16 Thursday May 2013
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Mouth of the Architect have released another track from their upcoming album, Dawning, which will see a release through Translation Loss on June 25th. The track is entitled “How This Will End” and can be streamed exclusively through Lambgoat. The song is eleven minutes of pure angelic heaviness; blending the perfect amount of atmosphere and crushing melodic sludge metal. It’s quite the impressive piece. Check out now!
-Lane Oliver
11 Saturday May 2013
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east of the wall, live, material, new, Redaction Artifacts, song
East of the Wall debuted some new songs on the road last month and luckily fan-filmed footage has surfaced on the web. Below you will find footage of the band performing two new songs during their respective shows in New York and New Jersey in April. The band plan to enter Trax East on May 27th to record their new full length Redaction Artifacts. Translation Loss should have the record out in late October.
06 Monday May 2013
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Hidden among a recent Facebook update concerning Cynic frontman Paul Masvidal’s new signature guitar, the prog metallers mentioned that a new Cynic record will be arriving this Fall. In an update from last year, Cynic revealed some working song titles including ”Endlessly Bountiful”, “Moon Heart Sun Head”, and “True Hallucination Speak”. No other information on the album has been revealed as of yet. I know all you progressive nerds will be marking your calendars when the time comes.
-Lane Oliver
28 Sunday Apr 2013
Posted in Album Reviews, Band Spotlight, Metal, News, Prog Metal, Reviews, Sludge Metal
By Lane Oliver
Back in 2010, Intronaut brought the metal world the densely textured progressive heavyweight that is the critically lauded Valley of Smoke. The sludge-metal inspired grumbles of Void and Prehistoricisms were greatly expanded into vast musical feats full of cinematic progressive rock inspired moments with nice post-metal like creamy centers. Valley of Smoke is considered by some as Intronaut’s magnum opus because of the new explorative sound they indulged themselves in. But Intronaut are not done excavating the musical ruins of old to find new sounds to incorporate into their own as their new full length album Habitual Levitations demonstrates. On their fourth full length Intronaut further showcase their impeccable qualities as talented songwriters.
23 Tuesday Apr 2013
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The guys over at Metal Sucks are currently streaming an exclusive audio preview of instrumental prog nerds Scale the Summit’s new album, The Migration. It’s a six minute teaser of each of the album’s tracks and boy does it sound solid. The Migration will be released on June 6th and pre-orders can be found at this location. Head on over to Metal Sucks to check out the stream right meow!
-Lane Oliver
18 Thursday Apr 2013
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I don’t know why I’ve never posted about Memfis, the Swedish prog metal entity that stunned me with their 2011 release Vertigo. I damn-near forgot this band existed until I, quite excitedly, learned they have released a new EP! This band is beyond incredible and I am thrilled to let you know that their new EP Silva is in-fucking-credible. Continue reading »
18 Thursday Apr 2013
Posted in Band Spotlight, Metal, Non-Metal, Post-Metal, Post-Rock, Prog Metal, Reviews
By Lane Oliver
Giant Squid sister band Grayceon really won me over back in 2011 with their breathtaking album, All We Destroy. The way the band combines virtuosic cello playing and cinematic progressive metal is completely enthralling and thought-provoking. After hearing that record I was craving more. Luckily, Grayceon have returned this year with a two track, thirty minute EP entitled Pearl and the End of Days. These two tracks combine the most impressive elements of Grayceon’s musical formula into one compact and mind blowing package.
16 Tuesday Apr 2013
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The instrumental prog metallers have released a preview of one of the new tracks off their upcoming record, The Migration, which is due out on June 11th. It’s a short three minute preview of a song entitled “Odyssey” and it sounds solid. Lots of a heavy yet melodic rhythmically complex riffing is going on here, not to mention soulful clean sweeps that progressive musicians love. I am excited to hear what the rest of this song and the album will sound like. Check out the preview below.
10 Wednesday Apr 2013
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Above is the colorful artwork (done by Duncan Storr) for Scale the Summit’s new album, The Migration. The new Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, etc) produced album is slated to be released on June 11th through Prosthetic Records. Below is the official track listing:
03 Wednesday Apr 2013
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Go figure that right when I really get into a band, they break up. Gifts from Enola announced today that they will call it a day. The band will play one final show on June 8th in Harrisonburg, VA at the Blue Nile in which they will play material spanning their entire discography. Read the band’s official statement and jam their latest release, A Healthy Fear below.
31 Sunday Mar 2013
Posted in Band Spotlight, instrumetal, News, Non-Metal, Prog Metal, Reviews, Rock
By Lane Oliver
They won me over a few years ago when I first heard their track “Set Guitars to Kill” and they completely enthralled me with their 2011 opus Gangs. Now the Irish (primarily) instrumental quartet And So I Watch You From Afar has returned this year with their highly anticipated third full length album. All Hail Bright Futures shows And So I Watch You From Afar increasing the quirkiness and exploring some new territory this time around.
27 Wednesday Mar 2013
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During the months of June and July, Europe will belong to progressive metallers Between the Buried and Me. The band have booked a fairly extensive tour that commence on June 14th in Copenhagen, Denmark and then spread like a cancer through a good portion of Europe. Below are the scheduled dates. Be there or be square.
26 Tuesday Mar 2013
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Prepare to dive right into ten minutes of graceful instrumental builds and powerful verses in this new track from The Ocean’s upcoming album Pelagial. “Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe”, named for the deepest layer of the ocean, is a awe-inspiring track that does not stale within in its ten minute duration. In between emotionally charged verses comes this gorgeous midsection full of fragile guitar melodies and melancholic strings and piano that come together to create this beautiful sense of loss. It’s what makes the track in my opinion. Anyway, head over to Pitchfork to check it out and check out the other track they released, “Bathyalpelagic II: The Wish in Dreams”, as well.
Pelagial will be released on April 30th via Metal Blade.
-Lane Oliver
22 Friday Mar 2013
Posted in Band Spotlight, Death Metal, Deathgrind, djent, Extreme Metal, Mathcore, Metal, Metalcore, News, Prog Metal
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Aeon, Animals As Leaders, Cattle Decapitation, metal blade records, Norma Jean, periphery, Razor & Tie, relapse records, Revocation, sumerian records, Summer Slaughter, The Dillinger Escape Plan, the ocean
I know there are more than a handful of you who hit up the Summer Slaughter festival every year, even if it’s for a single band. Every metal site looks forward to this tour for the simple reason of wanting to see who has been announced will be a part of Summer Slaughter. This years line-up looks fucking killer, if I say so myself. Check out the full line-up and poster below. Continue reading »
21 Thursday Mar 2013
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Intronaut have announced an extensive North American touring schedule that will commence this June in support of their new record, Habitual Levitations. The group will be supported in full by Scale the Summit and by Mouth of the Architect and Castle on select stops of the trek. I know I’ll catch a show and so should you! Check out the full schedule below.
