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Progressive rock Facebook Latest: Martian Chronicles III (I or A.I.) (2024) Nostradamus (1999) For my tastes, Solaris' 1990 is one of th... -
Progressive rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Total Edge Effect (2022) Still active and playing live. They state a new album will happen "... -
Berlin School electronic Website Bandcamp Latest: Archives Volume 3 (2025) 11/21 It doesn't appear that FSP are active anymore, but they... -
News: Kotebel have released their 7th album, entitled Cosmology, back in July. It apparently brings back the flute, which can only be cons... -
Neo prog Bandcamp (Ma.Ra.Cash site) Latest: Nell'idea De Un Tempo Che (2025) 9/30 Following on the heels of Tale Cue comes another band ... -
Hard rock; Progressive rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest release: Before the Winter (2020) A long ago recommendation from my good friend Spacefr... -
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 YouTube Latest: Psy-Ko (2024) Another band from the great late 80s and early 90s period that has unexpectedly refo... -
Progressive rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest album: Insania (2023) Another long running band (since 1999) that I need to spend more time with. ... -
Neo prog Facebook Bandcamp Latest: The Sound of Silence (2025). To be released Sep 15. UMR review page for Red Sand 6/18/24 (new entry)
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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