Frak the Blogs: Progressive metal

1. The Binaural Beat

2. Reflections Carried to Mirror

3. Chromatic Dusk

4. Patterns Spiral into Swarm

5. Heat Distortion Manifest

6. Photovoltaic

7. Solar Droid

8. The Unknowable and Defeating Glow

Really excellent instrumental stuff. For fans of Cynic and Exivious. Check it out.

Leprous - Bilateral (2011)

Band: Leprous

Album: Bilateral

Year: 2011

Genre: Progressive metal, avant-garde

Location: Oslo, Norway

Bit rate: 320

1. Bilateral

2. Forced Entry

3. Restless

4. Thorn

5. Mb. Indifferentia

6. Waste of Air

7. Mediocrity Wins

8. Cryptogenic Desires

9. Acquired Taste

10. Painful Detour

I have no words. Just fucking listen to this.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Fluxious - Why So Serious? (2011)

Band: Fluxious

Album: Why So Serious?

Year: 2011

Genre: Jazz fusion, progressive metal, funk

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Bit rate: 320

1. Point of View

2. Reaching Nowhere

3. Inside

4. Voodoo Mood

5. Huging

6. Sinner

7. Games'N'Trials

8. Biatch

9. Unfair to You

10. True

11. What a Waste

12. It Belongs to You

So, this is without a doubt one of the best release of this year. This is the most unique music I've heard in a LONG time. It combines brilliant musicianship with carnal funk and gorgeous, soaring melodies. GET THIS!!!! Prepare to cum.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Edge of Sanity - Crimson (1996)

Band: Edge of Sanity

Album: Crimson

Year: 1996

Genre: Progressive metal, death metal

Location: Finspång, Sweden

Bit rate: 320

Metal Archives entry

1. Crimson

2. Murder Divided (Japanese bonus track)

This is a great album. It's just one extended song, and it's absolutely amazing. Just look at that album art! Come on, you know you want it. For fans of Opeth.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Cormorant - Metazoa (2009)

Band: Cormorant

Album: Metazoa

Year: 2009

Genre: Death metal, progressive metal, black metal, folk metal

Location: San Francisco, California

Bit rate: 320

1. Scavenger's Feast

2. Uneasy Lies the Head

3. Salt of the Earth

4. Blood on the Cornfields

5. Hanging Gardens

6. The Crossing

7. Hole in the Sea

8. The Emigrant's Wake

9. Sky Burial

10. Voices of the Mountain

(My internet is pretty much doomed so I am using this link that I found.)
UPDATE: The band have released this album and their 2007 album The Last Tree for free on their Bandcamp page.

These guys are absolute insanity! So many different styles are melded together in this release. They are set to release a new album in December, and it is sure to be one of the best of the year. Check it out.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Corelia - Nostalgia (2011)

Band: Corelia

Album: Nostalgia

Year: 2011

Genre: Progressive metal, djent

Location: San Diego, California

Bit rate: 320 (Updated)

1. Treetops

2. Glass Faces

3. The Sound of Glaciers Moving

4. Aviation

5. Red Sky Harbor

6. Mute Swan

7. Blood Petals

This is without a doubt release of the year for me. Absolutely fucking incredible. You need this.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape (2001)

Band: Sigh

Album: Imaginary Sonicscape

Year: 2001

Genre: Black metal, progressive metal, avant-garde

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Bit rate: 320

1. Corpsecry - Angelfall

2. Scarlet Demon

3. Nietzschean Conspiracy

4. A Sunset Song

5. Impromptu (Allegro Maestroso)

6. Dreamsphere (Return to the Chaos)

7. Voices

8. Ecstatic Transformation

9. Born Condemned Criminal

10. Slaughtergarden Suite

11. Bring Back the Dead (Extended Version)

12. Requiem - Nostalgia

Some of the craziest music you'll ever hear. Guaranteed.

The Omega Experiment - Karma EP (2011)

Band: The Omega Experiment

Album: Karma EP

Year: 2011

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: Muskegon, Michigan

Bit rate: 320 or FLAC

Download for FREE from their BandCamp

1. Furor

2. Karma

3. Paramount

Holy shit! I just now stumbled across these guys and they are so sick. This is a must listen for any fan of Devin Townsend.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Mithras - Behind the Shadows Lie Madness (2007)

Band: Mithras

Album: Behind the Shadows Lie Madness

Year: 2007

Genre: Technical death metal, progressive metal

Location: Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Bit rate: 320

1. The Journey and the Forsaken

2. To Fall from the Heavens

3. Under the Three Spheres

4. Into Black Holes of Oblivion

5. When the Light Fades Away

6. Behind the Shadows

7. Awaken Man and Stone

8. The Twisted Tower

9. To Where the Sun Never Leaves

10. The Beacon Beckons

11. Thrown Upon the Waves

12. Into the Unknown

Very atmospheric tech death. For fans of Ulcerate.

