Merkabah "Million Miles"

Country: Poland
Genre(s): Instrumental Avant Prog
Label: Instant Classic
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: November 10, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Solar Surfer (7:15)
2. A Letter Of Marque (4:27)
3. Zheng Zhilong (12:32)
4. The Lion's Throat (7:31)
5. Ourang Medan (9:19)
6. Pitchblende (7:44)
7. Glaucous Gardens (7:56)
8. Ex-Imperial (7:40)

Total Time 64:24

Line-up: 
Gabriel Orłowski - Guitar, Synth (3, 8), Lap-steel (4, 6)
Aleksander Pawłowicz - Bass
Kuba Sokólski - Drums, Electronics (1, 2, 3, 4, 7)
Rafał Wawszkiewicz - Saxophone, Lap-steel (3, 4, 8), Synth (6, 7)

Description/Reviews: 

In conceptual approach, "Million Miles" is a consequence of the direction first took on "Moloch". One theme bonds together the whole album, as it's narration coils around a sea legend, that has traits proper of an ancient myth. It goes via strength and pride to exile, while it's dynamics is shapen by a road full of conflict. 

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Merkabah "Moloch"

Country: Poland
Sub Genre: Instrumental, Avant Prog, Psychedelic, Jazz, Progressive Metal
Label: Instant Classic
Release date: March 28, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Reed Idol (6:22)
2. Hilasterion (12:16)
3. Hilasterion cont. (5:18)
4. The King (5:08)
5. Hymn (4:09)
6. Lille Vies Ager (6:25)
7. The grapes (...) are filling and growing heavy (6:47)
8. Ah! Ça Ira (4:15)

Line-up: 
Aleks - bass
Gabriel - guitar
Jacob - drums
Rafał - sax
Adrien - vj

Description/Reviews: 

Merkabah (from Poland) create avant-garde metal, but I don't like to call it instrumental because the saxophone speaks...we just don't understand the language. Moloch is an open-minded metal fan's heaven as it cooks a meal out of genres like post-hardcore, progressive rock, and jazz all thrown in the metal cauldron. This music can put you on the defensive with its unrelenting assaults and simultaneously puzzle you out of your own skin, so blatant it is in its weirdness.
Although Merkabah basically play the same thing for the whole duration of Moloch, the music is innovative enough not to require much variation from song to song. Each song is written with all the meticulousness of a sun-scorched penguin and the song structures would make the Lego masterpiece of a child-genius look like a roofless matchbox, but at the end of the day it's basically a proggy avant-metal kind of thing offering a lot of crazy saxophone. Regardless, it is damn enjoyable from start to finish. Maybe it's the lack of words that makes me not notice the transition between songs but I see Moloch as a whole, and I love every second of the thing.
(brutalprog.com)

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