Instrumental

Invoking the Abstract plays instrumental technical death metal. This is a video of Invoking the Abstract playing instrumental technical death metal. 

MONO‘s video for “Requiem for Hell” is an emotional and visually beautiful companion to the song. Also included: Exclusive Q&A with MONO’s Takaakira “Taka” Goto.

MoRkObOt unleash wordless doom weirdness in this new video for “Ogrog.”

“I Have Seen Hell And It’s White” is an instrumental rollercoaster, capturing excited and calm, collected energy throughout the song. 

MONO have spent the past almost-two decades crafting vibrant soundscapes and instrumental rock albums. The upcoming Requiem for Hell, MONO’s ninth studio album, treads similar territory.  In a video for the title track, the Japanese instrumentalists tell, visually and audibly, an exhilarating yet terrifying story. The entirely black and white video features a man running…

Swedish experimental instrumentalists pg.lost have put out yet another captivating album. Stream it in full before its official release date. 

The Veil of Control
Dust never sleeps
dB rating: 8/10

End your week with some Irish/Native American/psychedelic/Krautrock folk metal. Come on, if Friday isn’t for flutes, what day is?

As a general rule, we would suggest you not listen to instrumental “post” metal.  It certainly has its occasional charms and does an admirable job drawing the aurally cautious into the integrity-crushing arms of extreme metal.  Beyond the realm of intellectual curiosity and compositional hedonism, however, this gravity well of musical talent too often grows…

Because every day another band records another song.  Because 83% of those songs are unlistenable and you can’t be bothered to sift through the dreck.  Because metal is about not giving a shit and waking your own personal storm.  Because music is universal, expression is boundless, and even indie labels (whatever that means these days)…