Huh, wow. Just, wow. This caught me by surprise. Check out this track by Israeli metal band called Arafel, Sword's Hymn, the first track off their album, For Battles Once Fought. Sounds promising!
The new album by semi-legendary post-rock band Mogwai, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, has been gaining significant hype all over the web. If you think songs like San Pedro really qualify as post-rock, anyway (you can hear some on HYPEM). Personally I'm kind of indifferent about it.
For those of you who enjoy black metal, Helrunar is putting out a new (double!) album, titled Sól. You can hear the first three tracks off the first disc here (the first track is an intro). Given this alone, I must say there isn't much new here. Melodic bits, atmospheric bits, reasonable vocals, but nothing really standing out. More importantly, nothing I can listen to for two album lengths. If you dig this kind of stuff though, by all means, go for it.
And the last for now is Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes by Social Distortion. Though this is apparently a band with some punk history, this is just straight-up rock. Good stuff, though. Machine Gun Blues and Can't Take It With You are pretty good songs.
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