Itโs easy to forget at times how young of a band Mastodon are. I mean, they certainly arenโt young young, but the first of their eight full length albums is still 6 months of its 20th anniversary. With the breadth and evolution of Mastodonโs output, you could be forgiven for thinking this is a band … Continue reading 362: MASTODON
Perhaps one of the biggest parts of Townsendโs post-SYL career, The Devin Townsend Project started out at a 4-album project, neatly compartmentalising the music he had produced since returning from hiatus, clean and clean it. Devy found the ~60 songs he had written fell into four distinct groups - bluesy prog rock sort of stuff … Continue reading 345: THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT
When an outlet as stale as Pitchfork brilliantly labels you โmilitantly adventurous heavy metalโ you must be doing something right. And The Atlas Moth from Chicago absolutely are doing something right. The first time I heard their 2018 album, โComa Noirโ, it just clicked. This is, on a base level, post metal. Very, very well … Continue reading 343: THE ATLAS MOTH
Itโs an interesting experience, to hear something created from nothing. I mean, I suppose all music is created from nothing, but what Tristan Shone does via his Author & Punisher monicker is something else. The majority of Author & Punisherโs characteristic sound comes from custom designed and built machines that have to be seen to … Continue reading 342: AUTHOR & PUNISHER
Leprous, for me, remain one of the best examples of a modern prog metal band, while simultaneously straying further and further from the core of the genre - and thatโs pretty exciting in and of itself. Across seven albums, Leprous have expanded increasingly upon their prog metal beginning. Firstly into prog rock territory, but in … Continue reading 327: LEPROUS
Yesterday Der Weg Einer Freiheit (German for โthe way of a freedomโ) released their fifth full length album, entitled โNoktvrnโ, and it is incredible. So much so that Iโve actually changed my plans and brought the post about them up about 3 weeks earlier because Iโm so obsessed with Noktvrn that I simply must write … Continue reading 324: DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT
a band a day. 