DEEP - In Silence Somber Solace (2010) (Demo)

Genre: Depressive Black Metal/Instrumental/Groove Metal
About: You really don't know what to expect from a band you never heard of randomly linked in the CBox. After fixing some id3 tags (ugh - was missing artist, album, track numbers, and had the wrong year!), I commenced the listening.

Track 1 is an ambient piano intro that definitely grabbed my attention, so it serves its purpose.
The rest of the album kind of has a groove metal feeling (in my opinion), but the guitars are very raw like black metal which I like. The melodies are that of depressive black metal styles (but definitely not Funeral Black Metal, as the band self-proclaims). The fact that the genre of this music is hard to pinpoint is always a good thing in my book. Nice melodies and a nice beat/groove that keeps you interested. I have listened to plenty of Depressive Black Metal and this is a very unique beat. My only complaint is the drums sound overly fake. So overall, I have to highly recommend this.

Here is the text file that was included with the album:

"-DEEP is a Malaysian Depressive/Funeral Black Metal Band.
Active since 2006 under a different banner until the change
of moniker in October 2009. Playing Depressive, melancholic
and sorrowful Funeral Black Metal, all instruments and
orchestrations were played and arranged by Deep.

-For more information on DEEP please
visit www.myspace.com/indeeprest

-To purchase DEEP's debut album In Silence Somber Solace
visit www.myspace.com/carnagemusic666

-We need interested distributors/labels to distribute the debut album
please do not hesitate to contact Carnage Music for more
information.

-Please promote this demo on your website or blog
if you like the songs on this demo.

-Any additional details please email DEEP at
benignism@yahoo.com"


By the way, I have a suggestion to the band... "deep" is a very common name. There are at least 7 bands named that, one of which is disbanded but also metal (Death metal from texas, USA). I recommend a name change, and after changing the name, distribute a physical CD demo so you can submit yourself to metal-archives.com, because a metal band basically does not exist if they are not on there. But then again I'm not part of the band so I can't control it, just suggestions.

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Francis Monkman - The Long Good Friday (1981)

Genre: See below.
About: This is just such a great combination of 80's cheesy pop/rock and electronic, and 70's style disco beats and psychedelic rock, and of course orchestral film score, and even some jazz saxophone. Track 8 is completely acoustic guitar interludes used in the movie, and the climax is in the latter part of track 10 and 11, coming back to the theme. I can't really put in words how interesting this score is, it's probably my favorite film score I have ever heard. This interesting combination is probably due to the fact that Monkman was previously in a 70's rock band called Curved Air (I just found this out... if that band is as good as this soundtrack you may see it on this blog at a later date). And I always say that the more hard it is to categorize a piece of music, the better it is since that means they really have made something unique and new.

I usually cannot listen to a score without the movie alongside but this one is just so great. It made an already awesome movie just so much better. Plus Bob Hoskins is one of my favorite actors... He even sings on track 7!

And SEE THE MOVIE if you haven't!!

>Mediafire Download (temporarily on 4shared because Mediafire was down for maintenence and now is having issues D: )

Burnout 2: Point of Impact Unofficial Sound track (2002) - Criterion Games

Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Instrumental
About: If you're a fan of these genres of music, or if you've played any games in the Burnout series (specifically the first two), you will love this. I ripped these myself since this was never officially released. My favorite song, and track, is Big Surf Shores. My favorite car is Custom Roadster. I think my best score on that track was 350 million or so. Try and beat it! (It's very possible, but difficult)

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Jean-Michel Jarre - Sessions 2000

Genre: (Ambient), (Electronic), (electronica), (Instrumental), (new age)
About: SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII did i forget to post today FCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK well here we go whatever im listening to on shuffle right now. then two another day to make up for missing these 2 days. Ok well i love this so you should download it too.

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(Edit 07/2009- lol 0 downloads. Lets just say i wrote this on a bad day. But it really is a good album.)

Pelican - After The Ceiling Cracked

Genre: Progressive Metal, Instrumental, Sludge, Post-Rock, Live
About: This is one of those bands that doesn't fit into just one category. Very original, very unique, and I just bought tickets to see them in 3 weeks so I thought I'd post this live album from 2008. It's a DVD but someone ripped the audio I guess. Note: Recording is quiet. Easily fixed by right clicking the song in itunes, get info, options, volume adjustment.

Year: 2008
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