Metal playlists from the underground
In order to celebrate the release of Dream Theater’s latest studio album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, I am offering detailed reviews of each of the six tracks throughout the week. Track 4: “The Shattered Fortress” “The Shattered Fortress” is the fifth and final track of the Twelve-Step Suite, which began with “The Glass Prison” […]
In order to celebrate the release of Dream Theater’s latest studio album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, I am offering detailed reviews of each of the six tracks throughout the week. Track 3: “Wither” The shortest track of the album, and most radio-friendly, begins with an acoustic riff on the same path of Sixx A.M.’s […]
In order to celebrate the release of Dream Theater’s latest studio album, Black Clouds And Silver Linings, I will offer detailed reviews of each of the six tracks throughout the week. Track 1: “A Nightmare To Remember” What better way to begin a record with the words “Black Clouds” in the title than to include […]
Progressive metal gods Dream Theater released “A Rite of Passage,” the first single from their upcoming studio album Black Clouds & Silver Linings that is due in June. The eight and a half minute epic opens with John Myung’s sinister bass riff that cements the foundation for the song, before unleashing the fierce guitars of […]
Suspyre is a progressive metal troupe whose 11-track trek WHEN TIME FADES takes the listener through a labyrinth of dark passageways illuminated with fierce metallic explosiveness. Equipped with the similar songwriting devices as Dream Theater, Fates Warning, and Nevermore, Suspyre precisely pulls from each to form their own spin on the genre, as songs like […]
Comprised of former members of Biclops and The Postman Syndrome, fans of the aforementioned as well as instrumental rock fans everywhere will rejoice when hearing this excellent eight-track excursion. Twisting and turning with jaw-dropping riffs, fluid drums, and a non-linear songwriting mindset, this squad skillfully showcases their passion for melding tricky math rock heft with […]
Georgia-based Canvas Solaris ditch one member, pick up 3(!) more and take their instrumental interludes to another level in the process according to the findings audible on THE ATOMIZED DREAM. This eight-track offering still remains steeped with progressive metal grandeur, yet thanks to a larger quantity of quieter moments such as “Photovoltaic,” this disc just […]
A dose of rousing metal from Italy comes courtesy of Revoltons, a quintet whose Iced Earth by way of Hammerfall style melds virtuoso abilities with strong compositions on UNDERWATER BELLS. This 15-track release comfortably straddles the line between power metal’s presence and progressive metal’s prowess with the grace of bands such as Fates Warning shining […]