ESTEL

ESTEL formed in 1999 in Dublin city. We are independent. We enjoy doing it ourselves. Many recordings have been released featuring us [ check out http://www.estelrocks.com/releases.html for more precise information.]. Some folks dig us, some folks hate us [normally through the medium of the internet, of course!]. We have shared the stage with bands like SIKHARA/ OVO/ 90 DAY MEN/ BILGE PUMP/ THE APES/ PARTY OF HELICOPTERS/ FUNERAL DINER/ BLACK EYES/ THE EX/ HOOVER/ CULT OF LUNA/ MIKE WATT AND THE SECONDMEN/ LIGHTNING BOLT/ DJ SCOTCH EGG/ ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE/DAS WANDERLUST/ THE DULOKS/ OWLS/ THE LIARS/ MICHAEL GIRA/ DEVANDRA BERNHARDT/ CHECK ENGINE/ NINETYNINE/ ART OF FIGHTING and every irish band ever, ever.
We have recorded music in the studio with ADRIAN CROWLEY/ MIKE WATT/ STEVE MACKAY and more.
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Imagine for a minute that the Irish rock underground is a scary warren of tunnels. A bit like somewhere from the land of Mordor in Lord of the Rings except you can access it through a secret portal in the Lower Deck or the Boom Boom Room. It’s a cold, damp, labyrinthine place full of discordant, relentless, yet fascinating music. If bands like Adebisi Shank and Bats are the freshly-hatched spawn who guard the gates to this netherworld, chances are that Estel reside somewhere within it’s darkest vaults. They’d be a huge glowing maggot, or monstrous spider, an enigmatic creature that has resided beneath Dublin for ten years now, dreaming up dark, uncompromising instrumental music, oblivious to the fads and fashions of the world above
[ANALOGUE ZINE.]



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