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Crawl “The Slow Torture of Caged Starvation”

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deep ancient soundscapes - Locked away beneath layers of earth in dank and rotten tombs. Powerless and weak, your soul is its own aggressor. 

Released August 25, 2015

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Au Revoir “Veles”

Elusive Sound

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Press Release: 

Au Revoir are a heavy expansive instrumental doom rock five-piece from New Jersey that has stolen our hearts with their exceptional ability to create sublime, expansive soundscapes and hypnotic crushing doom.  After two solid releases in “In the Key Of Night” and “Black Hills” Au Revoir went into Backroom Studios with the intent of their next album sounding as huge as they do live. They have at long last not only accomplished that with Scott Moriarty but also produced an absolute stunner of an ever-evolving concept album that we immediately embraced and were determined to release in Europe.  

 Au Revoir have reformed themselves as a huge serpent, coiling tightly around the roots that lead us into the wet underworld of Veles. It is not only a world of wet grassy plains and eternal spring but one where we find ourselves in the deepest of caverns, watched over by the ghosts of the dead, awaiting impending doom. Veles is richly bleak with decadence but the listener never succumbs or falls prey. He watches the ground ripple like water and feels an irresistible urge to be lost in Veles' violent sway. 

Au Revoir have shed their old skin and are now full-bodied and in constant transformation, reborn as a lethally charged bringer of chaos. Veles unveils the descent of man into utter misery. When one stands and contemplates his fate, the troubles that have fallen, looks back at the path they have taken to reach their end, surrendering to their undoing by taking one last breath and bracing themselves for the full force of impact as the water comes rushing over.

Self-released on vinyl in the US March 1, 2016

Soon to be released on deluxe vinyl in Europe via Elusive Sound

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Kokomo “Monochrome Noise Love”

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i.corrupt.records, dunk!records and Aloud Music Ltd. 

PRESS RELEASE:

The album comes as a double-12” on coloured vinyl in a valuable sleeve with cutaway and as 6-page digipak. Monochrome Noise Love is our fourth album, the first one we wrote and recorded as a five-piece and the complete opposite of a concept album. You will face a new discovered lightness and ten new songs that each stand for itself – although we had the plan of writing a concept album in the beginning. In the course of time it got more and more clear, that we will take all the time and freedom we need for this album. Every song arouses the need to try something new, incorporate new thing or write something we always wanted to and to slip in instruments that were needed to make our music complete. Monochrome Noise Love is darker and more sophisticated than our previous albums. But: Monochrome Noise Love sounds like Kokomo – it is authentic, imperfect, fragile and loud. Released February 12, 2016

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Vampillia “xoroAHbin”

Bird’s Robe Records

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Collaboration album by Vampillia and The Body 

released February 12, 2016

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Valerinne “Monumenta”

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Released February 11, 2016

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OVUM “Nostalgia”

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Press Release:

OVUM are a four-piece instrumental rock band originating from Tokyo, Japan.

OVUM define their sound as "metal-oriented instrumental rock." They released their sophomore album, "ascension," in 2013. It was at once a culmination of the band's musical experiences over the years since they first started, and the end of their motivation to write the kind of music they had been releasing up until that point. Following this, the members began experimenting with different styles to try to better convey the new direction they were heading in. In September 2014, while on tour in Europe, they finally found the inspiration they were looking for to adopt a heavier, more aggressive approach. After returning to Japan, OVUM immediately began working on what would become their first release since. Titled “Nostalgia,” it will be out on March 3, 2016.

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DRIFTOFF “Denial Machine // No Rescue”

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Based in Brooklyn, NY, Driftoff includes members of Junius, Rosetta, City of Ships and Superblonde.

Released February 26, 2016

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Indignu “Odyssea”

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Released April 26, 2013

Featuring:

Afonso Dorido - Guitar Graça Carvalho - Violin, Synths Jimmy Moom - Guitar, Bass Mateus Nogueira - Bass, Piano, Guitar Paulo Miranda - Drums Guests: Filipe Miranda - vocals João Martins - portuguese guitar Helena Silva - violin Posh - viola Alberto - cello Paulo Miranda - vocoder

Hardcover Audiobook (deluxe edition)

Press Release:

The first Edition of Odyssea is now officially over and, as we mentioned before, it was discontinued. But we have great news for you! Meet Odyssea Deluxe Edition, a second and more sophisticated edition of the same audiobook, ready to delight your senses.

