.

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Band: Jag Fruktade Att De Hade Ätit Morris...

Band: Jag Fruktade Att De Hade Ätit Morris...
Album: En Sång Till Siri
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. En Sång Till Siri
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Band: Jag Fruktade Att De Hade Ätit Morris...
Album: 2011
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Du Är Där, Jag Är Här, Var Är Vi?
02. Rädd För Att Falla Låg Jag Platt På Golvet
03. Dagar Av Isolation
04. Ben The Pill
05. När Ledstjärnan Slocknat
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Band: Jag Fruktade Att De Hade Ätit Morris...
Album: 2010
Label: Self Released
Year: 2010







Tracklist
01. Den Djupaste Avgrunden Inom Oss Alla
02. Du Lilla Människa
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* Limit of 200 free downloads per month on bandcamp has been reached. So either you can pay a small amount to get them or you can wait until the 8th of May to be free again.

Jag Fruktade Att De Hade Ätit Morris... is Henrik Ivarsson, who has written and recorded all music. He is from Stockholm, Sweden and offers a great journey in these 3 EP's, through the different guitar layers.

"En Sång Till Siri" is specially written as a birthday present to a girl called Siri.
Hopefully they get to be released on a CD or vinyl.

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Album: Obscure Sphinx - Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual (Promo)

Band: Obscure Sphinx
Album: Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual (Promo)
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. AIR
02. Nastiez
03. Eternity
04. Intermission
05. Bleed In Me (Pt 1)
06. Bleed In Me (Pt 2)
07. Paragnomen
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The Obscure Sphinx project was formed in 2008 with a specific goal in mind: to grab the listener's hand, take him on the brink of madness, tell him about it, and bring him back safely. Their live performances resemble dark rituals of untold fears and shrieking repressed emotions. Although musically they seem to have found their place somewhere between post and doom metal, they are not afraid to search for inspirations in other genres. Constantly toying with conventions, Obscure Sphinx merges sonic spaces and electronic samples with the crushing combo of 8-string guitars and 6-string bass rhythmics. All of this is flavored by a unique voice of the vocalist.

Obscure Sphinx's promo is the biggest surprise in a while. Both tracks are great samples of sludge/post-metal with crushing riffs and amazing female vocals. Imagine if only Blindead was joined by Julie Christmas or remember Overmars' "Born Again". Thanx to pitlord86 for pointing out this band.

Members:
Zofia "Wielebna" Fraś (vocals, samples)
Bartosz Badacz (guitars, bows)
Tomasz "Yony" Jońca (guitars)
Michał "Blady" Rejman (bass)
Mateusz "Werbel" Badacz (drums)

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Buy: To buy the full album in a digipack, for around 8€, send an email to store@obscuresphinx.com

Album: Betrayal At Bespin - Diary Of A Dead Man Walking

Band: Betrayal At Bespin
Album: Diary Of A Dead Man Walking
Label: Self Released
Year: 2009







Tracklist
01. Intro
02. Road To Ghost Town
03. At First Light
04. Trinity
05. A Single Blade Of Grass
06. Goodbye To All That
07. All Stories Must End
08. Angel's Share
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What began as a recording project for a few of its members later emerged as a full-blown band of seven. Their music draws influence from various sources and genres including metal, post-rock and film music and invests in moods and atmospheres. Betrayal At Bespin is constantly evolving and always looking in new directions.

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Album: Access To Arasaka - Orbitus EP

Band: Access To Arasaka
Album: Orbitus EP
Label: Tympanik Audio
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Source
02. Sicral
03. Ellipse
04. Helios
05. Cynosure
06. Relay
07. Kyokko
08. Brilliant Pebbles
09. Photons
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Fresh off the heels of his new album ‘void();‘, Access To Arasaka treats us to a fantastic new EP titled ‘Orbitus‘. Based around a detail within the “Takeshi Kovacs” novels by Richard K. Morgan, ‘Orbitus‘ references Martian orbitals that shoot down anything that flies over a specific height, save for one gap near the planet’s equator, and how the characters try to figure out how to bring them down; symbolic of the limitations we place on ourselves and our attempts to overcome them.

