Merging colourful, different approaches and genres, iwrestledabearonce managed to create their own unique style metal. Between death metal and metalcore, heavy metal and avant-garde with neo-progressive infusions, iwrestledabearonce seems to delivered an unstoppable album. Their musical style is considered avant-garde metal due to their use of frequent genre changes within songs, including jazz, swing, neo-progressive, grindcore and electronica/disco, on a solid ground of metalcore. Influences for their musical style have come from a wide variety of bands including The Dillinger Escape Plan, Between the Buried And Me, Radiohead and Bjork.
Read more iwrestledabearonce – Ruining It For Everybody (2011)
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Free releases. Mr. Pan[k]sament
I have in mind lots of shit such as: “Money, money, money, must be funny in the rich man’s world”, “Now look at them yo-yo’s that’s the way you do it, you play the guitar on the MTV, that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it, money for nothin’ and chicks for free”, “Money don’t matter tonight, it sure didn’t matter yesterday, just when you think you’ve got more than enough, that’s when it all up and flies away” or “Money – it’s a gas, grab that cash with both hands and make a stash, new car, caviar, four star daydream, think I’ll buy me a football team”… Get the point, don’t ya?
As I said and repeat not for once, everybody sings, nobody listen anymore. And well, with this downfall of the global markets and this over-saturated music scene, actually nobody gives a shit anymore about anybody. So, all my releases are available for free download. Read more Free releases. Mr. Pan[k]sament
Nox – Freaks (2011)
Don’t misunderstand me: this is a pretty cool material. But why “Nox” – the Latin word for “night” – ? There’s a pretty famous Hungarian Pop band using this name,a Death Metal horde from Netherlands, although they were formerly known as Centurian and it seems they shift back to this moniker in 2010 – use/share the same name. And it’s pretty annoying. On a market over-saturated as the music market are, your name is your brand and musicians – artist – I expect to be more inspired, creative, conscious and careful when they pick up their name. Not to mention the possible legal issues and other inconveniences. Actually, it was pretty hard to dig them out on the internet… Others may not bother that much.
Nox (trio) comes from Brussels, Belgium and it’s the project involving Catherine Graindorge – who also plays violin in Monsoon, Elie Rabinovitch – drums and David Christophe – bass. Read more Nox – Freaks (2011)
Ana Kefr – The Burial Tree II (2011)
When the mainstream becomes extremely boring – just like eating margarine each and every day -, everybody try too hard to fit into all the generally accepted patterns, boxes, labels and genres and even the so-called “alternative” scene is nothing, but a cliche, still, the underground may bring salvation. Quite sadly, even the avant-garde scene and improvised music sometimes becomes predictable and boring…
I’m not a Black Metal consumer, but from time to time I find myself enjoying some Black Metal products. And well, not exclusively the traditional Scandinavian scene delivering quite exciting surprises.
Kyle Coughran – rhythm guitar/vocals, Shane Dawson – percussion, Alphonso Jimenez: bass guitar, Rhiis D. Lopez – lead vocals/keys and Brendan Moore – lead guitar/vocals/saxophone bring to the surface an extremely colourful, intense and exciting album. Black Metal roots are merged with Folk and Progressive Rock/Metal elements, complex structures, grinding Metal constructions are filled with style and inspiration with condiments from Folk to Jazz, from classy epic construction to spacy cinematic soundscapes. Read more Ana Kefr – The Burial Tree II (2011)
Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire / Nesseria – Split (2011)
Throatruiner Records maintains their fan-friendly approach, this brand new split is available to physical pre-order 12″+CD, but fans can download for free via Mediafire or directly from the Bandcamp page (“name your price”) the digital version – links on the official page.
The American Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire sounds like the prophets of Apocalypse, delivering a contorted mixture of blackened grindcore and filthy sludge metal, slow, grinder passages are twisted into dark, chaotic metal explosions. Fans of Today Is The Day, Robinson, Admiral Angry, Khanate will enjoy their new four tracks of extreme metal.
The French Nesseria comes along with dirty, complex and extreme metal massacres, four tracks of total brutality and violence, fans of The Secret, Buried Inside, Cursed or Trap Them will get their dose of metal adrenaline from here. Read more Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire / Nesseria – Split (2011)
Baring Teeth – Atrophy (2011)
This is a quite impressing trio from Dallas, Texas, formed in 2007 by Scott Addison – bass/vocals, Jason Roe – drums and Andrew Hawkins – guitar/vocals and “Atrophy” is their debut full-length album.
