Prog Metal

🟢 An absolutely dense tornado of brutality.

- Everything Is Noise

🟢 fiery display of technicality and musicianship, and one of the better melodically-infused technical death metal albums to be released this year.

- The Progressive Subway

🟢 What emerges is a listening space where continuity is constantly renegotiated rather than stabilized. Instead of building permanent structures, the album constructs short-lived systems—grooves, tremolo cycles, harmonic cells—and dismantles them before they can settle. As a result, the listener’s focus shifts away from structural climaxes toward transitional moments, where drums, guitars, and vocals are not in a fixed state of agreement, but are continuously repositioned as different interpretations of time and direction within the same compressed framework.

- Pits of Metal

🟢 Fantastically well written, intense and astonishing. The amount of material they inject into any given song is staggering.

- The Razor's Edge

🔴 The production proves a mixed bag, allowing the guitars and vocals to shine at the expense of the drums, which sometimes cut through but often become muddled during furious blasts, obscuring the pop of robust drum tones I loved on the debut.

- Angry Metal Guy

🔴 The production is fairly uneven. At times the riffs and drums feel deeply buried in the murk, and much of the low end heft is lost, lessening the impact.

- The Metal Dispatch 📊 Ratings: Dead Rhetoric: 9 Pits of Metal: 8.5 The Metal Dispatch: 7.5 The Progressive Subway: 7.5 Headbanging Moose: 7 Angry Metal Guy: 5 🟢 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞: 7.4

◖ Band: Goreworm ◖ Album: Miasmic Solitude ◖ Origin: Canada 🇨🇦 ◖ Released: 12 June 2026 ◖ Genre: Progressive/Technical Death Metal ◖ Recommended Tracks: ALL OF THEM because it rips hard ◖ For Fans Of:  - Symbolik - Gorod - Beyond Creation - The Black Dahlia Murder 🔗 Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube -------------------------- - 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙜 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡 -

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🟢 Loneshore have the perfect album for all the progressive/post-metal castaways out there, full of emotion, melody, and purpose.

- Everything Is Noise

🟢 Nothing Left to Deconstruct waters the genre’s roots while planting a few fresh ideas. It’s not an act of post-metal revival, just a respectable bit of work to ensure it stays alive.

- Your Last Rites

🟡 The main deficiencies holding back Nothing Left to Deconstruct are a lack of decisive conclusions and a bit of bloat. As relaxing as Nothing Left to Deconstruct is overall, most of its individual songs last longer than their contents can support. The majority hover around the 8-minute mark, and all of these have lengthy outros that don’t add much.

📊 6/10 - Angry Metal Guy

🟡 Where Loneshore falter is primarily in the production, which weakens the record somewhat. Tracks like “Straylight” demonstrate an odd airlessness to an album that should be eminently atmospheric, and that lack of ambience—a bed for the instruments to lie in which often clothes post-metal—is notable. The lack of a strong low end also impacts the band’s ability to bite; riffs that should be seismically heavy merely trudge around. Nothing Left to Deconstruct is an overall solid work, but it struggles to transcend the confines of the studio and attain the cinematic heft that it sorely needs.

📊 6/10 - The Progressive Subway

◖ Band: Loneshore ◖ Album: Nothing Left to Deconstruct ◖ Origin: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷 ◖ Released: 19 May 2026 ◖ Genre: Progressive Post Metal, Progressive Death/Doom Metal ◖ Recommended Tracks: - To Stride the Black Earth - Birth of a Mountain - Of Lost Waters ◖ For Fans Of:  - The Ocean - Oceans of Slumber - Amenra - Swallow the Sun - Lascaille's Shroud - Katatonia 🔗 Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube -------------------------- - 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙜 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡 -

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🟢 Outstanding, magnificent and intense!

- Dead Rhetoric

🟢 Intelligent, unpredictable and soulful.

- Metal Temple

🟢 Don’t let the monochromatic album art fool you; Electric Sun Defence paints with a wide array of aural hues. The band shows their versatility by wielding both emotive melody and crushing ferocity. Estuary’s standout strength is the masterful buildup and discharge of tension.

- Angry Metal Guy

🟢 Across 10 tracks and roughly 50 minutes, the album never drags, it’s well‑paced, dynamic, and full of shifting textures and tempos, and I’ve had no issues spinning it back to back. Estuary is at it's best in the places where the dirty, progressive metal marries perfectly within the doomy post-metal soundscape. While each track on Estuary takes on its own personality, the hypoxic motifs steadily loom over the album, casting a powerfully dark atmosphere onto an already highly immersive record.

- The Progressive Subway 📊 Ratings: Metal Temple: 10 🔥 Dead Rhetoric: 9 Metal Addiction: 9 Metal Epidemic: 9 Angry Metal Guy: 8 Metal Bite: 7.8 The Progressive Subway: 7.5 Heavy Music HQ: 7 🟢 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞: 8.4

◖ Band: Electric Sun Defence ◖ Album: Estuary ◖ Origin: Glasgow, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ◖ Released: 8 May 2026 ◖ Genre: Progressive Post Metal ◖ Recommended Tracks: Yes. ◖ For Fans Of: - The Ocean - Dvne - Mastodon - Psychonaut - Inter Arma 🔗 Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube -------------------------- - 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙜 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡 -

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