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Klidas – No Harmony (Bird’s Robe)

Jazz meets psychedelia. Alternative meets progressive rock. That’s the billing of this album from Italy’s Klidas, who were formed in 2014. Upon reading that this album “represents a path of transcendence”, I set off on the journey. With a calming… Continue Reading →

Black Orchid Empire – Tempus Veritas (Season of Mist)

A bit more mainstream than some of the works reviewed on this site, Black Orchid Empire do pride themselves on a combination of heaviness, melody, emotion power and rhythmic complexity. If done well, this is a potent combination. The band… Continue Reading →

HamaSaari – Ineffable (Klonosphere Records)

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 →

Yaaroth – The Man in The Wood (I, Voidhanger)

What do we have here? Music to go with the newest craze that is The Last of Us? The cover depicting a person turned fungi? The band name the moniker of the creature? Nope, wrong. But still connected. In what… Continue Reading →

Inhalo – Sever (Construction Records)

I saw Inhalo recently at ProgPower Europe where they played the songs on this album. The performance and music were impressive. This of course does not automatically mean that the associated album is impressive as it does sometimes happen that… Continue Reading →

Crippled Black Phoenix – Banefyre (Season of Mist)

This long-standing act now releases its twelfth album, along with other releases the theme is the human condition and the mistreatment of humans and animals alike. Musically I expected something unusual and experimental. The narrative “Incantation For The Different” rails… Continue Reading →

Cynic – Ascension Codes (Season Of Mist)

Sometimes an album can totally alter your vision of music and shake your own personal taste. In 2014 Cynic’s Kindly Bent To Free Us had such an effect on me. Whilst I don’t think my musical taste will ever stop… Continue Reading →

Diagonal – 4 (Cobblers Records)

Diagonal, hail from the pebbly multicultural mecca of Brighton, which over the years has seemed to morph from just another seabound slide into retirement into a bubbling caldron of counterculture, expressionism and tolerance. I have spent many a lovely time… Continue Reading →

Drott – Orcus (By Norse)

Drott take us into the strange underworld of Orcus with this album. The band includes members from Enslaved and Ulver, and with backgrounds as diverse as metal, jazz and classical music, dive into “sonic, experimental landscapes” with this instrumental progressive… Continue Reading →

Lake Of Tears – Ominous (AFM)

Label-defying, genre-mashing Metal band Lake Of Tears have been quiet since “Illwill” way back in 2011 – but then 9 albums over a period of almost 30 years isn’t the most hastened of workloads. But in that time over those… Continue Reading →

Le Grand Sbam – Furvent (Dur Et Doux)

There are two main branches of Avant-Garde music; The pseudo-prog and jazz stylings of masters of the genre like Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart… And then there is overly self-indulgent nonsense which has some small sections which pass for music,… Continue Reading →

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