Bye bye Scott Kelly! You abusive loser.

Ok, that aside, me and Neurosis have been in a pretty comfy relationship. I am not the biggest fan of them in comparison to their contemporaries like Isis, or Cult of Luna, but their releases have always left a pleasant taste in my mouth. So, when I heard they were making a new studio work, a decade after their last one from 2016, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to review them. Right?

No it didn’t hurt. In fact, this record is actually really ... read more

It's been nearly 3 years since I last rated an album from Ne Obliviscaris. A bit crazy considering they’re one of my favorite metal bands out there. But I guess better late than never when it comes to looking into the work of this immaculate band. So, I figured, why not restart to their debut, Portal of I?

This is most certainly their most popular record yet, and for good reasons. Portal of I is honestly a masterclass of quality. While proggy death and black metal aren’t new, ... read more

From what I noticed from the charts of this year, the Latino music community has been getting a lot more love and recognition than I would expect. Good. Music from South American countries goes hard. This is especially true with the newest release from Brazilian project Antropoceno, dubbed No ritmo da Terra.

Honestly speaking, this record is one of the most unique sounds I have ever experienced. The coverage of a wide range of genres is simply immaculate here. It takes notes from a good deal ... read more

With a career spanning easily five decades, Mike Oldfield has had quite the lofty discography to go around. It's much thanks to his incredible skills as a composer that he reached some level of stardom. However, there is something that always bugged me about his composition style, and that it would be perfectly suited for a classical sound, like Beethoven or Mussorgsky. Well, he does have one, and that happens to be Music of the Spheres.

Now, normally I don’t do this, but I’d ... read more

It is surprising that Motorpsycho doesn’t have a lot of live records. You’d expect a band as jammy as they are, we’d be on Roadwork Vol. 99 by now. But it seems like they prefer studio life more, which I cannot knock them against. Their studio records are often amazing.

And I cannot knock them too hard on the live front, as the Roadwork series of live records have been pretty mixed at best. Some good ones like Roadwork Vol. 1 and Roadwork Vol. 3, an alright one with Roadwork ... read more

Been quite a bit since I last gave my attention to the Chinese prog group of Omnipotent Youth Society, but I have always been itching to review them again ever since I made my review on Inside the Cable Temple back in 2023. So, after nearly 3 years, I decided it was time I went back to them for another round, this time starting with their titular debut record.

万能青年旅店 (Omnipotent Youth Society) is well before the band would really hit the progressive rock scene like a nuke, and so ... read more

While me and Soft Machine have a bit of a history, I never truly expected to make a return to them. But, this year, I made an oath to ‘finish what I have started’, and there are certainly a whole lot of bands out there that still have a ton of albums I need to review. Soft Machine was included in that lineup, so I figured to make good on my oath by reviewing their most recent effort.

I am quite surprised the band would return to naming their albums after their numbering in the ... read more

Drone metal as a genre is something I dabble in on occasion. It certainly isn’t my bread and butter like progressive rock is, nor is it something I have some knowledge in such as pop music, but I have listened to my fair share of drone metal recordings to know what I like and dislike from the genre. One such band from this subgenre of ambience and harshness comes in the form of Sunn O))).

I am not the biggest Sunn O))) stan in the world, but I have listened to pretty much all their ... read more

I was certainly hard on Art Zoyd in my previous review of one of their works, so I decided to be a bit humble and review an album from them that I actually quite like, that being Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer.

After Les espaces inquiets, our favorite little chamber prog group from France would go in a much more electronic and industrial type sound, fully contrasting themselves away from their Univers Zéro counterparts, who were keeping things simple and sticking to a familiar ... read more

For a time, the finale to Beardfish came in the form of +4626-Comfortzone. In a way, it was a very apt title as this was the band’s mission statement to show the prog scene that you cannot really call yourself progressive if you don’t actually progress.

