Price: $8.99
Released: 2008 In Stock (Add-to-Cart)
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Empires Through Trial & Tribulation Comes Triumph (CD)
Label: Saw Her Ghost Origin: USA
Empires plays a melodic and doom-y take on instrumental music, in the vein of Jesu or Explosions in the Sky. Their songs might average six minutes or more, but they've got me excited and willing to listen through the whole, expansive tracks. Pulling that off, Empires may have transcended one of this genre's most annoying aspects -- parts of songs that often just don't fit and effectively take up time. Empires doesn't slow down and take three minute breaks of drudgery i...
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Price: $8.99
Released: 2008 In Stock (Add-to-Cart)
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Empires/Hellas Mounds Split CD (CD)
Label: Saw Her Ghost Origin: USA
An exhilarating display of east-meets-west/north-meets-south Minnesota's Empires and Arizona's Hellas Mounds join together to form one massive unforgetable chunk of majestic instru-metal. While Empires continue to showcase the barren, frozen wastelands of the midwest; the Hellas Mounds' debut delivers one giant slab of dense, arid doom that is as expansive as the desert that surrounds them.
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Price: $8.99
Released: 2010 Only 4 Left In Stock (Add-to-Cart)
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Hellas Mounds New Heaven New Earth (CD)
Label: Saw Her Ghost Origin: USA
The band has successfully engaged the musical underpinnings that make for great instrumental rock. Stylistically, the group has the musical sensibilities of Red Sparowes and the instrumental cohesion of This is Your Captain Speaking. Unlike the former, Hellas Mounds eschews the verbose song titles and leaves only the music for the listener, but, like the latter, the band plays a very drawn-out brand of instrumental music that emphasizes slow, ruminative musical passage...
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