In the early 2000s Progressive Metal was hitting its stride pretty well. Dream Theater was huge, Opeth right next to them, and bands like Mastodon and Gojira were breaking the mold in fun and innovative ways. However, one band stuck out from the rest. Every other band had a distinct style, but none were more distinct in their playing, styles, musicianship, and love for their craft as Between The Buried and Me were.

Between The Buried and Me is one of my favorite bands ever conceived. To me ... read more

As I said before I prefer not to do reviews of classic albums as I want to explore more modern forms of music. I do enjoy listening to albums from the classic period of rock and roll but reviewing them is a little less out of my line of focus for right now. That being said, I was given this album for an album exchange in an Electric Light Orchestra discord server, so I figured to see what this album was all about even if I wasn’t into reviewing something that came about yesteryear. I have ... read more

Retro Progressive Rock is one of my favorite modern Prog staples. As someone who was born and lived in a modern age, I love my fair share of old music like Yes and Pink Floyd, but nothing hits me as well as that very same type of music revolutionized into a modern time period. It’s still the same fun and whimsical sounding stuff you’d hear in the 70s, but definitely in a modern climate. It is apparent that there will be bands however that have a sort of a mixed discography, whether ... read more

I don’t do much classic album reviews due to how I wanna look towards the future of progressive rock and see what it’s all about rather than dwell on the past. However right now I do feel like going back in time a bit. Yes’ discography is a wild ride, especially in the 70s. They are a very complex band that has a long and complicated history. In fact, out of any classic progressive rock band, they got it pretty rough, especially in the 80s and 90s. It’s a complex world ... read more

Metal and its sub genres have all been loved a ton in both early and recent years. Classic bands like Black Sabbath or Metallica do get all the credit they deserve while newer metal acts like Slipknot or Gojira should also get some credit for pioneering the genre in new ways. However like every genre, metal as a whole has some hidden layers, genres that are different from the rest. Stuff below the levels of thrash and nu, stuff that goes deeper than death or prog, stuff that takes the genre ... read more

Early 2000s rock was weird. Not like a strange and bizarre type of weird but more like a weird moment in time type of weird where bands were kinda trying to do new things, some work and some didn’t. Of course we got some acts like Radiohead or Muse trying new things with the medium, there were the punk bands like Green Day and MCR that made punk a lot more accessible and widely loved, and then there were the indie rock kids. I am not well versed in the entire historical architecture of ... read more

It is that time of the year again where we get a release from a band that just seemed to appear out of thin air. I am a sucker for black midi. Their style of post punk, Avant Prog, and jazz fusion is some of the wildest and down right insane I have heard in a band, even rivaling the weird stuff King Crimson did in the 70s. They ended up landing a place in my heart with their music so when I was excited to see this release come out this year. In tandem with An Hour Before It’s Dark, ... read more

It is a hard fact to see a legend of electronic music leave us this year. I really loved his work on the early Tangerine Dream albums, he just had a way of making musical landscapes at his whim, so hearing him leaving the world was pretty sad to say the least. However he was making an album before his death, and it’s finally here. The last project of Klaus Schulze is a hard thing to say, but even after death, I guarantee this final work of Klaus Schulze will be as enjoyable as his other ... read more

I am gonna be blunt, I am not a huge fan of Todd Rundgren’s work. I like a few Utopia albums but I feel like he is definitely the front facer of why so many people think Progressive Rock is a pretentious hogwash of a genre due to him putting so much music on his albums, sometimes even creating side long pieces that are 30 minutes. While you could argue he is meant to try and be ambitious, it feels like he ends up hurting himself more than he likes to admit by creating these big 50+ minute ... read more

So we’re past the halfway point of this year and so far there have been some really good releases in the progressive music sphere. It is honestly very impressive how well some of these releases have been so far in my opinion, a ton of albums in fact that I can say could land a spot as my favorite for this year, and they’ll be more coming soon too. We got some big names like Jethro Tull and Marillion releasing albums that are very well made, retro Prog bands like The Tangent and ... read more

