Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders (2009)

A band from the US I didn't really notice till now but they are really good! the axeman play on 7 and 8 strings guitar and believe me he knows how to use that many strings...no NU UBER metal shit here! excellent pshyche ambiances, catchy leads and fusion like progression...in short, a flawless performance! get it and play it loud!! let's kick sum @$$! ^^

Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders (2009)
Genre: Progressive Metal/Experimental
Tracklist
1. Tempting Time
2. Soraya
3. Thoroughly at Home
4. On Impulse
5. Tessitura
6. Behaving Badly
7. The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
8. CAFO
9. Inamorata
10. Point to Point
11. Modern Meat
12. Song of Solomon

Tosin Abasi: 7 and 8 String Guitar Wizardry
Javier Reyes: Live Guitars
Chebon Littlefield
Macbook: Live Bass, Synths and Layers

http://rapidshare.com/files/217916588/ANMLSSLDRS.rar

Taras Bul`ba - Secrets Chimiques (2008)

We are now in Italy with a bunch of crazy guys! Taras Bul`ba is not that famous and yet they should be! I don't know how to describe their music but maybe saying that it is always on the move might give a inkling of what it's like... my fav tracks ...Khiber Pass...and Providence...check 'em out!

Taras Bul`ba - Secrets Chimiques (2008)
Genre: Progressive Rock / Psychedelique
Tracklist:
1. Cranioterapia
2. Traumdeutung
3. Khyber Pass
4. Padiglione Zonda
5. Disformofobico
6. Al Mahdi
7. Providence
8. Toktamis
9. Auersberger
10. Les Chambres Des Enfants
11. Six Feet Underground

Taras Bul`ba - Secrets Chimiques

Yargos - To Be Or Not To Be (2005)

Perhaps you already know Yargos but if you don't i highly advise you to lend an ear to that one! being no fan of prog metal i can tell you that they are definitely worth a shot ... everything in this album is great, the vox, the melodies, the production ... here you have it all...quality and quantity, cause the album reaches above 1 hour of running time, which is quite a lot (...well i mean quite a lot compared to the grindcore stuff i listen to! ah ah!)... and everything is pefectly balanced, no instrument encroach on any other, all fits perfectly in its place ... it's not that much violent but it definitely rocks! well...not much to add, this is just brilliant! enjoy!

Yargos - To Be Or Not To Be (2005)
Genre: Progressive Metal
Tracklist:
01 The Guilded Age
02 Why?
03 Peace Of Mind
04 Point Of No Return
05 A Time To Decide
06 Pink Confusion
07 Human Nature
08 Time Drops
09 The Summer Tree # 1
10 Full Circle
11 Sometimes It Is Easier
12 Turn Away
13 The Summer Tree Alive (Beat The Big Break) [bonus]

Shakespeare's metal fantasy!

Yakuza - Samsara 2006

I don't think i ever played this band in here, what a shame! as it is definitely a fav band of mine =D they are quite unique in their kind and i love how they blend the different influences they put into their music...it's psychedelic, extremely heavy and absolutely brilliant! there is hardly any word i can use to describe what they do but Yakusa are utterly the masters of their trade! proficient musicians with a mighty spirit and an unquenchable thirst for the exploration of uncharted territories ...as one of my friend often says "you don't like that one? then why don't you just fuck off and die bonehead fucker!...umh..uhm.. no offense intended of course!" ah ah! i wouldn't go that far though ^^ lol so enjoy!

