A Backward Glance On A Travel Road - A Backward Glance On A Travel Road

Here is a French band which is rather interesting..the music is somewhat atmospheric and a bit melancholic, but the ambiances are really enjoyable! We are miles away from BDM or BM as what they play is rather quiet...acoustic guitars, soft, lyrical, operatic vox, synth...a kind of medieval feel as well... let's pack up and let them carry us away on that forlorn road of theirs...until, as we give a glance backward, only a few of our faint and vanishing footsteps linger on the dusty path, waiting to be withered away into nothingness.

A Backward Glance On A Travel Road - A Backward Glance On A Travel Road
Genre:Dark Ambiant
Tracklist:
1. Regular Barbary
2. Falling
3. Johnny Got His Gun
4. In Absentia part I
5. In Absentia part II
6. Hier Re'gnant De'sert
7. Approximativement Moi

A Backward Glance On A Travel Road

Manyfingers - Our Worn Shadow 2006

Manyfingers, despite the name is actually a one man band by Chris Cole. I think this guy has an interesting approach to music, he plays every instruments of course but what chiefly drew my attention is not that, it's the way he adds them on top of each other, so many layers of sound! actually i dont know how he does it to keep the overall sound so loose and tight at the same time! of course the obvious drawback to this approach is that by using loops one cannot develop or maybe unfold his ideas thouroughly, unless you use very long loops of course! ^^...but that's also to make do with the limits imposed by a framework ..and i think he handles it pretty well whatsoever! enjoy!

Manyfingers - Our Worn Shadow
Genre:Electronic, Ambiant
Tracklist:
1. Some Sheild
2. For Measured Shores
3. This Tar Won't Hold
4. 3 Forms
5. No Opera
6. Our Worn Shadow
7. Remark, A
8. Tsunami

Manyfingers - Our Worn Shadow

ROME - Nera 2006

Jerome Reuter is mainly known in the punkrock scene but with this album he composed something else made up of a mixture of neo-classical, dark industrial, and ambient elements. This album is quite interesting in the way it is composed, however i am a bit disappointed with the vox which are always performed in the same way all along...but not too much of a problem whatsoever there's not much singing! =)

ROME - Nera 2006
Genre:Ambiant, Industrial
Tracklist:
1 Der Zeitsturm
2 A Burden Of Flowers
3 Reversion
4 A La Faveur De La Nuit
5 Das Unbedingte
6 Rape Blossoms
7 Beasts Of Prey
8 The Blade Unmasked
9 Hope Dies Painless
10 Nera
11 Birds Of Prey
12 Les Hirondelles


Let my ears bleed!

METHADRONE - RETROGRESSION 2005

Methadrone is somewhat the pinnacle of industrial ambiant, their music is rather heavy (that's for sure!lol) and almost all their tracks are punctuated by a thumping, mesmerizing (or repetitive, depend on your viewpoint!) rhythm. Well how to explain??? let's just say that if the dark side of the force had a new musical style that would be it...or as in the matrix movie, if there was two pills, then you just took the wrong one!! ah ah!
have a nice trip!

METHADRONE - RETROGRESSION 2005
Genre:Dark Industrial, Ambiant
Tracklist:
01 Emotionless
02 Retrogression
03 Despondency
04 Ebullient Drift
05 Impurify
06 Transient Release
07 Of Less Emotion
08 Sex, God, Sex (Swans cover)

Pounding Industrial Hammer!