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Diablo Swing Orchestra ‘Swagger & Stroll Down The Rabbit Hole’
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Review: Diablo Swing Orchestra ‘Swagger & Stroll Down The Rabbit Hole’

28th October 202115th December 2021 Reza Mills Avant-Garde, Candlelight Records, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Prog Metal, Spinefarm Records

Described in the promo-notes as ‘Tim Burton’s dream band’, Diablo Swing Orchestra are a Swedish eight-piece progressive/experimental outfit who formed

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Somnuri
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Somnuri: Interview With Drummer Phil SanGiacomo

11th June 202121st July 2021 Lee Beamish Blues Funeral Recordings, Prog Metal, Sludge, Somnuri

Hot off the back of releasing the fantastical new album, Nefarious Wave, I got the opportunity to fire some questions

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Somnuri 'Nefarious Wave'
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Review: Somnuri ‘Nefarious Wave’

2nd June 20217th July 2021 Lee Beamish Blues Funeral Recordings, Prog Metal, Sludge, Somnuri

Once in a while something truly inescapable comes along, which hits you right in the face, and forces you to

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Grayceon ‘Mothers Weavers Vultures’
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Review: Grayceon ‘Mothers Weavers Vultures’

14th January 202117th February 2021 Rob Bryant Grayceon, Mothers Weavers Vultures, Prog Metal, Translation Loss Records

A typical power trio? No, an atypical power trio – that’s what Grayceon’s Bandcamp page tells me, and the reason

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The Ocean ‘Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic’
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Review: The Ocean ‘Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic’

18th September 202026th October 2020 Lee Beamish Metal Blade Records, Pelagic Records, Phanerozoic II, Prog Metal, The Ocean

At the ripe old age of twenty, and now due to release their eighth studio album, prog metal meisters The

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Inter Arma 'Garbers Days Revisited'
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Review: Inter Arma ‘Garbers Days Revisited’

30th July 202014th September 2020 Sandy Williamson Garbers Days Revisited, Inter Arma, Prog Metal, Relapse Records

When I initially took this review on, I didn’t even notice that it was a covers record. Basically ever since

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Sleestak ‘Aeon’
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Review: Sleestak ‘Aeon’

7th July 202025th August 2020 Mark Hunt-Bryden Aeon, Doom, Independent, Prog Metal, Sleestak

Milwaukee’s Sleestak were on an upwards growth trajectory releasing Skylon Express which was the combination of two previously recorded EP

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Eyes Fly ‘Eyes Fly’
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Review: Eyes Fly ‘Eyes Fly’

2nd July 202031st July 2020 Lee Beamish Eyes Fly, Independent, Prog Metal, Self Titled

Four years ago an idea was birthed, a concept, a dream. That dream was Eyes Fly, and it’s the offspring

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Ihsahn ‘Telemark’
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Review: Ihsahn ‘Telemark’

12th February 202020th March 2020 Reza Mills Black Metal, Candlelight Records, Emperor, Ihsahn, Prog Metal, Telemark

For those you who don’t follow Black Metal or who are not fans of it, the name Ihsahn probably means

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