Album: Dustbloom / Huldra - Split

Band: Dustbloom / Huldra
Album: Split
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










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Dustbloom
01. High Art (BMWs In Bondo)
02. Translucent Winker
03. Paradise (Is A Sleevless Straightjacket)
Huldra
04. An Apparition
05. Dusk Hymn
06. Nocturnal Wings
Dustbloom & Huldra
07. There Aren't People To Unsee And Things To Undo
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Dustbloom

Post-Hardcore/Experimental/Alternative band from Salt Lake City by members of Arches, Search Party, Bear Clause, And Juliet, and Guides & Braves

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Huldra is post metal/post rock/ambient/experimental band from Salt Lake City, Utah.

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EP: Nagra - Behold...The Sirens!

Band: Nagra
Album: Behold...The Sirens!
Label: Enough Records
Year: 2009










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01. Blossom
02. A Year Of Euphoria
03. Vácuo
04. ...Connecting Wires
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4 track post-rock EP from Portuguese Renato Martinho under his brainchild project Nagra.

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EP: Sombre Motion - One Man's Misery, Another Man's Dream. Pt 1

Band: Sombre Motion
Album: One Man's Misery, Another Man's Dream. Pt 1 EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










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01. Y Syndrome
02. Almost The Other Side
03. I'm Sorry
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Sombre Motion is the solo project of Dave Lee from Dublin, who is a Killing Lazarus member.

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Band: Handwrist

Band: Handwrist
Album: Mosaic: One (Single)
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










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01. Mosaic: One
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Band: Handwrist
Album: All Flesh Is Grass And All Its Grace Is As The Flower Of The Field
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012









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01. Sailing Stones
02. Foxfire
03. Desert Storm
04. Red Tide
05. Flesh
06. Maelstrom
07. Sundog
08. The Tree Of Knowledge
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Band: Handwrist
Album: Handwrist EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










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01. Mean Click
02. Palimpsest
03. Strangers
04. The Day Is Dawning
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Handwrist is a post-rock/post-metal band from Lisbon, Portugal.

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Compilation: Music As Heroin - The Beginning Of Our Addiction

Band: Various Artists
Album: Music As Heroin - The Beginning Of Our Addiction
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










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01. Alenah - Mitt Waterloo
02. Stories From The Lost - Plains Runner
03. Dios Trio - Squeak
04. Chambers - Chiuso Per Fiere
05. Arktika - A Fire To Everything
06. Death Mercedes - Kamikaze
07. Ornaments - Cassiopean
08. Alpinist - Steps
09. Fire Spoken By The Buffalo - Jacob's Ladder
10. At All Times - Ghost Tides
11. As We Draw - Fingers To Stab
12. Terraformer - Mers
13. Valerian Swing - A Sea In Your Divine Fast
14. Absolutist - Churches Burn
15. Holoscene - Reluctance
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A compilation made by Music As Heroin.

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EP: Burrow - From Roots To Crown

Band: Burrow
Album: From Roots To Crown EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










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01. Carthage
02. The Great Dictators
03. Somni
04. Stellar
05. From Roots To Crown
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Burrow is a  sludge/experimental band from Kharkov, Ukraine.

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Album: Lions&Creators - Growing

Band: Lions&Creators
Album: Growing
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011










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01. Shut Up, Leopold
02. Hunger Blood
03. Ghosts
04. Spaces
05. Hands
06. Growing
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Lions&Creators is a post-rock band from Duluth, Minnesota. They started around two years ago in a very different form. In the past year they’ve changed the line up twice and have changed the sound drastically. They put out their debut six song album called “Growing”. So far the reactions have been overwhelmingly positive. They couldn’t be more excited for the future. They love making music, plain and simple.

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Album: I Am No Hero - Without Antennas

Band: I Am No Hero
Album: Without Antennas
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011










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01. Without Antennas
02. The Clouds Are Floating In The Sky
03. Finding Trees Instead Of People
04. Outside. The Light
05. F 16
06. 2 Moments Of Clarity Before You Fall Asleep
07. Morning
08. Opening Night
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I Am No Hero were formed in 2010 in Athens, Greece. Since then they are rehearsing & experimenting with music.
In summer 2011 they recorded their first album under the title "Without Antennas".

