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ALBUM REVIEW: Nile, “The Underworld Awaits Us All”
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*By: Richard Maw*
*Album Type: *Full Length
*Date Released:*23rd August, 2024
*Label: *Napalm Records
*“The Underworld Awaits Us All”*
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Post-Metal,
Sludge,
Video
0
Engineers
Video: Nahrayan - Red Moon Last Sunrise
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
Download
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.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Instrumental,
Math-Rock,
Post-Rock,
Progressive
0
Engineers
Album: In Each Hand A Cutlass - Universe Made Of Strings
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
Download
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.
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.
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
Download
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.
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
Download | Mirror
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.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Art-Rock,
Instrumental,
Post-Rock
0
Engineers
Album: Ruído/mm - Introdução à Cortina do Sótão
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
Download | Bandcamp
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 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
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
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Ambient,
Instrumental,
Post-Rock,
Video
1 Engineers
Video: This Will Destroy You - Black Dunes
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."
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."
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
Download
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.
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.
Band: Colaris
Album: The Disclosure EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011
Tracklist
01. Disarmed
02. Guiding Lights
03. Reconsidering
04. Consolation
Download
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.
Myspace
Buy
Band: Glories
Album: Glories EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Mechanical Mariner
02. Ivory Towers
03. At This Depth
Download
Glories is a band from Birmingham, Alabama 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.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Indie,
Rock,
Rockabilly,
Surf,
Video
0
Engineers
Video: The Bookhouse Boys - Fever Lullaby
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
Download
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.
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
Official Site Chris Campbell - Guitar
Anders Lundgren - Bass
Martin Nilsson - Guitar
Pontus Landgren - Drums
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Band: Icaro
Album: Icaro EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Matryoshka
02. Ascend
03. Sonmi~451
04. Munich
05. Samanco
Download
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.
Buy: send an email to icarotheband@gmail.com
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Experimental,
Instrumental,
Post-Rock
0
Engineers
Album: Powder! Go Away - We Don't Know When It Has Begun, But We Know That It Will Never End
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
Download
Powder! Go Away are an instrumental post-rock band from Russia.
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
Download
Ultra crushing sludgecore from Lille, France for fans of Admiral Angry, The Abominable Iron Sloth of Black Sheep Wall
Myspace
Buy (going to be released on March in a 12" format)
Friday, January 20, 2012
Post-Metal,
Sludge
0
Engineers
Album: Nahrayan - The Beginning Of The End · The End Of The Beginning
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
Download | Mirror
"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.
Myspace
Merch
Buy (Available Soon)
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
Download
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.
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.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Indie,
Post-Rock,
Video
0
Engineers
Video: There Will Be Fireworks - Midfield Maestro
Band: Surgeon
Album: Surgeon EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. Spectrum
02. Octomom
03. Silverfish
04. Doso
05. Solar
06. Rat King
Download
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.
Band: Milhaven
Album: Automata EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012
Tracklist
01. DRZ
02. Zombi
03. Automata
Download
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.
Ambient,
Drone,
Experimental,
Post-Rock
0
Engineers
Album: Syndrome, Monotonos & Sequences - Fall Of Man
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.
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.
Syndrome
Monotonos
Official Site
Myspace
Sequences
Buy
Band: Sobre A Máquina
Album: Anomia EP
Label: Sinewave
Year: 2011
Tracklist
01. Progresso
02. Anomia
Download | Mirror
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.
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.
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!
Download
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.
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.
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
Download
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.
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
Download
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
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
Monday, January 09, 2012
Instrumental,
Post-Metal,
Post-Rock
0
Engineers
Album: Fourteen Nights At Sea - Untitled
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
Download
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.
Official Site
Myspace
Buy
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
Download
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.
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.
Band: Bréag Naofa
Album: Bréag Naofa
Label: Panic Records
Year: 2012
Tracklist
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.
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.
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
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.
The band’s current line up consists of guitarist/vocalist Robin Urbino, guitarist Stan Critchley, drummer Blake Mostyn and bassist Jack Loudoun.
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.
Buy the 10" split.
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.
Saturday, January 07, 2012
Electronic,
Post-Rock,
Shoegaze,
Video
0
Engineers
Video: M83 - In The Cold I'm Standing
Friday, January 06, 2012
Ambient,
Instrumental,
Post-Rock
0
Engineers
EP: The Echelon Effect - Seasons
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.
‘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.
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!
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!
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
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Post-Hardcore,
Post-Metal
1 Engineers
EP: The Circle Ends Here - Where Time Leaves The Rest
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".
In 2011 they released their first EP, "Where Time Leaves The Rest".
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Doom,
Progressive,
Sludge,
Video
0
Engineers
Video: Ghost Brigade - Clawmaster
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.
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Experimental,
Post-Rock,
Shoegaze
0
Engineers
Album: Drop Electric - Finding Color In The Ashes
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
Mediafire | Bandcamp
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.
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
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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