Oxide Tones has another Post Rock treat for you all. Monsters Build Mean Robots are one of the brights starts on the UK scene and are releasing a 5 track album as a CD.

Adding vocals to an "indie-like" Post Rock blend, fans and friends of eaststrikewest will love this release.
 

These are the forthcoming releases on Pelagic Records

THE SHAKING SENSATIONS "Start Stop Worrying" CD/LP

Start Stop Worrying is the second full-length album by the Danish instrumental rock group The Shaking Sensations. Three years after the release of an EP entitled This Is Your Hellfire Religion, and 2 years after the release of critically acclaimed debut album East of Youth, the band now delivers their most mature output to date with their 2nd album, Start Stop Worrying.

During 4 extensive European tours in the past 2 years, the band has shared stage with acts such as Caspian, Black Math Horseman, And So I Watched You From Afar, Gifts From Enola and Russian Circles.

The Shaking Sensations have expanded the classic rock constellation by addition of a second drummer, allowing the band to develop a unique approach to the rhythm section and a fresh and unconventional take on instrumental rock music. Start Stop Worrying showcases the courage of a young band to explore new approaches to music and sound, which clearly sets them apart from many of their peers within an over- saturated genre of music.

On their second album, the band have gone for a more straight-forward approach to sound, as well as songwriting. Start Stop Worrying is more upbeat, more aggressive and somehow less naïve sounding than previous efforts, whilst maintaining its melancholic essence and emotional depth.

The band originated almost 10 years ago in the windy outskirts of Denmark, and after different personal constellations and exploration of different musical territories, the current five-piece line up emerged. By touring relentlessly, the band - brothers by heart, only two of them by blood – has developed into an intense live act.

Start Stop Worrying was recorded live in Copenhagen Studios, downtown Copenhagen, in late September 2012, then mixed and produced by Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Russian Circles, Caspian) in Seattle. Matt's personal appreciation and involvement with the tracks he was mixing has resulted in him laying down additional synths and piano parts on the compositions, adding new layers and depth to the album. The record has been mastered by danish Emil Thomsen (Efterklang, Slaraffenland). The artwork will consist of handcrafted illustrations by Danish artist Dorthe Naomi, which will be cut in linoleum and then silk-screen printed for the vinyl version of the album.

The Shaking Sensations are the next band to follow in the footsteps of great Danish independent music culture, incarnated by bands such as Efterklang, Slaraffenland and Lis Er Stille.

Release date: March 22, 2013
Website: www.shakingsensations.com

KRUGER "333" 10" Vinyl EP

Kruger. Humble in triumph since 2001.

When a band is more than a decade of age, the tradition is to give numbers instead of writing down epic poetry on their music, right?

Well, regarding Kruger, here we go : 12 years of existence ; 4 albums ; around 350 shows throughout Europe ; probably 50'000 km touring between Prague and Sheffield (if you don't count Canada) ; 1 tour overseas (if you do count Canada) ; 3 Hellfests, 1 Roadburn, 1 Montreux Jazz, 1 Transmusicales, 1 Dour festival, 1 Paléo, 1 Brutal Assault ; live audiences ranging from a minimum of 2 people (still working on breaking that record) to a maximum of 2'500 (working on that one too).

If we had to give names, it'd be Listenable Records, Roadburn Records and Pelagic for labels ; Unsane, Gojira, Knut, Year of No Light, Latitudes, Deftones, Hacride, Bossk (find the intruder) when it comes to stage mates ; Breach, Entombed, Neurosis or Tool as acknowledged influences. And Raph, Margo, Blaise, Reno and (newly) Raul as the names of the five Swiss dudes still delivering uncompromising, intense, inventive yet shellacking noise-metal-punk songs.

After a few months spent to raise the kids, earn real money, find a reliable second guitar guy and write new music, KRUGER are back with new material : a gorgeous very-limited-handnumbered-collector-coloured 10'' vinyl containing two brand new songs, along with a new video clip.

