Opeth

Though prog enthusiasts might want to give this album a listen, it's not a great snapshot of the genre.

There have been a number of great bands over the years that mixed the...

Few bands have covered as much sonic territory as Stockholm, Sweden’s mighty Opeth. Formed...

With a smooth piano introduction, followed by a peaceful acoustic guitar, your first impressions of The...

Katatonia's music is dark. Placing a lot of emphasis in the ambience created by their music, these Swedes...

In 2011 Oceans of Slumber crawled from the womb of progressive metal and released their...

Progressive metal, as the name implies, involves advancing the sound and trying new, sometimes...

Riverside have always been one of those bands I see on the Youtube sidebar,...

Several years ago I went to a Swallow The Sun gig, where I met...

Over the years, Norway’s Enslaved have been a rather divisive band in the extreme...

The strength of Solace in Solitude lies in the structure of the album as...

Depressive rock and doom metal have seen a lot of crossover in the last...

Situations like these are why I hate giving albums numerical scores. If you can...

New York City’s Theater Of The Absurd are a relatively new band, having formed...

"The best band you've never heard of". This seems like an appropriate descriptor for...

Katatonia are, unquestionably, one of the most important bands in the scene, with an...

A few months ago I reviewed Hell Militia's latest album 'Jacob's Ladder'. There I...

Here we have the first full album from the Progressive Black Metal newbies that...

Perhaps best known as Ihsahn’s (Emperor) live support band, Leprous have been, slowly but steadily,...

"I guess people adapted to what we were doing and got an idea of how we were thinking at the time. So I think a lot of people came back to Katatonia."

Having never heard about (or listened to) The Reticent before, I was quite curious...

I had graduated from radio metal (and high school) and started getting into heavy...