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: Hexis - Tando Ashanti

Band: Hexis
Album: Tando Ashanti
Label: Alerta Antifascista, Halo Of Flies
Year: 2017








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01. Tando
02. Ashanti
03. Molestus
04. Ritualis
05. Calamitas
06. Nocturnus
07. Opacus
08. Cordolium
09. Resurrectio
10. Septem
11. Praesagium
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Hexis is a band from Copenhagen, Denmark, playing a mix of hardcore and doomy black metal. The band has existed since 2010, but has already played almost 300 shows in The US, Canada, Japan, Cuba, Island, Russia, the UK and all-over Europe.

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The Inquisition: 079.Throane (Dehn Sora)

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

It is a combination of the words « Throne » and « Throat ». Inspired by a phrase that says, Throat is the Throne of every knots. After everything was set and ready to be released, a close friend of mine told me it means « a Tear », in a Flemish dialect. Made sense afterwards. 

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? 

I don't have any technique, maybe just more rituals. I let things come, try not to think a lot in the first place. Searching, seeking, failing. But as for Throane, everything came very naturally, I accepted what came, with it's mistakes. Keeping what made sense, without any big thinking. If I felt, I kept. I had to be strong at this time. I forged an armor around me while playing. 

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

Influences are so vast. And I don't really feel that some bands strictly influence me anymore. It is cliché, but life in general is the source. A way to not live that constant hell, to build a place where we can get rid of what scratches us everyday. What I listen at home depends on what I do. If I work on some corporate things, I mostly listen for some documentaries. Having voices around helps concentrate. If I work on personal things, I try to find the best soundtrack in the opposite vibe of what I feel. If I am nervous, I'd go for ambient. If I'm OK but need energy, I'd go for something speed. So, can't really name drop. But lately, to name a few : Nothing, Associal Club, Emma Ruth Rundle, 16 Horsepower, Urfaust. 

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

It moves depending on periods. Lately, it has been Oranssi Pazuzu « Värähtelijä » 

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

Think it was Deicide « Once Upon the Cross », when I really asked for my parents to buy me a record. 

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

Too many, but a one that is special in my heart might be Magma. But I feel that they will have no interest in playing with me. What kind of torch can I give to them ? And secretly hope for a Blut aus Nord secret show that I can be part of. 

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? 

Internet is definitively a good tool, it helped communication. I still like paper press, but the power turned in the hand of internet this past decade. So it's a good tool to work with. I was surprised to have feedback from Japan, and South America. Realizing what you've done, coming from your head, can reach people that oceans separate each other, is always rewarding, and surprising. 

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

Pretty much, I'm just always confused in quantifying how much I should put on a record. If it's a good way for bands to get support, to make work again,I'm in. 

9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years? 

As everything can fall apart at any moment, I don't wanna think about this. I do my best everyday, so I'll be probably still trying, still fighting. 

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

More than important, it is, in my opinion, part of the whole thing. Even if physical releases sales are falling, I think the music scenes I evolve in, are still pretty attached to the matter, of not having only mp3s. And even if discs will disappear, I will still think artwork is 50% of the work. To build a proper story, a complete shell.

11. What is you favorite album cover? 

Damn, too many to be mentioned. But, again, lately, I'd say Savages « Adore Life »

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'd say vinyl is my favorite, for the ritual it places. You have to be focus. You have to change side. It is personal investment in the music you're listening. 

13. What's the most vivid story or moment as an artist? 

I hope it didn't happened yet.

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Streaming: Throane - Derrière Nous La Lumière

Band: Throane
Album: Derrière Nous La Lumière
Label: Debemur Morti
Year: 2016








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01.Sortez Vos Lames, Que Nous Perdions Nos Poings
02.Aussi Féroces Que Nous Repentons
03.Derrière-Nous, La Lumière
04.Un Instant Dans Une Torche
05.Contre Terre
06.Nous Blâmons La Tempête De Nous Avoir Laissés En Plaies
07.A Cette Chute
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"Derrière-Nous, La Lumière" is a giant wave of despair, a colossal edifice of discordant guitars and heartbreaking howling built on mid-paced and oppressive tempo, reminiscent of Godflesh, Neurosis or Blut Aus Nord. The poisonous heaviness of this insane work of art, truly mind-melting, is dangerously addictive, intelligently repetitive and hypnotic.

The infected music of Throane is a desperate landscape, a massive nihilistic echo crawling into the mystic depths of the human soul, at the crossroads between industrial, black-metal, post-core and dark ambient.

With this first outstanding album, a pure injection of desolation, Throane has positioned himself to join the elite in the obscure meanders of real underground, where creative and audacious bands are the hidden monarch of exceptional Dark Arts.

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EP: Take This Town - Waking Dream

Band: Take This Town
Album: Waking Dream
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014








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01. Lead Astray
02. Dust Remains
03. Waking Dream
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Take This Town is a four-piece band from the Bavarian Forest in Germany that draws influences from black metal, sludge, doom and hardcore (think of Rorcal or Celeste).

