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I first heard this band as the soundtrack to a video about a paper character and Escher like optical illusions by Eugen Erhan. The featured song is the most memorable part of the video – atmospheric, melodic and quite hypnotic and at the same time sharp and experimental.
The singer has a trace of an [...]

Be warned – this is a screamo band and you won’t want to miss their overwhelming sound if you are into serious rock.
“Forgiven Rival” lack the hair but they have the moves, head banging and guitar slamming. They are a bunch of local lads from Melbourne. They’ve been playing together since late 2004 or early [...]

Jools is currently hard at work on another project so I get to do today’s piece. And we are going to talk about guitars and a guitarist by the name of Rhys Chatham and the recently re-released “Guitar Trio“.
It comes in at around eight minutes long, and helped to establish Chatham’s manifesto of [...]

Artist: Rodrigo y Gabriela
Website: http://www.myspace.com/rodrigoygabriela or www.rodgab.com/index.html
Track Name: Orion (or Tamacun or just about anything really)
Playback: flash
Download?: No

Sometimes it takes awhile but eventually the gods (and Google) smile on you. About 18 months back I heard an amazing guitar tune coming from the radio one morning and by the time I woke up enough to [...]

Artist: Powers That Be
Website:www.powersthatbe.net/
Track Name: Storybook
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes

PTB are an indie band, three of the members are from the western suburbs of Melbourne, working their metal magic on the live music scene (such as it is) for over 10 years.
The lead vocalist Ivan Duzel is a talented bloke not content to merely prowl the [...]

Artist: Mutiny
Website: www.myspace.com/mutinynj
Track Name: Breaking Bach
Playback: flash
Download?: YES
It’s Monday and there is nothing to set the whole tone for the week than some hi speed death metal.
Well it works for me.
Mutiny are another bunch of twenty somethings who can play, there is no doubt about it, they have the technical goodies [...]

Artist: Imperanon
Website: http://www.imperanon.com/
Track Name: Corroded
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: Yes
Crunchy guitars time, and the only thing better than crunchy guitars is… crunchy guitars with BIG amps. Hand’s up everyone who guessed that it was “Metal” day. Well done, after a couple of days of “sensitive singer songwriters” I felt it was time for a bit of earbleeding. [...]