Post-engineering's TOP 20 for 2017

20.
BOG
Unshriven
Label: Self Released
Genre: Post-Metal

19.
Ranges
The Ascensionist
Label: A Thousand Arms, dunk! Records
Genre: Post-Rock

18.
Rosetta
Utopioid
Label: Self Released
Genre: Post-Metal

17.
Pillars
Of Salt And Sea
Label: Self Released
Genre: Post-Rock

16.
In Lights
This Is How We Exist
Label: Self Released
Genre: Post-Rock

15.
Collapse Under The Empire
The Fallen Ones
Label: Moment Of Collapse
Genre: Post-Rock

14.
To Destroy A City
Go Mirage
Label: n5MD
Genre: Post-Rock

13.
Zaius
Of Adoration
Label: Prosthetic Records
Genre: Post-Rock / Post-Metal

12.
Astralia
Solstice
Label: Aloud Music Ltd
Genre: Post-Rock

11.
Krane
Pleonexia
Label: Czar Of Crickets
Genre: Post-Rock / Post-Metal

10.
Synopsys
Le Temps Du Rêve
Label: Self Released
Genre: Post-Metal

09.
Grails
Chalice Hymnal
Label: Temporary Residence Limited
Genre: Post-Rock / Psychedelic

08.
Myrkur
Mareridt
Label: Relapse Records
Genre: Black Metal / Folk

07.
Afformance
Music For Imaginery Film #1
Label: United We Fly
Genre: Post-Rock

06.
Chelsea Wolfe
Hiss Spun
Label: Sargent House
Genre: Alternative / Folk / Goth

05.
Our Ceasing Voice
Free Like Tonight
Label: Self Released
Genre: Alternative / Indie / Post-Rock

04.
Silent Whale Becomes A° Dream
Requiem
Label: Elusive Sound
Genre: Post-Rock

03.
Grandbrothers
Open
Label: City Slang
Genre: Ambient / Modern Classical / Electronic

02.
Brutus
Burst
Label: Sargent House / Hassle Records
Genre: Post-Punk

01.
Amenra
Mass VI
Label: Neurot Recordings / Consouling Sounds
Genre: Post-Metal / Ritual

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EP: Blueneck - Christmas

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








Tracklist
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: Athletics - When To Run, Where To Hide

Band: Athletics
Album: When To Run, Where To Hide EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016







Tracklist
01. When To Run
02. Where To Hide
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Athletics is an ambient/indie band from Asbury Park, New Jersey.

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EP: Deepbreathers - EP1

Band: Deepbreathers
Album: EP1
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








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01. The Sun, Hidden There
02. Palindrome/333
03. Immerse
04. Interlude
05. Perspective Will Kill You
06. Resurrectio
07. Dinosauria, We (Bukowski)
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Deepbreathers are a Portuguese instrumental post-rock/alternative duo from Oporto, which consists of Francisco Oliveira and Bernardo Costa. 

The band formed in early 2013, mostly influenced by Radiohead and their experimentalism. A first song was released, "Urbanizing Movement's Frantic Rhythm", which the band soon decided to be an extremely short and low-quality work. The song was removed and, apart from a few concerts playing covers, the band did not release anything until July 2013. That month, "Get Me Sparkling", a summerish song, was released. Very easy-listening, experimental and completely influenced by the early, innocent stage of the band, two kids in a nutshell at the very beginning of their musical experience. 

Unfortunately, school left no space for Deepbreathers to get back to work at the end of the summer, so the band went idle for another year. "(For The Moon)" was another summerish, although a bit darker song, featuring artwork by Pedro Azevedo, released in August 2014. But once again, school made sure the band would not work on new things until the next year. 

Deepbreathers won the Tradiio contest in January 2015, with "(For The Moon)". The band then finally worked enough to think about releasing an EP, after many ideas were put on the table. "Immerse", featuring Inês Saraiva Guimarães, was released in April 2015 as a single from "EP1", the then supposedly upcoming album. It happened that, at the time, upcoming had been a very strong word. A second single, "Perspective Will Kill You", a song depicting the lifetime of the common human and its inability to avoid mistakes, was not released until September. By Christmas, the band started working hard, fighting the trouble of having to study. The structure for most songs was already solid by February, and in the very few days before the album came out, recording and independent production were finished. 

