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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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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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Epic doom metal Facebook Bandcamp Latest: The Stygian Rose (2024) The Ruins of Fading Light (2019) And continuing on the theme of the Oh See...
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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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News: A couple of years ago Purson broke up. But the Facebook page remains alive, and sure enough Rosalie Cunningham has gone solo. He...
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News: Atomic Simao recently released their 5th album Levitation Loom Four on December 10th (download). The LP came out on May 4, 2019 ...
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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 ...
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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