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EP: Invitado De Piedra - Quema El Sol

Band: Invitado De Piedra
Album: Quema El Sol EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012








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01. Mendigo
02. Quema El Sol
03. Antes Que La Muerte
04. Caer Es Volar
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Invitado De Piedra is a stoner/psychedelic band from Chile.

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EP: Aleph Null - Dale

Band: Aleph Null
Album: Dale EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










Tracklist
01. Dale
02. Kill The Colossus
03. Protogrammar
04. Noah
05. Sidewinder
06. Corridor
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Aleph Null is a 3 piece sludge/stoner band from Düsseldorf / Köln, Germany.

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EP: 6 Degrees - II

Band: 6 Degrees
Album: II EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012









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01. Fourth Degree
02. Fifth Degree
03. Sixth Degree
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6 Degrees is a post-metal band from Russia. No further info is available.

EP: Wilderness Act - Wilderness Act

Band: Wilderness Act
Album: Wilderness Act EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012







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01. Human, Please Understand
02. Lights
03. I Felt Cold, We All Felt Cold
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Wilderness Act is music written and produced by Rich Iredale from Leeds, UK.

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Album: Shrine - Somnia

Band: Shrine
Album: Somnia
Label: Cyclic Law
Year: 2012








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01. The Grand Design
02. Immersion
03. Lost Beauty
04. Somnia
05. The Iron Water
06. Dream Captured In Stone
07. Ruins
08. On The Edge Of The Void
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Shrine is Hristo Gospodinov's personal experimental music project acting in the fields of ambient, dark ambient and post industrial music since 2003. Initially being a guitar player, in 2003 he turned to sampling and computer music.

His new album, Somnia, is a complex audio metaphor that can be interpreted as an aural equivalent of a "low level" lucid dreamstate - a dream in which the dreamer is not fully aware he is dreaming but is still having the ability to control the dream. Based on processing of multiple sound sources ranging from audio synthesis, acoustic instruments and field recordings, the album explores several imaginary realities immersing you into a lucid-like experience through sound. Almost an hour long, it contains 8 thematically independent compositions representing an extended blend of ambient, acoustic music and nature sounds. Use it as a sound guide to lucid dreaming.

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Album: Deadfile - Deadfile

Band: Deadfile
Album: Deadfile
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










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01. This Hollow Land
02. Jericho
03. Arachnae
04. A Girl Called Dust Storm
05. Mojave
06. Zeitökonomie
07. Consulting Maps That Lie
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A post-rock project from Greece getting a kick out of pre-war blues, impressionistic piano, film music and GY!BE.

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EP: Nous Étions - Limbes

Band: Nous Étions
Album: Limbes EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










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01. Dans La Plus Noire Des Nuits
02. Exsangue
03. La Complainte Du Matérialiste
04. Inukshuk
05. L'empire
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Nous Étions is a Canadian band from Montreal that combines sludge with a post-metal / screamo touch.

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EP: Syberia - Syberia

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










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01. Renaissance
02. The Day After the End of the World
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Someone said that coldest Siberian zone comes from Turkish 'sleep land'. So, the instrumental rock of these Spanish guys sounds with warmth and strength in equal parts within dreamy passages transports you to somewhere you don't believe with. Launching songs from their upcoming 1st full-length and their 1st EP, they point up with a modest project direct to your senses.

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Band: Tales Of Murder And Dust

Band: Tales Of Murder And Dust
Album: Peyote EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2009










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01. The Creeping Wave
02. Two Birds On A Gun
03. In Your Velvet Arms
04. Dead Moon
05. Stay Awake To See The Dawn
06. Free
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Band: Tales Of Murder And Dust
Album: Hallucination Of Beauty
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










Tracklist
01. The Disillusion
02. Hypnotized Narcissist
03. On My Mind
04. Dead Eyes
05. When She Takes A Hold On You
06. Desert Flower
07. Silence
08.Darlin' 61
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Danish sextet, Tales Of Murder And Dust, was formed in 2007 with the desire to play noisy and cool rock music. Drawing on inspirations from especially surf music and film scores from classic Spaghetti Westerns, the band quickly gained the attention of the Danish press. When the band released their first EP in 2009, called Peyote, Tales Of Murder And Dust was critically praised for their slow and dreamy soundscapes with attention to folk-like details.

