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Retro prog; Hard Rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Made in KuBa Live (2025). To be released Oct 3. Albums I own and need to review: Kaleidoscop... -
Retro prog Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Firebrand (2025). To be released Oct 3. Well they said they were finished. And now they have a new albu... -
Progressive rock; Hard rock Samples Latest release: Proximo (2018) ---UMR notes Próximo (2018) Mantra are a band from Belo Horizonte that... -
News: Well well look who's back? It's been 32 years since Twelfth Night released anything new. 'Sequences' is their signat... -
News: Given the age of the band, I wonder how much activity we will see from them again. But it's nice they had this one great moment... -
Progressive rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Caveman TV (2023) Mother Black Cap are still playing live and promise gigs throughout this year a... -
News: Litmus are active playing festivals throughout the summer of 2017. There seemed to be talk of a new album, but nothing more has surf... -
News: Uwe Cremer has been partnering with Andreas Baaden for some time. The above album is a CD-R from March of 2019. Last check: Fe... -
News: Not much happening with Mantric Muse, with a posting of a live concert in 2015 being the last activity. Last check: December 26, 201... -
Progressive rock; Neo Prog Facebook Bandcamp Latest: A Shout Into The Void (2025). To be released May 2 UMR review page for Great Wide Nothi...
It is strange with PANDORA. Though I like very aggressive and raw metal and I don't care at all about the progressive metal style, the metal elements in PANDORA don't sound out of place for me. Probably because of the genre hopping and not its stylistic integration. And this is the second strange thing... genre hopping with this band also works for me. So much that I am rating higher, the debut and the 3rd over their 2nd. Strange these italians...
ReplyDeleteThe scary thing is... I understand everything your saying! It's so true.. the metal elements here definitely aren't typical prog metal (except the first two tracks on the debut). Before doing this article, I think I had the 3rd over the second as well. But changed my mind while going through each one back to back.
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