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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 Latest: Martian Chronicles III (I or A.I.) (2024) Nostradamus (1999) For my tastes, Solaris' 1990 is one of th... -
Progressive rock Website Bandcamp Latest: Nagelfar (2025) Nov 21. Here's another artist I thought had long hung it up. He's back! I ... -
Retro prog Website Bandcamp Latest: The Book of Hours (2025) UMR review page for Agropelter 2/2/26 (new entry) -
Progressive rock Bandcamp (label) Latest: Terra Tiempo (2026) Mar 30 Yet another band making a return that I thought was long gone. UMR revi... -
Retro prog Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Panacea (2026). May 22 UMR review page for Agusa 5/10/14 (new entry) -
Retro prog; Avant prog Bandcamp Latest release: Rationalis Impetus (2022) Haven't heard yet, but reviews are promising with comparisons ... -
Progressive rock; Krautrock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Axioms (2025). To be released August 29. UMR review page for Wucan 6/16/23 (new entry) -
Avant prog; Canterbury styled; Space rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: La Fin de L'Economie' (2024). Ce Très Cher Serge, Spécial Origi... -
Progressive rock; Hard rock; Doom YouTube Latest: Land of Legends (2019) Land of Legends (2019) Land of Legends is the 3rd release from Anno...
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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