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IF THESE TREES COULD TALK
Akron, OH
If Theses Trees Could Talk brings you to a place you didn't know existed, but now that you do, you discover that you need it. It's 100% unique and reeks of individuality. The blueprint went out the window, the rules forgotten. We'd like to consider them the soundtrack to those beautiful, freezing winter days that only come after a full night of mixed rain and snow. Tree branches and power lines completely swallowed in ice. Where the sky is so blue it looks fake and even though the sun covers your face with blazing light, you're frigid to the bone.
mp3 sample:"Malabar Front" from If These Trees Could Talk
Jeff Kalal - guitar Cody Kelly - guitar Mike Socrates - guitar Tom Fihe - bass Zack Kelly - drums
DISCOGRAPHY: If These Trees Could Talk - If These Trees Could Talk CD (self released, 2006)PURCHASE If These Trees Could Talk - If These Trees Could Talk 12" (The Mylene Sheath, 2007) OUT OF PRINT
BEWARE OF SAFETY Los Angeles, CA 
Beware of Safety made the conscious choice to create instrumental music.
To create sounds that words could not express.
To leave out the vocal monologue that is without interpretation or insight, but instead, create music which traverses emotional and textural hollows that teeter between concealment and proclamation; between rapture and affliction; between conviction and deprivation; between opulence and destitution; between choice and coercion; between boldness and apathy.
Beware of Safety calls the unspeakable from it's hiding place and imparts it to their listeners with gentle tact and deliberate action.
The inexpressible has found it's voice.
mp3 sample:"The Supposed Common" from dogs Steve Molter - guitar Adam Kay - guitar Jeff Zemina - guitar Tad Piecka - bass Morgan Hendry - drums
DISCOGRAPHY: Beware of Safety - It Is Curtains CD (self released, 2007)PURCHASE Beware of Safety - It Is Curtains 12" (The Mylene Sheath, 2007) PURCHASE
Beware of Safety - dogs CD (The Mylene Sheath, 2009)PURCHASE or
Beware of Safety - dogs 2xLP (The Mylene Sheath, 2009) PURCHASE or
CASPIAN Beverly, MA 
Caspian weaves precise, textured webs in which you become completely immersed and then profoundly affected. Hypnotized and forced to look inward. Their music offers a purpose for the thought. An answer to the questions you don’t know how to ask, that you didn't know you needed to ask. And all at once you know the answer is within you. The crawl back to rebirth has been resolved. The womb has been found...
mp3 sample:"Crawlspace" from The Four Trees
Philip Jamieson - guitar Calvin Joss - guitar Erin Burke-Moran - guitar Chris Friedrich - bass Joe Vickers - drums
Caspian - You Are The Conductor CD (Dopamine, 2005)PURCHASE Caspian - You Are The Conductor 12" (The Mylene Sheath, 2008) PURCHASE Caspian - The Four Trees CD (Dopamine, 2007/Make My Day, 2008)PURCHASE (USA) or PURCHASE (EUROPE) Caspian - The Four Trees 2xLP (The Mylene Sheath, 2007) PURCHASE
GIFTS FROM ENOLA Harrisonbug, VA 
Gifts from Enola’s sound captures the landscape of a snow capped monstrous massif peaking and rising into the clouds. It’s vast, desolate, and impossible to comprehend the enormity of it. Each song is a triumphant expedition to a jagged, colossal mountain peak. While at the top gazing out upon the seemingly endless mountain range from the one you just conquered, you have a great epiphany. You will never forget it. And, after a violent, cataclysmic avalanche back down, you begin to climb back up, so you might feel it again.
