(((O))) Tag: Prog
It is an album that deserves to be played, again, and again. And the music on this album, it speaks for itself.
This is pure sludge, pure Lemmy nods, pure sci-fi in action, and pure metallic attacks that’ll make you want to start collecting the band’s music, top to bottom.
MANICBURG is a new project born in northern Manhattan. It is the trait d’union of two sonic worlds: that of Julliard composition instructor and NYC native Ray Lustig and Italy’s bohemian bonhomme, Luigi Porto.
This album here, is very much a hidden treasure to discover the sound, the sight, the imagery, and the visuals that are brought to life in all of its true forms.
Flight b741 is an album that’s ready for launch, and preparing itself to land on your door step so you can party like there’s no tomorrow.
Listening to the Void, it puts you right in the heart of nightmares that’s unfolding in front of your very eyes.
Plini is full of soul; that’s the key point for me. I expected a big guitar show and certainly got one, but we got much more than that. Personally I’d take one phrase from a Plini song over a whole album by some of the more self-indulgent shredders out there. . .Every note is articulated so soulfully, so distinctly, that it genuinely feels like he’s talking to you with his instrument. . . it’s this combination that makes a Plini show such a joyous and elevated experience.
For Bogowa and Thorgerson, they were very much like Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, finding more pieces of the puzzle about Barrett’s legacy.
DVNE manages to be heavy without falling into the usual metal tropes, creating a technically excellent and emotionally resonant work, a worthy additional to the band’s back catalogue.
A surreal, yet significant piece of work that’ll take you towards the town to reveal more clues that the small town has hidden behind closed doors.
Paul exudes calmness and kindness. During our conversation, he answered our questions carefully, with enthusiasm, and wit, taking in his musical and spiritual roots, his early days as a death metal punk, his song-writing process and journey as a vocalist, the queer metal community, as well as the solo career that he showcased later on at the Black Heart.
Paul receives a standing ovation and compels his audience to spend time with him over a roast. We emerge from the venue – into daylit, bustling Camden – aspiring to become better observers of our own minds, and to best catch the stories we tell ourselves. And to think about how, like Paul, we exist as mythical vessels of humanity.
More than just a prog-rock album, but a heavy, moody, and metallic attitude that would take you upwards to the skies above.
A trip down memory lane to close your eyes and imagine yourself being at the university, rooting for CAN.
Tonight demonstrates that Riverside aren’t just another “prog” band: alongside Klone, they play music that can be radically intelligent and complex, dark and politically astute, yet coming into its own in the live environment by maintaining a spirit of energetic enjoyment and – dare I say it – fun.
Six By Six’s follow-up is a welcoming return to see the band have gotten enough tricks up their sleeve.
Phantoma is like an imaginative movie inside your head. This band are still growing stronger than ever.
Cloud Sculptors is the album that will hit you in the gut with a giant battering ram, waiting to happen. Was it worth the trip? We think so. Because the journey has only just begun.
MesaVerde have pulled in a lot of ammunition by bringing not just prog, alternative and indie rock, but synthpop to its knees.
Siân is channeling not just Joan Jett and Slade’s Noddy Holder, but the styles of Sweet’s Brian Connolly and fellow rocker Suzi Quatro. There’s the attitude, psychedelic power, and bits of the progressive elements that just flow over her.
