Jonestown Revival - 2012 Brand New Dad

Band : Jonestown Revival
Album : Brand New Dad
Release Year : 2012
Genre : Mathrock | Psychedelic | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

1. Dad Returns
2. Eastern McFeaster
3. The Infinite Doughnut
4. Soul Claw
5. Beef Storm
6. Planet of the Crepes
7. Simon and Dark Uncle
8. Mark Hamill/ Hittler, PA
9. Celine Dijon
10. Brand New Dad

Jonestown Revival is a 3 piece band from Fort Collins, CO. They playing a kind of mathrock/prog/psychedelic stuff. There's not much infos i can find about them, but this band is really good!! If you like Avian Architecture, you should go check them out!!! Enjoy!!

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Errata - 2012 Cognac Al Dente

Band : Errata

Album : Cognac Al Dente

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Chaotic | Mathcore | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

01. Have Another Scone
02. Gondola
03. Miss Discord
04. Venus En Code
05. Post-Coital 15%

From freaky clown porn, painted homage’s to the Bee Gees on velvet to bootleg Chinese occult movies, everything you crave is at your nasty little fingertips. In a random happenstance stumbling of clicks, and tweets I was directed to a band out of Australia called Errata, and man, the noise from the other side of the world is chaotic, and mighty. The profile of the band is very tongue in cheek, but literal, with a sense of chaotic, shameless miasma that frequents Jacob Bannon’s Absolutely Essential To Music label Death Wish. Errata, is an artistically violent snuff film of a band. Errata’s sound is a welcome harken back to a sound that I thought was all but mummified. Flashes of mid to late nineties technical hardcore wrapped in devastatingly viable riffs paint a vivid picture of a sonic morgue with screeching guitar riffs that one minute are Pg. 99 and the next are straight off a Mike Patton record. One minute it’s artistic torture orgy with bells and whistles and whispers into the mic ala Nick Cave, and the next second is bloody fucking terror featuring the best riffs Orchid or Love Lost but Not Forgotten never used. 

To hear a band actually get the timings right, to understand it’s not ALL about the brutality, is plainly, refreshing. It’s great to see that so far away, just maybe something is brewing that isn’t just a simple chugging riff that you can bounce around to. There are no basketball shorts or straight brimmed baseball hats. No one is slapping their chests in an effort to prove who’s the mightier shaved ape. This is the thinking man’s game. Colorful busts of machine gun tempos wrapped in full figured slam fuck legs, it’s sexy as a used whore left for dead, but carefully placed just so, so that the police are left stupefied by the killers motive. There is a group of people who desire to ride a musical rollercoaster, to feel like they’re charting into the unknown. There’s a violent mystery in the absence of austerity, and letting all of the nicks and scars show in scrawled, pugnacious tones.Errata showcase moments of Candiria before they went all Christian, and terrible are resound through their debut record “Cognac El Dente”

“Cognac el Dente” is a solid first offering that has fits of musical identity crisis in one fitting, Picasso on speed, but making out with a razor blade kind of way. Errata have fits of whiskey, and good pot induced stoner jams for a second, while the art school drop out comes screaming back within seconds.

“Cognac el Dente” is a view into the mind of where The Postman Syndrome should have went. The timings with the off kilter jazz saxophone are a fun, deliberate punch in the neck, on the track “Gondola”, but the real absolute chainsaw to the head, chair through the window craziness that true tech head seek is right in the opening seconds of “Miss Dischord”. Calling back to a sound of when Dillinger Escape Plan was still relevant, it’s a furious piece with sonic layers of Mike Patton, Isis, and some Kid A era Radiohead.

This isn’t mindless noodling for the sake of having fast fingers, or technical prowess, it’s a powerful exorcism in displaying that the kids who grew up on Botch, Coalesce, Converge, Pig Destroyer, the aforementioned DEP, and various Mike Patton projects, may have grown up a little, but are still capable of crushing blasts of brilliance.Errata are creating some wonderful violence in the poisonous vacuum known as Australia. -Robert Dean (MoonRunner)

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Half Milk - 2012 Down Endings

Band : Half Milk

Album : Down Endings

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Post-Hardcore | Mathrock | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

1. Cooper Cannon
2. By The Sea 6 (Like A G6)
3. Our Chart
4. Skye Brynjelsen's Big Break

Barrington based boys living in chicago now who love pizza. Rajiv has a grand theft auto t-shirt. you should probably be afraid of him. he can beat you up.

Really nice post-hardcore/math rock with jazz influence band!! Check them out now!!!