Two songs only, kidding me ? Nope. Swiss quality, not quantity – and this should be enough to put the Lausanne-based noisemongers back in the post-metal panorama they contributed to shape. Shows are planned through Europe in the spring of 2013, including an appearance at PELAGIC FEST in Berlin on May 10th...

Release date: April, 2013
Website: www.kruger.ch
 

Lo! "Monstrorum Historia" CD/LP

After their critically acclaimed debut album Look and Behold (Pelagic Records 2011), Lo!, hailing from Sydney, Australia, are now back with their second album Monstrorum Historia... and it really is a monster of an album, an angry beast spitting nails and fire in every direction. One of the refreshing things about this band is the way they weave different styles of music into their own, heavy garment: there are plenty of faster parts, relentlessly driven by heavy-hitting drummer Adrian Griffin's extraordinary playing, but there are also slow, doomy, atmospheric passages that suck the listener into Lo!'s dark cosmos. There are anthemic metal riffs, but there is also the energy of the more abrasive side of hardcore in their songs, represented by bands like Cursed or Black Breath...

“Lo! have come to remind you of glorious times, times when Mastodon were using samples of Jurassic Park to kick off their records”, Metal Hammer (UK) wrote about Look and Behold, and Big Cheese added: “this gang of Australian brawlers sound like Beecher and Converge going at it in a cage match... sludgy hardcore hasn't sounded this good in ages!”

Good things are lined up at the band's horizon: after a very active year 2012 in Australia, including shows with Russian Circles, Doomriders, Eye Hate God, Burning Love and The Ocean, Lo! are finally coming over to Europe this spring – to support Cult of Luna and The Ocean on their upcoming tour. Lo! have also been confirmed for a performance at Roadburn and Impetus Festivals in April. Make sure to check them out live, as they are truly a sight to behold on stage!
The monochrome artwork perfectly represents the spirit of Monstrorum Historia. It comes in a nice CD digipak printed with mat finish on rough cardboard; and on vinyl with a 2-folded silk-screened print including silver colour and heavy 180 gram black vinyl.

Release date: April 19, 2013
THE OLD WIND "Feast On Your Gone" CD/LP

From the darkest parts of Northern Sweden, THE OLD WIND blows... raw and cold, just like its origin and heritage. This constellation of 5 is a new project incepted, after years of absence from the live-scene, by Tomas Liljedahl, former vocalist of the legendary BREACH, who must be counted as one of the most visionary and influential bands of the past 2 decades - a band without whom none of all these newer sub-genres of heavy music that have the word ?post“ in them, would exist.

Tomas wrote and recorded every instrument on Feast On Your Gone all by himself: ?TOW started growing in my mind when I was in need of theraphy. I´ve had a couple of really dark years, and I needed to project the hard times through something... and I found that writing words and music were the best way to get these demons out of my system“, comments Liljedahl.

Originally incepted as a studio project, Liljedahl soon realized that these rough, abrasive songs needed to be performed live, with a real band. And so he teamed up with his former BREACH band mates Niklas Quintana (guitar) and Kristian Andersson (bass guitar), added drummer Karl Daniel Liden to the lineup and asked Robin Staps of Pelagic Records & The Ocean to join on 3rd guitar. ?BREACH was probably THE one most important band for me ever, period. So when Tomas asked me to join his new band, I felt honored of course. The prospect of playing some shows with these guys in the future is very exciting, to say the least“, comments Staps.

Make no mistake about it, Feast On Your Gone is a vile, cold, ugly record. ?Lyrically, the album embraces deep and dark primal thoughts and emotions that i have and feel, like hate, possession, addiction, grief, makeing amends with myself... and those thoughts and feelings create images, and these images forge words and sounds“, says Liljedahl.

This album is the first sign of life of a band which consists of old veterans of the European heavy music scene – still, a juvenile band that has not yet played a single live show! “Rehearsals are scheduled for May 2013, and everyone of us is really pumped to get this going”, says Liljedahl.

Feast On Your Gone will be released on both CD (digipak) and vinyl formats. The vinyl version comes on clear vinyl and with hand silk-screened cover art; printed on thick 650 gram cardboard that is as rough as the music.

