Coheed and Cambria

Mile Marker Zero – The Fifth Row Review

By Eldritch Elitist on March 13, 2018 in 2018, American Metal, Progressive Rock, Reviews, Self-released, Progressive Rock, 34 comments

“My heart may belong to metal, but it was Coheed and Cambria that cemented my love for rock music. One of my favorite bands to this day, C&C’s influence on my musical tastes has resonated long into my twenties, with sonically similar acts like The Dear Hunter helping to keep me invested in their particular blend of modern alternative and progressive rock. It’s surprising to me then, as a fan of such a specific style, that I’d never encountered Connecticut’s Mile Marker Zero.” Prog is a highway, and you’re gonna ride it.

Necrosexual – Grim 1 Review

By Mark Z. on February 23, 2018 in 2018, American Metal, Black Metal, Reviews, Self-released, Thrash Metal, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, 0 comments

“Apparently being ‘necro’ is a big thing right now. Necrophobic and Necropanther have new albums out this month, and the redundantly-titled Necrodeath are releasing a new record in March. With all that death piling up, where do Necrosexual squeeze themselves in? On the greasy avenue of primitive blackened thrash, of course.” Love life, not the dead.

Astronoid – Air [Things You Might Have Missed 2016]

By Mark Z. on December 21, 2016 in 2016, American Metal, Black Metal, Blood Music, Reviews, Shoegaze, Things You Might Have Missed 2016, Black Metal, Shoegaze, 35 comments

“Fearless. That’s the word I keep coming back to when trying to describe this Boston quintet’s debut. Sure, there may be better ways to describe the music – carefree, blissful, soaring – but nothing captures the spirit of Air quite like “fearless.”” Fear is the mind killer.

Periphery – Juggernaut Review

By Jean-Luc Ricard on January 25, 2015 in 2015, American Metal, Djent, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Sumerian Records, Djent, Progressive Metal, 79 comments

“Believe it or not, we tend to research the bands we review here, even if it’s occasionally more tempting just to mash our palms against the keyboard for five hundred words, assign an arbitrary score, then knock off down to the pub. This week has, therefore, seen me listening to an unhealthy amount of the genre that discerning metalheads love to hate: djent (the ‘d’ is silent).” Djent is a challenging genre, but then again, a double album of material can make any genre challenging. We like challenges.

Periphery – II Review

By Angry Metal Guy on July 5, 2012 in 2.0, 2012, American Metal, Century Media, Djent, Progressive Metal, 107 comments

Unlike the progressive rock and heavy rock of the past, Periphery isn’t really writing great symphonic works of art or abstract tracks with smart, snappy choruses. Nor is this a shred-fest in funny time signatures á la Dream Theater and their oppressive and ubiquitous ilk. Nay, Periphery is something unique to the 2010s. That good? I dunno.

Leprous – Bilateral Review

By Angry Metal Guy on September 2, 2011 in 2011, 4.5, InsideOut, Norwegian Metal, Progressive Metal, Record o' the Month, Progressive Metal, 16 comments

Progressive music is a vast category filled with all sorts of various constellations of bands from Dream Theater to Symphony X to Rush to Opeth to Death to Pink Floyd to Pain of Salvation to Coheed & Cambria (arguably) and so forth. It can be very difficult to keep all that shit in order and, frankly, to find good progressive bands because it’s such a huge category. Despite the fact that progressive music should be the biggest, best and most original music in the world it suffers from some serious problems. The first is a tendency towards living in the past (fÃ¶r svenskar: bakÃ¥tstrÃ¤vande) and the second is unoriginality, oddly enough. So finding a progressive band that is excellent, modern and original is still a hard thing to do. But you’ll never guess who has some angry (but good) news.

Thomas Giles – Pulse Review

By Angry Metal Guy on January 26, 2011 in 2011, 4.5, Metal Blade, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Electronica, Progressive Metal, 3 comments

Oh man, the Internetz are abuzz with love for this record already. Apparently everyone and their dog who runs a review website got this album 3 months ago and has been subsequently shitting themselves over the awesome!!!! that is Thomas Giles’ Pulse. A bit of background information as to why that might be. Yeah, because this is the vocalist from Between the Buried and Me. Yup. That’s it. I want to state with all certainty that if this were an independent record put out by a dude actually named Thomas Giles who wasn’t in a band that was well-respected even though being associated with a scene that everyone hates, this record would not be listened to by metal guys or reviewed on a metal website. Because this record is not metal. It contains minor bits o’ metal, but it for the large part a progressive-indie-electronica record. So be forewarned.

The Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis Review

By Angry Metal Guy on March 25, 2010 in 2010, 4.0, American Metal, Avante Garde, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Season of Mist, Sporadicore, Hardcore, Mathcore, Metalcore, 1 comment

The Dillinger Escape Plan’s fourth record, Option Paralysis, has been one of the most anticipated records of this year so far. And for good reason, people are really taken by this band and their unique style. DEP has released some seriously wacky, sporadic records in the past that are both crazy and challenging and yet so very enticing and addictive, even teaming up with Mike Patton (and others) on an EP called Irony Is a Dead Scene. They’re a very hard band to stick into a genre, bordering on technical metal and hardcore as well as pulling in influences from industrial, jazz, acoustic rock and well, you name it, they can do it. That makes them feel very fresh, but can they maintain that freshness on Option Paralysis.

Three – Revisions Review

By Angry Metal Guy on October 28, 2009 in 2009, 3.5, American Metal, Metal Blade, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, 3 comments

Progressive rock and metal have been looking for a new band to update the genre with something new and original for a long time. While the progressive metal sub-genre has expanded outward, it seems like progressive rock has been left to whiny emo kids and their pretentious and totally incomprehensible space odysseys. Though in recent times bands like The Dear Hunter have started to appear, they tend to be far more eclectic, and rock oriented than I think many fans of progressive guitar rock are really looking for. So when Three burst onto the scene a few years back and was, really, the first band to do something new and interesting with progressive rock since the mid-90s, they began getting some well-deserved attention.