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Progressive rock; Hard rock Website Bandcamp Latest: Genjitsumu (2026) Albums I own: Kumorigahara (2021). Haven't reviewed for UMR yet. ... -
Krautrock styled; Neo Gothic Progressive Facebook Bandcamp (new) Bandcamp (old) Latest: Devotion to a Noble Idea (2025) EP Beauty Will Save ... -
UK Festival styled psych; Space rock Facebook Bandcamp YouTube Latest: The Butterfly EffeX (2026) UMR review page for Quantum Fantay 9/14/12... -
News: Seems the band has disappeared with the Facebook account deleted. Last check: December 26, 2018 Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire... -
Heavy prog Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Pilger (2026) June 7 Weitklang (2020) Funny to see the name of Polis, as that's the name of our cur... -
News: R-U Kaiser are a little known band from Chile, who released one brilliant album back in 2007 called Ocelos. They have now returned w... -
Space rock; Krautrock styled Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Beyond the Beyond (2026) Apr 17 UMR review page for The Cosmic Dead 6/1/13 (new entry... -
Progressive rock Facebook Latest: Martian Chronicles III (I or A.I.) (2024) Nostradamus (1999) For my tastes, Solaris' 1990 is one of th... -
Blues rock; Hard rock Facebook Latest: Birthday Live (2026) I quite liked their first album, not so much the second. I need to revisit that ... -
News: Ske has reissued 1000 Autunni as 1001 Autunni and includes a full disc of live and other material. According to Paolo, there will d...
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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