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An inventive and sweet prepared piano and beats album; gets better the more you listen to it. A saturated sort of death grind EP that’s quite good, really! An ambient and dark jazz album that’s quite minimalistic and dissonant in its approach. Finally, new Sikth music; need I say more? A rather odd experimental rock album that will seduce you with its careless innocence. I’m all for innovation, and it’s the first time I hear saxophone and jazz influence in sludge music; it’s great, too! Antigama have returned with probably the… Read moreCategory Archives: News
Zayn – Fields of God
Zayn is a Croatian post-metal quartet, and Fields of God is their third release; it’s also their lengthiest, at around 30 minutes, which barely puts it as an LP.
The music itself is some instrumental amalgamation of post-metal and progressive metal. Some grooves are reminiscent of early Tool, maybe because of the prominent bass guitar. Contrary to many post and prog outfits these days, they don’t do into lengthy songs. The most extensive one on this album is the seven-minute title track. This is also pretty contradictory with their focus on atmosphere rather than polyrhythmics, or technicality. Not that these … Read more
Peculate – Hotline Bling
Peculate has decided to join in on the fun that many others such as Sufjan Stevens have in covering the controversial “Hotline Bling”. Peculate does not do a direct cover like many of the others have but a creative jazz-metal arrangement. The outro of the song in itself is a piece within it self.
The video is not just a static image either but something that had effort put into it that goes along with the song.
As usual you can “name your price” for the song and other bits on his bandcamp page by using the link above the … Read more
Slice the Cake – Odyssey to the West [UNFINISHED]
Slice the Cake have been around since 2009 and released their debut EP, “Cleanse” in 2010. They became more well-known with their 2012 album “The Man with No Face”, which raised the band to world fame in the spheres of progressive metal and metalcore, only reinforced by “Other Slices”.
With Odyssey to the West, the trio pushes even farther the boundaries of their own brand of music. Their musicianship and creativity is at their utmost, and is best portrayed on [NAME RELEVANT SONG FROM ODYSSEY THAT MATCHES DESCRIPTION]: a song of epic proportions both structurally and conceptually! They’ve built … Read more
Delvoid release video for Carrier
“Carrier” is the eighth song from their outstanding album Serene, which came out November 9th. If you haven’t had the chance already, read our review of it and listen to Delvoid on Soundcloud!… Read more