Tales Of Murder And Dust have spend the years following Peyote honing its musical expression even further, approaching a much more shoegazing sound, while supporting artists such as The Black Angels, Crystal Stilts, Wooden Shjips, and The Blue Angel Lounge.

On the 20th of March 2012 Tales Of Murder And Dust finally released their long awaited debut album: Hallucination of Beauty is an awesome thought-through record in the name of noise rock and shoegaze, yet with an increasingly obvious psychedelic touch, not least in the instrumentation, which often focuses on strings, percussion and sitar.

Tales Of Murder And Dust is:
Kathrine Kaspersen
Kasper Lund Resen
Jacob Korsgaard Jensen
Kristoffer Vilsgaard
Christian Sinding Soendergaard
Simon Toftdahl Olesen

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Album: Reserve De Marche - The Last Twenty Years

Band: Reserve De Marche
Album: The Last Twenty Years
Label: Musea Records
Year: 2012









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01. Calorie
02. Le Garage
03. Forest Of A Maniac
04. Iron Flow
05. Song For Hedgehog
06. Stephan's Dream
07. Frozen Time
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Reserve De Marche is a three-piece instrumental band from Moscow, Russia. Formed in 2010 by guitarist Alexander Alekseev, who worked with a range of different rock bands for many years, Reserve De Marche combines a mix of multiple styles, including progressive, post-rock, shoegaze and atmospheric sludge. The band plays emotional instrumental music with evolution of compositions structure and catchy melodies.

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Collectibles: Little Lazies

If you are into cute little monsters you have to check out my friend's Leah handmade figures. They're made of polymer clay, handcrafted and usually one of a kind! They come with a birth certificate which states the monster's names, likes and dislikes on it and they can be sent inside an hand-drawn box to match the monster. Personally I own 2 of them and planning of expanding my collection! Give Little Lazies some love!

Tip: Random Little Lazy is always a good choice!

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Band: Between Days

Band: Between Days
Album: All The Water; It Flows Out To Sea
Label: Lillian Records
Year: 2011










Tracklist
01. Relapse
02. A Lack Of Symmetry
03. My Motivation For Being Alone
04. Rewire
05. The Furthest Place From Here
06. Just Like I've Always Been
07. Reborn
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Band: Between Days
Album: Before I Say Goodbye EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011










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01. Birth
02. Life
03. Death
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Between Days is an indie/ambient/rock project from Doylestown, Pennsylvania. After spending two years writing and slowly recording material, on October 4th, 2011 Between Days’ debut album “All The Water; It Flows Out To Sea” was released on Lillian Records.

A plan is in motion to press the debut record on vinyl is in pipeline but it might take some time.

All The Water; It Flows Out To Sea was written by Kenny Miller starting in September of 2009 and ending in May of 2011. It was recorded by Adam Laub of Lillian Records from September of 2010 until September of 2011. Bobby Iacano mastered the album at Gradwell House in New Jersey. All artwork for the album was painted by Colin Frangicetto. Finally, the design and layout work was completed by Bren King.

Though Between Days is a one person project it would not function as a preforming band, nor would it sound the way it does today, without the help of the following people:

Studio Musicians:

Bren King – Vocals.
Adam Laub – Synths.

Live Musicians:

Sean Bramley – Guitar/Bass/Vocals.
Matt Hershey – Guitar/Drums.
Brandon Baun – Piano/Guitar.
Jeff Shoolbraid – Bass.
Mike Cherubino – Guitar.
Andrew Schenker – Drums.
Tim Eb – Guitar.
Mike Berry – Drums.
Roy Atadgy – Guitar.
Matt Louridas – Bass.
Kevin Bock – Piano/Guitar/Bass.
Nolan McGilloway – Drums/Piano/Vocals.

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EP: Mass Culture - Amoralism

Band: Mass Culture
Album: Amoralism EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










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01. Sleeping Electric Sheep
02. The Difference Between
03. Past, It Saw
04. Double Retro
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Mass Culture, formed in 2011, is composed from four individuals, coming from Tripolis-Sparti-Athens, Greece.

