Yes! Download it right here for free. Or if you’re awesome enough you can support this solo project and pay some money for it. Either way, check it out and drop a line in the comments after you listen to it and let me know what you think!
PS: “Amy, I love you.” is the best Cloudkicker song ever.
-MK
Instrumental progressive metal solo project Cloudkicker has set the release date of his upcoming album Beacons for September 17th. If you aren’t jizzing your pants already, you need to. Because Ben Sharp, the genius behind Cloudkicker, is, well, a genius. Check out this small snippet right hurr:
Beacons is Cloudkicker’s 5th overall release and 2nd full-length. If you’d like to download his music (it’s all free!) you can do so from here by clicking on the album covers to the right.
Get excited.
-MK
Instrumental progressive metal band The 25th Hour just announced on Facebook that they’re working on new music and that we should be “anxious and surprised.” Whether it’ll be an EP, full-length or just a new song or two, I don’t know, but I am anxious. Though I wonder if it’s a little too early to be working on new music considering Monsters, their debut, came out in June. Nevertheless, I’m stoked.
You can listen to their music on Myspace. And check out Alkahest’s Monsters review here. Then if you’re awesome enough to support this awesome band, you can spend your awesome money and buy it from awesome Amazon like I did. Awesome.
-MK
Canvas Solaris
Irradiance
01. Adaptive Optics
02. Conveyance Of Flux
03. The Horizons Feast On Stars
04. Glacier
05. Accelerated Testing Phase
06. Threads Of Dead Space
07. Soliton (Emergence From Dispersion)
08. Vapor Chasm
09. Null Proximity
It’s a shame that Statesboro, Georgia’s Canvas Solaris aren’t more well known. They’ve been together since 1999, and with 6 great releases now under their belts they deserve to get noticed a lot more than they do. I’ve been a fan of the band for some time and all the material they’ve put out in the past has been good, but with Irradiance, the band has easily surpassed all of my expectations with an album that is truly remarkable. View Full Article »
From metalcore to technical death metal, these are albums I truly think stand out above the rest. Albums that I listen to on a regular basis because they’re original, executed well or even both. They may not be front-to-back perfect and they may not be for everyone, and perhaps many of you will find that you disagree. Nevertheless, these are albums I think people should at least give a listen.
Enter week 5. Jeez, feels like I’ve only written this column that no one cares about twice. Anyway, it’s noodle time in Wank City with Blotted Science‘s The Machinations of Dementia. If you don’t know who Blotted Science is I have deep pain for you. They’re a supergroup of 3 musicians consisting of guitarist Ron Jarzombek (Watchtower, Spastic Ink), bassist Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse) and drummer Charlie Zeleny (Behold… the Arctopus) and they play extremely awesome instrumental prog metal.
The drummer in my band recently discovered this group from California, and although they are unsigned, their music is so great that I couldn’t help but share them with you guys. If you like Scale The Summit or An Endless Sporadic, then you’ll probably dig this. I personally like CHON‘s music better than that of both those bands, and that’s saying a lot. They play really happy sounding instrumental metal, and it’s all very tight and technical with some catchy stuff thrown in too.
You can check the band out on their myspace or better yet, head over to their purevolume page where you can download all of their music for free! What’s better than legally free happy music?
-PM
So I found this guy that makes all his own music. I enjoy it. Listen to the album teaser. Fuck detail just listen to the shit.
That’s a link, fucking click it shitwad.
-MW
Instrumental math-rockers Dysrhythmia uploaded a new track over on myspace. The track is called “Festival of Popular Delusions”, which is off of their upcoming album Psychic Maps, due out July 7th on Relapse Records.
It’s one of their more “straight forward and unrelenting-type tracks” off of the album.
It sounds pretty awesome. Put it in your ear hole.
-JR
Progressive instrumental band Dysrhythmia just announced their east coast tour in support of their upcoming album Psychic Maps, which goes on sale July 7th in North America and July 17th internationally on Relapse Records.
You can see the tour dates below after the jump.
-JR
