Tombs, Winter Hours

US, 2009

Tombs is a sludge/post-metal band hailing from Brooklyn, NY.

Playlist:

1. Gossamer
2. Golden Eyes
3. Beneath the Toxic Jungle
4. The Great Silence
5. Story of a Room
6. The Divide
7. Merrimack
8. Filled With Secrets
9. Seven Stars the Angel of Death
10. Old Dominion

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The Ocean, Anthropocentric

Germany, 2010.

The Ocean Collective (usually referred to as “The Ocean”) is an experimental metal band from Berlin, Germany. Their work combines elements of modern hardcore and technical metal with classical music and electronic soundscapes. The band often describes its sound as “ambient soundtrack doomrock”.

"Anthropocentric" is the second of a two album series released in 2010, following "Heliocentric".

Playlist:

1. Anthropocentric
2. The Grand Inquisitor I: Karamazov Baseness
3. She Was the Universe
4. For He That Wavereth…
5. The Grand Inquisitor II: Roots & Locusts
6. The Grand Inquisitor III: A Tiny Grain of Faith
7. Sewers of the Soul
8. Wille Zum Untergang
9. Heaven TV
10. The Almightiness Contradiction

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Rosetta, A Determinism Of Morality

US, 2010.

"Philadelphia quartet Rosetta push the boundaries between metal, progressive rock, post-rock, space rock, and hardcore punk, employing an experimental songwriting technique filled with chaos and atmospherics. Their sounds range from Pink Floydian progressive rock sonic layering to walls of pure static ambience to crushing, sweeping sludgey riffage."

Playlist:

1. Ayil
2. Je N'en Connais Pas la Fin
3. Blue Day for Croatoa
4. Release
5. Revolve
6. Renew
7. A Determinism of Morality

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Toundra, II

Spain, 2010.

"Toundra is a band from Madrid, Spain emerged in 2007, as phoenix, from disappeared ones Nacen De Las Cenizas, who left a great (good) taste in mouth among national hardcore followers, despite the brief of his career. In this case, the new creature has decided to dispense vocals and provides us with an entirely instrumental sound where guitars, bass and drums take on the entire role."

Playlist:

1. Tchod
2. Magreb
3. Zanzíbar
4. Völand
5. Danubio / Danube
6. Koschei
7. Bizancio / Byzantium

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Souvenir's Young America, The Name Of The Snake

US, 2010.

Souvenir’s Young America is a three piece instrumental band from Richmond, VA. They create a very unique and interesting sounding - reminds you of the cinematic American desert - instrumental post-rock/post-metal.

Playlist:

1. Water (Forgetting The Past)
2. Vanishing (Remaining)
3. Dust (Erasing The Future)
4. Amnesia (A Victor's History)
5. 6:38
6. 3:17
7. 9:18

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Khoma, A Final Storm

Sweden, 2010.

Khoma is a Swedish (post-)rock/metal band hailing from Umeå. After three years of silence Khoma finally surface. In late august 2009 Khoma began the recording of their third album "A Final Storm", the follow-up to the highly acclaimed "The Second Wave" of 2006.

Playlist:

1. Army Of One
2. From The Hands Of Sinners
3. Harvest
4. Orisis
5. A Final Storm
6. Inqisition
7. The Tide
8. All Like Serpents
9. In It For Fighting
10. By The Gallows
11. Mist

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Irepress, Sol Eye Sea I

US, 2009.

A 5-piece rock band from Sharon, Massachusetts. They began as a very heavy sludge metal, evolving to a sludge-influenced but more progressive, instrumental post-rock. Sounds like a mixture of Rosetta and Giant Squid.


Playlist:

1. Diaspora
2. Rhintu
3. Barrageo
4. Daniel Sen
5. Cyette Phiur
6. Fletchie
7. Adeluge
8. Billy
9. Entanglement

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Fading Waves, Please Wait

Russia, 2010.

Fading Waves is a one-man post-metal/sludge band from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, formed in 2008 by Lex Maximuk. "Please Wait" combines the intensity of Isis with the atmospheric sound of Cult of Luna.

Playlist:

1. Rush Hour
2. Megapolis Depression
3. Lights On Water
4. Forever Closed
5. No Way Home
6. Flows
7. Waiting For End

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The Waters Deep Here, Sunden

US, 2009.

"The Waters Deep Here is a small, instrumental band from Salt Lake City (...) Their first album, Sunden, exhibits an array of musical talent that crosses from dark metal to progressive to mellow and back again, but they’re able to blend the sound in such a way that the listener is never felt confused or lost.

Musically, they sound like a combination of Tool, ISIS and Coheed and Cambria. If you’re a fan of prog rock or metal, you should give The Waters Deep Here a try."

Playlist:

1. Acedia
2. Super Bia
3. Gula
4. Mammon
5. Envy
6. Ira
7. Asmodeus

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Battle of Mice, A Day of Nights

US, 2006.

