Review: Devil’s Reef – Chosen by the Sea
Brief and casual aquatic-horror tech death.
Review: Enrapture – Another Green Drought
Post-metal cupcake with sludge, black metal and math rock sprinkles.
Review: Thermohaline – Maelström
Aggressive, oppressive, evil, and avant-garde. What more do you want?
Lost in Time: Begnagrad – Begnagrad
A highly technical but non-snobby and at moments even humorous avant-prog album from Yugoslavia laced with Balkan and alpine folk influences. Nonsense at its best!
Review: Forlesen – Hierophant Violent
A combination of beautiful and unsettling doom/drone goodness.
Review: Kyros – Celexa Dreams
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…
Review: Descend – The Deviant
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.
Review: Izthmi – The Arrows of Our Ways
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…
Review: Yashira – Fail to Be
A formidable sludgy post-metal monster sneaking in at the end of 2020.
Review: Royal Hunt – Dystopia
What, this album? Oh you know, It’s just prime progressive symphonic power metal is all.