News Posts

Finnish metal legends Amorphis ignite the festival flame with a cinematic live video for ‘The Lantern’, a track from their latest album! Catch them at tons of festivals in Europe this summer like Tuska, Alcatraz and Brutal Assault!

Norwegian prog bards Green Carnation revealed the full video for the track ‘Sanguis’ from their recently released album ‘A Dark Poem Part II: Sanguis’, out with Season of Mist! Catch them live in a couple of months in Finland at Ankea Festival, one of the select dates to see them perform this summer!

Lithuanian modern prog band Black Spikes signed with Napalm Records for the release of their upcoming album ‘Ydos’, out in August and unleashed the new single ‘Aurea’ to celebrate! Catch them live on tour in Europe with Infected Rain right now, including this Friday with our friends at DVG Club and at the end of April in Helsinki hosted by TuskaLive!

Finnish progressive melodic death metal band Numento presented their new true crime inspired single and video ‘The Extortionist’!

Amsterdam-based progressive groove and hardcore-fusion metal outfit Bigmoth released the title track ‘Meggah Konstrukt’ from their upcoming debut album, set to be released later this year!

Finnish progressive metal act Time Primer released their new single and music video ‘Above/Below’, a first taste of the music they’re working on right now!

Tarja Turunen announced her new studio album ‘Frisson Noir’ to be out in June via earMUSIC and unveiled a first epic track with ‘At Sea’!

New independent label Vesperian was announced, an entity focused on close artist connection, thoughtful release work and commitment to artistic substance with already a high quality and diverse roster to begin with!

Only Human unleashed the third and last single ‘Techno Fascist’ before the release of their debut album ‘Planned Obsolescence’ next week’s Friday via Season of Mist!

Green Carnation unleashed their second single ‘I Am Time’ from upcoming album ‘A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis’, set for release next month via Season of Mist! Catch them live at only a handful of shows this summer, including the very first edition of Ankea Festival in Finland!

Album Reviews

Some of the more intense, crazy progressive metal tunes can be found on Between The Buried And Me’s ‘Colors II’. No easy listening music for the faint hearted.

With their message of hope in their conceptual debut album ‘What Lies Ahead Of Us’, the Brazilians of Pentral offers a a nice groovy progessive rock metal experience.

Galactic Quarantine brings die hard fans of Devin Townsend a sci-fi experience supported by a selection from his huge back catalog.

Liquid Tension Experiment 3 delivers once again what they are known for. Super music food for the more nerdy musical progressive lovers out there.

Another gem in the rich history of excellent albums that Evergrey releases into the world. Dense powerful music with deep emotional lyrics.

Expect the unexpected, that’s the least we can say about Panther, the 11th album of Pain Of Salvation. The creativity on this album is unseen and unheard of.

Vulkan is a heavy, progressive rock band from Karlstad, Sweden. They have already released two albums: ‘Mask Of Air‘ (2011) and ‘Observants‘ (2016). With their third, ‘Technatura‘, they are bringing us […]

Rise Radiant is the Caligula’s Horse sound pushed to its extremes: at once its most ferocious and its most touching, its most expansive and its most condensed, its most poetic and its most vicious. A mist have for the prog rockers deep inside of us.

With Virus, Haken created once again a very enjoyable progressive album with a conceptually link to Vector.

Green Carnation releases their first new album in 14 years and it’s a musical masterpiece like you’d come to expect from these prog masters.