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Cadence Fox - 2012 Metaphors For The Decline Of Humanity

Band : Cadence Fox

Album : Metaphors For The Decline Of Humanity

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Post-Hardcore | Mathrock | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

 1. Walls
2. Metaphors For The Decline Of Humanity
3. Infested Unity
4. Shootout
5. Wilderness
6. Grudge
7. Red Sky In Morning
8. Purgatory
9. Womb Fury (Fuck You)
10. Kousin Kravitz
11. Nothing

Cadence Fox was formed in 2009 by core members Robert Poznanski and Sebastian Alvarez. The duo took about 2 years of ... more experimenting with sounds, trying out different members, demoing songs, and playing multiple shows and a few tour dates. September 2011 finally saw a permanent addition to the line-up with Steve Guardi on bass.

 

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A Fine Boat, That Coffin! - 2005 The Second Nail

Band : A Fine Boat, That Coffin!

Album : The Second Nail

Release Year : 2005

Genre : Screamo | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

1. Spritze
2. Confessions 0.1
3. Confessions 0.2
4. Eine Kugel scheint der einzige Trost für ein einsames Herz zu sein
5. I wanna eat your face
6. Zerfall von Mokekülen in einfachere Bestandteile
7. Ey, haste ne Bombe geköpft oder was?
8. Mannstopmunition
9. Ins Fernsehen? Wo muss ich unterschreiben?
10. Ich bin nicht Stiller
11. A fine boat - night Ray
12. Wir nehmen Abschied

3 guys from calling gina clark + 1 guy from the apoplexy twist orchestra = ? a lot of chaos for sure, or in other words some spastic jazzmetal not comparable to anything else in your record collection. these guys are not going the usual screamo way, they throw in some quiet jazz parts, metal guitar blasts, and a lot of emotional breakdowns. in 2005 they have toured with the amazing utarid from malaysia through europe supported by their 4-way-split 12"(third nail!) together with am i dead yet, the mock heroic and utarid, on which they have put one bastard of a 7-minute song. on the other hand there are the two 30-second blasts of these guys from their contributions to the emo armageddon compilation 7"(first nail) and the emo apocalypse 12"(fourth nail). with their first full-length, the second nail 12", they have made a work full of emotional and political outbreaks packed in their unique style. why i am talking about nails all the time, you question? so the band calls all their outputs nails for their coffins! the band is taking a break until spring 2007 to pass their exams and to let jonah rock this world.

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Cynic - 2012 The Portal Tapes

Band : Cynic

Album : The Portal Tapes

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Progressive | Metal | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

1. Endless Endeavors
2. Karma's Plight
3. Circle
4. Costumed in Grace
5. Cosmos
6. Crawl Above
7. Mirror Child
8. Road to You
9. Belong
10. Not the Same

When Cynic released their debut album, Focus, way back in 1993 the musical landscape was much different. The experimentation that we all take for granted was not so prominent back then and metal, in particular, was not to be diluted by any other genres. This left Cynic and their blend of death metal, prog, jazz and new age in a very tough position. When it came to Focus, the average metal fan was totally lost and even their label didn’t know how to promote them. Obviously, nobody at Roadrunner Records has ever admitted to their completely inept attempts at marketing the band, but there could be no other explanation for sending them on tour with artists such as Cannibal Corpse -- and not the current incarnation; we’re talking the Chris Barnes-fronted “I Cum Blood” version of the band. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the band’s next step was to simply throw their hands up in the air and give up. This lead to a majority of the band ‘reforming’ as Portal – a collaboration that lasted just long enough to record a demo before disbanding.

Anyone that has ever had the chance to hear the demo knows that old-school Cynic fans would have been shocked if it had been released back in 1994. Oddly enough, though, following behind the release of Carbon-Based Anatomy, The Portal Tapes album actually blends seamlessly with Cynic’s current direction (almost sounding as though it really did come afterwards). It continues the band’s focus on creating otherworldly soundscapes through the use of cold layers of synth, progressive/laid-back guitar melodies and chill, almost abstract, vocal deliveries. It also continues to display drummer Sean Reinert’s ability to dazzle with his percussive abilities despite the mellow nature of the music. There is also what one could call a progression from Carbon-Based Anatomy to this release (despite the latter coming before the former) through the band’s increased use of female vocals. When Portal was conceived, female vocalist Aruna Abrams was brought in to do the majority of the vocals and she is a perfect fit. Her crisp vocal delivery is the perfect complement to Jason Gobel’s relaxed approach. Her vocals are just as mellow as his are, but with his voice occupying the middle range and hers moving more towards the upper register, they combine to create a full, rich vocal experience.

