progressive metal 140 articles

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Review: At The Gates “The Nightmare Of Being” [Century Media Records]

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...

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Review: Terra Odium “Ne Plus Ultra” [Frontiers Music]

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...

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Review: Sunrise “Equilibria” [Music Gym Records]

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...

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Review: Witherfall “Curse of Autumn” [Century Media Records]

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...

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Review: Fates Warning “A Pleasant Shade of Gray” [Massacre Records]

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...

Interview: TERRAVOID

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...

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Review: Marble “S.A.V.E.” [Sliptrick records]

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...

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Review: Exises “Reternity” [Cymbeline Records]

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...

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Review: Amoriello “Dear Dark” [Sliptrick records]

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...

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Review: Payne’s Gray “Kadath Decoded”

The idea of a progressive metal band that has more emphasis on adventurous arrangements than downright riffs sounds terrible on paper – fortunately this is...

Video interview with Manuel Barbará

Interview video with Manuel Barbará – a New Jersey based musician and composer with a passion for progressive metal and contemporary classical music. He is...

Video interview with Jeff Pennachio

Jeff Pennachio comes from New York State in the USA and besides being known for his guitar playing in Design The Void, he is also...

Video interview: Dan “Chewy” Mongrain from Voivod

In December we had a nice long chat with Voivod‘s guitarist Dan “Chewy” Mongrain. We talked about live performances, complexity of music and shed some...

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Review: Arch / Matheos “Sympathetic Resonance” [Metal Blade Records]

Having John Arch back in business is a great thing, it really is – but what happens if his talents aren’t used properly and the...

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Review: Royal Hunt “Dystopia” [NorthPoint Productions]

For more than 30 years of existence, Dutch Royal Hunt released 15 albums – impressive number, especially for Progressive Metal bands, which usually don’t rush...

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Review: Outworld “Promo 2008”

Sometimes my curiosity gets the best of me and I’m often glad that it does. It made me want to try out this Chinese restaurant...

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Review: Outworld “Outworld” [Replica Records]

As a progressive metal fan that prefers the earlier incarnation of the style that was brought to life by Fates Warning, it’s hard to find...

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Review: Fates Warning “Parallels” [Metal Blade Records]

Perhaps I’m a bit conservative with my ideas, but if you ask me bands writing more radio friendly material often results into trouble. Not even...

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Review: Opeth “Blackwater Park” [Music for Nations]

It would be terribly tempting to dismiss this album as being the meandering prog-ish jams from a few metalheads in Sweden that remotely switch from...

Video interview with Reverent Tales

Interview video with Reverent Tales – Progressive Metal band from Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.facebook.com/reverenttales/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/5VmHEyh21vclFmhysESorO https://reverenttales.bandcamp.com/