Vanden Plas - Christ 0 (2006) and The Seraphic Clockwork(2010) and Chronicles Of The Immortals: Netherworld II(2015)

Cheers My friends. Today I decided to bring a band I am listening again on this days, contrarily to other bands I don't know their albums through so I will instead post my favourite songs from what I know from them, this is a Big return to Progressive metal posts.

I will show you two songs the first one has a title a lot of people will find it familiar as it has the same name as one of from Pink Floyd hits, "Wish you were here", However this as too little to do  with Pink Floyd apart the progressive thing. I love everything in this song from the vocalists voice to the way the music evolves from start to beginning. A Special Thumbs up to the album cover Which I think is amazing.

The other song is called "Holes In The Sky" is less melodic than the other one but the progressive style remains I think more to what I would expect in some of the Threshold songs with Damian Wilson. I really enjoy it.

The last one is one of my recently found songs from them, called "Stone Roses Edge", Seems more closer to the first song with more electric elements with some of Speed and power metal elements as well

Earthside - A Dream In Static(2015)

Today I bring you something new I found last year, but only now could hear properly. Earthside. This USA band has some of the nicest things a progressive sound nowadays must have.
The first song I'm showing you is Mob Mentality feat. Lajon Witherspoon & MSSO(Moscow Studio Symphony Orchestra). The voice of Lajon from Sevendust is simply amazing, the cadence of his voice, with the nuances of the Ochestra are amazing

The second song i'm sharing with you is the homonymous song of the album A dream in Static feat Daniel Tompkins(Ex-TesseracT)

Lonely robot - Please Come Home (2015) part 2

I already talked about this album, but at that time I only gave attention to the official song of the album, "The Boy in the Radio"

Now finally after hearing carefully the album, I can't pass without showing you some of their other amazing songs, first the second song of the album, "God Vs Man" which talks about the god complex over the god itself

Then the song, "Are We Copies"

And Finally humans Being, hope you enjoy them as much as I do today

Exxiles - Oblivion(2015)

Today I brought you a song from a metal band but with a romantic touch, a version from the song Llorona from Chavela Vargas. Discovered this song pretty recently but this version already amuses me. Check it out.

Dance of The Mourning Child - The Fire Maple (2015)

Today I bring you something I find outstanding, once I shared with you Pyramaze, and there I told you Jonah is one of my favourite keyboarders around there. Here is the proof, Dance of The Mourning Child is his solo project. Where we can see him in full splendour. This song really brings the strength and fury of Winter. Is amazing.

Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine (2015)

Today I bring you one of the great bands from the progressive Rock, Riverside. I'm hearing riverside since a while back, but this last album was just perfect for me full of melody. And started hearing it even more after hearing Piotr Kozieradzki passed away. For this album Love, Fear and the Time Machine I leave you Discard your Fear, just a great song. Enjoy

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.

Antimatter 2nd part - Judas Table (2015)

Recently I participated in a web music contest in a forum I'm in and decided to use Antimatter, sadly during the Semi-Finals, Prophecy decided to put the video private and I lost needing to recur to an awful live video, between other awful live videos taken with toasters lol from the back of the room, full of zoom

So back to what it matters, Judas Table gives us a life lesson, how many might have been using you till today, how you value someone who doesn't deserve, imagine you being at table with some friends/family and all of them stab you in the back... well that's the meaning of the album name

From start Black Eyed Man, this song talks about how some peoples lie constantly to your face without knowing you know they are lying, and as they ignore it they continue lying to you, then if they think they can go ahead with lying to your face, what else are they doing in your back? be carefull

Lastly Stillborn Empires, How some people problems arrive from birth and how they grew, and how that influences their lives, the part "It was a business doing pleasure with you" says how a sex act is only a business doing such things inverting the usual saying

Metalwings - Crying of The sun 2015

As I want you to have time to listen properly the last three albums I showed you, I decided to go a bit softer this Wednesday, before posting some stronger stuff in the next weeks. So on this Purpose, i give you Metalwings from Bulgaria, another different country from the regular metal ones, I wnat this Blog not only to be a stream to show you some stuff that might be passing you by, but also to be kind of a musical trip around the world, visiting culturally as many countries as possible.
Never before Metalwings have I found a Lead vocalist being the Violonist also, it resembles me a bit of Ava Inferi. Check it out with a interesting violin solo

Nhor - Momenta Quintae Essentiae (late 2015)

Hello my musical friends. I hope 2016 has begun has joyfully as possible.
I know I promised 3 bands, I haven't forget them, but Suddenly a new album appeared that instantly caught my attention. The new album from Nhor is something beyond exceptional, a mix between Progressive, classical and doom metal, most of the songs are just so beautiful which make me lack on adjectives to characterize it.

