Category: Progressive Rock

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This band is the reincarnation of intergalactic super hero CAPTAIN ZORX! Blown to pieces by some wicked sourpusses, the CAPTAIN managed to split his being into four colour components before total destruction: Mr. Yellow, Mr. Red, Mr. Green and Mr. Blue (aka Aubergine). These four components are able to act independently from another, but if they combine forces (e.g. on stage, in the rehearsal-room or wherever there’s cheap beer and nachos), the CAPTAIN rises from the darkest realms of the universe to fight his eternal fight against all sourpusses, evil forces and wicked hairdresses out there. Such an event is known across the universe as a

Band Cloudscape
Info: New Era
Style: Progressive Metal
Info: Sweden
Years: 2012
Info: Lossless/FLAC (tracks+.cue, scans)
Rip By: AlexSF59
Info: 500 Mb

I always enjoy getting a chance to review a follow-up album by a band I reviewed previously. In this instance the band is British duo, Gandalf’s Fist, and the album is From a Point of Existence. Existence is the band’s follow-up to 2011’s Road to Darkness. Darkness was an epic, progressive rock concept album based around a re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz. It was an interesting idea that was a bit out there for casual listeners, but is this latest release more accessible or in the same vein?

H A W K A I are a hard hitting power trio with an eclectic and detailed sound full of clever hooks and anthemic riffs. These guys work their limbs off in order to produce songs of melancholy, the hard truth and the obvious.

1. Broken Walls
2. Alive Again
3. The Machine
4. Prey
5. Invisible Man
6. These Days
7. Shameless
8. Wasting Time

Band Blyndsyde
Info: Netherlands
Info: Into The Storm Of The Eye
Style: Neo/Heavy Progressive
Years: 1993
Info: Lossless/FLAC (image+.cue, scans)
Rip By: wurensh
Info: 396 Mb

Band Logic Mess
Info: Poland
Info: Element Of The Grid
Style: Progressive Metal
Years: 2012
Info: Lossless/FLAC (image+.cue, scans)
Rip By: wurensh
Info: 540 Mb

Imagine Thom Yorke hanging out with Cult of Luna, you wouldn’t be a million miles from how Aoria sound.  The fact that this record is mixed by Magnus Lindberg (Khome and COL) further emphasises comparability.  This Stockholm trio are due to unleash this spellbindingly beautiful debut record on Swedish label Version Studio Records. Originally formed back in 2002, under the name Drive, the group reformed in 2011 with a new name and set about recording ‘The Constant’.  Majestically beautiful in their slow building

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Angband are a PowerProg Metal band, formed in 2004 in Tehran by Mahyar Dean a classically trained musician and author who is well known in the metal world for writing two books about Death and Testament.

Saved from the Truth is Angband’s third album in a relatively short space of time and you would think they should clearly be in their groove.  Seasons of my Pain starts with a beautiful acoustic intro that shows Dean’s classical roots and promises so much before we’re introduced to a horribly muddy slice of riffs and double bass drumming that lead to some fairly lifeless plodding vocals.  The whole song just feels flat after such a wonderful intro and I’m already fearing what lies ahead for the remainder of the album.  The recording quality of the track, intro aside, is pretty poor with the vocals and drums sounding very empty and flat while the guitar tone is lacking definition.

Band Gnidrolog
Info: In Spite Of Harry’s Toe-Nail / Lady Lake
Style: Progressive Rock
Years: 1972
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 183 Mb
Info: UK

Band Lady Lake
Info: No Pictures
Style: Progressive Rock
Years: 1977
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 185 Mb
Info: Netherlands