Proghurst’s Best Albums From 2023
And so another year passes us by… Proghurst has been hard at work this year on all facets of writing, covering more live shows than ever with 60 articles published overall. We’ve been working...
Category: 💿 Album Reviews
Deafheaven: ‘Sunbather’ (10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster Review)
In 2013, San Francisco-based Blackgaze band Deafheaven released what is arguably the single most impactful album for the genre to this day. The mix of Black Metal and Shoegaze quickly became a household name...
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: ‘The Silver Cord’ Review
The ever-so-prolific Aussies over at King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have dropped their second album this year. For those uninitiated, they are a Melbourne-based collective currently consisting of Stu Mackenzie, Ambrose-Kenny Smith, Joey...
Closure in Moscow: ‘Soft Hell’ Review
Time is a scary and painfully quantifiable unit of measurement and in recent years, few bands made this more apparent than Closure in Moscow. A little background: their beginnings in the eclectic post-hardcore space...
Finsterforst: ‘Jenseits’ Review and Interview
If I were tasked to pick one and only one aspect about progressive music that I like the most, it is the art of very long tracks. Now, don’t get me wrong, anyone can...
TesseracT: ‘War of Being’ Review
Five years after their previous studio release, UK progressive metal artists TesseracT, are back in the spotlight with War of Being. The five-man band has made themselves established giants in the prog djent scene...
The Anchoret: ‘It All Began With Loneliness’ Review
There is a risk with ‘project’ albums such as this that the band feels incohesive due to their lack of experience working together and that the music feels like a by-the-numbers amalgamation of the...
Voyager: ‘Fearless in Love’ Review
Have you ever read a review like this before? It’s a broadly positive review for the Australian prog metal band Voyager’s new album Fearless in Love, so you probably have. Cards on the table:...
Big Big Train: ‘Ingenious Devices’ Review
Big Big Train has brought forth a new release titled Ingenious Devices featuring updated versions of three of their beloved tracks from different albums as well as one previously unreleased instrumental track. The previously...
Avenged Sevenfold: ‘Life is But a Dream…’ Review
So there’s a new Avenged Sevenfold album. For those somehow living under a rock, Avenged Sevenfold (sometimes affectionately referred to as A7X for short) have been at the forefront of hard rock and metal...
