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'Leipzig based dark instrumental rock band Kasan released their new

album 'Drown' via Dunk!records in February 2012. With this new release

the band left their musical path of 70s and stoner influenced post-rock

giving their music a much more darker approach, using more effects,

tuning down the instruments, breaking with harmonies. Each of the four

main songs of the new album 'Drown' run about 10 minutes. Combining

deeply emotional parts with erruptive parts of industrial freak-out and

monotonous metal and doom influenced riffing the album is less

accessible than their early releases but delivers much more intensely...'

Visit www.kasan.bandcamp.com for a free download of the new album 'Drown'.

'Hailed as one of the best post-metal albums of 2009, Heirs's debut, /Alchera/, established the band amongst Australia's foremost instrumental acts. Released by German label Denovali Records, the album

contained distant echoes of industrial metal deviants Godflesh, the misanthropic catharsis of early Swans and the gloomy noise rock of Slint, but these influences are something they have been steadily

outgrowing... 2010 saw the release of Heirs second album, Fowl, displaying a shift towards a broader sonic palette, taking further influence from industrial, darkwave and gothic rock. Incorporating a

pugilistic rhythmic foundation with coarse, threatening guitar textures

and a stronger electronic presence...

In September 2011, Heirs released the first single from their forthcoming third album in the form of a 10''/CD titled 'Hunter', again on Denovali Records. The material sees Heirs strengthening their melodic resolve, and while equally intense, inhabits a less oppressive atmosphere, with the band citing Cocteau

Twins & Sisters of Mercy as being influential to their process...'

Brent Stegeman