Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 26, 2018 0 Engineers

Recommendation: Platonick Dive - Social Habits


Band: Platonick Dive
Album: Social Habit
Label: Self Released
Year: 2018








Tracklist
01. Waxfall
02. Habit
03. Maple
04. Less Is More
05. Polaroids
06. Doug-Fir
07. Flannel
08. Private Room
09. Cure
10. Lago
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"Social Habits" is the third studio album from Italian electronic trio Platonick Dive. It marks a turning point in the sound and the artistic path of the band. A decidedly more ambitious album, where the electronics, the beats and the dreaming sounds of guitars and synths are now supporting the lead voice for a complete therapeutic immersion. It's the natural consequence of the therapeutic journey they started with the first album, where the band has as its main objective to use music as self-therapy and then spread it to its listeners. Despite this artistic growth, the sound remains extremely recognizable but even more personal and contemporary. "Social Habits" is composed by ten tracks. Ten different stories of lived lives, ten fragments where you can identify yourself and get lost at the same time, but also find hope and new energies.


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Tuesday, February 27, 2018 0 Engineers

Recommendation: Charun - Mundus Cereris


Band: Charun
Album: Mundus Cereris
Label: Third I Rex
Year: 2018








Tracklist
01. Malacoda
02. Mae
03. Laran
04. Nethuns
05. Menvra
06. Vanth
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Charun's new album is not your average post-metal record. The band has been working on this new release for quite some time and we are not lying when we say that this record has got the potential to become one of the most impressive instrumental post-metal albums of the year. Titled "Mundus Cereris", the band's new opus will take you through over 40 minutes of emotions in music. 

The album has been recorded and mixed in Sardinia at the infamous DIY Studios (Second Youth, Scornthroats, Ubiquity) and Blacktooth Studios (Drought, December Hung Himself). The mastering of it has been taken care of by James Plotkin (Isis, Sunn O))), Earth, Amenra and many more). 

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 0 Engineers

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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Tuesday, May 24, 2016 0 Engineers

EP: Tomydeepestego - TMDE


Band: Tomydeepestego
Album: TMDE EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Victor
02. Tetra
03. Shai
04. Decade
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Tomydeepestego (to be read to my deepest ego) is an instrumental post hardcore band with metal and psychedelic influences, based in Rome (Italy).Formed in 2006, the band was started by four members, some well known in the underground scene by playing in bands such as Inferno Sci-Fi Grind'n'Roll and The Phoenix. Almost immediately, the band attracts the attention of Italian label Subsound Records which releases the band's first album Odyssea, in October 2007. Later that year, the American label KNVBI Records, also released the album as a double vinyl.

The band starts playing all around Italy and has the opportunity to be the support band for international bands such as Red Sparrows, Cult of Luna, Fu Manchu and This Will Destroy You. Later the guys start their first European Tour, touching Germany, France and Austria, receiving amazing feedbacks from magazines and webzines worldwide.

In November 2009, the band releases its second album Chronophage, distributed by Subsound Records and Robotic Empire in Europe, United States and Japan. This is a more personal and mature record, which leads the band to a new level of music writing and interpretation. To promote this new album, the band performs numerous concerts, some of which as opening act for God Is An Astronaut, 65daysofstatic, Mono, Russian Circles, And So I watch You From Afar, Boris and Scott Kelly from Neurosis. A new European Tour starts, giving the band the opportunity to play its music to a wider audience and gaining, once again, very good feedbacks.

2012 is the year of Nero, third album of the band. Totally self-produced and available in free download, this album marks the separation from Subsound Records (with whom the relationship is still strong) and the official entry of Nicolò at synth. The records is later released in vinyl version and supported with several gigs around Italy.

In 2016, after 10 years of activity, the fourth album TMDE is released, once again completely self-produced and this time in a digital version only, except for a few especially handmade numbered copies in CD format.

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Saturday, January 09, 2016 0 Engineers

Streaming: Charun - Stige


Band: Charun
Album: Stige
Label: Cave Canem DIY, As Above So Below Records
Year: 2016






Tracklist
01. Clinamen
02. De Brevitate Vitae
03. Divina Voluptas
04. De Tranquillitate Animi
05. Intermundiae
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Charun is a four piece instrumental post-rock/post-metal band from Sardinia, Italy. Formed in 2013 they self-released a 4 track demo “De Ortu Solis”, and teamed up with Cave Canem DIY and As Above So Below Records for the release of the full length “Stige”. They combine post-rock atmosphere with doom tendencies and exhausting and evocative metal driven ambiance.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 0 Engineers

Video: Platonick Dive - Please Dance Slowly


Tuesday, November 10, 2015 0 Engineers

Streaming: Sunpocrisy - Eyegasm, Hallelujah!


