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Sadness - I Want To Be There

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Sadness, the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Damián Antón Ojeda released his fifteenth (!) full-length album 'I Want To Be There' on April 7th. The album will be released on vinyl on September 21st. Tracklist 1. In The Distant Travels 2. I Want To Be With You 3. Moments 4. I Want To Be There 5. You Dance Like The June Sky 6. Somewhere The Mexican-born American founded Sadness in 2014 and calls himself Elisa in this project. Given his many other music projects, including an improv jazz piano project, an ambient project and a post-metal / hardcore project, we can say that this guy breathes music. And he is only 22. With Sadness he tries to bridge the gap between shoegaze, ambient and black metal and he has succeeded greatly. 'I Want To Be There' lasts 40 minutes and in that time he immerses you in a sea of ​​guitar walls, tremolo picking, colourful, sad ambient sounds, and black metal vocals from afar. The album is more comfo...

Friendship - Undercurrent

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Founded in 2014 in Japan (the Chiba prefecture to be precise), these four anonymous gentlemen have released their second full-length album Undercurrent on Daymare Recordings. Their 2017 debut Hatred was mainly hard, fast, groovy and riff-oriented. Undercurrent has more variety and even better production. The vocals are more in the foreground and more importantly, the drums. And those get more room on this second grindcore/power-violence gem. Tracklist 1. Demise 2.Vertigo 3. Punishment 4. Lack 5. Abandon 6. Fiend 7. Plague 8. Garbage 9. Wrecker 10. Hatred But this is not your average super fast grindcore/power-violence record. Luckily Friendship take their foot off the gas sometimes. Not everything has to be played fast and low, that makes an album monotonous and that is definitely not the case on Undercurrent. A song like Vertigo shows so many different styles (hardcore, grindcore, sludge metal) as well as Punishment and Lack. The band has listened ...