Blue-Eyed Hawk – Under The Moon

This is what you should be listening to all day. Blue-Eyed Hawk‘s tasty avant-jazz, female-fronted, and ornamented with a good number of collaborators, is “an album of beauty, diversity and soaring emotion.” And just listening through the first few seconds, you’ll have no problem believing that quote.

Textures are beautiful and varied throughout, and there’s place to improvisation from the band’s members in every song. If you want an almost dreamy jazz-rock fusion album with pretty vocals, trumpets, and cool rhythms, this is the album to get!

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Stimpy Lockjaw – Stimpy Lockjaw

Stimpy Lockjaw is best described as “Fuck you and listen for yourself”. Simply put, it’s an improvisation jazz & metal crash course. Simplerly put: it’s freaking awesome and why the fuck aren’t you listening to it yet?

Nicholas Llerandi and Kevin Theodore (Ever Forthright) teamed up with Zachary Marks (drums) and Steve Jenkins (bass) to create a cow-tipping experience! It’s honestly one of the best-crafted pieces of music I’ve got to hear! A more aggressive Exivious, a more progressive (and metal) Axon-Neuron, Dillinjazz Escape Plan, Trioscapes with guitars or, really, just Ever Forthright on psychotropics … Read more

Amogh Symphony – Vectorscan

Amogh Symphony‘s third album, the sequel to the critically acclaimed progressive technical metal album “Quantum Hack Code”, which was released in 2010, marks a sharp turn from the previous direction of the band, and a slight departure from the whole “metal” genre. It’s a record as challenging to listen to as it is to read its track titles, but, in the end, it’s one of the most rewarding pieces of modern music there is, and, definitely, a change for the best.

Vectorscan will fuel the haters of the metal community because there is just so … Read more

Empirine – Oculi

Empirine‘s fourth EP, Oculi, has really made the light shine on this Swedish progressive death metal duo. It will crush you and amaze you, and that will be a good death.

The band goes straight to the point and hits you in the face with all the musical glory that it’s capable of. It’s fast-paced, it’s heavy, but most of all, it sounds incredibly good! The production work here is marvellous. They’ve got a little “standout” element of style akin to what Cynic used to have: the vocoder. And, unlike others, they actually use it … Read more

Jute Gyte – Ressentiment

Missouri’s marginal quarter-tone experimental black metal one-man-band Jute Gyte returns with a new album that is like the previous ones: worth your time.

Black metal can be a tough thing to approach if you’re not into the genre already: the purposefully bad production, the vocal style, the often fast and relentless drumming, and the tremolo picking all support this. On top of that, Adam Kalmbach, the mind behind the music, adds microtonality, in the form of a 24-EDO (24 equal divisions of the octave) musical setting. Compare this to your usual 12 notes per octave guitar, … Read more