Band Thinking Plague
Info: USA
Info: Decline And Fall
Style: RIO/Avant-Prog
Years: 2011
Info: Lossless/WavPack (image+.cue,scans)
Rip By: tatuk
Info: 273 Mb

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This group of five self-taught musicians will certainly capture the attention of OZRIC TENTACLES fans. Their music is loaded with textures and colours that leave most space rock bands sounding like a sample machine stuck in loop mode. It's actually going somewhere: on all of their albums, the tracks evolve continuously, with the music occasionally returning to specific themes but with something new each time. Overall, their material sounds like a less guitar-dominated OZRIC and without the heavy techno influence.

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Band Exises
Info: Exises
Style: Progressive Metal
Years: 1986
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 87 Mb
Info: Netherlands

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Band Evil Wings
Info: Colors Of The New World
Style: Progressive Metal
Years: 1999
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 149 Mb
Info: Italy

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Band Supersior
Info: Germany
Info: Ultima Ratio
Style: Progressive Metal
Years: 2002
Info: Lossless/FLAC (image+.cue, scans)
Rip By: qazaqazaq666
Info: 527 Mb

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Band Voo Noturno
Info: Welcome To The Real World
Years: 2012
Style: Progressive Rock
Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbps
Info: Brazil
Time: Independente
????? Tracklist: 64:59
Info: 147 Mb

Like a: Radiohead; Pink Floyd.

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Band Flying Circus
Info: Germany
Info: Back & Forth 2CD
Style: Heavy Prog/Eclectic Rock/Classic Rock
Years: 2010
Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbps
Rip By: Blogis999
Info: 310 ?b

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You might have noticed that I have a routine of genre-tagging bands right in the first paragraph of a review I'm writing, in case my readers aren't bored enough to go through 300 words describing an album which is not of interest to them. Well, this time you'll just have to read the review, because this stuff is hard to pigeonhole.

Prominent bass, prominent drums (I quit counting around the sixth drum solo), a guitar player channeling every (positive) cliché in metal guitar, from riffs and guitarmonies laden with Maiden-worship to classic shredding, short appearances of synths/piano and a singer with a gentle, melodious approach take you on a journey through heavy, prog, thrash, and Opethian - or more precisely, Damnation-esque - ballads. Random cameos of other (metal and non-metal) subgenres find their place here as well. The genre-hopping doesn't take place within songs themselves - each (long!) song is mostly dedicated to one particular "style".

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Band Superior
Info: Germany
Info: Ultra-Live
Style: Progressive/Heavy Metal
Years: 2004
Info: Lossless/Wavpack (image+.cue, scans)
Rip By: qazaqazaq666
Info: 488 Mb + 494 Mb

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Though I've had listening experience with France's Spheric Universe Experience and their 2009 release Unreal, I passed it off to my son to review. However, I'm not entirely sure why. Perhaps, it's because, as he said, the variation between songs was suspect.

I'm not sure I would draw the same conclusion with this year's The New Eve. This is definitely a progressive metal album, notable on the first three songs at the start, and elsewhere. Yet listening to Never Heal and The Day I Died, I think I hear some modern alternative rock undercurrents. If anything has a modern metal feel it's Self Abuse with a touch of growling vocals. But that could simply be me searching hard for the dissimilarity between arrangements. If you're not careful, the riffage will run together, which is the exact thing that tripped up my son three years ago.

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Band Vanden Plas
Info: Germany
Info: AcCult
Style: Progressive Metal
Years: 1996
Info: Lossless/FLAC (image+.cue, scans)
Rip By: yura77
Info: 294 ?b

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Band Tibet
Info: Germany
Info: Tibet
Style: Progressive/Art Rock
Years: 1978 (1994/2005)
Info: Lossless/FLAC (image+.cue, scans)
Rip By: hatross01
Info: 257 ?b

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Stealing Axion presents an interesting case study in just what exactly is meant by the term “progressive” with the band’s debut full-length “Moments.” Does combining different styles make a band progressive? Is it throwing in ‘70s rock vibes, or is it meshing clean and harsh repeatedly? Is djent the new prog? “Moments” ends up an album that will likely have many die-hard supporters, but just as many die-hard detractors, as it loses its own identity in the quest to be “progressive metal.”

This is an album that is amazing on a strictly musical and technical proficiency level, but overall is still a bit of an aimless mess. The style and atmosphere changes at the drop of a hat, and each song is massively different from any other. There’s power metal, death metal, a whole lot of Meshuggah worship, and yes, even some mallcore from time to time. Opener “Mirage of Hope” has a quasi-hardcore vibe, along with breakdowns and electronic elements. “Sleepless” starts out with a creepy mix of black and death, while “It’s Too Late Now” drops the metal and plunges into soft and clean territory.

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