Thursday, March 30, 2017 10 Engineers

Compilation: post-engineered vol.3 (the winter edition)


Band: Various Artists
Album: post-engineered vol.3 (the winter edition)
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017







Tracklist
01. BOG - Mére (feat. Josh Wing of Sól) (previously unreleased)
02. Cranial - Towers
03. Suffocate For Fuck Sake - Stina
04. Throane - Un Instant Dans Une Torche
05. Gloson - Cringe
06. Creshna - For All I Know
07. Yanos - II. Denial
08. Allochiria - Counting Fives
09. Sunpocrisy - Eternitarian
10. Anagnorisis - Peripeteia
11. The Osedax - Son Of The Sea
12. Phantom Winter - Black Space
13. Black Table - Helm
14. Echoes Of The Moon - St. Anthony's Fire
15. Latitudes - Body Within A Body
16. The Fifth Alliance - Your Abyss
17. Sól - Transference
18. Postvorta - Set Them On Fire
19. Tellus Effluentia - Irretrievable
20. They Grieve - The Name Of The Void
21. Anomalie - Vision VII: One With The Soil (feat. Heike Langhans of Draconian)
22. Show Me A Dinosaur - Wojna
23. Raum Kingdom - Grace
24. Thurm - Modern Slavery Exists
25. Hvøsch - Tetiva (Chapter I)
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25 tracks and 1 more to be added next week, with a running time of 4 hours of pure black and post-metal! The compilation went a bit heavy this time!
I want to thank all the bands who participated in this and their labels for giving permission to use the tracks and their patience! Enjoy and share!  

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 0 Engineers

Streaming: Toul Syes - Ikarosz EP


Band: Toul Syes
Album: Ikarosz EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Delta-v
02. 0 Kelvin
03. G2V
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Toul Syes is an instrumental post-rock band from Hungary.

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Monday, March 27, 2017 0 Engineers

Recommendation: Black Sails For Red Seas - Wave​:​I EP


Band: Black Sails For Red Seas
Album: Wave​:​I EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Cameron: First Light
02. Gallows
03. Imbued / Open Wounds
04. L'orpheline
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Black Sails For Red Seas is a post-rock band from Montreal, Canada.
For fans of Pelican.

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Saturday, March 25, 2017 0 Engineers

Album: We All Die! What A Circus! - We All Die! What A Circus!


Band: We All Die! What A Circus!
Album: We All Die! What A Circus!
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. The Trouble Of Being Born
02. Emil Cioran's Nightwalk
03. Bluebird
04. A Fishing Rod For My Grandpa
05. Tears Do Not Burn Except In Solitude
06. What We Think We Become
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We All Die! What A Circus! is the solo studio project of João Guimarães from Portugal and was created in 2013. It all started with the release of the EP Drowning Gives Meaning To Breath (June, 2013) which consisted of soundscapes (synths, samples, field-recordings) mixed with post-rock and "folk" guitars with a minimalist approach focusing on the atmosphere. The song "Drowning Gives Meaning To Breath" was featured on the RibsOut Compilation 6 and the song "Hold" was featured on the compilation The Best Of Portuguese Post-Rock 2013 made by the Portuguese website Planeta Post-Rock. 

In September of 2014 the first full-length "Until The Cosmos Takes Me Back"was released featuring more drone elements, intricated guitar-work and a more layered sound, featuring two singles: From India To Gaza I, one of the highlights of the album with a strong guitar-lead dwelling in the air with its simplicity, and Old Village In Space which combines a sense of nostalgia with an eerie slow-pace solo. The album was considered one of the best Portuguese albums of the year by the website Bandcom and the song "Our Dust Turned Into This" was featured on the compilation The Best of Portuguese Post - Rock 2014 by Planeta Post-Rock. 

Between 2015 and early 2017 the new self-titled album was recorded expanding the sound of the project with a different concept, including elements of dark jazz, modern classical all warped up by reverb-drenched drone soundscapes and also post-rock guitar featuring drums for the first time.

