Playlist – FFO: Meshuggah
Fans of head-splitting time signatures, malleable tempos, and the heaviest riffs that ever riffed, this month’s playlist is songs for you.
Review: Epitaphe – II
Epitaphe merge Romanticism and metal in this AOTY contender from the French Alps.
Review: Virocracy – Ecophagia
Virocracy serves up complex progressive death metal from Germany.
Review: Cobra the Impaler – Colossal Gods
Mastodon Fans of the prog world, you’ve got to listen to this!
Review: Fall of Stasis – The Chronophagist
Tech death musician tries to write about an album that’s not really tech death. Fails miserably. More at 11.
Review: Iomair – Fishing For An Apparition
I do not like folk metal.
Review: Aural Cadence – Aural Cadence
Great melody, excellent instrumental harmony, sappy vocals; is this not par for the course in most traditional prog metal?
Review: Egor Lappo – Naturealism
A loud and bombastic prog metal album with Ghost-esque pop elements.
Playlist – March Madness
“March comes in like a lion”; “Mad as a March hare”; “Beware the ides of March”: Folk wisdom would certainly have us believe that this month is a riot of reawakening after the long torpor of winter. With the sudden Read more…
Review: The Blank Canvas [ ] – Dark Mirage
Soundtrack to a future dystopia’s 2022 throwback party from dark synthwave-infused prog rockers.