Tag Progressive Metal
Who fancies a nice, big, juicy steak? If you’ve got your hand up then allow me to point you in the direction of Colossus Of Destiny. With a band-name that comes from a Melvins’ live album and being bona fide… Continue Reading →
So if We All Die (Laughing) are you going to deliver a Killing Joke? Well this debut certainly delivers something and behind the mirth we have a familiar face in the form of ex Carnival Of Coal muse Arno Strobl… Continue Reading →
Cronian is of course the experimental side-project of Borknagar’s Øystein G. Brun and Vintersorg – but then I’m sure you already knew that. Borknagar have had many Extreme Metal guises over the years and they aren’t too tardy with the… Continue Reading →
I knew a lot of these songs after seeing Ramage Inc play at ProgPower Europe recently. Their performance was dynamic and their melodic metal songs had big, catchy hooks, so I had high hopes for this album. From the first… Continue Reading →
For years I’d managed to pretty much avoid Sahg; nothing to do with the band’s ability and nothing deliberate, it was just a case of too many acts to listen to and so little spare time. As it was, this… Continue Reading →
I wouldn’t normally plump for any progressive metal stuff for review usually due to being totally underwhelmed by the self indulgent nonsense it often produces, but what the hell I fancied a change and I’m not totally averse to the… Continue Reading →
I’ve long regarded progressive metal as the frowning older brother of the power metal fan. The po-faced real ale drinker who has long since decided that the power metal formula has been well and truly flogged to death and should… Continue Reading →
Progressive metal – in this case with a definite rock edge – is a road into the hinterlands of heavy metal that can demand a certain amount of perseverance. There are plenty of bands that pull it off fantastically: Aryeon,… Continue Reading →
Let’s face it. This sounds like Mercenary and no-one else. I’m very happy about that. In case you don’t know what Mercenary sound like, the phrase “melodic, aggressive thrash metal meets sophisticated power metal”, which remains on the label stuck… Continue Reading →
I play Cynthesis’s previous album “DeEvolution” (2011) a lot and am a great fan of Zero Hour, the band with which the talented Tipton brothers also play. I therefore had great hopes of a giant technical progfeast when “ReEvolution” came… Continue Reading →
Tesseract, or TesseracT if you prefer, are a respected Prog band who can lay claim in part to the foundation of the style known as “djent”. This album, their second full work, is split into four groupings: “Of Matter, Of… Continue Reading →
I’m currently holding a beautifully-packaged promo by a band calling themselves In The Guise Of Men and I’m thinking what an awesome moniker they have. The implication is that they are really aliens squeezed into human skins bent on world… Continue Reading →