Album: Saligia - The New Innocence

Band: Saligia
Album: The New Innocence
Label: Zegema Beach Records
Year: 2017








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01. Loud Speaker
02. La Nausée
03. Ulcer
04. Obscuritas Aeterna
05. Metropolis
06. The War Is Over
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Saligia is an emo violence, chaotic hardcore band from Münster, Germany.

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Album: Pettersson - Rift And Seam

Band: Pettersson
Album: Rift And Seam
Label: I.corrupt Records, (We Built The World And) Miss The Stars Records, Hardcore For The Losers, Structures // Agony Records, Samegrey Records, My Name Is Jonas Diy & Co., Time As A Color, One Wild Collective, Krimskramz, Upwind Productions, Longrail Records
Year: 2016

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01. Ben
02. Infirm
03. White Birch
04. Interlude
05. Spiro, Spero
06. Helicobacter
07. All Is Lost
08. Kalk
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Pettersson play very emotional post-hardcore/screamo. The mix of singing and screaming vocals reminds me of bands like Suis La Lune, Pianos Become The Teeth, Funeral Diner or Envy while the instrumental is worked out so well that you couldn't believe that this is recorded by only three people. Rift And Seam is Pettersson's first release.

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Streaming: Dead Register - Fiber

Band: Dead Register
Album: Fiber
Label: AVR Records / Throne Records
Year: 2017








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01. Alone
02. Fiber
03. Drawing Down
04. Grave
05. Entwined
06. Incendiary
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Dead Register is a genre-bending, monolithic, gothic-tinged, gloomy, melodic, “doom-gaze” based in Atlanta. In late 2013, M. Chvasta (vocals, bass, bass vi) recruited his wife, Avril Che for her bass synth, textures, keys, and background vocal accompaniment. Skeletons of mechanical songs were created with programmed beats, which were replaced in 2014 by the refined drumming of Chad Williams.

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Streaming: Shipwreck Karpathos - Bring Down The Sky

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








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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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Recommendation: Hvørsch - Thornsmoat

Band: Hvørsch
Album: Thornsmoat
Label: Replenish Records
Year: 2016








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01. Tetiva (Chapter I)
02. Kapkan (Chapter II)
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" Thornsmoat. A two-chapter antiutopia about a tough fate of a black fox.a hunter and a couple of dogs are chasing the prey to a certain death. The burrow is clouded with smoke. everyone has burnt alive. He is the last of the free; his death is coming close. The only thing left is to run. Towards his fate - or away from it. Chewing his paws off trying to escape. Stuck in traps for days, animals die slowly and sorely, long before the hunter comes. You need 18 foxes to make a furcoat.

About an album in short: The message isn’t straightforward. Anti-utopias are always multi-faceted. Our work is based on a story about a fox and human cruelty, but if you dig deeper, you’ll uncover hidden parallels about witch hunts; people of faith are always offended by the existence of those who don’t share their ideas of the bible. They build the cult of the righteous; the hierarchy of power leads to punishment of those who oppose the views of the majority. As a rule, people give themselves the right to decide who lives and who doesn’t. The world isn’t just black and white, even separating situations by shade is subjective; it is also true when people judge, harm or kill on the grounds of difference. Primarily, the band leans not towards the cult of ideas, but the cult of sense and frugality towards everyone and everything. We don’t appreciate cruelty towards animals and everyone surrounding us. Associations and symbols of all that can be found in our lyrics and art. " -  Hvørsch

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Recommendation: Fjord - Portrait For A Reflection

Band: Fjord
Album: Portrait For A Reflection
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








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01. Stars In An Ocean Of Darkness
02. There Is Life Inside This Sapphire
03. Phoenix
04. A Breath As A Promise
05. Island Of Commitments
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A portrait… mine, yours… it’s just one’s reflection crafted by nature’s key elements. As you probably figured it out, “Portrait for a Reflection” is a tribute brought to the synergy between man and nature, the power of free will, alongside with the optimistic thought of belonging to an infinite universe. The album contains five songs, each one impersonating through title and sound emotions given by the nature’s five key elements.

"Portrait for a Reflection" is Fjord's second full-length album, but as opposed to "On Icy Shores", they approached it as an instrumental album right from the beginning. This allowed them to bring new dimensions to their sound, combining various post-rock, post-metal and progressive elements, among others, with the main purpose of bringing a fresh vibe to instrumental music. 

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Streaming: Toul Syes - Ikarosz EP

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








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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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Recommendation: Ravenna - Laocoön

Band: Ravenna
Album: Laocoön
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016







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01. Teraphim
02. Valta
03. Unnok
04. Carrion
05. Laocoön
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Ravena is an American post-rock band from California, formed in 2012. With lengthy compositions from ethereal movements to ominous epilogue. As a three piece, Ravena have worked to build, destroy and rebuild an album that spans over the past 4 years. The first full length album, Laocoön, features 4 movements that encompass a spectrum of beauty and destruction.

