The Ruin Of Belle Vue - 2007 - Barn Sessions

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1) Two Men, Three Jakes, One Take

2) Song 1

3) Song 2

4) Song 3

5) Song 4

"Original files from the Wanna Be Discography post included in a zip"

Iwishiwasraining - 2023 - When the Winter Gets Here, I Won’t Know What to Do - (Reviewed)

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1) Everything’s Alive, but I’m Not breathing

2) The Summer is My Reminder
3) Nothings Okay, but That’s Okay

4) Penelope
5) Steve Carrell vs the World

6) October 25th

7) I Can’t Wait for the Spring

8) Give it a Rest

"The first album dropped yesterday, and I didn't anticipate this coming anywhere short of amazing. In their sound, you'll find a much more intimate experience, with both the somber twinkly guitars and emotionally strained vocals you come to expect in a Iwishiwasraining release. Easily these are some of their best songs, by the mere care and passion that went into them. It makes me wonder if there was any inspiration drawn from Russian/Ukrainian emocore. It's a great album, and any fan of the genre's current bands should definitely see what these guys cook up, because I really don't think anyone can do it quite like these fellas from Ohio."

Rekah - 2022 - Kiamat

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1) 24 Jam Di Fatmawati

2) Lusa Kiamat

3) Kabar Dari Dasar Botol

4) Terang Dilarang Masuk

5) Kereta Terakhir Dari Palmerah

6) Bursa Arwah

7) Mengajari Api Berdansa

8) Tragedi Paling Anjing

9) Makar/Penghabisan

Opt Aut Sic Eco - 2017 - Opt Aut Sic Eco - (Reviewed)

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1) Transformation A.D.

2) Griffith's Billiards

3) The Wolfman's Discotheque

4) The Hunger

5) Outta My Way Fishman

6) You One Of Them Super Draculas

7) Village of the Cat People

8) Death Awaits You

9) Robot Arms Robot Eyes Robot Hips Robot Thighs

10) Night of the Mantis

11) Murder on the Oh No You Didn't Express

12) You Prefer Alien Love

13) The Ghost in the Walls

"First overlooked at the mere sight of it on a certain YT music spam channel... I didn't bother giving it a listen (rookie mistake, I should know better). Months later I rediscovered it whilst looking for some cassettes to pick up for my bf's car's radio. Finally, I sat down and gave it the time that it deserved before. Darkwave and hardcore are a match made in heaven, and I really wish I saw it more, with bands like The Axe That Chopped The Cherry Tree and Blow Up being ones that come to mind. The innate characteristics of the darkwave genre carry across it unrivaled atmosphere for the hardcore components to reside in. As a result, you get a uniquely personal listening experience that helps you appreciate all other aspects of fantastic vocalization, excellent guitarwork, heavy bass, and cadenced drums (think of it as a concert in a chamber, that's the best way I can visualize it). This has been one of the coolest albums I've heard in the past year, and I'm so looking forward to spending more time with it."

Sonagi - 2022 - Precedent

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1) Ambivalence

2) Blue Ticket

3) Projective Identification

4) Attachment Theory

5) Pansori

6) Newbold

7) Who Could See You and Forget

Sonagi, Obroa-Skai, Indisposed, & Coma Regalia - 2020 - The Cold Promise of Uncertainty

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Sonagi

1) 070587 (Blue Ticket)

2) Endless Waltz

Obroa-Skai
3) Opportunistic Activism

4) Diminution of Environmental Policy

Indisposed

5) Support

Coma Regalia

6) Reach

7) Pause

8) Break

Sonagi - 2021 - Pansori 판소리 - (Reviewed)

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1) Minjung 민중

2) Pansori 판소리 (Single)

"Formed in 2019 out of the Philly scene, Sonagi delivers immense talent and creativity into the post rock-screamo niche. I was pleasantly surprised to see Ryann from Closer doing vox, which put this on my radar initially, for which I'm here to stay! This are just the debut singles (if not counting their split tracks), but a full release, Precedent, is set to release on the 22nd of this month; which I eagerly await for. Excellent, beautiful stuff here."

The Ruin Of Belle Vue - 2004 - And the Heads of Horses Were as the Heads of Lions

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1) Intro

2) Track 2

3) Bring the Original Hawk-Eye Back

4) Yadaliths Grange

5) Track 5

6) Cranial Under Dressed

7) Kashmir Eclipse

8) Track 8

9) Toot Forrest Ranger

10) Emerald Warrior Spirit

11) Track 11

12) Karna

"Original files from the Wanna Be Discography post included in a zip"

Austere - 2009 - To Lay Like Old Ashes

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1) Down

2) To Fade With The Dusk 

3) This Dreadful Emptiness
4) To Lay Like Old Ashes

5) Just For A Moment...

6) Coma II

"My most favorite DSBM album ever. I posted their the side project a few months ago, the Gray Waters. And even in their BM stuff, they sound emo af. They reveal black metal from a more sensual, gentle and beautiful side, abandoning the brutality and pathos side of this genre."

