Progressive rock/metal Album reviews - Page 2

GenresProgressive rock/metal

Damnation

Opeth

Opeth - Damnation 9.0

Album review

Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Quietness does not make Damnation a comfortable record. Opeth remove the growled vocals and most of the heavy guitar attack…

Bilateral

Leprous

Leprous - Bilateral 9.2

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Forced Entry keeps finding another way to move. A guitar figure changes its rhythmic setting, a vocal melody opens a different…

Ecdysis

Horrendous

Horrendous - Ecdysis 8.2

Album review

Death Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Ecdysis becomes most interesting when Horrendous step away from the straightest route. Beneath the rough death metal sound are…

The Perfect Element, Part I

Pain of Salvation

Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I 9.1

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Daniel Gildenlöw gives The Perfect Element, Part I a voice capable of making an arrangement change direction almost instantly. He…

Applause of a Distant Crowd

VOLA

VOLA - Applause of a Distant Crowd 8.9

Album review

Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Ruby Pool is a useful measure of VOLA's confidence on Applause of a Distant Crowd. Piano, gently picked guitar and a clear vocal…

Crack the Skye

Mastodon

Mastodon - Crack the Skye 9.4

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
The voices provide the clearest route into Crack the Skye. Mastodon build their arrangements around melodic exchanges between…

Sound Awake

Karnivool

Karnivool - Sound Awake 9.4

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Sound Awake makes its bass and drums impossible to treat as background. They give Karnivool's songs movement, colour and tension…

Sundowning

Sleep Token

Sleep Token - Sundowning 8.1

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Sundowning makes its heavy passages wait. Piano, processed beats and Vessel's expressive singing occupy much of the album…

Red

King Crimson

King Crimson - Red 9.5

Album review

Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Red gives heavy music an unusually alert sense of space. King Crimson can make a repeated guitar figure feel enormous, then leave…

Alien

Northlane

Northlane - Alien 9.0

Album review

Electronic
Metal
Metalcore
Progressive rock/metal
Alien makes electronic sound part of Northlane's weight. Distorted pulses, synthetic rhythms and low guitar notes often occupy the…

Remember That You Will Die

Polyphia

Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die 8.0

Album review

Progressive rock/metal
Rock
The brass on Genesis gives Remember That You Will Die an unusually warm entrance. Polyphia keep the tightly edited guitar patterns…

Falling Satellites

Frost*

Frost* - Falling Satellites 8.8

Album review

Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Towerblock takes a familiar progressive rock sound and breaks open its electronic possibilities. The changes in texture are abrupt…

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