Given Cynic’s current musical endeavors, it’s hard not to look at The Portal Tapes as the next logical progression in their sound -- this despite the fact that The Portal Tapes are nearly twenty years old. It’s almost as though the band have finally come full circle and they ended up exactly where they wanted to be way back in 1994. The music is relaxed and very atmospheric, relying as much on the varying layers of melody as on the dual-vocal approach of Jason Gobel and a female vocalist (just like now). It also makes as much use of experimental sounds and ideas as it does the core guitar/bass/drum approach (just like now). Also, the metal and death growls have been relegated to the past in favor of a much more pure, progressive formula that does its best to not be forced into any particular genre (just like… okay, you get the point). And last, The Portal Tapes maintain the band’s high standards and quirky approach to their own unique style of music – just like now! -Trey Spencer (Sputnikmusic)

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Encrypt Manuscript - 2008 Census

Band : Encrypt Manuscript

Album : Census

Release Year : 2008

Genre : Post-Hardcore | Mathrock | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

1 The Beloved Cyst
2 Colonized Minds
3 Two Mice
4 Glamorous Fiends
5 Pink Slip
6 All I've Left Behind    
7 Gallery
8 The Royal We
9 Census
10 Food. Health. Hope
11 Great Ape Trust

Encrypt Manuscript has been concocting some of the more unique and divisive sounds in the metro area the last few years. Though it starts with a base of frantic post-hardcore / indie rock, the band restrain it with an attentive detail to jazz breaks and more subtle underlying instrumentation, topped off with alternations between a high-pitched vocal yelp, a beat poetry-inflected delivery and the occasional frailly sung section. Their long-awaited debut full-length, Census, is the culmination of these talents.

There's been some persistent comparisons since the band's Dialogues EP: the Nation of Ulysses (for the contrast of an unsettling swagger and clear jazz influences; some vague political theory musings and similar aesthetic); the related Make Up (for the unique, semi-theatrical and soulful display; aesthetic, too); and the Blood Brothers (since Brian Davis' jarring vocals mildly resemble Jordan Blilie and Johnny Whitney combined into an all-in-one approach). But Census largely alleviates those similarities. Encrypt is also way cleaner-sounding than the NOU, but you might chalk that up to advancements in recording technology the last 16 years. In fact, people will probably now draw musical (more so than vocal) parallels between them and Minus the Bear's more spacious moments; frankly, it wouldn't be totally off. Nonetheless, Census brings out Encrypt's individual characteristics considerably better than before.

The wordplay Davis employs is likely to remind some of the At the Drive-In circa Relationship of Command ("Empires are flea bites beneath dirty sheets / Insect intentions intent shunned in sects"), but he seems to splash his clever narratives with a more personal touch. It becomes raw and uncomfortable when he repeatedly snarls "I was only eight years old / holding a dead dog / on the front yard and no one's home" in "Two Mice," whether the scene is reconstructed from memory or drummed out of mere creativity.

One standout comes in the form of "Pink Slip," where quietly dancing guitars weave under Davis' soaring, catty calls, its various chorus succeeding with the yap of "I'm in the confines of it! Oh, oh, I'm in the confines and it's," the sentence completed by Davis' bandmates with a smoother, sung conclusion of "easierrr...so easierrr." Davis gets rather sassy in "The Royal We," while a healthy roll propels the song along well, fueled by pace-making tambourine shakes and circling, prickly guitar lines.Census, tracked with Alex Newport in October/November 2007, actually followed a scrapped recording with

Paul Mahajan that past January of what was to be titled People. But considering Newport's edge in regards to producing more "punk" bands, he makes much more sense as the producer here. Sure, Encrypt is weird and frantic, but there's a certain bite and aggression that Mahajan might only be familiar with in his work from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Newport captures it nicely -- the band sound clear as crystal glass and tight as hell, but no less antagonistic to the listener.

Word on the street is Encrypt will be calling it quits soon. They've subtly improvised and improved over their years as a band, all the while with a truly independent ethic -- like their other releases, the pristinely packaged Census was released on The Tone Library, a label seemingly run by members of the band. If the breakup rumors are true, it's obviously disappointing, but it will mean that the band's swan song was their best song.