Black Squirrel, Run! - 2018 - I'm Not Going There To Die, I'm Going There To Find Out If I'm Really Alive

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1) Han Solo (Shot First)

2) Haiku #4

3) Garden Of Eden

4) Taylor's Song

5) Relapse

Blindër - 2021 - You Ruined Me But You’re Beautiful

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1) The Flowers On The Windowsill Are Already Rotten

2) You Ruined Me But You’re Beautiful

Atameo - 2022 - It Sure Is Sad To Hope For The Best While Expecting The Worst

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1) It's Not Real

2) It Fills You With Determination

3) Versmold

4) Marbles

5) Hikikomori

6) Bloom

7) Why Did You Leave Me Behind?/Now It's Gone Forever 

My Lonely Sea - 2018 - Till The End Of The Road

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1) Drown In Fear

2) Letter I've Never Sent

3) Parasite

4) Find My Way Back

Various Artists - 2021 - Songs In Vivo Vol. 2

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1) The Man Who Stole Several Leopards (Akuma Kira)

2) Cries of the Past (Underoath)

3) Concrete Blocks of Empathy (We Came Out Like Tigers)

4) [Interlude I]

5) Awake And Aware (Thisisasummaryofwhoiam)

6) Silent Secret II (Tear Down December)

7) [Interlude II]

8) Automaton Droids V2.0 (The Blue Letter)

9) That Bird Is A Liar (Dot Flash Line)

10) Duets and Messages (Ahimsa Sunrise)

11) [Interlude III]

12) Same Story, Different Day (Taken)

13) Longest Five Miles (A Day's Refrain)

14) Like an Apparition, You Were Never Even There (Lights Strung Like Stars)
15) Seven and a Half Years of Waiting/My Disaster (A Perfect Kiss)

16) [Hidden Track]

"Volume 2 of a CDR mix for 3 friends, following up from the 1st volume; one of the three from last year got the first/master copy so that's why there's 2 variants instead of 3. Track 17 is another hidden track that is excluded from this post. For this year, I wanted to make it a whole lot more emotional with an emphasis on emotional maturity... as this past year has been difficult for all of us but have helped us grow to be stronger people. Unofficial."

Static Dress - 2021 - Prologue... (Comic Book Soundtrack)

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1) A_Distraction...

2) Disposable Care

3) The Spare Key in the Back

4) Sober Exit(s)

5) In This Fake City

6) Foreplay (Is Not My Forté)

7) From a Mansion to a FH

8) Vague

9) To the Hotel...

Like Hung Like Stars - 2021 - It Gave Way to More Than You Could Imagine - (Reviewed)

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1) You're Not Alone, There's Plenty of Us That Feel the Same Way You Do but Don't Have the Courage to Say It

2) New Year, but it All Feels the Same

3) An Unremarkable Day Spent at a Water Park in Wisconsin, I Still Remember it for Some Reason

4) A Christmas Gift for Laurel

5) End of This Story, The

6) [Single] Departing Ships (2021)

"This EP progresses from their demo, while introducing a lot of new sounds into the mix, like experimenting with folk singing, spoken word, and predominant electronic elements; distorting their sampling to a larger extent. Just as good as the last, I can only hope they go up from here. My only tiny nitpick is some of the sampling choices seemed out of place. A small detail I adore is the tape-changing sounds and differing audio mixing that sounds akin Tear Down December's rough demos (very out there reference but it just came to mind).

Lights Strung Like Stars - 2020 - Fall Demo - (Reviewed)

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1) Power Lines, or How We Wondered Where it All Went

2) Like an Apparition, You Were Never Even There

3) Peachleaf Drive

4) Rei Ayanami

"I find myself just blown away by this demo... something about it, I can't put my finger on it. I hate myself for not discovering these guys sooner, I was introduced thanks to The Battle at Kiganjima Island. A lot of aspects remind me of picking up where Merchant Ships, The Kodan Armada and The Brave Little Abacus left off. We are in the onset of a beautiful, emotional, atmospheric screamo scene with so many years of retrospection and material behind us. This 3-piece from West Lafayette, Indiana has some great concepts in the works... I'll post their Janurary EP tomorrow and review that as well, I just really needed to stress the importance of giving these guys a listen as soon as I could. I've listened to this demo like 5 times already."

Your Arms Are My Cocoon, Pictures Of June, Floral Patterns, & Lights Strung Like Stars - 2021 - The Battle at Kiganjima Island

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Pictures Of June

1) Love in Three Stages

Your Arms Are My Cocoon

2) Raisin Lungs

Floral Patterns

3) Highbeams

Lights Strung Like Stars

4) The Endless Windmills

Devil Sold His Soul - 2005 - Darkness Prevails (Original and & 2008 Reissue)

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1) Darkness Prevails
2) Some Friend

3) Clouds
4) LIYL
5) Like It's Your Last
6) Clouds (Remix)
7) Darkness Prevails (Final Demo)
8) Some Friend (Original Demo)
9) Clouds (Final Demo)

10) Like It's Your Last (Original Demo)

"This album always makes me cry. It was the point since which i started listen post-metal."

Alison Ranger - 2002 - Some Special Words

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1) The Pressure Changes (EP Version)

2) Bomb No. 20 (EP Version)

3) Breathing Water (EP Version)

4) The Pig Emperor

5) Expose Wires (EP Version)