Review: Polars Collide – Grotesque
The best groove metal album to come out over the past couple years. This is will please headbangers and Meshuggah fans alike.
The best groove metal album to come out over the past couple years. This is will please headbangers and Meshuggah fans alike.
Rough around the edges, but a refreshingly progressive and atmospheric black metal beast
An ambitious release, with no drought of classic progressive metal tropes.
A blackened death album serving as a great debut for a new band.
A dazzling and triumphant breath of fresh proggy air.
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…
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.
Style: Tech Death (mixed vocals)Review by: JonahCountry: FranceRelease date: 26 June, 2020 NOTE: This album was originally included in the June 2020 issue of The Progressive Subway I reviewed Exocrine’s previous album back in 2018 and found it to be a relatively enjoyable, if somewhat uninspired release. If that were Read more…
Style: Stoner Doom, Progressive Metal (mixed vocals)Review by: JonahCountry: UKRelease date: 19 June, 2020 [EDITOR’S NOTE: This review was originally published in the June 2020 (part 2) Issue of The Progressive Subway] The doom output this year has finally started to look pretty dang good, and it has left me Read more…
An otherworldly two hour experience of drone, jazz, and avant-garde