Argonauta Records

The bandname, the artwork, the length of the 5 songs (shortest = + 8 minutes longest plus 12 minutes),  it all breaths  POSTROCK/DOOM and thus that’s what Mountains Among Us have on offer.  “Commision The Twelve” can be described as the  perfect – instrumental - soundtrack to the current weather,  cloudy, melting snow, wind gushes and  more grey then green. Mountains Among Us will prove to be hard to digest for the wider audience, but I am sure these guys earn their place in the ever growing postrock scene…

Wow...I recently mentioned that this reviewer stays in his voluntary (and therefore quite un-paid) side-job for the sole benefit of encountering the music of bands which come by only every once in a blue moon, those who manage to create albums which grab me from the get-go, and have me hold on until the final notes. Sometimes this happens with bands which have only been around for a couple of years only, but occasionally this reviewer comes across bands which have been in existing for much longer, and already have several releases to their credit!

BENEATH THE STORM is a one man effort  from Slovenia… and God this is not a nice piece of work….    Funeral doom, sludge is  not supposed to be a nice piece of work I hear you think out loud and that’s correct….  But It should  at least sound like a tank division is going to pass by you at just a couple of CM’s away so it scares the shit out of you. “Evil reflection”  does not have that effect  has none of that.  What it does have is 6 to long slabs of monotone riffs, whispering vocals and an annoying cheap mechanical drum sample which does not work at all..…

Sometimes  doing reviews as a hobby is a shitty job, you have to listen  album after album and you wonder if mediocrity is  the new standard to beat… but then  there is this one momen that you stumble on a release  which is something different,  something good….

Beneath The Storm are a solo-outfit by Igor Shimon, a guy hailing from Slovenia, which was formed at the end of 2012.