(((O))) Tag: Progressive metal
There’s going to be much more to come from Harboured, this album’s got great songs and is full of surprises.
Harboured return with their sophomore album entitled We’re Only The Love That We Lead. Growing as a band in every way imaginable, the trio power through styles and genres with a confident and aggressive stance that declares them as one of the most original acts in the metal scene today.
An Undying Love For A Burning World is a truly staggering album. A modern classic. An essential listen.
This is a seriously tight, energised and DOWNRIGHT FUCKING HEAVY album to get 2026 off to a cracking start.
While I’m very new to the world of Textures’ music, their new album is like a massive volcanic eruption, waiting to explode at the right time, at the right place to kick 2026 off with a bigger bang.
Giants & Monsters is a cracking metal album bursting with big tunes that transported me back to better times.
Dark and menacing, yet bleakly addictive, Legacy – should help Scotland’s Ihlo could help them find their place within the prog metal pantheon.
Machina Kore have created an impressive debut album that is full of melodic hooks, intelligent song writing and technical musicianship.
Katatonia return with another selection of progressive melancholy. The Swedes overcome the departure of their co-founder without rocking the boat too much, for better and worse.
Minnesota based sludge/noise/post-metal act Serac has released new music video ‘Hanging Garden’ from their debut album Baring Teeth in a Famine
Italian death metal mavericks Bedsore had a busy and successful year with the release of their new album Dreaming The Strife For Love, so Gavin Brown caught up with Jacopo and Stefano from the band to get an insight into Bedsore’s 2024.
Gavin Brown caught up with Lowen vocalist Nina Saeidi to get an insight into their latest album, its lyrics, artwork and creation as well as discussing how the year has been for Lowen and what the future holds.
There are many influences infiltrating Mur’s music, yet it all combines to make for a wonderful noise and a unique blend of atmospherics and punishing riffs.
Shining feels and sounds like a softer reflection of the ploughing through life’s disillusionments.
Gavin Brown caught up with Tribe Of Ghosts guitarist Adam Sedgwick who gave us the lowdown on the concept of their debut album CITY and also discussed the highlights for Tribe Of Ghosts this year.
Testament • Kreator • Possessed Showbox SoDo, Seattle, 16 September, 2024 Photos by Geoff Topley
On the eve of the release of In Resonance Nexus, the band’s first album in over a decade, Gary Davidson caught up with Karl Middleton to discuss the second break up, the freedom in writing the new album, Twinzero and plans for the bands performance at ArcTanGent.
To be 26 odd years into a career and adding an album this good to a stacked back catalogue is utterly ridiculous. Why are they not huge?
Earthtone9 has just lost its UK metal crown, it will have to better The Scorching Gaze to try and win it back!
Ihsahn pushes himself across new borders of creativity with this dual recording, resulting in a progressive adventurous metal album and an orchestral soundtrack of a movie that doesn’t exist.
