In every given style no matter which it may be, there’s no way to deny that there are a few select names that stand out. It’s as you focus your searches even more upon the more niche styles that you … Continue reading Mountain Caller – Chronicle II: Hypergenesis
To push the envelope of your sound and actually succeed is to truly set yourself apart from the vast majority of your contemporaries. It’s something that so many throughout the underground have been striving to achieve ever since the dawn … Continue reading Lord Dying – Clandestine Transcendence
It always seems to be at the start of every new year that I am bombarded with material from the previous year that is simply peak. An odd phenomenon that I really need to do some research into for verification, … Continue reading Obsidian Tide – The Grand Crescendo
When it’s done right, there is nothing that can compare to a proper work of progressive metal for all that it can be. Yet, despite such grand potential, exceptional works of the sound are very much so few and far … Continue reading Sgàile – Traverse the Bealach
Experimentation is something that you can only find in either the fringes of what is possible in metal or within the innermost depth of the progressive reaches where only the most astute and dedicated are to be found where they … Continue reading Cyrax – Novo Deus
In a world where every style of metal is being pulled in every imaginable direction, the word “progressive” almost loses its meaning if you’re not paying attention. That can particularly be the case in the realms of death metal where … Continue reading Mind Control – Elements
At any given time, there are a few dozen rising names in any particular vein throughout the vast underground that are more than worth taking a look into for what they’ve accomplished in the past. Be it black, death, doom, … Continue reading Eternal Storm – A Giant Bound to Fall
When taking everything into consideration for all that has been accomplished and all that is still to be done across the vast spectrums of both rock and metal music, it’s a wonder to me that we don’t see a more … Continue reading Infinite Rising – Awakening
It’s always a great thing to watch a band progress their sound over time with many shifting genres and styles altogether over the course of albums and years to make for something that can’t be deemed anything less than a … Continue reading Flesh of the Stars – The Glass Garden
For years now since their beginning, the name of Alkaloid has been on the lips of many throughout the underground. While it’s surely not the cup of tea that many would enjoy, their prowess and talent in all things progressive … Continue reading Alkaloid – Numen
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