Lemme show you a few things!
Öz Ürügülü is a Swiss experimental jazz band that blends in a little bit of prog rock, to great effect! Barús are the latest signees of LADLO productions, and their EP shows they can make some great progressive death metal that doesn’t indulge in long songs. 오필리아 (Ophelia) is an intriguing South Korean post rock entity; their album, 당신의 환상올 동정하라 (Sympathize with Your Phantasy), is a good and extensive listen! Good Tiger seems to have gotten all the hype, these last days, and I just have to say they delivered: their album, A … Read moreDelvoid – Serene
Norway is a prolific and high quality breeding ground for progressive metal. The latest surprise to hatch there is Delvoid‘s sophomore album, Serene: a 75-minute voyage that will make you wish that it never ends.
First of all, I could say their sound leans on tool and Caligula’s Horse’s side, but that would be oversimplifying it. Nevertheless, if you like that band’s music, you will most definitely be a fan of Delvoid’s! At the very least, the singers’ softer voice is somewhat similar, but Serene is much more into post metal. The three longer songs there really lay … Read more
OSR: November 3rd, 2015
Let me unashamedly try to put hundreds, even thousands of hours of work into a single, puny line.
Alpha Brutal puts a small dose of chiptune into a great flavoured math rock EP with a metal edge. United Kingdom’s Singapore Strategy is a pretty rad math and post rock band that will get you twitching. Deseized‘s new EP A Thousand Forms of Action is what you need if you wanna bang your head and not ask yourself too many questions. Shades of Black Won’t Bring Her Back is Norway’s Atena‘s newest, concept album, and they are on the… Read moreNovember’s gonna be great!
After a pretty strong month of October, November is promising to be even better!
The new and complete Nylithia album,
as well as a new Chrongoblin one!
There’s also the new Sikth and Good Tiger EPs:
The highly promising Instrumental (adj.) EP:
And also stuff from Mestis, Atmospheres, Obsidian Kingdom, Pomegranate Tiger, Our Oceans, and Alarmist!
And we’ll surely get a good bunch of surprises through the month!
On a side note, I’ll be in Montreal for … Read more
Thieves’ Kitchen – Clockwork Universe
Prog rockers Thieves’ Kitchen hail from the UK and Sweden. Their sixth full-length album, The Clockwork Universe, charts a course through spacetime to a destination somewhere in 1970s Canterbury, UK. The jazz and folk infused style of progressive rock particular to this spacetime neighborhood, rather than being an obsolete relic of the past, still boasts untapped veins of creative gold. Along the journey, we’re treated to a sprawling 20 minute prog epic, as well as a couple instrumental and percussion-less tracks that sound more like contemporary classical chamber music than any kind of … Read more