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▪️Band: #Nospun
▪️Album: Opus
▪️Genre: #progressive_metal
▪️Origin: 🇳🇴 2023
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No Proghead should forget this album by Wilderun ;)
Lyric Video
#Blast_from_the_past
🟠 Reviews:
📊 9/10 🔥
When asked to describe the record, the band do so vividly, “Imagine if NECROPHAGIST and MESSUGGAH were married, and CYNIC and EXTOL got married, then years later they went to a swingers party to spice up their relationships, which then became a regular thing. From this, they all had a kid together, no one knows who the biological father is, but that’s cool because they’re co-parenting. That kid then grows up, idolizing David Lynch, Ridley Scott and film noir. He then goes to film school for a couple of years, but drops out because he’d rather play synth music, but ends up broke and homeless. “Datalysium” would be that kid.”
⇝ Metal Temple
📊 10/10 🔥
Scintillating rounds of energetic technicality are seamlessly blended amongst vibrant synth elements and powerful melodies to keep your attention fixed until the very end.
⇝ Distorted Sound Mag
All I know at this point is that Datalysium has been worth the wait, exceeds the hype, and is an utterly essential listen if you’re a fan of modern technical/progressive metal.
⇝ Wonderbox Metal
⇝ GBHBL 10/10 🔥
⇝ Metal Epidemic 5/5 🔥
⇝ Wall Of Sound 9/10
⇝ Metal Wani 9/10
⇝ Metal Injection 8.5/10
⇝ Metal Storm 8.3/10
⇝ Ghost Cult Magazine 7/10------------------------
❍ Aube Noir by Orob (2021)
❒ Reviews:
This was a strangely pleasing album in many ways. In the Extreme Metal scene, and especially the Progressive side, French bands are one of the stronger countries leading the charge.
⇝ Metal-Temple 8.5/10 🔥
French black metal has an array of talent across the spectrum from the perfidious (Deathspell Omega) to the atmospheric (Blut Aus Nord) to the brutal (Otargis), yet it also boasts an underground that’s just as potent as the nation’s death metal scene. This is a dark and mystical flame of post-black metal with many enchantments and an abundance of imagination.
⇝ Scream Blast Repeat 8/10-------------
❒ Origin: France
❒ Date: December 14, 2021
❒ Genre: Progressive Black Metal
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞--------------------------
↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
🌌 Reviews:
A pretty colorful and stellar album.
NO DEBUT SHOULD BE THIS GOOD WHAT THE HELL?!
⇝ The Progressive Subway 8 🔥
It’s rare in metal today to find a band that genuinely sounds unique. Sure, The Anchoret has a ton of evident influences but it’s also doing something different from all of them and, for the most part, pulling it off expertly.
⇝ Angry Metal Guy 7 🔥
Delivering just under an hour of eclectic, electrifying guitar-work and impressively powerful yet creatively-nuanced drumming – all topped off with passages of flittering flute and squawking saxophone, as well as some utterly sublime (yet never overbearing) synths and a plethora of plaintive, poignant melodies – It All Began With Loneliness takes a little bit of everything you already love about Progressive Rock/Metal and reminds you just why you love it in the first place.
⇝ No Clean Singing
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▪️When it just gets HEAVIER
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❍ Between The Day & I by Atlases (2023)
❒ Reviews:
This album is indeed different than a lot of Metal out there. First, the band embraces several different styles…including Core, MeloDeath, Electronic, and some atmospheric qualities. Second, they play with a genuineness and a confidence not heard very often. Third and finally, and perhaps most fittingly, they play with a “fuck you” attitude to anyone out there. Take their music or leave it…I will gladly take it.
⇝ Metal-Temple 8.5/10
Between The Day & I is good, but it’s not great. It’s respectable as evidence of a band unwilling to be confined to a single niche, and of one that’s able to get on top of the fundamentals of the new style at the first time of asking.
⇝ Metal Storm 7.2/10---------------
❒ Origin: Finland
❒ Release Date: June 2, 2023
❒ Genre: Progressive Death Metal, Djent, Modern Post Metal
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞 | 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞--------------------------
↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
Genre: Devin Townsend Metal ✨
Live Performance
#Blast_from_the_past
- Lalu's lineup:
Lead vocals: Damian Wilson (Headspace, Threshold)
Drums: Jelly Cardarelli (Adagio)
Guitars and Bass: Joop Wolters
Keyboards: Vivien Lalu
- Guest musicians:
Jens Johansson (Stratovarius)
Steve Walsh (Kansas)
Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater)
Mike Andersson (Cloudscape)
Simon Phillips (Judas Priest, Toto, Frank Zappa...)
Marco Sfogli (James LaBrie)
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❍ Odyssey to the West (2023 Remaster)
by Slice The Cake
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❒ Reviews:
This is a progressive metal album, through and through, and Slice the Cake have perfectly utilised a combination of classic progressive metal structuring along with some pointers from their ever-present Shakespearean tragedy influence to create a record that flows beautifully in and out of a number of moods.
