Progressive rock’s emergence represented the moment that rock n’ roll grew up and decided it wasn’t going to merely rely on making people dance any longer. This wasn’t cool music anymore, but it sure was clever. It was book-smart and technically…
CrowsVsRavens and Justin Webb & The Noise Reviewed
October 9, 2024
CrowsVsRavens – Revised Reality
Progressive rockers are a breed apart. Part hopeless romantics and part monks with endless supplies of patience and discipline, they are the equivalent of the novelists who write 1000-page tomes dedicated to imagined worlds when they…
Foresia and Spiraled Reviewed
August 1, 2024
Foresia – Pueto Pa´ Mi
In the 2000s, rap-metal and nu-metal bands from the U.S. achieved global fame. The majority of their songs sounded angry. The lyrics to the songs focused on the evil and misdeeds of the world. Those singers always seemed greatly affected.
17 Dream Theater Albums Ranked: Welcome to the Prog-Metal Academy!
November 14, 2023
Dream Theater treats progressive metal in the same way that an Olympic athlete treats a race. One doesn’t just prepare for a trade but rather trains diligently and goes for gold. This is the reason why, in the prog-metal arena, the band’s albums are always ranked…
Talkless and Gabriel Lucas Music Reviewed
October 5, 2023
Talkless – Farewell
You don’t just start yelling at someone and call it alternative rock. Actually, most modern bands take that approach, and they get the fans that they deserve. The more clever ones, like Talkless, know that acquiring an audience is a process of…
Otherside now: Heathe and VOLK
April 12, 2023
VOLK – I Fed Animals
Similar artists: The Kills, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Band of Skulls, The White Stripes
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
If there’s one thing that really sticks in the craw of the notoriously accepting art reviewers, it’s people that…
Connect yourself to the future: Twin Dive and Esprit D'Air reviewed
September 6, 2021
Esprit D’Air – 津波
Genre: Progressive Metal / Djent, Metalcore, Electronicore
Similar artists: Architects, Dir en grey, Babymetal
The people that really manage to move the needle in the music industry are those that benefit from the support of truly…