The Night Watch "An Embarrassment of Riches"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Metal
Format: CD, digital
Release date: November 15, 2019
Tracklist: 
1. Land Ho! (11:04)
2. Mendoza (8:03)
3. The Summit (Part I) (6:04)
4. Dance Of The Mountain People (7:36)
5. Shamaniac (10:26)
6. Telling Brow And Tongue Root (10:05)
7. The Summit (Part II) (14:39)
8. Currents (3:56)

Total Time 71:53

Line-up: 
Evan Runge – Violin, Chorus
Nathanael Larochette – Guitars, Chorus
Matthew Cowan – Fretless Bass, Chorus
Daniel Mollema – Drums, Percussion, Piano, Chorus
   With
Xander Galbreath - Vocals
Olivier Nordskip - Vocals
Conyer Clayton, Megan Rose Franken, Greg Kampf, Sabina Lindgren, Jason Sherriff - Chorus

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The Night Watch "Boundaries"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Metal
Format: CD, digital
Release date: July 15, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Boundaries (36:01)

Line-up: 
Evan Runge - Violin
Nathanael Larochette - Guitars
Matthew Cowan - Fretless Bass
Daniel Mollema - Drums, Percussion

Description/Reviews: 

In its genesis, one is plunged headlong into a tenebrous surging maelstrom of pounding guitar riffs and violin strains alternating between beserker-lust thrashing and the keen wheeling of hunting birds impelled by pummeling drumming and combative bass then, a quiet passage, as if entering a docile vitreous lake – but only momentarily – for, like the contention between mountain trolls and forest elvin – or the struggle between one’s id and their super-ego – a turbulent powerful undulation between instruments progresses, underscored by periodic abrupt reticent truces.
This first fourteen minutes is savage, vivid, and virtually brutal in intensity. Boundaries is a journey, as a river passage, with tumultuous rapids, clear-flowing broad avenues and swift currents – but you are traversing upstream away from the comfortable lowlands into the thin airs, strident zephyrs and stringent tempests of a desolate asperous sierra.

Read the full review at musictripper.com

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The Night Watch "The Night Watch"

Country: Canada
Sub Genre: Instrumental Prog Folk, Post Metal, Classical
Release date: April 23, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. In the Beginning - 03:05
2. The Great Escape - 04:23
3. Don't Creep - 07:37
4. The Minstrel and the King - 06:15
5. Courts of the East - 06:39
6. War Whales - 16:55
7. Apocalypse Beach - 12:08

Line-up: 
Evan Runge - Violin
Matt Cowan - Fretless Bass
Daniel Mollema - Drums, Percussion
Nathanaël Larochette - Guitars, Wurlitzer
   With
Simon Larochette - Pedal Steel, Ebow, Percussion

Description/Reviews: 

Grafting together elements of soaring classical, acoustic black metal, vibrant neo-folk and even doom, their self-titled debut creates a lush, cinematic soundscape. The songs are often driven forward by Evan Runge's dancing, daring violin, with a great deal of the muscle and momentum supplied by Nathanaël Larochette's (Musk Ox) guitars and Wurlitzer. When all of the instruments collide, however, it often results in an elemental clash that hits the listener like a progressive cloud burst. What the Night Watch are able to do with textures is this record's greatest achievements, as a traditional violin line is laid atop a bleak, buzzing riff progression or some jazzy drumming is superimposed against a tender acoustic passage. Even at its gentlest and most tentative, The Night Watch has a metallic heaviness that makes this musical experiment a success. (Natalie Zina Walschots at exclaim.ca)

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