Crushing a little god in my hands

 

(Swans is a band from New York City, New York, United States, active from 1982 to 1997, reformed in 2010, founded & led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. 

Marginally associated with the no wave scene at first, their original sound was slow and extremely heavy, with live performances that were often so brutal and physical that in a number of instances certain audience members were made ill, police were called and venues were shut down. This early physical sound is possibly best heard on the live album Public Castration Is a Good Idea.

Their initial style shifted a little by the time Swans released seminal twin albums Greed and Holy Money. The music had sped up, at times being even more punishing than their earlier output. Drum machines and samples were slightly more prominent. Michael Gira was joined vocally by Jarboe which gave the band a broader sonic range. Tracks featuring Jarboe were often quieter, even pretty, acting as counterpoint to the more harrowing themes on the albums. Over time, this style would come to dominate the Swans’ output, although they somehow seem to have been able to make a strummed acoustic guitar seem as brutal as their earlier amped-up assaults. The lush instrumentation of their albums from the late 1980s and the 1990’s anticipated the birth of post-rock).

 

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Hearing the chants of lightnings

(Radar Men From The Moon is a three-piece instrumental rock band from Eindhoven, Netherlands, with Glenn Peeters (guitar and sonic attack), Jan-Titus Verkuijlen (bass and shivers), and Tony Lathouwers (drums and audio generator). Their sounds are taking different genres in to account such as; shoegaze, neo-psych, kraut, space and noise rock, they take off in an interstellar exploration of new sounds).

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Ecouter le message du diable

(Gaë Bolg is the brand name for the bombastic, martial, and uniquely mediaeval sounds from the forge of French musician Eric Roger, also known as Sol Invictus' former trumpeter. Hymn-like and martial, the music of Gaë Bolg tells us about battles, binges, and heroic deeds in the Middle Ages).

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Painting the last breath

(The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble is a dutch dark-jazz mutant mix of musical and visual inspiration. TKDE started off as an audiovisual project back in 2000, influenced by old silent movie directors such as Murnau and Lang, but also the animations of Jan Svankmeijer or the films of the Quay Brothers. Jason Köhnen and Gideon Kiers, started creating soundtracks to old silent movies (Nosferatu, Metropolis) and progressively composed new music inspired by these images which eventually became TKDE. Trombone player Hilary Jeffery (originally from the UK, residing in Amsterdam) joined in 2004 and introduced Swiss born Nina Hitz).

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A marriage in death

(Wind Atlas was formed in Barcelona, Spain, in 2012 by Sergi Algiz and Andrea P. Latorre; this band fuses post-punk with world music sounds paralleling the explorations of Dead Can Dance, with hints of early 90’s  Ethereal Gothic Rock like The Shroud, mixed with Post-Industrial and Neo-folk sounds).

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Hatred is born of deformity

(Maschinenzimmer 412 (currently known as Mz.412) are the inventors of the so called "black industrial", a dark and haunting music which mixes industrial noise, ritual ambient and black metal atmospheres. The mastermind behind the project is Henrik Nordvargr Björkk, aided by different people with each release).

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Pleurs inconsolables dans la forêt maudite

(Seven Pines is an experimental/avant garde/neofolk french band from Brittany, and is a side-project of Eric Rogers, leader and former of  medieval/neofolk band Gaë Bolg).

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Blood linked army

(Boasting the unique personality of this Swedish combo, Arditi's music taps into the darker tones of Militaristic Neo-Classical ambiance that has become the band's trademark. Ever effective in their use of crushing orchestrations and evocative speeches, the band hereby drags the listener around muddy trenches, and casts a hypnotizing veil over the turmoil of warfare-inspired Industrial soundscapes. Spearheaded by Henry Möller and Marten Björkman, Arditi first came to light in 1997, inspired by the Italian Futurist Movement of the early 20th century).

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Giving name to the unknown

(The Young Gods is a swiss industrial rock band. Formed in 1985, The Young Gods took their name from one of Swans' early EPs. They are notable for their distinctive sound, in which a sampler is utilized to create the sound of electric guitar and bass guitars, whilst retaining a live drummer and vocalist). 

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Rolling over broken universe

(None is an experimental/coldwave/darkwave/post-punk solo project of Berlin based german musician Anna Nin).