‘Orbitus‘ finds Access To Arasaka in top form, incorporating complex, serendipitous beatwork against a stunning backdrop of thick atmospheres and futuristic synthlines. Beautiful and flowing dark electronic music that will surely grace any set of headphones.

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Album: Avalon - Mountains Into Sand

Band: Avalon
Album: Mountains Into Sand
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. 2084 Underwater
02. Mountains Into Sand
03. Yasunori
04. ?
05. Swan Song
06. Untitled #3
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Avalon is An Israeli instrumental post-rock band in the lines of the Japanese Mono.

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Album: Circadian Eyes - Who We Were

Band: Circadian Eyes
Album: Who We Were
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Who We Were
02. The Days Of Snow
03. Life In Slow Motion
04. Searchlights
05. Miles Away, She Sleeps
06. Goodbye
07. Astronauts
08. Reaching Hands
09. We Felt Time Pass
10. And We Carved Our Names Into The Trees
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Circadian Eyes is a music project of Bryan Collins from Saratoga Springs, New York. His music is piano-based with strings, ambience, and post-rock elements as well.

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Album: Orders Of The British Empire - Rebuild

Band: Orders Of The British Empire
Album: Rebuild
Label: Self Released
Year: 2010







Tracklist
01. Rebuild With Gunpowder
02. Apophis Reigns
03. Roundabouts
04. What Would You Do
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Formed in 2009, Orders Of The British Empire are a progressive post-rock band from North London. Taking influences form bands such as Mogwai, This Will Destroy You, Oceansize and Pelican. Orders Of The British Empire aim to create a epic and powerful instrumental sound without falling neatly into the genre of traditional post-rock already occupied by other bands.

Orders Of The British Empire have been playing regularly around London and the UK since late 2009 including touring with Alright the Captain (Field Records) in 2010 and in the last year have had the pleasure of playing with countless other great bands from the UK and beyond including Brontide (Holy Roar), Union Sound Set (Mighty Atom), Let Our Enemies Beware (Smalltown America), Aucan (Code 7), Khuda (Field), Three Colours, Gin Panic, Hreda, Monsters Build Mean Robots (NWFA) and many more.

If you would like them to personally subject you to our noise please do get in touch. They will generally play anywhere, anytime for next to nothing.
Bookings: obeband@live.co.uk

To date they have self released two EP’s “Rebuild” (2010) and “Act 2” (2011).

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Album: The Farewell Monument - Harm's Way EP

Band: The Farewell Monument
Album: Harm's Way EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Give Me A Fast Ship
02. Remains Of Mountains
03. Harm's Way (Driving Gracie)
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The story of The Farewell Monument starts in a basement in 2008, and takes you over the course of two years into a somewhat nicer and roomier commercial storage unit.

Harm's Way EP is a fine example of post-rock with some spoken words with a playtime just under 40 minutes.
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Album: Kaneda - Monarchs And Heretics

Band: Kaneda
Album: Monarchs And Heretics
Label: Stooge Records
Year: 2008







Tracklist
01. Don't You Know You're A Starlight Sculpture?
02. Our Models For God
03. Intermission
04. The Eagles Soar, The Lions Roar, The Dust Settles On The Classroom Floor Pt I
05. The Eagles Soar, The Lions Roar, The Dust Settles On The Classroom Floor Pt II
06. The Eagles Soar, The Lions Roar, The Dust Settles On The Classroom Floor Pt III
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Kaneda, is a post rock/progressive 5 piece residing in the rain swept hills of North Devon. They play in the outbuilding of an old mansion house. Warming our hands by the fire, surrounded by birds, under the stars…

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Album: Light Bearer - Lapsus

Band: Light Bearer
Album: Lapsus
Label: Alerta Antifacista/Halo Of Flies Records/Moment Of Collapse
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Beyond The Infinite
02. Primum Movens
03. Armoury Choir
04. The Metatron
05. Prelapsus
06. Lapsus
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Light Bearer formed in 2010, an all encompassing art/music/narrative project, based around a story written by their vocalist Alex (who is also the vocalist for Fall of Efrafa), who drew influence from the writings of Philip Pullman’s “His dark materials” trilogy, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and the Book of Genesis, an allegorical tale in which to forward atheist/anti theist and free thought ideologies.