This is not a conventional death metal album, Baring Teeth combine very inspired technical death metal with experimental/dark and post-metal colours, they coming on a path of modern metal without being trendy, there’s nothing about matchcore and (fake) post-hardcore, but about contorted, dark and extremely heavy exploration of the borders of metal. This may take you out of the conventional – comfortable – area of (metal) music, but reveals another dimension, perspective of it. Read more Baring Teeth – Atrophy (2011)
Rorcal – Heliogabalus (2010)
74 minutes and 13 seconds, “Heliogabalus” it’s the single track of Geneva’s (Switzerland) experimental black/doom/drone metal band Rocal formed in 2006.
The band’s members Junior, Bruno, Diogo, JP and Ron exploring the darkest side of the post/experimental-metal, a quite painful journey through some deep dark moments, sometimes quite mysterious ones, soundtrack-like shady, minimalist construnctions, contra-balanced by raw black metal explosions, noisy metal grindings.
Be prepared for suffering and torture… Read more Rorcal – Heliogabalus (2010)
Dewey – Self Titled (2011)
The complete name of the genius American jazz trumpeter, Miles Davis, actually was Miles Dewey Davis III. Dewey is a name chosen by several artists for their bands, some in its simple form, others as Dewey Band, and many more, just like Miles, born with this name. The French band made of Edouard – guitar, Seb – bass, Tony – guitar, Ben – vocals and Guillaume – drums recorded their debut effort between May and June 2010 by them self and released it on their Bandcamp page on 20 May 2011.
Dewey delivering a gloomy mixture of post-metal with roots back to black, death and crust metal, slow, crushing moments are combined with grinding, fast passages, they songs are filled with dark atmosphere, expressive, sometimes quite cinematic elements, but still, very intense, disturbing metal.
It’s a dark, but interesting journey coloured with exciting twists, turns, breaks, changing of tempos and approaches while Ben delivering exclusively raw, howling vocals. Read more Dewey – Self Titled (2011)
Ed Wood Jr – Ruban de Mobius (2010)
Edward Davis Wood, Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978), better known as Ed Wood was an American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and editor, who often performed many of these functions simultaneously. In the 1950s, Wood made a number of cheap genre films, now enjoyed for their technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, large amounts of ill-fitting stock footage, idiosyncratic dialogue, eccentric casts and outlandish plot elements. Wood’s popularity waned soon after his biggest name star, Bela Lugosi, died, toward the end of his life, Wood made pornographic movies and wrote pulp crime, horror, and sex novels. Some of his most famous movies are “Glen or Glenda”, “Jail Bait”, “Bride of the Monster”, and “Plan 9 from Outer Space”.
In 2008, at Lille, France, Olivier Desmulliez – guitar, keyboard and samples & Thibault Doutriaux – drums started their project named Ed Wood Jr and released fastly their first self-titled EP, inspired by artists such as Don Caballero, Battles or bands like From Monument To Masses. Read more Ed Wood Jr – Ruban de Mobius (2010)
Alienation Mental – Self Titled (2011)
From Prague, Czech Republic, since 1998 delivering ravishing mixture of grind/death and sometimes quite experimental metal. Oleg “mrtvola” Kamenetski – vocals, Pavel “hjalli” Kuchař – guitar and bass, Tomáš “lesik” Mleziva – guitar and Jarda “mental” Haž – drums, throw in their sick-minded music blender elements from classic monsters such as Napalm Death till twisted turns of Korn and the result is quite impressive. “Nonsense” have grindings, have Korn like dark riffings and screams, but also jazzy cut-downs. It’s a killer track. And well, Alienation Mental have lot of surprises, they do not grinding from the beginning till the end, they knew to colour they music with exciting switches, inspired twists and turns, changing of tempos and approaches from grinding to slow cutting riffs, industrial colours and noise massacres, have some inspired riffs, wrote some good themes and actually have a few very good songs (“Nonsense”, “Indifference”,”Emotions of People 53 Seconds Before the End of the World”, “Follow the Perfecitizen”) not exclusively butchering. Read more Alienation Mental – Self Titled (2011)
