Minsk lists its influences as ranging from '70s doom metal and prog rock all the way to cutting-edge '80s bands like Dead Can Dance. And on their 2006 release Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead nor Alive, it ...

Minsk bassist Sanford Parker has become an in-demand producer within a certain precinct of the art-metal underground; he's worked with Yakuza and Pelican, among others, and Yakuza saxophonist Bruce Lamont returned the favor by blowing on the last Minsk album, ...

Two psychedelic/stoner metal bands and one of the members of long-running "post-metal" act Neurosis join forces on this album to pay tribute to legendary early-'70s space rock act Hawkwind. While Hawkwind were primarily a U.K. and European phenomenon in their ...

Minsk CD discography. Disciples of experimental rock and metal acts such as Isis and Tool, as well as fans of vintage NWOBHM, will be intrigued by Chicago's Minsk. Taking its name and inspiration from the famed Belarusian city, this Peoria-based quartet blends a ...

Minsk albums. Minsk lists its influences as ranging from '70s doom metal and prog rock all the way to cutting-edge '80s bands like Dead Can Dance. And on their 2006 release Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead nor Alive, it all comes together for the band. The group -- which includes Tim Mead (vocals, synthesizers), Chris Bennett (guitar), Sanford Parker (bass, synthesizers), and Anthony Couri (drums) -- certainly brings to mind such challenging bands as Pelican at times. This may not come as much of a surprise when you realize that the group's bassist has also engineered a pair of Pelican EPs (2003's Pelican and Australasia). And like its friends in Pelican, Minsk is certainly a sucker for ...

Minsk music CDs. Additional Tracks Track Listing of songs: Three Moons; The Shore Of Transcendence; Almitra's Premonition; Means To An End; Crescent Mirror; Pisgah; Consumed By Horizons Of Fire; Requiem: From Substance To Silence;