In the early 2000s there was a revival of psych rock of sorts. Much of it was garage and punk rock mixed with the stylings found from the late 60s and early 70s, the golden age of psych. This new movement is called Neo Psychedelia, or Acid Punk in the British Post Punk scene. While its relevance could be looked towards in the 70s, it never truly took form until the turn of the 21st Century. There were several variations of Neo Psychedelic music that were sprouting up. Some utilized a more alt ... read more

In the early 2000s, there has been an increase of new and exciting Prog bands, however they were not following a traditional form of the genre that was introduced back in the classic days. These bands were a lot more punkish in their form, bridging the gap between almost classical harmonies and structure with loud and punkish demeanors. These bands, such as The Mars Volta, Protest The Hero, and The Dear Hunter contributed and evolved this style into new heights. I like to call this style of ... read more

In the 90s, Prog rock was in their sorta Wild West days. The 70s was the Renaissance, the 80s was the age of uncertainty, but the 90s really was a new starting ground for artists. Many hit the scene, mostly Prog metal bands but others liked to take it like how it was back in the 70s. It was a time where old pillars that were King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, ELP, and Pink Floyd subsided down to old stones of their former glories, new pillars rose from the earth to bring new legends into light for a ... read more

So here is a review that may surprise some people. This is an album that I have never heard before, but is one of the more popular funk and psych albums ever made. I never heard of this band but I decided to do some research to get into that funk mindset, and they are an American funk rock and acid rock band, which gave me the impression that this album is gonna be a big, jammy, and distorted funk jam album, which as a big fan of Krautrock bands that are very jammy and improvisational, I ... read more

Lemme tell you about the birds and the bees. When a mommy Radiohead and a daddy Porcupine Tree love each other very much they have a Pineapple Thief. Jokes aside, The Pineapple Thief has got to be one of the most interesting bands I have come across due to them sounding like two different bands at the same time and seemingly executing it very well. So far they’ve released a good number of albums, all of which aren’t half bad at all, heck some I might say are dang near amazing. One ... read more

To be honest this listen took way longer than it should’ve, but that’s neither here nor there. Nine Inch Nails, a band I am guessing needs no introduction. Industrial rock band slowly became a lot more experimental, and is led by Trent Reznor. I won’t say I am a huge fan, but I do really enjoy their music and I really appreciate what they’ve done for music and for culture as a whole. I have listened to their entire discography, except for this album. This album has been ... read more

In the aspect of indie projects there is never a fine line between reaching an accessible audience or a small group of people, there will always be that sense of experimentation. Indie is less of a genre and more of a tool to see how far (or how possible) someone can take an idea. I always look towards stuff like Everywhere At The End of Time by The Caretaker or Pulse Demon by Merzbow as examples of people taking their own ideas and turning it into these projects that garnered a strong ... read more

I have been looking forward to this album for a long while. I haven’t heard any songs by The Tangent, but I was excited to get into them through this album when I heard of its release date this year. I heard a ton of good things about the band and I was very interested to check them out, so I am pretty stoked to hear what they sound like with this new release.

The album begins with a 17 minute epic called The Changes. When I first heard this song I was really interested in the sound. It ... read more

The Flower Kings have become one of my bread and butters. They usually deliver some great A+ Prog that leaves me wanting more. Their lead Roine Stolt has sort of became the mastermind behind many Prog outfits such as Transatlantic and The Tangent. This masterminded aspect of his work even goes far back into the 70s with a band that has gained very high recognition in modern light throughout the years, and that band is Kaipa. I heard a ton of stuff surrounding them, mostly good stuff about them, ... read more

In recent years Prog Rock has been dominated by countless Swedish bands that seem to have mastered the genre in new and cunning ways. Bands like The Flower Kings, Introitus, Beardfish, and Moon Safari continues the legacy of bands of old with new and exciting feats, while bands like Opeth, Edge of Sanity, Pan.Thy.Monium, and Seventh Wonder brings down awesome heavy metal styles of Prog to really get the blood pumping. There are a ton of great bands that came out in Sweden, some of which have ... read more