Release date: April 26, 2013
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Theoldwind
 

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Available now is the brand new video for Sweden's dark electro industrial act Cynical Existence. "I'm Broken" was produced by Ronnell Elkins and David S. Foulk for Arris Productions.

The track was taken from Cynical Existence's debut album "Come out and play" which is out now on CD and 2CD via Alfa Matrix or as download via iTunes, Amazon MP3, Spotify etc.

Karsten Hamre returns in 2013 with the release of "Through Alien Eyes".

Introduction from the artist:

With the publication of Volume I of Through Alien Eyes we can finally say that the project has been fully launched, but even though this has now been released it does not mean that the concept for this work will not be continued, on the contrary. “Through Alien Eyes” will continue with future volumes which could cover a specific town, region, country or continent, and as with “Volume I” the aim is to have the project include music, visuals, photo exhibitions and live performances. The photos in this volume was shot in various locations across Europe, and the audio part associated with this publication is sort of an audio documentation of the impressions I’ve had in these places, and the music is inspired by what you can hear around you, though not meant as an exact documentation of what I heard at certain times but merely as a source of inspiration.

My aim has never been to photograph the most known sites in the places I have been to as I have always been more interested in wandering about and photographing things I happen to “stumble” upon, things that may be hidden to some as they are not seen instantly. This is also why I chose the title “Through Alien Eyes”, as I have been the alien in these places. I have been the explorer, and this is your chance to participate in the journey I have taken so far.

Not everyone can see the beauty which walks alone in the dark, a beauty that is both attractive and fascinating in a thousand different ways. To some this is what beauty itself is all about, a beauty filled with a sense of deeper meaning, and although the imagery within these pages has a darker nature they all hold a certain beauty, at least to me.

Beauty can be seen as well as experienced, in the changes of autumn, when the leaves slowly change colour and fall from the branches. Nature holds many beauties, but beauty can also be harsh and in that way it often manifests itself through sorrow, grief, depression and pain.

To me Art is the only and the true way to express the deepness of the emotions I carry inside. Art is a struggle to penetrate as deep as possible into ones soul, and when performing your chosen form of Art you have to work hard to transform your emotions into an everlasting vision, which reflects the true atmosphere of you, your soul and your own personality.

(Karsten Hamre)

Karsten crafts desolate dark ambient sound structures, ornamented by sampled sounds and experimental textures. The end result of this process is an experience categorized perhaps too simply as dark ambient,
though it more closely resembles a dark soundtrack to a movie, or to a life - as seen through alien eyes.
"Through Alien Eyes" is presented in a DVD case accompanied by a A5 soft cover book of 128 pages.

The double CD consist of a total of 20 songs, with a total playing time of 2:03:36

The tracklist is as follows:

Disc One:
1. Beyond The Night
2. A Silent Dream
3. The Hollow Nothing
4. An Empty Image of The World
5. Exploration of the Aftermath
6. Through Time and Space
7. Downwards Alone
8. Forgotten Realm
9. The Other World
10. Ode To An End

Disc Two:
1. Enter Inside
2. Veiled in Stillness
3. A World Reborn
4. A Sense of Wonder
5. Sleepless Days
6. The Imitation of Life
7. Gently Sing and Weep
8. In Remarkable Chambers
9. Uniting Past and Present
10. Darkness Envisioned

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EE Tapes are proud to present the CD reissue of this The 35th Human Attempt, the classic limited LP published in 1985 on Insane Music (Belgium)!

Human Flesh is centered around the person of Alain Neffe (Pseudo Code, Subject, BeNe GeSSeRiT, Cortex, I Scream,....).

Soulwise it's his most intimate musical project dealing with many demons and ghosts. It's all about "emotions", performed solo or assisted by a bunch of international artists, such as Deborah Jaffe, Nadine Bal, Mirella Brunello, Xavier S, Daniel Malempré, Guy De Bièvre, Merzbow, Rob Smit, etc.

11 tracks taken from hard-to-find 80s vinyl compilations were added here as a bonus, making this CD release (+79 minutes) the best treat possible!

First 100 copies come with 2 colour photographs documenting the vinyl compilations.

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