Published on November 3rd, 2010 by The Editor
Had your fill of ambitious experimental projects that span post-rock, tech-metal and everything in between? I hope not; you’ll need room for Cyclamen‘s Senjyu.
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Tags: Cyclamen, experimental, post-rock, progressive, Senjyu, technical metal
Published on October 21st, 2010 by Dave Saunders
We Are Uchu No Ko is something of an every-angle swansong from oddball Japanese psych-punk-dance-noise duo Afrirampo, and a great way to start exploring them.
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Tags: Afrirampo, experimental, noise, psychedelic, punk, We Are Uchu No Ko, weird
Published on October 7th, 2010 by Duncan Harris
Hypnos 69 may call stoner rock haven Elektrohasch their home, but Legacy shows they’re all about the sprawling experimental songcraft of the progressive era.
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Tags: experimental, Hypnos 69, jazz-rock, Legacy, prog, progressive, sludge, stoner rock
Published on October 6th, 2010 by The Editor
Swans are (not) dead; if you’re a fan of Michael Gira’s crew of noise-rock nihilists, My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky will be manna from hell.
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Tags: avant-garde, experimental, My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky, noise, Swans
Published on October 1st, 2010 by The Editor
Who better to help Constants explore the largely barren territories between post-metal and post-hardcore than reverb-hungry producer Justin K Broadrick? No one.
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Tags: Constants, experimental, If Tomorrow The War, post-hardcore, post-metal
Published on July 15th, 2010 by The Editor
Set the controls for the heart of the sun: Carlton Melton start inside a geodesic dome and end up in the far reaches of outer space. Pass It On, man.
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Tags: Carlton Melton, drone, experimental, Pass It On, prog, psyche-rock, psychedelic, space-rock, stoner
Published on June 1st, 2010 by The Editor
In his back-room musical bakery in Cairo, Egypt, Pie Are Squared will cut you a slice of freshly-made experimental industrial ambient doom. Bring your own fork.
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Tags: ambient, dark ambient, electronica, experimental, industrial, Pie Are Squared
Published on May 20th, 2010 by The Editor
Three years after their last studio album, 65daysofstatic return to the scene with We Were Exploding Anyway… and I find myself wishing they’d not bothered.
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Tags: 65daysofstatic, alternative, electronica, experimental, post-rock, We Were Exploding Anyway
Published on May 18th, 2010 by The Editor
Berlin prog-metal collective The Ocean tackle the evolution of the Heliocentric world-view; their fifth studio album, and quite possibly their best to date.
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Tags: concept, experimental, Heliocentric, prog, progressive, technical metal, The Ocean
Published on May 14th, 2010 by The Editor
Post-rock sort-of-supergroup Red Sparowes return with more ragged wide-screen epics on their new album The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer.
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Tags: experimental, instrumental, post-metal, post-rock, Red Sparowes, The Fear Is Excruciating But Therein Lies The Answer
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