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Progressive rock Latest: Bloodliners (2025) Here's a band I had no idea was still around. They don't maintain a traditional social m... -
Canterbury styled prog; Jazz rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Keri (2017) The band is still playing live as of 4/3/25. UMR review page f... -
Retro prog Facebook Latest: Swan Song (2012). EP UMR review page for Porcelain Moon 4/24/11 (new entry) -
Space rock; UK Festival styled psych Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Memoria (2026). Jan 22 This album is dedicated to the founder Vesa Pasanen, w... -
Berlin School electronic Website Bandcamp Latest: Archives Volume 3 (2025) 11/21 It doesn't appear that FSP are active anymore, but they... -
Retro prog hard rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest album: The Magic of Sin (2023). Released Dec 1. Pictures in a Dream (2013) Robert Fripp has st... -
Progressive rock Facebook Latest: Martian Chronicles III (I or A.I.) (2024) Nostradamus (1999) For my tastes, Solaris' 1990 is one of th... -
Retro prog; Neo Psychedelic Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Nallebjörn är Död (2025) 11/28 Here's another band I didn't think we'd eve... -
News: I thought this band were inactive and I'd already archived this page. But they're back with a new live album celebrating the... -
Space rock; Neo Krautrock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Alive at Roadburn (2017) Frid (2015) Frid is the 3rd studio album from this fine space ...
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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