Chicago quintet, Warforged, are one of many risk-takers in the metal underground. That’s because they believe art should evolve and are always looking for new innovations. It took them seven…
Tag: progressive metal
How many times do you look at a novel, marvel at its title, finger its glossy front cover, imbibe the intellectual tones of its author and then feel disappointed when…
You must be doing something worthy if you’re a metal band, and your dictatorial country designates you an “extremist group”. This is what happened to Belarus post-black metal collective, Dymna…
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…
‘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…
Avant-gardists, A Forest of Stars, were a regular fixture in the underground English metal scene between 2008 and 2018. Then, they went into hibernation. Now in partnership with legendary German…
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…