Hintergrund. Signal Blister.

Oppressive noise-drone from Ohio. Deep long-form ambience. Massive walls of noise. Shrieking loops of feedback. Dark. Vicious. Necessary.

Hintergrund - 'Signal Blister'

2011

1. Black Line

2. Screwdiver

3. Total Submersion

4. Half Halo

5. Loss of Light

6. Clawing

7. Antithesis

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Water Borders. Harbored Mantras.

Abstract darkwave-informed witch house. Dark atmospheres. Liquid beats. Mixed up vocals. Background noise. Confused. Heavy.

Water Borders - 'Harbored Mantras'

2011

1. Tread On Them

2. What Wiwant

3. waldenpond.com

4. Bad Ethos

5. Even In The Dark

6. Feasting On Mongeese

7. See Bank

8. Miners

9. Antechamber

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Raein. Sulla linea d'orizzonte tra questa mia vita e quella di tutti.

Post-rock-tinged skramz from Italy. Desperate shouts. Twinkling guitars. Driving melodies. Beautiful. Alive. Forward motion.

Raein - 'Sulla linea d'orizzonte tra questa mia vita e quella di tutti'

2011

1. Se la notte sogno, sogno di essere un maratoneta

2. Nirvana

3. Trasparenti oscure virtù

4. Costellazione secondo le leggi del caso

5. Raein: rumore. Tre

6. Oggi ho deciso di diventare oro

7. Attualità dell'utopia

8. Abitudine, cerimonia, magia.

9. Dopo di noi la libertà

10. Come materia infinita

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Mahria. Mahria.

Female-fronted skramz. Noisecore-styled riffs. Feedback-laden guitars. Shrieking vocals. Vicious. Vitriolic. Essential.

Mahria - 'Mahria'

2011

1. Lights

2. Justification of an Old Man

3. Ghost Limb

4. Wagering Life

5. Sleep

6. Instrumental

7. Save Yourself

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Holy Other. With U.

Anonymous witch house. Muffled drums. Tired vocals. Gorgeous keys. Lost. Broken. Alone.

Holy Other - 'With U'

2011

1. Know Where

2. Yr Love

3. Touch

4. With U

5. Feel Something

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Lonesummer. There Are Few Tomorrows For Feeding Our Worries.

Philadelphian bedroom-. -black metal. -post rock. -shoegaze.

More reverb. More droning. More lo-fi.

Lonesummer - 'There Are Few Tomorrows For Feeding Our Worries'

2011

1. I Hope You Miss Me Now, Because I Want You To Know How Much That Hurts

2. Worries and Weariness

3. Tobacco, Gin and Bile

4. Ghost Stories

5. All My Bitterness Is Just Regret

6. The Sweetest of The Sweet Dreams

7. To Make Things Good Again

8. There Are Few Tomorrows for Feeding Our Worries

9. You're Ash To Me

10. Dream Me Free

11. Clouded Eyes and Candlelight

12. Despair Will Hold a Place In My Heart, a Bigger One Than You Do

13. ...For Just One Warm Day

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Pianos Become the Teeth. The Lack Long After.

Post-hardcore-influenced skramz from Maryland. Thundering guitars. Crashing cymbals. Throat-tearing shouts. Pure emotion. Gut-wrenching. Destructive.

Pianos Become the Teeth - 'The Lack Long After'

2011

1. I'll Be Damned

2. Good Times

3. Shared Bodies

4. Such Confidence

5. Liquid Courage

6. Spine

7. Sunsetting

8. I'll Get By

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Airs. Gloomlights.

Black post-shoegaze. Fuzzed-out guitars. Immense atmospheres. Crushing walls of sound. Passionate vocals. Blast beats. Pure ambition.

Airs - 'Gloomlights'

2011

Disc 1

1. Harvest Moon

2. Scott Pilgrim vs. You

3. White Rose

4. Knee-Deep in the Dead

5. Heart

6. Hollow

7. Caves

8. Feathers

9. Halfway There

10. Butterfly

11. The Watchers

Disc 2

1. Scene

2. Ghost

3. Gloomlights

4. Movement

5. Velvet

6. Cascades of Grey

7. Shift (Repeat)

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Woulg. Floating Longingly Towards The Sun.

Calgary experimental electronic. Glitch beats. Heavy bass.

Huge atmospherics. Deep sounds. Monumental production value. Journey into Space.

Woulg - 'Floating Longingly Towards The Sun'

2011

1. Floating

2. Broken

3. Drift

4. Silence

5. Sun

6. Fields and Fields

7. Late

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Beau Navire. Hours.

Vicious skramz. Fast guitars. Short songs. Raging screams. Powerful. Brilliant. To-the-point.