⇝ The PROG Mind
Odyssey to the West is masterful. It’s majestic. In all honesty, this is the level of quality that musicians should strive for when releasing albums, barring the accompanying strife. Minor nuisances aside, Slice the Cake have collectively managed to craft something special, across both sea and sorrow.
⇝ Heavy Blog is Heavy
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❒ Origin: England, Sweden, Australia
❒ Released (Remaster): April 1, 2023
❒ Released (First Edition): April 1, 2016
❒ Genre: Progressive Deathcore, Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Spoken Word
☆ #Masterpiece
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | slicethecake">𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞
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↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
❍ Rejecting Obliteration
by Blindfolded and Led to the (2023)
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❒ Reviews:
This makes for an enjoyable juxtaposition, in that on the surface of it the music is relatively easy to get on board with, but has a lot going on, seething and roiling beneath the surface. In other words, the songs are well-written and have longevity built into them through their intricate depths.
⇝ Wonderbox Metal
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods have definitely found their voice, and Rejecting Obliteration is a testament to that. Filled with carefully-crafted riff eccentricity, brutality, disquiet, and thoughtful lyrics, it’s an album that stands alone, a singular listening experience in the metal scene as we know it. I recommend it highly.
⇝ Noob Heavy
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❒ Origin: New Zealand
❒ Date: May 19, 2023
❒ Genre: Progressive, Avant-garde, Technical Death Metal, Dissonant Death Metal
❒ For fans of: Artificial Brain, Anachronism, Nightmarer, Ulcerate
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | balttw">𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞
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↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
● Exeg(en)esis by Horrendous
❒ Origin: US
❒ Date: August 18, 2023
❒ Album: Ontological Mysterium
❒ Genre: Progressive Death Metal
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞--------------------------↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
❍ Meridian (2021) by Hippotraktor
❒ Reviews:
this is a very good progressive post album. I would say this is a good primer for a new fan to get into the other Pelagic Records albums. Or for fans of djent that want to get into more sludge and post-metal; I think the modern cleanliness and dynamics of this album would appeal a lot to fans of Periphery, even though this is something entirely different.
⇝ Sputnikmusic 4/5
Some of that comes from De Graef’s vocals, with his clean tones working really nicely with the atmosphere built by the music, but the elaborate heavy grooves, distinctive exploration of soft/loud dynamics and forceful intensity of the harsher moments are all in the same vein as his other band’s music.
⇝ Metal Storm 8.4/10----------------
❒ Origin: Belgium
❒ Date: October 15, 2021
❒ Genre: Progressive Post Metal, djent
❒ FFO: Psychonaut, The Ocean, Dvne, Uneven Structure, Pull Down the Sun, LLNN, Yakuza.
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞--------------------------
↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
❍ Öpik-Oort by Psygnosis (2023)
❒ About:
Psygnosis are setting off once again for a faraway galaxy with ‘Mercury’, their first album since signing with Season of Mist. And while lead single “Öpik-Oort” shoots past the 10-minute mark, it’s not a slow burn by any means. Riffs and cymbals collide like meteors, falling away beneath twinkling synths and strings that swirl with the same gravitational pull as the rings of Saturn.
‘Mercury’ is out September 15 on Season of Mist.--------------
❒ Origin: France
❒ Album: Mercury
❒ Genre: Industrial Progressive Death Metal, Atmospheric Death Metal, Cello
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | PsygnosisMusic">𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞--------------------------
↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
❍ Holocene
by The Ocean (2023)
❒ Reviews:
The Ocean has fashioned another immersive journey that's absolutely haunting, courageous, and essential.
⇝Metal Injection 9/10
Holocene uses synths, electronic percussion, and brass as complementary additions to The Ocean‘s signature post-metal sound, for what is perhaps their most experimental record yet.
⇝ Everything Is Noise
❏ Rating:
⇝ New Noise Magazine 10/10 🔥
⇝ Ghost Cult Magazine 9/10
⇝ Metal Wani 9/10
⇝ Noizze 9/10
⇝ Distorted sound Magazine 8/10
⇝ Boolin Tunes 8/10
⇝ Scream Blast Repeat 7/10
⇝ Angry Metal Guy 6/10---------------
❒ Origin: Germany
❒ Date: May 19, 2023
❒ Genre: Atmospheric Progressive Post Metal
❒ For fans of: Rosetta, Neurosis, Cult of Luna, Psychonaut, Dvne, Intronaut, Russian Circles.
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | theoceancollective">𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞--------------------------
↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
🦾 Datalysium
by The Zenith Passage (2023)
❒ About:
It’s been a shockingly long time since the first album by The Zenith Passage – Solipsist was released in 2016, and a lot has happened since then. When it comes to the band themselves, they have now returned with an almost completely new lineup, which includes a bassist and singer who were both in The Faceless.---------------
❒ Origin: California
❒ Date: July 21, 2023
❒ Genre: Modern Technical Death Metal/ Progressive Death Metal.
❒ For fans of: Archspire, Inferi, Meshuggah, Obscura, Cynic, The Faceless.