Atrox - Orgasm (2003)

Band: Atrox

Album: Orgasm

Year: 2003

Genre: Progressive metal, avant-garde

Location: Trondheim, Norway

Bit rate: 320

1. Methods of Survival

2. Flesh City

3. Heartquake

4. Burning Bridges

5. This Vigil

6. Tentacles

7. Secondhand Traumas

8. Pre-sense

This is unlike anything you will ever hear. It is extremely experimental, but at the same time very accessible. So many beautiful, soaring melodies. And just look at that album cover!

maudlin of the Well - Bath (2001)

Band: maudlin of the Well

Album: Bath

Year: 2001

Genre: Progressive metal, avant-garde

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Bit rate: 192

1. The Blue Ghost/Shedding Qliphoth

2. They Aren't All Beautiful

3. Heaven and Weak

4. (Interlude 1)

5. The Ferryman

6. Marid's Gift of Art

7. Girl with a Watering Can

8. Birth Pains of Astral Projection

9. (Interlude 2)

10. Geography

This is a pretty legendary progressive album. It's definitely a must listen for any fan of the genre.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Periphery - Periphery (2010)

Band: Periphery

Album: Periphery

Year: 2010

Genre: Progressive metal, djent

Location: Washington, D.C.

Bit rate: 320

1. Insomnia

2. The Walk

3. Letter Experiment

4. Jetpacks Was Yes!

5. Light

6. All New Materials

7. Buttersnips

8. Icarus Lives!

9. Totla Mad

10. Ow My Feelings

11. Zyglrox

12. Racecar

This is my absolute favorite album of all time. I can't say enough about these guys. This is the future of metal.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Beyond Twilight - Section X (2005)

Band: Beyond Twilight

Album: Section X

Year: 2005

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: Horsens, Denmark

Bit rate: 320 (except for the first track, which is 198)

1. Be Careful It's My Head Too

2. The Path of Darkness

3. Shadow Self

4. Sleeping Beauty

5. The Dark Side

6. Portrait F in Dark Waters

7. Ecstasy Arise

8. Section X

This is a really awesome and extremely underrated band. Kelly Carpenter (who did vocals on the Outworld album I posted) did vocals for this album, which is reason enough to get it, because he kicks all sorts of ass.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Outworld - 2008 EP

Band: Outworld

Album: 2008 EP

Year: 2008 (released in 2011)

Genre: Progressive metal, power metal

Location: Houston, Texas

Bit rate: 320

1. Weltschmerz

2. Blindness

3. Faceless Enemy

4. Purity

I am pretty sure this is the only place you'll find this for free. Enjoy.

Outworld - Outworld (2006)

Band: Outworld

Album: Outworld

Year: 2006

Genre: Progressive metal, power metal

Location: Houston, Texas

Bit rate: 320

1. Raise Hell

2. Riders

3. War Cry

4. Outworld

5. The Never

6. City of the Dead

7. Prelude to Madness

8. The Grey Tide

9. I, Thanatos

10. Polar

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. If you want some testament to how incredible this album is, check out the reviews of it on Metal Archives. I will upload their 2008 promo later tonight.

I won't be able to post as much the next couple of days as I will be moving back to college, but I should be able to get back to the regular frequency of posts within the next week.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Corelia - Treetops (2011)

Band: Corelia

Album: Nostalgia

Year: 2011

Genre: Progressive metal, djent

Location: San Diego, California

Bit rate: 128 (YouTube rip)

1. Treetops (feat. Spencer Sotelo)

So this is the first song these guys have released from their upcoming EP titled "Nostalgia." In my opinion, they are the most promising new band I have heard. Do yourself a favor and pre-order their EP if you like this. It's only $6, and it's going to be one of the best releases of the year. Have a listen.

Persefone - Core (2006)

Band: Persefone

Album: Core

Year: 2006

Genre: Progressive metal, metalcore

Location: Andorra

Bit rate: 320

1. Sanctuary (Light & Grief)

2. Underworld (The Fallen & The Butterfly)

3. Seed (Core & Persefone)

4. Train of Consequences (Megadeth cover)

This album is a little rough around the edges production wise, but it is still an awesome listen. The Megadeth cover is great, too.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Theory in Practice - Colonizing the Sun (2002)

Band: Theory in Practice

Album: Colonizing the Sun

Year: 2002

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: Sandivken, Sweden

Bit rate: 192

1. Colonizing the Sun

2. Conspiracy in Cloning

3. The Psychomantum Litany (Chronicle Excerpt)

4. Shapeshifter

5. Ashen Apocrypha

6. The Clockwork That Counts Aeons

7. Illuminati

8. Replica Dawn

9. This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us

Incredible keyboard/guitar interplay all over this album.

Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence (1999)

Band: Control Denied

Album: The Fragile Art of Existence

Year: 1999

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: Tampa, Florida

Bite rate: 320

1. Consumed

2. Breaking the Broken

3. Expect the Unexpected

4. What If...?

5. When the Link Becomes Mising

6. Believe

7. Cut Down

8. The Fragile Art of Existence

This was the last project that the god of death metal himself, Chuck Schuldiner, was involved in. I personally think that this is much better than anything Death ever put out. Chuck's crushing riffs, Shannon Hamm's sickeningly fast solos, with the bass wizardry of Steve DiGiorgio... this album is a must own for any true metal fan.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Dali's Dilemma - Manifesto for Futurism (1999)

Band: Dali's Dilemma

Album: Manifesto for Futurism

Year: 1999

Genre: Progressive metal

Location: San Jose, California

Bit rate: 320

1. Within a Stare

2. Miracles in Yesteryear

3. Despite the Waves

4. Whispers

5. Ashen Days

6. Andromeda Sunrise

7. This Time Around

8. Hills of Memory

9. Can't You See

10. Living in Fear