NORTH&SOUTH - North&south (EP) [2013]

Genre - Post-rock | Ambient | Experimental
Country - USA (Miami, FL)
Sounds like - Caspian, Tides From Nebula, TWDY
Label - Unsigned
Contact - northandsouth.band@gmail.com
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01. Bath Salts
02. A Song for Separation
03. Through the Wormhole
04. Heading Midwest
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Burning post-rock.
¤¤¤ HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ¤¤¤

350TERIC - Echoes (EP) [2013]

For the contemporary and modern music enthusiasts, with distinguished taste for odd time rhythmic structures and multi-layered harmonic melodies. A progressive wave of “metal” that is original, sophisticated, emotional and escapismic, in the same time very organic and groovy.

Genre - Progressive Metal | Experimental Rock
Country - Macedonia
Sounds like - Between Scale The Summit, Dream Theater and Jeff Loomis.
Label - Unsigned
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01. Beacon of the Old World
02. Echoes
03. Florence
04. John Victory
05. Qfwfq
06. Thunderer
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XEHANORT - Awaken in a Different Dimension [2013]

Genre - Progressive Deathcore | Black-metal | Atmospheric Djent | Experimental Mathcore
Country - USA
Sounds like - Øscillatör, The Breathing Process, 7 Horns 7 Eyes, Substructures
Label - Unsigned
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01. Entry I: The Unknown
02. Entry II: Colossus
03. Entry III: Wyvern
04. Entry IV: Atronachs
05. Entry V: Cerberus
06. Entry VI: Susano’o
07. Entry VIII: Heartless
08. Entry IX: Nazgul
09. Entry X: Baphomet
10. Entry XI: Reprieve
11. Entry XII: Discovery
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Brutal, epic, crazy.
¤¤¤ TOTALLY INSANE ¤¤¤

AESTHESYS - Ascendere (EP) [2013]

Genre - Post-rock | Ambient | Classical
Country - Russian Federation (Moscow)
Influences - EITS, God Is An Astronaut, Sigur Rós, Balmorhea, Pink Floyd, Tool, Gregor Samsa...
Label - Dunk! Records
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01. Moving Forward
02. Arise From Dreams of Thee
03. Anemoi
04. La Torre del Silenzio
05. Sailing to Constantinople
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QUALIA - Everything Is Going To Be Fine [2013]

Qualia is an instrumental ambient/post-rock music project of Dan Leader from Cambs, UK. What started as a simple hobby became full time explorations and recordings. Qualias music captures something meaningful and colorful evoking the listener to listen to himself and quiet the world without and dive into the wall of sound created by amazing guitar layering, ambient landscapes and noise experimentations.

Genre - Post-rock | Ambient | Shoegaze
Country - UK (Cambridge)
Sounds like - TWDY, Sigur Ros, Caspian, The Album Leaf
Label - Justnoisemusic
Contact - dpleader88@gmail.com
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01.A Welcome
02.Petrichor
03.Slæpwerigne
04.Cirriform
05.Wings
06.Be Curious
07.Warmer
08.New Season
09.Stratiform
10.Feathers
11.Bloom
12.An Afternoon
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What a beautiful album, full of emotion.
¤¤ ¤¤¤ ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL ¤¤¤ ¤¤

SELMA - Selma (EP) [2010]

Genre - Atmospheric Sludge
Country - Ukraine
Sounds like - Vygr, Magnetic North, Light Bearer
Label - Unsigned

01. Fantom
02. Krik
03. Son
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HYPNOS - The fall [2013]

Massive, burdensome, melancholic and neurotic These are the colors that emanate from the musical spectrum of Hypnos. 
 Founded in 2011 in Lyon – FR, composed of members from the groups Neuromas, Pi, Violence From Within and Gentle Art Of Making Noise, the band recorded, in winter 2013, their first album, The Fall.

Genre - Atmospheric Sludge | Post-metal
Country - France (Lyon)
Sounds like - Neurosis, Cult Of Luna, Fall Of Efrafa, Isis
Label - Unsigned
Contact - contact@hypnosband.com
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01. Burden
02. Arrow
03. Phantasm
04. [h]elle - The Fall
05. [h]elle - Abyss
06. Beast
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Heavy, melancholic and powerful. Welcome to the new lords of sludge.
(and i dont say that because this is side-project of my bass player!!)
¤¤¤ HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ¤¤¤

ALINDA - Alinda [2013]

Genre - Atmospheric Post-hardcore | Screamo
Country - Ukraine (Kiev)
Label - Unsigned
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01. Потому что разум должен победить
02. Заводи мотор!
03. Хвосты комет
04. Любая дорога ведет в тупик
05. Мгла
06. В космосе нет утра
07. В тревожном затишье
08. Леди Совершила Дурное
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Great post-hardcore band with emo/screamo touch.
Also check the first album here (more post-rock, really beautiful!)

CLOUDKICKER - Subsume [2013]

Genre - Atmospheric Djent | Post-metal | Progressive
Country - USA (Columbus)
Sounds like - Cloudkicker!!
Label - Unsigned
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01. The warmth of the daytime seemed like a dream now.
02. A weather front was stalled out in the Pacific--like a lonely person, lost in thought, oblivious of time.
03. He would be riding on the subway or writing formulas on the blackboard or having a meal or (as now) sitting and talking to someone across a table, and it would envelop him like a soundless tsunami.
04. You could laugh forever but never end up happy.
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Ben Sharp come back to the source laying the direct result of 'Discovery' and 'Beacons', thing i expected for a long time and finally happened...it made my day!!!

¤ ¤¤ ¤¤¤ TOTALLY INSANE / MASTERPIECE ¤¤¤ ¤¤ ¤

NONSUN - Sun Blind Me [2013]

Nonsun is a doom/drone/sludge metal duo from Lviv, Ukraine. Formed in 2011 by Goatooth (guitars, bass, vocals) and Alpha (drums). Nonsun started with a 4-track (but 48-minute) demo EP "Good Old Evil" which was self-released in December 2012. EP "Sun Blind Me", which consists of 2 new tracks plus 2 songs from the demo, was released in September 2013 through Breathe Plastic Records (DIY tape label from the Netherlands) as a limited edition of 50 cassettes and Drowning (drone/doom net-label from Denmark) as a free download.

Genre - Doom | Drone | Dark-ambient
Country - Ukraine (Lviv)
Sounds like - Sunn o)))
Label - Breathe Plastic/Drowning Records
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01. Rain Have Mercy
02. Forgotten Is What Never Was
03. Alphomega (Part I: Sunlit Darkness)
04. Alphomega (Part II: Upward Blindness)
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Low, slow & heavy are the watchword.