OSR: November 14th, 2015

by Dæv Tremblay
Okazaki Fragments‘ debut EP Abandoned is a crushing deathgrind release that will make your DNA explode! PoiL‘s last album Brossaklitt hosts some of the best experimental progressive rock out there: weird and funky! Inverted Serenity is a progressive blackened death metal band and their album Integral is impressive! When Wild Dingos Attack is a pretty good and full of personality band. Listen to Burn What You Love! The bassoon is a relatively underrepresented instrument in rock and metal music, that’s why I’m glad to know that BRIAN!‘s avant math rock is prominently playing that very instrument!… Read more

Two amazing math rock bands team up for a promising collaboration!

by Dæv Tremblay

ni and PoiL are two French math rock bands that blew us away the minute we heard of them, respectively. Thus, the news of them both collaborating for a new project, Piniol. It is not said whether it will be a one-time only thing or if the merging of these two beasts will be perennial. All the information we’ve got is that video, and that we’ll have more early 2016.

Let’s be patient!… Read more

OSR: November 11th, 2015

by Dæv Tremblay
Open the Nile (formerly Open Denile)’s new EP is a good step up from their debut album, and is a very good progressive metalcore release! Oh Hiroshima is a Swedish post-rock band that can lay down beautiful atmospheres and great climaxes!
Mestis‘ second EP lost the magic that was present on “Basal Ganglia”, but Polysemy is still a pretty good one. [Preview the songs on CD Baby]

Turbulence is a Lebanese progressive metal outfit whose debut album, Disequilibrium, is pretty decent, check it out!… Read more

Ur Draugr premieres new song and announces new album!

by Dæv Tremblay

Australian progressive blackers Ur Draugr just announced With Hunger Undying, their upcoming album, and for that we get to hear “Fertile Crescent”, their tasty, blasty new song!

The album will come out November 23rd on ATMF. You can pre-order it here or be wiser and wait to actually hear the whole album before putting any penny down. However, I have to say that this song is pretty damn good!… Read more

Glass Skies – A Nature of Sorts

by Dæv Tremblay

a3893934811_16Glass Skies is a UK-based one-man band by Oscar, active since at least 2014, according to bandcamp releases. A Nature of Sorts is his first actual release, if we don’t count three singles and a backing track mini-EP.

His debut EP is a 5-song, 18-minute listen that adds a few djent elements to an otherwise jazz fusion sound, which is, for the most part, pretty laid back and contemplative but still instrumentally interesting. On that point, there is a little extended instrumentation that is fun to listen to: stuff like xylophone on Nice Monster and piano on the title track, … Read more