Cyclopian – selftitled

‘Cyclopian’ released their self-titled album on April 20, 2012. This album has many oceanic influences through it and the band does its best to make you feel like you are being pummelled by waves.

‘Of Raven and Snake’ is an absolute masterpiece that smashes post-metal and doom together all while being berated by two vocalists.

‘The Dark Rift’ is a more doom influenced mammoth that drifts off into ambient territory at times only to drag you back in with the dual vocalists growls.

‘Eventide Void’ closes off the album by meandering through ambience and post-metal then crushes you one last time before descending into static, distortion and glitched-out guitars.

This album is available for free so you have no reason not to download it right now.

Laura – The Slow

‘Laura’ released ‘The Slow’ single on the 7th of August 2012. ‘The Slow’ is originally off ‘Twelve Hundred Times’ which was released in October of 2011.

‘Laura’ are a great representation of how good post-rock can sound.

‘The Slow’ is an absolute masterpiece, showing what this band does best by massing layers together as you anticipate the climax of the song.

‘Aircraft on Blue Sea’ once again starts out with intricate guitar work that slowly builds adding noise till the crescendo is met with dramatic strings at the forefront.

Do yourself a favour and give it a listen.

Islands – selftitled

This self titled EP by ‘Islands’ features some amazing doom laden riffs, distorted primal vocals and some really intrinsic ambient touches to finish it off.

You can’t go past the mammoth of a track ‘I, Destroyer’ as it practically obliterates you for the full 13 minutes of its run time.

Old Man Gloom – NO

‘Old Man Gloom’, featuring Aaron Turner of ‘Isis’ and Nate Newton of ‘Converge’ and ‘Doomriders’ are back with their first album in 8 years. This band can do no wrong with the level of talent each musician brings along with them.

The band throw everything they have at you in ‘NO’, drifting from creepy ambient to screeching feedback through to drone, doom and sludge, even chucking in some acoustic guitar on ‘Crescent’

Althought there are many elements coming together on this album it doesn’t feel like it was randomly thrown together, there is a proper flow to it all.

Even after this album completely smashes you into the earth, as soon as the last song finishes you will be replaying it.