Ihsahn: ‘Ihsahn’ Review
Norway’s black metal scene is one of contrast. Since the 1990s, it has been a constant vantage point for some of the most brutal and unforgiving music to be inserted into earholes – with...
Category: 💿 Album Reviews
Wandering Oak: ‘Resilience’ Review
Sometimes an album comes out of nowhere and just floors you – very much the case for Rochester-based Wandering Oak, with their sophomore album Resilience having recently dropped. Resilience was not on my radar...
Slift: ‘Ilion’ Review
The hero’s journey is a key aspect of millions of great pieces of media going back far beyond the printing press (there are probably some shockingly good cave painting narratives out there). The ancient...
Caligula’s Horse: ‘Charcoal Grace’ Review
It has been three long years since Caligula’s Horse’s critically acclaimed 2020 album Rise Radiant, and the Australian progressive metal quartet has returned to the world with yet another masterfully crafted record, Charcoal Grace,...
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...
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...
