Spheksophobia

Band: Talanas
Album: The Waspkeeper
Year: 2011
Genre: Progressive Metal
Country: United Kingdom
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/talanas

Tracklisting:

1. Ananta (the Portrait)
2. The Veil & Its Behest
3. A Fortune Worth Its Disguise
4. Messaline
5. Elsewhere, But for the Giving
6. The Ecstasy of Betrayal
7. Penetralium
8. Prussia White
9. Antiphon
10. The Unhealing I
11. The Unhealing II

"The Waspkeeper manages to combine instrumental intricacy, bared-teeth aggression, and an atmosphere of melancholy in near-equal measure."

An absolute stunner of an album

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BIATCHES
Mantap

The Colour Of Music

Band: Soror Dolorosa
Album: Blind Scenes
Year: 2011
Genre: New Wave/Gothic Rock
Country: France
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sorordolorosa

Tracklisting:

1. Crystal Lane
2. Autumn Wounds
3. Damaged Dreamer
4. Low End
5. Soror Dolorosa
6. Scars Of Crusade
7. In A Glance
8. Broken Wings

In the bands own words:

"The album is quite cold, with misty blue moods. 'Blind Scenes' would rather be perceived as scenes unseen, that is to say, out of time and out of the real world. As a state of grace overshadowed by the inevitability of everyday life. The lyrics are heartfelt and talk about regrets, coldness, alcohol abuse, as well as forfeiture, but mostly nostalgia, hence the blue color of the music."

No Regrets

A Billionaire Killed A Grizzly Bear

Band: A((Wake))
Album: A((Wake))
Year: 2011
Genre: Progressive Metal
Country: United States
Bandcamp: http://awake1.bandcamp.com/album/a-wake

Tracklisting:

1. First Breath 
2. Iron Mold
3. Storm Cloud
4. Landslide
5. Machine Gods
6. Endless
7. Program
8. Therapy
9. Don't Shut Your Eyes
10. The Sea is Burning
11. Towards My Soul
12. Years Go By
13. Castles or Rust

I have been loving the Northen Lights - EP from these guys for years now
and had pretty much given up looking for their debut LP. I fucking
blew my beans when I saw this little gem smiling at me from the bandcamp
pages.

The digital album cost less than the price of a beer so support the artist and buy it you cheap bastards.

This Grand Show

Band: Greyceon
Album: All We Destroy
Year: 2011
Genre: Progressive Metal / Post Metal
Country: United States
Bandcamp: Greyceon - All We Destroy

Tracklisting:

1.  Dreamer Deceived
2.  Shellmounds
3.  We Can
4.  Once A Shadow
5.  A Road Less Traveled
6. War's End

Try Before You Buy

Beardfish - Mammoth (2011)

Band: Beardfish
Album: Mammoth
Year: 2011
Genre: Progressive Rock
Country: Sweden
Myspace: www.myspace.com/beardfishband

Tracklisting:

01 – The Platform
02 – And The Stone Said If I Could Speak
03 – Tightrope
04 – Green Waves
05 – Outside Inside
06 – Akakabotu
07 – Without Saying Anything (Feat. Ventriloquist)

Un Barb

Swarms – Old Raves End (2011)

Band: Swarms
Album: Old Raves End
Year: 2011
Genre: Electronic/Dubstep
Country: United Kingdom
Bandcamp: bandcamp.com/album/swarms-old-raves-end

Tracklisting:
1. T-1000
2. Chapel
3. Flikr of ur Eyes
4. Roulette
5. Hostile
6. Polar
7. Sky below Sea
8. Stokes Croft
9. Time Lapse
10. Sterling
11. Bison

Swarms

Ash Borer - Ash Borer (2011)

Band: Ash Borer
Album: Ash Borer
Year: 2011
Genre: Cascadian Black Metal
Country: United States
Myspace: www.myspace.com/ashborer

Tracklisting:
1. Drukne
2. Untitled I

Insect Wars

Altar Of Plagues - Mammal (2011)

Band: Altar Of Plagues
Album: Mammal
Year: 2011
Genre: Ambient Black Metal
Country: Ireland
Myspace: www.myspace.com/altarofplagues

Tracklisting:
01. Neptune is Dead
02. Feather and Bone
03. When the Sun Drowns in the Ocean
04. All Life Converges to Some Center

Mammal

Aaskereia - Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht (2011)

Band: Aaskereia
Album: Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht
Year: 2011
Genre: Pagan Black Metal
Country: Germany
Myspace: www.myspace.com/aaskereia

Tracklisting:
01. Die Leichenhexe
02. Die Waldteufel
03. Mein Raum in der Finsternis
04. Winter
05. Pestritt zu Hel
06. Der boshafte Geist
07. Dort, wo das alte Böse ruht
08. Der schwarze Wald
09. Als der Blick erlosch

Get Up and Get In

Light Bearer - Lapsus (2011)

This band knows how to craft post metal. It is an incredibly beautiful, dense, and crushing album. The music itself is rich in instrumentation that ranges from guitars, bass and drums to percussion, piano, voices and other atmospheric tools.

Tracklisting:

1. Beyond The Infinite

2. Primum Movens

3. Armoury Choir

4. The Metatron

5. Prelapsus

6. Lapsus

Primum Movens

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME - THE PARALLAX: HYPERSLEEP DIALOGUES (2011)

Many people out there would agree that The Great Misdirect didn't conquer them in the same degrees that Colours did. While still being an outstanding album, it had a lot of expectations placed upon it.

BTBAM has re-kindled my love for them, by taking the finest moments to date that BTBAM has produced and reducing them down to a 30min EP. In no way is this a back ward step for the band, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues can be seen as a gradual evolution when compare to there previous releases and the band is still able to seamlessly blend different genres together.

Tracklisting:

1. Specular Reflection
2. Augment of Rebirth
3. Lunar Wilderness

Mash Ya Spuds!!!

Boris - New Album (2011)

If your looking for fuzzed out guitars then step back. Boris fifteenth studio album and the Japanese experimental band have gone J-Pop.

Tracklisting:

1. Party Boy
2. 希望 -Hope-
3. フレア
4. Black Original
5. Pardon?
6. Spoon
7. ジャクソンヘッド
8. 黒っぽいギター
9. Tu, la la
10. Looprider

Let Your Hair Down



Burial & Four Tet & Thom Yorke - Ego/Mirror (2011)

Fresh from Radiohead's new album "The King Of Limbs", Thom Yorke has involved himself in a new two track  collaborative with Dupstep's Burial and Folktronica's Four Tet.

Both Burial and Four Tet have worked together in the past and both producers have remixed tracks from Thom, but never working directly with either of them.

The album continues the journey into the realms of dense, glitchy electronica.

Tracklisting:

1. Ego

2. Mirror

Dub With My Head

Mastodon - Live At The Aragon (2011)

Recorded (and filmed) live on the 19th Rocktober, 2009 in the Aragon Ballroom (Chicago). The progressive metal frontiersmen capture in glorious hues of gold and silver the entire "Crack the Skye" album plus a few selected tracks from "Blood Mountain", "Leviathan" and a blistering cover of "The Bit" by "Melvins".

I'm absolutely loving this live album. While the vocals at times pale in comparison to their studio albums the boys are still a very polished outfit and I can't wait to get my grubby claws on the DVD.

Tracklisting:

01. Oblivion
02. Divinations
03. Quintessence
04. The Czar
05. Ghost of Karelia
06. Crack The Skye
07. The Last Baron
08. Circle of Cysquatch
09. Aqua Dementia
10. Where Strides The Behemoth
11. Mother Puncher
12. The Bit (MELVINS cover)

Aragon