Frak the Blogs: 2011

1. When Time Elapses

2. Blistering Hate

3. Existence Asleep

4. The Decline and the Fall

5. Lam Tsol-oua

6. Through Dark Skies

7. Opposites from Within

8. Echoes of Distress

9. Pure

This is a really great album, and it was requested by Abhorrency, so that just gives me a good reason to upload it. The download link is not mine since my internet is being a complete piece of shit at the moment, but enjoy.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Canvas Solaris - The Atomized Dream (2008)

Band: Canvas Solaris

Album: The Atomized Dream

Year: 2008

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: Statesboro, Georgia

Bit rate: 256

1. The Binaural Beat

2. Reflections Carried to Mirror

3. Chromatic Dusk

4. Patterns Spiral into Swarm

5. Heat Distortion Manifest

6. Photovoltaic

7. Solar Droid

8. The Unknowable and Defeating Glow

Really excellent instrumental stuff. For fans of Cynic and Exivious. Check it out.

Leprous - Bilateral (2011)

Band: Leprous

Album: Bilateral

Year: 2011

Genre: Progressive metal, avant-garde

Location: Oslo, Norway

Bit rate: 320

1. Bilateral

2. Forced Entry

3. Restless

4. Thorn

5. Mb. Indifferentia

6. Waste of Air

7. Mediocrity Wins

8. Cryptogenic Desires

9. Acquired Taste

10. Painful Detour

I have no words. Just fucking listen to this.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Absu - Abzu (2011)

Band: Absu

Album: Abzu

Year: 2011

Genre: Black metal

Location: Plano, Texas

Bit rate: 320

1. Earth Ripper

2. Circles of the Oath

3. Abraxas Connexus

4. Skrying in the Spirit Vision

5. Ontologically, It Became Time & Space

6. A Song for Ea including: (a) E-A (b) A Myriad of Portals ( c) Third Tablet ( d) Warren of Imhullu ( e) The Waters - The Denizens ( f) E-A (Reprise)

I am not the biggest fan of black metal, but this album is just fantastic. There are so many insane riffs in this album, it's just beyond belief.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Fluxious - Why So Serious? (2011)

Band: Fluxious

Album: Why So Serious?

Year: 2011

Genre: Jazz fusion, progressive metal, funk

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Bit rate: 320

1. Point of View

2. Reaching Nowhere

3. Inside

4. Voodoo Mood

5. Huging

6. Sinner

7. Games'N'Trials

8. Biatch

9. Unfair to You

10. True

11. What a Waste

12. It Belongs to You

So, this is without a doubt one of the best release of this year. This is the most unique music I've heard in a LONG time. It combines brilliant musicianship with carnal funk and gorgeous, soaring melodies. GET THIS!!!! Prepare to cum.

Deivos - Demiurge of the Void (2011)

Band: Deivos

Album: Demiurge of the Void

Year: 2011

Genre: Blackened death metal, technical death metal

Location: Lublin, Poland

Bit rate: 320

1. No Gods Before Me

2. Code of a Dead Deity

3. Absolute of Hatred

4. Born to Loathe

5. Extreme Unction

6. And the World Became Flesh

7. Demiurge of the Void

8. Panacea

Polish blackened death metal. Do I need to say anything else? This album is sickeningly technical, astoundingly brutal, and crushingly heavy. Listen at your own risk.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Machine Head - Unto the Locust (2011)

Band: Machine Head

Album: Unto the Locust

Year: 2011

Genre: Thrash

Location: Oakland, California

Bit rate: 320

1. I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)

2. Be Still and Know

3. Locust

4. This Is the End

5. Darkness Within

6. Pearls Before the Swine

7. Who We Are

8. The Sentinel (Bonus Track)

9. Witch Hunt (Bonus Track)

10. Darkness Within (Acoustic)

I should probably redeem myself for posting deathcore, so here's the new Machine Head album.

