Ignore the post rock tagging when seems to accompany UK duo Defy The Ocean as their sound is so much more than that. Well not exactly ignore as it is one prevalent texture within a proposition which commands attention but… Read More ›
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Lower Automation – Maps
You have seen those scenes in movies where people are strapped in front of a screen and bombarded with rapid brainwashing images; finally succumbing to the kaleidoscope of ravenous suggestiveness. Listening to Maps, the debut EP from US experimental punks… Read More ›
The Lumberjack Feedback – Blackened Visions
As debut albums go, Blackened Visions from French instrumental progressive doomsters The Lumberjack Feedback is a colossus, though maybe that is not so much a surprise given the impressive and intensive tempest of their earlier offerings. The new album though… Read More ›
Thera Roya – Unraveling
No respite is offered and none expected as the first track alone of the Unraveling bears down on ears and psyche with punishing intent, and so it proves to be across the whole of the new EP from US trio… Read More ›
Unbeing – Raptus EP
Following on from their seemingly universally acclaimed debut album, Canadian progressive metallers Unbeing have released the exceptional Raptus EP, a rich and compelling journey for the imagination and emotions. As technically captivating and enthralling as it is evocatively absorbing and… Read More ›
Telepathy – 12 Areas
Creating a fiercely evocative and tempestuous soundscape within the exploration of lucid dreaming and dream phenomena, UK instrumental band Telepathy unleash new album 12 Areas to dramatically incite senses, imagination, and emotions. The seven track album is an uncontrollably immersive… Read More ›
Plebeian Grandstand – Lowgazers
French extreme metallers Plebeian Grandstand has one of those sounds which is so viciously ugly and vehemently destructive that you cannot understand why it is just so compelling as evidenced by their second album Lowgazers. Consisting of eight mercilessly voracious… Read More ›
Australasia – Vertebra
Lifting the listener’s thoughts and imagination into an expansive and emotional almost visual flight through an ever evolving soundscape broken up into smaller evocative sceneries, Vertebra the new album from Italian band Australasia is one of those absorbing emprises you… Read More ›
Aeris – Temple
Temple is an imaginist’s playground, an album which allows the listener’s instinctive mental adventure to cast its own potent narratives within unique expansive journeys. Sculpted and presented by French progressive metallers Aeris, the seven tracks/movements within three chapters… Read More ›
Where The Skeletons Play – Serotonin Blueprints
Last year saw a debut EP from a UK band which had the potential to take emotive and atmospheric enterprise into a new depth of inciting invention. Generation Wars from Where The Skeletons Play was a dramatic and absorbing immersion… Read More ›
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