Happy Metal Monday! Here’s an 80s classic filtered through multiple musicians playing it in their multiple quarantined bedrooms. And the metal edge has been amped up for your maximum enjoyment! Rock on, Shawna Potter…
Artamene, Ziggurat, 2021Tracks: Infinite Escape (5:27), Fear of Darkness (4:11), Heavy Motion (3:55), Mayhem (3:51), Shining Black (5:24), Inshushinak (6:01), Rain of Paradise (2:56), Petrichor (5:39) Persecution is still disgustingly widespread in the world today. There are millions of people in countries across the globe who face imprisonment, torture, and death for their religious beliefs, their ethnicity, …
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Atravan, The Grey Line, 2021Tracks: The Pendulum (2:35), The Perfect Stranger (6:45), My Wrecked House (6:05), Vertigo (5:09), Dancing on a Wire (6:01), The Grey Line (9:12), Uncertain Future (3:35)Line-up:Masoud Alishahi – VocalsShayan Dianati – GuitarsArwin Iranpour – BassMarjan Modarres – Piano, KeyboardsShahin Fadaei – DrumsPedram Niknafs – backing vocals (tracks 2, 4) There’s a first time …
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Listening to the new track, “Your Final Act,” by XSKULL8 got me feeling a little nostalgic. This is the kind of metal I used to listen to more often about ten years or so ago, and while I’ve drifted more into strictly prog and prog metal territory, this song has just enough of a djent …
Lucid Planet, II, November 2020Tracks: Anamnesis (12:25), Entrancement (5:33), Organic Hard Drive (9:39), Offer (4:15), On The Way (9:38), Digital Ritual (4:57), Face The Sun (11:49), Zenith (9:56) Perhaps I’m going out on a limb in calling Lucid Planet’s new album “metal,” but I’ve always had a pretty broad understanding of what metal can include. …
Vultress, Hypnopompia, 2020Tracks: 1. Hypnopompia (0:35), 2. Cmdr Hall and wherewithal (4:56), 3. Tether (5:57), 4. Fall Into Then (4:13), 5. L’appel Du Vide (5:07), 6. New Sun (9:51) It isn’t everyday that I get to feature a band from America’s great Midwest – much less a prog metal band from the Midwest. They hail …
It has been a while since we have done a “Metal Mondays” here at Progarchy, and it has been even longer since I can remember reading anything online about Dream Theater’s first album, “When Dream and Day Unite.” Due to the absence of singer James LaBrie, this album is usually overlooked and forgotten by all …
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Mike Portnoy’s new supergroup, Sons of Apollo, is the prog metal bombast we have been waiting from the legendary drummer ever since he left Dream Theater. While DT have struggled to define their sound moving forward, Portnoy has dabbled in seemingly disparate genres in an endless number of bands (all of them admittedly amazing). Sons …
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Happy Monday, metal heads. Guess what? Nikki Stringield, of Iron Maidens fame, has released a totally shredtastic single. You can buy it on iTunes today. Also, check out the sweet guitar she’s playing in the promotional video. Rock on, Nikki. Can’t wait to hear a whole epic album from you someday. I think we’re all …
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Ok, so I’m a little late with this news, but I just saw that the San Francisco Bay area thrash legends, Testament, recently announced the release of a new forthcoming album. The Brotherhood of the Snake will be released via Nuclear Blast on October 28, 2016. I really enjoyed their last album, 2012’s Dark Roots of the Earth. …
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