Category Archives: News

Our Oceans – Our Oceans

by Dæv Tremblay

a2936028470_16What do you get when you put ex-members of progressive metal band Cynic with members of atmospheric black metal band Dodecahedron? Not what you would expect.

Our Oceans is a post-rock band in which Tymon (ex-Cynic) lulls us with his soothing melodic voice, which we really aren’t used to. Behind his voice and his guitar work is a silky smooth fretless bass playing jazzy lines and drums that put the emphasis on the ambient side of things: painting the background with cymbals over slow odd time signatures and polyrhythms.

Over the course of the album, there is some variety to … Read more

OSR: November 14th, 2015

by Dæv Tremblay
Okazaki Fragments‘ debut EP Abandoned is a crushing deathgrind release that will make your DNA explode! PoiL‘s last album Brossaklitt hosts some of the best experimental progressive rock out there: weird and funky! Inverted Serenity is a progressive blackened death metal band and their album Integral is impressive! When Wild Dingos Attack is a pretty good and full of personality band. Listen to Burn What You Love! The bassoon is a relatively underrepresented instrument in rock and metal music, that’s why I’m glad to know that BRIAN!‘s avant math rock is prominently playing that very instrument!… Read more

Two amazing math rock bands team up for a promising collaboration!

by Dæv Tremblay

ni and PoiL are two French math rock bands that blew us away the minute we heard of them, respectively. Thus, the news of them both collaborating for a new project, Piniol. It is not said whether it will be a one-time only thing or if the merging of these two beasts will be perennial. All the information we’ve got is that video, and that we’ll have more early 2016.

Let’s be patient!… Read more

Ur Draugr premieres new song and announces new album!

by Dæv Tremblay

Australian progressive blackers Ur Draugr just announced With Hunger Undying, their upcoming album, and for that we get to hear “Fertile Crescent”, their tasty, blasty new song!

The album will come out November 23rd on ATMF. You can pre-order it here or be wiser and wait to actually hear the whole album before putting any penny down. However, I have to say that this song is pretty damn good!… Read more

OSR: November 3rd, 2015

by Dæv Tremblay

Let me unashamedly try to put hundreds, even thousands of hours of work into a single, puny line.

Alpha Brutal puts a small dose of chiptune into a great flavoured math rock EP with a metal edge. United Kingdom’s Singapore Strategy is a pretty rad math and post rock band that will get you twitching.
Deseized‘s new EP A Thousand Forms of Action is what you need if you wanna bang your head and not ask yourself too many questions. Shades of Black Won’t Bring Her Back is Norway’s Atena‘s newest, concept album, and they are on the… Read more