mp3 sample:"Benthos" from From Fathoms
Andrew Barnes - guitar CJ Deluca - guitar Tim Skirven - guitar Nathaniel Dominy - bass Jud Mason - drums
Gifts From Enola - Loyal Eyes Betrayed The Mind CD (self released, 2006)PURCHASE Gifts From Enola - Loyal Eyes Betrayed The Mind 2xLP (The Mylene Sheath, 2008) PURCHASE Gifts From Enola/You.May.Die.In.The.Desert: Harmonic Motion Vol. 1 split CD (Differential Records, 2008)PURCHASE Gifts From Enola - From Fathoms CD (The Mylene Sheath, 2009) coming June 9th PREORDER Gifts From Enola - From Fathoms 2xLP (The Mylene Sheath, 2009) coming June 9th PREORDER
YOU.MAY.DIE.IN.THE.DESERT Seattle, WA 
You.May.Die.In.The.Desert use sudden and unexpected time changes, funky time signatures, and frighteningly sharp technical prowess to achieve a sound all it's own. They're not leaving you behind, but they are challenging you to keep up. This only accentuates the beauty that is captured in each song, giving the listener room to take the ride and dream along the entire trip, if they choose to. We feel this is Sunday morning inspiration, energetic and focused. Breaking lazy habits. And as your mind is being blown and you decide to read the liner notes, you'll realize that this is just a three piece.Then your head explodes.
mp3 sample:"Bears In The Yukon" from Bears In The Yukon
Brian Woods - guitar, loops Brandon Salter - bass, programming Michael Clark - drums, percussion, piano
You.May.Die.In.The.Desert - Bears In The Yukon CD (THe Mylene Sheath, 2008) PURCHASE or You.May.Die.In.The.Desert/Gifts From Enola: Harmonic Motion Vol. 1 split CD (Differential Records, 2008) PURCHASE
GIANTS Cedar Falls, IA / Chicago, IL / Minneapolis, MN 
Methodical, meticulous, precise. You can envision yourself seeing your life unfold through the eyes of a traveller as he journeys the country side years ago. This is epic stuff. Masterfully textured and layered. Leaving no notes unplayed and remaining focused throughout each track, this band has created a sound that sends and intoxicating layer of goose bumps over your body as the songs progress and ultimately climax in crashing crescendos. If everyone would start their morning off with a track by this band, war would not exist. =)
mp3 sample:"The Palace Stands In It's Proper Place" from They, The Undeserving
Heath Hospodarsky - guitar James Lyle - guitar Josh Parks - guitar Dave Livingston - bass Paul Miller - drums
Giants - Giants CD (self released, 2005) out of print Giants - They, The Undeserving CD (Medical Abuse Records, 2007) PURCHASE Giants - They, The Undeserving 12" (The Mylene Sheath, 2008) PURCHASE Giants - Old Stories (Cavity Records, 2008) PURCHASE
BENEATH OBLIVION Cincinnati, OH 
Beneath Oblivion is Cincinnati, Ohio’s finest in doom, despair and futility. Crawling forward, white-knuckled with down-tuned guitar riffs that leave you unnerved and anxious, bass lines that thud hard enough to leave you nauseous, and drums that thump one minute in a tribal, trance-inducing cavalcade and the next crashing down with the power of a mountain splitting in two. And though self-lamenting enough to satisfy anyones deepest wallowing, it challenges you to use your sorrow as a fuel to conquer and persevere.
mp3 sample:"One Year Of Deprivation" from Beneath Oblivion
Scott Simpson - vocals/guitar Jay Waller - bass/vocals Nate Bidwell - drums
Beneath Oblivion - Existence Without Purpose CD (self released, 2006) out of print Beneath Oblivion/Sin Of Angels split 10" (43rd Parallel, 2007) PURCHASE Beneath Oblivion - Beneath Oblivion 10" (The Mylene Sheath, 2009) PURCHASE
EKSI EKSO Boston, MA 
At the edge of an impossibly calm reservoir, face down among broken glass and apocalyptic debris, you have no identification... no recollection of how you ended up here. Barely mobile and completely taxed, you rise, fearing what is to be found and not found.Did you initiate this catastrophe or are you a reluctant survivor left in place to rebuild what's left? The Boston-based sextet are forged with a sense of triumph and hope when everything else has been eradicated, the album pendulates over the fine balance between creation and annihilation: at one second breathy, calm, and sparse; followed immediately by snaking melodies, unrelenting density and climactic cacophony.