"EP1" was released on March 24th 2016, an album with a very simple mission: to define rhythm and melody as the best way to describe a physical, yet emotional landscape. It features an instrumental background work on the poem "Dinosauria, We" by Charles Bukowski. It obtained a very good reception among the target audience, and Deepbreathers are satisfied and working on new experiments.

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Streaming: Seven Nines And Tens - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Slums

Band: Seven Nines And Tens
Album: Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Slums
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016







Tracklist
01. I Come From Downtown
02. Metropolis Noir / Rigs
03. Dope Simple
04. Rave Up
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"Our LONG awaited 2nd album “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Slums” has FINALLY arrived. It was a real ordeal getting this record finished. I’ll save that story for another time. Thanks to Danny Katz and Dullest Records for having confidence in our music and for releasing the album." - Seven Nines And Tens

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Streaming: Trade Wind - Suffer Just To Believe EP

Band: Trade Wind
Album: Suffer Just To Believe EP
Label: Other People Records
Year: 2014








Tracklist
01. Fixed Blade
02. Pulling Strings
03. White Pipes
04. Pain Is A Gift
05. Dead Leaves
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From the vocalist of Stick To Your Guns and the guitarist of Stray From The Path comes Trade Wind. Their debut EP "Suffer Just To Believe" released through Other People Records on June 3, 2014 and in less than two weeks their next release will be out!

For fans of Thrice.

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Album: Arcempire - Ruins

Band: Arcempire
Album: Ruins
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Black Crowd
02. Broadways And Tombs
03. Home
04. Lighteater
05. Ticket To Burn
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Arcempire is a post-hardcore band from Munich, Germany.

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Compilation: post-engineered vol.2

Band: Various Artists
Album: post-engineered vol.2
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist

01. So Hideous - Yesteryear

02. Vasudeva - Stop Making Yourself Miserable

03. A Swarm Of The Sun - Infants

04. Errata - L'Eperdu Des Astres

05. Our Ceasing Voice - One Of These Nights

06. All We Expected - Flood

07. Adolf Plays The Jazz - Care

08. le_mol - Time To Get Pumped, Robert Pattinson

09. we.own.the.sky - Muzzle

10. Ranges - If I Were The Devil

11. BOG - The Dead [Fétichisme]

12. SVK - Wormwood (previously unreleased)

13. Telepathy - Cystine Knot

14. Astralia - Mekto

15. Pray For Sound - 23-55

16. cecilia::eyes - Loreta

17. Milanku - L'ineptie De Nos Soucis

18. Shipwrecks - Telescope

19. Outwailed - Dream Walls

20. All These Fallen Trees - Middle-Aged Mutant Financially-Responisble Turtles (Demo) (previously unreleased)

21. Set And Setting - Coping

22. Sleevenotes - Whiskey Dreams

23. Tengil - My Gift To You // The Tunnel At The End Of The Light

24. Amos Val - In the Afternoon a Great Event

25. If These Trees Could Talk - The First Fire

26. Capillaries - Seventy Five Down

27. Audrey Fall - Wolmar

28. Coastlands - Eons (Live in Seattle) (previously unreleased)

29. Cities Of The Plain - Edith Was The Love Of His Life,

30. Cloudkicker - Dovetail

31. Caves Of Steel - Last Citizen Of The USSR (Live at VIVID. A post-rock festival) (previously unreleased)

32. Colaris - Lemuria

33. Our Friend, Surrender - Wrap The Sun Around Your Wounds

34. Release The Long Ships - Rainmaker (previously unreleased)

35. Midas Fall - A Song Built From Scraps Of Paper

36. Spurv - Tre (previously unreleased)

37. Tidings - Mighty Fallen

38. Ashes And Iron - Superstition Drags Us Down

39. Kokomo - Monochrome Noise Love

40. Glaciers - Southwest Of Heaven

41. The White Mega Giant - Pulse Rate

42. -ghost island- - The Last Star's Light

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42 tracks, nearly 5 hours of music! This compilation has been in the making before vol.1 was released and finally I've managed to put the whole thing together! 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! 