Betraying the Martyrs - Breathe in Life (2011)

Band: Betraying the Martyrs

Album: Breathe in Life

Year: 2011

Genre: Progressive deathcore

Location: Paris, France

Bit rate: 320

1. Ad Astra

2. Martyrs

3. Man Made Disaster

4. Because of You

5. Tapestry of Me

6. Liberate Me Ex Inferis

7. Leave It All Behind

8. Life Is Precious

9. Love Lost

10. Azalee

11. When You're Alone (ft. Steve Garner of The Bridal Procession & Kevin Traore of As They Burn)

I really hate deathcore. And religion. But I have to give credit where credit is due, and I really love this album. It is not your run of the mill deathcore by any stretch of the imagination. The entire album has a very "epic" feel to it, and there are hints of black metal abound as well as a copious amount of clean vocals. The clean vocals verge on faggotry, but I find them tolerable. Give Betraying the Martyrs a chance.

Oh, also, this is NOT the shitty leaked version that has been circulating around. Admittedly, the mixing on the album is still pretty bad, but this sounds way better than the version that originally leaked.

FreddeGredde - Thirteen Eight (2011)

Band: FreddeGredde

Album: Thirteen Eight

Year: 2011

Genre: Progressive rock

Location: Helsingborg, Sweden

Bit rate: 320

1. Lonely Starlight

2. Solace Distant

3. Meltdown

4. The Star Song

5. 4 am

6. The Wayfarer

7. Crashing of Planets

8. This Falling World

9. Beside Me

10. Vampire Bride

11. Euphoria

12. Stardust

13. Time Will Tell

This is a really interesting album. All of the instrumentation aside from drums was done by Fredrik, who is an amazing musician and writer. It is very derivative of old Dream Theater and you can tell that just by looking at the cover. The whole album has a very sincere and innocent vibe to it that I really dig. Some of the lyrics are pretty cheesy, but the music still shines through that. Here is a song from the album and here is a medley he did of cartoon theme songs. Also, I'm pretty sure this is the only place you'll find this album.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Edge of Sanity - Crimson (1996)

Band: Edge of Sanity

Album: Crimson

Year: 1996

Genre: Progressive metal, death metal

Location: Finspång, Sweden

Bit rate: 320

Metal Archives entry

1. Crimson

2. Murder Divided (Japanese bonus track)

This is a great album. It's just one extended song, and it's absolutely amazing. Just look at that album art! Come on, you know you want it. For fans of Opeth.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Cormorant - Metazoa (2009)

Band: Cormorant

Album: Metazoa

Year: 2009

Genre: Death metal, progressive metal, black metal, folk metal

Location: San Francisco, California

Bit rate: 320

1. Scavenger's Feast

2. Uneasy Lies the Head

3. Salt of the Earth

4. Blood on the Cornfields

5. Hanging Gardens

6. The Crossing

7. Hole in the Sea

8. The Emigrant's Wake

9. Sky Burial

10. Voices of the Mountain

(My internet is pretty much doomed so I am using this link that I found.)
UPDATE: The band have released this album and their 2007 album The Last Tree for free on their Bandcamp page.

These guys are absolute insanity! So many different styles are melded together in this release. They are set to release a new album in December, and it is sure to be one of the best of the year. Check it out.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Rishloo - Feathergun (2009)

Band: Rishloo

Album: Feathergun

Year: 2009

Genre: Progrssive rock

Location: Seattle, Washington

Bit rate: 160 (I don't even know why)

1. Scissorlips

2. Turning Sheep in to Goats

3. Systematomatic

4. River of Glass

5. Keyhole in the Sky

6. Downhill

7. Feathergun in the Garden of the Sun

8. Dreamcatcher

9. Diamond Eyes

10. Katsushika

11. Weevil Bride

Rishloo is really similar to Tool. Their vocalist sounds identical to Maynard. They are much more proggy compared to Tool though. Check it out.

Corelia - Nostalgia (2011)

Band: Corelia

Album: Nostalgia

Year: 2011

Genre: Progressive metal, djent

Location: San Diego, California

Bit rate: 320 (Updated)

1. Treetops

2. Glass Faces

3. The Sound of Glaciers Moving

4. Aviation

5. Red Sky Harbor

6. Mute Swan

7. Blood Petals

This is without a doubt release of the year for me. Absolutely fucking incredible. You need this.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Martyr - Feeding the Abscess (2006)

Band: Martyr

Album: Feeding the Abscess

Year: 2006

Genre: Technical fucking death metal

Location: Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada

Bit rate: 256

1. Perpetual Healing (Infinite Pain)

2. Lost in Sanity

3. Feast of Vermin

4. Interlude - Desolate Ruins

5. Havoc

6. Nameless, Faceless, Neverborn

7. Silent Science

8. Felony

9. Dead Horizon: I. Echoes of the Unseen

10. Dead Horizon: II. Romancing Ghouls

11. Dead Horizon: III. Stasis Field

12. Dead Horizon: IV. Shellshocked

13. Brain Scan

This album is absolutely delicious. It's from Canada, so you know it's going to be fucking good.

