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Progressive Rock

New progressive modern hard rock from Brazil’s Mindflow’s latest work ‘With Bare Hands’

30 June 2011 American Culture

Recently signed to Nightmare Records for a North American push and distribution is Mindflow’s fourth album With Bare Hands. Mindflow hails from Brazil, but don’t expect the thrash/death/groove metal of Sepultura or the progressive/power of Angra. Rather, Mindflow takes on more modern hard rock tendencies, sometimes nearing metal or invoking hardcore.

Significant and entertaining classic progressive rock from Italy’s Aura and their new album Deliverance

4 April 2011 Entertainment

When I think of rock or metal from Italy, I have some preconceived notions. On the metal side, there’s thrash, power, progressive, symphonic, to name a few, or some combination of several styles. On the rock side, definitely AOR/melodic rock, hard rock, and the current renaissance of sleaze and glam rock. But straight traditional progressive [...]

Images of Eden’s Rebuilding the Ruins: great American progressive metal from central Pennsylvania

28 February 2011 American Culture

When you find an American metal band that doesn’t do the latest trends of death metal, melodic or otherwise, metalcore, deathcore, hardcore metal, or some other such ‘core’ nonsense, you must sit up, take notice, and listen. Images of Eden is such a band, offering strong (American) progressive metal. Oh yeah, they’re local boys based [...]

Astrosoniq’s Quadrant: impressive and entertaining prog rock with a stoner pyschedelic edge

14 February 2011 American Culture

Thanks to an agreement with E1 Entertainment, Germany’s Exile on Mainstream label is getting distribution for their artists in North America, many for the very first time. One of the first to be pushed in the United States is Astrosoniq and their 2009 release Quadrant. My European brethren are likely familiar with Astrosoniq’s catalog and [...]

Jakko Jakszyk’s The Bruised Romantic Glee Club is essential, creative, and classic progressive rock

5 February 2011 American Culture

Getting it’s first release and push in North America, thanks to the obscure label Inner Knot Records (and Lori Hehr PR), is guitarist, composer, and producer Jakko M. Jakszyk’s wonderful fifth solo album from 2007 The Bruised Romantic Glee Club. Traditional progressive rock fans who know their prog history are familiar with Mr. Jakszk’s superb [...]

Devon Graves returns with The Shadow Theory and debut album Behind the Black Veil, fine progressive metal

20 January 2011 Entertainment

If you been wondering what has become of eclectic prog visionary Devon Graves (Psychotic Waltz, Deadsoul Tribe) take heart and not of his new project The Shadow Theory and debut album Behind the Black Veil. Composing on his own for several years, Graves decided to form a band with the best of his peers to [...]

The wonderfully strange world of Dakrya’s Crime Scene: avant garde theater progressive rock

18 November 2010 Entertainment

Calling Dakrya’s second release Crime Scene simply progressive rock or metal isn’t quite descriptive enough. The seven players from Greece use much more interesting words, avant garde and theatrical, to describe their work. Indeed, Crime Scene might be imagined as Broadway play blended with the circus of the absurd and then put to clever and [...]

Stolen Memories The Strange Order: fine new progressive power metal from France

24 October 2010 Commentary

Straight out of the gates, the debut work, The Strange Order, from France’s Stolen Memories is different, even modestly perplexing. The Strange Order is both everyman’s progressive metal, but also something more delightful. Something like Dream Theater meets Manticora, but not that predictable.

Thomas Thielen’s (aka t) Anti-Matter Poetry: curiously different, and entertaining, neo-progressive art rock

21 October 2010 Entertainment

t aka Thomas Thielen is the multi-instrumentalist behind the German, and obscure, avant garde rock band Scythe, and two previous solo albums Naive (2002) and Voices (2006). But the ‘t’ could stand for other things as well. ‘t’ could stand for ‘taunting’ since his newest release, Anti-Matter Poetry provokes and dares you to listen to [...]

Terrific, unconventional and entertaining prog rock: Tetrafusion’s Altered State

4 October 2010 American Culture

Louisiana-based Tetrafusion scored big with their self-released debut Absolute Zero, a satisfying work of instrumental progressive metal. Prog critics and fans were uniformly impressed by this young musical depth and maturity. The praise was well deserved. Now signed to Nightmare Records, Tetrafusion returns with Altered State, and things are about to get interesting. Without adding [...]

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