District 97 is a band that I discovered much later than I would have wanted. I first heard about them because they were performing at Cruise to the Edge. People all over the ship were raving about them. The ship, mind you, was divided between older progressive rock fans and newer, metal leaning fans, but … Continue reading
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Eidola released their third album, To Speak, To Listen, on June 2 of this year. Eidola has definitely made a name for themselves as an up-and-coming band to know in the progressive metal scene. Their previous two releases were met with much acclaim from both modern metal review sites and progressive metal sites as well. Eidola … Continue reading
Roie Avin, editor of The Prog Report, announced yesterday that their website will be releasing a new book, titled Essential Modern Progressive Rock Albums. Unlike a lot of the current books on progressive rock that seem to stop in the mid-to-late 70s, this book will include influential and important albums that were released between 1990 and … Continue reading
A few months back, in a late night Wikipedia rabbit hole excursion, I came across a page about the galactic year- the amount of time it takes for our solar system to complete an orbit around the center of the Milky Way, which is about 225 million years. It was fascinating to be able to … Continue reading
In 1968, a band called The Nice released a track called “America”, which became the first instrumental protest song of popular music. Evening out the odd meter into 4/4, it featured blazing keyboards, heavily distorted guitar, and the trademark theatrics that had earned The Nice their reputation. In the final moments of the song, the … Continue reading
Arcadea is a new, ambitious project featuring Brann Dailor (Mastodon), Core Atoms (Zruda), and Raheem Amlani (Withered). Core Atoms came up with the idea of Arcadea as an exploration of what music would be like 5 billion years from now, when human life has died out, synthetic life has taken over, and the merge of … Continue reading
