I have lauded Warp Prism (now known only as Warp) more than once in the past. Their 2013 concept album, The Infinite II, was – and still is – one of the best prog metal releases I’ve heard. It mixed in djent and electronica in a more than decent manner, and the song structure there was stellar: continually evolving while still keeping its place under the overarching story. The album was a marked step up from any of their previous works, namely Evolution and Transcode. This led me to pre-order Anima as soon as it was made … Read more
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Monthly Recommendations: December 2015
Here are our last picks of the year! Even though December – as always – was a fairly slow month in music, we’ve managed to find four gems that you need to hear!
First up is Codas‘s Fossils EP. It’s a delicately crafted triptych blending various experimental genres with post and math metal. It’s a pretty long EP, at more than 25 minutes, and it’s a segue between the band’s first album, Currents, which is also technically an EP, and their upcoming full-length in 2016. covet have released a very potent EP that will be the grounds to… Read morecovet – Currents
After Yvette Young released her jaw-dropping acoustic math rock EP in early 2014, we’ve all been waiting for developments with her actual band, covet. After a crowdfunding campaign putting the album available for pre-order on bandcamp, the Currents EP is finally, after some delay, released.
Does it live up to the hype? Yes and no. It all has to do with what you expected of this. I anticipated something more or less like her personal Acoustics EP: intricate and technical guitar play, soft and melodious vocals and chill songs, but all supported by a band of talented and like-minded … Read more
OSR: December 24th, 2015
A theonihilogical instrumental album by Peculate, with more experimentation than usual, as we like it, but we could’ve been spared the synthesized saxophone.
An alternative death metal album that’s heavily good, or goodily heavy?
A slab of black metal-infused hardcore; anything black-infused is already much better!
A fantastic album with various experimentations on death metal and other genres!
Another great album, very dark indie fit for metalheads.… Read more
Amia Venera Landscape cured my longing with their new music video for Hiraeth
Amia Venera Landscape released their widely acclaimed album The Long Procession back in 2010, and we’ve all been eager to listen to new music from them since! Well, they wrapped up a cool gift for us in time for the winter solstice with “Hiraeth”, and a release date for Vision I: The Great Mystery: April 30th, 2016. Seems like they took their sweet time to carefully craft this album, and this rather short song, for their own standards, proves it! I just hope there’ll be longer songs since I think that’s where the band shines the most!… Read more