RAD RELEASES 18 – KUSANAGI

It’s that time once again, as the countdown to the end of 2018 rapidly approaches we take a personal look back on familiar names, features and musicians’ best releases of the past 12 months. In what has been another crazy year of highs and lows- it’s the releases that have pulled a lot of people through the year. Now in it’s 8th year, Circuit Sweet will be hosting takeovers from the featured artists/musicians/labels and promoters of the site with their personal top releases of the year.

As we near the end of our annual end of year tradition; we let our favourites take over the site to tell us the records that have made their end of year lists. Telling us their favourite events/gigs and what we can look forward to from them next year.

Our next take over comes from the loveable Liverpool instrumental post rock band Kusanagi. Following on from last year’s outstanding second full length Aeon, the band have continued to plug the release and tour relentlessly across the UK throughout the year. We hand over to Dan of Kusanagi  to see what records have been most loved in 2018 for him and the band…

Top 5 albums

Boss Keloid – Melted on the inch

A Great mix of stoner, prog, doom metal with an almost folky feel at times.Wigans Keliod were awesome at rekoner festival.Brilliant modern metal band.

High on Fire – Electric Messiah

All the Riffs, quality album, top band 

Behemoth – I loved You at Your Darkest

A brilliant album mixing a lot of modern metal with a black metal twist, Dark and edgy. I was going to choose this album or the new Deafheaven album, but I found this more interesting.

Sumac – Love in Shadow

Just crushingly heavy, cool and a brilliant album and band.

Zeal and Ardor – Strange Fruit

A Great blend of black metal and blues, great band.

Best gig we’ve played 2018

Death and The Penguin Liverpool
Masiro, Iran Iran, The Blackheart London

Best gigs attended 2018

Mogwai – Albert hall Manchester
Converge, Crowbar , Tho – Academy 2 
A Perfect Circle – The Apollo Manchester
Rekoner Festival – Sheffield
Ministry/Chelsea Wolfe – Albert Hall Manchester

Highlights 2018

Playing the Blackheart in London was great, Best Sound weve ever had and was a top night playing for Chaos Theory.

We also got to Play with Death and the Penguin in Liverpool this year and was good to finally meet them, lovely guys and great band.

Also had a great gig in Bristol a few weeks back with Aiming for Enrike and Seven Colour Drive.

Ones to watch 2019

Real Terms
Aiming for Enrike
Hundred Year Old Man
Dystopian Future Movies
A Burial at Sea
A-tota-so

Plans for 2019

We are going to get ourselves away and write for most of 2019. We have a few shows planned later in the year. 3 of us have a new Instrumental Post Metal band called Mairu. We will be releasing material through 2019 looking forward to that.

A huge thank you to Dan and all of the band, we can’t wait to hear potential new material and will keep an eye out on the new band!

https://kusanagi.bandcamp.com/