Nem-Q "Fault Lines"

Country: Netherlands
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Metal
Label: RVPrecords (RVP17044)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: January 20, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Inner Struggle (6:22)
2. Shooting Stars (4:58)
3. Vanity (7:03)
4. Desaturate (2:27)
5. Perpetual Motion (4:41)
6. Bipolar (5:02)
7. Confusion (7:29)
8. Misguided (4:36)
9. Fault Lines (4:07)

Total time 46:45

Line-up: 
Paul Sieben - vocals, guitar
Mark Reijven - guitar
Maarten Meeuws - bass
Dennis Renders - keyboards, backing vocals
Twan Bakker - drums, percussion

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Giant Gutter From Outer Space "Black Bile"

Country: Brazil
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Avant-Garde Sludge Metal
Label: RVPrecords
Format: CD, digital
Release date: March 16, 2016 (digital), June 17, 2016 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. Circles Of Interference (7:57)
2. Whether If It Was A Dream Or Not (5:24)
3. Joy And Misery (7:06)
4. Funeral Under My Window (6:34)
5. Opium And Reminiscence (6:06)
6. Memory, The Enemy (5:14)

Total time 38:21

Line-up: 
johnny r. r.: drums
hernan: bass

Description/Reviews: 

Brazilian bass and drum duo Giant Gutter From Outer Space offer six tracks of off-kilter sludge on their third official release, Black Bile. The band’s sound is derived from sludge metal and noise rock and keeps an eye toward the avant-garde and experimental side of things. These six songs revolve around the discombobulating interplay between lurching, angular bass lines and erratic percussion and its abstract rhythms.

Read the full review at svbterranean.net

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Nem-Q "301.81"

Country: Netherlands
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal
Label: RVPrecords
Release date: September 21, 2012
Tracklist: 

1. Suburbia - 1:00
2. Oracle - 5:48
3. Terra Forma - 3:42
4. World In Progress - 4:23
5. Perspective, Pt. A: Utopia - 1:38
6. Perspective, Pt. B: Reality - 2:46
7. Perspective, Pt. C: Critical Mass - 4:07
8. Asylum - 3:54
9. Adrian - 3:41
10. Analysis - 4:28
11. 301.81:02 - 3:02
12. Comfort Zone - 5:55

Line-up: 
Paul Sieben - vocals
Mark Reijven - guitars
Henri van Zelst - bass
Dennis Renders - piano
Twan Bakker - drums

Description/Reviews: 

A concept album telling the story of Adrian, who is experiencing serious personality problems. Doctors diagnose the condition as a disease with the symbol "301.81". After implement treatment, Adrian is still experiencing bouts of aggression, suffers from a lack of empathy for the world around him and is very narcissistic. The individual songs on the album give us the dramatic conditions in which his illness falls into and shows how more and more immersed he gets in his own hermetically sealed world, despite numerous attempts from his environment to prevent it...The group feels perfectly at ease mixing different styles. So we have 12 tracks on the album, which enter the mainstream of rock, metal, rhythms jazz / fusion with some references to rock and pop prog... On "301.81" we have to do with an energetic album, which tends toward the dark thinking. It should be emphasized, however, that the music on the new album is not a classic Dutch nor neoprogressive school in which the country has always been known for making the world a number of examples of "good work" in the form of an entire galaxy of outstanding groups and albums richer. Rather, it is music "rock inside", which is likely to win the hearts of both older and younger listeners, looking for innovative sounds and arrangements.

Read the whole review by  Artur Chachlowski (in English at bottom)

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