Syberia - Quan tot s'apagui (2026)

When I'm asked about the loudest concert I've ever been to, I mention MBV at OFF Festival and Syberia's gig in a tiny cellar in Kraków, where five guys barely fitting the small stage filled the space with extreme atmospheric noise. I'm ecstatic to listen to their new album that is all about the same glorious experience: the guitar noise that makes you fly.

Quan tot s'apagui (that translates roughly to "When everything goes out") is another album in recent months that is filled with dark and heavy post-rock. Yes, this is the band's signature sound (with Ain't.Care.About.Bullets as one of my very favourite post-rock tracks ever), but it's also a trend that must be fueled with whatever is going on with the world right now. But this darkness is also filled with energy (which usually is not a good sign, but this time it really is). The guitars gallop furiously most of the time, the walls of noise come at you one by one and I just loooove how the drums work here. This music is extreme, doesn't let you breathe even for a second, but it doesn't matter. You only want to breathe the sound.

Coming back to the Kraków concert: some enthusiastic but not very good at geopolitical matters bloke shouted "Viva España!" at the band (with good intentions) to which the artists politely corrected him that they are from Catalonia. And this brings me to the last point about the album: it is their first work in their own language which I respect extremely!

Quan tot s'apagui costs 9.99 EUR.

Check: naixença d'una mort tranquil·la

Country: Catalonia/Spain

Genre: dark post-rock

Label: Moment of Collapse Records

Syberia - Statement on Death (2022)

Syberia - Seeds of Change (2019)

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Syberia - Statement on Death (2022)

Three years after their signature album Seeds of Change, the Spanish post-rockers of Syberia are back with a great follow up in the form of the new release called Statement on Death. The album is filled with heavy instrumental music and as such should be appreciated by the fans of the genre.

The Spanish' post-rock is clearly heavier than what usually post-rock is associated with. It borders with post-metal and sludge but also presents a very post-rock-like composition building and is strictly vocalless. The harsh and energetic guitar sounds are characterized by a great flow that catches the listener and drives them quickly very far away. Long tracks, like my favourite Ain't.Care.About.Bullets, feel short and brief, that's how much happens in them all the time. This track actually feels like it is about to get finished in an impressive crescendo style not once but multiple times, from its beginning up to the end. It's fantastic.

And it's true not only about this track in particular. The whole album is basically never-ending excitement transformed into heavy guitar music. Also, remember that the band plays a lot of places in Europe this spring and summer and they are coming to Poland's Kraków soon enough too. Can't wait!

Statement on Death costs 4.99 USD.

Syberia - Seeds of Change (2019)

Check: Ain't.Care.About.Bullets

Country: Spain

Genre: heavy post-rock

Label: Metal Blade Records

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Syberia - Seeds of Change (2019) PL

Ten album ma już trzy miesiące, ale niech mnie szlag jeśli o nim nie napiszę. Katalońska Syberia wjechała mi w uszy znakomitej jakości post-rockiem ukrytym za bardzo post-hardcore'ową okładką płyty Seeds of Change.

Piszą, że nazwa rosyjskich ostępów północy wzięła się z tureckiego "śpiącą ziemię”. Jeśli to prawda to niewiele jest z tego w muzyce zespołu. Ten przebojowy, hałaśliwy i badający nowe tereny post-rock wbija się z buta w głośniki i nie daje o sobie zapomnieć. Zespół tworzy "skomplikowane i wciągajace post-rockowe dzieła i nigdy nie byli tak pewni siebie jak na >Seeds Of Change<".

Najlepiej oddają to gitary, które na płycie Katalończyków potrafią być zarówno przebojowe jak i do bólu głośne. A także zróżnicowane, jak piszą o procesie twórczym: "pomysły zaczęły napływać i nie ograniczaliśmy się w próbowaniu nowych rzeczy i podchodzeniu do nieekpslorowanych przez nas wcześniej brzmień" i to czuć. Pasuje to też do ogólnej tematyki albumu kręcącej się wokół tytułowych ziaren zmiany w społeczeństwie i wynikającej z nich rewolucji.

Seeds of Change kosztuje 35 złotych (8,99 USD).

Sprawdź: After the Uprising

Kraj: Katalonia/Hiszpania

Szufladka: Guitar post-rock

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Syberia - Seeds of Change (2019) EN

This album is already three months old, but I'd be damned if I didn't write about it here. The Catalan Syberia stormed my ears with the high quality post-rock hidden behind the very post-hardcore cover art of the album Seeds of Change.

They state that the Russia's wilderness' name came from the Turkish for "asleep land”. If it's true than it's not very much present in the band's music. This furious, loud and keen to explore post-rock conquers loud-speakers and makes it absolutely impossible to forget it. The band creates "intricate and involving post-rock opuses, and they have never sounded more assured than on >Seeds Of Change<".

It's best reflected in the sound of guitars that on the Catalans' album can be both melodic and painfully loud. And also diverse as the artists write about their creative process: "the ideas started flowing and we weren't shy about trying different things and approaching soundscapes we hadn't explored previously" and it's felt. It's also fitting for the album's general them revolving around the title's seeds of change in society resulting in revolution.

Seeds of Change costs 8.99 USD.

Check: After the Uprising

Country: Catalonia/Spain

Genre: Guitar post-rock

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