Monthly Recommendations: December 2015

by Dæv Tremblay

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Here are our last picks of the year! Even though December – as always – was a fairly slow month in music, we’ve managed to find four gems that you need to hear!

First up is Codas‘s Fossils EP. It’s a delicately crafted triptych blending various experimental genres with post and math metal. It’s a pretty long EP, at more than 25 minutes, and it’s a segue between the band’s first album, Currents, which is also technically an EP, and their upcoming full-length in 2016. covet have released a very potent EP that will be the grounds to… Read more

covet – Currents

by Dæv Tremblay

a0870999546_16After Yvette Young released her jaw-dropping acoustic math rock EP in early 2014, we’ve all been waiting for developments with her actual band, covet. After a crowdfunding campaign putting the album available for pre-order on bandcamp, the Currents EP is finally, after some delay, released.

Does it live up to the hype? Yes and no. It all has to do with what you expected of this. I anticipated something more or less like her personal Acoustics EP: intricate and technical guitar play, soft and melodious vocals and chill songs, but all supported by a band of talented and like-minded … Read more

OSR: December 24th, 2015

by Dæv Tremblay

A theonihilogical instrumental album by Peculate, with more experimentation than usual, as we like it, but we could’ve been spared the synthesized saxophone.

An alternative death metal album that’s heavily good, or goodily heavy?

A slab of black metal-infused hardcore; anything black-infused is already much better!

A fantastic album with various experimentations on death metal and other genres!

Another great album, very dark indie fit for metalheads.… Read more

Amia Venera Landscape cured my longing with their new music video for Hiraeth

by Dæv Tremblay

Amia Venera Landscape released their widely acclaimed album The Long Procession back in 2010, and we’ve all been eager to listen to new music from them since! Well, they wrapped up a cool gift for us in time for the winter solstice with “Hiraeth”, and a release date for Vision I: The Great Mystery: April 30th, 2016. Seems like they took their sweet time to carefully craft this album, and this rather short song, for their own standards, proves it! I just hope there’ll be longer songs since I think that’s where the band shines the most!… Read more

OSR: December 19th, 2015

by Dæv Tremblay

Heavy and low experimental black metal with industrial tendencies; it ultimately sounds too industrial for my tastes.

Swallow the Sun‘s triple album is unnecessarily long and could’ve been much better if the individual songs were more worked upon and if the weaker ones were weeded out.

A simple yet efficient instrumental stoner/doom album.

A pretty solid progressive black metal album coming out in early 2016.

Technical death metal has never really been my thing, but this Icelandic band must be doing something right!

Atmospheres‘s The Departure is a deserving if rather simplistic ambidjent album.

This would’ve most probably … Read more