Category: Prog Metal

Restrayned – A Dark New Day 2012

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Melodic hard rock with balls… Featuring a thundering rhythm section and heavy driving guitars topped with soaring vocal melodies and harmonies.Restrayned is a melodic hard rock/metal band that mixes influences from several genres to create their unique sound. Sounding a bit like a cross between Black Label Society, Queensryche, Iron Maiden and Dokken. Their high energy live shows have

Pteroglyph – Found (2012)EP

Pteroglyph consists of solo musician Jimmy McGregor. After years of touring with his old band Mishkin, Jimmy decided to part ways with the band to pursue his solo career. We were lucky enough to get our hands on the debut recordFound. Oh, boy.
Each track throughout the record shows off a blend of different skills and genres. Whether it be the heart thumping drums ofExcess or the technical guitars that introduce first track EmpathyJimmycertainly knows how to play his instruments, but his vocals do feel a bit weak, especially during the clean sections of track four Earth.

HELREIDH – FRAGMENTA 2012

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Helreidh is an obscure progressive metal band from Italy which hasn’t had a new recording since 1999. Now resurrected and signed to Germany Pure Prog Records, the band releases their third album, Fragmenta.

Founding members Yorick (g) and Luca Roggi (d) are joined by Max Bastasi (v), Aligi Pasqualetto (k), and Francesco De Paoli (b) for this recording of songs that come from early band material, ideas from other projects, and current compositions. Hence, the nameFragmenta.