Irrwisch - Irrwisch

Artist: Irrwisch
Album: Irrwisch [Demo]
Genre: Black Metal
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. Vom Felsen
2. Flug
3. Leer
4. ...der Freiheit
5. Irrgang

Irrwisch started in 2006 playing an atmospheric kind of Black Metal. Influences (although they may not be heard) are bands such as Lunar Aurora, Klage, Nocternity, Drudkh, etc. The band consists of members from Widergeist. This demo really stood our for me this year, and I can not wait till they grace us with a full-length effort.

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Joyless - Wisdom & Arrogance

Artist: Joyless
Album: Wisdom & Arrogance
Genre: Depressive Rock/Post-Punk
Country of Origin: Norway
Year: 2000

Track Listing:

1. Divine
2. Close to God
3. Stand
4. Isn't It Nice?
5. The Nails
6. Transpire
7. Why Should I Cry?
8. Trust Endorse
9. Room of Velvet Splendour

Norwegian group consisting of both male and female members, their first album, Unlimited Hate was an Avantgarde Black Metal album, while this one, Wisdom & Arrogance is strictly Depressive Rock/Post-Punk (so don't go in expecting black metal ... or metal at all)

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Janvs - Vega

Artist: Janvs
Album: Vega
Genre: Progressive, Avant-Garde Black Metal
Country of Origin: Italy
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. Torri Di Vetro
2. Saphire
3. Tarab
4. Dazed
5. Mediterraneo
6. Vega
7. Vesper II

Super tasty Progressive/Black Metal album by these dudes - Now to look for some more...

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Ascent of Everest - How Lonely Sits the City!

Artist: Ascent of Everest
Album: How Lonely Sits the City!
Genre: Post-Rock (Instrumental)
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2006

Track Listing:

1. Alas, Alas! The Breath of Life
2. As the City Burned We Trembled for We Saw the Makings of It's Undoing in Our Own Hearts.
3. Molotov
4. A Threnody (For the Victims of November Second)
5. If I Could Move Mountains
i. Majesty and Awe
ii. Collapse Into Understanding
iii. Gathered Hearts Rise and Sing at the First Breath of Dawn

Not sure how many of you are familiar with these guys so I thought I'd up it. The Ascent of Everest are another diamond in the sea of post-rock artists nowadays. I'd say they are very comparable to artists like Yndi Halda, Caspian and a little bit of Laura thrown in for good measure. Having seven members from all across the country brings a lot to the table. Each member contributes his or her own style, which is then intertwined with the calming ambient sound of the band.

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Warning - Watching from a Distance

Artist: Warning
Album: Watching from a Distance
Genre: Doom Metal
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Year: 2006

Track Listing:

1. Watching from a Distance
2. Footprints
3. Bridges
4. Faces
5. Echoes

“Take ahold of my life
Make it into one that I want it to be
Make a whole of my life
Make my faces one that I want you to see.”

Simply stated, UK's Warning play Doom, and to elaborate a bit further, UK's Warning play the most authentic, emotional, depressing, heart-wrenching and "true" doom that you will ever hear. The vocal delivery and lyrics are nothing short of spectacular and once you've taken this trip with Pat Walker (vocals) and crew, you will be changed... It's a journey any metal fan has to take, in order to gain that little shred of hope, that inspiration still exists in this world.

“When I am not alone
I sever silent moments
Building bridges with meaningless words
And only feel the distance further
Remember being happy in our silence
I wish that you were with me tonight.”

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Steven Von Till - A Grave is a Grim Horse

Band: Steve Von Till
Album: A Grave is a Grim Horse
Genre: Acoustic Folk
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. A Grave is a Grim Horse
2. Clothes of Sand
3. The Acre
4. Wilow Tree
5. Valley of the Moon
6. The Spider Song
7. Looking for Dry land
8. Western Son
9. Brigit's Cross
10. Promises
11. Gravity

Steve von Till works as an elementary school teacher, is singer and guitarist for the sludge metal band Neurosis and records solo work under both his given name and the moniker Harvestman.

