Porcupine Tree is a 21 year old experimental rock band from Hertforshire, England.
The band started in 1987 as a colaborative proyect between Steven Wilson & Malcolm Stocks who inspired in bands as Pink Floyd wich predominated the music scene during their youth, they created this band where everything from its members to it´s history was fictitious, as Wilson started earning money to own he´s own recording studio he started thinking of comercializing his proyects music and recorded an 80 minutes cassette named “Tarquin´s Seaweed Farm” Under the name of Porcupine Tree. As a way to continue with his joke, Wilson added an 8 page booklet wich contained invented info of the bands story and fictitous members such as Sir Tarquin Underspoon.
Porcupine Tree - Blackest eyes
Over the years the band style has shifted from psichedelyc pop or sweet accustic balads to heavy metal , all mixed up with an incredible sence of taste making every song very diferent to the other and as a plus in their live shows they use a couple of screens in the background showing werid trippy images that perfectly dance to the rithm of the tree.
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
If you didn´t know this band then its you lucky day boys! Enjoy!
Formed in 1987 by Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner on guitars and vocals, Jennifer Finch on bass and and former drummer Roy Kutosky Who left the band shortly after Being replaced by Dementra “Dee” Plakas.
L7 has been rocking the uderground and mainstream scene with their raw, agressive garage sound and attitude for a pretty considerable time, spitting hots like “Shitlist” song that ended taking part in the soundtrack of Oliver stone´s “Natural Born Killers” (1994) and marking the difference in their live gigs with facts like Donita removing her used tampon off stage and thrhowing it into the public yelling “Eat my used tampon fuckers!!” as a way to complain for the mud that was being throwed onto the stage by the public.
The bands name came out from a slang word very used on the 50´s wich meant square and was oftently related to the sexual possition “69″.
According to their official Website L7 has been in an indefinite hiatus since 2001 And its members are all working in their own solo carreers as is the case of Donita and Dementra and others are just working in other band proyects as is the case of bassist Jennifer Finch who is playng on a punk rock band called The Shocker.
Tool is a contemporary metal band with a really careacteristic,heavy,dark sound.
I like to say they are the Pink Floyd of the new era, they have this unique sound and a really twisted way to develop their songs, generating a progressive ambient that like climbing in some sort of spiral reachs to the top and explodes in light!.
Their two first albums(Opiate-1992 and Undertow-1993) had a more raw sound but since Paul Dámour´s(bass) departure in 1995 and the come of Justin Chancelor the bands sound starts getting more solid from album to album starting with Aenema in 1996, album that opened more doors to popularity containing the song Aenema wich made them won a grammy that same year.
Then in 2002 and after releasing a box set of rarities and versions under the name of salival, they release their third studio album Lateralus a very polemical album , not only for its incredible cover art designed by Alex Grey wich figures a perfect vivivsection of the human body dividing each layer in each page but also for having an alternative order for the tracks known as “the holly gift” that revealed that the album was in fact a unique track ,cutted edited and finally reordered by the band. Then in 2006 and after editing a couple of lateralus related DVD´s they come out with their latest and probably most amazing work 10,000 days, a studio album with 11 tracks and with the weirdest cover I ever seen in my whole life,also designed by Alex Grey the album has this weird estroboscopic lenses to see the boocklet images in an awesome 3D perspective, tottaly worth the buy!!.
I stumbled upon this guys today, they are fucking amazing, They play those ancient shamisen in a rock n´roll style like they where playing on a gibson les paul. Originaly from Japan the yoshida brothers mix Ancient japaneese music with modern rock n´roll, pregressive metal,and even blues.
Ok with no more to say, I leave you with this amazing video so can really uderstand what I´m talking about!
Ashes Divide is Billy Howerdel´s new proyect. Since a Perfect Circle entered on hiatus Former members Billy Howerdel & maynard James Keenan(former singer from tool) started focusing in their own proyects.
As maynard focused on his proyect Puscifer wich released his first album “V Is For Vagina” the last fall Howerdel focused on “Ashes Divide”. The proyect´s sound is not very different to APC, the music has almost the same mood, Howerdel´s voice kinda reminds me of the Smashing Pumpkings old era When Corgan used to cry a lot! but the songs are really good and makes you want to listen them one after the other.
Ashes divided first album “Keep Telling Myself Its All Right” was released on april 8 2008 and the band will now start a tour sharing stage with bands such as, Linking park,Chris Cornell,Atreyu,10 Years and Street Drum Corpse .
Uruguayan Alt Rock Band , founded in 1995 by its lead singer Seba Magika & former drummer Adrian H. they rocked the uruguayan Underground for more than ten years, after a few changes in the bands line up they met guitar player Rodrigo Campos and in 1999 they record their first demo tape “nuestro pequeño mundo tan castigado” (our so punished little world) with eight bizarre tracks. in 2002 with new dj Martin Rodriguez, and bass player M0nk they record a Cd demo with 3 tracks under the name of “sombrio viaje” (shaddy trip) and later in in 2006 and now with Esteban Fontes in the drum kit they record their first E.P. “Primer Paso:Lo Escencial”(first step:the escential). containing six track wich included “ambiciosos sueños” the albums radio frendly song, and a couple of months latter they filmed a video for this same song.
actually the band amembers are divided, but still keep contact, some of then still work in other muscial proyects.
but the songs are really good and makes you want to listen them one after the other.
