Ahh the third album…. Many see it as a sign of finally coming of age, while to others it’s an unachievable goal marking a finality to the band. It certainly is…
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Progressive Metal
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The year is about to end and the anticipation towards 2017 releases has surely started again. This new Ontario-based progrock duo consists of Kenny Parry (vocals, drums, synths and piano) and…
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Hey music lovers, the Lady seems to know the secret to getting me out of hiding, and the best one is by dropping a promo from my hometown, the San Francisco…
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Upon receiving the promo copy of the 12th studio album from progressive metal pioneers Fates Warning, I was faced with a dilemma. What does one write about when trying to describe…
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Well, as no surprise to most anyone, Norway has no shortage of bands – and good ones at that – which only makes the competition more fierce to rise up even…
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Arkentype are difficult to describe. Hailing from southern Norway, they define themselves broadly as progressive metal, though rightly caution against any assumption or connotations this might imply. Nordic metal sets a…
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The word redemption means deliverance, rescue, or in a theological context, salvation from sin. Every quality of the Los Angeles progressive metal act Redemption featuring the inimitable Ray Alder is designed…
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London-based sextet Haken haven’t stopped gaining momentum since they began recording in 2008, and they really broke through into the prog mainstream with the avalanche that was 2013’s The Mountain. That…
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Most people by now – especially in the progressive metal circles – need no introduction to one of pioneering bands of the current genre, Dream Theater. Vocalist James LaBrie, guitarist John…
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Featuring a human brain inside a glass laboratory sphere, the album cover is an exercise in understated elegance and represents the pure, unadulterated human identity sought by the narrator. The concept…