(((O))) Tag: Progressive

Exclusive Video Premiere: Sans Froid – ‘Pros and Constants’

With their live performances getting you as close to real magic as you can get, Sans Froid are undeniably one of the UK’s most exciting bands. The Froid’s intent is clear, to make you feel like you’re not the only one going crazy.

Richard Barbieri – Hauntings

Barbieri never stops to amaze his listeners with its views on the parallel universes left on his new album with intensity, spectral, and phantasmal perspective in the world that is waiting for us.

Cryptic Shift • Mithras • Unburier • Desolator – 229 Club

…and just like that, the Tour Ship fires up its engines and shoots off into The Beyond. Returning planet-side with their first new material for six years, Shift just keep getting better and always seem to be on top form.  I honestly can’t think of a more exciting metal band in the UK right now.  Go catch them at your nearest planet-side dive bar asap!  

Stefan De Graef from Psychonaut

Gavin Brown caught up with Stefan De Graef from Belgian psychedelic post-metal trio Psychonaut to get an insight into their new record as well as discussing the band recent live shows, how 2025 has been for Psychonaut, the future and fatherhood.

Pearl Handled Revolver • Teiger – Camden Club, London

It’s another exciting and thought-provoking show courtesy of London Prog Gigs, introducing me to another great Camden live music venue, and demonstrating how Teiger and Pearl Handled Revolver are two of the best bands in the UK.  

Ihlo – Legacy

Dark and menacing, yet bleakly addictive, Legacy – should help Scotland’s Ihlo could help them find their place within the prog metal pantheon.

Katatonia – Nightmares as Extensions of a Waking State

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.

Album Premiere: Dwellers – Corrupt Translation Machine

Dwellers | Facebook | Bandcamp Salt Lake City progressive blues rockers Dwellers are shortly about to release their new album Corrupt Translation Machine and it is a swirling collection of blues laden anthems with lashings of psych flair adding to proc …

Exclusive Album Premiere: Verbian – Casarder

The distorted, anxious and surrealist visual style of the album’s cover art (painted by artist Madalena Pinta) speaks perfectly to the album’s direct, albeit melted, psychedelic electronic post-metal. Riff after riff comes and goes, never wearing out its welcome.

Video Premiere: Verbian – Fruta Caída Do Mar

The distorted, anxious and surrealist visual style of the album’s cover art (painted by artist Madalena Pinta) speaks perfectly to the album’s direct, albeit melted, psychedelic electronic post-metal. Riff after riff comes and goes, never wearing out its welcome.

Sab Grey from Star Carr and Iron Cross

Gavin Brown had the pleasure of catching up with Sab Grey, who is the bassist and vocalist of Star Carr, to talk about the band, their new album, tales from his previous band Iron Cross, and much more.

Festival Review – ArcTanGent 2024

ArcTanGent 2024 once again proved why it’s a beloved staple in the festival calendar, managing to blend the experimental with the established and offering a platform for a diverse array of artists – from the thunderous and chaotic to the ethereal and introspective. Despite the inevitable rain and the occasional clash of must-see acts, the spirit of discovery and the shared love for the eclectic made for an amazing experience in the Somerset countryside.

Sverre Knut Johansen – Still Time

Still Time may not be for the faint of heart, but what Johansen has done is to capture the sounds of the natural world in all of its tricky momentum.

Exclusive Album Premiere: DANAVA – Live

DANAVA Live – feel that metal on metal!

Dark Sky Alliance – Interdwell

Interdwell is a poetic sense of beauty that’s unveiling to us in all of its glory.

Featured Video: Fluke – Insanely Beautiful

Fluke return with their first release of a new era, a single entitled ‘Insanely Beautiful’.

Teiger • Cabiria • Kunal Singhal – The Hope & Anchor

Hosted by London Prog Gigs, tonight’s show brings together three forward-thinking artists at the intimate, storied Hope & Anchor venue for an eclectic musical mélange: featuring the inimitable vocal drones of Kunal Singhal, the eclectic post-metal of Cabiria, and the sparkling, unclassifiable power that is our headliners Teiger.  

Exclusive Album Premiere: Dragged Up – High On Ripple

Hot on the heels of the 2023 Hex Domestic EP and the single ‘Missing Person’, Dragged Up are set to release their second album, High On Ripple.

Matt Jarman from VOID

On a rainy winter’s night, Matt Jarman from avant garde mavericks VOID invited Joe Norman from Echoes and Dust into his London home-studio to discuss the creation of his band’s latest album, Jadjow.

Terrestrials – Iridescent

Fans of the flare and musicality of prog/metal and rock bands will be right at home with the Terrestrials sound.

Peter Gabriel – O2 Arena, London.

The underlying characteristics of Gabriel’s tour 2023 are courage, humility and trust. . . in an individualised, alienated, competitive political economy it was an evening that subtly pointed to other, better models of society.

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