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Review: Divinex – Dreamscapes

An improvement on the usual formula, but not a dream come true.

We’re in the doldrums, guys. The winds of progressive metal do not blow this summer.

New York’s historic experimental jazz scene once again collides with metal in the most dastardly of ways with Sarmat’s first two releases.

Trapped in the CAGE of generic trad prog *one of my colleagues breaks the keyboard over my head*

One month to write, six years to produce.

Has this classic heavy prog band changed much in the twenty-two years since their last album?

We sing now one very long song.

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.

Hovering at the very outskirts of listenability, Aveilut is the terrifying sounds of an accomplished composer reconciling with death–truly haunting.

“I dunno what the hell’s in there, but it’s weird and pissed off, whatever it is.”