The Guy On Vocals Died
 

Lets have some discussion of purely instrumental bands. My band mention for today:

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#1. Pelican

Are a quartet of musicians who come from Chicago. Three of the musicians originally came from the band Tusk, Larry Herweg (drums), Trevor De Brauw (guitar) and Laurent Lebec (guitar). Pelican are a modern day instrumental band, their first EP hit the shops in 2003. Pelican are a rather original band as they have musical roots planted in several genres, avantgarde, sludge, post rock and some songs contain a very eerie or atmospheric ambiance. March Into the Sea is a blistering 20 minutes long so they are no strangers to prog eather.

Band Members: Larry Herweg (drums), Trevor De Brauw (guitar), Laurent Lebec (guitar), Bryan Herweg (bass).

Songs to look for:
Drought
Forecast For Today
Last Day Of Winter
March Into The Sea

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Review them, download them, then set up some more bands for us to get stuck into!

Pelican is like sex, except I'm having it.

I'll listen to Pelican sometime. In terms of instrumental bands, I like Joe Satriani (brilliant) and Liquid Tension Experiment.

:laughing:

March Into The Sea, all 20 minutes of it, felt like only 5 or 6. Thats how good it is listening to them. Time becomes irrelevant.

Red Sparowes. Rule all.

www.redsparowes.com

seconds that motion...statement...whatever

You bastard that was going to be my premier mention for today:p:

Well what's your premier mention for tomorrow so I can avoid saying them?

Haha it's a lucky dip thing. I have nothing planned so keep on mentioning. Red Sparowes is a wicked outfit though.

Well I was going to say Mono, but I feel a bit apprehensive about it now.

http://www.age.fm/~sound/mono/

Ahhh another goodjun. You're doing well franscar, don't mind me.

May as well get them out the way then:

http://laserbeast.com/

Lightning Bolt. w00t.

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#2. Alien Cowboys

Are another quartert of musicians hailing from San Francisco, they have been active since 1997 with 5 albums under their belt. Alien Cowboys are a feel good rock outfit as their music sort of lifts you. Lead Guitarist Ralph Perucci has been compared to Vai so thats also something to have a listen for. They're opening ST album is a good place to start and includes covers of Hey, Bulldog (Beatles), Spanish Castle Magic (Hendrix) and a couple others.

Band members:
Ralph Perucci - Lead Guitar
Ian Thomson - Drums
Greg Jones - Bass
Bruce Stevenson - Rhythm Guitar

Listen:
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I used to talk online to a girl who did a lot of promo work for those guys. They're not bad.

MONO'S NEW CD LEAKED ON SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

OHMYGODILOVEMONO.

I've decided I'm NOT going to touch it until it comes out. I am promising myself.

http://www.65daysofstatic.com/index3.html

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#3. Freewill

A Japanese Heavy progressive band formed in 2002. Influences coming from Rush, Dream Theater, Devin Townsend, Pain Of Salvations and some spacy sounds that we hear from the likes of Pink Floyd and Hawkwind. Their sound is very avantgarde with a shot of spacey and flows effortlessly between the divisions of Prog Rock and Prog Metal. These guys are amazing should you ever get to see them or hear one of their albums. Never Act is their second and latest effort.

Band Members:
Masahiro Lee - Guitars,Synthesizers
Shunsuke Yagi - Synthesizers+Electronics
Hisashi"syo"Nakao - Bass
Shingo"sin"Uchida - Drums

Listen:
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- The tracks are on the left hand side of the screen. Very very good.

Check out these:

http://www.koyaanis-qatsy.de/HTML/Ko...%20English.htm

their debut was instrumental, but i think theyre going to have vocals on the next one.

Steve Vai. Not only is he an amazing guitarist, but his music is very soulful and spiritual. He's an amazing composer.

A lot of people don't like instrumental songs, though, and I think it's because it takes a more musically understanding person to appreciate the melodies alone. Personally, I prefer instrumental over vocalized songs. Vocals are over-rated.

I enjoy my friend's band a lot.

http://www.myspace.com/giftsfromenola

so you dont like band junkies..im sorry to hear that

Gordian Knot are an amazing instrumental band.

It's been a while since I've bothered with this, but I stumbled across this outfit here and to me they're a bit like Pelican meets Slayer (especially on tracks like the downloadable 'Gusher'), though clearly without the vocals.

A drummer. A Bassist. And 3 Geetars.

Powerful unit, check them out.

Myspace
Band Website

Heads up; This trio don't piss about.

Hailing from Pennsylvania, since 2002 they've been laying down seedy riff after seedy riff. These guys don't draw long winded epics like Pelican and they don't pretend they want to. They just lay down some filth and jam it to that just right phase before it becomes too monotonous. They sound much like Mastodon and the likes of with perhaps a dash more fuzz.

They're curently looking for a vocalist which would be very cool, but right now they're doing just fine without one.

http://www.myspace.com/Balero

You can download the 4 songs they have on show, and I suggest you do, it's some very good, straight up hard rock.:)

ooooh.. i like instrumental bands!

check out Zonderhoof... click

:D

and along with Pelican and Red Sparowes.. its worth listening to Russian Circles, and Sons of Alpha Centauri.