EP: Iroha - End Of An Era

Band: Iroha
Album: End Of An Era EP
Label: Denovali Records
Year: 2011










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01. End Of An Era
02. Where Summer Thrives
03. Fallen Angel
04. Runaway
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After a collaboration record with Fragment. from France and the self titled debut full length, 'the End Of An Era' constitutes the third release of Iroha – the new project consisting of Andy Swan (Final), Diarmuid Dalton (Godflesh, jesu) and Dominic Crane (The Boaty Man, Rumble Fish). 

The 4 tracks (with a total playing time of 25 minutes) express their love to shoegaze just as much as their interest in the sound of new wave acts like New Order – all this mixed with a metal orientated sound basis and little ambient influences. Iroha have a great feeling for melodies and know how to combine them with powerful sound elements to create a fuzzy warm mood in every new track.

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EP: Our Ceasing Voice & Satory Split

Band: Our Ceasing Voice & Satory
Album: 7'' Split
Label: Truelove Entertainment/Revolvermann Records
Year: 2011










Tracklist
01. Our Ceasing Voice - For Darkness Fears The Light
02. Satory - The Translator
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For Darkness Fears The Light poses the deeply moving return of Our Ceasing Voice after the success of their debut album 'When the Headline Hit Home'. Striking vocals and powerful drumming enable the band to dare the leap and take their ambient based tunes a step further, while retaining the outfits's full melodramatic force.

Originated in a time of change, Satory's track, The Translator, defines an important turning point in the story of the beast that was introduced in their 2009 EP. Expressive heaviness and valleys of hope constitute their new sound, bringing the powerful machinery back to the post-metal front.

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EP: Autumn In Hiroshima - A Sleeping Portrait Of Klara

Band: Autumn In Hiroshima
Album: A Sleeping Portrait Of Klara EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011










Tracklist
01. A Sleeping Portrait Of Klara
02. Hollow Walls
03. Indián Blanket
04. Daughter Moon
05. Arizona's Ground Zero
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Autumn In Hiroshima is a band from Canterbury, South East UK, and just a few days ago they released their first EP. The playtime is just under 30 minutes, is a mix of post-rock, ambient & drone sounds and leaves some great expectations for a full album.

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Album: Immanu El - In Passage

Band: Immanu El
Album: In Passage
Label: And The Sound Records
Year: 2011








Tracklist
01. Skagerak
02. Conquistador
03. The Threshold
04. Comforting Dawn
05. Into Waters
06. To An Ocean
07. While I'm Reaching For You
08. On Wide Shoulders
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Immanu El started as a musical experiment in 2004 by 16-year-old Claes Strängberg, soon joined by his twin brother Per and old childhood friend Emil Karlsson. The ambition has, ever since the start, been to create something captivating and beautiful - and the ways of achieving this have been evolving differently. During the first year, while studying in high school, they started to create music in an old barn in the countryside outside the town of Jönköping. The first demo 'Killerwhale EP' was sold out, spread all over the world and the band got the chance to make numerous shows around Sweden after being selected as "Rookies of 2005" by Hultsfredfestivalen. After finishing high school the band signed with And The Sound Records, moved to Gothenburg and got two other friends who joined the band, David Lillberg and Jonatan Josefsson. The debut album "They’ll Come, They Come" was released in 2007 and was followed by the first tours in Europe the next year.

Together with the labelmates in EF, the band took over And The Sound Records, made it completely independent and runned by the artists themselves with licensing- and distribution partners all over the world. The second album "Moen" was released in late 2009 and the band continued to focus on making live shows all over Europe. With more than 150 concerts in 25 countries for the last three years, the band has gained a growing reputation to be one of the most promising bands from Scandinavia today. As a result of hard work, heavy touring and two well received albums; established magazines and medias (Visions, Metro, Vice, Uncle Sally's, Vodafone Live, Eclipsed and many more) also started to pay attention to Immanu El.

With a lot of new inspiration and experience from earlier adventures, the band started to work with a third album, called "In Passage", that was recorded in the summer of 2011 together with the old friend Kristian from pg Lost in Norrköping. The release date was set to October 29th with tours following in Europe during winter and spring 2011/2012 as well as a first tour Asia in beginning of 2012.

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Band: Sugar Factory

Band: Sugar Factory
Album: 440 / Explosions 7''
Label: Sudden Pause Records
Year: 2011










Tracklist
01. 440
02. Explosions
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Band: Sugar Factory
Album: Remix
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011










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01. Explosions (Through The Eyes Of Mañu)
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Sugar Factory were created in 2009 by Stelreverb (guitars, samples) and Sophie K. (accordion, bass guitar, samples). Inspired by the ad-lib contemporary music and the melodic lines of Greek and foreign artists, they blend 'sweet' melodies while winking at industrialized sounds.

*Thanx to Tzo for pointing this band.

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