progressive metal
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While a lot more impressive than the preceding Emperor of Sand, Hushed and Grim does buckle under its own weight.
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Tool’s comeback album Fear Inoculum is insufficient not only by the immaculate standards of the band’s past work, but by the standards of rock and metal music at large.
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Cynic has returned with “Humanoid,” their first piece of new music since 2014’s Kindly Bent to Free Us. Moreover, the song strikes me as a return to form following that album’s disappointing mildness. The band’s back to creating sharp, inventive prog-metal – and holy shit are those basslines
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Esoteric Malacology by Slugdge The UK metal duo Slugdge is set to drop it’s fourth full-length album in 2018, and this newest record is looking to be one the project’s slimiest releases yet. As you may have already noticed from the title, much of what the band does
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On Emperor of Sand, Mastodon pads out rehashed ideas from their last several albums with alt-rock choruses that went out of style with the 90s.
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Djent progenitor Meshuggah keeps beating a dead horse on its latest album.
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Leviathan comes through with what’s surely to be one of the most dense, grand, experimental, and hellish black metal albums this year. I’m also talkin’ this album out with Dead End Hip Hop’s Myke C-Town.
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III by Spectral Lore A long, winding black metal epic from Spectral Lore on their latest album here, III. Stream it via the embed above, and take in the gargantuan crescendos, tender acoustic interludes, and incredibly hellish vocals.
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Opeth serves up another piece of progressive rock nostalgia.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6zU87xJoBk Back in April, Anthony talked some about “High Road,” the lead single of seminal sludge and prog-metal outfit Mastodon’s forthcoming record Once More ‘Round the Sun. The song had a sweet soaring chorus, managing to maintain the likable catchy quality of the