Dylan
Music Reviewer, Social Media Manager (Twitter)
Last.fm: https://www.last.fm/user/Yung2112
Reddit: Yung2112
Discord: @Delk#1643
Steam: Yung2112
osu!: Delk
Favorite bands: Between the Buried and Me, Dream Theater, Leprous, Haken, Lost in Thought, Axios, Future Corpse, LTE, Ne Obliviscaris, Alcest, Unreqvited, Rush, Step in Fluid, The Dear Hunter, The Smashing Pumpkins, Avenged Sevenfold, Thank you Scientist, Vektor, Morbid Angel…. And oh so many more
Lover of music, not genres. Non ashamedly a fan of plenty of Pop acts and a couple normie metal bands like A7X. Them, BTBAM, and Dream Theater are basically his 3 most important bands in my formative years of music taste. He is the drummer and singer for local band Astronauta. Currently studying Economics in hopes of escaping Argentina. Also a former osu! tryhard, Bojack Horseman/How I met your mother/Seinfeld fan.
Jonah
Music Scout, Music Reviewer
Last.fm: https://www.last.fm/user/nostrebor68
Reddit: Nostrebor68
Discord: nostrebor68#8385
Favorite bands: Woods of Ypres, Khemmis, Pallbearer, Be’Lakor, Rishloo, Fair to Midland, King Goat, Karnivool, Ghost Brigade, Coheed & Cambria, Anaal Nathrakh, Wilderun, Aether Realm, Swallow the Sun, Ahab, and many more
When not reviewing Jonah is a vocalist, and a vocalist for the progressive metal band Empire Bathtub. Outside of the musical world he also loves Dungeons & Dragons, videogames, sci-fi and fantasy films and shows, and his beautiful wife.
Stephen
Music Reviewer, Social Media Manager (Facebook), Bassist/Guitarist/Vocalist/Composer – Empire Bathtub
Instagram: @empirebathtub
Discord: @BaylorYou#8980
Reddit: /u/BaylorYou
Favorite Artists: Leprous, The Mercury Tree, Seven Impale, Cheeto’s Magazine, Karnivool, Caligula’s Horse, Artificial Silence, Sleep Token, Regal Worm, Troldhaugen, Gojira, and many more.
Husband, father of two, huge prog fan, and huge movie buff (especially horror). Always up for talking about music and movies.
Mathis
Music Reviewer
Lastfm (created recently, not super accurate)
Reddit: u/Aloaster
Favorite Bands: Plini, Owane, Nuclear Power Trio, Arch Echo, Sikth, Dance Gavin Dance, Eidola, Devin Townsend, Native Construct, Novallo, Vola, Periphery, Skyharbor, Daniel Thompkins, Voices From the Fuselage, The Weeknd, Authority Zero, The Safety Fire, After The Burial, Archspire, Moon Tooth.
He likes to explore new music, play video games, fish, and watch anime, he’s also trying to get buff too.
Nick
Music reviewer and resident indie expert
Reddit: /u/thehaveshavethot
Last.fm: https://www.last.fm/user/XanaduAmory2112
Discord: thehaveshavethot#2648
PSN: thehaveshavethot
Favorite Bands: The Dear Hunter, the Mountain Goats, Coheed and Cambria, Manchester Orchestra, The Front Bottoms, The National, Haken, Between the Buried and Me, Postcards, Rush, Maybeshewill, Brand New, Explosions in the Sky, My Chemical Romance, Kendrick Lamar, Dream Theater, Thank You Scientist, Muse, Death Cab For Cutie, Hail the Sun, The Contortionist, TTNG, The Decemberists, AJJ, Periphery, Native Construct, Paul Baribeau, Others By No One, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Tera Melos, Bob James, The Fall of Troy, Thelonius Monk, Foster the People, The Contortionist, Leprous, Counting Crows, The Wonder Years, Agalloch, The Family Crest, Frightened Rabbit, Genesis, Stars.
A man of many half talents. Currently sitting on multiple unreleased indie-folk projects that are 100% definitely going to come out someday. His introduction to prog was through a combination of discovering Rush in middle school and his dad already being a prog fan. Due to this late discovery, however, he has been left with an absolute mess of a music taste as seen in the “Favorite Bands” section. Outside of music, he tends to enjoy video games, horror movies, and a few TV shows as well as spending time with his girlfriend.
Josh
Music Reviewer, Social Media Manager (Instagram & YouTube), Terrible Guitarist
Last.fm: https://www.last.fm/user/sharktrs
Reddit: u/sharktrs
Discord: D̓̍̋A̛̱͇N̾̿̚K̀͑̿#3143 (name’s shit but i’ve had it for like 4 years so I can’t bear to change it)
Favorite Bands: Coheed and Cambria, The Dear Hunter, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Between The Buried And Me, Everything Everything, Sleep Token, Car Seat Headrest, At The Drive-In, clipping. (list changes frequently)
Man with far too many side projects for his own good. Ask him about his band, or his novel, or his game, or his other game (can’t get those mixed up now). In his spare time, he can be commonly found running through yet another playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas.
