One of the beautiful things about the modern post-rock ambient scene is that some of the bands are very close to modern neo-classic. Like Worrytrain with its last album “Fog Dance, My Moth Kingdom”, which is a wonderful piece of depressive melancholic neo classical music with experimental electronic influences.

Lots of strings and a piano build [...]

Actually this band reminds me of some sad events. On December 8th 2004 Dimebag Darrell, axeman of the famous metal legends Pantera was shot on stage. This recording was released by his brother Vinnie Paul, after Dime’s death. This album is his tribute, a redneck-whiskey-outlaw tribute!

The music was recorded by three members of Pantera (Dimebag [...]

My Own Private Alaska is a band representing not only independent scene but also one of the most non-commercial genres – screamo. Screamo lately is sometimes mislabeled due to the popularity of the word emo and the whole pink-black movement. In fact screamo is one of the post-hardcore genres and the main ideas are harsh [...]

They caught my attention when they were scheduled for the Wacken Open Air 2008. A very interesting band. If simple they play power metal/heavy metal but aside from the fact that they have only vocals and drums.
Yes they don’t have guitars, bass and keys. The vocalists are singing three to four melodic lines instead. Sounds… [...]

They exploded about a year ago. Within few months these English boys became an underground sensation.

A rarely successful experiment of combining some post-hardcore stuff with dance music. Early demos were a sensation and these guys quickly became Kerrang! favorites. They got the idea after an evening when they visited a Dillinger Escape Plan gig and [...]