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The Otolith -- Folium Limina Single : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fskibAwbEcs Sing No Coda Folky, Doomy, fuzzy. Might actually be better placed as a heavy English prog/folk album in many ways, but the dueling electric violins make this album sing. This was formed by 5/6 of the now defunct SubRos...

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The missus and I flew for a short EU vacation in the Netherlands and caught the VOLA/Voyager/ Four Stroke Baron tour last week at the small room in the 013 and Melkweg. I wrote a longer review for the college radio station, but below is the highlights. Four Stroke Baron: quirky, new wave influenced,...

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Empress -- Fateweaver For a First album, this does a LOT of things right. Still a bit rough in places, but they don't have too far to improve. Caught their set on the stream on Mad With Power last night, and it was really quite good. Check it out on their bandcamp. https://empresslegion.bandcamp.com/

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Two weird albums of note recently. If you aren't into death or black vox, these are probably not your thing. Kardashev -- Liminal Rite They call themselves deathgaze, but its just atmospheric blackened death metal with enough clean vox to make it interesting. The disappointing mix tends to hide wha...

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Two weird albums of note recently. If you aren't into death or black vox, these are probably not your thing. Kardashev -- Liminal Rite They call themselves deathgaze, but its just atmospheric blackened death metal with enough clean vox to make it interesting. The disappointing mix tends to hide what...

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Kinda surprised I haven't heard more about the new Zeal & Ardor Zeal & Ardor -- Zeal & Ardor https://zealandardor.bandcamp.com/album/zeal-ardor-3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5C3XgYVD3U (Golden Liar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xep_SFdG7mE (Run) An avant garde blend of blues, industrial/elec...

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From everything I've seen it's the Dino show, though I think there are a few instrumental tracks like on pt1.

jhallum

Came across this on someone elses top 20 of 2021 list, and didn't know that the singer and drummer formed a new band called Hillward:

https://hillward.bandcamp.com/

Looks promising!

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Warkings I dismissed due to the stupid videos, but perhaps music is good? Anything worth checking out? I wouldn't say Warkings is anything super special, they are just straight up pounding power metal, but they have interesting melodic intros, anthemic lyrics and a track "Fight" that draws pretty h...

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11. Subterranean Masquerade -- Mountain Fever 10. Eternity's End -- Emblems of War 9. Aephanemer -- A Dream of WIlderness 8. Arion -- Vultures Die Alone 7. Epica -- Omega 6 Helloween -- S/T 5. Evergrey -- Escape of the Phoenix 4. Gojira -- Fortitude 3. Soen -- Imperial 2. Witherfall -- Curse of Autu...

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This is a fun and creepy little operatic/melodic metal concept album with varying amounts of death vox throughout.
Highlights:
Keep the Devil Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdrH6rw6qKE

Slumber Comes in Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFuc-nDAY

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Arion -- Vultures Die Alone I've seen this one on a couple of "best of" lists, and for the life of me I can't get into it..... To my ears, they've devolved from a decent power metal band to something approaching nu-metal.... I found this album to be borderline unlistenable. This album has a huge am...

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Hmm. Not at all in any order: A.C.T Heatwave Acolyte -- Entropy Arion -- Vultures Die Alone Dvne -- Eteman Aenka Epica -- Omega Evergrey -- Escape of the Phoenix Gojira -- Fortitude (This might be #1) Helloween -- Helloween Need -- Norchestrion Soen -- Imperial Subterranean Masquerade -- Mountain Fe...

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I mean...I gave myself a choice between the new Rage, the new Brainstorm, the new Alien Weaponry, the new Pentakill and the new Spiritbox, and I went with everything but Spiritbox. A lot of hype, but in my eyes, it didn't deliver. I really like the new Rage. Best in many years. What’s Pentakill? Is...

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Spiritbox - Eternal Blue Probably the hottest thing in metalcore right now? Female fronted progressive djenty metalcore, touching perfection on each genre label I would put on them. This album's got my dopamine stuck in the ON position today. The only thing that I don't like about it is that my fav...

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My two this week (and I haven't had a chance to listen to them all the way through yet) Loch Vostok -- Opus Ferox - The Great Escape https://vicisolumrecords.com/album/opus-ferox-the-great-escape A new singer! And he's melodic! This could be really interesting. Big BIg Train -- Common Ground I'm a r...

