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Retro prog Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Panacea (2026). May 22 UMR review page for Agusa 5/10/14 (new entry) -
News: Humus is still kicking around, and playing live shows in their native Mexico. I haven't heard any of their output since 1999... -
Facebook Soundcloud Latest: Ruins (2016) UMR review page for Wolf People 5/15/11 (new entry) -
Progressive rock; Hard rock Facebook Latest: Devoto (2016) Deux Ex Machina don't appear to have any new activity since 2018. Devoto (20... -
Progressive rock Facebook Bandcamp Latest: Total Edge Effect (2022) Still active and playing live. They state a new album will happen "... -
News: We recently heard from a label called Essence Music, and they've informed us of a new Spacious Mind release called The No. 4 o... -
News: Architectural Metaphor have released their 5th official CD called Galactus Interruptum in late 2016, without any fanfare at all (no... -
UK Festival styled psych; Space rock Facebook Bandcamp YouTube Latest: The Butterfly EffeX (2026) UMR review page for Quantum Fantay 9/14/12... -
News: I thought this band were inactive and I'd already archived this page. But they're back with a new live album celebrating the... -
News: The band are still active and have released their 3rd album in 2016 entitled Psykhixplosion . It appears to be LP only, which isn...
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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