Belle Alliance is a strong progressive rock album from Ashra — Manuel Göttsching, Harald Grosskopf, and Lutz Ulbrich. There are lots of influences at work on this album. There are punk rock attitudes, ska guitar riffs, Berlin school sequences, jazz overtones, and ambient atmospheres. The trio pulls most of it together and it almost hits home. It is…
Asie Payton died of a heart attack on May 19, 1997, in Holly Ridge, Mississippi. It occurred in the early afternoon, while he was driving a tractor in the same fields he’d worked most of his sixty years. For all of 1995 and most 1996, Fat Possum tried unsuccessfully to convince Asie that the world…
2021 release. Asking Alexandria is teaming up for the first time with Better Noise Music for their seventh studio album, See What s On the Inside. Asking Alexandria is returning with a revival and a rebirth after spending the winter of 2021 living in the studio, the first time band had spent a period alone…
Bolster your defenses – ASPHYX are finally back! “Necroceros” marks the krushing 10th full studio album of the Dutch Death Doom elite, following-up 2016’s acclaimed “Incomig Death” release. “Necroceros” once again features artwork by Axel Hermann and contains ten massively pulverizing tracks, mixed and mastered by Sebastian Seeb Levermann. Artwork by Axel Hermann.
Deluxe 180-Gram Reissue. Special Gatefold Edition – Including original artwork & credits. A studio album recorded by Astrud Gilberto for Verve in 1967, with arrangements by Eumir Deodato and Don Sebesky, Beach Samba successfully showcases the singer s soft, soothing, playful, ethereal voice. The program consists of laid-back beach bossa nova tunes. The opening track,…
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY ERODING WINDS OWNER. ONE OF THE GREATEST METAL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. The all-time classic album from Gothenburg s At The Gates. Really, what more needs to be said about it? It s consistently featured in lists of top metal albums of all time, and if you don t already have it…
AT THE GATES, the pioneers of “Gothenburg style” melodic death metal return with their highly anticipated follow-up album to 2018’s “To Drink from the Night Itself” album. “The Nightmare Of Being” was mixed and produced with Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Amon Amarth, Opeth, Kreator, etc.) and the featured 10 songs showcase AT THE…
The pioneering electronic composer Mort Garson (Mother Earth s Plantasia) takes on supernatural phenomena with lush synth grooves on The Unexplained, his only release under the name Ataraxia. Subtitled Electronic Musical Impressions of the Occult, the album explores tarot, astral projection, seances, and more with Garson’s signature Moog synthesizer serving as the listener’s tour guide…
The classic 2001 album from pop punk heroes, The Ataris reissued on colored vinyl! End Is Forever served as the band s third LP overall and their last Kung Fu release before they departed for Columbia Records. Produced by Joey Cape and Jason Livermore, the 14 hyper-melodic punk tales of teenage dreams and broken hearts on End Is…
Following the release of their debut album, Overcast!, Atmosphere was already making waves in the underground Hip-Hop scene, attracting attention for their unique combination of content, styles and sounds. Although the group was suddenly smaller due to the departure of one member, Spawn, the buzz continued to grow, as did the creative output of remaining…
Double vinyl LP pressing with exclusive colored 45 that includes two bonus tracks. It s a different world than it was two years ago, when Atmosphere released their last record, Fishing Blues. Their seventh album, Mi Vida Local, reflects the ways in which the world – and their place in it – has changed. The…
The Sad Clown Bad Dub series first started as a string of limited cassette tapes and CD-R s for Atmosphere to sell exclusively on tour. Since its inception in 1999, the Sad Clown series has seen over a dozen iterations in numerous formats, including rare 4-track demos, live recordings, a DVD of behind-the-scenes tour footage,…
Vinyl LP pressing. Atmosphere s fourth official studio release, Seven s Travels, has been re-packaged and is reissued on vinyl for the first time in over six years. Historically speaking, this album marked where the group first saw commercial success. Originally picked up and distributed by Epitaph records, Seven s Travels saw Atmosphere s reach…
Atmosphere s new album, So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously, opens with a gentler approach. A departure from the brute intros of earlier works, Okay seems to comfort and reassure the listener, with Slug rapping over one of Ant s most twinkling productions to date. Yet, there s still an unmistakable sense of uneasiness that…
For over 20 years, Atmosphere has pursued the underbelly of what it means to be human with a rabid curiosity. Ant s dusky production has provided the pulse for Slug s evolving and matter-of-fact pen. As Slug transitioned from throwing-up-in-the-backseat-raps to holding-hands-when-you-cross-the-street-raps, Ant has grown to be a master of crate digging and unearthing the…