Party: Aluk Todolo, Ashtar und Sum of R

Party: Aluk Todolo, Ashtar und Sum of R

Aluk Todolo

During the last decade, the French power trio Aluk Todolo have used the basic instruments and fundamental techniques of hard rock and metal to pursue what may seem a musical unicorn—hyperkinetic, heavy instrumental music that’s meditative and absorbing. That is, they hope to produce a trance for the listener through sheer activity, with shifting rhythms and repeating riffs forming a sort of blanket of busyness.

Ashtar

Ashtar is a duo from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2012 by members of swiss doom bands Phased and shEver (Witch N. left shEver in 2013). They create an intuitive, intense hybrid of down-tuned archaic riffing, heavy bass and desperately sick vocals with layered, eerie-saturnine melodies, telling about abyss and beauty, melancholy and chaos.
Ashtars debut Album "Ilmasaar" is released in 2015.

Sum Of R

Sum Of R creates slow moving episodes of a hypnotic and complex music between post-metal, doom, drone, ambient, experimental and instrumental rock music. Their ritualistic take on expanding sound layers is deepened by the rawness of an unconventional metal atmosphere.