post-rock

Richmond noise rock heroes City Of Caterpillar discuss their 20-year “hiatus” and the unlikely-awesome new LP, Mystic Sisters.

This week’s hand-picked set of new releases feature the latest from Russian Circles, Soilwork, Morbid Evils and more!

Paul Masvidal (Cynic) finds rebirth in the Season of Mist reissue of the final Æon Spoke (Aeon Spoke) full-length.

Progressive heavies Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster offer a treacherous post-rock expedition with The World Inside.

Enslaved’s Arve Isdal and Ulver’s Ivar Thormodsæter join forces with the jazz, post-rock, chamber music, folk, drone and ’70s prog sounds of DROTT

French post-rockers Bruit get elaborate with a brass-accompanied performance of “The Machine is Burning.”

Ghost Tapes #10 is everything you’d want from this instrumental post-rock, packed with oceans of power and energy.

Ranking the songs on Slint’s Hall of Fame-inducted, post-rock-creating Spiderland from worst to best.

Post-rockers Coastlands “Lay Waste” to past relationships.

Unreqvited are uniquely talented at keeping their influences intact while still merging them into a cohesive force of blackened melancholy.

Alex, guitarist/vocalist, from Villagers of Ioannina City weaves Decibel under his spell.

Revisiting Cerberus Shoal‘s 1997 post-rock masterpiece …and Farewell to Hightide.

Hear a new song from blackgazers Avast.

Instrumental post-metal group Set and Setting return with their heaviest offering to date.

Stream the new Charun album now.

Stream a new track from Pelican/5ive offshoot, INTRCPTR. 

Impure Wilhelmina are streaming the first track from their new album, Radiation. 

No words are used (and none are needed) to tell a story on “…The Idyllic Realm.” 

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.

“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…

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We’ve never been over to visit and the tourist information website was fucking useless, but we’d like to think that New London, Connecticut is just the sort of place where parents just vacate their family homes en masse for months at a time, and leave their surly offspring to mulch around in unwashed jeans and…