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Streaming: Where The Good Way Lies - Nineteen Fourteen

Band: Where The Good Way Lies
Album: Nineteen Fourteen
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Dusk Gives Way
02. Shadows March
03. A Faint Small Spark
04. Hope Unfolds
05. Restless Slumber
06. Dawn's First Light
07. Reveal the Path
08. Guide Our Feet
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Where The Good Way Lies is the musical project of Fort Collins, CO resident, Vince Rogers and is a unique blend of ambient soundscapes, melodic post-rock, and cinematic composition.

Though dusk gives way to tides of night

And shadows march on fading light

A faint small spark brings forth a glow

To remind the faithful that hope unfolds

And as we settle into restless slumber

Dawn's first light reaches down to comfort

To reveal the path and grace the sky

And Guide Our Feet to Where the Good Way Lies

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Streaming: Anagnorisis - Peripeteia

Band: Anagnorisis
Album: Peripeteia
Label: Vendetta Records
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Transparent −
02. Disgust & Remorse, Pt I
03. Disgust & Remorse, Pt II
04. 5306 Morningside
05. Night Skies Over Nothingness
06. Peripeteia
07. Metamorphosis
08. Transparent +
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Based on a Greek phrase for “discovery,” Anagnorisis was founded in 2003 in Louisville, KY. The band has since then released three full-length records and two EPs.The group’s intense live show and impious beliefs have created an aggressive yet intelligent ethos for Anagnorisis, positioning them at the forefront of American black metal.

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Streaming: Glasgow Coma Scale - Enter Oblivion

Band: Glasgow Coma Scale
Album: Enter Oblivion
Label: Fluttery Records
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Sonda
02. Southern Crosses
03. Northern Wastes
04. Venice Calling
05. Ghost Not Found
06. Silent Bird
07. Birthland
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Glasgow Coma Scale was formed in February 2011 by Piotr and Marek Kowalski. The two brothers and trained classical musicians lived their lives between Krakow/Poland, where they were born and Barcelona/Spain, finally settling in Frankfurt /Germany. However, they never got the chance to play together in the same band. Along with the drummer Helmes Bode, the idea has now come full circle. If the Kowalskis are the “head” and “heart” of the group, then Bode delivers pumping blood and a dense connective tissue.

Glasgow Coma Scale is named after a neurological method that helps to assess the status of the central nervous system and classify the patient’s state of disorder. For those who want to know if the coma therapy really works, go and listen to their new record. If you are into psychedelic rock, the new album will expand your universe since it takes the music of the first EP“Apophenia” to an even further level. “Enter Oblivion” released via Fluttery Records in December 2016.

It took quite a long time to put all the pieces together and finally record this album. It contains of new and old songs equally.For instance, the last song on the record, called Birthland is the first song ever written, while the opener Sonda is the band’s latest creation.

Why Enter Oblivion? Have you ever heard of people having their best ideas, just before they fall asleep? This is how lots of ideas on this record were born. Mostly, it was the question of catching the idea by singing it into for example a voice recorder or a mobile before entering the oblivion. So, in case of Glasgow Coma Scale, this very moment is crucial if it comes to generating ideas. You catch it and transfer it later into your songs, or you did not manage to stay awake and lose it. It is that simple.

The song Southern Crosses was written in a rehearsal room in in the German capital Berlin while the band was touring. The special thing about the rehearsal room was its location – that was in the midst of an old cemetery. Surrounded by crosses on the one hand side and being close to a railway station called “Südkreuz” (South Cross) on the other hand, finding the song title was an easy decision.

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Album: Coastlands - Milieu Archives : Two

Band: Coastlands
Album: Milieu Archives : Two
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. 85 Belongs To The Dead
02. Be Still, Oblivion
03. Going Bridge
04. Flora And Fauna
05. Lest I Yearn: Influx
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"As 2016 comes to an end, we want to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported us, come out to shows, let us crash on their couches, bought records or other merch... The list could go on and on, so we'll keep this short and sweet. We very secretly recorded a new ambient record, we are releasing it TODAY and it's yours for FREE! Happy Holidays from us to you!" - Coastlands

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EP: Blueneck - Christmas

Band: Blueneck
Album: Christmas EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








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01. I Believe In Father Christmas...
02. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
03. Twelve Days
04. Blue Christmas
05. Driving Home
06. Silent Night
07. Last Christmas
08. White Christmas
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Blueneck's Christmas EP is an ever growing EP with Christmas covers, in which a song is added each year! This year's addition is the song that we all love to hate and hate to love, in a completely different mood than the original.

