progressive metal

Sulaco – Build and Burn (Handshake Inc.)

Progressive/grind/thrash dudes Sulaco are almost out of this world.

In James Cameron's Aliens the U.S.S. Sulaco is a great, hulking, dangerous-looking vehicle full of testosterone and deadly aggression.

The Amenta: New Album Underway

2012 Release anticipated...

The Amenta is currently writing, recording and pre-producing the full length follow up to 2008’s divisive n0n album.

Almah - Motion (AFM)

Solid but always enjoyable power metal from Brazil.
Release Date: 
14 Oct 2011 (All day)

Now three albums in, Almah, which started as a side project for Angra vocalist Edu Falaschi, is undoubtedly a ‘proper’ band.

3 - The Ghost You Gave Me (Metal Blade)

The usual eclectic mix and match from Joey Eppard and company
Release Date: 
10 Oct 2011 - 11:30pm

The return of 3, some two years after its last release, 2009’s largely excellent Revisions, was always going to cause a bit of trepidation among even the most ardent

Hypno5e Head out for European Tour in December

The French experimentalists join Cynic and Chimp Spanner on the road...

French experimental metallers Hypno5e has confirmed the Carbon-Based Anatomy Live European Tour with Cynic and Chimp Spanner.  The t

Nightwish: New album drops January 6th!

And it comes with a film tie-in too!

Fans of dramatic, symphonic, Euro metal have something to look forward to when the cold, dark, dreary Northern winter sets in.

Uriah Heep - Live in Armenia (Frontiers/Riot)

Unpteenth live release from the Britrock veterans...
Release Date: 
22 Sep 2011 - 11:30pm

Whilst there is no doubt that Brit prog metallers Uriah Heep can still deliver the goods on the live front – they proved that here in Australia not so very long ago- it is de

Pain of Salvation - Road Salt Two (Inside Out Music)

At times bewildering but always classy return from the Swedish progressivists...
Release Date: 
25 Sep 2011 - 11:30pm

Much like its distant musical cousins Opeth, Swedish progressive unit Pain of Salvation finds itself at a crossroads and in a degree of turmoil.

Tesseract releases 'One' Instrumental

The progressive metal act has always fancied trying its hand at vocal-free tuneage...

Progressive metal act Tesseract goes back to its roots with the release of an instrumental version of the highly acclaimed debut album One.

RWAKE - Creating Moods and Atmospheres with Loud Music

Jeff from Rwake says making music is more of a spiritual thing, if you will, than a mechanical thing. One listen to the new disk Rest, and you can understand why this is.

Rwake's long awaited album Rest has finally been released onto the ravenous public on September 27, 2011.