Nooumena – Argument With Eagerness

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Cover - HRComing from France (yes, another French band covered here, if you want to complain, please do so at the British Government), Nooumena call themselves ambient art-rock (as their album art might have led you to believe), with hints of experimental and progressive elements into it.

That’s actually pretty accurate.

What’s more interesting is that they execute their styles of music incredibly well! There are some great ambient, jazzy parts on the album, like the opener “Nameless Reward” with it’s saxy bits and jazzy tastiness.

Everyone involved seem to master their instrument, which is the least … Read more

Prepare for the best April’s fool of your life with Pryapisme

New album announced for April 1st.

Hyperblast Super-Collider will come out on Apathia Records, and the song titles are already out! Check these out:

01. Un druide est giboyeux lorsqu’il se prend pour un neutrino
02. Boudin blanc et blanc boudin
03. Random Jean Vigo
04. La notion de chiralité de spin et d’oscillation de saveur des particules supersymetriques definissant un champs scalaire lors d’une transition de conifold en cosmologie branaire dans un modele ekpyrotique
05. Lesbian bordello
06. J’ai envie de te claquer
07. Cochenille, membrane et volcanologie
08. Jon-bon-jon-boutros-boutros-boutros-bovi-miou-miou
09. Je suis venu, j’ai vu, j’ai sangouinu
10. … Read more

Pryapisme – Rococo Holocaust

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2629382824-1I think the best way to describe the music of Pryapisme is by reading the terms they put in “tag” on their bandcamp page :  8bit black metal disco metal progressive rocococore chamber music electronic experimental jazz nintendocore.

Indeed, this French outfit is creating some really interesting music. A mix of electro with a certain taste of metal, and a lot of whatever… The musicians are truly skilled and obviously creative.

You can play this while receiving your eccentric and marginal guests for dinner, or when trying to figure out the meaning of life, gazing … Read more

Stagnant Waters – Stagnant Waters

Listen to “Of Salt And Water” right here.

Not much chaotic as it is eclectic, Stagnant Waters will storm through your speakers like untamed and dangerous animals. You might only care for the tigers and rhinos, but if you listen closer you’ll be able to see the peacocks and butterflies of this wonderfully diverse zoo.

Indeed, between harsh, heavy parts, there are some electronic passages and truly undecipherable moments.

When does a song end? Is it when the player has stopped playing it? Or is it when you’ve understood all that was going on in the song? If you … Read more

Om Mani – Apology (2009)

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France has got some really nice metal, and if you don’t own any album coming from this very country, you now have the chance to, because this one is a killer!

Apology may not be quite metal as an album’s title, but you should know that “Kill’Em All” is just so ’83. So fuck you. Om Mani conveys messages coming from Buddhism, from what I can understand, as the band’s name is taken from a popular Sanskrit mantra; Om mani padme hum. This might sound kinda new wave, … Read more