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Friday, March 24, 2017 0 Engineers

Video: Northlane - Citizen

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 0 Engineers

Video: Crippled Black Phoenix - Scared And Alone


Monday, March 20, 2017 0 Engineers

Recommendation: Cloud Shelter - S/T


Band: Cloud Shelter
Album: S/T EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








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01. Silent Landscape
02. Kumo
03. Cold Mountain
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Cloud Shelter is a post-rock band from Lyon,  France.

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Video: LÒDZ - Time Doesn't Heal Anything

Friday, March 17, 2017 0 Engineers

Recommendation: Allochiria - Throes


Band: Allochiria
Album: Throes
Label: Art Of Propaganda
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Thrust
02. Little Defeats, Tiny Victories
03. Cracking Fractals
04. Lifespotting
05. Counting Fives
06. Denouement
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Allochiria is a post-sludge band from Athens, Greece. They were formed in 2008, and released a self-titled EP in 2010. In January 2014, they released their first full-length album, Omonoia. 

But on December 2016, Allochiria joined forces with Art of Propaganda for the release of the band’s second album, Throes. Having shared the stage with Deafheaven, Year of No Light, Altar of Plagues, and many more, as well as undertaking their first European tour in March 2015, Allochiria's live experience becomes readily apparent across the vast expanses of Throes. Although their music has often been likened to Neurosis, ISIS, Amenra, and Cult of Luna, Allochiria assert their own identity in the post-sludge realm with their deep exploration of very human themes. With Throes, its theme explores man as a social being, the corruption that defines him in modern societies, his vain struggles, painful routine, and the effect this has in the world around him. 

In that regard, Throes retains the same concept as Omonoia, which has man in its main area of interest. But this time, Allochiria's pursuit of that concept is angrier and more direct, making for an even more intense listen. Speaking directly to mankind, Throes expresses anger, pain, and agony in a higher degree; living beings are being killed, drowned, destroyed, and left helpless, and the rest either cause this or witness it. We mourn a little bit, and then go on with our lives - we are hopeless and weak. This is Throes, and Allochiria are guiding its maelstrom.

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Thursday, March 16, 2017 0 Engineers

The Inquisition: 085.My Education

1. How did you came up with the name of the band? ​

Scott Telles (bass): It's a William Burroughs book. A compilation of his dreams.​

2. Do you have a standard procedure of creating a song? Do you just jam around or is there a main riff and the track is build up on it? ​

Scott: Somebody brings in a riff, an idea or a song, and the rest of it beat it, cajole it, threaten it, and stomp on it until it cries out "Uncle!" and becomes a My Education song.​

3. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home? ​

Scott: We all have large record collections and we all listen to a huge variety of music. Speaking personally, right now I'm going through a Cannonball Adderly and Martinis phase! But you can find us listening to everything from Arvo Part to Brian Eno, Cam'ron and Wolves In The Throne Room.​

4. Which is the one album you can't live without?

James Alexander (viola): Stranded by Roxy Music. ​ 
Scott: The Saga of Doremi Fasol Latido by Hawkwind​

5. What's the first record you've ever bought?

James: A 45 of a song called “Bad Blood” by Neil Sedaka. I have no idea why. 
Scott: I ordered a bunch of records from one of those Columbia House ​offers. I can't remember them all, but I know I got the first Boston album and "Leftoverture" by Kansas. Hells yeah!

6. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with?

James: Current band? Goat. 
Scott: Ash Ra Tempel.​

7. Did the internet and specially the blogs helped to spread your music around the world? Name a place (country) that you were surprised to know your music has reached to?

James: Absolutely, and conversely we find out about so much great stuff from other parts of the world in the same way. Lately someone in Malaysia has been streaming some of our stuff.

8. Do you support the idea of bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like Spotify? 

James: I think you don’t really have a choice anymore. It would be nice if Spotify was more lucrative for musicians and bands on our end of the popularity scale, though. ​
Scott: I agree. We have never really seen any income from Spotify, but we make money from bandcamp all the time.​

9. Where do you see yourselves in 10 years? 

James: I hope I’m still playing and recording music. I think it would be great if there were still a version of My Education to make music with, but I’ll settle for just being alive and healthy enough to play. ​
Scott: Can I quit my day job now?​

10. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era?

