First part of my older post of Connections. Similarly we receive here a powerful dose of good and sometimes post-rock'ish screamo. All in a 6way split.
Good Weather For An Airstrike project was initially conceived at the beginning of 2009 to help Tom Honey (also of Post-Rock band Sleepless dreams.) alleviate the issues caused by suffering from tinnitus, which causes a ringing sensation in the ear and can often result in difficulty sleeping. The idea was to create a collection of relaxing sounds which would help induce sleep.The EP below presents a new remixed version of 2 old tracks.
TotorRo is a young post-rock band from Rennes, France. Their music contain elements of dreamlike soundscapes and massive and strong walls of sound. They released only self-titled EP with 4 tracks, but it's only encouragement to wait for their new releases. For fans of Caspian, Exilym, Sleepmakeswaves etc.
Jesu is an experimental band formed by Justin Broadrick in 2003. It's a mix of electronic, heavy guitars and breath-taking arrangements. Ranging from ambient music and post-rock to industrial, drone and shoegazing. During the writing of Jesu's "Opiate Sun EP" Justin noticed that Jesu was intended to be a guitar oriented project. The ‘electronica’ side of Jesu was just an inevitable direction for him, but never satisfied with this battle between guitars and electronica with Jesu, he decided to separate the two directions - Jesu, now, and for the forseeable future, being guitar based exclusively, with Pale Sketcher being the project where he can focus and develop further, the Jesu ‘electronica’ sound, without need for further fusion or compromise. Jesu & Fog - Kissing Kin EP - 2010 | 320kbps Heart Ache & Dethroned - 2010 | 320kbps
After 15 years Cap'n Jazz REUNITED! So this the best time to post their music here.
Their are one of the most original (mixing indie rock sounds with hardcore and melody put new quality in the emo scene from early 90s dominated by Fugazi; scratchy vocal is so extraordinary and songs are so catchy that you're gonna sing them while taking shower) and most influential (2 bands named themselves after their songs: We Are Scientists and Scary Kids Scaring Kids) of all the time in whole damn Universe! Just TAKE IT!
Former members of Breather Resist, sounds like Jesus Lizard. Never heard these guys before, it's suprising how good they are. We need more bands like this.
Oldschool emo band from Los Angeles. They made music in early 90s so it's very unique and touching. And their self-titled LP is very rare shit, so if you have the physical copy - you are lucky bastard! The rest can download it from favourite blog ;) Let Evergreen be evergreen.
Group featuring members from: 3cm tour, black line fever, Cleaner, Umbra, Sora and Anthropic Disease - can't be bad. It's supergroup. They make post-rock screamo music with some japanese-spoken elements, similar to Heaven In Her Arms. Despite the fact that they are from Japan they supported living legends from other parts of the world like La Quiete, Off Minor or Kaospilot. And their shows must be amazing: click.
Great melodic hardcore band from Chicago. Powerful, noisy, rebellious, emotional, agressive, just amazing. My music tastes have matured somewhat but their Siren Song Of The Counter Culture is still one of my favourite albums.
Hailing from Jacksonville, FL Evergreen Terrace has been blazing their own path through the melodic hardcore style since 1999. They have an interesting combination of screams and clean vocals which makes them unique on the metalcore scene. Songs are pretty intense and sometimes agressive. Their covers release made my point of view on pop music totally different. And a big plus for using The Simpsons element in band's name. Thanks for this request!
If you are fed up with heavy metal screamo - just check those guys from Germany. Vocalist plays on acoustic guitar and sings which make they sound softer, but there are also screams and hardcore parts. And the band is still alive, maybe soon they will visit your city, so get to know the songs and learn the lyrics.
Without keyboard it would be a typical metalcore band. But it isn't! It's some kind of symphonic metalcore with cool goth sound. Quite original and melodic.
Nevermind The Name is a one-man-bedroom-project started april 2010 in Cologne, Germany. The music is produced with a laptop, an line6 audio interface some pedals, cheap recording software and drum-sampler. Inspired by multiple genres of music, ntn combines different influences. With the focus on a tense atmosphere, ntn’s music is layed out to produce specific emotions that shall help to bring up a kind of dreamworld in listeners minds. Nevermind The Name EP - 2010 | 256kbs Home LP - 2010 | 192kbs
His real name is Keith Kenniff. He is a Portland-based ambient indie electronic artist who works under the monikers Helios and Goldmund. He is also half of the shoegaze band Mint Julep, and children’s band Meadows along with his wife Hollie Kenniff. Try at first Eingya - Imo one of the best from genre!
Yodaka (よだか) were a Japanese Post-Rock band consisting of Kashiwa Daisuke (Guitar/Programming), Nema Takeshi (Guitar/Synth), Takimoto Nozomu (Bass) and Yamamoto Hironobu (Drums). Kashiwa Daisuke started his solo project in 2004. よだか has only released a bootleg, which calls also よだか and these mp3 below are the only in the net, unfortunately in quite poor quality :(
Apricot Rail is a young post-rock formation from Australia. The premise of the band always was simple: music based on unique guitar tunings, the use of natural harmonics, and very open ideas about other instruments, electronica and song structure. And this sentence IMO describe them completly. Highly recommended!
Post-Hardcore band from Rochester, New York. They represent pretty intense approach to dynamic of their songs. Lot of them seem to just be catchy and tend to be called pop punky, however everything changes when the vocalist switches his scratchy voice into screaming. Then we can feel some real energy and what post-hardcore should be. A lot of their songs sound cheerful and just happy which places them a bit closer to american rock and punk culture than bands like Thrice. Listen to it only while in good mood.
Ólafur Arnalds is an Icelandic compositor who explores the crossover classical music with some electronic elements by mixing chamber strings and piano with discreet electronic. P.S. Photo is from yesterday's concert in Warsaw.
Hummingbird (not to be confused with the 70’s band of the same name) is the nom de plume of an otherwise well known composer behind the album “Our Fearful Symmetry”, which defines elements within the modern classical genre. It includes subtle string arrangements mixed with echoes of piano notes, fused with hallmarks of the electro-acoustic genre – waves of static, white noise and field recordings tangle with layers of fragmented texture that create both the foreground and background.
Sunlight Ascending is a young band that formed in Detroit, Michigan, USA around the beginning of 2007. Their music is a mix of so atmospheric Post-rock and dreamlike soundscapes. The members onf band are from 15 to 22 years old and claim that they will continue their activity as long as it will be possible.
Amazing band from San Francisco. Feder Magazine review: “…what happens if No Age traded in good vibes and instead got real angry from the depths of a muffled cavern. It’s about four minutes of build up, windy moans and plodding drums giving way to a balls to the wall freakout as the whole song collapses on itself.” I fully recommend their new album Sports.
Love Lost But Not Forgotten was a screamo band from St. Peters, Missouri, formed in 1997. Known for their violence on stage and unique vocals provided by a lineup that sometimes included two main vocalists and a trio of guitarists.
Norwegian band from Oslo which started its music career with harsh but still melodic screamo. With each album their sound became less chaotic and in the end their last album was described as one of the best post-hardcore releases, at least in Norway. Screamo lovers should start with Calling in Dead, as their best known album may sound for you like totally different band.