Punch Brothers - Antifogmatic (2010)

Band: Punch Brothers

Album: Antifogmatic

Year: 2010

Genre: Progressive bluegrass, jazz

Location: Brooklyn, New York

Bit rate: 320

1. You Are

2. Don't Need No

3. Alex

4. Rye Whiskey

5. Me and Us

6. Missy

7. The Woman and the Bell

8. Next to the Trash

9. Welcome Home

10. This Is the Song (Good Luck)

11. Friend or No More

12. When in Doubt

13. Two Hearted

14. Curtigh

15. Packt Like Sardines in a Crush'd Tin Box

So this is definitely different from the stuff have been posting, but it is still absolutely brilliant. These guys are some of the most talented stringsmen I've ever heard. If you appreciate supreme musicianship, then you will love this album. Have a taste.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape (2001)

Band: Sigh

Album: Imaginary Sonicscape

Year: 2001

Genre: Black metal, progressive metal, avant-garde

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Bit rate: 320

1. Corpsecry - Angelfall

2. Scarlet Demon

3. Nietzschean Conspiracy

4. A Sunset Song

5. Impromptu (Allegro Maestroso)

6. Dreamsphere (Return to the Chaos)

7. Voices

8. Ecstatic Transformation

9. Born Condemned Criminal

10. Slaughtergarden Suite

11. Bring Back the Dead (Extended Version)

12. Requiem - Nostalgia

Some of the craziest music you'll ever hear. Guaranteed.

The Omega Experiment - Karma EP (2011)

Band: The Omega Experiment

Album: Karma EP

Year: 2011

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: Muskegon, Michigan

Bit rate: 320 or FLAC

Download for FREE from their BandCamp

1. Furor

2. Karma

3. Paramount

Holy shit! I just now stumbled across these guys and they are so sick. This is a must listen for any fan of Devin Townsend.

Dungortheb - Waiting for Silence (2007)

Band: Dungortheb

Album: Waiting for Silence

Year: 2007

Genre: Technical death metal

Location: Thaon-les-Vosges, Lorraine, France

Bit rate: 320

1. Lethargy

2. Another Way to Die

3. Intended to Fail

4. Addicted

5. Waiting For...

6. Silence

7. Only Way to Die

8. N.D.E.

9. Trip into Obscurity

France always has the most interesting music. These guys are really heavy on the shred and melody. I would have to say that this is one of the greatest tech death albums of all time. Check it out.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Mithras - Behind the Shadows Lie Madness (2007)

Band: Mithras

Album: Behind the Shadows Lie Madness

Year: 2007

Genre: Technical death metal, progressive metal

Location: Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Bit rate: 320

1. The Journey and the Forsaken

2. To Fall from the Heavens

3. Under the Three Spheres

4. Into Black Holes of Oblivion

5. When the Light Fades Away

6. Behind the Shadows

7. Awaken Man and Stone

8. The Twisted Tower

9. To Where the Sun Never Leaves

10. The Beacon Beckons

11. Thrown Upon the Waves

12. Into the Unknown

Very atmospheric tech death. For fans of Ulcerate.

Atrox - Orgasm (2003)

Band: Atrox

Album: Orgasm

Year: 2003

Genre: Progressive metal, avant-garde

Location: Trondheim, Norway

Bit rate: 320

1. Methods of Survival

2. Flesh City

3. Heartquake

4. Burning Bridges

5. This Vigil

6. Tentacles

7. Secondhand Traumas

8. Pre-sense

This is unlike anything you will ever hear. It is extremely experimental, but at the same time very accessible. So many beautiful, soaring melodies. And just look at that album cover!

maudlin of the Well - Bath (2001)

Band: maudlin of the Well

Album: Bath

Year: 2001

Genre: Progressive metal, avant-garde

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Bit rate: 192

1. The Blue Ghost/Shedding Qliphoth

2. They Aren't All Beautiful

3. Heaven and Weak

4. (Interlude 1)

5. The Ferryman

6. Marid's Gift of Art

7. Girl with a Watering Can

8. Birth Pains of Astral Projection

9. (Interlude 2)

10. Geography

This is a pretty legendary progressive album. It's definitely a must listen for any fan of the genre.

