Published on March 10th, 2010 by The Editor
Bored of angsty and schizoid guitar-driven post-hardcore? Maybe you should try the piano flavour as offered by French three-piece My Own Private Alaska.
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Tags: Amen, emo, hardcore, My Own Private Alaska, post-hardcore, progressive, screamo
Published on March 3rd, 2010 by Jonathan McCalmont
If you think the title The Rising Tide (Part 1): Corsa Al Ribasso is pretentious and clunky, wait until you hear the music Djevera put on the album of that name.
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Tags: alt-rock, alternative, Corsa Al Ribasso, Djevera, hardcore, post-hardcore, progressive, The Rising Tide
Published on March 2nd, 2010 by The Editor
Promising young Scots proggers A Torn Mind have the skills to pay the virtuoso bills, but the Barriers EP suffers under its wilfully retro pallet of tones.
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Tags: A Torn Mind, Barriers, hair metal, prog, progressive, stadium metal
Published on March 1st, 2010 by The Editor
I don’t know what precedent there is for it, but Crime In Stereo’s new album I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone gives hardcore a good hard kick in the arse.
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Tags: Crime In Stereo, hardcore, I Was Trying To Descibe You To Someone, pop, post-hardcore, progressive, psychedelic, punk
Published on February 17th, 2010 by The Editor
Accessible Aussie proggers Karnivool may sound a lot like the antipodean A Perfect Circle on Sound Awake, but that doesn’t make it a bad album by any stretch.
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Tags: alt-rock, alternative, Karnivool, post-grunge, prog, progressive, Sound Awake
Published on February 4th, 2010 by The Editor
Follow The Never Ending Way of Orwarrior deep into the wind-swept dunes of Middle Eastern power metal with progressive Isreali dramatists Orphaned Land.
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Tags: metal, Middle Eastern, Orphaned Land, power metal, prog, progressive, The Never Ending Way of Orwarrior
Published on February 2nd, 2010 by The Editor
The Sections EP is the self-funded opening salvo from Young London tech-metal extremists The Safety Fire; I get a feeling it won’t be the last.
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Tags: extreme metal, metal, prog, progressive, Sections, technical, The Safety Fire
Published on January 15th, 2010 by The Editor
Calgary metallers Divinity bring down The Singularity, a maelstrom of hooky and progressive technical metal that sounds like the end of everything you know.
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Tags: Divinity, electronic, extreme metal, industrial, progressive, technical metal, The Singularity
Published on January 13th, 2010 by The Editor
Pisa is best known for that infamous leaning tower, but if there’s any justice it’ll get extra kudos for housing epic and proggy post-metallers Watzlawick.
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Tags: epic, post-metal, post-rock, progressive, Prologue, psychedelic, Watzlawick
Published on November 27th, 2009 by The Editor
Mike Vennart of Mancunian post-prog stalwarts Oceansize takes some time out to answer a few questions about touring, releasing an “ambient” EP, and Una Stubbs.
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Tags: alternative, interview, Mike Vennart, Oceansize, post-rock, prog, progressive
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