Band: Sunpocrisy
Album: Eyegasm, Hallelujah!
Label: Woooaargh Records, Shove Records, Dullest Records, Drown Within Records
Year: 2015






Tracklist
01. Eyegasm
02. Mausoleum Of The Almost
03. Transmogrification
04. Eternitarian
05. Of Barbs And Barbules
06. Kairos Through Aion
07. Gravis Vociferatur
08. Festive Garments
09. Hallelujah!
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Sunpocrisy were born in 2007 as a four pieces death/progressive band and recorded the first EP called "Atman EP". After the release in 2008 the quartet started the live activity, playing gigs with bands like The Ocean, Ahab, In Mourning, Black Sun Aeon and more. 

In 2010 the band got the 4th place in "Wacken Metal Battle", an important unsigned band contest and then they started to create a more complex and different kind of music, becoming a six-pieces post/progressive beast, adding a third guitarist and a keyboard player. 

In late 2011 the band recorded the debut album, a full length concept called "Samaroid Dioramas", engineered at Studio 73 by Riccardo Pasini (Ephel Duath, Extrema, The Secret). Since its issue, in February 2012, the album had a lot of positive reviews and the live activity had been pushed to a higher level: the band plays using live-made lasers projections, atmospheric and strobe lights with a massive wall of sound and suggestive visuals, whom the listener feels embraced within. 

About 50 shows in two years around Italy, Germany and Czech Republic supporting: Deafheaven, The Ocean, Napalm Death, Mouth Of The Architect, Ken Mode, Arabrot, Ahab, Mose Giganticus, Black Sun Aeon, The Secret, In Mourning, Destrage, Lento, Raein, American Me, and more until late 2013.

November 1st 2015, marked the release of their second album "Eyegasm, Hallelujah!".

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Tuesday, September 15, 2015 0 Engineers

Streaming: Postvorta - Æegeria


Band: Postvorta
Album: Æegeria
Label: Drown Within Records
Year: 2015








Tracklist
01. Amnios
02. Corion
03. Uterus
04. Placenta
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Æegeria is the first chapter of a trilogy about the cicle of birth. As Postvorta, Æegeria is the first goddess of the archaic hearth, one of the four Camenes keepers of the birth, mother earth, prosperity and wisdom. The entire concept of the upcoming Postvorta's music will be focused on the links and scents between creation and inheritance, giver and receiver and their ways to take shape.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015 0 Engineers

The Inquisition: 044.Platonick Dive


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

Platonick Dive is something that you can feel but you can't touch. It's something that really exist but you can't see. Like the platonic love, the Platonick Dive is an abstract immersion into today's society.

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?

It’s never easy to explain about the writing process, ‘cause every track has different story and different inspirations. Writing is what we really enjoy doing, always exploring the many depths of electronic music, trying to discover that particular sound. Sometimes it comes from a piano or guitar riff, sometimes it comes from a synth line or electronic project.

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

Our music comes from everyday life, so everything and anything could be an inspiration. We are great listeners of different kinds of music: electronic, classical, psychedelic, instrumental. Our main music background comes from the American alternative '80-'90s scene. Also literature and graphic art are great inspirations.

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

"In Utero" (Nirvana), but also "Dirty" (Sonic Youth) and "Immolate Yourself" from Telefon Tel Aviv.

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

Probably "Nevermind".

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

Battles.

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

Yeah, the internet helps a lot to spread our music around the world. Russia and Eastern Europe in general are countries where our fan base is growing a lot. And the internet is essential.

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

Yes, we really like Bandcamp's idea. You put your album with a standard minimum price and then the fans decide what they want pay. It's a brilliant idea! Spotify has some positive aspects but also some negatives. It creates a strange process.

9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?

We don't know. We will probably still be trying to write cool songs, because music is more important than everything.

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

Yes, absolutely. 'Cause today, when you see a cool artwork from your laptop...it's always something that captures your attention. And your fans, who buy the album (CD or vinyl), want to touch the album, feel the "physical" of the music.

11. What is you favorite album cover?

Sonic Youth - "Goo".

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?

As we said, the real fan want the physical album formats. Vinyl, more than CDs, is a format that can really give you this sensation. In the digital era, when you buy a physical copy of an album, it means that you are really into that album. So it's a very different sensation to listen your favorite artist on vinyl instead of from a smartphone.

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

When we shared the stage with Efterklang on our first European tour. It was totally crazy!!!

Platonick Dive recently released their amazing album "Overflow".

