The video is a celebration of the international release of their album Mantiis – An Agony In Fourteen Bites with label Season of Mist! If you haven’t already, you need to get that album here!… Read more
Experimental rockers Deux Pouilles En Cavale release new single from upcoming album!
Their new album, named Tambour Et Temps Mort, will come out November 8 on bandcamp, but for now, you can stream the single Ouais Mais Là!, a short bipolar piece of swing rock! If you haven’t already, listen to their previous releases, the eponymous LP, or their newest Votre Cœur Va Manquer Un Pouls EP, because those French rockers are really awesome!… Read more
PSA: Downtuning is a crutch (to some)
Rob Scallon, musician and Youtube personality, just released this video where he plays the same riff over and over again but everytime down-tuning one step further. The goal here is to see whether or not playing in lower tuning affects the “heaviness” of your song.
Spoiler alert!: it does not.
In the end, those who are down-tuning to sound heavier are only being silly. However, playing in super low tunings, like 8- or 9- string guitar tunings (and even lower!) can get you an interesting sound, which is definitely different than “normal” 6-string guitar tunings.
Don’t tune down … Read more
Cryptic Ruse – Chains Of Smoke
Microtonal music artist Jason Yerger’s project Cryptic Ruse (formerly City of the Asleep) – now with actual microtonal guitars! – returns to show us his new and masterfully crafted work: Chains of Smoke.
Using three different exotic tuning systems – 13 EDO, 15 EDO, and 23 EDO (EDO stands for Equal Divisions of the Octave) – and a wide palette of musical genres, Jason makes us travel to never-before heard sonic landscapes. By using “oriental” and “middle-oriental”-sounding tunings with a more standard (for us, westerners!) metal band quatuor instrumentation, with due distortion, riffs, … Read more
ART238 – Atavism
Many things can change in a seven year period; many things can work for the better or the worse. Fortunately, this hiatus worked for the benefit of ART238. After some intense live shows the band did last year in French soil, 
they decided that 2014 is the right time to hurl their newest offering (the first in seven years) like a radioactive missile ready to awaken and revert the most primal human instincts. However, after the addition of new members, there are certain elements that have shaped the band’s sound into something different.
At first, Atavism may seem like an … Read more