Saturday, 9 December

Les chevals & Allonymous – Big Mess (jazz fusion/R&B)
Mindpatrol – Vulture City (progressive metal)

Sunday, 10 December

Blvck Ceiling – The Lost 5 (darkwave)

Monday, 11 December

Slvmbvr – Slvmbvr (drone doom metal)
Vexovoid – Call of the Starforger (technical blackened thrash metal)

Tuesday, 12 December

Astrophe – Deconstruct (instrumental progressive metal)
Crawl across the Sky – The Silent God (post-rock/black metal)
Gardenjia – In Dreams (progressive metal)
Käki – Dada Flesh (experimental rock)
Сольвычегодск (Sol’vychegodsk) – Вежливый приказ (Vezhlivyy prikaz) (experimental jazz)

Wednesday, 13 December

⛧⛧⛧ (Triple Pentagram) – ⛧⛧⛧ (grindcore)

Friday, 15 December

Al … Read more

Some may know already, but one of my many péchés mignons is a certain affection for long, single compositions. I can trace this likeness to my first encounters with progressive metal – the real beginning of my musical journey –, and to Dream Theater especially. The title track of their double album Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence was truly mind-blowing for the teen whom I was, with its eight movements spanning over forty minutes of impressive musicianship and songcraftsmanship. I’ve grown out of my fandom for the band, somewhat, but there’s still some magic in their earlier catalogue. Since then, … Read more