Streaming: Empusae feat. Colin H. Van Eeckhout - Lueur

Band: Empusae feat. Colin H. Van Eeckhout
Album: Lueur
Label: Consouling Sounds
Year: 2017







Tracklist
01. Guiding Light
02. Retinae Tenebrae
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With the complexity of the music, it may surprise you to find that Empusae is actually a project created by a single man, Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe. Empusae exercises a surreal science of structure that throbs and pulsates in an almost obsessive manner. The music is almost suggestive of a mechanical assembly line in its clock work clunks and clangs. It builds into a tense, yet haunting soundscape and rivets itself into the memory and refuses to be forgotten.

On "Lueur", Colin H. Van Eeckhout (CHVE, Amenra, Kingdom, Absent In Body, Sembler Deah, Harlowe) joined Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe with his variety from clear (CHVE, Amenra's Afterlife) to hardcore vocals (Amenra), in a more church/ritual like approach.

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Recommendation: BOG - Unshriven

Band: BOG
Album: Unshriven
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Vague Dreams
02. Heedless
03. Spare
04. Marrow
05. Vanish
06. Fellow Traveller
07. Primus Inter Pares
08. Stay
09. Mère
10. Ninety-Two
11. Unshriven
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BOG is a four-piece post-metal band from Vienna, Austria, founded by Tim Primbs as an emotional outlet to cope with several experiences with death. Narrative arcs follow the woven dynamics of the sound. Sonic leitmotifs, ambient layers and authentic songwriting create an unmistakably unique sound.

Unshriven is a concept album, or, more precisely, a station album: 11 tracks shape 11 stations. Two parallel levels (reality and metaphor) tell the stories of two travelers. The first level reveals the story of the 17-year-old, seriously ill girl. The second level is the accompanying metaphor: it tells of Sputnik's journey through colours, emptiness and darkness, of its homesickness and its attempt to return home. An ambivalent construct of hopeful, melancholic melodies and raw, destructive energies creates the emotional sonic images that make the last journey of life comprehensible. Distinctive ambient sound layers, acoustic leitmotifs and dynamic sounds from time and space are accompanied by the voiceover of thanatologist Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross.

Unshriven has various guest musicians from the Austrian and American post-rock scene and other related genres. For the album production, Tim Primbs cooperated with Matthew Prokop (Lehnen), Josh Wing (Sól, USA), Joel Boyd (Lehnen) and Julia Schwarzer (CAYES, AT) and Chris Pobaschnig (Mountain, AT). Will Benoit, known for his work with post-rock bands like Caspian, Junius, City of Ships and Lehnen, did the mixing and mastering.

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Streaming: Postvorta - Carmentis

Band: Postvorta
Album: Carmentis
Label: Third I Rex
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. 15
02. Colostro
03. Cervice
04. Patau
05. 13
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While there are many bands that traverse and explore the same terrain as heavy titans Neurosis and Isis, very few of those bands embrace these influences and yet do not feel like imitators.

Postvorta , the pulverizing sextet from Ravenna, Italy are ones who incorporate a similar style as their influences, but move themselves and the listener through stunning corridors of sound.

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Album: Saule - Saule

Band: Saule
Album: Saule
Label: Avantgarde Music
Year: 2017








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01. I
02. II
03. III
04. IV
05. V
06. VI
07. 0
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Avantgarde Music is proud to present the self-titled debut album of a brilliant newcomer named Saule. Saule was formed in Poland in 2015, which has come to have the most creative and ever-surprising extreme metal scene of any European country - and for underground music, in general. It is incredible the amount of new bands and great music that this country is giving to fans for the past 15 years - and let's not forget the past! - both in metal, post-rock and prog metal fields.

And that's precisely where Saule comes in with the album Saule. The band's formation process and search for the proper people took about two years, and it resulted in a carefully crafted debut album recorded during the late autumn of 2016 in Satanic Audio. A work of vast vision and rigorous repose, the sound across Saule is focused around post-metal and post-rock genre, but strongly deriving from black metal and acutely coated in subtle ambient echoes. 

Given Saule's rather brief existence and minimal experiences so far (although they've already made their live debut with landmates Thaw and others), the band presently prefers to keep a minimalistic outlook and would love to let the music do the talking. Open your ears to Saule!

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Streaming: Shipwreck Karpathos - Bring Down The Sky

Band: Shipwreck Karpathos
Album: Bring Down The Sky
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. FLY!
02. Circle City Ghosts
03. Installation 1138
04. Bring Down The Sky
05. Create, Destroy, Rebuild, Repeat.
06. The Sound So Loud It Becomes Silence
07. No Heretics, Please
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Shipwreck Karpathos is a five man instrumental post-rock band from Portland, USA.