Beardfish’s chances to progress from their older roots have yielded good but overall mixed results, at least in my eyes. While Mammoth was a good detour, it ultimately felt like a very underhanded Beardfish album that ... read more

Despite being a band that prides itself with wearing their inspirations on their sleeves, Beardfish’s style has usually been pretty consistent throughout their careers. Sometimes they may change lyrically, but usually you can tell a Beardfish album at a glance. However, their 2012 release of The Void, is the sole exception.

This is one of the only times they ever went metal, and it is certainly an interesting prospect. Prog metal around 2012 was kind of hitting big, so a good number of ... read more

It is no surprise to many progheads that Captives of the Wine Dark Sea is the black sheep of the Discipline discography, arguably even more so than Chaos Out of Order. At least with Chaos Out of Order, they were of a different era where post-punk was the rage in alternative music.

But the major reason this is a black sheep is that Jon Preston Bouda left the band, in replacement with Chris Herin from Tiles. This obviously means the sound direction the band took was gonna be different, and that ... read more

Whenever a new Motorpsycho record comes out, it's always a toss up on how it’ll be like. Last year, we got a massively amazing mix of progressive rock and krautrock that really invigorated their already established sound.

The Gaia II Space Corps, though, sees them taking a more overtly classic space rock tone, which is a sound I haven’t seen them fully explore since Heavy Metal Fruit. Certainly, they’ve had moments where their more space rock influences were known, but ... read more

Beardfish hit the progressive rock world in 2003 with Från en plats du ej kan se, and while I found that record to be rather dull, it was a decent start for a band of this caliber.

That said, it was certainly a bold choice for them to make their next studio record after their first being a nearly two hour long, double CD release. You’d expect The Flower Kings to pull a stunt like this.

Being their second record, they still didn’t quite find their footing yet, but this album ... read more

I will be completely and utterly honest, I am not sure how to begin this review. So why don’t we just get on with it?

Zu is a band I am not all that familiar with, other than the fact they helped with one of Current 93’s albums for a time. However, when I looked at the RYM charts and saw they released a new album in the current year, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to dip my toes in and see what they do. And certainly, I came out quite impressed. Dare I say, more than ... read more

Before really giving this record my full attention, To Shatter All Accord never really was my favorite Discipline record. In fact, when I first heard it, I was kind of disappointed in what I heard. I had just listened to Unfolded Like Staircase, and with that record being a masterpiece and a half, I was more than ready to see what more this band had to offer, but I ended up feeling a little empty.

But man, after giving this a good listen, I think my disappointment was heavily misguided.

To ... read more

It is a challenge to talk about King Crimson honestly. I have been cautious to poke at the king in a few shades off from yellow for a long time, because what has been said has already been said. But yet, I still always wanted to give my two cents on the group, as they’re my favorite band of all time. I mean, I can’t just not review at least one of their albums. So, why not review my all time favorite?

Now, for everyone, King Crimson’s best is their first, that being In the ... read more

It's kind of hard to really put into words how important the second wave of black metal really was for metal as a whole. It was a time for not only innovation, but also what I believe to be the true start of the whole genre in a stylistic way. This was when bands both good and infamous started to become more known with studio albums spawning up left and right. You got the symphonic stylings of Emperor, the more avant-garde levels of Ved Buens Ende, and even progressive workouts of the ... read more

The Beach Boys are one of those bands that I have heard a lot of, but don’t quite have much to say about them. Mostly because what’s been said before has been said to death. But that is mostly in regards to their late 60s workouts, some of their early 70s records, and The Smile Sessions. What about their classic, pre-Pet Sounds days? Uh…who cares???

Pre-Pet Sounds Beach Boys albums are all pretty much the same. Like, yeah sure this era of the band gave us I Get Around and ... read more

Guess who’s back. Back again. Dapper’s back, reviewing again. I decided to take a break from reviewing in January-and writing for that matter-to focus on just relaxing after a long, long 2025. But now after a hiatus, all I wanna do now is WRITE WRITE WRITE! And what better way to return to the world of reviewing by talking about what I talk about best: old bands that are strangely still relevant.

Whether you like them or not, Death is THE death metal band. In some way, their music ... read more