Red Sparowes is epic without bombast, heavy without a single barre-chord riff and eviscerating without any clearly audible vocals. The chiming, spindly layers of effect-laden guitars and the swinging, entrancing drums on its Neurot Recordings debut At the Soundless Dawn create textures reminiscent of Goblin, Tones on Tail, Godspeed You Black Emperor and early Sonic Youth. Its attack is syrupy and serpentine; subtle but frighteningly deliberate.

Red Sparowes is comprised of Bryant Clifford Meyer on guitar (Isis), Josh Graham on guitar (Neurosis visuals and acclaimed video director), Greg Burns on bass and pedal steel (also of Temporary Residence dark chamber folk sextet Halifax Pier), Andy Arahood on bass/guitar (Angel Hair) and David Clifford on drums (The VSS, Pleasure Forever).

As its playfully gruesome name might imply, Made Out of Babies is not a demure or delicate band -- it's an aberration of innocence.

In the tradition of artists as evocative as Jesus Lizard; as imaginative and impassioned as Bjork; as discomfortingly frank as Big Black and as unnerving as filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, the New York City quartet summons a wholly unique claustrophobic fury. It's an eye-opening revision of everything that had once seemed acceptable and rational.

http://www.madeoutofbabies.com/

Una corda hail from Birmingham, England. Featuring two guitarists, two bass players and una drummer, the band features ex-members of illustrious underground acts-Cradle, Marker, Ackbar and Mistress. Their unorthodox line up makes heavy music for light sleepers, a darkly melodic epic soundscape carved out with black headspinning riffs.

  http://www.myspace.com/unacorda