David Galas – The Happiest Days Of My LifeLabel: Twilight Records– TW 1.102Format: CD, AlbumCountry: USReleased: 10 Oct 2012Style: Alternative Rock, Heavy Metal, Avantgarde, Drone, Ambient “The Happiest Days of My Life” is the follow up release to David Galas’s previous album “The Cataclysm” (2006 – Vendlus Records). This new album explores the personal decline of mankind and plunges the listener into dark chasms of desperation. The music borders between dark progressive rock to dark-wave and gothic genres. His use of multi-layered guitars, harmonized vocals and a heavy wall of sound is a well recognizable trademark from his previous band «Lycia». Most of the songs are in a minor key,…
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David Galas – The Ghosts Of California
David Galas – The Ghosts Of CaliforniaLabel: Twilight RecordsCountry: USReleased: 2011Style: Alternative Rock, Field Recording, Ambient, Avantgarde, Drone, Ethereal, Heavy Metal, Experimental “The Ghosts Of California” is the so far latest album by David Galas. He continues to follow his unique style of dark-rock as the album focuses on the decline of America in a broken post-apocalyptic world of dust and abandoned cities. On this third opus, David employs more acoustic and standard song writing while integrating his heavy production known throughout his previous two albums. Layered guitars and harmonized vocals are trademark again on this album. You can hear influences from his previous band LYCIA. The album features 13…
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Pylar – La Gran Obra
Pylar – La Gran ObraLabel: Sunneurosis RecordsFormat: CD, Album Limited to 250 copiesCountry: SpainReleased: 2016Style: Experimental, Avantgarde, Doom Metal After the successful second album, PYLAR collective returns with a new release: La Gran Obra. This CD is limited to 250 copies (a number that touches upon the threshold of madness) and is inspired by Alchemy.In the same way as the alchemical process, La Gran Obra is divided into three parts: Nigredo, Albedo and Rubedo. Throughout this piece, the enigmatic heresiarchs manage to manipulate the lost language of colour and the complex esoteric symbolism of ancient science, dropping clues to the follower and allowing them to walk down the path of…
