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Conceived in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1998, Iran started as the four-track bedroom-recording task of singer and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Aites. Playing a lot of the tools himself and recruiting close friends as required, Aites released Iran’s self-titled debut through Andee Connors’ (A Forest, J Chapel, Ticwar) Tumult label in …

An all-star hard rock and roll unit shaped in 2008 by vocalist Serrina Sims and Queens from the Rock Age, AN IDEAL Circle, and Failure guitarist Troy Vehicle Leeuwen, Los Angeles-based Sweethead also features the skills of bassist Eddie Nappi (Attractive) and drummer Norm Stop (Plexi), both of whom also …

A staple in the LA left-field scene among the founders of Poo-Bah Information and an associate from the Brainfeeder Information clique, Ras G’s innovative beatmaking falls in to the same stony, psychedelic design of instrumental hip-hop as fellow L.A. DJ/companies Madlib and Traveling Lotus. After launching six EPs and four …

Irish quintet the Rapport sport a rougher edge compared to the even more manicured likes from the Arctic Monkeys or Kaiser Chiefs, but in mind, their music is usually an identical updating of ’90s Brit-pop blended with dashes of fresh wave expensive and garage rock aggression. The Rapport are located …

Named following the Latin term for the black colored desert scorpion, Acrassicauda was founded by Faisal Talal (vocals, guitar), Tony Aziz (guitar), Firas Al-Lateef (bass), Waleed Moudhafar (vocals), and Marwan Riyak (drums) in Baghdad in 2001. Motivated by Metallica, Slayer, and Slipknot, and tutored by regional guitarist Saad State (who …

Hailing from Middletown, NY, My Bitter End surfaced through the remnants of a youthful music group named ForOrdained, and documented their first record, A Thin Range Between Heaven and Here, for discharge through Internal Strength Details, in 2004. The bandmembers weren’t as well pleased with the relatively muddled, indistinctive metalcore …

Canadian duo Wealthy Oddie and Christina Sealey began Orphx in the first ’90s, releasing some experimental noise and commercial cassettes. Their 1st Compact disc launch was Fragmentation on American label Malignant Information in 1996, and by the finish from the ’90s, their audio got shifted in a far more techno-leaning …

An improvisational sound band from Britain, Actions Defeat tour heavily and produced their album debut in 2007. Inspired by early Sonic Youngsters and Glenn Branca in musical conditions and Dark Flag and Fugazi in ideological conditions, the music group was founded in 2004 in Bletchley, Britain, by Don Mclean and …

A shape-shifting and sonically challenging sound rock device from Norway, Årabrot’s incendiary mixture of avant-garde dark metal, experimental rock and roll, post-punk, and doom/sludge steel invokes brands as diverse as Big Dark, the Melvins, Beliefs FORGET ABOUT, Swans, as well as the Birthday Party. Produced in 2001 and called after …

Produced in 2007, Seattle, Washington’s Helms Alee meld jangly shoegaze with sludge to make a hybrid sound almost all their very own. Featuring the abilities of previous Harkonen bassist Ben Verellen on electric guitar aswell as bassist Dana Adam and drummer Hozoji Margullis, the music group’s loose, melodic sludge concurrently …