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EP: Ciempiés - Menos Que Cero

Band: Ciempiés
Album: Menos Que Cero EP
Label: Sportklub Rotter Damm
Year: 2016








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01. Un Agujero En El Centro Del Corazón
02. Placenta
03. Ya No Te Recuerdo
04. Yurei
05. Menos Que Cero
06. Dios No Sabe Que Este Lugar Existe
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Ciempiés is an instrumental post-rock band from Spain.

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Streaming: Capillaries - Kenopsia (Side A)

Band: Capillaries
Album: Kenopsia (Side A)
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Horatio
02. Holocene
03. Seventy Five Down
04. Key Twenty Three
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Capillaries is an instrumental band of five from Atlanta, GA. 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.

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Streaming: Barst - The Western Lands

Band: Barst
Album: The Western Lands
Label: Consouling Sounds
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Side A: The Treshold/The Rite/The Passage
02. Side B: The Western Lands/The Fields
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After having released the critically acclaimed three-way collab album with Treha Sektori and RM74, numerous cassettes, and a whole lot of live shows, BARST is finally ready to present his full length debut album “The Western Lands”. This is an obvious reference to William S. Burroughs. The fragmented, the transcendental and the viscerally unsettling of his work was taken as an inspiration point to build up the massive effort that is BARST’s debut full length. Moreover, the cut-up technique of Burroughs earlier work, where layer upon layer is fitted to build up a work of art, is exactly BARST’s modus operandi too. Cutting up sounds, and layering them from very subtle to incredibly huge is in BARST’s DNA.

To reach the massive sound achieved on the “The Western Lands”, he had the help of an amazing riches of musicians like Mike Armine (Rosetta), Dehn Sora (Treha Sektori, Sembler Deah, …), Karen Willems (Inwolves), Mathieu Mathlovsky(Mathlovsky), Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe (Empusae, Onus,…), An-Sofie De Meyer (FÄR), Tokyo Oyo and Herr Man. The album is one epic trip, encompassing ambient, drone, metal, shoegaze and electronica. “The Western Lands” captures a multitude of musical universes, and blends them seamlessly together in one of the most complete albums we have ever heard. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Tim De Gieter at Much Luv Studio. The artwork, which reflects the same inspiration, was expertly executed by Niels Verwijk.

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Video Premiere: Ciempiés - Placenta

Today we are premiering the first official video by Ciempiés and their song "Placenta" from the EP Menos Que Cero.

Ciempiés is the solo project of the Spanish musician Fran H. recently signed to Sportklub Rotter Damm label.

His first work appeared in March of 2014 in demo format. Seven songs that had been recorded throughout January / February of 2014 and that after being published on the web obtained a good response within the more "post-rocker" audience. 

Ciempiés' music could be defined as ambient / post-rock / shoegaze but without falling into the classic sound of the bands of these styles. Mostly the project is characterized by the use of acoustic instruments, soft and distant guitars combined with occasional doses of distortion, as well as electronic instruments, DIY machinery, synthesizers, field recordings, etc ... Although the biggest bet of Ciempiés is always perform songs with a high emotional content that are capable of transmitting the joy and sadness of the people we live in these days.

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EP: All Shall Be Well (And All Shall Be Well And All Manner Of Things Shall Be Well) - GEELZWART

Band: All Shall Be Well
Album: GEELZWART EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata’, Reimagined
02. Grieg’s ‘Ases Tod’, Reimagined
03. Satie’s ‘Gymnopedie No. 1’, Reimagined
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All Shall Be Well from Haarlem, the Netherlands make instrumental, cinematic music. They build on themes, thresh out their melodies and look for unsuspected harmonies. Their music is highly associative; they liken their music to stories rather than songs.

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EP: Silent Island - Equator

Band: Silent Island
Album: Equator EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Harbour
02. Whales And Waves
03. Equator
04. The Old Frigate
05. Southern Sky
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Silent Island is an ambient / post-rock band by the creator of Black Hill, musicformessier and White Cube Csarnogurszky István and Farkas Dávid, Károlyi Gábor & Kalamár Ádám.

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Streaming: Nebulae Come Sweet - It Is Not The Night That Covers You

Band: Nebulae Come Sweet
Album: It Is Not The Night That Covers You
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016







Tracklist
01. Prélude En Si Mineur
02. Le N
03. O
04. C
05. T w/ Christopher Bennett (Minsk)
06. U
07. R
08. N
09. E
10. Santa Sangre w/ Kristoffer Bäckström (Moloken)
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"It Is Not The Night That Covers You" is the debut studio album by Minsk based trio Nebulae Come Sweet. It is a single dark canvas of heavy monolithic riffs and lyrical tunes, an obscure and spellbinding journey through the sinister night. A 47-minutes long tape features two special guests who provided vocals on the songs: Christopher Bennett of Minsk and Kristoffer Bäckström of Moloken.

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