Monstrosity - Spiritual Apocalypse (2007)

Band: Monstrosity

Album: Spiritual Apocalypse

Year: 2007

Genre: Technical death metal

Location: Fort Lauterdale, Florida

Bit rate: 320

1. Spiritual Apocalypse

2. Firestorm

3. Apostles of the Endless Night

4. Within Divisions of Darkness

5. The Inhuman Race

6. Remnants of Divination

7. Illumination

8. Sacred Oblivion

9. The Bloodline Horror

10. Triumph in Black

Just some great tech death. Not much else to say.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Periphery - Periphery (2010)

Band: Periphery

Album: Periphery

Year: 2010

Genre: Progressive metal, djent

Location: Washington, D.C.

Bit rate: 320

1. Insomnia

2. The Walk

3. Letter Experiment

4. Jetpacks Was Yes!

5. Light

6. All New Materials

7. Buttersnips

8. Icarus Lives!

9. Totla Mad

10. Ow My Feelings

11. Zyglrox

12. Racecar

This is my absolute favorite album of all time. I can't say enough about these guys. This is the future of metal.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Beyond Twilight - Section X (2005)

Band: Beyond Twilight

Album: Section X

Year: 2005

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: Horsens, Denmark

Bit rate: 320 (except for the first track, which is 198)

1. Be Careful It's My Head Too

2. The Path of Darkness

3. Shadow Self

4. Sleeping Beauty

5. The Dark Side

6. Portrait F in Dark Waters

7. Ecstasy Arise

8. Section X

This is a really awesome and extremely underrated band. Kelly Carpenter (who did vocals on the Outworld album I posted) did vocals for this album, which is reason enough to get it, because he kicks all sorts of ass.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Outworld - 2008 EP

Band: Outworld

Album: 2008 EP

Year: 2008 (released in 2011)

Genre: Progressive metal, power metal

Location: Houston, Texas

Bit rate: 320

1. Weltschmerz

2. Blindness

3. Faceless Enemy

4. Purity

I am pretty sure this is the only place you'll find this for free. Enjoy.

Outworld - Outworld (2006)

Band: Outworld

Album: Outworld

Year: 2006

Genre: Progressive metal, power metal

Location: Houston, Texas

Bit rate: 320

1. Raise Hell

2. Riders

3. War Cry

4. Outworld

5. The Never

6. City of the Dead

7. Prelude to Madness

8. The Grey Tide

9. I, Thanatos

10. Polar

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. If you want some testament to how incredible this album is, check out the reviews of it on Metal Archives. I will upload their 2008 promo later tonight.

I won't be able to post as much the next couple of days as I will be moving back to college, but I should be able to get back to the regular frequency of posts within the next week.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Lost Soul - Immerse in Infinity (2009)

Band: Lost Soul

Album: Immerse in Infinity

Year: 2009

Genre: Blackened death metal

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Bit rate: 320

1. Revival

2. Personal Universe

3. ... If the Dead Can Speak?

4. 216

5. One Step Too Far

6. Breath of Nibiru

7. Divine Project

8. Simulation

Blackened death metal doesn't get much better than this.

Corelia - Treetops (2011)

Band: Corelia

Album: Nostalgia

Year: 2011

Genre: Progressive metal, djent

Location: San Diego, California

Bit rate: 128 (YouTube rip)

1. Treetops (feat. Spencer Sotelo)

So this is the first song these guys have released from their upcoming EP titled "Nostalgia." In my opinion, they are the most promising new band I have heard. Do yourself a favor and pre-order their EP if you like this. It's only $6, and it's going to be one of the best releases of the year. Have a listen.

