US prog metallers look to the past and future in style. “We knew we had really done something special.” “We want to make this a lifestyle,” Nospūn vocalist Phillip Rich says. “We want to spend our time writing music like this, and sharing it with the world. We’d like to go wherever this music is willing […]
Meet the Boston sextet writing progressive metal for the head and the heart Formed while the core of the band was studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Aviations have been diligent in not letting their theoretical knowledge hinder their ability to write genuinely heartfelt music. “There’s music that’s for your heart and music […]
Rose Tiger is not an easy tiger to pin down. The glam trio’s debut album is a rock opera with prog leanings that could be described as a labour of love for its chief architect Cyprien Jacquet. //The End Forever// is a trashy, surrealist gesamtkunstwerk that incorporates manga and video games into its universe, as […]
The former Midlake man’s solo direction looks to medieval England and 80s music production for inspiration. The lone figure in a cloak holding an acoustic guitar on the cover of //Albion// might seem familiar. That’s because it’s Tim Smith, co-founder of popular Texas alternative folk-rockers Midlake, and the artwork for his debut LP as Harp […]
If anything has come to define Finnish prog-metallers Psychework, then it has to be the undercurrent of optimism battling against the odds that runs through their music. Across three albums – //The Dragon’s Year// (2016), //Karelian Hills// (2018) and 2023’s //Spark Of Hope// – the sextet of singer Antony Parviainen, guitarists J-V Hintikka and Juha Takanen, Otto […]