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SEE: Soen Release Video for Track ‘Illusion’

In the wake of their fifth record, IMPERIAL, Swedish metal band Soen have released an emotionally charged video for their track ‘Illusion.’ The powerful ballad features passages of sumptuous lilting…

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Film Review: The Wanting Mare

Cinema serves many functions, but escapism is definitely high up there on the list. To bring an audience together in a darkened room and then make them forget their troubles…

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SEE: Code Orange Release Animated Video for Autumn and Carbine

Code Orange have unveiled an official music video for ‘Autumn and Carbine,’ taken from last year’s critically acclaimed record ‘Underneath.’ The video sees the group dropped into a dystopian future…

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Music

NEWS: Gatecreeper Sign To Nuclear Blast Records

Photo Credit: Hayley Rippy Slamming, destructive death metal champions Gatecreeper, from Tucson, Arizona, have been appropriately accepted to the roster of one of the biggest heavy metal record labels, Nuclear Blast!…

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IFFR Review: Lone Wolf

Whilst today’s Hollywood spies may skydive onto buildings, drive sportscars at precarious speeds and use a myriad of imaginative gadgets, the stories themselves are often just variations on well-worn themes.…

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News: Sony launches XXIM progressive instrumental imprint: see Eydís Evensen’s ‘Brotin’

SONY has decided to get itself a little of the modern compositional pie and to that end, has set up a new progressive instrumental label, XXIM Records; which has opened…

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Sundance Review: Wild Indian

When Europeans arrived on the shores of North America, they were surprised to discover myriad tribes of Indigenous Peoples, but their coming usually signalled death, in one way or another.…

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NEWS: Dark Tea announce new album, out April 30th on Fire Talk

FOR THOSE who don’t know the project, Dark Tea is Gary Canino’s solo project, taking advantage of a large group of collaborators in the New York scene. Spanning across mostly…

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NEWS: Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley announce avant-garde folk album; hear ‘This Here Jungle of Moderness/Composition 14’

THEY may at first somewhat unlikely bedfellows: Matthew E. White, who arrived back in 2011 with his debut album The Big Inner, seemingly a fully formed gentleman of classic Southern…

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Premiere: The Motive release new single, Live It Again

South West London indie rock quartet The Motive are releasing their new single tomorrow (3rd February) and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here today on Backseat…

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SEE: Soen Release Video for Track ‘Illusion’

Film Review: The Wanting Mare

SEE: Code Orange Release Animated Video for Autumn and Carbine

NEWS: Gatecreeper Sign To Nuclear Blast Records

IFFR Review: Lone Wolf

News: Sony launches XXIM progressive instrumental imprint: see Eydís Evensen’s ‘Brotin’

Sundance Review: Wild Indian

NEWS: Dark Tea announce new album, out April 30th on Fire Talk

NEWS: Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley announce avant-garde folk album; hear ‘This Here Jungle of Moderness/Composition 14’

Premiere: The Motive release new single, Live It Again