"Battle of Mice was a post-metal supergroup consisting of Julie Christmas (Made Out of Babies), Josh Graham (Neurosis, ex-Red Sparowes, A Storm of Light), Joel Hamilton (Book of Knots), Tony Maimone (Book of Knots, Pere Ubu), and Joe Tomino (Fugees, Dub Trio, Peeping Tom).

The album, which was released under Neurot Recordings, is heavily influenced by metal, post-rock and noise rock roots. The atmosphere is decidedly eerie and unnerving, with one song, At the Base of the Giant's Throat, featuring a recorded 911 call between vocal sections. The lyrical content is wide in scope, touching on love, lust, jealousy, and rage."

Playlist:

1. The Lamb and the Labrador
2. Bones in the Water
3. Sleep and Dream
4. Salt Bridge
5. Wrapped in Plain
6. At the Base of the Giant's Throat
7. Cave of Spleen

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Heirs, Alchera

Australia, 2009.

Heirs is an experimental post-rock/post-metal band from Victoria, Australia, begun as a solo project by Damian Coward in late 2006. Alchera is a powerfully instrumental debut album recommended for fans of Constants and Tangled Thoughts of Leaving.

Playlist:

1. Plague Asphyx
2. Mockery
3. Cabal
4. Mandril
5. The White Swell
6. Russia

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Pelican, What We All Come to Need

US, 2009

The return of post-metal instrumentalists Pelican is not only a new high point for their career - it may well be a closing chapter for Pelican as a pure instrumental band as they usher in vocals.


Playlist:

01 Glimmer
02 The Creeper
03 Ephemeral
04 Specs of Light
05 Strung Up From the Sky
06 An Inch Above Sand
07 What We All Come to Need
08 Final Breath

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Minsk, With Echoes in the Movement of Stone

US, 2009.

"Located along the in-betweens of Chicago and Peoria, Illinois, and drawing its nominal inspiration from the Belarusian capital, nestled deep amidst the in-betweens of the East and the West, a city that has been burned to the ground on several occasions only to be rebuilt like a phoenix rising from its ashes, Minsk is an eclectic experience of passion, aggression, rhythm, noise, and trance. The music is as organic as it is other-worldly, infusing the rhythms of the earth and the resonance of the human voice with the synthetic sounds of machines, amplifiers, and effects."

Playlist:

1. Three Moons
2 The Shore of Transcendence
3. Almitra's Premonition
4. Means to an End
5. Crescent Mirror
6. Pisgah
7. Consumed by Horizons of Fire
8. Requiem: from Substance to Silence

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Russian Circles, Geneva

US, 2009.

Russian Circles, a three piece instrumental rock/metal band from Chicago, is releasing their third full-length album in October this year. Similarly to previous works, Geneva oscillates between heavy discordant metal and soft delicate passages, with occasional moments of memorability.

Playlist:

1. Fathom
2. Geneva
3. Melee
4. Hexed All
5. Malko
6. When The Mountain Comes To Muhammad
7. Philio

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Neurosis & Jarboe, Self-titled

US, 2003.

“Neurosis & Jarboe” was a collaboration effort between the post-metal group, Neurosis, and Jarboe, former vocalist/keyboardist of experimental folk band, Swans.

Playlist:

1. Within
2. His Last Words
3. Taker
4. Receive
5. Erase
6. Cringe
7. In Harm's Way
8. Seizure

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Buried Inside, Spoils of Failure

Canada, 2009

I haven't had time to dig into this yet, but based on their previous effort, Chronoclast, this should be promising.


Playlist:

01 - I
02 - II
03 - III
04 - IV
05 - V
06 - VI
07 - VII
08 - VIII

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Jesu, Silver EP

U.K., 2006

Three year old release from post-metal/sludge/and-some-more-tags-if-you-want-to.
It does ring something inside; I have been happily stuck with the first song for years, and silver is just another gold.


Playlist:

1. Silver
2. Star
3. Wolves
4. Dead Eyes


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Arcadhianonstabian, El Paraiso No Esta Bien

Mexico, 2006

Experimental post-rock/ambient/screamo/hardcore band. (Fancy tags for post-metal.)

Playlist:

1 - Tiempo Indefinido Por Tiempo Limitado
2 - El Nombre Que Nunca Estuvo
3 - Chistes Tristes (Jarababacha)
4 - A Veces Siempre
5 - Intro
6 - Recuerdas
7 - Vivir Esperando-Esperando Vivir
8 - Eterno Suministro De Mil Memorias De Reserva
9 - Quién Recogegerá Todos Los Escombros
10 - Outro

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Pelican, City of Echoes

US, 2007.

Instrumental progressive rock with a strong metal influence, along the lines of Isis.


Playlist:

1. bliss in concrete
2. city of echoes
3. spaceship broken parts needed
4. winds with hands
5. dead between the walls
6. lost in the headlights
7. far from fields
8. a delicate sense of balance

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Sterling, Cursed

United States, 2007.
Sterling play a sophisticated and cinematic post-rock, sometimes reaching harder bits of metal.

Playlist:

1. lurker
2. acacia
3. eyes

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