Very moody and melancholic American folk. The man is a genius, his ideas, his storytelling and heart that go into each track are unparalleled - so if you haven't heard his solo stuff yet, and are familiar with his more famous work (Neurosis) definitely give this a try, it shines an entirely different light on him as a singer, guitarist, musician, lyricist, and person.

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Melencolia Estatica - Melencolia Estatica

Band: Melencolia Estatica
Album: Melencolia Estatica
Genre: Black Metal
Country of Origin: Italy
Year: 2006

Track Listing:

1. Meditatio I
2. Meditatio II
3. Meditatio III
4. Meditatio IV

Melancolia Estatica is a depressive BM solo project from Italy, featuring Climaxia, the guitarist from Absentia Lunae, on all instruments. She has released two albums, self-titled, in 2006, and Letum in 2008. This band is meant to remain in shadow, not many informations given, as a consequence of the intimacy of the concealed concept.

Very much recommended!

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Lantlôs - Lantlôs

Band: Lantlôs
Album: Lantlôs
Genre: Black Metal
Country of Origin: Germany
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. þinaz Andawlitjam
2. Mitsommerregen
3. Ruinen
4. Kalte Tage
5. Ëin

The cold calling of our dying modernity, the German band Lantlôs is able to shape tasteful black metal and to switch inside their creation acoustic passages with a result that recalls of Ved Buens Ende and Amesoeurs. Lantlôs is a Distorted Aesthetic in the gloomy and fucked up obscure decadence, powerful disharmonic feeling is the artists palette to draw the listener to perdition and what may become a fatal introspection.

The rawness of the underground meets with spontaneity a submerged avant-garde mood for a band that will be able to gift the most sensitive side of the extreme crowd with their personal vision of the grey sub-audible.

Recommended for fans of Amesoeurs, Lifelover, Valfunde and other depressive rock/Black Metal acts. FAULTY, this means YOU!

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Molested - Blod Draum

Band: Molested
Album: Blod Draum
Genre: Death Metal
Country of Origin: Norway
Year: 1995

Track Listing:

1. A Strife Won at Wraith
2. Along the Misty Morass
3. Unborn Woods in Doom
4. Following the Growls
5. Blod Draum
6. The Hate from Miasma Storms
7. Carved by Raven Claws
8. A Glade of Ingrown Blood
9. Forlorn as a Mist of Grief

Technical and atmospheric Norwegian death metal. Precursor to Borknagar, but musically very dissimilar. Molested was formed in May 1991 by Øystein G. Bruun on guitars and Erlend Erichsen on drums. Initially they were known as Purgation but they soon changed it into Molested. A month later Kenneth Lian (bass) and Trond Turnes (guitars) joined to form the current lineup. It's old school death metal, with a bit of a folk twist in some tracks - Very good stuff, recommended to any fan of metal. Blod Draum is the only full length album the band released.

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The Evpatoria Report - The Evpatoria Report [EP]

Band: The Evpatoria Report
Album: The Evpatoria Report [EP]
Genre: Post-Rock
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Year: 2003

Track Listing:

1. Naptalan
2. Voskhod Project

...And this completes the all too small The Evpatoria Report discography - This is the first EP they recorded, came out 2 years before the [i]Golevka[/i] masterpiece. Please refer to THIS post for a description of the band.

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The Evpatoria Report - Maar

Band: The Evpatoria Report
Album: Maar
Genre: Post-Rock
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. Eighteen Robins Road
2. Dar Now
3. Mithridate
4. Acheron

This is the brand-spankin' new album from The Evpatoria Report... Please refer to THIS post for more information about the band.

