progressive metal 139 articles

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Classic Review: Conception “In Your Multitude” [Noise Records]

It always fascinates me how fast a band is able to progress for the best and how little it takes before a band heads into...

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Review: Twilight Kingdom “The Guardian”

I like progressive metal. I really do – but the problem with the style is that once one has become familiar with the well known...

Video interview with Angband

Angband is a Power Metal/ Progressive band, formed in 2004 in Tehran by Mahyar Dean a classically trained musician and author who is well known...

Video interview with Joviac

Joviac was formed in late 2016 by frontman Viljami Jupiter Wenttola as a necessary artistic outlet. With a strong vision and an unrelenting compulsion to...

Video interview with Carnatia

Carnatia, whose name was inspired by a tragic experience, started its musical activities in mid-2017. Focusing on such themes like human relations, psychology, mythology and...

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Review: Chaos Over Cosmos “The Ultimate Multiverse” [Narcoleptica Productions]

I guess it would be very trivial to say that modern underground is not what it was years before. Everyone who has a computer nowadays...

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Review: Tetractys “Solstice”

The Chilean progressive metal band Tetractys released their third album “Solstice” in April 2020, with the regular gap of two years. This music isn’t experimental...

Video interview with Ancient Curse (Germany)

ANCIENT CURSE are neither an ordinary Power Metal formation nor a Prog Metal band. Founded in 1985, they are also not a typical band of...

Video interview with hopeScure

hopeScure is an Atmospheric Progressive Metal Band from France, created end 2016. Inspired by progressive metal and score music. hopeScure have released their debut full-length...

Video interview with Draemora

Draemora was formed in November 2019 in the Seattle, USA area by Terry Jenkins (vocals/guitar) after his separation from his previous band Odyssian. Seeing it...

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Review: AZURE EMOTE “The Third Perspective” [Selfmadegod Records]

The brainchild of Mike Hrubovcak Azure Emote released his third album “The Third Perspective” in 2020, once again presenting open-mindedness and original vision on music....

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Review: HYBORIAN “Volume II” [Season of Mist]

Riding into battle comes the great warlord, the sound of the skulls crushed beneath his mighty steed accompanying his triumphant display. He dismounts, surveying the...

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Review: Deathless Legacy “Saturnalia” [Scarlet Records]

I follow Italians Deathless Legacy for something like four years. Since 2016 they released an album in a year, slowly going from a fun “circus...

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Review: Sepultura “Quadra” [Nuclear Blast Records]

For more than 30 years of existence Sepultura got through so many ups and downs it would have sufficed for dozen of bands. I’ll tell...

Interview video: Guilherme de Siervi of Vikram (Brazil)

Brazilian Prog Power Metal band Vikram released their debut full-length album “Behind the Mask I” on September 18th by Spiritual Beast (Jp) and Rockshots (EU),...

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Sarpedon Reveals The New Cover And Tracklist Of The New Album

Norway’s Sarpedon  announces the release of the second album, Before The Nightingale Sings,  a follow up of the 2014 debut Anomic Nation. Drummer Carl Engstrøm stated: We’re...

Interview audio: Riverside

Here you can listen to an interview I had with Mariusz Duda of Riverside, who he have talked about the current European tour, also he...

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Review: Evergrey “The Atlantic” [AFM records]

Since 1995 Evergrey shows the dark side of Progressive Metal. Fear, paranoia, death, mourning, shame – all these somber feelings and thoughts were in their...

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Review: Warrel Dane “Shadow Work” [Century Media Records]

On December, 13, 2017 while working on his second solo album, Warrel Dane passed away. 56 years old, heart attack diabetes, alcohol issues in the...

Interview audio: Leprous

Leprous‘s Tor Oddmund (guitar) had a chat with Carla Morton before the gig about the current European tour, also he talked about the latest album,...