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Runder og returer i dårlige tider

(Splashgirl are three norwegian musicians Andreas Stensland Løwe, Jo Berger Myhre and Andreas Lønmo Knudsrød, playing their own one-of-a-kind music inspired by any number of musical genres, mainly involved in contemporary dark jazz scene).

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Red sun on eyes

(Ensemble Economique is an american experimental/drone/abstract project from Manila, UT, leaded by musician and mastering/mixing engineer Brian Pyle).

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Détester à l'air libre

(The Young Gods is a swiss industrial rock band. Formed in 1985, The Young Gods took their name from one of Swans' early EPs. They are notable for their distinctive sound, in which a sampler is utilized to create the sound of electric guitar and bass guitars, whilst retaining a live drummer and vocalist). 

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Floating in a ocean of sadness

(Mamaleek is a black/experimental/tribal band from San Francisco, CA, formed by two anonymous brothers recording in San Francisco and Beirut. Mamaleek repeatedly creates some of the most intriguing, aesthetically-realized Black Metal anywhere).

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Filling the void in noise

(A Place To Bury Strangers is a three piece New York based noise rock/shoegaze band, formed by Dion Palmer, Lia Braswell and Oliver Ackermann, who is also famous for his manufacturing of infamous guitar noise pedals used by Lightning Bolt, Serena Maneesh, Wilco, Spoon and TV on the Radio, among others).

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Old building mysteries

(Dead Sea Apes is an instrumental/post rock/psychedelic group from Manchester, UK. Formed in 2009, blending desert rock, drone, garage rock, krautrock, post-rock, western soundtracks and psychedelia).

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A worker's death song

(The Janitors is a swedish psychedelic/space/shoegaze/postrock band formed in 2004 by two peddlers of heavy drones and fuzzed nightmares, J. Eriksson (vocals, guitars, organs, drums & percussion) and H. Herlenius (guitars, drones, organs and bass)).

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Volo sopra un inverno paradisiaco

(Heroin In Tahiti is a dark jazz/death surf duo from Rome, Italy, composed of Valerio Mattioli and Francesco de Figuereido).

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Прогуливаясь по холодным улицам вечной зимы

(Povarovo is a russian dark jazz band; influenced by acts like Bohren & der Club Of Gore and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble the anonymous russian group Povarovo mixed ideas of existing darker jazz acts with neoclassical elements and the melancholia of traditional russian music to a new level of intensity).

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A manifest to declare my desire to die

(Wreck And Reference is an american experimental/doom/noise/black band from Sacramento, California, founded by composer and musician Felix Skinner).

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Rituálék a tündérek meghívására

(The Moon And The Nightspirit is a pagan-folk band from Hungary, brought to life in 2003 by Ágnes Tóth (vocals, violin, dulcimer, harp, keyboards, percussions) and Mihály Szabó (acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, kalimba, dulcimer, vocals). The Moon and the Nightspirit invites the listener into the moss-grown heart of the forest, into the emerald world of ageless, sylvan realms, weaving a web where threads of ancient mysticism combine with dreamy atmospheres, where World Music acquires a bewitching pagan aura).

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The dawn of ancient forces

(Dawn & Dusk Entwined is a  french Neoclassical/Dark Ambient band leaded by David Sabre; heavily atmospheric and dynamic soundscapes, mixing cinematic dark ambience with forceful, at times martial rhythms, neo-folk nuances and strong orchestrations).

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Piercing deep within the philosopher's stone

(Vortex is a german dark ambient/ritual leaded by musician, film-maker and modern aural shaman Marcus Stiglegger).

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Rêver dans le jardin éternel

(Seven Pines is a french band from Brittany, and is a side-project of Eric Rogers, leader and former of  medieval/neofolk band Gaë Bolg).

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Dancing the dark waltz

(E.E. Engström & The Twin Street Tree Trunk Love Ensemble is a Dark Jazz band from Gothenburg, Sweden).

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Creepy midnight rain

(None is an experimental/coldwave/darkwave/post-punk solo project of Berlin based german musician Anna Nin).

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Langt hljóð kemur frá frystum jörðu

(Hildur Guðnadóttir (b. 1982) is an Icelandic cellist and composer. A prolific indie artist, she is known for her numerous live and studio collaborations with Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, múm, Ben Frost, Ilpo Väisänen's Angel, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Animal Collective, Sunn O))), Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Hauschka, the duo of BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa, The Knife, and many others.
 

