[bandcamp width=400 height=472 album=2675970779 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small]
Flute-like synths come in and are pitch modulated, playing almost playful melodies with quite a bit of delay. Low string-like melodies play as the low-end, repeating, evolving, and then moving toward simplicity again. The flute-like synths stop…
Tag: drone
Hydra Transmitter – Early Favorites
[bandcamp width=400 height=406 album=1354136655 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small]
The first track of this album is “The Passage”. Almost frantic percussion plays, with a focus on cymbal and snare, and soon a highly distorted guitar comes in and plays a progression of several long, very distorted chords, half-drowning out…
Lotus on the Shore – Gloom
[bandcamp width=400 height=241 album=3304408068 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small]
In the piece called "The Path", a gong can be heard ringing out with some subtle, evenly spaced metallic percussion in the background, accompanied by footsteps. A thundering, low percussion comes in, like an ominous gargantua. There is a distor…
SINNEN – MUR
[bandcamp width=400 height=274 album=1905864402 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small]
The EP release MUR by the band SINNEN begins with the track “DIVE_TERN”. This track starts with a slow beat which relies on the ride cymbal to propel it forward, and then a guitar comes in laden with heavy amounts of reverb and plays an Eas…
CHOKE – GRIP DOMINANCE
[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=484697881 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small]
The release GRIP DOMINANCE by CHOKE begins with soft organ playing a three note minor-key melody under short, synthesized bell tones with a delay effect on them. After a while, there is a hint of bongos playing an echoing rhythm behind the bell …
Whirling Hall of Knives – Ovoidulations
[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=396180034 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small]
Ovoidulations begins, as a synthesizer which sounds like a synth string with a very long filter sweep on it plays a mid-frequency note that drones, and another note comes in and plays in harmony with the first note, which is followed by a synth …
Lotus on the Shore – Astral Projection
[bandcamp width=400 height=241 album=355743711 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small]
Lotus on the Shore’s Astral Projection begins with “Part I”, where an extremely overdriven wash of bass and guitar play a semi-tonal noise riff repeatedly. A reverb-drenched bass drum comes in, playing a simple rhythm over the wash. There …
Serene Ailment and Mutations – Serene / Mutations
[bandcamp width=400 height=241 album=560609869 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small]
This album is a split between Mutations and Serene Ailment.
Mutations’s side starts with the track “False Sense of Security”, which begins with a wall of noise, higher in the mid-frequencies without much low-end. It fades in, and is soo…
Tongues of Mount Meru – The Hex of Light
[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=305155938 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small]
“Foliage” begins, and a loud, distorted saw-tooth-wave drone plays, and is soon accompanied by a synth pad which ebbs in and out of the sound for a bit, then establishes itself as a secondary drone. It drops out for a second, then comes back…
Transmit – Temporal Season
[bandcamp width=400 height=307 album=494331636 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small]
Transmit’s Temporal Season begins with the track “Slow Poke”, where a pulsing, bass-y semi-wall of noise starts, and soon is accompanied by very high pitched, but quieter sounds. Then, the pulsing is altered and made more intense briefly, …