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Mothra “Decision Process”

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Mothra is a progessive/experimental rock band from the North Shore, Auckland NewZealand, drawing from various genres such as progressive metal, psychedelic rock, shoegazer, sludge, and post rock. 

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Ghost Island “Destroyer”

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released July 17, 2015

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People As Places As People  “For The Time Being”

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released February 12, 2016

People As Places As People are an instrumental post-rock band from Halifax, West Yorkshire.

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Fall Of Messiah “Empty Colors”

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released February 26, 2016

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Electric Eye “Different Sun”

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Press Release:

January, 2015: A new year’s hurricane is ravaging Bergen. Its aftermath rips and tears into the Western Norwegian town for a week. In Broen Studio, where Electric Eye are plugged in, the walls constantly shake from lightning, thunder, violent downpours and wind. It probably isn’t a coincidence that “Different Sun”, album number two from the quartet, is a record full of fickle and dramatic energy. It’s veritably crackling from fuzz guitars and psychedelic organs. Electric Eyehave definitely landed. In the eye of the hurricane. Through 40 minutes the listener is this time taken on seven journeys, all drenched in tape echo, sitar sounds, backwards guitar solos, bongos and monotonous fuzz bass. A dynamic rollercoaster where the landscape soon fluctuates between open and calm desert moods, and then suddenly ignites the rocket engines and leaves the atmosphere once and for all. The Bergen-based group, consisting of Øystein Braut (guitar, vocals), Njål Clementsen (bass), Anders Bjelland (keyboards) and Øyvind Hegg-Lunde (drums), are thus following up their debut album “Pick-up, Lift-up, Space, Time” from 2013 in a brilliant way. That the phrase “the journey is the goal” may seem tired doesn’t make it less truthful. ForElectric Eye this is the fundament for their musical existence. Long musical journeys in wide landscapes where the moods and the overwhelming, absorbing and repeating themes play a key role. As a listener you have two choices: either you’re with it, or you leave it. With «Different Sun» on the turntable, the choice is easy. Electric Eye’s own journey must be considered to be modest seen from a universal perspective, but with the members’ previous experiences from solid musical projects like The Megaphonic Thrift, The Low Frequency in Stereo, Hypertext, The Alexandria Quartet and Junip, the quartet have built for themselves ia well-constructed spaceship. «Different Sun» was mixed by Anders Bjelland in Broen Studios and mastered in Duper Studio by the honoured Jørgen Træen, so it sounds beautiful. After their debut album the quartet received a lot of attention, especially from abroad. The music press and the bloggers were effusive in their praise of the band, who turned up on many best-of-the-year lists and were played a lot on radio stations in the USA, England, Argentina, Mexico, Holland, Denmark and Belgium. Electric Eye have drawn notice as a live band, too. Since 2013 they’ve toured both Europe and the USA, plus participated in music biz conferences like Eurosonic, SXSW, The Great Escape, Iceland Airwaves and the Spot Festival in Denmark. The response has been overwhelming – the biggest coming from the psychedelic music scene, who in every way have had their eyesand ears opened to the band. It’s fully possible to hear traces of the golden psychedelic reveries of the 60s and the lyrical and scenic progrock of the 70s in Electric Eye’s music. A dose of motoric, German sounds must be mentioned, plus Indian drone music. But «Different Sun» is first and foremost proof of Electric Eye as a band who in every way are present in the moment, where they guide the listeners on a perpetual musical journey full of surprises. Fasten your seatbelts and look for a different sun! Different Sun will be released on Jansen Plateproduksjon, 5 February, 2016. 

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Sula Bassana “Shipwrecked”

Sulatron Records

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Press Release:

Time has come – once more: Sula Bassana walks on electronic trails again and produces an album in the attitude of electronic krautrock! After the trance-like album «Kosmonauts» (2010), a further album, based mostly on electronic instuments. This time, the sound is obvious more characterized by all the vintage instruments, which Sula accumulated in his Amoebenklangraum over the decades... All songs composed, performed, recorded, mixed and produced by Sula Bassana / Dave Schmidt. Mastered by Eroc (www.eroc.de). Cover painting made by Frank Lewecke (www.spacelands.de). On this album Sula used Synthesizers, Organs, Drummachines, Sequencer, Mellotron, Guitar, Bass, toy-Mandoline. LP on marbled 180 grams vinyl, lim. to 500 copies! SOLD OUT! CD in jewelcase.

released February 12, 2016

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The Spacelords “Liquid Sun”

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released January 23, 2016

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