James: That’s a good question. I used to scrutinize album covers for all the names, iconography, arcane symbols and so on. Then CDs came along, and I’d crack open the booklet inside and see if there was anything interesting, but the cover art was so small it lost significance. The only physical media I buy anymore is vinyl records, and I don’t know that the artwork really matters much to me anymore. I’m more interested in the quality of the vinyl. And if it’s something I am streaming, I probably never even see the artwork. Regardless, I guess I still think if you are releasing music as an album – no matter what the format – there should still be art and that art is still important whether anyone sees it or not. 
Scott: And let's not forget about the credits. I gotta have the liner notes and credits. I'm an obsessive with my favorite artists, and I like to read who played what, who produced, etc etc.​

11. What is you favorite album cover?

James: Henry Cow’s “Legend”. Of the three Henry Cow ‘sock’ covers, I think this sock most perfectly conveys the quintessence of the material within.


Scott: Matching Mole - Little Red Record - just brilliant.​

12. It seems that a lot of people are turning on vinyl again. Why do you think that is and which is your preferable media format?

James: vinyl all the way. My father loved vinyl records (he had a particular fondness for Greek artists Vangelis and Nana Mouskouri!) and he played them all the time. He built his own phono preamp and integrated amplifier. Whether it’s real or imaginary, nothing sounds better to my ears than a good vinyl record played on a proper setup. In the digital age there’s ever less and less that is real and intrinsic that we can hold onto anymore. The restrictions of the vinyl format do a couple of things as well - they force you to sit down and actually listen instead of just having music serve as background for your workout or whatever; and it forces the artist to really consider what is essential and that can fit into a 45 minute time block with a break directly in the middle. ​
Scott: I listen to vinyl a LOT, es​pecially at home, but much of my most serious listening is done in the car on the CD player in traffic where I have almost no distractions. Then again, I still have a cassette deck in the van as well, so I'm omnivorous!

13. What's the most vivid story or moment as a band?

Scott: Playing our score for "Sunrise" outdoors on a giant inflatable screen smack in the middle of downtown Houston with the skyline all around us was pretty awesome. Dunk! Fest in Belgium was amazing - in fact, our whole 21 show European tour in 2013 is one of the highlights of my life!

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 0 Engineers

Video: Ana Never - I Saw You Today

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 0 Engineers

EP: Six Steps Above The Earth - Step 2


Band: Six Steps Above The Earth
Album: Step 2 EP
Label: Aza Records
Year: 2017








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01. Darkness is Just Light Turned Inside Out
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"Six Steps Above The Earth is, except of the place I live, a way to express myself slowly heavily and with minimalism. Through sound repetition and the feelings that it evokes to me, I fill and empty my mind leaving my hands free to play. But it's not just me, there are others at time to time that come or will come and offer their energy."

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Friday, March 10, 2017 0 Engineers

Streaming: Jagged Vision - Death Is This World


Band: Jagged Vision
Album: Death Is This World
Label: Fysisk Format
Year: 2017








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01. Betrayer
02. Euthanasia
03. Death Is This World
04. I Am Death
05. Feeble Souls
06. Emperor Of...
07. Seven Seals
08. Serpents
09. Forlorn
10. Palehorse
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Since the very beginning Jagged Vision has been a force to be reckoned with in the Norwegian underground scene. Through vigorous touring and sharing stages with bands like Kylesa, Black Tusk, Orange Goblin, High on Fire, Kvelertak and many more, Jagged Vision has built a reputation of being an intense live experience.

The band released their debut through Kylesa-run Retro Futurist Records to international acclaim in 2014 following a 30 date tour throughout Europe with Kylesa. The Sludgelord said “Jagged Vision up the ante with more bone-crunching riffs played at full force that will leave you breathless through out.”.

