Our Top 50 Underground Prog Albums of 2020 – 2024: 50-26
The Subway writers break down some of the best underground prog albums of the last five years.
Review: Need – Norchestrion: A Song for the End
With Norchestrion, Need continue to be a strong light for those longing for how prog metal used to sound.
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.
Review: Dark Quarterer – Pompei
From an 80s heavy metal cult favorite to full blown progressive metal, Dark Quarterer have undergone quite the transformation. How did they do?
Review: Scardust – Strangers
Kind of genius, but I’d still be embarrassed to play it in public.
Missed Album Review: Burden of Life – The Makeshift Conqueror
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