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In a very short time (foundation was in January of 2010) after coming out of the rehearsal room, this Limburg (Belgian province in the Dutch part of the country) based instrumental band made an impression at a couple of band competitions [won 2011's Maanrockrally and Theater Aan Zee (the latter got the band 7500 euros of production budget), and were finalists at that same year's Limbomania]. Not that surprising really, considering we're dealing with a septet which includes no less than 5 guitarists!

Spiritual Beggars have been around for a long time. Their first self titled album was released away back in ‘94 and since then the band has strived to make melodious and challenging hard rock music always looking to be that bit different. This is fully fledged retro rock. There are edgy, driving guitar riffs, layered keyboard fills and swirls, big melodic choruses, a firing vocal performance, classy production.

Not to be confused with bands by the same name [most notably the Thrash/ Death Metal act from Miami, Florida, there's also band with the name from Holland playing Doom/ Death Metal), the US (Alternative Rock act from Arkansas) and no less than three from the UK (one from Huddersfield playing just “Metal”, another from Bradford playing Epic Doom Metal, and the last one from Milton Keynes, playing a hybrid of Folk, Prog and Rock)] this Post-Hardcore quintet (consisting of lead singer Maarten Vanarwegen, guitarists Erwin Wehenkel and Glenn Catteeuw

Based in Lismore, Co. Waterford, South Ireland, Melodic Metal act Sirocco was formed in early 2003 as an instrumental quartet, of which today only rhythm guitarist Jim Tobin remains.

Sirenia are back with a brand new gothic metal album, which goes by the name of Perils Of The Deep Blue. It's almost impossible to compare Sirenia to any other band in the world of female fronted metal. They've had a handful of singers throughout the past twelve years of their existence, but finally they seem to have found the true pearl in the metal ocean.

Senses Fail is an American post-hardcore band from New Jersey witch was formed in 2002. The line up initially consisted of Buddy Nielsen, Dan Trapp, Dave Miller, Garrett Zablocki and James Gill. Shortly after being signed to Drive Thru Records, James Gill was kicked out of the band due to irreconcilable differences.

Pessimist were formed in 2006 and after some demonstrational recordings they debuted with Call To War in 2010 (Firefield Records). Since then, little things happened, but Pessimist started working on a new full length, which is about to be released through Germany’s MDD Records.

October Tide were formed in 1995 by two members of Katatonia, Jonas Renske and Fredrik Norrman. Initially October Tide were meant to be a temporary Katatonia-side-project, and after two full length albums the project was put on hold.

Finnish Mother Susurrus’ Maahaavaa is a freightening combination of doom, sludge, drone, post and psych rock. From start to finish, the overall atmosphere and feel of the album is there: dark, angry and electrifying. The production on Maahhaavaa is dense and overwhelming, and I mean that in a good way, but still leaves room to breathe. There are 5 tracks herein, and 50 minutes total running time, so you know you're going to get some epically lengthy songs here.

Founded in late 2005, Locus Control is another band from that small suburb village at the North-East of Kortrijk, Belgium. You may remember that Immanent Distance was from the same place...and although both band have a thing about progressive music, they still are quite different.