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Ima steal Glenn's thunder on this one and point out that Orbit Culture just released a video off of a new EP dropping this September:

Orbit Culture -- Flight of the Fireflies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvE_VLakLgo

The EP is titled Shaman.

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Altzi not my favourite vocalist, but he does a good job with HF. As for ruining bands, it took me about 10 years to accept him as the Masterplan vocalist :D The only vocalist that comes to mind for making them unlistenable is.....JLB. Hehe, see I always liked LaBrie :) I’ll check out the Herman Fra...

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How about the Manchester band Konom? https://konom.bandcamp.com/ The sensibility and melodic interplay of Images and Words Dream Theater with vocals that land somewhere between Geddy Lee and Robert Plant. Like early DT or Haken, the singer isn't perfect, but he's got character for sure. I think this...

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That Terra Odium is the bees knees. I finally got a listen today and I love it after buying it on Friday. I listened to the Flotsam and Jetsam while out mowing the lawn, and I thought it was pretty darn good. I have to give it another listen. I finally also picked up Burning Witches a couple of week...

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Man, I dunno. I've gotten so many records this year so far, way more than I usually do. I'd have to say, I'm really bummed by how the Magnus Karlsson's Hearthealer project turned out. I expected so much more and I was pretty disappointed with how blah it was.

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Oooh, that One Hundred Thousand finally got an MP3 release last month on amazon. About time! I know what I'm getting next week...

And yeah, that Cellar Darling is really good.

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I did swing a digital copy of the new Edu Falaschi disk this week and after the first spin, he's definitely trying to be Rebirth era Angra. If you like that sort of thing check it out. He's not quite the singer he was 10 years ago, he reaches some on this disk and maybe shouldn't, but by and large ...

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I did swing a digital copy of the new Edu Falaschi disk this week and after the first spin, he's definitely trying to be Rebirth era Angra. If you like that sort of thing check it out. He's not quite the singer he was 10 years ago, he reaches some on this disk and maybe shouldn't, but by and large i...

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As someone who adores the sound of Khan-era Kamelot, this also came off a bit bland and plain to me. Love what they are trying to do, but needs a little spin to make it interesting.

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Second single from Esa Holopainen, this time with Leprous whiner Einar Solberg on vox. https://youtu.be/deipFVjm2Qk Normally Leprous are unlistenable for me due to the vox, but this one is just bearable :D I like (not love) this, mostly BECAUSE of Einar, whereas the song itself is fairly unmemorabl...

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WITHERFALL - Curse of Autumn What a disc. This is undoubtedly a serious contender for a top 5 spot once the year is over. This is how I like my heavy metal: fast, heavy, amazing vocals, thundering drums, insane bass, and a guitar player who should be recognized as one of the best in this genre toda...

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That Terra Odium hopefully will be amazing. That first track is promising. Super excited about it too. I picked up the prog metal Wheel (Resident Human) this week, and i"m digging it a lot. Great Soen/Tool vibe going on. Needs some digestion. But I also got the Lucid Planet II disk from last fall, a...

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This should be fun. Features the singer and drummer of the former Spiral Architect. Frontiers is definitely going all out on the prog metal this spring. I'm really looking forward to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txV0URgea5s

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Only one release day album this week, that's the A.C.T everyone already gushed over. I'll just agree, I really like this one (pretty much like I've loved everything they've done since Silence). I did get the Octavision record from last December and that really scratches the prog metal instrumental i...

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I missed this post until I read a review on DPRP bought it this morning. It sure is good. Thumbs up.

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Today, the new Dvne Eteman Aenka is knocking my socks off. Sludgy prog in the line of Mastodon, but...better? I gave the album a good spin, and I really appreciate the progressiveness of it. However, the "crunch/sludge" factor just becomes too much and is almost migraine-inducing to me. There are c...

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Today, the new Dvne Eteman Aenka is knocking my socks off. Sludgy prog in the line of Mastodon, but...better? https://youtu.be/ZcndNZFhlaA Also, Nine Treasures released a greatest hits disk from their last three, remastered and re-recorded. This is scratching an itch in the vein of The Hu, except mo...

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A couple of newer releases that I caught last week. Turbulence -- Frontal This is a Frontiers release. They are continuing to pick up prog metal bands from around the world on their label. Turbulence is a Lebanese band, and the vocals are mid range, and the music is prog metal, maybe not as melodic ...

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Yeah, I picked up Witherfall and the Iotunn last week. It was a really good week.

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