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Encrypt Manuscript - 2004 Dialogues 

Band : Encrypt Manuscript

Album : Dialogues

Release Year : 2004

Genre : Post-Hardcore | Mathrock | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

01 - Riot Cop Fox Trot
02 - The Dead Sleep Here-Theme For Seagulls
03 - Parabola Modes
04 - How Do You Syllabicate Your Name?
05 - (Re)Consider The Hysterical Consortium

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Merkabah - 2012 A Lament For The Lamb

Band : Merkabah

Album :  A Lament For The Lamb

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Post-Hardcore | Jazz | Avant-Garde | Experimental

 

Tracklist 

1. Twelver
2. Deconstruction Mass
3. Divine Times
4. The Tyburn Tree
5. Tetrahedron
6. The Occultation

Brand new album from Warsaw psychedelic avant-rockers Merkabah. A Lament For the Lamb keeps the proggy spirit of the band’s previous effort, Lyonesse. It’s still dark and complex, fusing jazzy drumming, droning guitars and brass soloing into a multi-level, atmospheric monsters and making them one of the most interesting modern Polish experimental rock acts.

 

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La Bella - 2012 Recomposition

Band : La Bella

Album :  Recomposition

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Hardcore | Jazz | Experimental

 

Tracklist :

1.Brukman Factory
2.Non-Linear Architecture
3.Everything That Came After
4.Petrichor
5.Hotchkiss
6.Spontaneity in Am
7.Todo Para Todos

La Bella is a D.I.Y. hardcore/latin/punk/jazz band from Southern California (west covina, if you’d like to get specific.)
Formed in January of 2011, the band draws influence from a diverse and eclectic base of genres and artists, ranging from Vince Guaraldi (famous jazz composer) to Tragedy (influential D-Beat Punk band). Ex-members of Badmouth and Wilderness. highly politicized, highly fun.

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Boa Narrow - 2007 As The Boa Narrows...

Band : Boa Narrow

Album : As The Boa Narrows...

Release Year : 2007

Genre : Screamo | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

01. Dear Mr. Stevie Wonder
02. Tengo Los Blues
03. Waiting To Exhale
04. As The Boa Narrows...
05. Astonishing Bear Attacks Or Thank You, Goodnight
06. (Blank)
07. I'd Take A Vet Over An MD Anyday
08. "We Are Boa Narrow", "Line?"

Three dudes from North Carolina. Mike Wallace plays guitar and does vocals, Zack Distel, plays bass, and Rory plays drums. At least in their live shows, all the members have some input in the percussion. The guitarist makes use of a high-hat, while the bassist sometimes puts down his bass and plays drums alongside their drummer. The three members have been playing music together in some form or another for more than five years.

They’ve released a full-length, entitled “As the Boa Narrows…” as well as a song on the Emo Apocalypse record. They have a new live song on the new WUAG compilation, “Taylor 25: A Nostalgic Retrospective.” They listen to a lot of Yes and Marijuana Wolf.

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Chinese Cookie Poets - 2012 Worm Love

Band : Chinese Cookie Poets

Album : Worm Love

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Freestyle | Jazz | Noise | Experimental

Tracklist :

01. “Plastic Love”
02. “Free the Monkey”
03. “En La Mano del Payaso”
04. “European School of Homegrown Worms”
05. “Chinatown Blues”
06. “Hakkeyoi”
07. “Discipline and Manners”
08. “Three Worms – Jukai”
09. “Three Worms – Koan”
10. “Three Worms – Ziran”
11. “Worm Love”

I've been waiting for this one!! The New release by Chines Cookie Poets sounds so awesome!! They playing jazz, noise, and chaotic in beautiful way!! If you love Naked City or John Zorn, you gonna love this one too!! Highly Recommended!!!

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Shining - 2011 Live Blackjazz

Band : Shining

Album : Blackjazz
Release Year : 2010

Genre : Progressive | Black Metal | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :
01. Fisheye
02. In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster
03. The Red Room
04. Omen
05. Goretex Weather Report
06. Winterreise
07. Exit Sun
08. HEALTER SKELTER
09. 21st Century Schizoid Man

Shining has turned into one of the most visionary music machines in Norway. They excelled with their recent album Blackjazz, since it surprised many of the band’s followers as it left the band’s jazz roots and instead focused on their own brand of blackened jazz metal. This change has now been documented on their concert album Live Blackjazz. As the title suggests, the setlist focuses on their latest studio offering, but it also shows off concert versions of some of the tracks from their two previous records: 2005′s In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster and 2007′s Grindstone.

The band was initially intended to be a vehicle for Jørgen Munkeby when he left the nu-jazz Norwegian wündergroup Jaga Jazzist. Shining have enjoyed a diverse string of releases, adapting their sounds to the different companies who have released their records; where Jazzland brought out Coltrane-isms, Rune Grammofon explored Zappa atmospheres, Mingus movements, and King Crimson invocations. Infernal merchants Indie Recordings have been lucky enough to present the band’s latest dress change into sinister ministers of an all-new brand of metal. Today, Shining fuses the industrial darkness of Ministry and Nine Inch Nails with jaw-dropping jazz and noise music.

