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Whitby, Ontario’s favorite sons of progressive metal, Protest the Hero, tore through Philadelphia’s Trocadero Theater with support from Periphery, Jeff…Read More

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN have announced the initial tour routing for their North American Tour This November with MASTODON and…Read More

Progressive instrumentalists Animals As Leaders have announced the release date for their second full-length endeavor, “Weightless.” The album will be…Read More

North Korea (Ex-Envy on The Coast, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Rivalry) stopped by the Barbary on July 10, 2011 with Sainthood Reps and New Jersey’s Bamboo Houses. Full photo gallery is up! Enjoy

California Guitar Trio, the progressive/acoustic/experimental internationally-known group are set to tour parts of the east and west coast, as well as play a date in Canada this summer. This is on the heels of their release Andromeda, the trio’s first-ever vinyl release and first album with all-original material.

Massachusetts’ post-hardcore heroes Cave In, have just dropped a brand new song, “Sing My Loves,” which will be featured on the band’s forthcoming album White Silence, hitting streets May 24, 2011 via Hydra Head Records.

Exclusive interview with Obscura vocalist and guitarist Steffen Kummerer, with an in-depth look into the making of the band’s epic forthcoming album, Omnivium, set to hit streets March 29 via Relapse Records.

Bert Lams, Paul Richards, and Hideyo Moriya have been going strong for over 19 years and will surprise very few with Andromeda as this is California Guitar Trio‘s first record to feature absolutely no covers, and the original works are stacked with a slew of improvisational pieces.

New Jersey’s own prog-metal, jazz-influenced, mathy-grind practitioners Dillinger Escape Plan were recently featured on BBC’s Rock Show with Daniel P…Read More

The reason Control Denied’s 1999 album The Fragile Art of Existence sounds so familiar is because it is exactly such. Familiar. Composed of highly skilled members of Death, Iced Earth and Testament, among others, the late Chuck Schuldiner-led fringe supergroup is fairly standard progressive metal that with an element of grit.

18 years deep in the shred game, Cephalic Carnage’s music is still exciting, challenging, and most importantly, fun. “Why?” “How?” You ask? Check out this new review of Misled By Certainty coming out on Relapse Records Aug 31.