The Italian progressive technical death metal crew known as Unreal Overflows soon will release their third full-length, Latent. Often compared to Death, Cynic, Atheist, and other early tech-death entities, Unreal Overflows embed some jazz music theory knowledge into a melodic, technical, and progressive form of death metal that totally warrants the aforementioned comparisons. More up to date, they sound a lot like Contrarian, who recently released a very good retro-tech-death album with To Perceive Is to Suffer. Latent is definitely in that vein, too, somewhat paying homage to the pioneers of the genre while bringing something new to … Read more
Perfect Beings – Vier
Coming out on the nineteenth, Perfect Beings‘ third album, Vier, excels at making new symphonic progressive rock. As soon as the four-part opening track “Guedra” starts, you know what you’re getting into. If the polyphonic vocal introduction didn’t sell it, maybe the next, odd-metred riff with accompanying woodwinds solo will. Still not convinced? Just let the polymetric backing track to the next solo sink in! My point is that the album is filled to the brim with fascinating moments, if you take the slightest moment to analyze them. Indeed, they are so well crafted that they aren’t jarring … Read more
Weekly Release Dump #5
- Sunday, 31 December
Dove Lady – F (experimental pop/noise jazz)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Gumboot Soup (experimental rock)
- Monday, 1 January
Brojob – Talk Shit Get Kissed (deathcore)
Déraciné – Déraciné (grindcore/skramz)
Estuarine – Sic erat scriptum (blackened technical death metal)
Inquinamentum – 8342 (progressive black metal)
Process – Process (tap rock)
Vantana Row – Vagina (experimental pop/cybergrind)
Омега Клустер – ϴе Нижт (chiptune progressive metal)
- Tuesday, 2 January
Crown Magnetar – The Prophet of Disgust (technical deathcore)
Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz – Feels Just Right (jazz)
- Friday, 5 January
Omnea – Omnea (progressive rock)
ŌOTØ (formerly … Read more
Camembert, Process, Karmacipher, Dove Lady, Troldhaugen, Suffering Hour, Vessel of Iniquity, Vantana Row, and Adhara
Camembert – Negative Toe (progressive rock)
France’s Camembert recently released their latest opus, and it’s pretty darn good! Negative Toe is somewhere between the symphonic prog and Canterbury scenes. Thus, you won’t be surprised to learn that the album is about an hour of progressive rock music that is mostly symphonic and that uses quite uncommon song structures and atmospheric qualities. You can get the album via AltrOck Productions!
Process – Process
Someone on bandcamp refered to this band as “Floral with a bass player”, and, well, I can’t say I disagree, but it’s a woefully simplistic way of putting … Read more
Crno dete – Neponovljivo
The experimental surf rock duo Crno dete, from Serbia, just released their latest opus: the massive Neponovljivo album. This set is an improvised performance that goes on for about forty minutes; uncut, unedited, and unrepeatable. It has been divided into eight tracks, but the truly uncut version is available as a forty-three-minute single track. The music resembles experimental math rock and post-rock, but the utter flood of reverb on the guitars make me think of surf rock more than anything else, really. From the moment you press play, the guitars and the drums catawompously barge in and don’t stop … Read more