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…
Category: Progressive metal
‘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…
Danish prog metal quintet, Only Human, are not just a band. They’re a commentary on our era of big tech dominance and our offloading of critical thinking to AI apps.…
‘Ukko is a welcome reinvigoration of a tired metalcore genre and a bid for prog metal prominence at the same time’, said Scream Blast Repeat of the 2021 Atlas album. Calling…
Norwegian collective, Course of Fate, remember a time when heavy metal was epic and empowering, and that includes the progressive metal of Savatage and the early Dream Theater records. Yet…
Australian rockers, Karnivool, often receive comparisons to Tool. That’s harder to justify over the years as they’ve developed their own sound, but they take after the LA legends in one…
London quartet, Urne, are darlings of the UK metal scene. Scream Blast Repeat awarded their debut LP the album of the year for 2021, and their last record received the…
Dutch stalwarts, Textures, were a leading name in progressive metalcore before they split up in 2016. Their 2003 debut won rave reviews; 2011’s Dualism came out at the right time…