Hailed as one of the best post-metal albums of 2009, Heirs's debut, Alchera, established the band amongst Australia's foremost instrumental acts. The album contained distant echoes of industrial metal deviants Godflesh, the misanthropic catharsis of early Swans and the gloomy noise rock of Slint, but these influences are something they have been steadily outgrowing. The album's accompanying tour saw the band play 69 shows across Europe, UK and Japan. ...

JakeL is the instrumental progressive metal project of Jade F. from Montreal, Canada. Here's what Jade had to say about his project: "I've started recording music straight into my laptop.. I just do it as a hobby and eventually it started to sound less and less crappy. I'm not expecting anything more from jakeL...! If people enjoy what they're hearing then that's great. I never really know where a song idea ...

Kodiak is a three piece Funeral Drone/Doom band from Germany. Their sound excels as a mixture of monolithic ultraheavy compositions with expressionistic poems. Their algid songs consist of long monotonous build-ups (comparable to a long lonely haunting trip through the arctic) and some seldom parts of eruption, disembarrassment and hope. In May 2008 they released their first 2 song cdr via Denovali Records, which was sold out in 2 ...