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.

I was lucky to be able to grow up next to the mighty Pacific Ocean, and naturally I have a deep personal connection to it. The Pacific has been a massive part of my life and an even more massive part ...

“Change, my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon”. On the note of cinematic elements, there are several additions which come across as disjointed from the sonic atmosphere. “The Only Way” ...

The ‘bedroom guitarist’ is something of a forgotten trope within progressive metal. Back around the early-to-mid-2000s, guitar and prog metal forums were full of DIY artists with bedroom studios who ...

Style: Progressive Metal, Folk Metal, Avant-Garde Metal, Black Metal (Mixed Vocals) ...

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I hate to be the one to tell you you're holding your camera upside down.

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Beyond the standard meat, potatoes, and cheese of their chosen genre, however, Jupiter are notable in that they pack in a good deal more trad-metal muscle than usual—indeed, well more than they ever ...

Over time, many bands grow too comfortable with their own sound and descend into self-parody. Content to rely on their tried-and-tested formula, they become a bundle of songwriting tropes held ...