progressive

The Asheville quartet released a rocking new album called “III” today; we caught up with drummer Scott Middleton and guitarist/vocalist Zeb Camp to talk shop.

It’s here: the 20th anniversary of Opeth’s “Still Life,” a quintessential progressive death metal masterpiece. We talked with Mikael Åkerfeldt at length and reflected on the sounds which would become metal history.

The band’s 13th full-length (released today) continues their eschewal of death metal for something, well, actually resolutely Opethian and downright beautiful to boot. Here’s our in-depth review.

Car Bomb guitarist Greg Kubacki talks “Mordial,” the band’s absolutely radical fourth album (out next Friday), while we dissect the history, meaning, and purpose behind it all in this extensive special feature.

The very trippy first taste of ”Hallucinogen” is here.

We celebrate the two-decade mark for Mr. Bungle’s final full-length: “It made the complex seem effortless, in contrast to their earlier work which make the difficult sound laborious, and it transports you to a world where the impossible manifests.”

We took time with the vocalist/guitarist and drummer to discuss the new album, its delights and challenges, and the band’s incredible progression over nearly two decades.

We investigate Atlas Entity’s latest progression via “In the Shadow of the Mountain, Pt. 1,” the newest single from their upcoming debut full-length infusing black, doom, and technical death metal into symphony.

Multi-instrumentalist Kelly Schilling dissects the evolution of Dreadnought’s enigmatic brand of blackened prog-doom and then delves into the concepts woven into “Emergence,” released last Friday via Profound Lore.

We sat down in Inter Arma’s tour van on the date of their new album’s release to discuss genre classification, lyrical content, line-up changes, and more with drummer TJ Childers and guitarist Trey Dalton.