Hadean – On Fading

by Dæv Tremblay

This week’s been a great one for post-[insert genre] music: I finally got into deafheaven’s Sunbather album and it’s awesome, the new Second to Sun releases are getting more post-black kinda stuff, the new album Laurestine from So Hideous is gorgeous, and in the weeks prior, there has been even more cool post stuff! That brings me to Hadean, which released their second effort, On Fading, last week. And it’s a real kick in the brains!

Firstly, there is saxophone (and other wind instruments) and piano that are not used timidly and accompany marvellously the barrage of distortion, … Read more

The Pneumatic Transit premieres Enochian Dyskinesia

by Dæv Tremblay

The new baby of Jeff Zampillo, formerly of Exotic Animal Petting Zoo, The Pneumatic Transit, has released about 3 minutes of one of their new songs, called Enochian Dyskinesia. It seems like their songs are too extensive to single them out, so we get only 3 minutes of one. And that 3 minutes finishes way too quickly to my taste. Well, at least I kinda know what to expect from their album, “Concerto for Double Moon”. At this moment, I’m still trying to figure out if it’s jazzy rock or rocky jazz… but it sounds pretty prog … Read more

Sutrah – Effervesce (Demo)

by Dæv Tremblay

Sutrah just released a 2-song demo that will shake the prog/tech-death world. Coming from the capital of modern progressive death metal, Montreal, birthplace of other great acts like Beyond Creation and Unexpect†, Sutrah seems to take example on the first of the two bands mentioned: Beyond Creation. With a mixture of fast-paced, shred-heavy, fretless bass-laden progressive death metal. The two songs on their demo release show great promises! The musicianship, above all, is tight as hell and intricate all the way through the 12 minutes of Effervesce (Demo), and the songs are well-balanced and are never stale or unimaginative.… Read more

August recommendations are here!

by Dæv Tremblay

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Here are four ctebcm-approved albums that came out last month and that we think you should definitely check out!

Michael Avery – The Scientist

Instrumental progressive metal heavily influence by djent that is actually not just a bunch of chugga-chugga’s and jun-jun’s, even though they are not underrepresented. It’s globally a fun album to listen and headbang to, with varied compositions and a fair amount of high-level musicianship! Plus: it’s available for name your price (NYP) on bandcamp so, why not give it a shot?

Doom Salad – Dac Maelc Yletulosbo

The fourth EP from Savannah’s experimental math rockers, … Read more

Bandcamp against freedom of speech?

by Dæv Tremblay

Pièce jointeMerdümgiriz is an independent music label, doing almost everything hand-made and often host artists that are controversial and offensive. The subject of interest, in this case, is the band Viranesir, the bandcamp page of which is indeed blank as of now, allegedly taken down by bandcamp themselves. If it’s true that they talk about taboo, controversial and offensive subjects, they aren’t being serious about it. Let me quote Emir Toğrul, of the band Viranesir (complete press release at the end of this post):

All I ever did was to pull these taboo subjects out of their untouchable contexts

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