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | TheZenithPassage">𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞--------------------------
↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
Someone died for looking too far
While I was asleep in my house
A child was killed,
I heard it from a friend
A war raged in a distant land
Caused me to linger
on a piece of text
Someone died
#Blast_from_the_past
🌠 It All Began With Loneliness
by The Anchoret (2023)
❒ About:
The Anchoret is a Progressive Metal project that combines prog rock sensibilities with modern metal energy. Mixing fusion sax, flute solos, mellotron vibes and heavy riffs, The Anchoret offers a unique soundscape that is sure to please all fans or heavy music.--------------
❒ Origin: Canada
❒ Date: June 23, 2023
❒ Genre: Progressive Metal/Rock, Death Metal
❒ For fans of: Obsidian Tide, Altesia, Opeth, King Crimson.
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | theanchoretofficial">𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞--------------------------
↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
❍ Along the Meandering Ordeals, Reshape the Pivot of Harmony
by Woe Unto Me (2023)------------
❒ Review:
WOE UNTO ME is a doom metal band from Belarus who formed in 2007. 'Along the Meandering Ordeals, Reshape the Pivot of Harmony' is their third full length album. I suppose the best sub genre to put them into would be funeral doom. However, I don't think calling them gives the full idea of what they truly bring to the table for doom. Although no doubt a dark, heavy and depressing band, their sound is much more expansive and varied than the average funeral doom band. In some ways, their sound is progressive in how far they are willing to stretch themselves. 'Along…' is all doom and gloom but it isn't all cavernous—the album has an open sound that is very exploratory without forgetting the roots of the genre.
⇝ Metal-Temple 9/10 🔥--------------
❒ Origin: Belarus
❒ Date: March 24, 2023
❒ Genre: Progressive Death Doom, Funeral Doom
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | woeuntomeband">𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞--------------------------
↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
❍ 16 by Einar Solberg (2023)-------------------❒ Review:
... At times vibrant and alive and other times dark and moody, musically 16, covers everything from pop, folk, electronic music, funk, hip hop, prog rock, and metal with the use of live musicians, programming, songwriters, and composers. Guitars, strings, synths, choirs, and samples all mixed with Einar’s emotional and dynamic vocals keeps everything as a kaleidoscope of musical ideas spinning in nearly every direction.
Despite this, 16 truthfully sounds remarkably coherent. A feat in of itself, considering the number of people involved in this enormous project. A list which includes Ihsahn, Magnus Børmark, and The City of Prague Philharmonic Choir just to name a few.
⇝ Metal Epidemic 4/5 🔥---------------❒ Origin: Norway
❒ Date: 2nd June 2023
❒ FFO: Leprous, Ihsahn, Porcupine Tree, Haken
❒ Genre: Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Prog, Pop, Electronic, Alternative.
🔗 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | EinarSolbergOfficial">𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞--------------------------
↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
❍ Paint the Sky by Lalu (2022)
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❒ Reviews:
Wonderfully satisfying, entertaining, and enjoyable.
⇝ Man of Much Metal 9.7 🔥
Solidly rooted in a modern style of progressive rock with affectionate glances back to the genre pioneers, Lalu has created a stunning work of art that sets a new bar for where prog can go in 21st century.
⇝ Sonic Perspectives 9.3 🔥
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❒ Origin: Paris, France
❒ Date: January 21, 2022
❒ Genre: Progressive Rock/Metal
❒ For fans of: Artificial Silence, Threshold, (Early) Haken, Yes
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞
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↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
❍ Hainin
by Daliborovo Granje (2020)
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❒ Review:
The title “Hainin” (synonymous with traitor, outlaw, thug) is a solid proof of the irresistibleness of their rhythms, along with “Lost” and “Shadow in the Mechana” best manifests their musical philosophy. The envelope itself is absolutely in the service of the name of this album, it contains a photograph of a man from an Austro-Hungarian prison from the early 20th century. The band is interested because of his gaze in which repentance is manifested (a convenient parallel with Raskoljnikov), the repentance experienced by Hainin for his misdeeds.
⇝ SoundGuardian
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❒ Origin: Croatia
❒ Date: Nov 27, 2020
❒ Genre: Progressive Rock, Experimental Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Post Rock, Instrumental Rock, Balkan Folk Music, Anatolian Rock
✼ #Rock_Time
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞
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↜𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥↝
❍ Godisnowhere By Devcord (2021)
❏ About:
Devcord is a studio Project which was launched in 2014. The "band" consists of one ambitious Austrian musician who is in charge of everything - from songwriting and playing all instruments to production. He tries to pay tribute to these bands with the album Dysthymia and thus fulfills himself a dream with the hope that others will enjoy it as well.
❒ Origin: Spillern, Austria
❒ Date: September 10, 2021
❒ Genre: Progressive Death Metal
❒ For fans of: #MakeAkerfeldtGrowlAgain
Extol, Wilderun, The Faceless, Porcupine Tree
🔗 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 | 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞
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