Guðnadóttir is also a vocal performer, and once she arranged a choir for Throbbing Gristle performances in Austria and UK. As a composer, she wrote a score for the play Sumardagur performed at Iceland's National Theatre, as well as the Danish film Kapringen).

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Stregoneria nei tempi moderni

(Corpoparassita is an industrial/experimental/ambient band based in Alessandria (north west of Italy), formed in 2001 by Diego (sampling, effects, wires, vocals), Guido (sampling, effects, diy instruments) and Mehmet (laptop, effects) as Haselwurm).

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Bewitched by twisted horizons

(The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble is a dutch dark-jazz mutant mix of musical and visual inspiration. TKDE started off as an audiovisual project back in 2000, influenced by old silent movie directors such as Murnau and Lang, but also the animations of Jan Svankmeijer or the films of the Quay Brothers. Jason Köhnen and Gideon Kiers, started creating soundtracks to old silent movies (Nosferatu, Metropolis) and progressively composed new music inspired by these images which eventually became TKDE. Trombone player Hilary Jeffery (originally from the UK, residing in Amsterdam) joined in 2004 and introduced Swiss born Nina Hitz).

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Trapped in a resonance chamber

(Alberich is a solo industrial/power electronic/noise project of Kris Lapke (Bronze Age, Furisubi,  Louder Than Life)).

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A place where everyday is the same

(Aerial Love Feed is a shoegaze/alternative/synthpop band from Brooklyn, United States leaded by singer/producer Wade Settle)

 

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Songs for the black sheeps

(The Janitors is a swedish psychedelic/space/shoegaze/postrock band formed in 2004 by two peddlers of heavy drones and fuzzed nightmares, J. Eriksson (vocals, guitars, organs, drums & percussion) and H. Herlenius (guitars, drones, organs and bass)).

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Suffering under warm waves

(At the beginning of 2016, german Frankfurt based musicians Denis Wanic and Lucia Seiss joined forces with their band project SUIR. The result is a mixture of shoegaze, coldwave, darkwave and post-punk that perfectly meets today's zeitgeist but still remains independent enough to create its own unique sound. The music is expanded by a visual program which is strongly influenced by the origin of the two from the fields of art history and philosophy and builts a filigree and gloomy overall concept). 

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I am the true bringer of truth

(Dead Sea Apes is an instrumental/post rock/psychedelic group from Manchester, UK. Formed in 2009, blending desert rock, drone, garage rock, krautrock, post-rock, western soundtracks and psychedelia; Black Tempest is an english drone/ambient experimental solo project of Stephen Bradbury).

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Rhymes of unmemorable times

(King Dude is an experimental/neofolk band from Seattle, Washington, leaded by Thomas Jefferson Cowgill. (Dolch) is a doom/black metal band from Germany, with pounding drums and droning ambience often set the backdrop for vocals that flutter between tragically human and densely ethereal, always maintaining just enough presence in the greyscale universe in which the band and its music reside).

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Das Beste von mir zu bestreiten

(Turbund Sturmwerk is a german experimental/industrial group formed in Nürnberg in 1992 by Manfred Lenz).

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Jumping on gray fire

(Goth-Trad is a japanese band created and leaded by Takeaki Maruyama, generating sounds from abstract electronica to noise, from dub and reggae to jungle and rave music, until grime to dubstep, Goth-Trad has always experimented and in the process developed his own unique style: blending influences and delivering music that is constantly evolving. JK Flesh is an industrial/noise project/alias of Justin Broadrick of Godflesh, Final and Jesu).

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Chaos in dark moth caves

(None is an experimental/coldwave/darkwave/post-punk solo project of Berlin based german musician Anna Nin).

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L'éveil vers l'univers des opiacés

(Café de l'Enfer is one of the most promising new projects under the unconquerable sun of pure Martial/ Neoclassical music. Although the band is now located in Austria, their roots are manifested in the early 20th century of French underground society.
 

Their music amazingly reflects the age of pre-Industrialisation and pure decadence, best to compare with Derniére Volonté, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, Elend and a slight touch of Les Joyaux de la Princesse).

