Junius, The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist

US, 2009.

Junius' new record is a full-fledged concept album, inspired by the life and theories of controversial scholar Immanuel Velikovsky. The album’s ten songs are both cinematic and accessible, building to crescendos which echo some of post-rock’s most epic moments, but with vocals, hooks, and lyrics creating focus throughout. Actual quotes from Velikovsky’s interviews and lectures are interspersed between songs, providing a sense of narrative to the proceedings.

Playlist:

1. Birth Rites By Torchlight
2. The Antediluvian Fire
3. (turning to the spirits of the hours...)
4. A Dramatist Plays Catastrophist
5. Ten Year Librarian
6. Stargazers & Gravediggers
7. (...he fell before her)
8. Elisheva, I Love You
9. Letters From Saint Angelica
10. The Mourning Eulogy

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Junius, Blood Is Bright + Forcing Out The Silence

Junius play a dark and cinematic post-rock/progressive rock. Unfortunately, these two EP's are the only albums that this promising band has released so far.

Blood Is Bright, released in 2006.
Playlist:

1. (the annunciation)
2. blood is bright
3. a word could kill her
4. in the hearts of titans
5. at the age of decay

Forcing Out The Silence, released in 2004.
Playlist:

1. (elan vital)
2. hiding knives
3. from the isle of the blessed
4. (elan fatale)
5. forcing out the silence

Blood Is Bright.
Forcing Out The Silence.

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