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Helmet of Gnats ~ USA ~ Connecticut
Progressive rock; Jazz fusion Facebook Bandcamp Latest single: Sunday Drive (2025) Latest album: Travelogue (2020) UMR review page for Helme...
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News: Wolf People are currently touring Europe supporting their new album, the massively brilliant Ruins, which is one of the best neo ps...
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News: Museo Rosenbach are still cooking, with a new 2018 lineup! Let's see if anything comes from it. Website Facebook Locat...
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News: A note from August 2019 gave an update on the various members, with no plans for new recordings. Last check: February 15, 2020 We...
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UK Festival styled psych; Space rock Facebook Bandcamp YouTube Latest: Oneironauts (2024) Oneironauts (2024) I keep saying I'm not going...
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Post rock; Avant prog; Progressive rock; Retro prog Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Forever Now (2025). To be released June 6. UMR review page for...
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Progressive rock; Zeuhl; Avant prog Facebook Bandcamp Latest: 4037 (2025). To be released Mar 19. First new work in 11 years! It's an EP...
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Neo Italian prog Facebook YouTube Latest: 20.000 Leghe Sotto i Mari (2025). To be released Feb 28 UMR review page for Nuova Era 5/4/12 (new ...
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Symphonic progressive Facebook Bandcamp Latest album: Communion (2023). To be released Oct 20. ---UMR notes Flight (2014) Proud Peasant are ...
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News: There was talk of a new album in 2017, but nothing has emerged. I am one album behind with these guys. Facebook Samples UMR ...
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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