Tag: Progressive Metal
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Angra – Cycles of Pain Review
Angra will just never cease to be a special band While Falaschi opts for what made him known and took his former band to new levels, Angra takes a more proggy approach, with slower songs and more lullaby oriented direction fitting better Fabio Lione‘s vocals. In fact when they go power metal, Lione doesn’t quite…
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Soen – Memorial Review
The new Soen is way less progressive and more commercially oriented, focusing on sentimental songs written well enough but which don’t go any further. Both singer Joel Ekelöf and the band distances themselves from Keenan/Åkerfeldt and Tool/Opeth, with a more screamed and touching vocal technique, and just hints of the mentioned bands rather than a…
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Edu Falaschi – Eldorado Review
Power metal doesn’t get much better than this. Eldorado (2023) is the central chapter in the Vera Cruz (2021) trilogy, being the previous record one of the most surprising power metal records in the latest years together with Dimhav‘s The Boreal Flame (2019) and Helloween‘s comeback (2021). Musically this still continues Angra‘s arguably best era…
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Hällas – Isle of Wisdom Review
Hällas is dead. Long live Hällas! Worry not, the band from Linköping is far from dead, but »Isle of Wisdom« follows a new story as the knight Hällas died at the end of Conundrum (2019). The band is back with their blend of 70s prog and harder rock, again influenced by bands like Camel or…