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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.

Epitaphe merge Romanticism and metal in this AOTY contender from the French Alps.

Virocracy serves up complex progressive death metal from Germany.

Mastodon Fans of the prog world, you’ve got to listen to this!

Tech death musician tries to write about an album that’s not really tech death. Fails miserably. More at 11.

I do not like folk metal.

Great melody, excellent instrumental harmony, sappy vocals; is this not par for the course in most traditional prog metal?

A loud and bombastic prog metal album with Ghost-esque pop elements.

Soundtrack to a future dystopia’s 2022 throwback party from dark synthwave-infused prog rockers.

It checks the boxes, but it doesn’t feel like there is much passion.