Nocturnus - The Key (1990)

Band: Nocturnus

Album: The Key

Year: 1990

Genre: Technical death metal

Location: Tampa, Florida

Bit rate: 320

1. Lake of Fire

2. Standing in Blood

3. Visions from Beyond the Grave

4. Neolithic

5. Undead Journey

6. B.C./A.D.

7. Andromeda Strain

8. Droid Sector

9. Destroying the Manger

10. Empire of the Sands

From the Wikipedia article on this album: "The story of the album follows a cyborg who goes back in time to the year 0 B.C. which eventually leads to the destruction of Christianity (highlighted by the controversial track "Destroying the Manger") and the creation of a modern empire."

The is the original tech death album. A must listen.

Violent Dirge - Craving (1995)

Band: Violent Dirge

Album: Craving

Year: 1995

Genre: Technical death metal

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Bit rate: 256 (it's a bootleg of a cassette tape)

1. Essential Dream

2. Craving

3. Virtue

4. Oblivion

5. Laceration

6. Let Things Rip

7. Threshold

8. Explain Away

9. Pessimum

10. Incomprehension

This is fucking amazing. Once again, Poland delivers. Even if the production quality is bad, these guys were SO ahead of their time. This album seriously floored me. It's so goddamn technical.

Persefone - Core (2006)

Band: Persefone

Album: Core

Year: 2006

Genre: Progressive metal, metalcore

Location: Andorra

Bit rate: 320

1. Sanctuary (Light & Grief)

2. Underworld (The Fallen & The Butterfly)

3. Seed (Core & Persefone)

4. Train of Consequences (Megadeth cover)

This album is a little rough around the edges production wise, but it is still an awesome listen. The Megadeth cover is great, too.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Atheretic - Apocalyptic Nature Fury (2006)

Band: Atheretic

Album: Apocalyptic Nature Fury

Year: 2006

Genre: Technical death metal

Location: Montreal, Canada

Bit rate: 320

1. Nature Laughs Last

2. Evolution

3. The Invisible Force

4. Solaris (Revive in Thermal Aggression)

5. Aquatic Redemption

6. Equinox

7. Of Dust & Soil

8. Sphere (Rotten and Consumed)

9. Hunter of Seasons

Dominic Forest Lapointe of Beyond Creation played bass on this album. SHIT IS SO CRAZY.

Theory in Practice - Colonizing the Sun (2002)

Band: Theory in Practice

Album: Colonizing the Sun

Year: 2002

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: Sandivken, Sweden

Bit rate: 192

1. Colonizing the Sun

2. Conspiracy in Cloning

3. The Psychomantum Litany (Chronicle Excerpt)

4. Shapeshifter

5. Ashen Apocrypha

6. The Clockwork That Counts Aeons

7. Illuminati

8. Replica Dawn

9. This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us

Incredible keyboard/guitar interplay all over this album.

Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence (1999)

Band: Control Denied

Album: The Fragile Art of Existence

Year: 1999

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: Tampa, Florida

Bite rate: 320

1. Consumed

2. Breaking the Broken

3. Expect the Unexpected

4. What If...?

5. When the Link Becomes Mising

6. Believe

7. Cut Down

8. The Fragile Art of Existence

This was the last project that the god of death metal himself, Chuck Schuldiner, was involved in. I personally think that this is much better than anything Death ever put out. Chuck's crushing riffs, Shannon Hamm's sickeningly fast solos, with the bass wizardry of Steve DiGiorgio... this album is a must own for any true metal fan.

Vektor - Black Future (2009)

Band: Vektor

Album: Black Future

Year: 2009

Genre: Thrash

Location: Tempe, Arizona

Bit rate: 320

1. Black Future

2. Oblivion

3. Destroying the Cosmos

4. Forests of Legend

5. Hunger for Violence

6. Dioxyribonucleic Acid

7. Asteroid

8. Dark Nebula

9. Accelerating Universe

Proggy, thrashy, fast as fuck thrash metal. I've really been getting in to the thrash revival lately, so expect a lot of stuff like this in the coming week.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Ion Dissonance - Cursed (2010)

Band: Ion Dissonance

Album: Cursed

Year: 2010

Genre: Mathcore

Location: Montreal, Canada

Bit rate: 320

1. Cursed

2. You People Are Messed Up

3. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

4. This Is the Last Time I Repeat Myself

5. No Care Ever

6. After Everything That's Happened, What Did You Expect

7. We Like to Call This One... FUCK OFF

8. Can Someone Please Explain This to Me

9. Disaster in Sight

10. This Is Considered Mere Formality

11. This Feels Like the End...

12. They'll Never Know

One of the heaviest albums I've ever heard. Gotta love that guitar tone.

