So… Being a music blog/website, we receive a lot of music. From PR firms and labels, but also from the bands themselves, sometimes. We listen to most of it. If it catches our ear, we then go on to download or buy it for further listening. The best ones end up in a full review on the website, but even then some of the best don’t get a review simply because I forget about them or don’t find anything to say. Then, the rest of that – many, many albums – never get reviews. They only get posted on the … Read more
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Sithu Aye – Senpai EP「先輩EP」
Through a significant amount of releases, Sithu Aye accustomed us to quality material: great music, especially for guitar solo lovers, high quality production, and the thematics of space and astronomy. The latter is obviously absent from the Senpai EP, but the music is still on par with most of his releases, although being quite different.
So,「先輩EP」is a fun, light-hearted EP about a Japanese anime girl waking up late for school, being stalked by a “kouhai“, and dreaming in class about battling evil frets (all that is in the video below). Sithu puts his heavier elements … Read more
Armand Jourdain – Entre deux
Armand Jourdain is a French self-taught musician who likes to blend djent to jazz and world/folk music. It’s really not the other way around because there is just so little heavy moments compared to the amount of lighter ones that it can’t be classified as a heavy metal release.
This short, three-track EP maintains this style of keeping the djent just for the more intense parts. This is a good trick, as it allows for a wide dynamic range, and the rise in intensity can be truly felt, rather than implied. However, it most likely turns off most djent kids. … Read more
Nylithia premieres Blüdwolves on No Clean Singing
Get hyped via this groovy thrash 3-minute song from Nylithia‘s Hyperthrash album, coming out on November 21!… Read more
Serious Beak – Ankaa, an overanalysis of
After their wildly acclaimed debut album “Huxwhukw” back in 2011, we didn’t hear much from Australia’s psychedelic progressive band Serious Beak. I was much delighted when they announced a sophomore album under the name of Ankaa and released a single for it, “Red (Laniocera hypopyrra)”.
First of all, “Ankaa”, from my best suppositions, comes from the Arabic العنقاء, al-ʿanqā’, which means “the phoenix”. Now, a Phoenix is a mythological bird related to the sun, and that lives cyclically. Ankaa is also a star, otherwise known as α Phoenicis, a rather common binary star that will … Read more