Inspired and adventurous, the band is tight as can be. The rhythm section of bassist Kreken and drummer Lofthus interlock with complex grooves, while the guitars of Sagen plus the electronics and keyboards of Moen inundate what’s left of your senses. But Munkeby is something else entirely. When he doesn’t roar his voice, he blasts his horns or riffs his guitar. Between songs, he never floods the space with cheery banter, but still converses effortlessly with the crowd. A great frontman for a great band.

The concert took place at the Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo, Norway at the end of the band’s latest European tour. An immersive journey through the band’s recent foray into electronic jazz metal darkness, it begins with two gems from Blackjazz—the furious “Fisheye” and disorienting drive of “The Madness and the Damage Done”. The set then spirals onwards and upwards with incendiary versions of “In The Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster” and “Goretex Weather Report”, along with chaotic noise improvisation. A passionate run through King Crimson’s ”21st Century Schizoid Man” concludes—a fitting nod to their forebears with a not-so-subtle Shining slant.

Luckily, the band has included a DVD of the entire fascinating spectacle. Strobing lights and blitz flashes set up the perfect foundation for a tremendous visual counterpart, and the audience is fully into it. Shining‘s Live Blackjazz showcases expert live fusion of the two genres Norwegians are best at—free jazz & black metal—and is a brilliant look at what music can do in this next decade. ~Mats Johnasen 

 

 

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Naked City - 1993 Radio

Band : Naked City

Album : Radio

Release Year : 1993

Genre : Jazz | Freestyle | Grindcore | Experimental

Tracklist :

01 "Asylum"
02 "Sunset Surfer"
03 "Party Girl"
04 "The Outsider"
05 "Triggerfingers"
06 "Terkmani Teepee"
07 "Sex Fiend"
08 "Razorwire"
09 "The Bitter and the Sweet"
10 "Krazy Kat"
11 "The Vault"
12 "Metaltov"
13 "Poisonhead"
14 "Bone Orchard"
15 "I Die Screaming"
16 "Pistol Whipping"
17 "Skatekey"
18 "Shock Corridor"
19 "American Psycho"

Naked City was an avant-garde music group led by saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Active primarily in New York City from 1988 to 1993, Naked City was initiated by Zorn as a "composition workshop" to test the limits of composition (and improvisation) in a traditional rock band lineup. Their music incorporated recognizable elements of jazz, surf, classical, heavy metal, grindcore, country, punk rock and other genres.

Radio is the fourth studio album by the band Naked City, and their first to be composed entirely by bandleader John Zorn. The album was also released as part of Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings on Tzadik Records in 2005. Radio marked a return to the eclectic, "jump cut" style of the band's 1990 debut album.

In his 4 star review for the Allmusic website, Maurice Rickard states "Several genres and bands are skillfully evoked... and helpfully listed in the liner notes in order of occurrence. Jazz, surf, R&B, death metal, funk, acid rock, and serialism are grafted together in this collection, often into the same song, and the band shifts genres, tempos, and arrangements on a dime. Supposedly, Radio was conceived as a set for a college radio program, making it a kind of "Young Person's Guide to Naked City," beginning with accessible tunes, gradually building up listener tolerance to dissonance, and finally sandbagging the listener with evil blasts of dissonant metallic noise and convincing perpetrator-and-victim screaming".

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The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower - 2006 INRI

Band : The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower

Album : INRI
Release Year : 2006

Genre : Post-Hardcore | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

1. Inri
2. Boys Keep Swinging
3. Intri Remix(arranged by Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

For better or for worse, The Plot to Blow up the Eiffel Tower’s latest disc, a three-song EP based around the single “Inri,” represents a definite maturation for the San Diego foursome. The glum, focused track is welcome advance away from the animated yet sonically heterogeneous jazz-punk past, and it represents a more somber attitude than all of the darkest parts of vigorous debut Dissertation, Honey and sophomore slump Love in the Fascist Brothel combined. Most importantly, however, is the band’s realization that it’s acceptable to lessen the tempo and not litter the entire soundscape with squalls, shouts, and shots. By toning down the general ambience of the work, The Plot allows for “Inri”’s depraved riff to resonate with an apocalyptic apprehension and encourage the macabre irreverence of the song’s words. It’s an interesting foil to the group’s scattered beginnings, and I hope it is the birth of a post-punk Plot.

