(((O))) Tag: Pelagic Records
The re-positioning of their sound gives individual tracks the space to breathe, and the often short-lived, but beautiful guitar melodies that are a key quality to their work are even further to the fore as a result.
Honoured by the opportunity, we got a chance to catch up with Taka to talk about the new album, their anniversary and much more.
Suspended in Reflections is a really stunning piece of work, it’s dense, multi-layered and full of twists and turns. Patient in pace, occasionally exploding but it’s never overused. The band really show some musical talent, adding organ, strings and piano to what in places might be more straight forward post-metal.
Coilguns | Facebook | Bandcamp I remember seeing Coilguns back in 2012 in Edinburgh at The Banshee Labyrinth, which at that time had a capacity of around 70. I had heard their EP Stadia Rods and was looking forward seeing the band live. The other …
set and setting | Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter Since their debut album Equanimit (2013), set and setting has been very active throughout the underground and extreme music scenes in the U.S. and Canada. In 2014, set and setting released their seco …
A very ambitious project covering 19 songs of apocalyptic post-metal. It might not knock ISIS off top stop in favourite album lists but deserves a place as a genre reference point for the scale and quality of its accomplishment.
Årabrot are a very welcome counterbalance to meat and potatoes hard rock acts with nothing to say and the desire to keep saying it blandly.
Spook the Horses | Website | Facebook Imagine: if band members can rotate between instrument positions within the band, because every band member can play every instrument, then this must imply a seldom degree of freedom and mutual musical understandin …
YLVA | Facebook | Bandcamp Drawing influences from a deep well of experience in past outfits, YLVA, hailing from Melbourne, Australia’s capital of underground music, create patient, dark and mysterious pieces of heavy music. While the fi …
Briqueville | Website | Facebook | Bandcamp Briqueville is a band shrouded in mystery. On stage, they create an instrumental mantra of spooky guitars, modified field recordings and eery sampled chants. These meditative bui …
BISON | Facebook | Bandcamp Vancouver metal veterans BISON are making a devastating return with their brand new album titled You Are Not The Ocean You Are The Patient; already a serious contender for the album title of the year award. After 2012’s …
Briqueville | Website | Facebook | Bandcamp Briqueville is a band shrouded in mystery. On stage, they create an instrumental mantra of spooky guitars, modified field recordings and eery sampled chants. These meditative build-ups, based on the pers …
Wovoka | Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter “Wovoka’s musical volleys are both panoramically expansive and crushingly claustrophobic“, LA Weekly wrote about these 4 dark souls from the US West Coast. Emerging from a near 2-year slumber since debut album Sar …
The formula that the German band possesses is one of being short and sweet. Give us an aural blast, make it abrasive, but don’t be afraid to warm certain edges of the style with your own little subtleties. I find this to be the main formula of their debut album ‘Deadweights’.
Hyenas | Website | Facebook In a genre saturated with bands reproducing the same boring moves and routines, it can become quite a chore to find that elusive gem amongst the steaming piles of manure. It does however make it that much more rewarding …
Klone | Website | Facebook If the oftentimes unimaginative Unplugged undertaking is to be interesting at all, it must not be done in a way that simply entails getting rid of any electric guitars, and playing the exact same songs and rif …
Lo! | Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter Akin to the way a volcano can lie dormant for years before unexpectedly unleashing its mighty wrath on everything within reach, Sydney band Lo! kept a pretty low profile, until their thundero …
Labirinto returns with a menagerie of their trademark doom riddled undertones and cursed melodies of ruination. ‘Gehenna’ is the archetype of what damnation would sound like.
Labirinto | Website | Facebook | Bandcamp Within the vast territory of sounds that stretches between post rock and metal, Labirinto are South America’s most well-known band… and one of the very few outfits whose name and reputation has reac …
