Hypomanie - A City in Mono (2011) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Shoegaze, Atmospheric, Depressive Black Metal, Post-rock, Netherlands
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Tracklist :

1. You Never Gazed at the Clouds 8:19
2. She Couldn't Find a Flower, But There Was Snow 7:17
3. Smile 4:45
4. A City in Mono 8:54
5. A City in Stereo 10:20

A Dutch band started as a Melancholic Black Metal band at the first demo (I am Alone With You, 2008, Wolfsvuur Records) and first album (Sehnsucht, 2008, Affliction Records), now playing a faster, more atmospheric style of Black Metal, which is to be heard at the self-titled EP. (s/t, 2009, Valse Sinistre)

In January 2011 She Couldn’t Find a Flower, But There Was Snow (EP) and A City in Mono (album) were released, both by Valse Sinistre Productions.

Pelican - Ephemeral (EP) (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Post-metal, Sludge, Doom-metal
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Tracklist :

1. Embedding the Moss
2. Ephemeral
3. Geometry of Murder (originally written by Earth)

Rising from the ashes of the band Tusk, the instrumental post-metal outfit Pelican formed in Chicago, 2001, by guitarists Trevor de Brauw and Laurent Lebec with sibling rhythm section Larry Herweg and Bryan Herweg (drums and bass, respectively).

Owing a great debt to pioneering forefathers Neurosis, and often compared to Boston’s Isis, and Sweden’s Cult of Luna, Pelican were initially signed to Hydra Head Records (whose head, Aaron Turner, is a member of Isis).

After making their debut with an eponymous self-titled four-song EP “Pelican” in 2003, Pelican expanded their sound with 2004’s critically acclaimed “Australasia”. In 2005 Pelican released the “March Into the Sea” EP (featuring the original 20 minutes version), followed by, arguably, their most accomplished record to date, “The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw”. “City Of Echoes” was released June 5th, 2007.

Ephemeral is piece of three songs and 20 minutes introducing a heavier, darker, more riff-based Pelican for 2009 on this vinyl-only release. Earth cover "Geometry Of Murder" actually features Earth man Dylan Carlson on guitar!

Io - Monolith (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Post-metal, Math-rock, Sludge, UK
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Tracklist :

Dr Doom
Where we’re Going we don’t Need Roads
We Have Destroyed The Robot Professor
And This is Our Victory Dance
Farewell, my Concubine
Girl-on-Girl

"We are io.
Our music can be best desribed as combinations of the words post, metal, math, rock using as many of each word as you wish, in any order that you wish. If we had dream jobs we would be either samurais, timelords or mountains.
Tom used to play bass but left to forfill his dream of full time squid hunter. James took his place but his love of dropping beats led him to places where only dub could step. Tom played bass again and helped us write some more tunes as everyone knows that squid season is not in the summer.
Don't feed us after midnight, we turn into hellbeasts."

Ghaust - Ghaust (2008) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-Metal, Sludge, Experimental
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Tracklist :

01 Day After (Entering Into Peace)
02 Sleep and Release
03 Torchlight
04 Akasia
05 The Wolf and The Boar
06 At Sea (We are Nothing)

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Ghaust - Demo : 600335/047545
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Instrumental Heaviness from Jakarta, Indonesia. Ghaust build a trip crossing through different genres, where post-rock/shoegaze influences, crushing sludge/doom tempo, collide with hardcore/punk and heavy rock. This band consist only 2 member, Uri.A.Putra (Guitar) and M.Edward (Drum).

Ghaus has starting a new step, a breakthru in Indonesia Music Industry by releasing this album. A pioneer in this genre. Salute!

Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect EP (2008)

Genre : Post-metal, Post-rock, Shoegaze, Drone, Sludge, Ambient, Electronica
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Tracklist :

1. Farewell
2. Blind And Faithless
3. Why Are We Not Perfect
4. Farewell [Alternative Version]
5. Why Are We Not Perfect [Alternative Version]

Jesu is an experimental rock band formed in 2003 by Justin Broadrick following the breakup of Godflesh. Jesu was the name of the last song on the final Godflesh release, Hymns, and Broadrick decided to adopt it as the name of his new project.

