Canadian tech metal extroverts, Protest the Hero, have always been a riddle. They have humour (lots of it), intellect (observational lyrics with social commentary), and an army of fans that…
Category: Progressive metal
‘There’s a wide chasm between Mr Bungle and Celtic Frost, and Maladie belong in the former camp. To them, nothing is off the table. They take great pleasure in confusing…
Oh, Devin why do you do this? Album number twenty-three started as a rock opera in 2017 and then ran into funding difficulties. In that time, the Canadian maestro undertook…
Black Orchid Empire (BOE) write catchy rock songs for a prog metal audience. Or is it the other way round? We once hoped Tesseract might be the metal band to…
Ashen Horde started as a solo project for guitarist, Trevor Portz, in 2013 yet has now evolved into an international project with The Amenta lending their drummer as a full-time…
There are three camps in the Periphery fanbase. Those that like their vicious Meshuggah-inspired tech metal go up against those that enjoy the quartet’s anthemic metalcore sound, which values virtuoso…
Ex-As I Lay Dying axeman, Nick Hipa, and former Allegaeon guitarist, Ryan Glisan, joined forces in 2017. One assumes they bonded over a love of Meshuggah and Gojira. We’ve heard…
‘The magnificent range of colours and disciplined attachment to the muscular guitars of metal have set a high standard for Part 2,’ said Scream Blast Repeat last year of Green…
German quartet, Monosphere, have more muscle in their music than the controversial sub-culture known as the manopshere. But they don’t suppress their fragility. They work on their vulnerability and ask…