The band play a mixture of melodic post hardcore, progressive metal, post rock and ambient atmospheric drone, The songs are structured specifically to follow the narrative and therefore peak and trough in equal measure, mixing screamed desperate vocals with sung passages.

The story is split into four main parts, Lapsus, Silver Tongue, Magisterium and finally Lattermost Sword. The narrative begins with the metaphorical casting out of the protagonist Lucifer, an angel so loyal and in love with god that he could not submit when asked to bow before humanity, personified as Adam. For this act he is banished from heaven into the cold stigeon wastes below. Here he questions the Allfather – an entity who claimed the universe as his own. In doing so he realizes his master has lied, and vows to reach out from his desolate prison and become his namesake – to pass on the torch of free will to all life in the multiple universes.

The story continues in Silver Tongue, Magisterium and Lattermost Sword in which the torch is borne by the metaphorical Eve – the mitochondrial ancestor of humanity, her rejection of the will of the false god and the attempted rebellion against Heaven, her role and the role of the prophesied second Eve. The establishment of the church and the eventual culmination and war against the patriarchal god.

Alongside the four releases are planned EPs and split records, beginning with “Beyond the infinite, the assembly of god” – an elaboration of the introduction to the first album. A second narrative runs through records not included in the four main parts, which deals with the natural formation of the universe and the evolution of life.

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Album: VYGR – Hypersleep

Band: VYGR
Album: Hypersleep
Label: Creator-Destructor Records
Year: 2011









Tracklist
01. Solar
02. Flares
03. Orbital Hallucinations
04. Galactic Garbage
05. -
06. The Hidden
07. Shapeshifters
08. Unmoved Mover
09. Path To The Unknown
11. We Drift
12. A Distant Beacon
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Formed in 2007 originally by the name of Voyager, this band released their initial mission statements in the form of a self-titled EP in 2008 and a vinyl-only split with Philadelphia’s Monolith in 2010. Following around two years of complications and a handful of live appearances, the quintet has now resurfaced under the revamped VYGR moniker. Embracing a somewhat experimental mindset alongside a crushing sludge-meets-doom-meets-spacey rock vibe, the band victoriously fuses melody and dynamics together with atmospherics and punishing metallic aggression. Fans of the likes of Cult of Luna, Neurosis, Old Man Gloom or Crowbar will surely find something of high value with VYGR’s debut full-length.

Galactic Garbage is a highlight, with its almost stonery groove, its cool minimal droned out space rock middle, and a killer chugging second half. So is The Hidden, textured and dynamic and melodic, the synths way up in the mix, adding a sort of sci-fi prog element to the loping post rock doomisms, not to mention one of the best little chunks of guitar harmony EVER, we wish the song was 10 minutes longer just so that part would never end.
And it’s those guitar parts, the harmonies and leads, that definitely elevate this stuff, adding a distinct melodic and almost poppy component that works surprisingly well amongst the chug and pound.

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Album: Sembler Deah - Kaessariah. Heel Een Leven Lang

Band: Sembler Deah
Album: Kaessariah. Heel Een Leven Lang
Label: Kaosthetik
Year: 2011








Tracklist
01. Sehikiah Verah Sondeh
02. Troosteloos
03. Helen Leven Lang
04. Seh Verah
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«A sky for the fallen. A cure for the absence. An awe for the fierce»

Raised in 2010 by the meeting of Belgian preachers Colin H. van Eeckhout (AmenRa, Kingdom, Blind to Faith) , Mathieu Vandekerckhove (AmenRa, Kingdom, Syndrome) and french Dehn Sora (Treha Sektori ), Sembler Deah is a journey behind words, gathered by a sole ambiance, between ethereal soundscapes, knotted drones and falls. a three-headed hand surrounding a light in a cold, engulfing & ardent prayer.

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Video: Sembler Deah - Troosteloos

A new Amenra side project featuring Colin H. Van Eeckhout, Mathieu Vandekerckhove and Treha Sektori's Dehn Sora. Can an Amenra sideproject be anything else than awesome? Apparently not!