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Album: Rorcal - Vilagvege

Band: Rorcal
Album: Vilagvege
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013








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01. I
02. D
03. II
04. V
05. IV
06. VII
07. VI
08. VIII
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Rorcal sees the light in Geneva (Switzerland) in 2006.  

After four efforts between 2007 and 2008 and more than 100 shows all over Europe, 2010 is marked by the band’s fifth block: Heliogabalus. Highly acclaimed by the public and the critics, this one marks a radical change in the band’s music. Obsessively dark and heavy, this 70 minutes monolithic piece sees Rorcal sink deeper into the abysses of sound.  

After touring all over Europe and working on a couple of collaborative releases, Rorcal is now ready with a brand new set entitled Vilagvege. You have no idea what to expect.  Somewhere between drone, doom and black metal, let yourself go into the bowels of the whale.

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EP: No Misery Left - Let The New Life Begin

Band: No Misery Left
Album: Let The New Life Begin
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012








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01. Chapter I - Hate
02. Chapter II - Sorrow
03. Chapter III - Hope
04. Chapter IV - Love
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No Misery Left is a screamo | post-metal | experimental music project from Prague (Czech Republic).

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Album: Minerva Superduty - Minerva Superduty

Band: Minerva Superduty
Album: Minerva Superduty
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014








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01. Sklenos Pt.1
02. Corvie
03. Gargantua
04. Sklenos Pt.2
05. Tsakonas Emperor
06. Ω3
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Minerva Superduty is a 4-piece collective located in Kalamata, Greece, set to create something that could be mistaken as music.

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Album: Direwolves - Aegri Somnia

Band: Direwolves
Album: Aegri Somnia
Label: Throatruiner Records
Year: 2014








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01. Introspection
02. Insights
03. The Blindness That Keeps You Warm
04. Holy Treason
05. Echoed In Vain
06. Sighs And Whisper
07. The Liar's Choice
08. Face The Facts
09. Light It Up
10. Keep It Clear
11. Endless Tragedies
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Formed in 2011 in Lorient, western France, Direwolves rapidly stood out from the pack by combining both the melodic and the heavy aspects of punk hardcore. Their first full-length «Aegri Somnia» not only follows the path of their EP «Me From Myself, To Banish» (2012) but also enhances the spectrum of their sound, browsing through a large range of sub-genres while avoiding their respective clichés. Songs such as "Holy Treason" or "Face The Facts" show the band at their most vehement, colliding unstoppable drumming with heavily metallic-influenced riffs while the end of the record explores more emotionally-charged post-metallic soundscapes. With their constant will to remain straightforward but diversified Direwolves deliver eleven highly epic and passionate anthems, condensing everything you could expect from a great hardcore LP in 2014.

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16. Celeste - Animale(s)

Band: Celeste

Album: Animale(s)

Label: Denovali
Favorite Track: Tes Âmes Soeurs Immaculées

 

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EP: Cloud Zone - Demo

Band: Cloud Zone
Album: Demo EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2010








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01. Launched Into Orbit
02. Tadoma
03. Illusory Skies
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Cloud Zone is a post-metal band from Sweden, with some influences of djent.

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EP: Selenites & For You. Earth - Split

Band: Selenites & For You. Earth
Album: Split EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013








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01. Selenites - Untitled
02. For You. Earth - 1917
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Selenites is a band from Toulouse in south France.
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For You. Earth is a band from N.Novgorod, Russia. They play some kind of chaotic hardcore chaotic since 2006.
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EP: Death Engine - Amen

Band: Death Engine
Album: Amen EP
Label: Throatruiner Records, North Cult Records
Year: 2013










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01. No Hope
02. Dallas
03. Gun
04. Amen
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Lorient, France’s Death Engine deliver violent and obscure noise in the vein of Playing Enemy, Swans or Amenra. Recorded in a live setting and mixed by producer/engineer Amaury Sauvé at La Senelle then mastered by Sylvain Biguet, their debut EP “Amen” features four tracks of thunderous riffs, cutthroat vocals and hypnotic drumming, like cathedrals collapsing in slow-motion.

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Album: The Psyke Project - Guillotine

Band: The Psyke Project
Album: Guillotine
Label: Bloated Veins, Braincrushing, Black Lake, Molestin and Swarm Of Nails
Year: 2013









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01. Guillotine
02. Death Sight
03. The End
04. Partisan
05. The Mute
06. Empire
07. Ghost Fight
08. Hell Is Other People
09. When Man Became God
10. Good For Nothing
11. Menneske
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The Psyke Project was formed in 2001 and has its home in Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavia.

The music is intense and heavy with influences ranging from sludge / post hardcore to punk metal. The Psyke Project has released five full lengths and one split album (with As We Fight) and toured most of Europe/UK several times.

