Category Archives: Music
Fantastic Swimmers Concertography – Concerto Grosso #13 (avant-garde jazz)
Galahad – Empires Never Last Rerelease (progressive rock)
Heritage of Unrest – Thalamus EP (progressive metalcore, rapcore)
Oksennus – Älä luovuta koskaan (avant-garde metal)
… Read moreCountdown from Ten, Hexecutor, Mungion, Bruit ≤, Szilárd Mezei Túl a Tiszán Innen Ensemble, Xander Naylor, Earthmass, Avast, and Outre-Tombe
Countdown from Ten – Speakeasy Petting Zoo
This Pennsylvania instrumental trio delivers some nasty math rock-tinged post-hardcore on their debut EP Speakeasy Petting Zoo. It’s in your face but also in your mind, thanks to interesting riff ideas, time signatures, and song structures. There’s quite a show of proficiency from each instrumentalist here, so strap in and prepare for a good time!
Hexecutor – Poison, Lust and Damnation
What would you say about some blackened thrash metal with a rather old school sound and vocals lifted straight from Adventure Time? The latter trait refers to the high-pitched squeals of … Read more
Weekly Release Dump
Saturday, 6 October
自決 9 6 (Jiketsu kyū roku) – → (Rightwards Arrow) (vaporwave, experimental)
Dublin, Ireland
Sunday, 7
Alfa Mist – 7th October (Epilogue) EP (jazz-hop)
UK
Bruit ≤ – Monolith EP (post-rock)
Toulouse, France
On Elusive Sound
Mononeon – “She Was Round & Brown” Single (experimental jazz, hip-hop)
Memphis, Tennessee
My Deathbed – The Thin Line between Sanity and Insanity EP (depressive black metal, noise)
Greece
… Read moreLeonov – Wake
The Music
The Words
Leonov, from Oslo, Norway, is a band that calls itself a blend of post-rock and metal. Wake is set to be their second release, after a self-titled album in 2014, and will be out on Fysisk Format on October 26. The quintet is made of Tåran Reidal on vocals and keyboards, Ole Jørgen Reindal and Rune Gilje on guitars, Morten Kjelling on bass, and Jon-Vetle Lunden on drums. It’s the first time I’m acquainted with the band, but a few minutes only sold me on it. Let’s see what it’s all about…
Wake commences rather … Read more
Birushanah – 灰ニナルマデ
The Music
The Words
Naniwakko trio Birushanah released 灰ニナルマデ (Hai ni narumade) on October 3. The Japanese group has been around since 2002 under the moniker 毘盧釈那 (Birushana), and this latest opus is their fourth full-length release. The style of the band is sludge metal that includes a lot of elements from Japanese musical culture and pitched percussions.
This mix certainly makes them stand out musically. From the first minutes on 灰ニナルマデ, the pitched percussions come in and battle with the guitarist and singer for centre stage with their counter-intuitive melodies and unfamiliar harmonics. I’ve written about harmonics in … Read more