Review: Scarred – Scarred
When an absurd variety of metal influences form a progressive metal soup, one must ask: do too many subgenres spoil the broth?
When an absurd variety of metal influences form a progressive metal soup, one must ask: do too many subgenres spoil the broth?
A hybrid-album of sorts, bound to please those that crave both speed and lack thereof.
With Norchestrion, Need continue to be a strong light for those longing for how prog metal used to sound.
Post-metal cupcake with sludge, black metal and math rock sprinkles.
Aggressive, oppressive, evil, and avant-garde. What more do you want?
A combination of beautiful and unsettling doom/drone goodness.
Style: Prog Rock/Synth-Pop (clean vocals)Review by: EvanCountry: UKRelease date: 19 June 2020 NOTE: This album was originally included in the “Albums We Missed in 2020” Issue of The Progressive Subway I picked this album up fairly last minute, so this will serve as more a first-impressions than a proper review. Read more…
Descend may be the band that us Opeth fans have been looking for all these years. This is an album that is truly remarkable. A faithful continuation of Opeth’s formula all while keeping updated with the meta of twenty years of progressive death metal.
Style: Blackened Death Metal (harsh vocals)Review by: CallumCountry: US-WARelease date: 14 February, 2022 NOTE: This album was originally included in the “Albums We Missed in 2020” Issue of The Progressive Subway It always boggles my mind when a band’s debut album sounds as polished as a seasoned veteran’s, and even Read more…