The Latest and Greatest in the Progressive Music Scene
Thy Catafalque (or Thy Catflap in very specific and limited circles), the brainchild of Hungarian musical prodigy Tamás Kátai and an increasing cast of friends and lovers has set upon the world another particularly bespoke...
If you’ve listened to metal for more than five seconds, you’re at least fleetingly aware of the name Devin Townsend. The man, the myth, the legend, has had one of the most storied careers in...
Swallow the Sun have long been a shining beacon of high-intensity gloom among the dirging, droning ranks of death-doom metal bands, but never so literally as with their latest record Shining – the ninth in their extensive...
Oranssi Pazuzu, man. The name might evoke in you, as it does me, images of The Lion King’s famous parrot, but they certainly don’t parrot any other band here. This is the Finnish stalwarts’...
I’m a bit of an odd one when it comes to music – sometimes I like to be challenged and have my face ripped off, sometimes I like to be carried blissfully and calmly...
In 2021, the prog scene witnessed a relative rarity. An actually new breakthrough act that came in the form of Norwegian octet Meer. They’ve been on the minds of many prog rock enjoyers since Playing...
Proghurst as a unit has recently been out and about at Radar Festival this year, trying to locate some good bands and good friends. Both of those are found aplenty – and it’s no...
When bands that aren’t the unfathomable Callous Daoboys say things like “This is our heaviest yet, we really matured our sound with this song, and we think this is gonna be a gamechanger for the genre” that spun tale is rarely...
In parts of North Africa, the movement of Tishoumaren music, or the ‘desert blues’, is given huge reverance, albeit with little western coverage or crossover. A napkin summary of the style: the Tuareg people,...
From the barren wastelands of Arrakis – or perhaps just Edinburgh – emerges yet another record by progressive metal band Dvne. Voidkind, their third record all in all, sets out to build upon the...
