We've filmed three shows in three time zones since last December and are making good progress on editing all of those, with the goal of releasing them all by year's end. In the meantime, here are the first songs from each.
From the release show for Horders' Save Everything EP, in Sebastapol, Calif.
From East of the Wall's NP-Complete album release show in Asbury Park, N.J. Thanks to Chris Alfano for additional audio production.
And from SBP's first international shoot, the Samuel Jackson Five play the opening track from their excellent record Goodbye Melody Mountain. Thanks to Eureka Soundworks for the audio used here, and for an additional camera angle.
Enjoy a bunch of intense, melodic, mostly instrumental goodness. Much more to come soon.
4.5 out of 5
It almost happened. The ever-changing musical amoeba now known as East of the Wall almost released two records with the same lineup. But once again, change remains the most reliable constant for the New Jersey collective that for the purpose of brevity we’ll say falls under the umbrella of progressive metal.
4 out of 5
I should confess my biases first. Facing New York’s 2005 debut was a pivotal album in the formation of my music taste. The heavily textured, rhythmically unpredictable, emotionally charged 10 songs on that self-titled record drew from everything from 70s prog to post-rock to early-2000s post-hardcore and assembled it all into a what I would consider a flawless record. It became the soundtrack to my college-years anxieties and probably remains among my all-time top five albums. Filming those early Facing New York shows with a single crappy miniDV camera and posting the grainy, noisy results to 2005 YouTube was one of the things that gave birth to this very website.