Yakuza - Samsara 2006
Genre:Metal, Jazz, Progressive
Tracklist:
01 Cancer Of Industry
02 Plecostomus
03 Monkeytail
04 Transmission Ends...Signal Lost
05 Dishonor
06 20 Bucks
07 Exterminator
08 Just Say Know
09 Glory Hole
10 Back To The Mountain

不三不四的人！^^

Jorn Lande & Russel Allen - The Battle 2005

After A bro made the 666th post on the 1st of junuary 2008 ...weird it was done by the Antigöd indeed...i sure some dark scientists would glady study the phenomenon!^^... i now play "the neighbour of the beast" album, number 667th (which also happens to be the title of a DM album incidentally!...and as all these wars cause me to have a very bad memory i hope you don't know about it already! however i am sure you all know about these guys better than i do!lol so to cut a long story short i must say that this album impressed me at all levels ... despites i am not a fan of that genre ... but vocals, guitars, bass, drums, pianos...everything fits in perfectly and it all has been very well produced ... not a single weak track in my view! well ... that's what we call a killer album from beginning to end!! the battle in 2008 is gonna unfold just fine my broz! enjoy \m/

Jorn Lande & Russel Allen - The Battle 2005
Genre: Hard Rock, Progressive Metal
Tracklist:
01 Another Battle
02 Hunters Night
03 Wish For A Miracle
04 Reach A Little Longer
05 Come Alive
06 Truth Of Our Time
07 My Own Way
08 Ask You Anyway
09 Silent Rage
10 Where Have The Angels Gone
11 Universe Of Light
12 The Forgotten Ones

Riding forgotten winds!

Perhaps you are already well acquainted with that U.S band called BiS, but if that is not the case, then it should deserve all your attention for the next 40 minutes! Metalcore or that kind of "look-i-can-play-rhythm-only" metal tends to bore me to death in seconds most of the time, but this one is quite different, they have very complex chugging and heavy songs with very cool arrangements! in the end the 40 minutes of aggression that this album contains pass by at the speed of light! at times they recall me a bit that band called Soilwork but BiS's music is more elaborate and violent IMO, some tracks may even be considered Death ...just take the vox off "embrace the plague"...and what have we got left?? =D...well, what i like perhaps most in that album, is the sound, cause if this band is obviously not revolutionizing the genre, the production is definitely awesome and the drum stands out like mad, especially the double bass! yum yum!!^^ hope you enjoy, ...i can't get enough of it!

Burn In Silence - Angel Maker 2006
Genre: Metalcore / progressive?
01 Lines From An Epitaph
02 Rebirth
03 The Age In Which Tomorrow Brings
04 Embrace The Plague
05 Primal Human Pain
06 Angel Maker
07 Judging Hope
08 Well Adjusted
09 Watching Dead Leaves Fall
10 World Of Regret

Screamin' my guts out!!

Riverside - Voices in My Head (2005)

Riverside comes from ....Poland (again)! they play a very peaceful/emotional progressive rock that is very enjoyable to have a rest or just relax thinking about nothing =)the musicianship is very good though it is not spectacular (or demonstrative i should say) ...and i'm sure you'll appreciate it...Riverside often reminds me the quietest passages/ballads of Vanden Plas, if you happen to know the band...but they have something from Porcupine Tree's or even Floydian's atmosphere as well, with very ambiant and electronic sounds used to wrap the whole thing in... definitely a band worth checkin' out if you want any advice from me!

Riverside - Voices in My Head (2005)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Tracklist:
01 Us
02 Acronym Love
03 Dna ts. Rednum or F. Raf
04 The Time I Was Daydreaming
05 Stuck Between
06 I Believe (bonus live track)
07 Loose Heart (bonus live track)
08 Out Of Myself (bonus live track)

Perfect Blend!

Antimatter - Leaving Eden (2007)

Hail my brethren for the Antigod has come back, and from his dark journey to the recesses of uncharted worlds and territories, he brought back the Antimatter with him!lol! Now we are leaving Eden again to accomplish the dark destiny of true berserkers! Drums are pounding already! harken people! 'cause to this lingering rhythm we will tread until the battle is over! ah ah! Antimatter will shroud your soul into the melancholy of its emotive greatness! like old doom with acoustic passages (i always think about Godsend when i hear that album!) or perhaps progressive rock with tripping leads, this excellent album won't leave you unchanged! enjoy!

