Visions is the name of the Italian post-metalcore band Amia Venera Landscape‘s new album, out in 2015.
It doesn’t give away much, but if it’s half as good as their last album, The Long Procession, it will be stellar!… Read more
Review: Zorbas Crisol – Criollo EP
I was recently contacted by one of the guitarists from Chilean band Zorbas Crisol, and I was extremely impressed by what I heard. Their debut EP, Criollo, is somewhat reminiscent of a mostly instrumental version of Mr. Bungle’s debut album, but it doesn’t feel the slightest bit derivative. The song structures are highly unpredictable but never random or directionless. For example, the first song begins sounding very reminiscent of The Mars Volta – if you had told me that Omar Rodriguez-Lopez played guitar in the first half of this song, I wouldn’t have been surprised, and the similarities are … Read more
Review: Matheus Manente – Illusions Dimension
Brazilian meteorologist and musician Matheus Manente released his first solo album, Illusions Dimension, a musical journey that will take you to many ends of the progressive rock and metal realms!
First off, the musicianship is flawless. There is a lot of technicality involved, although it is far from being the center point of the album. Solos after solos, we can enjoy the musicality of the meteorologist’s mind. There is quite a good amount of djent influences in the rhythmic department, although it doesn’t sound djent very much.
Every song has its own personality but … Read more
The Perfect Ping, The Ugliest Piece of Music, or Costas Arrays
The video begins with a long but utterly interesting introduction on the matter. In short, this is music written to bear absolutely no repetition and, based on the premise that beauty in music is found in the repetition of motifs – which is an absolutely subjective and arbitrary statement, the ugliest, or less enjoyable, piece of music ever written.
Of course, it has been called like this to catch the attention of the reader, or the listener, because intelligent people are behind this apparently stupid title.
The music in itself is truly amazing, played on a grand piano at the … Read more
News: Last Chance To Reason – Level 2 video game gets two more chapters
With the release of 2011’s Level 2, an album acclaimed by all and that’s still memorable to this day as one of the best albums of modern progressive metal, Last Chance To Reason worked with independent video game developer Tom Vine to create an interactive multimedia experience. What we got was this, a demo with only the song Upload Complete. It was short, but it was a lot of fun, and it was really cool to play with the music.
Today, The Virus Master has come out, which includes the songs Coded to Fail and Taking Control. I … Read more