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Chronoclast is BURIED INSIDE’s Relapse debut and the first in a series of common claim records acting as organs to the project’s body. Produced by Matt Bayles (ISIS, BOTCH, MASTODON), narrower in focus, and almost three years in the making, Chronoclast was written as a single 40-minute piece using a variety of instruments ranging from strings and brass to piano and electric organ.
Buried Inside - Chronoclast
2005

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Jonas Hellborg - Art Metal
2007
Instrumental Progressive / Jazz-Rock / Fusion

Line-up
Jonas Hellborg - Bass, Mattias "IA" Eklundh - Guitar, V. Selvaganesh - Kanjeera, Anders Johansson - Drums, Jens Johansson - Keyboards

Mattias "IA" Eklundh is the lead guitar player of Swedish power trio "Freak Kitchen". He has received much attention from the guitar community for his skilled and highly unconventional style of guitar playing. His music is very distinct, as it is both complicated and playful at the same time.
Outside of "Freak Kitchen", Eklundh has recorded several solo albums, and made appearances as a guest musician for Swedish heavy metal bands like "Evergrey" and "Soilwork". His two "Freak Guitar" solo albums were released on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label, and include drawings and other artwork from friend Anders Nyberg. In 2005, he grouped with Swedish bass guitarist and composer Jonas Hellborg in the "Jonas Hellborg Trio" along with drummer Jeff Sipe and played their first gig in Mumbai, India, and followed with a tour of India.
Instrumental / Metal / Fusion
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Angizia is an Austrian Avant Garde group which has been also categorized as "Circus Metal". It can be defined as a mixture of the operetta of the 19th century, Central European folk music with a little touch of gothic dramatism and a bit of metal as well. The band was created by Michael Haas (also known as Engelke) in 1994. Their first work, "Die Kemenaten scharlachroter Lichter" (1997) was accepted positively by critics. The band's next work was the "Russian trilogy" consisting of the albums "Das Tagebuch der Hanna Anikin", "Das Schachbrett Des Trommelbuben Zacharias" and "39 Jahre fur den Leierkastenmann". "39 Jahre fur den Leierkastenmann" (subtitled "Ein Stuck fur die Judenstadt") is a play of three acts that narrates the misfortunes of four Russian and Jewish musicians during World War II.
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Orphaned Land is a Progressive metal band from Israel whose music contains Middle-Eastern influences.
Orphaned Land fuse doom and death metal as well as Middle-Eastern folk music and tradition. The eastern influences tend to overrun the heavy metal roots of the music, either attracting or alienating listeners.
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Freak Kitchen is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1992. The high technical level of their compositions usually makes people refer to their style as somewhat of a progressive metal or progressive rock band.
Freak Kitchen's style of music is influenced by many genres besides the traditional heavy metal, ranging from jazz to pop. The band described their third album as "A corny little heavy-pop-rock-latin-world-jazz-avant-garde-metal-blues-record".
Lyrics contain heavy criticism against capitalist society, conformity, racism and the attitude of huge record companies.
Frontman Mattias IA Eklundh is widely known as a guitarist of high technical ability, and live shows often contain parts where Eklundh plays the guitar using several foreign objects such as a vibrating dildo. Eklundh has also released three solo albums, Sensually Primitive (1997) (under the pseudonym Mr. Libido), Freak Guitar (1999) and The Road Less Traveled (2004).
Heavy Metal, Experimental Metal
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