Of course, just because Pure Reason Revolution have figured out the art of tight songwriting and heavy riffs, it’s not as if they’re about to abandon that time-honored neo-prog tradition of floaty, ...

Cold, dark damp surrounds you. Trying to move your body, you’re met with resistance no matter the direction. Disoriented. Thump. Vibrations ripple all around you, through you, each accompanied by a ...

The title of Agonanist’s second full-length record, The Spirit of Gravity, sent me into a spiraling book-report-due-at-midnight scramble to explain what the hell the Spirit of Gravity actually is.

A well-received debut is surely a wonderful feeling, but it leaves a band with a lot to lose. Having put your best foot forward, there’s always a risk of stumbling on the follow-up. ‘Sophomore slump’ ...

Mystery is baked throughout, from the opening woodwind on “Molho Agridoce Psicadélico” that sounds like an Armenian duduk to the closing seconds of “Pérolas e Ouro” where fado-style guitar abruptly ...

Many are the tales of the tortured creative, and the attached belief by some that an artist can only create (good) art when given over to unfortunate circumstances or vices. My own views on the matter ...

Artwork by: NAPAN studio (concept & art direction), Chris Kasimidis (3D modeling and design), Kostas Konstantinidis (flag design), Panagiotis Tsalavrettas (graphic design) Style: Progressive metal, ...

Plenty of albums that shaped my taste fall into this category, some of the earlier, more universal ones being The Number of the Beast and Rust in Peace, followed by Death ’s Symbolic and Opeth ’s ...

Ah, the year 1993. Seinfeld was in its prime, the internet had hardly reached the public, CDs had just begun to outsell cassettes, yours truly was sporting a diaper, and Swiss metal legends Coroner ...

I feel like the live album exists in an odd space within the progressive metal scene. The majority of bands seem to take the opportunity to show off how tight they are, how much stamina they have, or ...

Style: Black Metal, Dissonant Black Metal, Progressive Metal (Harsh vocals with cleans on the last track) ...

From its earliest days, The Progressive Subway has championed the overlooked and the underappreciated. The original premise of the blog centred around reviewing “underground” bands. The metric chosen ...