Never Awake is a Portland-based progressive heavy rock slash metal band and their album Underground is to be released May 19th, 2014. I’ve got to say I’m quite impressed of the release!

They’re not the most out-there, insane musicians ever, but boy do their songs stick in your head! On the prog side of things, their songs show a decent duration: none is shorter than 5 minutes and there’s even a 10 minute closer! Riffs and patterns are often not too recherché, but when the spotlight comes on the instrumental, they put their hands dirty for some hard work that … Read more

Disregarding the horrendous orthographical error in the bandcamp album named Renaissence, it is one good shot at reconciling trance music with metal in general, although it relies heavily on the djent side of things.

Fail Emotions already did the experience with their previous album Transfornation and their EP Speed Of Light as well as with their more recent single Gravity. Each time perfecting their blend of djent, dubstep, and trance among other things.

The new arrival is sure to please to early followers, but should once again make the purists flee, accompanied with the electro-hater metalheads and the harsh vocals-hater … Read more

The Ralph will take you on a trip you will never forget. Their huge wall of delayed guitar chords begs to be listened to on long drives. These motherfuckers known how to write great songs that do not get stale or too repetitive. The usage of huge and “epic” sounding chords give the song it’s general feel and then they make you interested with clever riffs enter smoothly and leave as smoothly. The lead female vocals are also a refreshing thing to take in. I do wish they were a bit more forward in the mix. I really like the … Read more

Even if I really like and tried to follow the band Canvas Solaris, I wasn’t really aware that they have disbanded yet, and I didn’t know anything about their side project The Burden Of Existence.

Consisting of the same lineup as the former group but with an added female singer, we’re sure to find the same musical prowesses that were their signature. On top of it, their singer Narissa really is a great singer, bringing a lot of depth to the music with her melodies and harmonies. However there was a price to pay to include it, and it’s the … Read more

After their crazy album “Based On A True Story”, the Russian guys from Second To Sun have once again outdone themselves, this time in the form of GT DJNT, an representation of the subgenre’s past, present, and future styles.

No need to say that although being an artistic representation, it captures the essence of three distinct periods in djent’s history, the Meshuggan “past period”, the actual, should I say Peripheran period, and a future one, and only time will tell if they went all Nostradamus or if they failed at imagining the future, but it’s nevertheless a fun experiment to … Read more