Category: Prog Metal

The Gathering – If_Then_Else (2000)

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if_then_else is the sixth studio album by the Dutch alternative rock band The Gathering. The album was released on 25 July 2000 through Century Media.

Alberto Palacios – We Are The Opera (2012)

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‘We are the opera’ is the sort of title that could suggest a large scale, Aina-type project bursting at the seams with guest musicians, so it may come as a surprise that this ambitious progressive/power metal debut CD is largely the work of one man.

MOTUS TENEBRAE – Double Black 2012

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Motus Tenebrae signed a deal with Revalve Records and returns with their Fifht album ‘Double Black’, 13 tracks of an alchemical mixture of gothic rock and  metal; passion, sadness, anger with strong melodies. Commented Andreas Das Cox:
‘Double Black is a very special milestone of great importance in the discography of Motus Tenebrae.. an album that took almost two years to get to its production, which ended with the videoclip for the single ‘The Last Days Of December’ …strong raw images, where

FORTUNATO – Liberty 2012

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Markus Fortunato is a bassist-singer Lyon and self involved in the underground metal since the late 80s.
The concept album presented here follows his former band “MZ” which he was the leader and he had formed in 1999. Before splitting, the group had released seven albums.
On “Liberty,” his new project, the singer is surrounded bassist Jimmy Cerrullo the battery and Eliad Florea on guitar and violin. And to give one side more “open” to the music, many musicians and singers were invited on this album.