mp3 sample:"Killing Texas" from I Am Your Bastard Wings
Nate Shumaker - vocals/guitar Tom Korkidis - bass/vocals/keys/samples Clara Kebabian - violin/vocals Beth Holub - viola/other Sean Will - trumpet/keys/samples Alex Mihm - drums
Eksi Ekso - I Am Your Bastard Wings 2xLP (The Mylene Sheath, 2008) PURCHASE Eksi Ekso - I Am Your Bastard Wings CD (Magic Bullet, 2008)PURCHASE
LVNGS Dayton, OH 
This Dayton, OH based quartet crawls under your skin with exceptional songwriting, commanding, intense drumming, slithering, dueling guitars, and droning, throbbing basslines. There’s a hint of dirt mixed in all this; like layers of sludgy soil beneath the surface, thick and full of history. The Earth's breathing, if you will, slowly inhaling to it's warm and solid core.
mp3 sample:"Sinking Ships" from Sinking Ships b/w Two
Greg - guitar Chris - guitar Drew - bass Mick - drums
Lvngs - Sinking Ships b/w Two 7" PURCHASE
ACTORS & ACTRESSES Kansas City, MO 
Actors & Actresses are dedicated to the idea that music can be heavy without being angry, and lush without being boring and aimless. They began working to create an atmosphere that elevates rather than overwhelms the listener's senses with a focus on creating a unique visual accompaniment that blends with their music.
Soon after their 2004 debut, the band found that using an ideal balance of eerie and comforting sounds pleased a swiftly-growing audience. Many new fans of the band were surprised that a sound so large and layered could come from just 3 musicians. Scott Bennett anchors the trio with a massive thrum of down-tuned bass diametrically-opposed by his soft alto vocals. Andrew Schiller's guitars provide a backdrop that moves between subtle harmonic textures and blaring noise. David Sumner guides the roiling mass of sound with precise rhythm constructions from both his kit and banks of samples that give Actors & Actresses an instantly recognizable signature sound.
mp3 sample:"Law of Entropy" from Arrows Scott Bennett - bass/vocals Andrew Schiller - guitar Dave Sumner - drums/media samples
Actors & Actresses - We Love Our Enemy CD (self released, 2005) PURCHASE Actors & Actresses - Arrows LP (The Mylene Sheath, 2009) coming June 9th, 2009 PREORDER Actors & Actresses - Arrows CD (The Mylene Sheath, 2009) coming June 9th, 2009 PREORDER
CONSTANTS Boston, MA  The members of Constants don’t try to do anything—they just are who they are. The songs on “The Foundation, the Machine, the Ascension ”
sound mature. Focused. Effortless. After three raw, eager early
releases the band has finally come into its own: Benoit—along with
bassist Orion Wainer and drummer Rob Motes—has fine-tuned his band’s
distinct energy and youthful ambition into a signature sound that is
Constants and Constants alone.
mp3 sample: "Genetics Like Chess Pieces" from The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension
Will Benoit - Guitar/vocals/Programming Rob Motes - Drums Orion Wainer - Bass
DISCOGRAPHY: Constants - Nostalgia For The Future CD/ LP (Radar Recordings, 2004) OUT OF PRINT Constants - The Murder of Tom Fitzgerril MCD(Radar Recordings, 2006) PURCHASE Constants - The Murder of Tom Fitzgerril LP(Vega Vinyl, 2008) PURCHASE Caspian/ Constants - Split 7"(Radar Recordings, 2008) PURCHASE
Constants - The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension CD (The Mylene Sheath, 2009) OUT SOON!! Constants - The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension 3xLP (The Mylene Sheath, 2009) OUT SOON!!
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