This is by far the heaviest release by the band! It has incorporated some elements of doom music, but kept their ambient soundscapes, probably even amped them up a little! There’s not much info else than this. Is this a single from an upcoming EP? Full-length? I don’t know, but I can wish!… Read more
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Obsidian Kingdom release new video for Ball-Room!
Experimental rockers Deux Pouilles En Cavale release new single from upcoming album!
Their new album, named Tambour Et Temps Mort, will come out November 8 on bandcamp, but for now, you can stream the single Ouais Mais Là!, a short bipolar piece of swing rock! If you haven’t already, listen to their previous releases, the eponymous LP, or their newest Votre Cœur Va Manquer Un Pouls EP, because those French rockers are really awesome!… Read more
PSA: Downtuning is a crutch (to some)
Rob Scallon, musician and Youtube personality, just released this video where he plays the same riff over and over again but everytime down-tuning one step further. The goal here is to see whether or not playing in lower tuning affects the “heaviness” of your song.
Spoiler alert!: it does not.
In the end, those who are down-tuning to sound heavier are only being silly. However, playing in super low tunings, like 8- or 9- string guitar tunings (and even lower!) can get you an interesting sound, which is definitely different than “normal” 6-string guitar tunings.
Don’t tune down … Read more
Cryptic Ruse – Chains Of Smoke
Microtonal music artist Jason Yerger’s project Cryptic Ruse (formerly City of the Asleep) – now with actual microtonal guitars! – returns to show us his new and masterfully crafted work: Chains of Smoke.
Using three different exotic tuning systems – 13 EDO, 15 EDO, and 23 EDO (EDO stands for Equal Divisions of the Octave) – and a wide palette of musical genres, Jason makes us travel to never-before heard sonic landscapes. By using “oriental” and “middle-oriental”-sounding tunings with a more standard (for us, westerners!) metal band quatuor instrumentation, with due distortion, riffs, … Read more