If you would like an audio depiction of a girl taking a 2TB usb stick off her keychain, and plugging it squarely into a swamp of a tiny planet, here’s the place to come. This ambitious work is a prog… Continue Reading →
Two years on from 2020’s ‘Omens’, Berlin based quartet, Elder, return with latest album ‘Innate Passage’. Straddling the line between psychedelic stoner metal and prog rock, Elder are a band lacking in neither ambition nor technicality. Their ability to tour… Continue Reading →
In order to extend their range further at the core of what they call “complex instrumentation, huge, crowd-pleasing riffs and diverse poly-rhthms”, instrumental prog / mathrock band Poly-Math have added a saxophonist to their line-up for this album, their fourth… Continue Reading →
Unlike many of the scribes of Ave Noctum who are black hearted, black souled, black metal warriors, I, the humble author of this piece you are kind enough to be reading, am a bit of an old hippy and Thotch-head,… Continue Reading →
Caustic Casanova are a bit of a many headed beast. Definitely not a band to slot themselves into any particular genre, theirs is a mash up of sludge, doom, psyche rock with a smattering of prog. Hailing from Washington DC,… Continue Reading →
I doubt many people who know me would believe that once all the social armour and painstakingly copied behaviour has been jettisoned, I consider myself a small, and rather quiet soul inside. I think too much, I have little in… Continue Reading →
This is a solo project of Kyle McNeil, the frontman of UK heavy metal band Seven Sisters. Here, McNeil is exploring his love for prog. Undoubtedly, many elements will be familiar to many Seven Sisters fans. These include infectious vocal… Continue Reading →
It all sounds very progressive to me. Dawnwalker comprises a number of musicians who help to create what they describe as “heavy, atmospheric and enigmatic”, while throwing in passing references to Opeth, Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Pink Floyd, Ihsahn,… Continue Reading →
Dear reader, kindly indulge me as I take you back to the days of my youth. It’s the eighties, and whilst the airwaves were full of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and the Rave and Indie scene were soon to give… Continue Reading →
Renowned for their top drawer Doom roster, UK label Rise Above were also known to throw in the odd curve-ball every now and again just in case anyone thought they could predict them. One of those aforementioned oddities was American… Continue Reading →
It’s time to step into the time machine with Morlock and back into an analogue world where strange synths were bringing futuristic soundscapes into the musical cosmos and crossing over into various genres from new-wave to prog. We are in… Continue Reading →
Obiat are back. After first making their mark on the London scene having decanted from Poland some twenty years ago, it’s fair to say that they went a bit quiet. There is a fair old gap between their last release… Continue Reading →
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