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Modern Day Babylon have released a new song titled 'Elements', which we are exclusively premiering. Listen to the track below. More videos are available on their YouTube channel. Their debut 'The Manipulation Theory' is available for streaming and purchase on their Bandcamp page.

Despite Exile have released a new song titled 'Oscillate', which we are exclusively premiering in cooperation with Team All About The Music. Listen to the track below. More videos are available on Despite Exile's YouTube channel, and some tracks off their 2010 EP 'Scarlet Reverie' are available for streaming on their Facebook page.

French experimental metal band Innerty are gearing up to release their debut album 'Tabula Rasa' on Bandcamp on January 19th. Two weeks ago, we streamed the whole album in full for two days. Today, we're doing the same for the instrumental version of the album. Check it out below.

Physical copies will be made available at a later date, in the form of a double album with the regular and the instrumental version included. The album was co-produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Eddy Dorigny of Fromtape Records. About the reason for releasing an instrumental version, the band had this to say:

"During the recording and mixing sessions, we got so many versions of mixes, premixes, premasters, with vocals here, there, not there, this way, this other way, that three digits weren't enough to name the files. There was this afternoon, a fucking cold one, like icecube-toes cold, where we sat down and one of us just went: "I want a goddamn instrumental version of this thing." And the light just... went on; and the toes weren't cold anymore and then the goosebumps and... well, you get it.

Another hairy one of us, with a mouthful of some kind of donkey salami that rendered his words so French they would've been typed in blue red and white, just went "why don't we just, you know, release an instrumental version as well!" We had that chemical feeling that people maybe probably felt when the big Guy's son hollered "I'm back, bitches" after his three days vacation. We were pretty much convinced by the idea. There were so many tiny little details, just a 16th ride here, a little harmonic here, a tiny legato there, that were sometimes eclipsed by the power of the vocals, that we were pretty confident this would please little geeks like us who are into this nutty level of nerdiness.

Plus it'd please our dads. They're always saying "why do people pay to be yelled at by a crazy guy in a band for 52 minutes!" Well, here you go pa, no more yelling.
Enjoy."

Mark Hawkins of Robots Pulling Levers has posted a new track titled 'In Search of a Green Land' to his SoundCloud page. Listen below. The track features guest solos by Skyharbor guitarist Keshav Dhar. Another track titled 'Zong 6' was posted in October.

French experimental metal band Innerty are gearing up to release their debut album 'Tabula Rasa' on Bandcamp on January 19th. We're streaming the whole album for 48 hours! Check it out below.

Don't like the vocals? Maybe you prefer instrumental music? The band are also releasing an instrumental version of the album (separately mixed and mastered!), which we will be streaming on January 10th, so be sure to check back then. Physical copies will be made available at a later date, in the form of a double album with the regular and the instrumental version included.

The album was co-produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Eddy Dorigny of Fromtape Records. About it, the band had this to say:

"The blood, the sweat, the tears and all that crap. We started recording Tabula Rasa literally two years ago. We went through so many changes in our lives and our minds, that the result is an excruciatingly painful delivery. More than happy, we're actually extremely relieved to finally get it out there. Truthfully, a whole lot can happen in two years. People change, influences vary, and you keep questionning things till the very last minute; once again literally.

This is our first album and as a not-so-fresh starting paradigm, we ask a very simple question of our very first album: what if the notion of starting with absolutely nothing was some kind of vicious circle? What if the whole idea of an innate tabula rasa was idiotic? This is not a "concept", we abhor the "concept" phenomenon. This is a just a remark, a realisation, a question we thought of as amusing. But we're twisted and some of us eat snails and frogs. Such is life.

This is Tabula Rasa, and if you appreciate it half as much as we suffered doing it, then we'll be very pleased and you'll be too."

Outcast have posted a new song from their upcoming album 'Awaken the Reason', titled 'Abysmal'. Listen below. The album is scheduled to be released early next year and was mixed by Jochem Jacobs of Textures. A playthrough video featuring some excerpts of the upcoming material was posted in April this year.

Vildhjarta have posted a new track, titled 'Phobon Nika', on their Facebook page. The track is featured on the band's upcoming debut album 'Måsstaden', which will be released on November 28th through Century Media Records. We recently published a review of the album.

UPDATE: 'Phobon Nika' is now available for streaming from Century Media's Soundcloud Page. Listen to it below.

Listen to 'Phobon Nika' on Facebook.
Listen to the track on Soundcloud.

White Noise has posted an audio interview with Australian band Circles, in which they talk about "where Circles came from, their new EP The Compass and...plastic wrapping?". An interview with Highwire Daze was posted earlier.

When Knives Go Skyward have posted a new track titled 'Terror Up' on their SoundCloud page. Listen below. The track will be featured on their forthcoming album 'The End Of The Rope', for which no details have been revealed as yet. Another track titled 'Slaughterhouse-Hive' was posted earlier.

When Knives Go Skyward, a band featuring Danza guitarist Josh Travis, have posted a new track titled 'Slaughterhouse-Hive' on their SoundCloud page. Listen below. The track will be featured on their forthcoming album 'The End Of The Rope', for which no details have been revealed as yet.

Listen to 'Slaughterhouse-Hive' on SoundCloud.