Currently the guys are trying to release their album on vinyl for the first time so any help would be great. You can preorder it and help them out here: https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/804/shipwreck-karpathos-bring-down-the-sky-2xlp

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Streaming: A Lot Like Birds - Divisi

Band: A Lot Like Birds
Album: DIVISI
Label: Equal Vision Records
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Always Burning, Always Dark
02. The Sound Of Us
03. For Shelley (Unheard)
04. Trace The Lines
05. Atoms In Evening
06. The Smoother The Stone
07. Infinite Chances
08. No Attention For Solved Puzzles
09. Further Below
10. Good Soil, Bad Seeds
11. From Moon To Son
12. Divisi
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A Lot Like Birds is a six piece progressive rock/post-hardcore outfit from Sacramento, CA, formed in September 2009, known for their tendency to experiment with several diverse genre influences and their incorporation of orchestral and ambient sound-scapes contrasted by chaotic, schizophrenic episodes. On January 9th of 2011, A Lot Like Birds announced that Kurt Travis (Ex of Dance Gavin Dance, Five Minute Ride, No Not Constant, and O! the Joy) would be the new singer and second front-man, alongside Cory Lockwood. With their acclaimed addition, the band quickly signed to Doghouse Records (All American Rejects, Say Anything, The Get Up Kids) and acquired The Artery Foundation (Asking Alexandria, Dance Gavin Dance, Alesana) as management.

Their debut album Plan B was the brainchild of the band’s guitarist/original vocalist Michael Franzino, who invited several talented musicians in the Sacramento scene (including various orchestral instrumentalists and a female vocalist) to perform on the record. They spent their first year of existence diligently perfecting their live set, building their fan base, and most recently, writing their sophomore album as a collaborative effort. Their live set is known for setting deep moods that swing from thoughtful, emotional build-ups to body-moving, epic climaxes.

After signing both deals, they entered Interlace Audio Recording Studio with producer / engineer Kris Crummet (Closure In Moscow, Fear Before, Dance Gavin Dance) to record their second full length, Conversation Piece.

After it's release in the fall of 2011, Conversation Piece received praise and they were called "one of post-hardcore’s most important new bands and one of the few capable of saving the scene." (-MindEqualsBlown.net).

A Lot Like Birds spent all of 2012 on the road, taking their new album and frenzied live antics to the masses. The positive reception to their high energy performances lead to a one month tour of Europe in February 2013. The band's growing fan base fueled powerful performances in London, Paris, Vienna, Budapest and 19 other cities.

A Lot Like Birds released their second LP 'No Place' with Equal Vision Records on October 29th, 2013 and their third LP 'Divisi' with Equal Vision Records on May 5th, 2017.

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Album: Various Artists - Imperfect

Band: Various Artists
Album: Imperfect
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Violet Cold - Brave New Void
02. Sadness - Vivify
03. A Light In The Dark - Uncertain
04. Unreqvited - Kitsunebi
05. Show Me A Dinosaur - Unsaid
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Five-band split album between Violet Cold, A Light In The Dark, Show Me A Dinosaur, Sadness and Unreqvited from all over the world.

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Streaming: Archivist - Construct

Band: Archivist
Album: Construct
Label: Alerta Antifascista
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Lamenting Configuration
02. Birth Of Ire
03. Property?
04. The Negotiation
05. Scorched Earth Policy
06. The Reconstruction
07. Mysterium Cosmographicum
08. Witch Finder
09. An Epiphany
10. The Theosophical Digressions Of Artificial Intelligence
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Archivist are a post-metal/blackgaze band with members from Fall Of efrafa, Light bearer. Archivist is the tale of human hubris, the end of the world, and the willingness of a child to accept the weight of our legacy.

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Streaming: Way Of Abyss - Parallels

Band: Way Of Abyss
Album: Parallels
Label: Corrosive Records
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Medzo
02. Bloody Angela
03. Substantive Laws
04. Our Hymn
05. Ariane
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Way Of Abyss is a one-man project based in Lyon since 2007.

Dive deep into atmospheric music, inspired by all the best author of electronic, minimalist and post-rock/-metal music of our time.

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Recommendation: Féroces - Victor EP

Band: Féroces
Album: Victor EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Ne Vous Retenez Pas
02. Carole
03. J'attends Qu'il M'arrive Quelque Chose
04. L'odeur Du Cuir
05. Slalomer Entre Les Ivrognes
06. Victor
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Second release (apart from their singles "Donna" and "Sometimes (Jamais On Ne Nous Dit Ces Choses​-​là)") from one of the blog's favorites and Féroces live up to our expectations! An excellent EP from start to finish with their unique french cinematic kind of way!

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