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Album of the day: SubRosa – No Help for the Mighty Ones

Posted on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Highly-stringed Salt Lake City five-piece SubRosa released their Strega full-length debut in 2008 on I Hate Records. Making the jump to Profound Lore for the 2011 follow-up, the band, which includes two violinists, guitar, bass and drums, now unveils No Help for the Mighty Ones, a varied 59 minutes of melancholic doom that, despite its inherent drama and “extra” instrumentation (I put “extra” in quotes there because the violins don’t actually feel extraneous or tacked onto the surrounding music), remains definitively American.

No Help for the Mighty Ones was recorded by Andy Patterson (Iota, etc.), and though the structures are mostly open, SubRosa culls together a couple genuinely memorable moments throughout the eight tracks, the vocals of guitarist Rebecca Vernon having a haunting quality, backed by both violinists Kim Pack and Sarah Pendleton, and prove capable of more than the kind of post-metal sub-melodic monotony so many experimental outfits seem willing to settle for.

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(Courtesy of JJ Koczan / The Obelisk)

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Album of the day: Grayceon – All We Destroy

Posted on Monday, March 21st, 2011

Lovingly pinched from About.com: Heavy Metal: Grayceon pushes right past our conceptions of metal with clean singing and a cello. True, other bands have touched on these sounds, but Grayceon goes even a step beyond gender benders like Neurosis and Isis. They are similar to their Bay Area cohorts Ludicra ...read more

Dark Castle: New Song Available For Streaming

Posted on Friday, March 11th, 2011

A new Dark Castle song, ‘Seeing Through Time’, is available for streaming below, courtesy of Brooklynvegan. The track comes off the band’s new full-length album, Surrender to All Life Beyond Form, which is scheduled for release on May 17 via Profound Lore.