UK prog metal is stronger than ever with the likes of Tesseract, Conjurer, Haken, Urne and Dvne leading the way, but the underground also has an abundance of bands waiting…
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The Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 put a severe dent in the finances of the entertainment industry and left many of our favourite artists on the breadline. Some rushed out albums…
The ‘thall’ sound is more of a meme than a micro-genre of progressive metal, but we can blame Vildhjarta for its creation and thank God that few bands want to…
People associate Stockholm quintet, Forgetting the Memories, with metalcore. That may be accurate to describe their 2016 album, Monophobia, and enough to turn metalheads away who think this is just…
Prog metal is a genre that continues to excite like no other. That may be due to the infinite possibilities inherent in its DNA. There are no rules in prog…
How do you follow one of the most revered metal albums of the 2010s? It’s a question the members of River of Nihil pondered for the last eighteen months after…
Kehlvin formed in 1999 and have been devastating audiences with their concoction of post-hardcore and sludge metal from their citadel in Switzerland since day one. In these two decades of…
Remember the name Voidgazer and keep it in the back of your mind for the next time somebody says modern metal is uninspiring and bereft of ideas. The Missouri quartet…
Think of the great prog metal albums of the twenty-first century. Many come to mind – Blackwater Park (Opeth), From Mars to Sirius (Gojira), Juggernaut Alpha/Omega (Periphery), Vector (Haken), Altered…