After Nations is a hard-hitting quartet whose sound explores the spaces among sludge, post-metal, and heavy post-rock. Through years of DIY releases, US tours, and solidarity with local music scenes and artists around the country, the band has developed a dedicated underground following. With their latest single, "Vīrya",  they continue to create a sonic niche for themselves, merging the weighty tones of sludge, the coloring and spaciousness of post-rock, and the explosive with the meditative. Andrew Elliott - Guitars Travis Baker - Drums Matt Bosak - Bass Dave Sandoval - Guitars

Contranistas are an instrumental duo hailing from the notorious music city of Bakersfield CA. Using live looping and an array of effects, devices and found objects, theirs is a sound rooted in a sometimes post-rock, sometimes post-punkish energy and inspired by all things loud, noisy, ambient, gloomy, heavy and low.