Tag: Progressive
Dimesland – Psychogenic Atrophy Review
Oakland’s Dimesland raised some eyebrows with their debut EP, 2012’s Creepmoon. It was a thrashing, technical mix that landed somewhere between Atheist, Voivod, Martyr, and even the more adventurous Pestilence material, pleasing a lot of …
The Proglodyte’s Bonepile – Nnngh. Keys baaaaad!!!
This is The Proglodyte’s Bonepile, a place for words about progressive heavy metal music. Thanks for being here. I like all metals, really, but my bippy is most reliably and thoroughly flipped by the progressive …
Giant Squid – Minoans Review
The sea has long been a rich source of cultural, historical, and artistic inspiration. One of the earliest – and most potent – myths is the flood recounted in the Epic of Gilgamesh, which was …
While Heaven Wept – Suspended At Aphelion
While Heaven Wept turned a lot of heads with 2009’s incredible Vast Oceans Lachrymose, finding a killer balance between crushing, epic doom and prog similar to Fates Warning at their most sprawling. A brief two …
Viathyn – Cynosure Review
One of the key reasons a number of us writers remain in a game that’s bloated to obesity with enough metal blogs to choke nearly every horse currently galloping this green Earth is because every …
Mare Cognitum – Phobos Monolith Review
Mare Cognitum is the sole project of Santa Ana’s Jacob Buczarski, and while one-man bands are not exactly an oddity within the blackened realms, rarely are things so meticulously composed, arranged, and performed as on Phobos …
Trioscapes – Digital Dream Sequence Review
Why does it always feel like that, the more technical and complex the band/music, the harder it is for me write about them? I mean, I shortchanged Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing with less than 350 words, …
Dark Fortress – Venereal Dawn Review
There’s a fine line between being a tourist and an accomplished jack-of-all-trades. Take the latest from Germany’s long-running blackened act Dark Fortress, Venereal Dawn. (That title, by the way, refers to the goddess Venus, not …