OSR: December 9th, 2015

by Dæv Tremblay

RIP Chrysalis is Eartheater‘s second full-length album, an entrancing piece of experimental electronic music.

Nono Cerchio is the side-project of two Nero di Marte members! It’s actually a more post-metal, atmospheric album, and I love it!
Sorry, that’s the only video or complete stream of a song I found online!
Hexnut is a crazy avant-garde ensemble that immediately hooked me with their two Meshuggah covers, as well as all their other insane compositions. Tvivler‘s another band the bassist of the highly-esteemed Town Portal is in. It’s not as interesting, but it’s full of drive and aggressiveness. From ex-members… Read more

PSA: Why our year’s-end lists will be posted in January, and why everyone should do the same.

by Dæv Tremblay

There’s a certain, nonsensical trend, among magazines and blogs, to post their tops of the year lists as early as possible. Some even in early December! What’s the point of doing a year’s-end list if there’s still one month to go, one twelfth, more than 8 percent of the year left? If you stop and think about it for a single minute, it makes no sense! We also did the same here on the blog, we’re not without flaws, but it was just because everyone around was doing it, and we didn’t stop to ask why, or why not.

However, … Read more

Cloudkicker – Woum

by David Lopez Jr.

In a day and age where it’s hard to make a living through writing and or performing music it’s good to see people just doing it to express themselves.

Cloudkicker means a lot to me. I’ve always been exploring music actively and this blog is a huge reason for that. Now one of the oddest individuals I’ve seen since this journey has started has been the success and development of cloudkicker. I have even gotten the chance to catch cloudkicker live with intronaut as the backing band, there is a live album from the tour also. Now cloudkicker is … Read more

Mombu / Mosca Violenta – Hunting Demons

by Dæv Tremblay

a0742052546_16The presence of jazz in metal music seems to be an increasingly popular trend. Most noticeably, it’s the addition of the saxophone that’s often just enough to make us think that the band has successfully merged the two genres into one, but most of the times it’s just a clin d’œil to it, and the music itself doesn’t bear any of the subjacent characteristics of jazz.

The first ones to incorporate jazz, in a form or another, into metal were Atheist, Meshuggah, and Cynic, back in the early ’90’s. Since then, it gained in popularity and it’s … Read more

OSR: December 6th, 2015

by Dæv Tremblay

Only punchlines, no introduction!

Crown Larks‘s Blood Dancer is a very fulfilling experimental “art” rock album to listen to! I stumbled upon Akhenaten when I was writing my “Forced Fusion” post, and they’re a pretty cool black metal band with Eastern influences. Anderwelt is an Austrian that combines post-metal, black metal, and hardcore, among other things; Schattenlichter is a pretty solid 4-part album.
Infernal Wrath is an experimental tech-death beast, and I’ve fallen in love with Inside of Me, check it out! [Listen to some excerpts of this album on CD Baby]

Outre mesure is a … Read more