Opeth 1st part - Still Life(1999) and Blackwater Park (2001)

Today I bring you one of the biggest bands in progressive metal, after making the presentation with Storm Corrosion, now I bring you the main band from Mikael Akerfeldt, Opeth.
Their sound until recently derivated between some heavier and some melodic sounds. , I skipped some of the very early albums, but check them, it's really good, I just have to adjust the time I have.

From Still Life I chose a song called Face of Melinda, It make us think about several stuff, and is stupendously well made

I choose those albums from their early fase for having some of my favourite songs
From Blackwater Park I leave you the two Patterns in the Ivy parts, one of which, the first one is instrumental, this two songs are beautifully made

 

 

ProgCenter - Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion 2012

Greetings my friends from metal, from progressive metal or rock or just music fans in general, welcome
Today I bring you a mix of two wonderful worlds, more properly the genius of Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree and several other projects, and the voice and musical quality of Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth. What arrives from here is what one could expect if we merged Porcupine Tree or some Steven Wilson's solo album sound and we mixed it with Opeth more in doom/progressive sound. What result is a really heavy atmosphere of immense sounds and pleasures.
I live you the song which they made an excellent animated movie to, you can sense what is sang along the music, Drag Ropes

 

This is my way to introduce the world of Opeth, which will be the next band I will talk about, what kind of progressive metal would I be without mention Opeth? for  this I once again posted something on Wednesday. Saturday the first part of Opeth Post.

Borknagar - Winter Thrice (2016)

Today I bring you something a bit different, I stumble upon this album almost by accident, somewhere between progressive metal and some heavier sounds, for me in the exact same measure for it to turn from amazing to a masterpiece of excellence.
The first song it first we doubt what it's worth but then we realise it's a great one

However, their official video song for this album is even more amazing, with the same name as the album Winter Thrice we feel the strength of the Winter it's cold ways. I'm addicted to this song.

Sorry but probably in the next times I won't be able to make two posts a week as before, in other way it's also good to give you time to hear the things I post properly with no rush at all. Only when I have a unique song to show you I will share with you at a Wednesday. See you around next Saturday

ProgCenter - Myrath - Legacy 2016

Hello fellows which can't stay without hearing new things, today I bring to you the new album of a band I talked already here, Myrath. The new album had a crowd-funding to what enable the band to do a video(for me it turned out a bit lame in some points, but the idea is interesting remembering Prince of Persia theme.
The first song is the official video released for the new album, Believer, there we see clearly a meshup between occidental and more traditional sounds

However is the last released one which attracts me more, cause not only the progressive is present with a subtle touch, all the sound typical from middle east metal is also there. check it out, Nobody's Lives

PowerMetal - Leverage - Circus Colossus 2009

Yeah it's right, finally a post in a Wednesday, the reason is simple, to make the transition between progressive bands I always try to post something different so in the next progressive band you will be more ready to hear it properly. So Today I bring you Leverage from Finland, this band is for me, in sound, what we can expect coming form power heavy metal, a song of emotion, meaning. This one talks about being stuck to someone, someone we love, someone we thought we loved but the fact is we are stuck in that person. as the song says:

 The wolf's growling in my soul
Screaming let me out

From Circus Colossus, Wolf and the Moon, can't say if the album is good or not as I never heard the album as a whole, but this song is surely great to hear if you're in power metal

ProgCenter - Leprous 3rd part - The congregation 2015

Last year, Leprous released a masterpiece, even more inside progressive metal, with some really heavy moments in some of the songs, but the sound even more refined than in The Cloak never hesitating in experiment new things and new sonorities.
let's start with a strong song not only musically but also lyrically, the Slave, it's open to interpretation but for me is clearly a warning to new slavery system we have today, we have the screaming part near the end which fits a moment of despair in the lyrics

The next song I am going to show you is a live version, but so strong, Rewind, I adore this song in so many ways. The need to turn ourselves free, this one filmed by me, it's not that well filmed but you can hear the whole song, sorry for the column ressonance, but it was a bit to close

The third song is called Down, having some similarities with some songs of Coal, it evolues in a clearly distinctive way, this one for me talks about the need to reassure ourselves when everyone tries to put us down. Lyrics that seem simple say so much. as it says

Off the edge
I have been thrown
Down

Vanished
All that I've known
Down

the last song is my favourite from Leprous, it's called moon we almost feel what this moon is feeling towards the song, never a Witcher background made so much sense as in here.

With this I end for now my Leprous post, hope the waiting was worth it, it's not needed to say this is my favourite album from Leprous, and I own the three of them it's in my mobile phone some of the songs from this album

Here are some of the bands I will talk about in a recent future
Amorphis, Circus Maximus, Sabaton, Opeth, will talk once again about Myrath and there are also another cool things I'm hearing which I will share with you. see you around next Saturday.