Nhor - Momenta Quintae Essentiae

So with no more time to be wasted I leave you with two songs from this album
First a small teaser

Than let yourself flow in the peacefulness of this song

This Wednesday, probably, I may not post anything cause I need time to prepare the coming posts properly, two of the bands I mentioned will be by parts again. From next Saturday until late February at least, I think I may be able to keep a good wave of posts. So stay tuned. And if you liked Nhor you can be sure I will comeback later once I hear more from past albums or some of the other songs appear.

Pyramaze 3rd Part - Desciples of The sun

After 2008's album Immortal, Matt Barlow as expected quitted, after a hiatus, Urban Breed from Bloodbound and Tad Morose was announced as the new vocalist. But the hesitation continued.
Soon It was announced their rhythmic guitarist quitted the band, Michael Kammeyer. Soon we understood Pyramaze was closer to end than to return with a new album

Terje Haroy

Jacob Hansen

That was when Jacob Hansen(producer of a lot of bands, and ex-Anubis Gate) was announced to replace Michael on Guitars and in 2014
Terje Haroy was anounced has the new vocalist


In 2015 a new album was announced Disciples Of the Sun, here the progressive metal style is evident, some rhythm and pace changes, all fits on this style now







Their first Song self-entitled from the album, Disciples of The sun

But my favourite ones are Battle of Paridas

And Back for More

I can't say yet much about this album, but it's not as strong as the other two, but is really enjoyable.

Out of metal, elements of progressive

At the time I was written my previous Post I found an addictive song/band. It isn't metal but has some elements of progressive rock, we can say some evolution in sound, the presence of the guitars, is not all the music in progressive, but has several elements.

The band is called Lonely Robot, check their new official video for the new album "Please Come Home", released on February, 2015. Lonely Robot is a project of John Mitchell from UK

Lyrics
He was a small boy, lived on the outside of the world you know
Stared at a ceiling, hollow of feeling, no real place to go
People would speak to him, words that were missing, made him feel apart
So his father bought him a metal companion, a voice that spoke afar

(Chorus)
So why did you go? You made it clear, you had no fear
You’re the boy in the radio
So why did you go? We fought these tears, we waited years
For the boy in the radio, the boy in the radio

Ever so slowly, it spoke to his soul and he started to feel alive
Out of the static and into the attic, came feeling from the wires
And turning the dial, he wished for a while that he could be there too
A valve or resistor he could call sister, a friend he could hold on to

(Chorus)
No more tears, living fears
No more tears now

Symphony X - new album released(Underworld) and some new discovered songs from (Iconoclast)

My last post was precisely about Symphony X, so what a better way to restart than with symphony X new material?
 Well there are Two Reasons, to which I decided to bring back Symphony X so soon after my post in late 2014, The first one and most important to me, they are back in Portugal, Lisbon, on February 28, 2016 and finally a good chance to hear them live, only dependent of some logistic problems, I went recently to 4 concerts and always buying something in the merchandising becomes expensive, but so worthy
The second good reason is the new album Underworld

 I haven't heard yet the new album as a whole, I like to hear the albums with ease to detect all there is to detect and because a lot of albums don't enter in our minds at the first audition, so I have so much to hear in these days, that I have to catch an opportunity.
I already heard several times the first lyric video for this album Nevermore, It makes me remember the power on Set the World on fire, and knowing Russel Allen was in a parallel project called Adrenaline Mob, that sound a bit alike this nevermore, A strong and powerful song, check it

Here it is another lyric video, lyric videos are a common thing now, they understood they promote better a song than just the music, another song from Underworld, this song is musically near the sound of When All is Lost, Candelight Fantasia, I love bands wich can produce a wide range of emotions in songs, this one is called Without You

I talked about Adrenaline Mob, a side project from Russel Allen, check this one to, maybe some of you will enjoy it, maybe even more than Symphony X.

 At last I am going to share another song from Iconoclast That I am becoming addicted, because of the lyrics, music, and all the musical environment around, the song is called, Electric Messiah, being a fan more of metal guitars than of drums as a lot of people I know, a messiah that's electric, almost like the guitar as the messiah, good connection