Tag Archives: Prog

Ohio’s Static Tension is a progressive grunge quartet whose roots stretch back to the late 90s. Their lead guitarist, Greg Blachman, had initially coined the name for the band’s subsequent release, 1999’s Paint By Number. The band then ceased activity after two more years, but not without an effort to …

Canadian prog-metal band Mandroid Echostar will hit the road this spring for a co-headline, North American tour with Auras and support act Native Construct. The band is touring in support of their recently released album, Coral Throne, which is available now at iTunes, Amazon and MANDROIDECHOSTAR.COM from Distort Entertainment/Fontana North. Stream …

With their first album released in 2003, Dutch headbangers Textures are a well-established band within the progressive metal community. Their previous album, Dualism, was released slightly over four years ago, so the level of anticipation among fans has come to a boiling point. The lengthy wait was not for nothing, …

Dream Theater tell a tale of the rebellion to save music through a 34 track rock opera.

Spokane, Washington’s Odyssey came together for one simple purpose: to create instrumental music that is not only progressive, but identifiable and able to elicit maximum listener response. True to their mission, they succeeded. The prog trio is pushing their first decade together with a total of five releases under their …

As 2015 wraps up, progheads are certain to be contentedly reflecting upon a bountiful calendar of ripe, riff-tastic releases. Below is an overview of some of the more high-profile and well-received albums released over the last year, complete with convenient links to singles, so newcomers can claim no excuse for …

Kickstarter funds have funded another album.  This time from Australia’s prog metal band Voyager.  Is V a voyage worth listening to?