Following the dreary, goth-inclined “Inri” is an inexcusable, kitschy take on Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging.” Why The Plot would choose this, an already tacky single from the weakest of the Berlin trilogy albums, is baffling, but it’s best to not think about the song any longer than the four-minute runtime demands. Absent are the two greatest aspects of the song – Bowie’s terse, undeniable croon and Eno’s galvanic production – and the band recoups for these deficiencies by doing, well, nothing at all. It comes across as dull and conceited; I would wager there have been drunken pub renditions with more soul and entertainment value. The finished product sounds less like a legitimate version of the original and more like a cover of some bizarre adaptation Blur (thankfully) never recorded.

Capping off the short disc is an “Inri” remix by Plot acquaintance and Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner. The mix is predictably busier and dancier, but in altering the structure he dilutes the song’s strongest characteristics: that distinct riff and the afflictive vocals. The bass and once-inaudible horns are given extra focus by Zinner, but these small tweaks can’t keep the remix from coming out as a less-ambitious facsimile of the original. Though “Inri” is a tremendous track, and I can’t wait for the band’s next LP, this EP is too large on fluff to be recommended.

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Cynic - 2011 Carbon-Based Anatomy EP

Band : Cynic

Album : Carbon-Based Anatomy EP

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Progressive | Metal | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

1. Amidst The Coals
2. Carbon-Based Anatomy
3. Bija!
4. Box Up My Bones
5. Elves Beam Out
6. Hieroglyph

When CYNIC finally returned after 15 years of absence since the release of their legendary debut “Focus” (1993) with “Traced in Air” (2008) they did so with enormous success. Raving reviews and high sales catapulted the US band onto all major festivals and back to the forefront of progressive Metal music. Now CYNIC embark on a musical journey that will considerably widen their audience with “Carbon-Based Anatomy”. By moving carefully away from the Progressive Death Metal formula, which they helped to establish, the Americans create more open sounds that include 70s-inspired Prog Rock, Shoegaze, Tribal Folk and futuristic alien shapes. This development was heralded by the experimental EP “Re-Traced” (2010), which their huge fan-base eagerly adapted and praised. Primal and direct, haunting and hymnal, this is CYNIC's most immediate and urgent offering to date!

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Cynic - 2004 Focus [Remaster]

Band : Cynic

Album : Focus [Remaster]

Release Year : 2004

Genre : Progressive | Metal | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

1. Veil of Maya
2. Celestial Voyage
3. The Eagle Nature
4. Sentiment
5. I'm But a Wave to
6. Uroboric Forms
7. Textures
8. How Could I

Bonus tracks:
9. Veil of Maya (2004 remix)
10. I'm But a Wave to: (=)
11. How Could I (=)
12. Cosmos (1994 Portal)
13. The Circle's Gone (=)
14. Endless Endeavors (=)

All tracks: Cynic. Engineered by S. Burns.
Produced by Cynic, S. Burns, & T. Burleigh.

LINE-UP:
Paul Masvidal - guitar, g-synth; vocals
Sean Malone - bass, Chapman Stick
Sean Reinert - drums; keyboards
Jason Gobel - guitar, g-synth

With (12 to 14):
Aruna Abrams - keyboards; vocals
Chris Kringel - bass
         

Prolusion. Roadrunner Records continues to reissue masterworks from the glorious past of Prog-Metal. Here is the new version of one of the greatest pearls ever released in the history of the genre, CYNIC's "Focus", which includes enlarged booklet with lots of photographs, additional artwork and new liner notes. The CD is packaged in a pasteboard box and features bonus tracks never before available, which I would have renamed "Focus Expanded". (Roadrunner Remasters series)

Synopsis. This update turned out to be abundant in positive reviews, and I am really happy about this, even though, as I mentioned once before, it's not that easy to properly depict music, which possesses a lot of values and is free of any flaws, like in this very case, several days running, so some reiterations are inevitable. "Focus" is a completely unique album, the stylistics of which represents a mobile blend of Techno Metal, Thrash, and Jazz-Fusion with elements of Art-Rock and the bits of Grindcore (in some vocal parts only) and is both highly innovative and progressive. The musical world of Cynic is a test for anyone considering himself a connoisseur in Prog-Metal. This is an exceptionally eccentric music, the construction of which is beyond the common forms typical, say, for academic Prog-Metal. Cynic's "Focus" is that rare case when, while listening to music, I recall non-Euclidean spheres. Where parallel lines can easily cross each other, and discords create an amazingly coherent harmony. The arrangements are very eclectic and are completely unpredictable, filled with cascades of unusual, rapid, fantastically virtuosi solos and riffs of electric and semi-acoustic guitars, often via guitar synth, bass and Stick, crossing each other by seemingly impossible parabolas to the accompaniment of highly intricate drumming. A wide-variety of different musical directions: familiar, quasi-virtual and surrealistic, all being totally progressive, intermix with each other to form a mosaic, which is both queer and perfect, the alternation of reasonably brutal (black rather than death) and melodic vocals of various colors and shades by Masvidal, who is a true chameleon singer.

