As 2014 is not-so-slowly coming to an end, I decided to take some time and put together a list of my favorite 2014 releases. As the title states , this is mostly a personal list of the music I listened/ enjoyed the most and that was released in 2014, rather than my top 10 of this year’s best releases, although I believe the first five albums on my list can easily compete for that title as well. Granted that I didn’t listen to every extreme metal album that was unleashed this year, I think the first five really made an … Read more
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News: Listen to the entirety of Pryapisme’s new 20-minute song in orchestral version!
Yes! The album is not even out yet, but they have put all 22 minutes of Futurologie, petit traité de futurologie sur l’Homo cretinus trampolinis in an orchestra version. And…
it’s awesome.… Read more
News: Amia Venera Landscape teases us for Visions
Visions is the name of the Italian post-metalcore band Amia Venera Landscape‘s new album, out in 2015.
It doesn’t give away much, but if it’s half as good as their last album, The Long Procession, it will be stellar!… Read more
Review: Matheus Manente – Illusions Dimension
Brazilian meteorologist and musician Matheus Manente released his first solo album, Illusions Dimension, a musical journey that will take you to many ends of the progressive rock and metal realms!
First off, the musicianship is flawless. There is a lot of technicality involved, although it is far from being the center point of the album. Solos after solos, we can enjoy the musicality of the meteorologist’s mind. There is quite a good amount of djent influences in the rhythmic department, although it doesn’t sound djent very much.
Every song has its own personality but … Read more
The Perfect Ping, The Ugliest Piece of Music, or Costas Arrays
The video begins with a long but utterly interesting introduction on the matter. In short, this is music written to bear absolutely no repetition and, based on the premise that beauty in music is found in the repetition of motifs – which is an absolutely subjective and arbitrary statement, the ugliest, or less enjoyable, piece of music ever written.
Of course, it has been called like this to catch the attention of the reader, or the listener, because intelligent people are behind this apparently stupid title.
The music in itself is truly amazing, played on a grand piano at the … Read more