Progressive rock/metal Album reviews - Page 6

GenresProgressive rock/metal

It Leads to This

The Pineapple Thief

The Pineapple Thief - It Leads to This 8.3

Album review

Alternative Rock
Progressive rock/metal
It Leads to This finds The Pineapple Thief making careful use of a relatively concise set of songs. The music remains restrained…

Day and Age

Frost*

Frost* - Day and Age 8.9

Album review

Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Frost* gave themselves a useful restriction for Day and Age: no solos. For a progressive-rock band with this much instrumental…

Take Me Back to Eden

Sleep Token

Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden 8.7

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
The most effective surprise in Take Me Back to Eden arrives when The Summoning seems to have finished its main work. After its…

Lonely People with Power

Deafheaven

Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power 9.1

Album review

Black Metal
Indie
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Shoegaze
Deafheaven bring the harsh vocals back to the front on Lonely People with Power, but the lessons from their softer music remain…

Fortress

Alter Bridge

Alter Bridge - Fortress 8.8

Album review

Hard Rock
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Fortress makes a six-minute opening song feel like a sensible place to begin. Cry Of Achilles has enough melody and internal…

Destroy Erase Improve

Meshuggah

Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve 9.1

Album review

Groove Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Thrash Metal
The alarm-like guitar notes at the start of Future Breed Machine make a useful warning. On Destroy Erase Improve, Meshuggah take…

Rise Radiant

Caligula's Horse

Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant 8.6

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rise Radiant is strongest when Caligula's Horse concentrate their ideas. The Tempest opens with a sharply defined guitar figure…

Fear Inoculum

Tool

Tool - Fear Inoculum 8.8

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Fear Inoculum leaves the instruments a great deal of room to speak. Maynard James Keenan often steps back after establishing a…

Periphery IV: Hail Stan

Periphery

Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan 8.9

Album review

Metal
Metalcore
Progressive rock/metal
The emotional directness of It's Only Smiles is one of the most effective surprises on Periphery IV: Hail Stan. Its bright guitar…

Legacy

Ihlo

Ihlo - Legacy 8.4

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Legacy gives Ihlo's progressive metal a clear sense of scale. Heavy guitar patterns sit alongside bright synthesizers and…

Versions of the Truth

The Pineapple Thief

The Pineapple Thief - Versions of the Truth 8.3

Album review

Alternative Rock
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Different people can remember the same event in incompatible ways. Versions of the Truth turns that ordinary problem into an…

Fear of a Blank Planet

Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet 9.3

Album review

Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Anesthetize takes more than seventeen minutes to finish, but Porcupine Tree give it a clear reason to be that size. The song moves…

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