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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... -
Retro prog; Doom metal Facebook Latest release: The Old Ways Remain (2023) ---UMR notes Lord of Misrule (2016) Lord of Misrule is Blood Cere... -
Progressive rock Facebook YouTube Latest: Psy-Ko (2024) Another band from the great late 80s and early 90s period that has unexpectedly refo... -
Krautrock styled; Neo Gothic Progressive Facebook Bandcamp (new) Bandcamp (old) Latest: Devotion to a Noble Idea (2025) EP Beauty Will Save ... -
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News: Well, forget what I said. There is a new album (see cover above)! It's noted as such in the comments but I missed the meaning.... -
Retro prog Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Topography of Mind (2026). Digital only though they mentioned they are considering a CD and / or LP. U... -
Italian progressive rock Facebook Latest release: Storie Invisibili (2025). To be released Feb 28. Transiberiana (2019) Banco del Mutuo Suc... -
Space rock; UK Festival styled psych Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Memoria (2026). Jan 22 This album is dedicated to the founder Vesa Pasanen, w... -
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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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