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015 0 Engineers

Album: threestepstotheocean - Migration Light


Band: threestepstotheocean
Album: Migration Light
Label: Shove Records / Sangue Disken / Tokyo Jupiter Records
Year: 2015







Tracklist
01. They
02. Sur
03. Dust Bowl
04. Sulaco
05. I End
06. Wooden Shelter
07. Primordial Leavers
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threestepstotheocean is an instrumental band born in winter 2006 in Milan, Italy and "Migration Light" is their third album and forth release.

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Friday, February 27, 2015 0 Engineers

Streaming: Platonick Dive - Overflow


Band: Platonick Dive
Album: Overflow
Label: Black Candy Records
Year: 2015








Tracklist
01. Spoken Noise
02. Please Dance Slowly
03. Above You
04. From Seattle To Berlin
05. Underground Connections
06. High Tide
07. Mirror
08. Geometric Lace
09. Reverb Overdose
10. Backing Home Boulevard
11. The Best Is Yet To Come
12. Jet-Lag
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Describing themselves as "silence against noise" the pause-for-a-thought statement couldn't, in fact, be more accurate. The group create electronic tinged post-rock in a beautifully experimental way - with a finished product of brilliantly crafted haunting and ethereal songs to form an outstanding and critically acclaimed catalogue. Already making waves in Europe, it's now time for North America and the rest of the world to take notice and be swept up in the cool as hell soundscapes of Platonick Dive. For fans of The American Dollar and 65daysofstatic.

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Monday, February 16, 2015 0 Engineers

The Inquisition: 041.threestepstotheocean


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

If I remember correctly, during a flight, our drummer Davide saw this 3 little islands in the sea and he came up with the name three steps to the ocean. At the time we thought that it was a very evocative/epic/spleen name and we got that. We recently decided to change it in threestepstotheocean (there's not such a difference but we prefer like that) 

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? 

We usually start with a guitar riff then we jam and record everything. If the result satisfies us we go ahead with the structure. When we have a proto-song, we try to arrange it with something that sounds stimulating to us. Sometimes a song grows up fast and without problems, other times we spent months in one arrangement and at the end we decide to delete everything. So it's a long, and often frustrating process. 

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

Everyone who made an interview always answer "oh we listen to a lot of music", so to be different I will say that I didn't listen to a lot of music in this period. For the new album, "Migration Light" we took inspiration from something different from the past. We are an instrumental post-something band and we will be forever compared to some historical bands, which we obviously like, but we really tried to do something different from our previous works.

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

I remember when, for the first time, I've heard "Adrenaline" by deftones, Chino Moreno's screams and Carpenter's guitar riffs literally opened my mind. Since then I started listening and discovering heavier music (I was a huge alternative-rock fan) so it's one of the most important albums of my life, not the best, but a sort of turning point in my music background. 

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

Probably "Punk In Drublic" by NOFX. I had a lot of tapes made by my friend but "Punk In Drublic" is the first CD I ever bought with my money. 

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

NOFX. Just kidding. For example we never played with Lento, it's incredible. But we will, sooner or later. For sure we'll never play with deftones...and we would like a lot. 

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 and blogging are huge help for underground bands. From the beginning we tried to use the social networks (Myspace was the first) to do a fan base and the blogs helped us to spread it all around the world. It was the only way to promote ourselves out of our city, we met people who helped us touring around Italy and Europe. Once again, it's very important for us. We reached places like Indonesia, Egypt but we have 16 likes on facebook from Iran...this is quite amazing. 

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

When we released Scents we decided to put it on Bandcamp with the "name your price" solution. The idea was a free download but a lot of people gave us money for the download...we were pretty surprised of that. Our goal was to be heard by the largest possible number of people. Spotify is quite different from Bandcamp, for sure it's the main trend right now, but i think it's very cold and impersonal. For Migration Light's release we'll put it for sure in free download on Bandcamp and in streaming on Spotify but Bandcamp is more rewarding for a band like us, compared to Spotify. It's not fair that bands have no chance to get money in any possible way, in my opinion. 

9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years? 

In our rehearsal room trying to play something that we like, probably being fatter and for sure older. 

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

The artwork is an important part of the album. For us it's a way to express the concept and the album's mood. We always spent a lot of time for the artwork and usually we make a different version for CD, vinyls and t-shirts. We're currently working at the artwork of "Migration Light", we have some ideas, and we're collaborating with a really good photographer. We really love to collaborate with different artists for each artwork.

11.What's your favorite album cover? 

Celeste's artworks are amazing. The idea and the contrast between the images and the music are pretty cool. I would have had this idea for our albums.


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? 

