Category: POST METAL
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Elcia – Songs Of A Silent Ocean LP
Elcia caught my attention a while ago, but somehow I’ve missed the album release in February. For those who’re not familiar with their music, Elcia is a post-rock trio hailing from Portland, Oregon. As we get used to post-rock scene, there’s more than meets the eye, especially on their latest full-length album entitled Songs Of…
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Barrens – Penumbra LP (Pelagic Records)
Barrens have tie connections with Scraps Of Tape, the band that produces incredible recordings for more than two decades. Besides sharing two band members, Barrens includes the third member who’s skilled enough to contribute to this distinctive newcomer. There are certain sonic similarities between these two bands, but Barrens provide more synth aesthetics equally polarized…
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Egoera – Fortuna CD
Egoera is an intense instrumental post-rock trio commencing from Athens, Greece. This creative group of highly experienced musicians has been formed in 2013 and managed to release a demo recording in 2014, and a single called Virtues in 2016. This year indicates a large milestone for the band, considering they’re coming back on the post-rock…
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Caspian – On Circles DLP (Triple Crown Records)
Caspian is a remarkable post-rock group originating from Beverly, Massachusets. The band has been formed in 2003, and these skillful practitioners of melancholic music have produced numerous recordings since then. Their current discography consists of notable full-length albums such as The Four Trees, Tertia, Walking Season, and Dust And Disquiet. They also published loads of…
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Brainswitch – Sun Worship Kingdom CD (Geenger Records)
The Sun Worship Kingdom is a following full-length album by Brainswitch, progressive alternative post-rock band originating from Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina. I had an urge to delve deeper into their entire material since the band promoted the Sun Worship Kingdom with a couple of excellent singles such as From The Sleep, Bow Down To The…
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Envy – The Fallen Crimson DLP (Temporary Residence Limited / Pelagic Records / Sonzai Records)
The Japanese post-hardcore/metalcore legends are back with their latest album called The Fallen Crimson. Envy has been a crucial band on the Japanese scene, and presumably the initial one to encompass immense currents of post-hardcore music, which certainly seemed fresh at the beginning of the nineties. This specific subgenre of hardcore punk was unquestionably an…
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Lednik – Celestial Monuments
Celestial Monuments is a highly anticipated debut album by Lednik, an instrumental post-metal band from Novi Sad, Serbia. The band operates as a unified living organism since 2015, and they have a quite impressive following on social media, so this debut has been impatiently anticipated by the wider post-metal audience. To be honest, there’s no…
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Autarch – The Light Escaping LP (The Plague of Man Records / Replenish Records / Profane Existence)
The Light Escaping is a brand new cosmic voyage by the Autarch, a wondrous neo-crust punk band hailing from Asheville, North Carolina. The band has been formed in 2010. and has published a decent amount of impressive records such as Self-Titled CD, The Death Of Actiacus LP/CS, and split LP’s with Soothsayer and Landbridge. The…
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Stonebride – Animals On Display 12” EP (PDV Records)
Stonebride nurtures progressive psychedelic rock’n’roll with a fuzziness of stoner rock, the dirtiness of Seattle grunge scene alongside with subtle doses of doom and sludge metal, but even with all these comparations, Stonebride encompasses so many influences along the way, it’s nearly impossible to grasp them all. Animal On Display is their latest comprehensive collection…
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Nord – Play Restart LP (Geenger Records)
Play Restart is a debut full-length record of Nord, a great quartet from Rijeka and besides being published by Geenger Records a couple years ago, it still worth mentioning on our pages today. So, you might be wondering why we’re are covering an album that has been published two years ago? Because this record is…
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Consecration – Plava Laguna LP (Geenger Records)
Plava Laguna is the sixth album by Consecration, a band which moves all the boundaries of modern metal music for almost two decades. Formed in 2000. in Belgrade, Serbia, these innovative musicians are shapeshifting their skills, upgrading their sound, and building an institution called Consecration with brilliant ideas and some quite impressive musicianship. Plava Laguna…
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Downfall Of Gaia – Ethic Of Radical Finitude LP (Metal Blade Records)
Downfall Of Gaia has started as a doom metal oriented crust punk band, but they’ve evolved into a more atmospheric post-black metal band. This powerful German band has been formed back in 2008, and current members are located in Berlin, Hamburg and New York, but that doesn’t stop them on their musical journey. So far,…