Let me know in the comments if you enjoy the compilations being so long or you prefer a compilation with around 20 tracks in the comments.

Also the next compilation (vol.3) will  focus on post & black metal mostly and I'm searching for a name. Something like "post-engineered vol.3 (blank) edition". I would appreciate it, if you threw some ideas.

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The Inquisition: 073.The Black Heart Rebellion

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

We were young, enthusiastic, playing in a band but didn't have a name yet... I don't know, back then we didn't realise the name was going to stick with us for such a long time I think. I can imagine the name does raise some questions about actually fitting with the music we play. But we have learned to accept it, although nowadays we prefer just TBHR instead of fully pronounced. 

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?

Every song starts with the gathering of sounds, influences, atmospheres... We have a good idea of what the song should be like before we start jamming. Then we search for the basic rhythm, instrument or melody. And from there on we add layers, to come to the result we like the most.

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

That can change a lot! 

Right now I'm listening a lot to these records:

- Anna Von Hausswolff - The miraculous

- Cursed - Three, architects of troubled sleep

- Jerusalem in my heart - If he dies, if if if if if if

- Arca - Mutant

- Philip Catherine - Côté Jardin

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

Low - The curtain hits the cast

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

The first record that left an impression on me was a tape I got from Guns and Roses - Use your Illusion. The first record I bought was Nirvana's Nevermind when I was 6 or 7!

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

It must be very fascinating to share a stage, or just do a collaboration with Jordi Savall. He is a Spanish composer with a huge repertoire in traditional music. It's amazing how he can translate the feeling of a culture or people into the music. The record "Esprit d' Arménie" contains some of the best music of my entirely music collection.

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?

Of course. Without the internet we wouldn't be where we are now. I think the chance would be very small we had been to Japan, or our music had been released over there. 

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

It makes music a lot easier of course. There is a good and bad thing in that. The bad thing is that music gets consumed, without actually doing an effort and trying to understand what the artists want to say with their music. On the other side it's a luxury to have the chance to discover so much music. I'm sure my music taste would be different if the world wide web wouldn’t provide me with all the music available.

9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?

I like the way things are going right now. If we have the chance to play a lot of live shows, that's the most important for me. It would be nice to get another opportunity to go to new places, like the times we went to Japan. I'd like to go to China one day.

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

For us it definitely is. It helps us to tell a story with more then just music. The visual side of music that takes your imagination on a trip is something that's very important. 

11. What is you favorite album cover?

I think Godspeed you! black emperor always has nice artwork. It's also more then just the "packaging" of a record. The artwork goes with the music, they use both to tell their story. For example their record "f# a# infinity" came with extra pictures, some kind of coin, and other weird stuff. It gets you in the right mood to listen to the music.

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?

I like the return of the vinyl, because it forces you to actually take your time to listen to the music. You get the chance to see and feel the artwork, read lyrics... Vinyl is definitely the medium that is able to draw the whole picture of a band. On the other hand, the mp3 format is also very useful... you are not bound to a specific place, the music moves with you. I like that a lot, sometimes I listen to records and I directly get memories of a specific place or time where I first heard that record. That's amazing.

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

The two times we went on tour in Japan are moments that will last forever. I remember sitting on the plane, and actually asking myself what we were going to do over there. I just couldn't get it that people on the other side of the world were actually wanting us to come over and play. But the whole experience was amazing. We met great people, we discovered a very unique culture, we played good concerts. Until this day I am still very honoured that we had that chance.

The Black Heart Rebellion released one of the best albums on 2015 with their third album "People, When You See The Smoke, Do Not Think It Is Fields They're Burning".

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EP: The Foxery - American Dissonance

Band: The Foxery
Album: American Dissonance
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Filth Zer0
02. Commerical Suicide
03. In The Idle Arms Of Limos, At The Farthest Edge Of Scythia
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Coming on the heels of several independent EP's, incessant DIY touring, and months of persistent writing, The Foxery has found their home on Spartan Records with Unless, unquestionably their most prolific record to date. Subtle rhythm changes, melodic layers, and key modulations begin to alter the sonic landscape as the record reaches its crescendo where it ultimately ends in a place of redemption

They released this EP as they are starting their tour.

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