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First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Picture Credit: Heartfalls Heartfalls - Heartfalls Release Date: June 15, 2022 Duration: 02:45 Genre: Post Metal / Post Rock Origin: Queens, NY, USA Heartfalls is a product of its age. Based on the remains of the currently defunct metal band Ashes Forever. Rising from its, ehem, ashes, Heartfalls became a new outlet for Matt Dillon on drums and Josh Williams on guitar and bass. The newly-created band explores different territories, pretty far from the tech-metal agenda - it is post rock in its purest form, inspired by the titans of the genre like Caspian, Boards of Canada and Pelican. To this day Heartfalls remains a mysterious act, with little to no backstory behind it; and a single recorded track under the name 'Endless Year'. The artwork for it is an abstract black and white photo. Taking into consi...

Picture Credit: Karmazid   QOYA -  Yōkai Release Date: October 15, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Cassette / Digital Length: 38:45 Genre: Post Metal / Post Punk Origin: Grenoble , France In 2019, QOYA from the French Alps released their first EP " The Fall ". After this debut work the band shrank from a quartet to a trio since their bass player left the band. So, drummer Amar Ruiz  also began to implement synthesizers to the sound of QOYA and thus, the search for a new bassist became obsolete. Like Amar Ruiz , Quentin Chazer  (guitar and vocals), and Antoine Roux  (guitar) are original members of the band that has now released their first longplayer "Yōkai". Yōkai by QOYA QOYA go into the fields of Post-genres. The sound they present on "Yōkai" contains massive and doomy arrangements of Post Metal and Post Rock. Guitar leads as delicate and cold as fresh snow encounter intense walls of riffs that resemble giant blizzards. Between those soundscapes o...

Picture Credit: Crust Artwork: Deni Aktemirov   Crust - ... and a Dirge becomes an Anthem Release Date: August 14, 2020 Label: mmmesss (CD) / [addicted label] (Digital/Bandcamp) / RUMF Productions (Digital/Spotify) Format: CD / Digital Length: 34:18 Genre:  Post Metal  /  Blackened Sludge Origin:  Russia In April, I reviewed Crust's latest album "Stoic". To get a more concise view of the band, I also want to put in my two cents on their previous work, Crust's second long-player "... and a Dirge becomes an Anthem" which was published via three Russian labels last summer. ...and a Dirge Becomes an Anthem by Crust Most striking difference between "... and a Dirge becomes an Anthem" and its successor "Stoic" is the sound quality. Crust's second album is defined by somehow fuzzy garage sound that reminds of Black Metal recordings by early-day Bathory or Mayhem. The drums especially are a little muffled. And speaking of Black Metal, here...

Picture Credit: Born A Ghost   Born A Ghost - The Beginning to an End Release Date: July 25, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 44:35 Genre: Post Metal Origin: Tacoma , WA , USA Born A Ghost's debut album "The Beginning to an End" is the direct successor of the previous EP " SGNLS " which was published in November 2020. Since then, the band from Washington State has presented us the single " Shun the Believer / Neurotic " featuring two songs from the album on hand. "The Beginning to an End" contains a total of nine tracks which were written and recorded between 2017 and 2020. On the recordings, you can hear the powerful works of Howard Taylor Jolin  (vocals, guitars, and synthesizers), Talmadge Craig Hathaway  (drums and percussions), and Sergio Vasquez  (bass). In the meantime, the band has grown to become a quartet as Hathaway  changed positions from drums to guitars and synthesizers, while new member Latoya Forks  ( 4th Chambe...

Picture Credit: Year Of No Light   Year Of No Light - Consolamentum Release Date: July 02, 2021 Label: Pelagic Records Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital Length: 55:17 Genre: Post Metal / Drone Doom Origin: Bordeaux , France "Consolamentum" is not only the fifth full-length release by Bordeaux' Post Metal giants Year Of No Light. With this album, the band also celebrates their 20th anniversary. And therefore, a special bundle is available in the webshop of German label Pelagic Records . The wooden box contains all five studio albums, several Split EPs, a recording from the Roadburn Festival together with composer Dirk Serries , and several other goodies. You can either get a CD bundle or a vinyl bundle. With "Consolamentum", Year Of No Light prove once more that they belong to the crème de la crème of heavy and atmospheric music. Masterfully, the band merges coldly waving Drone sounds with the vast atmosphere of Post Metal and the massive brachiality of Sludge. The f...

Picture Credit: Remote Artwork: Alexey Sivitsky Remote -  Дым Release Date: July 02, 2021 Label: [addicted label] Format: CD / Digital Length: 45:42 Genre: Blackened Sludge Origin:  Kaluga ,  Russia In January, we received the first omens of Remote's third full-length album, when the band released the ex ante single " Гореть " (Russian: burn). And now here we are, listening to "Дым" (Russian: smoke), 45 minutes of sonic ashes, fire, and infernal soundscapes. As far as I can tell, "Дым" is the first album with Russian lyrics only by the band from Central Russian Kaluga. Дым by Remote On their newest work, Remote provide us with a brachial mix of atmospheric Post Metal, Black Metal-like coldness, and the slow but massive force of Sludge and Stoner Metal. Listening to "Дым", you can easily imagine a giant crack tearing apart Earth's soil, spawning eruptions that burn down every living being while an army of demons marches across the flaming ...