“Death Is This World” sees Jagged Vision evolving their roots in hardcore and stoner metal into an intense machinery of heavy riffing. The album consists of 10 songs filled with blistering Hardcore Metal, sure to to wake even the most lethargic listener. Working with producer Phillip Cope (who’s first amendment was that they recorded everything in the highest bpm they could handle) takes Jagged Vision into a faster and more brutal landscape.

There is no compromise, no genre limitations and no rules. “Death Is This World” is a product of raw heavy emotion.

Unlike their debut album, “Harvest Earth” (2014), where vocalist Ole Urke Wik wrote all the tracks, “Death Is This World” is more of a collaborative effort in terms of songwriting. Following the departure of guitarist Daniel Vier and bassist Kato Austrått, Jagged recruited fresh blood to join the ranks of metal excellence – enter guitar prodigy Tommy Jacobsen and axe-man Morten Transeth, whom both help fan the flames of rage necessary for pleasing the metal hordes of the world.

Jagged Vision’s misanthropic agenda is deep set in the failing of man’s interpersonal relations. As the very earth that has been tread upon for thousands of years starts to crumble beneath the feet of its self-appointed master. “Every man for himself” seems to have become the universal law. As technology and culture evolves ever faster, man seems to regress to become more primitive and self-absorbed. Fueled by this, Jagged Vision come off as a rude awakening. spewing venom and pulling off the meanest riffs imaginable.

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Wednesday, March 08, 2017 0 Engineers

Recommendation: Sleep Maps - No More Good Dreams


Band: Sleep Maps
Album: No More Good Dreams
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








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01. Dreams
02. The Lonelies
03. Under The Pyramid
04. You Can't Escape
05. The Black Island
06. Recurring Dream
07. Approaching Wave
08. Left Alone
09. Those Days Are Gone
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Over the course of moving from Chicago, to Los Angeles, to New York, multi-instrumentalist Ben Kaplan has developed Sleep Maps from a solo project to a full band in time for the debut album, Fiction Makes the Future. Sleep Maps tend toward the dark side of post-rock, with spoken word samples.

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Video: Blueneck - Hypnos

Monday, March 06, 2017 0 Engineers

EP: Wojciech Golczewski - Relay_Sat_01


Band: Wojciech Golczewski
Album: Relay_Sat_01 EP
Label: Data Airlines
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. DATA-01
02. DATA-02
03. DATA-03
04. DATA-04
05. DATA-05
06. DATA-06
07. DATA-07
08. DATA-08
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Born in 1980, Wojciech Golczewski is a polish composer who began writing music in his teenage years. Though he studied fine arts, both at an arts high school and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, he decided to focus his professional efforts entirely on music. Golczewski’s musical career started in the European demoscene, an art subculture where artists show off their programming and musical skills. Following a career in composing for video games including PlayStation 3 titles like Linger In Shadows and Datura, the composer scored his first feature film with Eraser Children, an Australian sci-fi. His other recent scores include the Norwegian thriller Dark Souls, the Icelandic crime thriller City State, werewolf film Late Phases and last year’s We Are Still Here, which was nominated for the 2016 Fangoria Chainsaw Award for the Best Horror Score .

Relay_Sat_01 is a free (pay what you want) bonus EP with take outs, demos and alternative parts from Wojciech's Reality Check and The Signal albums.

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Friday, March 03, 2017 0 Engineers

The Inquisition: 084.Svarta Stugan

1. How did you came up with the name of the band?

Late one night I was watching the last episode of season 2, Twin Peaks. In those last episodes of the series, Agent Cooper visits “the black lodge”. Those episodes was the thing that inspired me to ask the others in the band if they wanted to do some noise-music together. And then I think it was the drummer Emanuel that came up with the name “Svarta Stugan”, which is “black lodge” translated into Swedish.