Vinyl is the best format for everyone who loves everything of an album. The artwork is huge, the sound is unique, I think that the vinyl forces you to listen with attention to the music. But we are also aware that the digital formats are easier to find and to listen in other situations. So we release everything in all the possible formats: vinyls, CD and digital. 

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

Usually, in a band, the funniest moments happen in tour. This is also for us, especially when someone is particularly drunk or stoned. Francesco for example is very funny in that moments. But sometimes we realize that what we think it's funny, it's just funny for us.

threestepstotheocean are currently mixing their new album "Migration Light".

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Friday, January 16, 2015 0 Engineers

The Inquisition: 030.Kubark

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

Kubark is the moniker of the CIA heavy interrogation manual, focused on intimidation and domination. We aren’t interested in military stuff, but we were enthralled by the humiliation concept.

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?

We started our musical process by jamming, but for this new record we worked in a different way: we were interested in composing something near to the pop concept of song. Working in this direction we found that writing a “verse-chorus-verse” composition is more difficult than joining together a couple of riffs united by a strong musical identity.

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

We all listen to different kind of music. In the last few years we started listening to a lot of electronic music because we think that nowadays some of the best and groundbreaking ideas come from electronic machines and their employments. Sometimes, when we want to listen some good rock records, we look to the past, but we all know that this kind of approach is quite easier, because nowadays if you take a look at the music scene, you can find great bands mixed with a lot of shit.

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

Two band members are answering to this interview, so the comeback is a little defective. Anyway, the first record bought by Enrico was Led Zeppelin IV and the first record bought by Elia was In Utero by Nirvana.

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

Nirvana and all the 90’s alt scene (Sonic Youth, Melvins…) Amazing.

6. 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?

We think that the internet, and especially social networks  has a strong impact and gives a new dimension to the band’s work. The other side of the coin is that a social network can’t always select people who are on the same wavelength with you. This creates a strange situation. On the other hand, blogs, webzines and of course specialized magazines make possible that bands can approach a smaller number of people but that are really interested in the right kind of musical scene for their tastes.We were really surprised to know that our music reached Teheran.

7. Do you support the idea of Bandcamp, where fans can decide the price or services like Spotify?

We think that the price of music has to be made by the band, not by the fans. And by the way, we prefer something like Bandcamp rather than Spotify which has killed the concept of music. We know that Spotify is something like a drug because it’s easy to use and gives you access to an incredible library of music but absolutely doesn’t help the artists on the economic side.

8. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?

Probably where we are right now.

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

Absolutely. We think that the graphic side is very very important and we hope it’s the same for other bands and people who still buy music.

10. 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?

Vinyl has a different sound quality and the large packaging help to get involved with the album.We definitely love the 180gr. vinyl.

11. What's the funniest story or moment as a band?

We enjoy a lot the trips in our van. Sometimes strange things happen!

12. Are you planning any new releases or tour right now?

Actually, we released our new album and we are working to make the largest possible number of gigs in Italy and Europe. And we hope that this will happen.

Kubark released their new album "Obedience" a few days ago.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015 1 Engineers

Album: 7parsec - Red Comet


Band: 7parsec
Album: Red Comet
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014








Tracklist
01. Event Horizon
02. One Way Trip To The Back Of Beyond
03. Red Comet
04. Gon Wa
05. 40°54'07.8N 14°15'04.7E
06. Colliding Particles In The Outer A Ring
07. Raft
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The parsec is the parallax angle of one arcsecond, an astronomical unit of length used to measure interstellar distances. One parsec is about 3.26 light-years. 7 is the distance that divides the Heart from Vega. 7parsec is an instrumental post-rock band from Naples(IT), Red Comet is their first album.

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Sunday, June 15, 2014 0 Engineers

Video: Litro - Cloe


Saturday, May 10, 2014 1 Engineers

Album: Postvorta - Beckoning Light We Will Set Ourselves On Fire


Band: Postvorta
Album: Beckoning Light We Will Set Ourselves On Fire
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014







Tracklist
01. We're Nothing
02. We Are The Righteous Hell
03. Set Them On Fire
04. Like Promises
05. You Never Did
06. Like Promises You Never Did
07. Angel
08. These Nights
09. Are Going To End
10. And We're Writing About
11. Abandonment And Letters Flowing
12. On That September
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Postvorta is a brand new 6 member post-metal band from Ravenna, Italy. Their debut album was produce by the world famous producer Andrew Schneider, best know for working with bands like Cave In, Unsane, Pelican, Converge, Zozobra, Rosetta, just to name a few and by the Candiria guitarist, John Lamacchia at the Translator Audio studio in Brooklyn USA.

For fans of Sunpocrisy.

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