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Activating violent artifacts

(Hjärnkultur is an industrial/noise duo formed by C. Engvall and V. Eriksson, hailing from Stockholm, Sweden).

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A song for a dying sun

(Swans is a band from New York City, New York, United States, active from 1982 to 1997, reformed in 2010, founded & led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira.

Marginally associated with the no wave scene at first, their original sound was slow and extremely heavy, with live performances that were often so brutal and physical that in a number of instances certain audience members were made ill, police were called and venues were shut down. This early physical sound is possibly best heard on the live album Public Castration Is a Good Idea. 

Their initial style shifted a little by the time Swans released seminal twin albums Greed and Holy Money. The music had sped up, at times being even more punishing than their earlier output. Drum machines and samples were slightly more prominent. Michael Gira was joined vocally by Jarboe which gave the band a broader sonic range. Tracks featuring Jarboe were often quieter, even pretty, acting as counterpoint to the more harrowing themes on the albums. Over time, this style would come to dominate the Swans’ output, although they somehow seem to have been able to make a strummed acoustic guitar seem as brutal as their earlier amped-up assaults. The lush instrumentation of their albums from the late 1980s and the 1990’s anticipated the birth of post-rock. 

Swans eventually broke up in 1997; Gira went on to release some solo work, later forming the band The Angels of Light, who continue many of the themes and styles found in (later) Swans. Jarboe releases solo work and frequently works with other bands and artists; recently she released an album with Neurosis, a group clearly heavily influenced by Swans. 

The influence of Swans upon the music world is profound. Across their 15 years of existence, the various styles they explored gave birth to grindcore (Napalm Death, Nasum) modern "cinematic" post-rock (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mono), and atmospheric sludge metal (Isis, Neurosis)).

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Eight reasons to hurt me

(Bleib Modern is a dark Post-Punk / Cold Wave band based in Berlin & Munich. Their music could be categorized as Cold Wave, Post-Punk and Shoegaze, but also Noise/Psychedelic Rock).

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Alive into white spheres

(At the beginning of 2016, german Frankfurt based musicians Denis Wanic and Lucia Seiss joined forces with their band project SUIR. The result is a mixture of shoegaze, coldwave, darkwave and post-punk that perfectly meets today's zeitgeist but still remains independent enough to create its own unique sound. The music is expanded by a visual program which is strongly influenced by the origin of the two from the fields of art history and philosophy and builts a filigree and gloomy overall concept).

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L'éternel sommeil du faune

(Alcest is a French band created by Neige (Amesoeurs, Peste Noire, Forgotten Woods) in early 2000. He began writing songs on his own but a few months afterwards Argoth (bass) and Famine from Peste Noire (lead guitar) joined him and his solo project became a real band. Starting out playing raw black metal, after the release of the first demo "Tristesse Hivernale", Alcest soon evolved into metal with strong post-rock and shoegaze influences, changing direction and concept in order to explore more intimate themes).

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Entering the heliopause zone

(Dead Sea Apes is an instrumental/post rock/psychedelic group from Manchester, UK. Formed in 2009, blending desert rock, drone, garage rock, krautrock, post-rock, western soundtracks and psychedelia; Black Tempest is an english drone/ambient experimental solo project of Stephen Bradbury).

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No channel response

(Alcian Blue was a shoegaze and new wave-influenced band operating out of the Washington, DC suburb of Takoma Park from 1998 to 2006, formed by Sam Chintha, Jake Reid, Matt Welch and Kim Reid. They were known for their extremely loud wall of sound live aesthetic coupled with the use of disorienting video projections).

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Innocent flesh to be served

(Dionysian Rituals is a Bristol based english one man dark ambient/industrial project leaded by Jay Coen; this project explores sonic pathways within depths of a noisy, industrial realm of black ambience & techno-horror).

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Absoluuttisen tyhjiön geometrian selvittäminen

(Arktau Eos are a Finnish ritual/dark ambient duo formed in 2005, comprised of Anti Haapapuro and Antti Litmanen).

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Grave of dissapeared bodies

(Adai is an american duo from Denver formed by Devin Mendozza and Justin Trujillo, playing a blend of post-rock and doom metal in a experimental way).

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Seeking in agony

(None is an experimental/coldwave/darkwave/post-punk solo project of Berlin based german musician Anna Nin).

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