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Review: Proghma-C – Bar-do Travel (2009/10)
Moments of clarity and brilliance can be found on an otherwise lackluster album, this is a sad and frustrating fact within the musical world, especially when in the role of the professional critic. Poland’s Proghma-C, and their 2009 debut, Bar-do Travel bring this very essence of brilliance and clarity to their music, but they are [...]
Review: Madder Mortem – Where Dream And Day Collide EP (2010)
Madder Mortem is the larger than life avant garde juggernaut that seemingly everyone with half an inkling of a taste for this music enjoys, or at least appreciates. Madder Mortem is simply one of those bands that brings out the best in their own music, as well as each of their listeners. When Dream and [...]
Exclusive Interview With Erik Ravn of Wuthering Heights!
Wuthering Heights, the Danish power prog band that has just released the album of the sub-genre to beat this year, Salt. I had the pleasure of being able to review this album (which can be read here), so when I got the opportunity to ask some questions about the year’s best prog act so far, [...]
Tetrafusion Are Back With New Material…And It’s Simply Delightful
Once I get my hands on the new album, expect a new review, but in the meantime, take a ganter at this trailer the band has whipped up to preview the new album. From what little taste we get, it sounds fantastic (and vocals too!).
Review: Haken – Aquarius (2010)
Haken, in the grand tradition of their prog forefathers, is an English band that takes great pride in evading the ordinary. Their debut album Aquarius may have strong similarities to metal Circus Maximus and rock Spock’s Beard, but they still supremely original with their own edge that can’t be classified under either the rock or [...]
Review: Wuthering Heights – Salt (2010)
Naming your band after a book that is so succinctly boring is truly a ballsy move. In fact, because of the band’s name, I never really got around to listening to them for years because of the very fact I fucking hate the book they are named after. However, when a promo for Wuthering Heights’ [...]
Review: The Unravelling – 13 Arcane Hymns (2010)
Pink Floyd, Opeth, and Tool have all arguably made their own masterpiece albums. The Unravelling cite these bands and more as inspiration, and I believe, strive to make a masterpiece of their own. This band is often referred to as progressive metal. I take that as ‘this is a band that refuses to focus on [...]
Review: Soulcage – Soul For Sale (2009)
Progressive metal is one of those surprising genre’s that can really catch you by surprise. It can open your eyes to a lighter side of metal, that doesn’t make you feel like a little girl (the way some progressive music can), and you can find a joy in the cool-down sound that it offers. Everyone [...]
Exclusive Interview With Haunted Shores!
Haunted Shores, a fantastic new band combining high melody with technical modern metal, is set to release upon the world a brand new split EP set to be released (physical copies) on April 30th featuring former Periphery frontman Chris Barretto with the immense talents of Mark Holcomb on guitars. As soon as I heard Haunted [...]
New Terminal Video Posted
A few months ago, I wrote up a small tidbit on a new Polish prog rock band I had encountered by the name of Terminal and their new album called Tree of Lie which I expounded upon concerning their originality. Terminal recently released a couple of new music videos for the songs “Mind Destruction” and [...]
