Progressive Metal

Giant Gutter From Outer Space is een Brazilaans duo die een interessante vorm van instrumentale prog-metal spelen.

The morganatics is niet gewoon een muziek genre, maar een manier van leven. Zo presenteren zij zich ! Check it out!

Franse prog metal van internationaal niveau, nu uit op Dooweet !

Uit Frankrijk komt het prog metal collecttief Orakle. Zeven jaar lang heeft de band er over gedaan om met een nieuw album op de proppe te komen. Een smaakvolle combi van black metal met experimentele prog rock uitstapjes maken dit tot een speciale release.

A wonderful progressive rock / metal double album in the style of Ayreon and Avantasia. Built around multi-instrumentalist and singer Koos J. Th�nissen but with an international cast of guests.

Sky Empire are a UK based progressive metal band with a distinctive sound, redefining the entire genre. \nLet yourself be guided by the music as Sky Empire take their listeners on a journey, interweaving emotive storytelling through the fabric of powerful and evocative music.\nEffortlessly and effectively blending the likes of Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Dream Theater and Symphony X, Sky Empire are preparing to take 2018 by storm in the launch their new album, The Dark Tower.\nThere are no new acts coming through in the progressive metal scene doing what Sky Empire do, marrying artfully and thoughtfully the band?s propensity for daring musicianship with grandiose compositions set within the soundscape of modern metal music.

The Rhineland's very own progressive death metal poets STEORRAH are back with their third studio album ?The Altstadt Abyss?. Following ?An Eroticism In Murder? (2010), ?II: Thin White Paint? (2015) and the live cut ?Nocturnal Emission? (2016), the album was produced by vocalist/guitarist Andreas M�rz, mixed by Michael Haas (Big Easy Studio) and mastered by Roman Beilharz (UVASonar). To fans of progressive and experimental death metal, STEORRAH are no unfamiliar name anymore, ever since the successful campaign to crowdfund ?II: Thin White Paint? and the subsequent scandal around the bankruptcy of crowdfunding platform Sellaband after which the global metal scene and the mighty Wacken foundation saved theday for Steorrah. A brief UK tour and the release of ?Nocturnal Emission? were to follow. ?The Altstadt Abyss? presents the former studio project STEORRAH as a consolidated band unit with a focus on songwriting that despite the progressive tilt does not neglect its heaviness and strong hooks. From the chops of the relatively straight opening track ?The Silver Apples of the Moon?, via the brute raga forms of ?Saturnalia for Posterity?, the cineastic piano on ?Spheroid Nine?, the beat poetry devices on ?Wolves & Seagulls?, to the full frontal experimental attack that is ?Where my Vessel Dwells?, ?The Altstadt Abyss? provides the keen listener with the definitive soundtrack to autumn 2018. We recommend enjoying it with a cuppa earl grey and a spell of doomsday weather.

The Vicious Head Society, the brainchild of Irish guitar virtuoso Graham Keane. Having initially started as a pet project around 2010 after returning to the Ireland from music school in the UK, Keane was tutoring aspiring musicians when he decided to start writing original material purely as a self-gratifying project. He figured that living in a remote area of Ireland with not many musicians interested in his style of music, metal, hard rock and prog, he would be best to forge ahead alone. As with many creative types Keane had a very laid back attitude about the whole thing and on many occasions just sat there noodling on his guitar while life passed him by. It wasn?t until his wife?s cancer diagnosis in 2013 that he started to take things a bit more seriously. The shock of realising his own mortality threw Keane into action. As with most progressive records Abject Tomorrow is no different in the sense that it is a concept album. The story is based in a dystopian future in which all humans are required to have emotion inhibiting implants implanted from birth. One man?s implant fails and it chronicles his journey of discovery and reconnection with his humanity. Musically, it draws from a huge range of influences; from classic prog acts that influenced Keane growing up, such as Yes, Genesis, ELP and Rush to metal acts such as Death, Meshuggah and Megadeth.

Odradek Room, a progressive metal band with doom elements returns this autumn with their follow-up to their mature and intelligent debut album ?Bardo. Relative Reality.? released in 2013. A four piece located in Mariupol, Ukraine, Odradek Room (named after Franz Kafka"s short story The Cares of a Family Man [1919]) uses doom metal as a base, but explores other musical genres to paint a rich palette of texture and atmosphere. Lyrically rooted in spiritual and philosophical themes, this is music that should appeal to introspective souls and deep thinkers. The "Man of Silt" album explores the nature of personality, and is based on approaches and conceptual understanding of buddhism, but utilizes a system of european symbolism This is a story about an abstract travel of a human from nothingness to nonexistence, during which he tries to see and understand himself. He sees his personality melting and rising, splitting and merging. He sees that his personality is nothing more than a combination of figures like on a chessboard in Herman Hesse"s magic theatre. His personality is conditioned as everything else is in the world of forms. The human sinks in his own scaring, sick illusions and consciousness projections, and sees clear light and clear nature of reality. This story has neither a beginning nor an end, everyone who is born, who considers himself an individual, walks through this cycle...but in a new way each time. Everything is constantly changing...But in some way stays the same. Until one realizes this cycle. The album should appeal to fans of doom metal in general, but also listeners of prog metal bands such as late-Katatonia, mid-Opeth, Ihsahn, and Devin Townsend.

BORN AS PROJECT ?ONE MAN BAND? BY THE SINGER/GUITARIST \nROBERTO SPELS, NEREIDE BECOMES A BAND IN OCTOBER 2016\nWITH COSIMO BARBARO (BASS) AND GIACOMO SCOLETTA\n(DRUM) JOINING THE GROUP . NEREIDE ?S MUSIC IS A DIVERSIFIED POST METAL SOUND \nCHARACTERISED BY MULTIPLE INFLUENCES AND THE DIFFERENT \nSTYLES OF EACH MEMBER. WITH THEIR FIRST EP, THE BAND \nEVOKES RAREFIED AND INTENSE ATMOSPHERES, BORN BY A \nDIRECT CONTACT WITH NATURE. THE RESULT IS POWERFUL MIX \nOF DIFFERENT VIBES : BETWEEN POST ROCK AND PROGRESSIVE \nMETAL.\nINFO:\nwww.facebook.com/nereideband\nhttps://nereide.bandcamp.com/\nhttps://soundcloud.com/nereideband\nROBERTOSPELS@GMAIL.COM

The Spanish 4-pieced combo The Third Grade joins the family of Art Gates Records with the ultimate aim of releasing their\nnew opus in 2017 and enhance their musical career from now on.\nThe Third Grade are a Metal outfit which combines in a pretty particular way the genres of Rock & Prog along with pasajes classic and symphonic passages.