Sunn O))) & Boris
"Altar" is a true collaboration album between Sunn O))) and Boris that is a result of both bands conceptualizing, writing and recording the album together as one entity. Both groups have stepped outside their previous sounds and created a wholly unique album that stands on its own unique ground. There are elements of each group's trademark sound within the album but true to each group's progressive and experimental aspects, “Altar” moves into a completely new dimension. Also contributing additional entrancing textures are the guest collaborators on this album including:
Manbearpig
There are at least 4 groups using this name: 1- Manbearpig, whose EP can be downloaded from here - http://www.mediafire.com/?6mfnc08padplyup - are an English melodic hardcore band from the depths of Norfolk. They recorded their debut EP "Ruined Emo" in the summer of 2010. After selling out of the initial Handmade batch the band put the full EP up for free download.
2 - ManBearPig are a band from Lincoln, UK. Their main members are Jon Pickett and Jon Wells on guitar, drums. They play progressive instrumental rock similar in style to The Mars Volta.
Alexz Johnson
Alexz Johnson (Born on November 4th, 1986, in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada) is never quite what you'd think: she is always, instead, a surprise. While she writes intimate, down-to-earth lyrics, they’re delivered with a larger-than-life, crystalline voice. “Growing up I was afraid of it,” she says, about realizing she could sing big as a small child- the sixth in a brood of ten-- in Vancouver. “I thought it would blow me away.
SOL
There is more than one artist with this name: 1. Sol is a Seattle, Washington based hip-hop artist. His signature sound maintains a marriage between the core values of hip-hop and the mainstream sensibility of pop(ular) music. Sol says that he grew up on a combination of 90
Fennesz
Christian Fennesz's trademark sound combines guitar playing with digital techniques like granular synthesis. This style has been described as "Rock meets PowerBook". His oeuvre is far broader though - he's been at the forefront of digital music for many years now. Hotel Paral.lel won the Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Digital Musics in 1999 along with Pita's Seven Tons For Free.
Demons
There are more than one artists called Demons. 1. Wolf Eyes’ member Nate Youngs and Steve Kenney formed the noise drone duo Demons in late 2006. 2. The Japanese metal/hardcore/new wave band DEMONS released their first album GOETIA in 2007. They were also featured on the Tokyo Dark Castle compilation the same year. An alternate tag for them: デモンズ. Members:
kiyotodemon: Vocals & guitar
yasudademon: Guitar & chorus
hidekidemon: Bass & chorus
kannodemon (Coaltar of the Deepers): Drums
East India Youth
East India Youth - is actually one young man. William Doyle, a 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist from Bournemouth, who cut his teeth in an indie group called Doyle & The Fourfathers while still a teenager. Their demo was rinsed by Marc Riley on BBC 6 Music and they completed a couple of tours with the Undertones, but the frontman was already growing tired of the band format and frustrated with the slow progress of the group.
Ergo Phizmiz
Sonic explorer, experimentalist and wrongwriter, Ergo Phizmiz's music jumps freely between pop, pranksterism, mutant-electro and just about everything in-between. Described by The Wire magazine as a "one man movement", and by BBC Radio 3 as "one of the most inventive composers around...a musical equivalent to Chris Morris", Ergo has developed a reputation as one of the most genuinely innovative composers working today.
his Namelessness Is Legion
his Namelessness Is Legion is an ambient/electronic/drone side project of Austrian musician Oliver Stummer aka Tomoroh Hidari. Stummer also is engineer, producer and programmer for Industrial outfit Kreuzweg Ost and founding father of Dystopian Dub Developments.
whereas his Namelessness Is Legion's first album Resonant Mindlessness focuses on electronic drones inspired by dream- and sleep-music, the second album "...