Kaleidoscope is the word. All this is typical for each of the eight songs on the album. Regarding stylistics, however, there are some particularities, and they concern the last two of them. On Textures Jazz-Fusion prevails, as a result of which this composition sounds softer, yet, not the least bit less intricate than the others. Thanks to the active use of keyboards, How Could I is rich in symphonic elements in addition. Just listen to the lush synthesizer intro to the song and the excellent fast Hammond-like solo done in the context of the band's joint arrangements at the end of it. By the way, on the 2004 remix of How Could I that solo is vastly prolonged, the factual outro features excellent improvisations on Stick, and the intro is changed as well. Interesting. There are some changes on the other two remixes, but they aren't striking, save the sound. After Sean Malone left Cynic, Paul Masvidal decided to rename the band to Portal, and also to change a musical direction. So as to the last three tracks on the CD, they present our heroes being joined by new bassist Chris Kringel and Aruna Abrams on vocals and keyboards. The music is a blend of Cathedral Metal and Art-Rock with two, female and male, lead singers usually alternating each other, with more keyboards, and with some 'modern' sense in places. The best among these is the 10-minute Endless Endeavors, richly flavored with the Eastern motifs. The new material has little in common with Cynic, which is just logical, but while it's less intricate, this is still a high-quality Progressive, equally original and interesting, and its addition to the CD is essential in my view.

Conclusion. Cynic is one of those few brilliant bands and performers who pioneered uniting such seemingly incompatible styles as Prog-Metal and Jazz-Fusion: Sieges Even, Watchtower, Atheist, John Zorn, to name just a few. Besides, Cynic reached the heights that none of the other artists working in this genre had set foot on before them. Don't miss this masterpiece on any account. Finally, if you like "Focus", I strongly urge you to pay your attention to King Diamond, starting with his famous dilogy "Them" and "Conspiracy". You'll love it!  -progressor.net

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Marty Eason - 2011 Lazy Bones

Band : Marty Eason

Album : Lazy Bones

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Progressive | Metal | Freestyle | Experimental

Tracklist :

01 Crack Rock and Rolls
02 Out of Service
03 Chuck's Medicine
04 Accidental Offspring
05 Pretending To Be Cool
06 Witch Hunt
07 Float

Marty Eason are a solo project from Marty Eason. He's coming from Carrollton, GA. A 21 years old, and he's been playing guitar for six years and producing music since 2008. He like to play every instrument and music he can get a hold of, and he always down to jam with musicians unafraid to go all out.

Lazy Bones is an experimental, heavy and groovy musical venture. There's a lot influences here on this EP, from Progressive metal to freestyle jazz etc. If you really dig with an experimental music, you should try this one!! I don't know what to say again about this one, you better listen it by yourself, this dude is sick!! And thanks to Marty to sharing his music project here!! Well, enjoy!!

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You can also check Marty's jam band called Cosmic Extract. Cosmic Extract are a two piece jam band from Carrollton, Georgia. Making funky, groovy jams. Visit their Facebook page, and get their Discography on Bandcamp. Enjoy!!!

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Shining - 2010 Blackjazz

Band : Shining

Album : Blackjazz
Release Year : 2010

Genre : Progressive | Black Metal | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

01 The Madness And The Damage Done Pt 1
02 Fisheye
03 Exit Sun Pt 1
04 Exit Sun Pt 2
05 HEALTER SKELTER
06 The Madness And The Damage Done Pt 2
07 Blackjazz Deathtrance
08 Omen
09 21st Century Schizoid Man

A Norwegian band that started out as an experimental jazz group in 1998, and has since evolved into playing their own avant-garde brand of progressive metal. Winner of the Alarm Award in both 2006 (for In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster) and 2007 (for Grindstone). Shining’s fifth album Blackjazz was released 18 January 2010 on Indie Recordings. The album’s title is meant to describe Shining’s sound, which on Blackjazz became even harder and more intense than ever before. New Shining sounds like Experimental Metal with huge Jazz influence.

Compared to Shining’s past albums, “Blackjazz” seems to be a much more violent, aggressive, modern and “avant-garde” affair, closer to the work of like-minded bands The Dillinger Escape Plan, Fantômas, Ground Zero and Ruins. These songs are performed with a sense of urgency that almost borderlines on lunacy but, after the first couple of listens, it becomes quite clear that this is one of the most chaotically controlled albums of recent times.