Beau Navire - 'Hours'

2011

1. Hours

2. The Looking Glass

3. A Book, A Mind

4. Reinventing the Veil

5. Respire (Meta)

6. Cloud City

7. "It's Not an Art, It's a Myth"

8. Bare Trees

9. Lost and Leaving

10. Interlude

11. Solemn Moon

12. Remnants

13. Respire (Sync)

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Todos Caerán. After Dark.

Canadian emotive hardcore. Booming percussion. Progressive bass lines. Intricate guitar work. Agonized. Lonely. Existential sadness.
Todos Caerán - 'After Dark'
2011

1. After Dark

2. The Wild Sheep Chase

3. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

4. Dance Dance Dance

5. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

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The Flowers Of St. Francis. Vol. 1.

Brutally experimental ambient noise. Harsh distortion. Four-track aphasic rabbit hole confessionals. Warm cassette tape hum. Vicious atmospheres. Evil. Huge.

The Flowers of St. Francis - 'Vol. 1'

2011

1. A Quiet Observer Appears

2. Dimly Aware That It Is Alive

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~▲†▲~. ~▲††▲~.

Russian witch house. Heavy beats. Evil ambience. Chopped up. Screwed down. Dark. Vicious.

~▲†▲~ - '~▲††▲~'

2011

1. Vague I

2. Social Phobia

3. unfortunately stuck

4. Dusk

5. экзотика

6. Vague II

7. Stickweed Houses

8. Disunited

9. Vague III

10. Spoffish

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Ayshay. WARN-U.

Arabic experimental witch house. Warped vocals. Layered vocals. Evil. Moving. Beatless. Vicious.

Ayshay - 'WARN-U'

2011

1. WARN-U

2. Jemsheed

3. Shaytan

4. WARN-U (Nguzunguzu Megamix)

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Balam Acab. Wander/Wonder.

Ambient-influenced witch house. Water-centric soundscapes. Subtle beats. Oceanic atmospheres. Gently shifting electronics. Colossal walls of beauty. Aural perfection.

Balam Acab - 'Wander/Wonder'

2011

1. Welcome

2. Apart

3. Motion

4. Expect

5. Now Time

6. Oh, Why

7. Await

8. Fragile Hope

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Corrupted. Garten Der Unbewusstheit.

Progressive Japanese funeral doom. Huge melodies. Absolutely crushing brutality. Massive growls. Powerful. Desolate. Immense.

Corrupted - 'Garten Der Unbewusstheit'

2011

1. Garten

2. Against the Darkest Days

3. 月光の大地

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Various Artists. Odour of Dust and Rot.

Insane black metal. Underground. Dark. Evil. Wintery. Grim. Kvlt as fuck.

'Odour of Dust and Rot'

2011

1. Unknown Artist - Enslave Every Star

2. Glossolalia - Filth in the Light

3. Absum - Living Graves

4. Unknown Artist - Strain I

5. Tukaaria - Empty as the Prophecy

6. Unknown Artist - Rhythms of the Feast

7. Absum - Profaned

8. Unknown Artist - Tempest

9. Unknown Artist - Strain II

10. Kuxan Suum - Principle of Harmonic Resonance

11. Nihilobstat - Traced in Absurdity

12. Unknown Artist - Strain III

13. Odz Manouk - A Virulent Wind

14. Absum - Restless Scepter

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Mamaleek. Kurdaitcha.

Experimental black metal. Eastern-tinged noise. Lo-fi emotionalism. Destructive. Visceral. Eerie maximalism. Sound effects for the end of ages.

Mamaleek - 'Kurdaitcha'

2011

1. The Hypocrite & The Concubine

2. Wake Up, Jacob

3. My Body Rock Long Fever

4. Sinner Won't Die No More

5. You Can Bury Me In The East

6. What a Trying Time

7. The White Marble Stone

8. Some Valiant Soldier

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Giles Corey. Giles Corey.

Acoustic music from the industrial revolution. Vicious reverb. Supernatural ambient noodling. True folk music. Blistered fingers. Suicide. Acoustic ghosts.

Giles Corey - 'Giles Corey'

2011

1. The Haunting Presence

2. Blackest Bile

3. Grave Filled With Books

4. Empty Churches

5. I'm Going to Do It

6. Spectral Bride

7. No One is Ever Going to Want Me

8. A Sleeping Heart

9. Buried Above Ground

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Ash Borer. Ash Borer.

Cascadian black metal. Unrelenting atmospheres. Local music. Minimal synths. Fast Drums. Chaos. Beauty.

Ash Borer - 'Ash Borer'

2011

1. In the Midst of Life, We Are In Death

2. Rest, You Are the Lightning

3. My Curse Was Raised In the Darkness Against a Doomsday Silence

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