Best of August 2022

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Friday, 5 August

🌟 Беговые маршруты663319

$5 USD
31:22
progressive post-hardcore, jazz fusion
Russia
Давай без глупостей

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🌟 Ether Coven – The Relationship between the Hammer

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Friday, 19 August

🌟 Atte Aho – Atte Aho

€7 EUR
50:02
nu prog
Helsinki, Finland
Eclipse Music Official Store

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Dawnwalker – House of Sand

£5 GBP
43:19
post-metal, post-rock
London, UK
Independent

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Adam Rudolph’s Sonic Elements

If you’ve followed this website for a while, you’ll have seen the name Adam Rudolph go by. His ensemble, Go: Organic Orchestra, his vision of a future orchestra, released an incredible album, and you can read my review by clicking this link. So, it’s no surprise that I was really curious when I saw that Adam was preparing the release of his newest book: Sonic Elements: Matrices, Cosmograms, and Ostinatos of Circularity. I humbly asked for a review copy, and Adam graciously provided one for me. Since then, I’ve devoured this rather unique book, and I’m writing … Read more

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Friday, 12 August

A-Z – A-Z

50:37
classic rock
Moorpark, California
Metal Blade

Abyssal – A Deep Sea Funeral

$6.66 USD
40:08
black metal
UK
Transylvanian

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Ando San – Humble

$2 USD
6:05
nu prog
Los Angeles, California
Independent

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Arch Enemy – Deceivers

45:03
melodic death metal
Sweden
Century Media


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Just Mustard, Aronious, Mmulreso, and Íkarus

Just Mustard – Heart Under (Partisan)


Irish post-punk five-piece Just Mustard released their amazing new album earlier this year, back in May. Heart Under is their second album, and it really captures the ideal of the band: dark moody atmospheres, hypnotic rhythms, repeating structures, melancholic vocals, droning bass… With these ingredients, the band is able to do a lot of mileage: the album is just over 45 minutes long, and I wouldn’t like it any shorter! Between shoegaze and industrial, noise rock and trip-hop, that album is going to pull you in, that’s for sure!

Aronious – Irkalla (The Artisan

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