Whereas Shining have experimented with electronic elements from the very beginning of their career, they have always been a lot more subdued compared to the dense, layered industrial sound design they went for this time. Synthesizer leads and flourishes abound across the album, which leads me to a major complaint : had they focused on simpler, catchier leads instead of the intricate finger work scattered all over the songs, “Blackjazz” could have been an even stronger set of compositions with an stronger focus on the absolutely stellar rhythmic section of the band. Drummer Torstein Lofthus’ work on this album is nothing short of stunning and easily ranks among the best drum performances I’ve heard in a long, long time.

The guitar work is, without a doubt, the most chaotic performance on “Blackjazz”. Angular riffs and chords, with little to non-existent focus in melody, make up the bulk of the album. The fact that there are no guitar solos might enrage some of the more conservative fans but, yet again, this is not an album for narrow-minded prog rock listeners. There is some heavy feedback experimentation as well as noisy drone elements that might bring to mind the work of Khanate and Gnaw (“Omen”). These sections mix surprisingly well with Shining’s own brand of savage mindfuckery.

Singer and band leader Jørgen Munkeby lashes out a bizarre yet intense vocal performance that draws much inspiration from Mike Patton and Yamatsuka Eye, aided by a diverse array of effects and post-production vocal manipulation. Apart from singing and playing guitar, Munkeby (a former member of Jaga Jazzist) took care of the saxophone parts, specially prominent in “Blackjazz Deathtrance”, drone-meets-Naked City sounding “Omen” and the album closer, a fucked up rendition of King Crimson’s classic “21st Century Schizoid Man”. “Blackjazz” needs to be thoroughly heard over and over in order to be believed and fully understood. A soon-to-be classic album.

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GrandFather - 2011 Stand in the Corner & Punch Yourself in the Face to Have a Good Time

Band : GrandFather

Album : Stand in the Corner & Punch Yourself in the Face to Have a Good Time

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Mathcore | Chaotic | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

01 Tension
02 Do You Know What You Are?
03 My Life Pinned to the Page
04 Dancing Crow
05 One Day, They'll Know
06 Flutter & Burn
07 Sinisterloomer
08 Dancing Corpse
09 Her Harvest
10 Black as Midnight, Black as Pitch, Blacker than the Foulest Witch

Hell yeah, this one is good shit!!! GrandFather is coming from Portland and they playing a mathcore with jazz/funk/chaotic and a lot of ifluences, and they called themself as a cartooncore but i like to called it experimental for sure. Before i get this album i found them on facebook, and read their influences are
Palatka, Primus, D.E.P., shit, Palatka is spastic/screamo/punk band and one of my favorite band ever plus D,E,P. and Primus. i can imagine hows it sounds like, and i called it GOOD SHIT!! Dude, you better get listen to them is you bored with flat hardcore sound nowadays!! Enjoy

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Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally - 2011 Discography

Band : Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

Album : Discography
Release Year : 2011

Genre : Hardcore | Jazz | Experimental

Tracklist :

01. Gotta
02. Miss Jones
03. Danny Bonaduce's Road To Recovery
04. A Three Grows In Brooklyn
05. Intrigue on the Pier At Midnight (Live)
06. Danny Bonaduce's Road To Recovery (Live)

I found this band in my recommendation page on Last.fm. Dude, this band is freakin' awesome, the mix hardcore with kind of fusion jazz and little bit of math style, and i think they success to make it as an awesome sounds!!! I think nowadays scene need more band like this, but why agood band always die fast?? it's sad!! This band is reminds me alot to The Lights of Nero or even The plot to Blow Up the Eiffle Tower. I can't find anything about them except this six tracks and i think that this is they only released, but i'm not sure. For everyone who have anything about this band, just let me know!!!

"It all starts in Mountlake Terrace. 3 of the members (Kelly,Zack,Jeff) have or are still going to Mountlake Terrace High School which is one of the top schools in the nation for jazz bands. Ricky plays bass in the Jackson High band which is also a great school. Kelly and the singer Calen were best friends and liked going to shows and listening to hardcore and jazz. So Kelly had this crazy idea to round up people for a hardcore jazz band. Kelly had never heard anything like this and really wanted to get it started. After 2 months of prep and writing a few songs he compiled some people to play with him. At first they had a different drummer but he ended up not working out. By then they had the core of the band and 4 songs completed. Every show they played they got very good feedback. So they kept trying harder and finally they got a new drummer (Justin) and everything fell into place. Most people think theyre about to play ska when they get up there because of the trumpet and keys but once they start playing everyone loves it."

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