2. How did you came up with the idea of a video game instead of a video clip and how difficult was to materialize it?

I was thinking about how a music video would look and what it should be about. And making a music video simply didn’t “feel” like a fun thing to do. Every band around is doing it and I find myself rarely watching more than a minute of each music video that comes to my attention. And then I saw in my facebook feed that a friend of mine was applying for a game development school. And then I thought, why don’t we make a game instead of a video.Then I started to ask around and came in touch with Stefan (who did develop the game) through a friend of mine.And then me and Stefan had like one Skype meeting per week for about eight months. I had the idea of making a shooter, since I have always loved “Gradius” and “R-type” and other retro nintendo shooters. But Stefan and I wanted the game to reflect the atmosphere in the music so the game became black and white. Stefan has really put some hard work into this.

3. Do you have a standard procedure of creating a song? Do you just jam around or is there a main riff and the track is build up on it?

Usually I compose melody, harmony and basic groove and make these super poor demos of the song. And then we refine the song in rehearsal, live and when we record it. So it is a collective arrangement of all the songs. And sometimes we just make some noise together.

4. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home?

Right now I’m anticipating the new Timber Timbre record. And I am also keeping an ear out for the new Colin Stetson band “Ex Eye”, which sounds promising.Influences are early progressive 70’s music. Brian Eno in the 70’s. And bands from the 90’s and early 2000’s such as Radiohead and God Speed You! Black Emperor.

5. Which is the one album you can't live without?

It changes from day to day but probably “Another Green World” - Eno.

6. What's the first record you've ever bought?

I think Alice Cooper “Thrash” on cassette.

7. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with?

Tricky question. I would like to work with Mike Patton or Merzbow.

8. Did the internet and specially the blogs helped to spread your music around the world? Name a place (country) that you were surprised to know your music has reached to?

Yes it has. We haven’t established a fan base there or something like that but it is surprising when you find that someone from South Korea is listening to our music.It has helped us in getting gigs in Germany and bringing a few people to the shows. So the internet has been good to us.

9. Do you support the idea of bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like Spotify?

Well, it seems that everyone has to decide what will work for them but bandcamp is a good thing and a good way to support your favourite struggling band. Spotify and other streaming services generate a very small amount of money for the bands and that is a problem.

10. Where do you see yourselves in 10 years?

Making music in some way. However, I’m into the idea that often, it is good for a music band to quit making music sooner than later. An example is the band Genesis. They made 5 great albums in the early 70’s. And then they made shit, according to me. Brian Eno made 5-6  great albums and then suddenly they didn’t have the same nerve. So probably we will only make like four albums. So in ten years, perhaps it is time to make something different. I would love it if Svarta Stugan left a legacy with four great albums and then no more.

11. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era?

Probably more important than ever. It is a way to make your band visible and stand out. I think that there are also more possibilities with artwork and a digital release. You could have it in any size and so on. I think it is important to be brave and do strange and not normal things. Don’t lock yourself up in a cage with ideas of what you should do and that you should do it like it has always been done.

12. What is you favorite album cover?

Hard to say. Perhaps “Hidden Persuaders” with the album art for the record “Elegies and Curses”.

13. It seems that a lot of people are turning on vinyl again. Why do you think that is and which is your preferable media format?

I think it is because you want something that looks good and that you can look at while listening. Some physical thing that is related to the music. I like vinyl and cassettes. We made a cassette-box which looked really nice. If someone wants one, check with “Hackebeil Records” or “Epileptic Media”.

14. What's the most vivid story or moment as a band?

We are a very kind band with very little rock’n’ roll lifestyle. I would say that every live show is something made with blood and sweat. So that’s where you will see our most vivid moments.

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Video: Architects - Gravity

Wednesday, March 01, 2017 0 Engineers

Streaming: Sól - Upheaval


Band: Sol
Album: Upheaval
Label: Alerta Antifascista Records
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01.Zone Tunnel
02.Transference
03.Fireblood
04.Kingdom
05.Upheaval
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Formed in 2013 in Portland, Oregon, Sól is a 5-piece post-metal band that explores the beauty and fear of the natural world. Comprised of brooding heaviness and atmospheric calm, their sound reflects the dense and expansive landscape of the Pacific Northwest. 

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