Each member has had its own musical path and identity, but having common components and a wide appreciation for the music of bands such as Isis, Neurosis, Cult of Luna, they decided to start up a band somewhere along those lines.
They started, however, experimenting and incorporating further elements into their music, varying from the post-hardcore outfits of Time To Burn and Buried Inside, to the doomy sound of Yob, with a Fall Of Efrafa/ Downfall Of Gaia dark neocrust feel, retaining the ambient/post-metal Omega Massif-like sound and, of course, many more.

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Album: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster - Exegesis

Band: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster
Album: Exegesis
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012








Tracklist
01. Fractal World
02. Exegesis
03. Calligraphy
04. Valis
05. Black Iron Prison
06. Going Out Like Lights On A Switchboard
07. Sungazer
08. Wake.
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster hail from London, the meeting of five minds who share a love for atmospheric art-metal. Bringing together elements of post rock and progressive metal, as well as diverse influences from glitch to stoner rock, they generate a unique and mesmerizing sound. Moments of reflective serenity and complex spiralling soundscapes mix with massive riffs and crushing climaxes to take audiences on a journey where ego is irrelevant. No pushy frontman telling the audience what to think, no heaviness for the sake of it, Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster are set to mean something to the people attending their gigs. Soundscapes and crushing riffs, musical complexity and introspective shut eye dreamscapes. 

A heavy type of rock, veering between prog and post-rock, Exegesis is mostly made up from long, thick atmospheric instrumental songs where every instrument is like a clear cut voice, with all members forming a choir. ‘Fractal world’ starts coyly but then marches on with staunch bravado. There’s attitude and a drummer clearly having a lot of fun while still keeping the band on a schedule.

‘Exegesis’ and ‘Black iron prison’ are two tracks with vocals. Sometimes they are clear as day, sometimes they are just a distortion in air, adding another extra layer to the prog heavy atmospheres. Both songs also feel like a journey: not only each clock 9+ minutes, but the ideas gel and flow together so well, you barely feel them (especially ‘Wake’, the psychedelic and thunderous album closer). There’s also enough tempo changes to keep it varied. ‘Sungazer’ (hey, also with vocals) suddenly leaves the guitar alone in the dark and it fends off like a violent John Woo ballet of blood and bullets.

‘Valis’ (hey, is that a Phillip K. Dick reference?) feels like watching a comet hanging out like a bad omen. The ominous atmosphere steadily grows. It explodes, contracts into a Black Hole and then explodes again. The cyclical nature never repeating but following a natural progression. ‘Calligraphy’, takes less time to explode, but it does with a furious attitude. A sky glowing blue and violet with lightning hitting a thousand unfortunate lightning rods in the distance, it’s one for those rainy nights where the sky will hide behind  those moody clouds.

This is an album for people with love for heavy guitar atmospheres and rhythm sections showing up how it’s done. The pace is slow but never boring. The energy is cranked up and the atmosphere, just like the album cover, is an expansive, vast ocean of sounds that is never too technical for its good; emotion supersedes technical prowess. Fantastic album for everyone wanting a dose of heavy yet dreamy stuff.

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Album: Earthmass - Lunar Dawn (Keep, Relic & Ritual)

Band: Earthmass
Album: Lunar Dawn (Keep, Relic & Ritual)
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012









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01. Lunar Dawn (Keep, Relic & Ritual)
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With a heavy, low end, progressive post metal edge, England's Earthmass are overflowing with ambition. This four piece metal act from Essex aren't confined to standard album structure, or any structure at all, for that matter. Instead, they give you a single song; one track that runs over twenty minutes long, with ever changing riffs and grungy distortion. On "Lunar Dawn (Keep, Relic & Ritual)" you may not have the joy of clicking your mouse to skip tracks, or pushing that glowing "skip" button on your iPod, but you may not need to. Buried in this epic track is everything you were looking for.

