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The Greek quintet comes along with a straight rocking and thought-provoking debut	Modern, instrumental progmetal, highly technical yet atmospheric (@Tuonela Magazine)
The Austrian keyboard wizard takes us on a wonderful instrumental journey	A great concept album telling about darkness and light, a riddle and the answer
The Greek quartet gives us an insight into their vision for what this world is about	3rd solo album by Josh Dummer, offering highly technical yet melodic death metal
The Swedish retro rock band bring back the spirit of Woodstock in a wonderful, fresh way	The Italian mulit-instrumentalist invites us on a mesmerizing and exciting journey
Heading from 4 different US states, the powermetal band introduce themselves with a blast	An amazing first record, recommended for fans of traditional and prog metal
Mesmerizing & epic... Pt.2 of the guitar wizard's masterpiece (@TuonelaMagazine)	An album like the sea: sometimes wild and brutal, then again calm and mystical
Atmospheric instrumental post-rock dealing with loneliness, the suffering of our time	Virtuoso cyber metal shredding from Switzerland by guitar wizard Marco Puglisi
A modern, powerful debut album, ffo heavy, rhythm-driven yet melodious metal	This album comes along powerful and melodic, telling the story of the last surviving villain
After 12 years, the German melodic metal band is back with full power and a new album	Progressive melodeath from Alberta's longest-running active metal band
An emotional, experimental album about finding a way back from a gloomy state of mind	The Romanian band offers a stylistic melting pot from nu-metal to folklore and back
The new anthem of the "PWC" lore by Tasmanian stoner powermetal act Fierce Deity	The Finnish retro-prog act takes us on an atmospheric journey (@Tuonela Magazine)
On his 4th solo album, the legendary singer offers dark, heavy rock with some surprises	An instrumental progmetal EP about growing with life's challenges that everyone faces
The Canadian guitarist Dean Arnold delivers a strong melodeath album, impressing with his shredding	My aoty2021: Mindblowing progmetal with thought-provoking lyrics and thrilling guitar work
An album for fans of beautiful melodic, yet sophisticated prog, telling the imaginary story of Rhode	The second part of a dark story about duality and betrayal by the Greek audiovisual project
With their "cave" record, the psych / progrock trio presents a special album, visual and sound-wise	An atmospheric piece of finest instrumental prog by Vulkan's guitarist Christian Fredriksson
The concept behind this excellent album by the Lebanese progact is based on a true story	With release No4, the band offers honest, powerful music in best heavy metal manner
Dive into the Ukrainian mythology, told with symphonic melodeath by two powerful singers	The Finnish band comes up with an amazing debut packed with passionate, pure rock'n roll
With a mesmerizing 2nd album, the French proggers offer a conceptual counterpart to their debut	Progmetal at its finest from Sweden, dealing with personal, social and spiritual topics
Beautiful melodies alternate with sophisticated, yet accessible instrumental parts	With their third studio album, the Swedish proggers take the listener on an amazing and intense ride
On their second album, the quartet from Texas offers genre-bending, horror-themed metal	With a little bit of horror and a little bit of hope, the Swedish quintet offers dark, melodic metal
A sci-fi progmetal project, inviting the listener on a wild ride with highly technical guitar playing	Powerful debut EP by this Canadian quintet: serious musicianship meets mind blowing vocals
Three outstanding, instrumental debuts in an incredible variety: groovy, virtuoso, experimental	Melodeath from Singapore, telling about events that took place in the 18th century in Bavaria
On their second album, the Greek quintet offers groovy, heavy rock with thoughtful lyrics	With their 5th album, the Greek powermetal band celebrates 10 years of making music together
Three instrumental releases for fans of sophisticated guitar playing, offering a wide variety of styles	On their 2nd EP, the Canadian death metal band melts technical precision with groove and melodies
Melodic epicness, mixed with lots of shredding and a good pinch of Viking madness	The Italian quintet wanders between metalcore, melodeath, and progmetal
Inspired by natural forces, they take the listeners on a journey through real and rough emotions	An album like a ray of sunlight - Amazing AOR from Sweden with some musical surprises
A multi-national record, with lyrics inspired by the events of a year that turned our world upside down	Neoclassical prog / powermetal from Chile. Fast, virtuoso, melodic - Hear their Silent Call
ULTHIMA from Finland introduce themselves with a solid melodeath debut (@Tuonela Magazine)	Guitar wizard Manuel Barbará invites the listeners to experience his instrumental sound worlds
My aoty2018: An album as unique as its title, progmetal at its finest from Greece	Three instrumental EP's for fans of virtuoso guitar playing, all telling their very own stories
Excellent first effort with seven mainly instrumental songs, progmetal from the US at its finest	From progrock to death metal and back. Jump on this amazing musical trip through space
The trio delivers energetic songs, wandering between party-thrash and more serious topics	How about some thrash/groove metal from Mumbai? Here we go with the debut of BLOODKILL
EPHEMERALD offer epic symphonic death metal straight from their hearts (@Tuonela Magazine)	On this debut album, MARIOS POLITIS tells his story with an amazing mix of rock, blues and folk
My aoty2020: A prog masterpiece with countless musical as well as emotional turns and turns	Passionate prog / powermetal with symphonic elements, great melodies, and varied songwriting
Fantasy fan? Dive into this colourful, symphonic journey across the universe to a land called XIA.	Great debut album by this powermetal quintet from Greece, 22 years after their formation
An emotional, progressive concept album about a man suffering with Alzheimer's Disease	With Duality, DEFECTO prove that they're still musically untamed (@Tuonela Magazine)
Impressive debut of a talented, young keyboarder from Australia, playing modern progmetal	Great progmetal from Canada, take a seat and enjoy the ride (@Tuonela Magazine)
An impressive concept album, that tells the story of man who is searching for enlightenment	Amazing debut, dealing with a man's self-destruction in modern society (@Tuonela Magazine)
My aoty2019: Expressive debut with great riffs, thought provoking lyrics and a drummer on fire	Australian instrumental cyber metal, with a "Mad Max meets Resident Evil" inspired story
Instrumental progressive (tech-death) metal, for fans of sophisticated guitar playing	This new metal duo invites you to join them on a Viking journey, steeped in a deep and dark lore
Melodeath with expressive vocals, varied songwriting, and a pinch of Viking madness	Swedish heavy progrock with mesmerizing melodies, great rhythmic, and thoughtful lyrics
Familiar with KILGORE and their singer Jay Berndt? Here is some new heavy Rock'n Roll with him	Impressive debut album from this Finish quintet, thrash / death metal (@Tuonela Magazine)
Humorous quintet, offering catchy, modern progmetal, with djent driven rhythmic, and clean vocals.	Melodic powermetal with epic keyboard sounds and catchy melodies (@Tuonela Magazine)
Noora Louhimo takes the listener on a very personal journey (@Tuonela Magazine)	Melodeath project, telling the story of a man who is forced to take the dark path

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