Goths on Drugs. Volume 1.

Blackened industrial music from Australia. Intensely oppressive noise. Guttural growls. Densely programmed drums. Crashing guitars. Harsh. Destructive.

Goths on Drugs - 'Volume 1'

2013

1. Temple of Agony

2. Dream

3. Ballad

4. Sweet Suicide

5. Do You Really Want To Die

6. Interlude

7. Despair

8. Icy Death

9. Coma

10. For The Ones That Are Dead

11. Everyone is Dead

12. CrazyboiJihad

13. Demons Are My Friends

14. Rain

15. Temple of Despair (Sick Circuit Step Remix)

16. Everything is Meaningless

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Caves of Glass. Caves of Glass.

Furiously destructive post-rock/metal from Earth. Grandiose climaxes. Visceral guitars. Violent. Beautiful. Wholly unique and intensely necessary. A brilliantly immense example of post-rock in the new decade.

Caves of Glass - 'Caves of Glass'

2013

1. The Hollow

2. Gone From Oceania

3. Mariana

4. Barren Earth

5. The End

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Gabe Wolf. Victimless Crimes.

Post-Rock styled rock music from Portland. Gorgeous acoustic passages. Hard-hitting guitars. Evocative singing. Heart-wrenching climaxes. Breathing. Moving.

Gabe Wolf - 'Victimless Crimes'

2013

1. Opening Statement

2. Aspersion

3. Victimless Crimes

4. Against Your Will

5. Outside of the Boundaries

6. Blank

7. Home Sick (In Absentia)

8. Acquiesce

9. Reflection

10. Closing Statement

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MARNOST. Die Hamletmaschine.

Long-form black metal from the Czech Republic. Furious feedback.Vicious guitar stabs. Powerful blast beats. Torturous shrieks. Massive atmosphere. Unrelenting darkness.

MARNOST - 'Die Hamletmaschine'

2013

1. Die Hamletmaschine

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Deuil. Acceptance/Rebuild.

Thick Belgian post-blackened doom. Monstrously heavy slow riffs. Distortion-laden blast beats. Broken screams over blistering guitars. Beautiful choral ambience. Expressive weight. Crushing enormity.

Deuil - 'Acceptance/Rebuild'

2013

1. Acceptance

2. Rebuild

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Obsidian Kingdom. Mantiis.

Spanish post-metal unlike anything else out there. Mammoth post-rock crescendos. Ferocious howls. Tense progressions. Shrieking horns and roaring guitars. Heartbreakingly beautiful melodies. Absolute unique perfection.

Obsidian Kingdom - 'Mantiis: An Agony in Fourteen Bites'

2012

1. Not Yet Five

2. Oncoming Dark

3. Through the Glass

4. Cinnamon Balls

5. The Nurse

6. Answers Revealing

7. Last of the Light

8. Genteel to Mention

9. Awake Until Dawn

10. Haunts of the Underworld

11. Endless Wall

12. Fingers in Anguish

13. Ball-Room

14. And Then it Was

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Park Place Xenia. Kasota Energy Park.

Experimental dreampop from Minneapolis. Surreal soundscapes of confusion. Evocative swirls of ambient keys and drums. Warm hum. Soft atmosphere. Underground beauty. Sun.

Park Place Xenia - 'Kasota Energy Park'

2012

1. Out of Here

2. Children in Paris

3. Stretch Armstrong

4. Cool as a Cucumber

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