Posts Tagged ‘EP stream’

Listen: ‘Regeneration’ (EP) by IXION

Posted: 23 October 2024 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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French atmospheric doom-metal act IXION has recently unveiled the new and final chapter of their trilogy, titled Regeneration, which is now available for streaming online just a few days ahead of the album release.

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How would we feel if we transferred our consciousness into a new biotechnological body ?
Would we rediscover the world, with new-born’s eyes ?
What to do with our mortal remains ?
How to grasp time, or even the meaning of life, while you experience immortality ?
These are some of the questions that arise over REGENERATION, the third part of our new album Evolution !
Combining the array of sounds and vocals of the first two parts, it also reveals some unusual structures and time signatures for us, like an hybrid and still ethereal doom metal!

Stream Regeneration now and immerse yourself in the haunting soundscapes and thought-provoking themes that define this atmospheric doom-metal journey:

Four years after their critically acclaimed album L’Adieu aux Étoiles, IXION returns with Evolution, a three-part concept album released as individual EPs. This ambitious project explores the evolution of mankind, its interactions with androids, and the rise of post-humanism and will be released on October 25th via Finisterian Dead End Records.

The first chapter, Extinction, released in April, delves into humanity’s struggle with mortality in a world dominated by advancing android technology. This EP guides listeners through atmospheric doom, blending symphonic and acoustic soundscapes that feel both epic and intimate.

Restriction, released in June, shifts focus to the constrained existence of robots and androids, emphasizing their desire for emancipation. This installment features a more electronic approach to doom metal, heavily influenced by ’70s and ’80s ambient electronic music, synthwave, and sci-fi classics like Blade Runner.

The final chapter, Regeneration, was issued on October 18 and imagines a future where human consciousness is transferred into new biotechnological bodies. This EP merges the styles of the previous releases while introducing fresh structures that bridge hybrid and ethereal doom metal elements.

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Listen: ‘Let it Rip’ by genCAB

Posted: 25 August 2024 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Having founded the industrial-electro act genCAB in 2006, David Dutton put the group on hold following the release of their debut album II transMuter two years later. A forward thinking record in the genre, it had blended elements of EBM and synth-pop into song arrangements perfectly suited for aggressive rock.

genCAB eventually returned in 2022 with a long-awaited follow-up entitled ‘Thoughts Beyond Words’, as well as the genre-bending ‘Everything You See Is Mine’ EP. These were promoted on a US tour with Aesthetic Perfection, for whom both Dutton and genCAB drummer Tim Van Horn had spent the intervening years playing live.
2023 saw genCAB sign to Metropolis Records, with the album ‘Signature Flaws’ appearing in the autumn. A meditation on one’s own demise, it introduced elements of shoegaze and post-hardcore to an already dense melting pot of disparate sounds.

‘Let It Rip’ is a new EP that precedes the cryptically entitled album III I II (THIRD EYE GEMINI), due out in late September 2024. Half of the full-length record is a modern day update of the best material contained on their 2008 debut, with the remainder consisting of brand new songs inspired by the re-recordings.

An improvement in the genCAB sound was already apparent via a recent rework of the 2008 track ‘Perish The Thought’ released as a single in 2023, but everything else is also now amped up to 11. Although retaining a raw and fresh feel that is faithful to the original renditions, the songs have been completely restructured and are sung with more confidence and conviction than ever by Dutton.

Listen to the EP in full here:

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Listen: ‘It Will Hurt the Entire Time You Are Alive’ (EP) by Cathari

Posted: 28 May 2024 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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With yet another 24th May release, Philadelphia-based Cathari has released their EP, It Will Hurt the Entire Time You Are Alive, their first studio offering since transitioning into noisecore from doom metal. The EP is available on cassettes and digital.

Vocalist Magdalena Stephens shares: “‘It Will Hurt The Entire Time You Are Alive’ is like a thesis statement for my own sadness and disappointment into adulthood. Every song is about disappointment in its own way, be it with the music scene, the people I used to call friends, or even myself. Growing older has been a bitter and unforgiving experience and I wanted to capture the rage that percolates beneath the surface of my life as I come to find it’s just all disappointment all the way down.”

