Iโm sure you know of the Blue Man Group. Theyโre stage performers with wacky mime stuff and blue paint. Yeah, theyโre a pop culture institution. Sure. But did you know the Blue Man Group also put on one of the most electrifying and incredible rock shows on the planet? Their first album, 1999โs โAudioโ, was … Continue reading 351: BLUE MAN GROUP
Tag: prog rock
348: OPETH
I considered writing about Opeth back during the Chameleons series of posts, but came to the conclusion that two posts, covering early and late periods of the band, just would not work in this case. Opethโs evolution has been steadily taking place over thirty years. Starting out as a more extreme band mixing death metal … Continue reading 348: OPETH
346: DEVIN TOWNSEND
The fact is, I could continue the format of the past two days, spending each day focussing on various projects and chapters of the great manโs influential and biblically prolific career, but thereโs less than three weeks left of the year. Todayโs post, in a sense, is about the man himself. Strapping Young Lad and … Continue reading 346: DEVIN TOWNSEND
345: THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT
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
327: LEPROUS
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
322: DOOL
I stumbled across Dool in 2017 via their (at the time newly released) debut, โHere Now, There Thenโ, and it was like nothing Iโd heard before. It was a refreshingly progressive mix of goth rock and doom, with a gloomy, passionate atmosphere. I spent that winter utterly enamoured with that album and that band. It … Continue reading 322: DOOL