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News: Humus is still kicking around, and playing live shows in their native Mexico. I haven't heard any of their output since 1999... -
News: Wolf People are currently touring Europe supporting their new album, the massively brilliant Ruins, which is one of the best neo ps... -
Retro prog; Heavy psych Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Retrieval (2024) to be released Jul 26. Sacri Monti (2015) Sacri Monti are a new band from... -
Doombient; Berlin School Electronic Bandcamp Latest: Havoc (2024) Frozen Radios (2000) Frozen Radios begins to demonstrate that ['ramp] ... -
Jazz rock; Canterbury styled Facebook Bandcamp Latest album: Longing for the Dawn (2022). I thought these guys were long gone! Nope... Myste... -
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 Latest: Martian Chronicles III (I or A.I.) (2024) Nostradamus (1999) For my tastes, Solaris' 1990 is one of th... -
Retro prog; Jazz rock; Neo Italian prog Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Ur (2021) AdC (2014) Accordo dei Contrari's third opus, simply titled ... -
News: And yet another band from the distant past has risen from the grave! Ain Soph have announced their first new studio album in 26 year... -
News: As we noted back in November, Galaad's third album has now been confirmed to be released on May 15. This will be their first n...
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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