Progressive rock/metal Album reviews - Page 5

GenresProgressive rock/metal

Addicted

Devin Townsend Project

Devin Townsend Project - Addicted 8.8

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Enthusiasm is a serious musical choice on Addicted. Devin Townsend builds large, bright choruses over heavy guitar rhythms, then…

New Levels New Devils

Polyphia

Polyphia - New Levels New Devils 8.1

Album review

Progressive rock/metal
Rock
The guitar lines on New Levels New Devils often behave like a lead vocal cut into small pieces. Polyphia place short melodic…

God Has Failed

RPWL

RPWL - God Has Failed 7.8

Album review

Progressive rock/metal
Psychedelic Rock
God Has Failed offers a warm, melodic introduction to RPWL. The German band's debut draws heavily from Pink Floyd, particularly…

Inmazes

VOLA

VOLA - Inmazes 8.6

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
A soft vocal can make a very heavy riff sound stranger. On Inmazes, VOLA repeatedly place calm, inviting melodies against guitars…

Insurgentes

Steven Wilson

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes 8.6

Album review

Post-Punk
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Shoegaze
Insurgentes is full of beautiful sounds that refuse to stay comfortable. A melody can establish a calm surface, then distortion or…

Ghost Reveries

Opeth

Opeth - Ghost Reveries 9.3

Album review

Death Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
A keyboard can change the temperature of a heavy song without becoming its main attraction. Per Wiberg's playing does that…

Thirteenth Step

A Perfect Circle

A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step 9.0

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Thirteenth Step understands the tension in a quiet voice. Maynard James Keenan often sings close to a whisper, but the music…

Lightbulb Sun

Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun 8.8

Album review

Progressive rock/metal
Rock
A song as restrained as Feel So Low can be a more unsettling ending than a grand finale. Lightbulb Sun closes by reducing its…

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Nothing More

Nothing More - The Stories We Tell Ourselves 8.1

Album review

Alternative Metal
Alternative Rock
Progressive rock/metal
The Stories We Tell Ourselves combines direct hard rock songs with a more elaborate surrounding structure. Nothing More use…

The Blackening

Machine Head

Machine Head - The Blackening 9.1

Album review

Groove Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Thrash Metal
Machine Head give their guitar partnership a great deal of room on The Blackening. Robb Flynn and Phil Demmel use extended…

Remedy Lane

Pain of Salvation

Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane 9.3

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Remedy Lane makes technical playing feel uncomfortably personal. Pain of Salvation use shifting rhythms and abrupt changes of mood…

Second Life Syndrome

Riverside

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome 9.2

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Conceiving You needs only a small piano figure to make its emotional position clear. Riverside allow the song to grow around that…

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