It has been some time since a genuine, new Progressive Metal piece hit our review pipe. A few remarkable records came our way last year, and that was a good sign. Yet with the departure of some big names1 over the years, things got a little bleaker.
But for the most challenging category in prog, the conceptualists and real storytellers, there was almost no movement. True, acts such as Ayreon and the rest of Arjen Lucassen’s gaggle of happy misfits still exist. But the man behind this whole construct ain’t no fresh young tiger anymore, either.
The RMR crew … [...] Click to raid more!