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Reports from the Underground: 2022 Albums of the Year
We Searched, We Listened, We Ranked, and We Voted! Here are our favorite albums from progressive metal in 2022.
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Missed Albums Review: Antipope – Rex Mundi
What happens when you throw every melodic metal genre out there into a black metal sauce? Antipope happens!
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Missed Albums Review: Chaos Frame – Entropy
After a long delay, I finally get to dunk on a former TPS writer’s album. Progressive power metal has never been this bad, trust me!
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Missed Album Review: Downriver Dead Men Go – Ruins
An exploration of musical negative space that’s defined as much by absence as by its own content.
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Missed Album Review: Toxik – Dis Morta
With as many hooks as a tackle shop, Toxik play mind-bending technical thrash metal which is the best the genre has seen since Terminal Redux.
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Missed Album Review: Tiwanaku – Earth Base One
A wildly ambitious debut release results in an inconsistent album
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Missed Album Review: Scarcity – Aveilut
Hovering at the very outskirts of listenability, Aveilut is the terrifying sounds of an accomplished composer reconciling with death–truly haunting.
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Review: Poly-Math – Zenith
A succinct, self-assured, and sophisticated piece of instrumental prog that is an easy recommendation for any veteran listeners of the genre.