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Dr. Slaggleberry – The Slagg Factory Crash Records – CRASH09-DS04 - 12 October 2009 By Simon Brand Tech metal is a genre rife with thousands of 18 year olds who have just learnt to sweep-pick playing random notes really fast. It has become unfortunately acceptable to shred arbitrarily...

Zippo - The Road to Knowledge Subsound Records – December 2008 By Simon Brand From their beginnings as a stoner rock band in 2004, Zippo's latest effort leads them round the corner and down the path into progressive sludge territory. Featuring the expected chugging riffs alongside...

Endstille – Verführer Regain Records – RR162CD – 7 April 2009 By Simon Brand Fitting distinctly into the hi-fi denomination of Black Metal, Endstille's sound on this album can be roughly guessed given the nature of it's production and knowledge of it's near...

Cocoon Counter Culture Festival The GRV, Edinburgh 12/13 September 2009 By Simon Brand Edinburgh has always been notorious to me due to it's intensely bad metal scene; if you say to someone “Do you like metal?” the response you will normally get will be something along the lines...

Elffor – From The Throne Of Hate Northern Silence Productions – NSP 075 - 28 November 2008 By Simon Brand A quick glance at the track-list for The Thrones Of Hate may cause a potential listener to write Elffor off as a pretty generic black metal band. Featuring song-names such...

http://inbflat.net/ Seriously, check out that site, really clever stuff.

Looking for bands similar to Mathieu Marcotte (Augury)'s side project, Humanoid. Intelligent, complex and atmospheric compositions with a real chilled-out vibe. Obviously doesn't have to be metal recommendations, bands from any genre are welcome. If you haven't heard them, you can get an...

Kerbenok – O Northern Silence Productions – 28 November 2008 By Simon Brand It takes a lot to keep a listener interested in an album boasting a length of 70 minutes. To carry this out convincingly, the key is variety, and this is definitely something that Kerbenok understand...

Týr – By The Light Of The Northern Star Napalm Records - 27 May 2009 By Simon Brand The first word which came into my head when I heard this album was “unnecessary”. Týr spam the usage of words like “heathen” and ”pagan”, they profusely overuse guitar...

Pestilence – Resurrection Macabre Mascot Records – 16 March 2009 By Simon Brand After sixteen whole years of downtime since their ill-received Spheres album, Pestilence present to us their new offering, Resurrection Macabre. Now, sixteen years is a long time, so what &#8211...

Over a year after Kris' death, MDragynfly has decided to re-release The Angelic Process material on cd and vinyl. This made me very happy :). http://www.myspace.com/theangelicprocess You can order the music from kangylus@yahoo.com

Hey, I've only started getting into jazz fusion recently and from what I've heard, Holdsworth is right up my alley. Was wondering what you guys think would be the best album of his for me to get, the crazier the better. Bands I enjoy include Cynic, Spiral Architect, Exivious, Mahavishnu...

Just been getting into this genre. Stuff like Isis, Red Sparrowes, Explosions in the Sky are awesome. Prefer without vocals, but don't particularly mind either way. Wondering what you guys would recommend? As in the title, don't limit to just metal.

Hey guys, I've been on here for a couple of months now, but I've never introduced myself, so I decided I would :D. I mostly listen to instrumental prog or tech-death, but I also enjoy free-jazz, baroque and some blues. Oh, and Tubular Bells, especially TB2. Favourite metal bands are...

Hey, was wondering what you all think of Mike Oldfield's masterpiece Tubular Bells albums. Also interested to know which you think is best. I'd have to go with TBII because it takes everything that made TBI great and expands on it. Also the production on TBI took something away from the music I...

45 minute long song, guitar and drums only. Contains about 10 riffs, each repeated for 7-8 minutes. All done in one take. Seriously. I can't tell if I like it or not yet... The whole song is up on youtube, if you can get through the whole thing, you probably deserve a cookie.

Anyone heard of these guys? The samples on their myspace sound awesome, not very metal but very very interesting. Like to know what everyone else thinks. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=87907571

Does anyone here still play this? For those who don't know, it's an old paper-based rpg. I still play ADnD (version 1.5) with my friends.

Anyone heard/heard of them? They do Tech-prog mixed with cartoon-style music Think Jarzombek style humour with a sound not far removed from Spastic Ink, but with their own distinct touch. http://www.last.fm/music/Electrocution+250 That's their Last.Fm page Share opinions. Cheers