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Glass Hammer ~ USA ~ Tennessee
Progressive rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Black Light (2026) UMR review page for Glass Hammer 10/8/18 (new entry)
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Progressive rock; AOR; Hard rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Sorgens Kapittel (2026) Oct 21 UMR review page for Arabs in Aspic 9/4/13 (new ent...
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Progressive rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Total Edge Effect (2022) Still active and playing live. They state a new album will happen "...
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Progressive rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: 1042 (2026). Oct 2 Another long running band (since 1999) that I need to spend more time with. 10...
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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...
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Progressive rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Melancolia (2026) Oct 30 UMR review page for Dawn 10/31/23 (new entry)
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Berlin School electronic Website Bandcamp Latest: Omega Nebula (2026) Nov As noted by Bas in the comments, we finally have a new album from ...
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Neo Italian prog; Retro Prog; Hard Rock Facebook ReverbNation Latest: Una Volta Qui Era Tutta Campagna Pubblicitaria (2026) Mar 8 UMR review...
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Heavy psych; Krautrock styled Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Hasenheide (2024) archival from 2016. UMR review page for Kikagaku Moyo 12/4/13 (n...
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Space rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Tystnad (2026) Sep 25 UMR review page for Flowers Must Die 2/14/13 (new entry)
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News: A couple of years ago Purson broke up. But the Facebook page remains alive, and sure enough Rosalie Cunningham has gone solo. He...

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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