Will
Music Reviewer
Favorite bands: Mastodon, Toundra, We Lost the Sea, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Ayreon, Rivers of Nihil, Igorrr, Opeth, Symphony X, The Vision Bleak, Liquid Tension Experiment, Earth, Hoth, Agalloch, Numenorean, Ulver, Russian Circles, Pink Floyd, Sleep, Om, David Bowie, Harry Nilson, Coleman Hawkins, BadBadNotGood and more.
A neurotic white man from the UK trapped inside the body of an identical neurotic white man from the UK. Spends much of his time uprooting himself and living in different countries. While doing this, enjoys listening to a variety of music ranging from death metal to smooth jazz. When not disappearing into an album, can be found watching old movies, reading something strange, playing games of all sorts or writing his own Dark Heresy campaigns. Writes biographies in the third person.
Dan
Music Reviewer
Last.fm
Discord: @ohmanitsdan#8355
Reddit: /u/danawesome
Favorite Bands: Follow the White Rabbit, Gorguts, The Ocean, Imperial Triumphant, O’Brother, Pyrrhon, Between the Buried and Me, The Odious, Cynic, Entropia, Ulcerate, Artificial Brain, Intronaut, Cattle Decapitation, Ihsahn, Bohren & der Club of Gore, etc.
Dan discovered the seminal melodic death metal masterpiece Heartwork by Carcass at the tender young age of 13 and has never looked back. Constantly seeking the most boundary-pushing music out there, his listening habits cover astounding ground, but not much really sticks long-term. He creates music of his own as ISA (alongside several anonymous projects) and dreams of retirement so he can be free of the soul sucking tech startup machine that keeps him from spending long days in the woods and long nights with his DAW.
Callum
Music Reviewer
Last.fm: Brotendo_
Discord: @Callum#0759
Steam: Brotendo_
Favorite bands: Between the Buried and Me, Rolo Tomassi, Meshuggah, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Contortionist, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Muse, Tool, Cult of luna, Swans, The Smiths, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Radiohead, Death, La Dispute, ISIS, Gorguts, Sleep, Slugdge, Opeth, Deafheaven, Alcest, Slice The Cake
Wannabe audiophile that spends his money on headphones, records, plants, and steam games he’ll inevitably never play. British, but moved to Norway to follow his newfound love of black metal and also girlfriend. Gateway to progressive metal attributed to Danny Carey at the 2:50 mark of “Ænema”, the rest is history.
Evan
Music Reviewer
Lastfm: kindabanal (created recently, not super accurate)
Reddit: u/PurgeColloquialisms
Discord: @Banal and Inoffensive Username#5184
Favorite Bands (no order): Tool, Opeth, Atheist, Cynic, Gorguts, Ulcerate, Edge of Sanity, Enslaved, The Ocean, Caligula’s Horse, Leprous, Karnivool, Rishloo, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Voivod, Joy Division, Solitude Aeturnus, ISIS, Deathspell Omega, Akercocke, etc.
Certified progressive/metal surface skimmer. I am a student of linguistics and cognitive science and a prospective lawyer. When not studying or listening to the 10 most popular bands in prog, I like sci-fi TV and movies (think Star Trek nerd). I am also a fitness fanatic who obsessively counts calories (whenever the gyms are open). Lastly, I am horrible at guitar.
Tim
Lost in Time Reviewer
Discord: Slodderhaai#2398Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/slodderhaai
Favorite Artists: Can, Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli, Fela Kuti & Africa 70, Nihiloxica, Jaga Jazzist, Shiina Ringo, Iannis Xenakis, Igorrr, Procession, Ecoform, Fulano, Brainticket, Ozric Tentacles, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Sole, Project MishraM, Mitú, Caetano Veloso, Erik Satie, Aalok Bala, Lorenzo Senni, Vtgnike, Edu Lôbo, Culprate, Vladimir Bozar ‘n’ ze Sheraf Orkestär, Ariel, Area, Steve Reich, Citizen Maze, Pesniary, Xanopticon, öOoOoOoOoOo, Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, Basic Channel, Mahavishnu Orchestra, High Wolf, Merzbow, Eat Static, Pryapisme, Subjex, Laghonia, DJ Shadow, Chapelier Fou, Eyedea, Zaliva-D, El Sueño de la Casa Propia, Lanark Artefax, Alex de Grassi, James Holden, Godspeed you! Black Emperor, Vladislav Delay, Opgezwolle, Access to Arasaka, CHON, Wisp, 2814, Autechre, Begnagrad, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Murcof, Iosonouncane, los Jaivas, Quella Vecchia Locanda, Sam KDC, Walter Wanderley, the Heliocentrics, Joanna Newsom, Objekt, Guruh Gipsy, Dorian Concept, Supersister, Střed Světa, Valravn, Dengue Dengue Dengue!, Animals as Leaders, K. Frimpong and his Cubano Fiestas, Modrý Efekt, Venetian Snares, Mulatu Astatke, Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan, Dün, 65daysofstatic, Terry Riley, Plastikman, Ananda Shankar, Andrey Kiritchenko, Ø, Kettel, Sturqen, Maneige, Lemon Jelly, to name a few
Exactly two of the following statements about Tim are true:
Tim…
…made it his lifelong quest to find gems in whatever genre he can find and has thus far only failed in punk and speedcore.