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Album: Circle Takes The Square - Decompositions: Volume Number One

Band: Circle Takes The Square
Album: Decompositions: Volume Number One
Label: Gatepost Recordings
Year: 2012










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01. Enter By The Narrow Gates
02. Spirit Narrative
03. Way Of Ever-Branching Paths
04. The Ancestral Other Side
05. Prefaced By The Signal Fires
06. A Closing Chapter (Scarlet Rising)
07. Singing Vengeance Into Being
08. Arrowhead As Epilogue
09. North Star, Inverted
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Circle Takes The Square (often abbreviated CTTS) is a screamo band from Savannah, Georgia, USA. The band formed in 2001 as a four-piece and after their first two releases they lost a guitarist but gained another in late 2004. What listeners tend to notice first about the band is the loud screaming of both male and female vocals that often function in a kind of call and response. Skillful, chaotic drumming coupled with intense, highly technical bass/guitar work have served to separate the band from most others in the screamo genre. Highly diverse song structures (from meditative, droning intros to crushing choruses) have also assisted in carving their unique niche. The band completed a tour of the UK in mid-2004.  

Their latest album, entitled Decompositions: Volume Number One, was released via the band’s bandcamp page on the 21st of December, 2012. They released it afterwards on Gatepost Recordings in CD & vinyl.

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Album: Titan - Burn

Band: Titan
Album: Burn
Label: Hypaethral Records
Year: 2012










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01. Feast
02. Indulgence
03. Myopic
04. Sermon
05. Warmer Months
06. Corrupt
07. Little Seeds
08. Telepaths
09. Vitiate
10. The Fire Sculptures
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Despite taking its name from a saga extending back to Ancient Greek mythology, this unearthed demon defiles via steely, barbaric prowess and uncompromising girth. Bold, brutish and vicious, the only moniker that possibly conveys its explosive dominance has been culled from antiquated primordial deities.

This is Titan.

Formed as a quartet in 2006 yet eventually expanding their assault to include a fifth assailant a year later, Toronto-based hardcore/metal leviathan Titan has been violating metal audiences since their inception by means of commanding releases and live performances across Canada and Europe.

EPs including The Chrysanthemum Pledge and most recent critically-acclaimed leveler Colossus EP (React with Protest/Feast or Famine Recordings) have only solidified their dexterity and confirmed an overall mission of binding sensory mass with emotional force. Assertive and forthright, the band's volatile rhythms, apocalyptic pacing and bloodthirsty vocals create unrestrained metallic dirges worthy of comparison to malevolent divinity.

"Our goal is to write songs that are heavy and intense while still keeping a sense of melody," asserts Chris W. "There are so many tech metal bands and generic hardcore bands out there – who all have their niche – but we're doing something that's not really being done right now. We blend the heaviness of metal with the extremity of hardcore in a new and interesting way. It makes us epic, intense, and heavy as fuck."

A union between the severity of hardcore and technical mastery/sinister malice of metal, such a bombastic sonic outcome from Titan is inevitable. Maintaining roots consistent with traditional Canadian hardcore established by the likes of Union Of Uranus, Buried Inside, Cursed and more, Titan enhances a rich, thunderous history with their own furious approach. Still, engrossed in augmenting their original style, as the band pens its debut full-length, a deeper cohesion of sonic and thematic plots is arising.

"Where we are now is definitely an organic growth, even if the beginnings were somewhat pointed," Chris W. continues. "Some time after writing the first record, I started getting really into mid-era Neurosis, which became a substantial influence on Titan. I think their influence is why our songs have gradually gotten longer and heavier."

Pulling inspiration from the most unusual places, Titan draw on a unique wealth of influences for their multifaceted musical onslaught. Sludge-driven metal acts unite with the progressive nature of '70s rockers underneath lyrical motivation culled from endless research.

The results are references to cultural icons like Nietzsche, Ingmar Bergman, Foucault, E.B. Strange, Dostoevsky, Euripides, de Sade, Nabokov and Milton, with typical Titan songs featuring bold and anomalous subjects ranging from Zoroastrianism, Ancient Roman execution methods and Japanese ghost folklore to Marvel comics sagas.

"We write truly original metal lyrics with a depth not seen before in heavy music. They feature broad topics but have a body of research and reference within them that one can simply read over and enjoy or take the time to look into the depth of a 'world' I'm creating. Each songs is woven pretty tightly with reference whether it be to a specific event, myth, theory or saga I've fictionalized myself" notes James, laughing that, "Our lyrics are ultimately an expression of our obsessive nature."

Consolidating these motley elements into a music that is brazen and authoritative regardless of volume, Titan ensure that their cardinal design is not only inimitable but ever-adapting. Looking forward to more universal touring in support of future releases, Chris W. beams that Titan has only just begun to decimate with its conviction empowered by an unyielding metallic brawn and vehemence, aspects that solidify their passion and commitment to make metal as intellectual as it is spiritually stirring.

"We're not a political band, we're not necessarily a personal band. Our only outlook is to make the crushing parts even more crushing and melodic parts even more heart-wrenching. I guess in a way that makes us an emotional band, but of course not in the pop culture sense that's used these days."

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