out Of The Box On Sunday XXXII

Belgian math-rock with some post-hardcore, Terraformer (facebook) is a heavy-hitting complexely-structured instrumental band. Start/stop, tapping, dissonant and tremolo riffing with occasional hardcore breakdowns and punk rock or power chords desperately being tamed by erratic drumming, while the bass guitar loosely jams, both often in polyrythms.
Last fm tags as math rock, post-rock, instrumental,experimental, post-metal

Hourvari – 2011 EP

I by Hourvari is half of the EP, so it should give you a good impression

With members from french titans As We Draw as well as Birds In Row, Hourvari (bandcamp) depicts a style of dark music that seems more like the culmination of those projects, in stead of a compromise in between. Trespassing the usual limits of ambient elements in extreme music, this release goes slower, darker and deeper than extreme bands rarely dare to go, with great succes. With droning elements, slowly building up to the point where down-tempo hardcore bands usually start, this is a journey far beyond the confinements that had been set up for a band in that ‘scene’. Moving the touchstone for this style of music miles from where it had rested for a long ass time. Pioneers they are, I tell you!
Last fm tags as post-rock, ambient, post-hardcore, post-metal, french 

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Suffocate For Fuck Sake – Blazing Fires And Helicopters On The Frontpage

Blue Lights And Sunshine by Suffocate For Fucks Sake

It might be a close call, but Suffocate For Fuck Sake (myspace) seems like the most ambient atmospheric music with shouting vocals that’s ever graced these ears. This is something far beyond post rock with tormented screeching/screaming (like Devil Sold His Soul)and occasional mellow indie (like EF) singing. In fact, this release probably even has more spoken word samples, in some scandinavian gibberish, but that works for what it is, than actual singing by their vocalist. It works. All of it. The tempo or ambience don’t build up exponentially, but rather brick by brick, making the climax unbearably moving and the overall sound unrelentlessly holding its grip on the listener’s attention, with absolute awe and heart-rending passion.
This all coming from someone who long gave up on the ‘twinkly ambient post-whatever’. I adore this. All of this. I heard people think it’s boring, but I think that’s what happend when you listen but don’t pay close enough attention to nuances and such. Somebody get me this sort of band to do the vocals for.
turns out the full name to this album is "Blazing fires and helicopters on the frontpage of the newspaper. There´s a war going on and I´m marching in heavy boots"

Last fm  post-rock, post-metal, post-hardcore,screamo, sludge 

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Out Of The Box X

listen to Transpire by Marionette ID

Marionette ID (myspace) is a Hungarian post-rock band with a very tuneful indie-rock approach. With more vocals entwined in their structures than any non-instrumental postrock band, these dudes bring forth THE most amazing compromise between catchy and ambient music. Something in between haunting indie rock and melodic post-rock, both executed brilliantly, with the most crystal clear vocals in any of those genres and catchy as heck. Heck I tell ya! This band could never be anything more than underappreciated, no matter how appreciated they will ever become. I have added their first full-length and their recent 2-song EP. Somehow I favor the EP, but that might be just because I haven’t listened tot hat release 394 375 times. Yet.
Last fm tags as post-rock, indie, hungarian, post-hardcore,emo

buy their debut album right here

Out Of The box on sunday VII

it's easy to take post-rock music for granted and fail to see what beauty it is based upon. it takes artists like Blueneck to shake me up. fact is they did it with the element I love most in this genre: breathtaking and angelic vocals and occasional classical instrumentation. Blueneck could be compared to something in between recent radiohead and the EF songs that have those cutesy/angelic vocals in them (which are my favorite of both bands).

Last fm tags as  post-rock, ambient, atmospheric, british, post rock

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Le Pré Ou Je Suis Mort

 listen to Une Fois De Plus by Le Pré Ou Je Suis Mort

French/Swiss band Le Pré Ou Je Suis Mort(Myspace) ,that had the same name as a french dub of a The X-Files episode, is probably the most 'active' band within the french screamo sound. they excell in building ambient elements to an equally smooth climax, only with a lot more oomph superimposed on the already harmonic yet layered sound. a mix of post-rock and french screamo that portrays the very best of what both have to offer.

they joined La Dispute on that band's first European tour btw!

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outside the box on sunday II

listen to kill a petty bourgeoisie's lovers & liars

To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie (Myspace) was the supporting band, when I saw Boduf Songs live. I was there to see them, because their electronic noise with angelic vocals  was recommended to me, by someone who prophesized it was right up my alley and that person was right. since then, I can not imagine anyone feeling any different about this. the overal sound is fragile like a soap bubble, kind of like gloomy pop vocals barely looming over the sound of melodic pulsing tv static. this is as eerie as well as beautiful as electronic music gets.
Last fm tags as:  experimental, shoegaze, noise, electronic,post-rock 

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Light Bearer - Lapsus

 listen to Lapsus by Light Bearer

After the few promo songs by this band, I present to you Light Bearer (bandpage) their first record, released simultaneously with an EP or one sided (the other side with a silk screen picture) 12" named Beyond The Infinite, The Assembly Of God. which will most likely end up here as well. lately, this band has been outspoken about not wanting to be associated with the vocalist's past music project all too much. which is understandable. The elements and influences on this record come from such a broad spectrum of all down-tempo and/or atmospheric music, it is exhilarating to hear this band succeed to keep it in a single consistent mass. this is not the extent of a single influence xeroxed and hyped, nor is it a copy/paste clash of many incompatible spin-offs. this sound holds its own as the groundwork to something entirely unseen. while I can not agree to every single input to this sound, I embrace it in its entirety and long for as many people as possible to at least do just that.

Last fm tags as: post-metal, experimental, post-rock, hardcore, sludge

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pretty please, with sugar on top.

Light Bearer - Beyond The Infinite, Primum Movens, Lucifer's Monody

 listen to Primum Movens by Light Bearer

Light Bearer (Myspace), is a band from the UK with members from Fall Of Efrafa and Dungeons and is my first down-tempo music post.

awaiting this band's first release, I present to you a compilation of 3 of its songs.

like Fall Of Efrafa, this band is loosely based around a concept. this time around Lucifer, and his fall from heaven (I can't help but think of Deathspell Omega). I think it's safe to say you can compare Light Bearer to FoE's latest release, only with a lot more soundscapes and atmosphere, classical instruments and twinkly post-rock structures that build up to Alex CF's signature roar, accompanied by more profound guitar arrangements than his former band's post hardcore and epic crust style. this is like a logical sequel to that band, who I found to grow into a beter band with every step they took toward it's last album. 

Light Bearer's first release will be a 6-song double LP and may be even more to my likings than these people's previous musical projects, judging from what I've only heard so far.

Last fm tags as post-metal, experimental, post-rock, hardcore, sludge

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I Create - All We Are Is Now

 listen to Bring Me Back by I create, as a preview to this album

'Merican band I Create (Myspace) is a though nut to crack. tempo's jumping from mid-tempo to downtempo in combination with emotionally tormented talking/whining/shouting vocals. sounds familiar? I find it hard to express how this band appeals to me, so greatly. the post-rock in combination with post-hardcore structure  with screaming thing has been done before, but I create brings more to the table. I get the feel I used to from classic down-tempo skramz bands in place of the melodic hardcore model that other bands in it adapt. nevermind my ranting. check for yourself, I recommend it to great extent.
Last fm tags as screamo, post-rock, emo, real screamo,american

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