Picture Credit: Blaise the Seeker Artwork: Steven Yoyada   Blaise the Seeker - Burning Wind Away Release Date: June 01, 2021 Label: The Swamp Format: CD / Digital Length: 42:34 Genre: Doom Metal / Sludge Origin: Austin , Texas , USA "Burning Wind Away" is the CD of the month June 2021 on The Swamp Records. It is the debut album by J Blaise Gans  and Mathew Doeckel , also know as Texan Doom duo Blaise the Seeker. Under the pseudonym Guided Meditation Doomjazz, Blaise the Seeker is well-known for their extraordinary social media content. Check the links on the bottom of the post to experience more. With their encouraging, empowering, mesmerizing content, Blaise the Seeker are definitely more than just a band. Behind this Doom and Sludge band there is versatile fictional character mirroring our society with all its flaws, chasms, and all its beauty. Focussing on the music, "Burning Wind Away" is a ten-track collection of anthemic, somewhat melodic, and atmospheric Slu...

Picture Credit: Pelagic Records   Psychonaut / Sâver - Emerald Release Date: May 14, 2021 Label: Pelagic Records Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 35:40 (16:30 + 19:10) Genre: Doom Metal / Post Metal Origin: Mechelen , Belgium / Oslo , Norway Wrapped in luscious green, this Split EP is huge - not only since with 35 minutes of duration, this is EP is longer than many full-length full-length releases. Nevertheless, if you know the featured artists, you have encountered how likely they are to produce musical pieces that last at least ten minutes. And thus here we are, exploring the atmospheric sonic journey lead by Mechelen's Psychonaut and Oslo's Sâver. A-Side: Psychonaut - The Great Realisation Emerald Split EP by PSYCHONAUT The Belgian band provides us with a sixteen-minute opus of minimalism, apocalyptic scenery, and various moods. The Psychedelic Doom narrative consists of five chapters. A nameless protagonist awakens from their self-righteous dream, realizing that humankind ...

  Picture Credit: Born A Ghost Artwork: Ruben Labarca Born A Ghost — Shun The Believer / Neurotic Release Date: April 20, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format:  Digital Genre:   Post Metal /   Drone / Death Doom Origin:  Tacoma,  Washington, USA    A royal gift for fans of old Neurosis and Cult of Luna from Sovereign and Leaving the Chapel Town era respectively. The two song EP from the mysterious project from Tacoma, Washington is a real treat for fans of the oppressive and eerie atmosphere created by a guitar drone a la Sunn O))), samples and crushing heavy riffs of Yob "Burning The Altar" style. Although there is only one such riff here, believe me, it will be enough for you to make the corners of your lips sink lower and lower to form a "reverse smile" of maximum riff respect, and your head slowly nodding rhythmically to the beat of the music. The vocals are simple but varied: samples, whispers and ... demonic growl. All this creates a ver...

Picture Credit: Crust Artwork: Abyssic Art Crust - Stoic Release Date: April 02, 2021 Label: [addicted label] (CD/Digital) / RUMF Productions (Spotify) / slowsnow records (Tape) Format: CD / Cassette / Digital Length: 46:52 Genre: Post Metal / Blackened Sludge Origin: Russia Have you ever stared into the abyss and asked yourself "What would Lucius Annaeus Seneca  do?" or have ever felt like Epicurus might have been right after all? Well, I can relate. Modern society has a way of making stoicism very attractive again. Surrounded by darkness, false beliefs, and chaos, Russian band Crust has faced the ancient paradigm and is hence leading their audience through thick darkness towards the light of wisdom. Contrarily to what the band name might make assume, Crust play a mix of Sludge, Doom, Black, and Post Metal. They create opulent apocalyptic soundscapes with the potential to raise an army of the undead. Heaving Doom and Post Metal rhythm march through the swampy depths of S...

Picture Credit: Breaths Artwork: Michelle Roberts Breaths - Lined in Silver Release Date: March 26, 2021 Label: Trepanation Recordings Format: CD / MC / Digital Length: 60:18 Genre: Post Rock / Post Metal Origin: Richmond (Virginia) , USA The album on hand is the debut by Virginia's Doomgazer Jason Roberts , also known as Breaths - not to be confused with Oregon's Stoner Doom band Breath ! Breaths provide us with almost exactly one hour of atmospheric and intense music that can be located somewhere between Post Rock, Post Hardcore, Post Metal, Shoegaze, Doom Metal, and even some Black Metal. Quite an interesting mix and definitely a great recipe for music that is brachial, soulful, and atmospherically cold at the same time. Like fog on a cold winter morning, the atmospheric soundscapes shimmer through the air, as they are joined by heavy Doom Metal riffs. The brutal intensity of the motifs makes a spring on this foundation like waves of a storm surge and hence creates this in...

Moanaa - Lie Release Date: February 12, 2021 Length: 09:17 Genre: Atmospheric Doom Origin:  Bielsko Biała , Poland From their upcoming abum "Embers" (March 2021) Content from the  MangoNews  will always stay in the  MangoRotation  playlist for 14 days. Moanaa Online: Facebook Instagram Bandcamp YouTube Spotify Looking for affordable and high quality promotion for your music? Here's MusoSoup! Follow MangoWave on Telegram DONATE