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 ...

Cork, Ireland’s Altar of Plagues was formed in 2006. Terms that are most frequently used to describe their sound include black metal, ambient and progressive or post metal, though it seems no one description can sum up the acts massive sound. The act themselves consider black metal to be the genre to which they are most attached, but on the contrary they have also been quoted to take ...