Progressive elements - Industrial/Gothic Metal - Deathstars - Night Electric Night(2009) and The Perfect Cult(2014)

Sorry for the long Silence. Sometimes the strength to write is not much, and i'm in a time of my life of discovering some new stuff in music and on my professional life.

But today I BRing you the Swedish band Deathstars.

Don't expect on Deathstars the kinf of sound from Rammstein, Turmion Kätilot or sonorities near Static-X. Deathstars know how to mix good old industrial, with gothic elements and even with some progressive(some guitar weight present, good rifs) and black metal elements. However despite all that mix, we have also another important element, it's maybe the best band to mix metal and electronical elements without making it too much. If you have an eclectic taste and you are looking for something different, than Deathstars is what you're looking for. I first met Deathstars in Night Electric Night, Death Dies Hard song and became totally addicted to deathstars sound, some mystic sound with somewhat godly environment is amazing. Don't get stuck in this album check the previous ones, has there is also talent and well made songs.
The band is formed by:

• Andreas "Whiplasher Bernadotte" Bergh (b. May 2, 1977) – lead vocals
• Emil "Nightmare Industries" Nödtveidt (b. November 11, 1976) – lead guitar, keyboards
• Jonas "Skinny Disco" Kangur (b. July 29, 1979) – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Oscar "Vice" Leander (b. February 5, 1990) - drums

This year they released the new album Perfect Cult, in June. The sound is more mature maybe some naivety that was left was substituted with that mature song. The song All the devil's toys are worth listening.
So the songs I will share with you today are official video from Death Dies hard and the video, also official, of All the Devil's Toys

PostMetal Prog Metal - Blut Aus Nord - 777 – Cosmosophy

Continuing in France Let's talk about great band, Blut Aus Nord

Blut Aus Nord are clearly heavier than Alcest, their sound is not so crystalline is really more harsh, sometimes more violent, but it's still amazing. When you start listening them, your mind starts floating, and one finds oneself Daydreaming. You get your mind lulled by their sound. you even get sad when it ends.

The band members are:
Vindsval - vocals, guitar (also in: Children of Maani, The Eye) 
W.D. Feld - drums, electronics, keyboards 
GhÖst - bass guitar


It's clearly a post metal sound with progressive elements not excluding some black and doom metal influences, check it out, I leave you "Epitome XVIII" from Cosmosophy

PostMetal/Prog-Rock Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme (2012)

Today I bring you a Enormous French band, Alcest

This is a very special band, all how know what post-metal or post-rock is, may already have a hint of what is this band about. But saying they are post metal is really not enough, cause here we add the mystic sound of Post.Metal to a progressive evolution in the musics, a good cadence, then with some dark ambience. In all of this they only have two members maybe the most important one Neige - lead vocals, guitars, keyboards (2000–present), drums (2000-2009), bass (2001–present) and Winterhalter on drums, percussion (2009–present).

Clearly the sound is pure, crystalline, don't expcet to hear some growl or screaming here, but you can expect to hear guitar and bass riffs or vocals that are true masterpieces.

This french band is clearly one of the best ones in this kind of sound, a lot of friends from all around metal, with Blut aus Nord and Les Discrets they are three bands that are worth-hearing

I Leave you with Autres Temps from Les Voyages de L'Âme from 2012.

ProgCenter Andrew MacDermott - Yargos - To Be or Not to Be

Hi folks. Today I will post about the band I mentioned that had a singer who I already talked about before. That Band is Yargos.

The most known material of this band is from 2005, with the album To Be or Not to Be. Here as he did in Threshold in all the albums he appeared (Critical mass, Dead Reckoning, Subsurface, Hypothetical and Clone, is Andrew MacDermott that is well noticed. The band sound is a good mix between progressive metal environment and some retro sounds, some sound that resembles the early 90's/late 80's in metal and rock. The guitar is really present, some speed up in some parts, chorus more elaborated, check it out.

Here I leave you with The Guilded Cage:

Next post will be about a black metal/progressive metal band from Sweden, and then I will pass a bit out of metal to show you a good French band, stay tuned of Progressively Metal and around