Since most of you are opeth fans, I highly recommend the Jordanian Dark Oriental metal band BILOCATE, their latest release Sudden Death Syndrome was co-produced, Mixed & Engineered & Mastered at Fascination Street Studios, Orebro - Sweden by Jens Bogren (same sound engineer that work with Opeth, Katatonia, Bloodbath, Amon Amarth, Symphony X)
You can check their music at their myspace page
http://www.myspace.com/bilocate
I would like to share some quotes from world metal famous Magazines about BILOCATE release:
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DECIBEL Magazine - USA
Record labels are stupid. Here's a prog/death band-from Jordan, of all places-that's essentially Opeth but interesting, with perfect performances and production, and artwork by big names. They're atmospheric, unpredictable (one track is a stunning 17-minute journey), nuanced, heavy, better than 98% of the competition-and they're unsigned?!?!
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Metal Hammer:
"Their new album Sudden Death Syndrome, isn't just a victory in that it exist at all, it's a stunning, heartfelt metal album in its own right, its rich atmospherics might carry an occasional whiff of traditional instrumentation as well as Opeth's fevered"
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Terroizer Magazine
Though Bilocate have been compared to Opeth, perhaps as they've shared a sound engineer, that's too lazy a reference point as there's less of a concern with the 70s prog sensibility here than that would imply - 'Sudden Death Syndrome' is content to pinball around within (as admittedly broad interpretation of) metal confines without feeding in old camel riffs, an on a more mundane level, apart from the odd spoken passage vocalist Ramzi is a strictly death-growls only kind of guy. its very variety may come across as slightly old fashioned to some but this remains a tasteful and sophisticated piece of work that determinedly put the Jordanian metal scene on the map
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