Paris-based instrumental, progressive metal act OAKS recently released their highly anticipated debut album Genesis of the Abstract via Argonauta Records, now you can check the Video for the song “The Abstract” on band’s ...
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Antipope announces new studio album – ‘Rex Mundi’ on October 28th 2022 via Moribund Records Finland’s ANTIPOPE return with their highly anticipated Genre-Melding 6th Album of Melodic and Progressive Heavy Metal: ...
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The term progressive metal might have lost its clear meaning at this point, but once upon a time, there was a good chance that anything associated with it ...
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Covid-19 pandemic made a good favor for musical bands, giving them enough time to compose and to record more material. Hex A.D. always was an active band, and ...
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Once Fates Warning entered the 90’s, it seemed that the band had lost their magic forever. Parallels saw the band heading into progressive rock territory and resulted into an album ...
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This year Paragon Records / Grimm Distribution / More Hate has re-released from Old Souls Collective last year’s LP Cold Dead Lands of American melodic doom/death metal band ...
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When bands depart from their earlier and often heavier sound, there are always some obvious risks involved. Some bands get away with it, but I’d argue that most ...
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Last year I listened to an international project Chaos Over Cosmos for the first time and it impressed me a lot: two guys that live on the different ...
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In the beginning of June American progressive metal band Intentional Trainwreck has released independently their sophomore album “Smokestack of Souls”. And after six years of silence their music ...
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In 2020 At The Gates celebrated their 30 years anniversary. However, it was a quiet celebration: last year was complicated for all of us and for the band ...
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The story of Terra Odium starts way back in 1985 with the Norwegian Prog Metal band Manitou. After releasing a few demos and a full length album a ...
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Sunrise is not that kind of band that pleases their crowd with frequent releases: their last album Absolute Clarity was released in 2016 and the newest single “The ...
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This March dark progressive/heavy metal band Witherfall from California, USA has released their new creation “Curse of Autumn”, staying true to the almighty Century Media Records. And three ...
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There’s something about the directions Fates Warning took throughout the 90’s that just doesn’t sit well with me. Parallels marked the start of the band’s lightweight period and follow-up Inside ...
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Terravoid is a newly project in the scene, founded by Phidion’s vocalist Oliver Palmquist. Terravoid is a progressive metal project, where debuted in March with a first EP ...
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Here is a pretty cool mix of power, heavy and symphonic metal, with catchy choruses, powerful verses and riffs, and an overall epic and fun tone to it. ...
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How often do bands become better after taking a ten year gap between their debut and their follow up? Yeah, not many, but sci-fi geeks Exises were a ...
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Here is one confused and confusing EP. This is the kind of record where a wild bunch of different ideas are all thrown one after the other and ...
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The idea of a progressive metal band that has more emphasis on adventurous arrangements than downright riffs sounds terrible on paper – fortunately this is where Payne’s Gray ...
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Interview video with Manuel Barbará – a New Jersey based musician and composer with a passion for progressive metal and contemporary classical music. He is a graduate of ...
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