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Totalselfhatred - Totalselfhatred

Band: Totalselfhatred
Album: Totalselfhatred
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Country of Origin: Finland
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. Enlightment (not a typo...)
2. Ruoska
3. Sledge Hammered Heart
4. Spirituelle Equilibrium
5. Mighty Black Dimensions
6. Carving
7. Total Self-Hatred

Emotional, intensive and spiritual
Desperate & melancholic
Dedicated…

Upon these terms
2 friends decided to fulfill a vision
they had since long

With the 3rd soul
joining in autumn 2005
They named it along their lives` spiritual
inspiration source:

The hate towards the self

To point it out clear!
The band is dedicated to the searching
Not to the self-pity

Totalselfhatred is a symbol for ressurrection
through pain

A pool for the frustrated

for the despereate in life
for those living and bleeding
towards a higher truth

To crush the circles of self-inflicted suffering!
For I am my worst enemy…

Fantastic Black Metal band out of Finland, grab this if you're even remotely into Black Metal.

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Devil Doll - Eliogabalus

Band: Devil Doll
Album: Eliogabalus
Genre: Progressive Rock
Country of Origin: Italy/Slovenia
Year: 1990

Track Listing:

1. Mr. Doctor (20:17)
2. Eliogabalus (24:43)

And this will be my final Devil Doll release (for now, at least) This is the only album they released which has 2 tracks (as opposed to one, epic track)

Please see THIS post for a description of the band.

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Devil Doll - The Girl Who Was... Death

Band: Devil Doll
Album: The Girl Who Was... Death
Genre: Progressive Rock
Country of Origin: Italy/Slovenia
Year: 1989

Track Listing:

1. The Girl Who Was... Death (38:48)

Another release from Devil Doll -- This is the first full-length
Mr. Doctor and co. released.

Please see THIS post for a description of the band.

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Devil Doll - Dies Irae

Band: Devil Doll
Album: Dies Irae
Genre: Progressive Rock
Country of Origin: Italy/Slovenia
Year: 1996

Track Listing:

1. Dies Irae (45:51)

It's very hard to classify Devil Doll under on particular genre... Which is why I'm listing "Progressive Rock" as the main label, but mentioning: Horror rock and Symphonic Opera Progressive Rock as well, they are a very dark and heavy progressive band from Italy & Slovenia whose music is inspired by old silent horror movies. Devil Doll’s music has been described as “an elaborate and bombastic collision of styles” and “a perverse, yet brilliant soundscape of some forbidden netherworld”. Bands like Jacula can be pointed as an influence to this (at least) very different band. Can't really say it's for everyone, but if you like them then you really fucking like them (like myself)

Devil Doll’s albums are a journey into the unknown theatres of the unexplored soul and mind, they are like a sick cabaret of unsuspecting and, at times, soul-possessing opera. “The Girl Who Was…Death” is an interesting modern symphonic sound with a pervading air of menace. “Eliogabalus” is like a prog-metal symphony, a grandiose, overarching structure that works like a suite. I certainly didn’t take a trip to heaven when I for the first time became familiar with Devil Doll’s many masterpieces. The music is not for everybody, but recommended to those who like their singers dominant. Recommended to fans of Silent horror movies.

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The Evpatoria Report - Golevka

Band: The Evpatoria Report
Album: Golevka
Genre: Post-Rock
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Year: 2005

Track Listing:

1. Prognoz
2. Taijin Kyofusho
3. Cosmic Call
4. C.C.S. Logbook
5. Optimal Region Selector
6. Dipole Experiment

The Evpatoria Report was born in January 2002 and the band consists of two guitars, a bass, drums, a violin and a keyboard.

The band offers an instrumental rock combining serenity, power and intensity. In order to enrich some of its compositions, The Evpatoria Report is willing to collaborate with other musicians, as it was the case with Reverse Engineering, the Orchestra of Ribaupierre or the Union Choral society of Vevey. So... Totally get this if you're into chillax post-rock, it's all instrumental so know that going in, and ENJOY IT!

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