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The Best Progressive Metal Album
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| After the fantastic Colors the expectation's for a new Between The Buried And Me were high. Sky high. Launch-a-missile-off-the-back-of-the-Space-Shuttle-high. If that still doesn't get the point across, screw you. The Great Misdirect delivers and that was going to be my point anyway, I think, I forgot. BTBAM's greatest achievement is that they create an everything-is-possible vibe and in the end, for a musician/listener that wants progress, that is the best feeling possible. |
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Cool Cavemen - Multipolar
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Cool Cavemen will freak you out in a way that no Black or Death metal band could ever achieve. Every second of this release spews forth a different idea, concept, style and genre. All done with an abundance of style and grace, of course. You'll have to be open-minded to like this, but many metalheads claim they are, so let's show it!
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If technical proficiency had a name, it would be Darkology. Altered Reflections is an album to surely fill the stomachs of any progressive metal hunger, but also leave you begging for more. Blazing solos, ball-pinching vocals, shifting time signatures, each passage becoming catchier than the last. The thrashy riffs thrown in amongst the incredible melodies truly give this album sharper teeth than almost any progressive metal release this year. An incredibly powerful mix of straight-forward heavy metal and uber-technical progressive moments, how can you go wrong?
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Addicted, the second album in an incoming tetralogy of really different and varied albums, marks for metalheads the return of Devin Townsend to all his original, fruity and experimental bald headed glory. Filled with positive feelings, catchy loops and hooks, and beautiful, soaring vocals by both Devin and Anneke Van Giersbergen, this album is really addictive.
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Dream Theater has see some highs and lows this decade, more on the low side if you ask their old-time fans. Well this is no more. Black Clouds & Silver Linings is completely Dream Theater, but with this added touch of greatness that some found missing on the previous albums. Still totally prog, of course, they dared again to experiment a bit, songs like A Nightmare To Remember (with its cinematic feel) or the soaring epic The Count Of Tuscany showcases them at their best.
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| The band's sophomore release finds them with a much improved, natural production this time around, and edging even more into a forceful mix of progressive metal fused melodic death metal. Providing the unique balancing act with the guitarwork of Brandon Patton and Bryan Eagle is vocalist Francine Boucher, who reminds us all again that soulful, melodic vocals can bring out impressive elements in any kind of music. |
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Freak Kitchen and the mad cow are back! Land Of The Freaks marks the seventh album by the Swedish Prog masters. Expect once again a completely insane album. It's no use trying to describe it here, so you'll have to find out for yourself. Catchiness and freakishness go hand in hand, quirky humour runs wild, that's really all you need to know...
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Fourteen years after their demo, the Frenchies from Kalisia finally released their first album. And what an epic album it is. Cybion is a whole musical universe in itself. Totally progressive, extreme yet often very melodic, it features death growls, female vocals, keyboards, guitars solos, a saxophone, and then some... Kalisia, with this little gem, tells us a whole science-fiction story. Epic. Definitively!
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Emotions, harmony, raw talent, progression. Snowfall On Judgment Day is a beautiful prog metal CD with quite a number of twists to it, a huge cart-load of feelings and of course the magnificent vocal performance of Ray Alder (also Fates Warning, Engine). This album is all about majestic arrangements and wonderful soundscapes. An album that makes you start dreaming and an album to dream about at the same time.
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Riverside are back! Anno Domini High Definition is their fourth album, and maybe their fastest, heaviest, in a word most metal, to date. Don't worry, Riverside didn't change styles, they're still playing their top-notch progressive stuff, beautiful keyboards and arrangements included. And, as always, it's so emotionally intense...
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