Metal playlists from the underground
Progressive metal supergroup Sons of Apollo released a teaser video for the band’s upcoming debut album. The band features Mike Portnoy on drums, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal on guitar, Billy Sheehan on bass, Derek Sherinian on keyboard, and Jeff Scott Soto on vocals—now that’s a legit supergroup, finally! The album Psychotic Symphony comes out October 20. […]
Norway’s Leprous serve up a new music video for “Stuck” from the band’s upcoming album Malina. This is the second single from Malina, which comes out in a few weeks on August 25 through InsideOutMusic. Leprous is really happy with their sound on stuck and feel that they have really got it right. “It’s straight […]
Coheed and Cambria, the greatest alt-progressive hard rock act of all-time, return with another intricate powerhouse on Year of the Black Rainbow. Claudio Sanchez and company deliver an eternal kingdom of melody, serving up a glorious and insightful introduction to the band’s Sci-Fi series, which has come to be known as The Amory Wars. Black […]
80’s progressive supergroup Asia administers “Finger on the Trigger,” a spanking new ambrosial treat from their upcoming album Omega. The single and future album opener features commanding lead vocals from bassist John Wetton and the smoldering guitars of Steve Howe. “Finger on the Trigger” has a drive that contains a contentious edge from the opening […]
Queensrÿche is back with the conceptual release American Soldier,which fuses some awkward modern rock elements (“Middle of Hell”) with their progressive hard rock edge (“If I Were King”). Many of the tracks begin with or contain interludes of army veterans telling their war stories. The highlights of the record consist of the dramatic ballad “Home […]
Rush continues to completely blow my rock and roll mind by infusing the infectious heavy guitars of Alex Lifeson, the exotic vocals of Geddy Lee, and Neil Peart’s aggressive percussion. On Retrospective 3, the band compiles their best material from 1989 to 2008 which includes a devastating remix of “One Little Victory” from 2002’s Vapor […]