…is a certified tornado connaisseur.
…invented the light bulb in 1878.
..is. childish whenever he can be and tries to be an adult when needed.
…doesn’t mind easy-listening music, especially soulless commercial crap.
Furthermore, Tim is an electronic musician, a hardcore gamer, a not so hardcore streamer, a tabletop roleplayer, a dadaist zealot, and a terrible student with a lot of passion for history (or: learning from other people’s mistakes).
Matt
Music Reviewer, Guitar/Orchestra programming – Chaos Frame, Guitar – Lance King
Last.fm: https://www.last.fm/user/NoSoup4you22
Discord: @NoSoup4you#8102
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/scrub_niggurath/
Favorite bands: Kamelot, Sun Caged, Dimhav Disillusion, Whispered, Steve Roach, Voices, Sade, David Sylvian
Aside from working on music, plays various CCGs – especially dead 90s ones. Main ones currently are Vampire: The Eternal Struggle and Mythgard.
Tyler
Music Reviewer, Bass in The World is Quiet Here, Regular Paste Consumer
Reddit: u/49Battleships
Discord: @bitjd#6778 (this is a TERRIBLE way of trying to find me)
Instagram: Nope, but check out my band @twiqhofficial. We post sparsely!
Favorite Bands (Alphabetically): Between the Buried and Me, Closure in Moscow, Coheed and Cambria, The Dear Hunter, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Elder, Intronaut, Mastodon, mewithoutYou, Neurosis, The Ocean, SWANS, Thrice, and a lot of emo/hardcore stuff.
Music gear putz and husband of one, this straight edge city slicker is still riding the high of his band’s first release two years ago. Other hobbies include: Throwing money at expensive records, tattoos and tattoo culture, games that take too long to play. I don’t stream music, but just assume I am always listening to Welcome to the Black Parade.
Andrew
Music Reviewer, Mascot
Reddit: /u/poler10
Lastfm: https://www.last.fm/user/poler10
Discord: poler10#8491
Favorite bands: Ayreon, Wilderun, Haken, Between the Buried and Me, Major Parkinson, Leprous, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Artificial Silence, Seventh Wonder, Kansas, Estradasphere, Rise Against, Bad Religion, Moon Safari, Edge of Reality, Others By No One, Maestrick, Streetlight Manifesto, & many many more
Engineering student, cyclist, gamer, and all-around-nerd from California. When not writing reviews for the blog, Andrew is probably riding his bike or staring at unreadable code.
Drew
Social Media Manager (Facebook)
Last.fm: https://www.last.fm/user/Enema8
Discord: @octavarium8#6023
Reddit: /u/OctaVariuM8
Favorite Bands: Dream Theater, The Mars Volta, Beardfish, The Tea Club, Riverside, Porcupine Tree, Lunatic Soul, The Mountain Goats, The Decemberists, Circa Survive, Himmellegeme.
While Andrew doesn’t directly write for the Prog Subway often, he does handle all of the social media posts for the blog. A lover of primarily modern prog rock, Andrew spends his days wrestling with the desire to check out new prog bands, while also wanting to chill out to some psych rock or indie rock. While not a musician, he does love to spend time honing his singing abilities, even if his three dogs don’t tend to appreciate his “art.”
Mark
Guitarist, Software Engineer, Vagrant
Favourite Bands: Symphony X, Leprous, Hacride, Opeth, The Ocean, Ihsahn, Disillusion, Intronaut, Psychonaut, Blind Guardian, Deftones, Burst, Alcest, Rivers of Nihil, Agalloch, The Reticent, Porcupine Tree, Zeal and Ardor, Pantera, Gojira, The Black Mages, Black Peaks, Pain of Salvation, Mastodon, Orden Ogan
Our fellow trash-talker all the way from the country-shaped pub that is Ireland. When not seen with headphones on and a confused, furrowed brow; Mark will usually be found eating, wrestling his dog, following walkthroughs for old video games, or writing unplayable riffs in Guitar Pro.
Anthony
Marketing Consultant
Last.Fm
Discord: @Quintessence#9270
Favorite Artists: David Bowie, Mastodon, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Prince, Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Coheed and Cambria, The Dillinger Escape Plan, John Frusciante, Ihsahn, Soundgarden, Major Parkinson, Clarence Clarity, Janelle Monáe, Jamiroquai, The Hirsch Effekt, A Forest of Stars, Devin Townsend, Crippled Black Phoenix, TWRP, Funkadelic and many, many more.
While he was not a full-time reviewer for the site, Anthony’s background in marketing helps us ascertain the direction of the Subway as he advises on current and future content direction and marketing strategy. He’s also a moderator on Images & Words: The Prog Discord – one of the largest and most active music communities on the platform. His interests outside of music include film, hiking, politics, murdering his dearest friends in Darkest Dungeon runs and murdering himself in Slay the Spire runs.