Orphaned Land are a progressive folk metal band from Israel and this is their sixth album.
Orphaned Land play music that’s inspired and influenced by Middle Eastern melodies and ideas. These elements are skilfully woven into the band’s progressive metal in natural, effortless ways, resulting in characterful and Continue reading “Orphaned Land – Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs (Review)”
Monolithe are a doom band from France and this is their seventh album.
I’m a big fan of Monolithe’s increasingly forward-thinking doom metal, (see here, here, here, and here), so I was excited to hear their newest opus. Continue reading “Monolithe – Nebula Septem (Review)”
This is the latest EP from US doom band Enhailer.
Containing just one 18-minute track this EP straddles genres and styles, but ultimately falls under the doom heading most of all. Continue reading “Enhailer – Dumb Enough to Care (Review)”
Jarun are a Polish progressive black metal band and this is their third album.
This is the follow up to 2015’s very enjoyable Pod Niebem Utkanym z Popiołu, which demonstrated the band’s progressive/folk-influenced black metal very well. Continue reading “Jarun – Sporysz (Review)”
Gürschach are a metal band from the US and this is their debut album.
So what do Gürschach sound like? I suppose if you take a base of classic heavy metal, while mixing in elements of modern, alternative, thrash, and progressive metal, you’ll have a good place to start from. Continue reading “Gürschach – Dark Matter (Review)”
This is the latest EP from Indian progressive death metal band Eccentric Pendulum.
Featuring the vocalist of Gutslit and Godless, Eccentric Pendulum is a different affair to those worthy death metal bands. Continue reading “Eccentric Pendulum – Tellurian Concepts (Review)”
The Body Politic are a progressive/technical metal band from Canada. This is their latest release.
A lot of modern progressive metal is soulless, too-polished, lacking in bite, far too plastic sounding, and ultimately not heavy enough. There, I said it. The reason I’m saying it here, however, is that these shortfalls largely don’t apply to The Body Politic. Continue reading “The Body Politic – contr:addiction (Review)”
Intervals are a Canadian progressive metal band and this is their third album.
Essentially the product of just one creative mind, this album does, however, see a full band flesh out this mastermind’s vision. Continue reading “Intervals – The Way Forward (Review)”
This is the second album from Russian progressive rock band Starsoup.
Starsoup’s 2013 debut album Bazaar of Wonders was a wonderfully diverse and eclectic collection of progressive rock/metal that has become a firm favourite of mine. As such, I was excited to see that they now have a brand new album out for me to enjoy and get to know. Continue reading “Starsoup – Castles of Sand (Review)”
Ketha are a Polish experimental metal band and this is their third album.
Combining elements of technical, progressive, modern, avant-garde, dissonant, and melodic metal into 43 minutes of material, this is an album that packs a lot into its playing time and uses this to take the listener on quite a journey. Continue reading “Ketha – 0 Hours Starlight (Review)”
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