Vesania - Distractive Killusions (2007)

Band: Vesania

Album: Distractive Killusions

Year: 2007

Genre: Symphonic blackened death metal

Location: Legionowo, Poland

Bit rate: 320

1. Narrenschuff

2. The Dawnfall

3. Infinity Horizon

4. Rage of Reason

5. Of Bitterness and Clarity

6. Silence Makes Noise

7. Hell Is for Children

8. Aesthesis

9. Distractive Cryscendo

10. Rage of Reason (Single Version)

11. Neurodeliri (Bulldozer cover)

Never heard anything like this before. Poland always delivers.

Dali's Dilemma - Manifesto for Futurism (1999)

Band: Dali's Dilemma

Album: Manifesto for Futurism

Year: 1999

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: San Jose, California

Bit rate: 320

1. Within a Stare

2. Miracles in Yesteryear

3. Despite the Waves

4. Whispers

5. Ashen Days

6. Andromeda Sunrise

7. This Time Around

8. Hills of Memory

9. Can't You See

10. Living in Fear

For fans of Dream Theater. This is an incredible gem of an album. It's a shame these guys only got to make one album before splitting up. Absolutely incredible musicianship and the songs are extremely catchy as well.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Carcariass - e-Xtinction (2009)

Band: Carcariass

Album: e-Xtinction

Year: 2009

Genre: Technical death metal, progressive metal

Location: Besançon, France

Bit rate: 320

1. Chaos and Decay

2. In Cold Blood

3. Domination

4. Exulting Pain

5. Revenger

6. Threshold to Madness

7. Dying Today

8. e-Xtinction

9. Chaos and Decay (Instrumental)

10. Domination (Instrumental)

11. Revenger (Instrumental)

12. Dying Today (Instrumental)

These guys are very similar to Gorod. The guitar work here is borderline genius. The instrumental tracks have added guitar leads where the vocals would be.

Revocation - Discography

Band: Revocation

Genre: Thrash, technical death metal

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Bit rate: 320

Empire of the Obscene (2008)

1. Unattained

2. Tail from the Crypt

3. Exhumed Identity

4. Fields of Predation

5. Alliance in Tyranny

6. Suffer These Wounds

7. Summon the Spawn

8. None Shall Be Spared (All Shall Be Speared)

9. Stillness

10. Age of Iniquity

11. Empire of the Obscene

Existence Is Futile (2009)

1. Enter the Hall

2. Pestilence Reigns

3. Deathonomics

4. Existence Is Futile

5. The Brain Scramblers

6. Across Forests and Fjords

7. ReaniManiac

8. Dismantle the Dictator

9. Anthem of the Betrayed

10. Leviathan Awaits

11. The Tragedy of Modern Ages

Chaos of Forms (2011)

1. Cretin

2. Cradle Robber

3. Harlot

4. Dissolution Ritual

5. Conjuring the Cataclysm

6. No Funeral

7. Fractal Entity

8. Chaos of Forms

9. The Watchers

10. Beloved Horrifier

11. Dethroned

12. Reprogrammed

Revocation are the masters of thrash. Dave Davidson went to Berklee and studied polyrhythm and jazz guitar. The guy knows his shit, and it shows. Every single song of theirs is incredible. Get this.

Burst - Lazarus Bird (2008)

Band: Burst

Album: Lazarus Bird

Year: 2008

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: Kristinehamn, Sweden

Bit rate: 256

1. I Hold Vertigo

2. I Exterminate the I

3. We Are Dust

4. Momentum

5. Cripple God

6. Nineteenhundred

7. (We Watched) The Silver Rain

8. City Cloaked

This is progressive metal with hardcore sensibilities. Really different, really awesome. For fans of: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Serdce - The Alchemy of Harmony (2009)

Band: Serdce

Album: The Alchemy of Harmony

Year: 2009

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: Minsk, Belarus

Bit rate: 320

1. Prologue

2. Life Thoughts Memory

3. The Pathologies of Existence

4. Inevitability

5. Parallels

6. Time That Kills

7. Dolls

8. Voices Inside Me

9. Epilogue