To be brutally honest, at the first two or three listening, I wasn’t quite impressed by this third installment of this tumultuous, but brilliant, experimental, whatever-core band from Sheffield, England. While their debut, 2008’s “Hysterics” shake my world and blew me away, the following, 2010’s “Cosmology” was a fair, but less shocking follow-up.
After the 2011’s departure of two of their founding members, bassist Joseph Thorpe and guitarist Joe Nicholson, Rolo Tomassi bring two new spirits into the band, guitarist Chris Cayford (current vocalist/former guitarist of No Coast) and bassist Nathan Fairweather (who plays in Brontide); and band leader James Spence stating that the new members “breathed new life” in the band, while the music was already 70% complete when they had come.
Ethereal, chill and large spaces are nicely interlaced with the bands disturbing and brutal grindings – and this seems to be the key to decoding “Astrea”. Very groovy, extremely smartly build-up and throughout tensioned, the 10 tracks of “Astrea” will keep you focused and connected. Read more Rolo Tomassi – Astrea (2012)
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Comity – The Journey Is Over Now (2011)
This is a hell of a noisy and contorted release, but a quite brilliant, terrifying and hypnotizing one. And once again, Throatruiner Records give away the digital version for free, “name your price” and download/eventually buy the album or use the direct link from Mediafire – everything is there on the label’s Bandcamp page. We all love the free stuffs, but still, artists are also humans and have to fill up their refrigerators, have to pay their debts, rents and utilities, isn’t it? Not to mention the costs of playing music. And well, never thought about, don’t you? – running a record label, helping bands to go on and eventually break through might be done with love and passion, but still, it’s also a quite honorable job and it must be paid too. As I said before and I will keep on telling this: if we do not support the underground it will disappear eventually and we will be left exclusively with the so-called mainstream s*it delivered by the global corporations.
Throatruiner Records and other indie/DIY underground labels bring to the surface exciting and excellent bands as Comity are. Listen “The Journey Is Over Now” and buy the vinyl, nothing sounds like an authentic record spinning on your pick-up. Read more Comity – The Journey Is Over Now (2011)
Tactus A – ByDesign (2010)
Tactus A sunt dovada că sunt mii de muzicieni talentaţi, mii – poate „N” – trupe excelente şi pe cât de bune, pe atât de anonime sau cunoscute doar unui public restrâns. Trioul Tactus A sunt din Regatele Unite, s-au înfiinţat prin 2008 şi albumul lor de debut „Mechanical Demons” poate fi descărcat gratuit via Rapidshare cu consimţământul dat de trupă pe pagina lor MySpace. Materialul a fost lansat în 2009, conţine circa 41 de minute de muzică împărţită în 6 piese, muzica celor din Tactus A fiind un amestec de Heavy şi Death cu nuanţe Progresiv şi Post-Hardcore în maniera actuală de Metal Alternativ, respectiv Mathcore. Trupa era compusă la aceea vreme din Jory Griffin – chitară, Dave Kersh – bas şi solistul Raayl care faţă de colegii săi locuia în State şi colaborau via internet.
Interesant materialul lor de debut, chiar promiţător, dar cu atât mai bună este continuarea, acest „ByDesign” lansat de curând.
Cam abandonată pagina lor MySpace, acolo figurează încă doar albumul de debut însă ca solist este pomenit un oarecare Liam, ascultând cele două materiale nu pare una şi aceeaşi persoană, presupun că pentru a putea activa şi live băieţii au fost nevoiţi să-şi găsească un solist mai aproape de casă. Cred că şi-au găsit şi un tobar, în orice caz cel care a bătut pielile pe noul disc a făcut o treabă excelentă!
Fără informaţii de „fundal”, rămâne muzica, respectiv cele 7 piese proaspete. Read more Tactus A – ByDesign (2010)