Antimatter - Leaving Eden (2007)
Genre: Progressive, Rock, Doom
Tracklist:
1 Redemption
2 Another Face In A Window
3 Ghosts
4 The Freak Show
5 Landlocked
6 Conspire
7 Leaving Eden
8 The Immaculate Misconception
9 Fighting For A Lost Cause


Grasp some dust falling from the stars!

[Prog War] ダイタ - Direct Mode (2006)

At last the end of the war is showing its nose!lol indeed that is certainly the most difficult we have ever waged! =) Progressive is much tougher than it seems (to me at least)! lol Daita is probably not unknown to you, and he is quite famous in Japan i believe. This album is truly great IMO and to be real prog they would just need to add a singer...though the music does not need one at all!...the ambiances are brilliant and epic, the axeman is a real master in that sense... he plays as if announcing the dawning of a new era! ah ah!... and actually i find the album pretty short in the end!!lol ....so no showing off here, just the efficiency of a rogue swordman battling for his own reasons .... =)

ダイタ (Daita) - Direct Mode (2006)
Genre: Progressive Metal, Instrumental
Tracklist:
01 Emphatic Line
02 Funny House
03 Motor Beat
04 Blue Passion
05 Oriental Road
06 Volplane
07 19 Boogie

A lonely Wanderer!

[Prog War] Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur - 1998

Gastr Del Sol is just 2 people from Chicago and this is one of their latest albums. i hope i didn't played that one before cause i can't remember...though i guess not =)
these two guy play a mixture between electronic music, classic rock with synth... i'm not sure this is called progressive but let's say it is! ah ah! well i've been listening to that band for several years now, they are a bit in the line of Cheval de Frise but not really alike as they use some kind of old hippy/poppy vox!lol... it's just to give you a general idea =) hope you like it

Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur - 1998
Genre: Progressive, Experimental
Tracklist:
01 Seasons Reverse, The
02 Blues Subtitled No Sense Of Wonder
03 Black Horse
04 Each Dream Is An Example
05 Mouth Canyon
06 Puff Of Dew, A
07 Bauchredner

Sophisticated Orhestra!

Devilica - 11 11 [2006]

This is some kind of demo (or it's a MCD) i guess, but this band is pretty good IMO, they play rough metal and incorporated quite a lot of different style in their music. They uses noises as well as very percussive riffing, melodical parts, and even some clear vocals!well, the whole thing is highly enjoyable i believe! (well to me at least! ah ah!) it's pretty difficult to give you an idea of their music as each track is always rather different from the next...or the previous! but they are somewhat in the style The Sawtooth Grin or Meshuggah....hope you like it! =)

Devilica - 11 11 [2006]
Genre: Screamo, Hardcore, Progressive, Grindcore
Tracklist:
01 Revoltandchaosdotcom
02 Heartless Heart
03 Truth Hurts But Pain is Temporary
04 A Journey of One Fine Man
05 A Funky Fairytale of an Angel
06 Honey Its Already 3.60 Am Now

jigsaw building!

Canvas Solaris - Penumbra Diffuse 2006

Canvas Solaris is an awesome progressive band, their music is all instrumental and both powerfull and melodical. Actually the precision with which they have constructed that masterpiece is quite impressive (cause as you'll see it's also frigging experimental)! if Phantomsmasher has exhausted and confounded you, lol, you can rely on canvas Solaris to make you feel as good as new for before they were good grindcore/death warriors! =) I have no idea how many people are involved in that band (only three i think! ah ah!) but you can hear many different instruments like percussion (tablas i guess), sax, mandolin..etc...there's a cool Indian colour/dimension to the music which i like a lot as well! a MUST HAVE IMO!

Canvas Solaris - Penumbra Diffuse 2006
Genre:Progressive, Instrumental, Jazz
Tracklist:
1 Panoramic Long-range Vertigo
2 Horizontal Radiant
3 Accidents in Mutual Silence
4 Viahayasa
5 To Fracture
6 Psychotropic Resonance
7 Luminescence

Futuristic Spaceship!

