I don't really recall how I came across One Hundred Thousand's inaugural album The Forms in Which They Appear, but I can say that I've somehow never seen this band get the recognition it deserves in metal media. That first LP, released five years ago, was a strong prog piece, with the towering track "Type … Continue reading Review: One Hundred Thousand – Zodiac
Tag: Prog
Top Albums 2020 – #1
Original article here. This was a choice that emerged out of much deliberation. There were a number of factors telling me not to pick this for the number one spot - Rise Radiant is certainly not my favorite, or even among the top end of my ranking of Caligula's Horse's (what an awkward possessive) discography; … Continue reading Top Albums 2020 – #1
Top Albums 2020 – #8
Original article here. Talking about Haken's Virus in my initial short review, I said that I likely wouldn't be coming back to it very often, citing desultory songwriting - ranging too far into the realms of prog music - and the particularly esoteric approach to concept-album that this band delivers, which creates quite the steep … Continue reading Top Albums 2020 – #8
Top Albums 2020: #10
I haven't written as many reviews as I'd have liked in the past year, and this best-of list is coming in decidedly late, but here we are, so let's begin (and hopefully this year will be a better one on a number of fronts). It's almost surprising that Impulse Voices is only Plini's sophomore album … Continue reading Top Albums 2020: #10
Albums I’ve Missed – Summer 2020
It's been a few months since I've sat down to write a review. I believe my last was the new Caligula's Horse project, which was probably the highlight of that month for me. During that time, I listened to a miscellany of albums, including several new ones, including several of those as a subset of … Continue reading Albums I’ve Missed – Summer 2020
Review: Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radiant
I've seen Caligula's Horse being toted as a new band to watch in prog music, and that surprised me. I would have thought that 2017's In Contact or even possibly 2015's Bloom would have established the group quite solidly in the scene. The musicianship has always been stellar - in my opinion, even going back … Continue reading Review: Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radiant
Top Albums 2019: #1
Here we are. I didn't review this when it came out, but I was always relatively certain that I'd get around to talking about it here eventually on the top ten list, because it was always unequivocally that good. Mudoo Ra is the fourth album of a planned five in the series From Windfall to … Continue reading Top Albums 2019: #1
Top Albums 2019: Runners Up
There are quite I few to discuss here. Let's get into it. They'll be in alphabetical order, rather than ranked in terms of my enjoyment (that'd be a hell of a lot of work). Alaskan Tapes - Views From Sixteen Stories The starkness of the album art is telling. Views From Sixteen Stories is the … Continue reading Top Albums 2019: Runners Up
Top Albums 2019: #3
Whitechapel - The Valley As I attest in my original review of this record, I was very impressed by Whitechapel's return to form after what seemed to be a downward decline with the somewhat awkward Our Endless War and then the mostly brittle Mark of the Blade, which did anything but set in stone the … Continue reading Top Albums 2019: #3
Top Albums 2019: #6
In this year's spring, I was just getting into After the Burial, doing my usual process of listening through the entire discography from start to end before coming back to what stood out to me initially, so I didn't review Evergreen, their newest release, when it came out, feeling that I lacked the context to … Continue reading Top Albums 2019: #6
Sonic Thorns 