Tag Porcupine Tree
If you have a member from each of Threshold, Within Temptation, Darkwater and the Devin Townsend Band, as Oblivion Protocol do, then it’s fair to regard this band as a supergroup. There’s even Threshold’s stellar guitarist Karl Groom on here…. Continue Reading →
Noting a progressive band on a label specialising in progressive music, I was struck by the following description of this band’s music: “Their sombre sound drifts listeners on a stormy ritual invoking images of a tide of raindrops falling from… Continue Reading →
It all sounds very progressive to me. Dawnwalker comprises a number of musicians who help to create what they describe as “heavy, atmospheric and enigmatic”, while throwing in passing references to Opeth, Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Pink Floyd, Ihsahn,… Continue Reading →
Well this is a pleasant surprise. An E.P. from a band I have never heard of that hits in all the right heavy places. Backbone from Warsaw have been on hiatus for a couple of years and are bouncing back with… Continue Reading →
Avant-Garde style Progressive Metal outfit 3 DreAms neVer Dreamt hail from Milan, Italy and formed in 2007 as a result of the collaboration between Gianluigi Giradi providing vocal duties (Crown Of Autumn, Winter Mist, Event Horizon) and Andy Signorelli handling… Continue Reading →
Hailing from Puerto Rico, Progressive Rock/Metal band Avandra have been steadily making headway through the underground prog scene thanks to their first two releases and now look to reach an even wider audience with their third outing “Skylighting”. Originally started… Continue Reading →
Decadent Noir music is the description of this third album by Helfir- the brainchild of Luca Mazzotta. To summarise what this appears to mean on first listen is a gentle brooding mix of electronica and rock – imagine a less dancy VnV Nation jamming… Continue Reading →
This is the Norwegian prog trio’s fifth album. Lyrically, we’re told, “A Day at the Beach” is about a man “leaving his family behind into an unknown future. It’s the contrast between the desperate individual struggling to survive and people… Continue Reading →
Transcending the norms of progressive blackened extremity Greek act Hail Spirit Noir continue their exploratory sonic narrative carved out on three previous exhilarating releases whose last album, ‘Mayhem In Blue’, which I reviewed here, and contained everything you could desire… Continue Reading →
OK let’s take this from the top or summit. Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hilary, Sly Stallone, Brian Blessed – sorry guys you have been usurped there is a new mountaineer in my life. Oakland, California is not an area known for… Continue Reading →
There’s more than an element of Spock’s Beard about Pattern-Seeking Animals, with three band members in common. It was no surprise then that this album, the second from the Californian band, is lauded as progressive art rock. As for the… Continue Reading →
German Progressive Rock quartet Echolons))) formed in the early 2000’s in Frankfurt Am Main and have a different approach to the one I prefer when it comes to the music they create on the Progressive Rock spectrum. Whereas I usually… Continue Reading →