"Prog Metal" Blogs & Blog Posts

Vokonis will release their fourth studio album ”Odyssey” in spring 2021. More dynamically diverse than ever, the 6 new tracks feature guest musician Per Wiberg (Opeth, Spiritual Beggars, Kamchatka) on Keyboard. Odyssey is Vokonis' first true prog...

Emerging from the storied Richmond, VA metal scene is HOLDEN, a post/doom metal band seeking to unveil crushing riffs and pure sonic desolation. The band, named after the mysterious character of Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, ini...

POSEIDON demolished all expectations with their 2017 Ripple Music debut, Prologue, a four-song, 44-minute concept piece that wove together elements of doom, sludge, prog and spacious atmospherics.The band stormed festivals including Hard Rock Hell, B...

Tommy Victor is one of those guys who has seen and done it all in the heavy music scene. Whether it be his time running the soundboard at CBGB’s in New York when he was a kid, touring as Danzig’s or Ministry’s lead guitarist, or fronting his ow...

I have a lot music presented to me.  I write these reviews and I host 2 radio shows and in 2014 I had close to 500 promo albums run through my email box.  I hear a lot of music and as you would probably guess, a lot of it is fairly generic...

MONSTERWORKS Debut "Penultimate" with New Noise MagazineUK supermetallers MONSTERWORKS have teamed with New Noise Magazine for the exclusive premiere of a brand new track off the band's forthcoming album, Overhaul. Titled "Penultimate," the song is n...

Oh Prog Metal!... how I love thee!  Let  me count the ways.  With all your crazy complex time signatures, dark brooding chord progressions, unexpected change ups, dramatic guttural vocal gymnastics and complex melodies.  Not to me...