Clean guitars provide the opening, joined quickly by a sliding bass and the tap of drum sticks on one another. Unlike the drone movement that seems to be gaining popularity, no one segment runs on too long. With each passing measure, more pieces come in to play. The entire drum kit booms in, with kicks, snares, and toms filling every void. The pacing sees a step up every so often, and you can feel the impending explosion beginning to come to a head. Sure enough, that blast comes a mere three minutes in, with a wave of distorted riffs washing over you. One guitar handles the earth shaking chugging, while the other lays down a melody. The vocals, while short and sparingly used, are clean and melodic, giving just enough of a boost to the instrumental to make it a worthwhile addition. Lyrically, it reads like a cryptic warning.

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Album: Rodha - Raw

Band: Rodha
Album: Raw
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










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01. Bliss
02. Fast Forward
03. Lies
04. Overloaded
05. Thousand Headed Goddess
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Rodha are a stoner, sludge, doom band from Hamburg, Germany. They released a 5 song EP titled Raw in May 2012, which was recorded in a live set in April by Andy unemployed at Mistress Studios.

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EP: Can't Fake Nature - High / Low Tide

Band: Can't Fake Nature
Album: High / Low Tide EP
Label: Geenger Records
Year: 2012










Tracklist
01. Under Low Tide
02. Grinning High Tide
03. Waves For The Psychonauts
04. Chant For The Narwhals
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Can't Fake Nature is a rather new band from Zagreb, Croatia, which quickly caught the interest of music lovers with their approach to atmospherical, instrumental soundscapes.

The project started in 2010 as an exploration of slow, rolling ambient sounds that would perfectly fit as a soundtrack for documentary flicks on deep sea life. The early focus of then incomplete band was the process of creating musical structures over an imaginary image or a movie sequence. Thus the plot and context became the essence, while premeditated songwriting was pushed in the background.

Their music started to take desired form later, when the project turned into a full band. Musically based in a somewhat heavier post-rock, Can't Fake Nature laid down tracks to their story and self-released a three-song EP entitled "You..." in September 2011.

Newest EP by Can't Fake Nature, named "High / Low Tide" and released on Geenger Records, is the continuation of their ideas, which they like to call "documentary ambient music for the animals". Each fan of Mogwai, Neurosis, Isis, Earth and similar bands will find something enchanting within these four beautiful songs, and we're proud to support one of the few local bands of the genre.

The EP was recorded by Vedran Kova i Bely at Chicken Sound Studio, mixed by Jasmin Dasovi and mastered by James Plotkin, master of heavy sounds. Artwork and design duties were handed over to Andro Giunio, who made the release look as great as it sounds.

Can't Fake Nature delivers a powerful audio-visual experience where one is led into the unexplored dimensions intertwined with the collage of mysterious underwater flora and fauna.

Dim the lights, turn on your player, take a deep breath, and allow them to take you to a journey beyond time, space and other constraints of your mind and body - you will be relaxed, profound and enriched in every sense on your way back.


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Band: Houston, We've Got Problems!

Band: Houston, We've Got Problems!
Album: Apollo 13 EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011









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01. Apollo 13
02. Post Scriptum
03. Above The Rain
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Band: Houston, We've Got Problems!
Album: Welcome To The Moon, Friend
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










Tracklist
01. Intro
02. What The Hell Happens Now
03. Soviet R-7
04. Birth Of Supernova
05. Transmition Of Control Commands
06. Friday The 13th
07. Laika Still Wants Go Home (Powder! Go Away Cover)
08. It's Just A Joke
09. ju52
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Houston, We’ve Got Problems! is a post-rock band formed in 2010 from Kaliningrad, Russia. In May 2010, they released their debut EP "Apollo 13"and one year later their debut album "Welcome To The Moon, Friend". Influences of the band include God Is An Astronaut, If These Trees Could Talk and fellow Russian post-rock band Белые Флаги Зажигайте Медленно.

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Band: The Day After The Last Crime

Band: The Day After The Last Crime
Album: Demo EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










Tracklist
01. Falcon In The Gloomy Sky
02. Destroying Everything Seems Like The Best Option
03. The Last Days (Summer Epic Part 2)
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Band: The Day After The Last Crime
Album: Remix EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










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01. Falcon In The Gloomy Sky (Cid Nrchy Remix)
02. Destroying Everything Seems Like The Best Option (Mr. Minister's Supernova Remix)
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The Day After The Last Crime is a post-rock/metal instrumental band from Munich, Germany.

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