Hear the EP in full here:

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Listen: ‘Sluagh’ by Speculum Bunny

Posted: 6 April 2024 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Having written music since she was a kitten, Speculum Bunny enjoys blending words and sound to provoke, enthral and mystify her audience. Inspired by the depraved nature of love in all of its majestic forms, her childhood,  masochism and devotion. Challenging mainstream narratives on motherhood and women’s expression she blends noise, synths, voices and field recordings. She pushes her her edges.

Featuring five tracks – three of which were recorded live at Radiophrenia, Sluagh is Speculum’s first release since Liminal Fluff in October of last year.

Combining abstract sounds and elongated wavering drones with murky noise and disturbing sound as backdrops to uncomfortable spoken word pieces, Sluagh is by no means easy to categorise, and it’s not the easiest of listens either – and that’s precisely why we’re recommending it.

Listen to Sluagh here:

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Listen: ‘We Become Strangers’ EP by The Bleak Assembly

Posted: 27 November 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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We Become Strangers is the debut EP from the new darkwave project, The Bleak Assembly, a collaboration between Kimberly of Bow Ever Down and Michael Smith of Fiction8.  While there are a few electronic textures here and there, We Become Strangers is straight-up post-punk and darkwave. Guitars, drums, and songwriting with hooks for days.  This EP sits more comfortably alongside Siouxsie & the Banshees, ACTORS, and Bootblacks than it does VNV Nation or Covenant.

Add to that list Skeletal Family, Ghost dance, later March Violets. It’s pure vintage mid-80s goth.

Regarding the nature of ‘change’ that inspired the EP, Michael Smith states, “if there’s a theme to this EP, it’s in recognizing how we’ve changed as artists and as people. What if you met your younger self and your younger self didn’t even recognize you?  That’s what We Become Strangers is about.  Kimberly goes on to say, “It’s a strong feeling of ‘being cut from the past’.  It’s a little alienating but also very liberating.”

Listen here. Do:

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Listen: ‘It’s The Hope That Kills You’ EP by KRATE

Posted: 4 October 2022 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Electro-industrial band KRATE is back and once again teams up with a number of incredible talents on their fourth endeavor, It’s The Hope That Kills You.

The general theme of this release is hopelessness. No matter how hard you try, in the end nothing else matters as all matter is destined to die. Your prayers will be lost while you watch the horizon sink. There is no one to blame but us. We reach for the needle and ask ourselves one last time, "Where do we go from here?" Absolutely nowhere.

Songs like the hard-hitting title track featuring Anatoly Grinberg (Dead Voices On Air) & drummer Dan Milligan (The Joy Thieves). Other tracks feature members of Bow Ever Down, Slighter, Liquid Black Goo and Numbered Men.

Five tracks of electro – industrial spanning the full  spectrum of what this subgenre encompasses; from nightmarish beat-driven to heavy orchestral/industrial. The Hope That Kills You is available now on all digital platforms including Bandcamp. Listen to it in full here:

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KRATE was born in late 2017 when Chris Shortt (VERIN) and Roland Zwaga (Acidrodent, Construct) began discussing a collaboration.

The initial concept was to compose a dark ambient project between the two. After the first stems were exchanged, however, they both quickly agreed that a rhythmic element would be required to augment the sounds thus far created, leading to the abandonment of the original ambient goal.

Dark electro/industrial beats were submerged in deep cavernous, rumbling structures that were later complemented by an ever growing roster of collaborators.

As the songs originate from the input of such a varied group of artists, the music virtually spreads itself across the entire spectrum of electronic music, all the while managing to craft a cohesive and singularly focused sound.

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Listen: ‘LDP 1’ EP by Zaflon

Posted: 14 February 2016 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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An ambient and sinister downtempo work, LDP 1 is the debut EP from south London innovator Zaflon. It contains two songs featuring Zaflon’s latest collaborator, Gilan_Music, among the cyclonic sub-bass, abstracted guitars, harmonic piano and crooked percussive breaks.

Coming on in places like a stark, electronic Cranes with some hefty beats, in other places it brings with moments that are by turns claustrophobic and immensely spacious with a woozy Ketamine undertow and a deep sense of yearning. It all makes for a set that’s pretty other-wordly. We dig it here at Aural Aggravation.

Listen to the EP as a continuous stream here.

 

 

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