Jesu's sound is heavily layered and textured, drawing from and incorporating an eclectic mix of influences, ranging from ambient music, post-metal and drone doom, to shoegazing, downtempo and industrial music. Their recent releases have been described as "avant-pop" and avant-garde doom.

Why Are We Not Perfect, is a CDEP that will feature the Jesu songs originally only available on the Eluvium split vinyl album, as well as new two new remixes. Daymare will release the album in Japan, with an additional third remix not available on the American release.

Grayceon - Grayceon

Genre : Post-Rock, Post-Metal, Progressive
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Tracklist :

1. Sounds Like Thunder 8:53
2. Song For You 3:54
3. Into The Deep 12:35
4. Ride 19:59

Grayceon is Jackie Perez Gratz (Amber Asylum) on electric cello and voice, Max Doyle (Walken) on guitar and voice, and Zack Farwell (Walken) on drums. Grayceon pulls together an extremely diverse range of musical influences and writing styles to create a fresh sound that defies the boundaries of the metal/rock/progressive genres. Compared to Opeth, King Crimson, and Ved Buens Ende, not in sound but in 'feel', Grayceon embraces the hard-to-describe-them definition and expects no hard comparisons to be made any time soon. Alternate low tuning on both cello and guitar, finger picked metal riffs, dreamy double vocals, and unpredictably impeccable drumming all meet to give Grayceon their unique sensibility. ..

The first reviews of Grayceon's debut album are trickling in...

"Dark Rock/ Metal CD strong with the progressive elements and heavy with the string arrangements as Jackie of Amber Asylum and now Giant Squid is the string player and one of the vocalists here. Grayceon remind me a bit again of the band Winds with a strong element of bands like Neurosis, Frantic Bleep and even Opeth or Porcupine Tree. This trio can get quite bombastic at times. I know this is odd way to put it, but this is what Amber Asylum would sound like if the were a heavier band leaning to the Prog Metal world. I like the neoclassical flavor placed in as well to complete a very unique sound release in deed. This will not be for everyone as it's a very complex release and not something you can even begin to digest the 1st or 2nd time out. Very much in the same vein as bands like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum or When where there is no need to get the whole picture at first. I find this a stellar piece of work and love that it is 4 long songs, where they can very much let the natural progression of the song take it where it may. The minimal vocal moments are a must. If you will let the music seep into your soul it will take you places very few bands ever have before."

--Absolute Zero Media Magazine / February 2007

"Epic prog-metal from Grayceon, a trio based out of San Francisco, once home to legions of thrash metal superstars-in-waiting. This self-titled debut on Vendlus Records is spacious and airy with rollicking drums and dense orchestrations featuring electric cello and guitar. Jackie Perez Gratz performs as a cello-master and has performed alongside numerous groups ranging from Neurosis to their off-shoot in Tribes of Neurot as well as Matmos and Today Is the Day. Grayceon is a giant sound with crafty songs that are intertwined with heavy metal opuses and soft chamber orchestrations." -J-Sin

--Smother.net / February 2007

Tesa - Nekad

Genre : Instrumental, Experimental, Post-rock, Post-metal
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Tracklist :

1. Part 87 2. Part 97 3. Part 18 4. Part 28 5. Part 38 6. Part 48

Tesa is a sludge / progressive / experimental three-piece from Riga, Latvia since 2005 formed by ex members of bands like In.Stora, Kriegopfer, Les Corte.

Line-up:

Kārlis - bass, vocals, noizes
Dāvis - guitars
Jānis - drums, vocals, noizes

TESA - Heartbeats From The Sky (AWESOME !!!)

Genre - Instrumental, Experimental, Post-rock, Post-metal
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Tracklist

01 - I
02 - II
03 - III
04 - IV
05 - V
06 - VI


Tesa is a sludge / progressive / experimental three-piece from Riga, Latvia since 2005 formed by ex members of bands like In.Stora, Kriegopfer, Les Corte.