Tag Progressive Metal
The first thing you notice about the debut album from Canadian Prog band Third Ion is the artwork, it’s a pretty bad-ass design, bringing back memories of old game cartridges, they’ve even nailed the old school gaming font. The name… Continue Reading →
Realising was a lengthy prog album, I decided the best tactic was to sit back and absorb it. I think that was the right thing to do. This ten track album, the second by this band from the United Arab… Continue Reading →
For their third album Jón Aldará replaces original singer Mikko Kotamäki, while the remaining 5 members carry on where they left off, albeit in a slightly more vivacious vein of melodic death metal than their previous releases. The beautifully cheery… Continue Reading →
Klone are a constantly evolving six piece from Poitiers, France who made their debut 12 years ago. In that time, the band has drifted away from its metal roots to a more progressive, ethereal sounding vintage rock band with some… Continue Reading →
French progressive power metallers Anthropia have set their sights on a lofty target with this release. A concept album based on the Cthulhu mythos and all things Lovecraftian certainly spells ambition and roping in Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame,… Continue Reading →
Loch Vostok blew me away with their previous album “V: The Doctrine Decoded” (2012). Their other albums are pretty good too. The latest one “From These Waters” is self-proclaimed as grittier than the others, and I’d go along with that…. Continue Reading →
In the beginning, there was Periphery and Periphery was good. They were loud, they were obnoxious and they were untamed. Yet here we stand, a mere 10 years later, gripping a twin album release, safe in the knowledge that it… Continue Reading →
It’s nothing short of painful to watch prog-loving extreme metal bands try to fit two ill-fitting pegs into yet more annoyingly ill-fitting holes. I mean, grim and frosty extreme metal and twiddly, fiddly prog – come on… Like watching Pink… Continue Reading →
I really liked this band’s EP “Vilos” (2013). It was fresh, challenging, full of ideas and altogether a very good selection of technical progressive metal. The lads from Glasgow haven’t given us much to go on this time with this… Continue Reading →
Opening track “Best Kept Secret” could quite easily be applied to the band itself. While they may have been around for the last 20 years and have 5 previous releases, I don’t really recall ever taking much notice of them,… Continue Reading →
Sometimes when people talk to you there’s loads of words coming out but none of them say anything. That was kind of like the press blurb for this band. It says lots about how big they are in their home… Continue Reading →
Thanks to UK Metallers Xerath’s consistent live work it appears that I am one of the few Ave Noctum scribes to be unfamiliar with the band. So why, therefore does it fall upon me to review their imaginatively titled… Continue Reading →