Tag Progressive Metal
Quick, name a band that far, far more people would be obsessed with if they could only be induced to listen to them, even just once. In answer, I give you the wait to get out of the main carpark… Continue Reading →
Sweden meets York on this debut album from Helga. “Wrapped in Mist” passes through the lands of Swedish folk and progressive metal, with post-rock, black metal, pop and some cellos and violins thrown in. A haunting female voice precedes a… Continue Reading →
The latest album from Dutch Progmaster Tom de Wit and his Dreamwalkers Inc team comes with extravagant artwork. It’s great artwork. The detail is telling as this is a man and a band with a passion for detail. “The First… Continue Reading →
Personally I think of Eldritch as one of the shining lights of the European Progressive Metal movement that happened in the 1990’s. Displaying their mighty calibre right from the outset in 1995 with debut album “Seeds Of Rage”, already showcasing… Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago I reviewed a very decent album called “Entheogen” by an Australian progressive metal band called Mish. The leader of Mish went off and formed Hence Confetti, and this is their debut EP. The “emotional heavy… Continue Reading →
There’s something satisfying about Ramage Inc’s music. I first became acquainted with them in 2013 both through their album “Feel the Waves”, which I bought at the time, and their dynamic appearances at ProgPower Europe in the same year and… Continue Reading →
Dundee is hardly a city that immediately leaps to mind when thinking of classic rock and metal. Indeed, it is hardly on the tour schedule of any major acts, and the Caird Hall that once hosted the likes of Hawkwind,… Continue Reading →
Psygnosis have been prolific since starting out in 2009, releasing six albums including this one. Their style being described as “atmospheric extreme metal with hints of electronic music, the band comes from the French town of Mâcon, which for those… Continue Reading →
Four years after their previous album, Italy’s Noveria are back with their latest bout of weighty classic Progressive Metal. Even within the abundant realms of Progressive Metal, there are many facets bands have woven for themselves and taken into different… Continue Reading →
Don’t be fooled by this US band’s moniker, as whilst it suggests a band of tremendous death metal brutality, this has been only relevant to the early part of the bands career and discography. Currently, and in the last couple… Continue Reading →
If you have a member from each of Threshold, Within Temptation, Darkwater and the Devin Townsend Band, as Oblivion Protocol do, then it’s fair to regard this band as a supergroup. There’s even Threshold’s stellar guitarist Karl Groom on here…. Continue Reading →
The term Progressive Metal can mean different things in our music, but with Ocean’s Edge we are talking about the classic Progressive Metal style initiated by the likes of Dream Theater, Fates Warning etc, then taken forward towards the Millennium… Continue Reading →