Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon

Monday, new week, time for us to present "Record Of The Week".

The Poughkeepsie, New Yorkers GENGHIS TRON make their return with their highly anticipated new album, "Dream Weapon". The band’s first new studio outing in over a decade, GENGHIS TRON's Hamilton Jordan and Michael Sochynsky are now joined by two new collaborators: vocalist Tony Wolski and SUMAC/BAPTISTS drummer Nick Yacyshyn. Together, the lineup perfects the unique mix of extreme rock and electronic music GENGHIS TRON has pioneered over their storied career. A melding of hypnotic rhythms and densely layered synth soundscapes, "Dream Weapon" was recorded and produced alongside long-time collaborator Kurt Ballou at God City Studio in Salem, Massachusetts, with additional production and engineering by Ben Chisolm (Chelsea Wolfe) and JJ Heath (RAIN CITY RECORDERS).

"Dream Weapon" is an interesting journey, and I must say that I really dig this a bit far out way to create music, where all the best pieces are put together in a marvelous mix. Lyrically and conceptually, "Dream Weapon" picks up where "Board Up The House" left off. With this album there are some new elements were introduced, the trance-like repetition that during the time gets very meditative and hypnotic, very loosely, an album-length meditation on that theme. 

From the short instrumental introduction in the opener "Exit Perfect Mind" makes the way for the first electronic chapter "Pyrocene" and in here we get the first notice of the changes in the personnel of the band that I find very positive and suits this new step away from the metal genre. The title tune is more bombastic and chaotic with a hell of a drum performance witch overall is a marvelous tune. To cool things off a bit the band offers a two minutes interlude with "Desert Stairs" that is like the aftermath of the tornado that exhales and the follows up by the seven minutes "Alone In The Heart Of The Light" that serves us with an atmospheric and electronic color palette that paints up the vivid landscape of the day after tomorrow. "Ritual Circle" is the longest piece on the album with its ten minutes adventurous journey and feels like it continues the previous track and gives it a proper ending to be followed up by the progressive "Single Black Point" until it's time to wrap up the album with the closer "Great Mother", a big and powerful piece that shifts from beautiful passages into noisy walls of distorted guitars. The album is a very good one and I find this to be a very exciting and interesting piece of art and it also tells us that GENGHIS TRON has grown up and entered a more focused state. "Dream Weapon" was released on 26 March 2021, by Relapse.

Sum: "Dream Weapon" is a genre-defying innovation, highly recommended.

Today's tune is the title track from "Dream Weapon", enjoy!



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Ne Obliviscaris- Forget Not

Today we take a giant leap and land on other side of the sphere, namely Melbourne, Australia. There we find a band "Ne Obliviscaris" (pronounced; Nay Ob-li-vis-kar-is), they formed already in 2003, hit the live scene February, 2006 to widespread critical acclaim with many hailing their unique sound, intense live shows and extremely talented line-up.

A 6 piece metal band consisting of violin, 2 guitars, bass, drums, clean and extreme vocals; Ne Obliviscaris include a vast array of influences within their sound from progressive to black, thrash, death and melodic metal, and even western art music, jazz and flamenco. Creating music of many extremes, and with compositions often exceeding ten minutes in length, Ne Obliviscaris is at times very technical and complex and at others simple and subtle, creating an extremely original brand of metal that defies normal categorisation.

A review on WeRock can be found here, is written by Martin Bensch! And I can only agree with what he writes. This is a really damn good album and will probably stay for a list positioning when this year's records will be crowned.

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Today tune "Forget Not", is taken from their new album "Portal Of I", order it here!



Here is a pretty new clip with Ne Obliviscaris from Melbourne performing their song, Forget Not live at The Wall in Sydney on 16th June, 2012.



The band consists of:

Xenoyr - Lead Vocals & Lyrics
Tim Charles - Violin & Clean Vocals
Matt Klavins - Guitar
Brendan 'Cygnus' Brown - Bass
Benjamin Baret- Lead guitar
Nelson Barnes - Drums


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Dream Theater - On The Backs of Angels

 

Recently released "A Dramatic Turn of Events", the new album they do progressive metal titans Dream Theater. After the departure of founding member and drummer Mike Portnoy in September 2010 gave the band auditions in an attempt to find their new drummer. Mike Mangini was the one who drew the longest drum stick. Mangini has been involved bands Annihilator, Extreme and James Labrie in the past. The new album was released on September 13, 2011, in addition will they do a world tour and will visit Sweden and Hovet, 25 January 2012.

"On the Backs of Angels" is the opening track on the new album, "A Dramatic Turn of Events", is also the first single release. In less than nine minutes long, is it more of a traditional song lengths of tunes with Dream Theater. The new single has many similarities to earlier albums, both heavy, technically impressive, in other words a well-written song. The new drummer Mike Mangini has a complete command of the drums and it's hardly that I miss Portnoy. Should be very interesting to see Mangini's interpretations of Dream Theater wide backcatalog during this upcoming world tour.




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Cradle Of Filth - Temptation

I guess we are odd and peculiar today as well. :-]

Cradle Of Filth cool mix of metal and...a bit of hm...how should i describe it,
Im thinking; bit of Kraftwerk and somthing else I cant put my finger on at the moment.

They are from England and started up in 1991.
And I think that Dani is the only one left from the
start, although Paul came in at 1992 the he
quitted -96 then came back 2000.

These guys are into painting....their eyes...or faces.
Here is Charles


The band's style has been described as symphonic
black metal, gothic black metal, and dark metal.
However, the band's evolving sound has allowed
them to continue resisting definitive categorisation.

Cradle consist of:
Dani Filth on lead vocals
Paul Allender on lead guitar
Charles Hedger on guitar
Dave Pybus on bass guitar
Martin Marthus Skaroupka on drums, percussion
Ashley Ellyllon on keyboards and backing vocals


This Ashley is one hell of a woman,
2009 she become the new keyboardist for
Cradle of Filth, replacing Rosie Smith.
Ashley was classically trained on piano since age six,
and on top of that she got her bachelor's degree
in Music Composition and Theory from
Arizona State University.
Thats something huh ?!


This tune comes from their 7th album Thornography.
Released in 2006.



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