To create an enthralling piece of progressive metal is to think outside of the box in an already out-of-the-box style. It’s incredibly difficult to do even though the style is prime real estate for innovation given its very nature, but … Continue reading Phase Transition – Relatively Speaking
With the many different iterations of metal out there, it can often feel hard to find something worth sinking your teeth into when it feels like every other band is trying to create something new whilst doing the exact opposite. … Continue reading The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara – Full Spectrum
While I find myself listening to high-energy metal most of the time, I cannot help but find myself recently searching for music that’s not only much slower in every way but also heavy in the psychedelic departments for it feels … Continue reading Samsara Blues Experiment – End Of Forever
When it comes to straight progressive metal as far as this year goes, the stream has been quite slow for one reason or another in my case. It’s a style that has limitless possibilities with all that can be achieved … Continue reading Dawnwalker – Ages
When it came to bands that came out with a breakout debut album in 2017, you cannot take another breath without mentioning Dvne. The Scottish act truly took over Bandcamp with “Asheran” by all accounts with everything they did being … Continue reading Dvne – Omega Severer
Whenever I review an album from any given band, I’m typically not expecting to see more material from that act within at least a year since that tends to be the shortest stretch most go in order to keep that … Continue reading K Prouty – The Black Tide
The list goes on and on about that very odd spot of bands when they get big to where they’re clearly a band very capable of headlining festivals without a problem, but if you’re talking to someone who isn’t neck-deep … Continue reading Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night
It’s always fascinating to watch a band that was already fascinating from the very first instance evolve into something that can only be considered as immensely compelling by all accounts. Arcade Messiah has always been a highlight of the progressive … Continue reading Arcade Messiah – The Host
If you were to even just take a mild glance at the growing landscape of somewhat controlled madness that is progressive death metal, you would immediately notice that the size of the style has been steadily getting larger and larger … Continue reading Aal – The Only Path
There is a rarely seen art across the world of metal that I feel is slowly becoming more of a thing that the masses are becoming more welcome to over time, but it’s still exceeding well: the one-track album. I … Continue reading Wills Dissolve – Echoes
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