Category: Alt Rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt rock or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s.

Klone – The Dreamer’s Hideaway (2012)

With their fourth album, CLONES navels further from their metallic hardness towards rock. So they should make it finally let their shadow life behind and step into her own spotlight.

The move was not unexpected. Already the last EP “The Eye Of Needle” presented the progressive sound of the French far out bremster, but much more complex, and as yet the atmospheric heavy metal outworks. A development that also continues the new album “The Dreamer’s Hideaway” consistently. Without denying their roots CLONES have managed to conduct their compositions even closer and more direct to get in shape. What in his description certainly applies to explain sounds complex, set to music in his way very straight forward and easy access. The French, however, not to use the structures of pop, but their songs skillfully steer towards the progressive rock and alternative. The final product sounds like this, when GOJIRA would operate on the creativity of PERFECT CIRCLE.

Alt Rock | Progressive Rock
Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

Tori Amos – Gold Dust (2012)

“I seem extroverted but I’m incredibly introverted,” Tori Amos says in an articulate whisper. She’s sitting in a light-filled Tribeca apartment explaining why, after a life spent performing, it was a thoroughly nerve-racking experience recording her new album, Gold Dust (due October 2nd). The album – Amos’ second foray into classical music, following 2011’s Night of Hunters – reads like a scrapbook of her career, comprising old favorites reworked with orchestration from the Metropole Orchestra.

It wasn’t revisiting her discography so much as the orchestra itself that intimidated Amos during the album’s recording, which saw her tracking her vocals in front of the nearly 60-piece Dutch orchestra (whom Amos first performed live with in 2010) and personnel from her label (Deutsche Grammophon). “I sing about some of these very intimate moments in my life, and a lot of them written before I got married to Mark [Hawley, also her sound engineer], and he’s there and everyone knows,” she says. “It was walking into a room full of people and baring your most intimate thoughts to after barely saying hello.”

Alt Rock | Rock
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Three Days Grace – Transit Of Venus (2012)

This is the 4th album by rock band Three Days Grace. It is produced by Don Gilmore and will be released on RCA Records. On June 5th, the band announced in a video on their official website that the album would be titled Transit of Venus and will be released on October 5th, 2012. The first single, “Chalk Outline”, will be available on August 14th. The album will be available for preorder on the same day.

1 Sign of the Times
2 Chalk Outline
3 The High Road
4 Operate
5 Anonymous
6 Misery Loves My Company
7 Give In to Me
8 Happiness
9 Give Me a Reason
10 Time That Remains
11 Expectations
12 Broken Glass
13 Unbreakable Heart

Alt Rock | Prog Metal
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Muse – The 2nd Law (2012)

“We are defined by the fact that we can’t be defined by anybody,” says Matt Bellamy, the singer-guitarist-pianist of Muse, as he runs down the range and nerve of the British trio’s new album, The 2nd Law, out in October. “There are electro-pop sounds and songs that are obviously classic rock,” Bellamy notes, referring to the machine-funk nightmares “Madness” and “Panic Station” and, in the latter category, “Big Freeze” and his lead-guitar blowup in “Animals.”

“Then there are the orchestral things,” he adds over lunch in New York: the strings-choir-and-metal “Survival,” already a hit as an official Olympic theme song, and the symphonic chaos of the two-part title suite. The 2nd Law would sound like “three different bands,” Bellamy contends, “if it wasn’t for my voice.”

Alt Rock
Posted on September 24, 2012 by admin

Chaos Killed – Singularity (2012)

Chaos Killed’s sophomore album, is a war torn, universal scale concept album exploring the path to “Singularity”.

1. R.E.L.I.C.
2. Regenesis
3. Rack and Ruin
4. Crusader
5. Decay (Beneath the Salt)
6. Omega Point

Alt Rock | Prog Metal
Posted on September 21, 2012 by admin