Hacride - Amoeba (2007)

Well, Hacride is a band from France, and more precisely from Poitier, it's a city in the north (where the Futuroscope is, if you've never heard about it, it's a massive park dedicated to image technology with really HUGE screens and video attractions..well enough geography for now!!) Hacride plays some death metal but it's not really death metal...so even if you like power metal stuff, try it, you might like it ..or we might have to scrape you off the wall!lol...actually they are quite experimental, a bit like Meshuggah i would say and very original, there is even a flamenco-core track in the album! Believe me these dude fuck## rule! and after bands like scarve or gojira (which i played already) i guess we can that french metal is really rising! cool, we had a pretty bad (and well deserved) reputation at it!lol hope you enjoy, you, bunch of lunatic berzerkers! \m/

Hacride - Amoeba (2007)
Genre:Death Metal, Progressive, Not to miss!!
Traclist:
1 Perturbed
2 Fate
3 Vision of Hate
4 Zambra
5 Liquid
6 Cycle
7 Deprived of Soul
8 Strength
9 Ultima Necat
10 On the Threshold of Death

une putain de baffe dans ma sale gueule!!lol
(french for: a goddamn smack in my ugly mug!) ;) \m/

Tamás Szekeres - Guitarmania

This guy is from Hungary i guess, and the album was released at the beginning of the 90's (though the very first version of it is from 1989, but he re-recorded afterwards!) this album as very nice leads, cool ballads and the likes...of course it's not really revolutionnizing anything and if you can't stand guitar heros, better keep at bay!lol but otherwise this is a pretty good instrumental album that anyone will appreciate either for its melodical content or its technicality! a nice shredder that do not only goes for speed but also melody! =)

Tamás Szekeres - Guitarmania
Genre Guitar hero, Neo-classical, Instrumental
1 Initials
2 Warning to call
3 Children of rock
4 Outline
5 Message of Dreamland
6 The final frontier
7 The king in yellow
8 Baby blue
9 Prelude & Presto BWV 996
10 Guitarmania
11 Adagio
12 In a strange land
13 The summer

Let my ears bleed!

Gorath - The Fourth Era (2006)

Well to present that one, i was tempted to begin by saying that, at last, i had found a BM band with a decent sound quality and well composed material, cause that is the case but after several listening, i realized that what i like more about this awsome band is that it somewhat represents the sum and outcome of many of my favourite bands! If you like Emperor, Satyricon, Immortal, and (but this one is more remotely connected) Dissection, listen to that one straightaway! and if you just wonder what an awsome BM band sounds like in 2006 then this is an excellent one for you! wield your axe and have a nice trip on Odin's chariot! \m/

Gorath - The Fourth Era (2006)
Genre: Progressive Melodic Black Metal \\ Dark Metal
01 Sagittarius
02 Xibalba Be
03 Create & Renew
04 Descending (The Realm)
05 The Fifth Birth
06 Zenith Point
07 Cosmogenesis
08 The Astronaut of Palenque

Let my ears bleed!

Russian Circles - Enter (2006)

This is a band from Chicago with only 3 members in it. They have no vox but play very catchy and epic riffs, and loads of groove as well. But there is more than that, i'm talking about the ambiance here! They sound like metal but their structure is more like a jazzy / post-rock kind of stuff, and surprinsingly enough, their songs give somewhat the impression of a rather chaotic and dissonant energic wave which is yet very quiet! 6@@ captivating! ...don't know if that sounds very clear to you!lol but what is clear to me is that this is a damn fine discovery! enjoy a grandiose band!

Russian Circles - Enter (2006)
Genre: Post-Rock, Progressive, Instrumental
01 Carpe
02 Micah
03 Death Rides A Horse
04 Enter
05 You Already Did
06 New Macabre
Let my ears bleed!