Pryapisme - Hyperblast Super Collider

Band: Pryapisme

Album: Hyperblast Super Collider

Country: France

Release date: April 1, 2013

Label: Apathia Records

Genre: Avantgarde Metal, Fusion, Computer Music, Balkan

Existed since: 2000

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Ive tried to wrap my mind around the fusion of the different genres the trio behind Pryapisme has put into their music. The main genres i senses is balkan style, electronica, computer game music, speed/industrial metal and experimental jazz. Usually when artists place so many different genre in their music, the results often tends to be confused n choppy, while here they have managed to get a red line of melodies through the songs, despite all the genres mixed together. It does remind me somewhat of their fellow french fusion artist, Igorrr.

Album musicians:

Nicolas Sénac - guitars, bass, synths
Benjamin Bardiaux - keyboards
Aymeric Thomas - drums, clarinet, machines

Tracklist:

1. Un druide est giboyeux lorsqu'il se prend pour un neutrino
2. Boudin blanc et blanc boudin
3. Random Jean Vigo
4. La notion de chiralité de spin et d'oscillation de saveur des particules supersymetriques definissant un champs scalaire lors d'une transition de conifold en cosmologie branaire dans un modele ekpyrotique
5. Lesbian bordello
6. J'ai envie de te claquer
7. Cochenille, membrane et volcanologie
8. Jon-bon-jon-boutros-boutros-boutros-bovi-miou-miou
9. Je suis venu, j'ai vu, j'ai sangouinu
10. La nuit sur le mont-chauvelu (Mussorgsky cover)

Released records:
Rococo Holocaust, 2010

Tesseract - Altered State

Band: Tesseract

Album: Altered State

Country: UK

Release date: May 27, 2013

Label: Century Media Records

Genre: Progressive Metal, Math Metal, Djent

Existed since: 2003

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This is a very good runner-up for their debut album, where they continue to develop their own djenty sound. Daniel Tompskins replacer Ashe O'Hara, who joined the band last year, does an excellent job behind the microphone.

Recommended.

Album musicians:

Acle Kahney - guitar
Jamie Postone - drums
James Monteith - guitar
Amos Williams - bass, backing vocals
Ashe O'Hara - vocals

Tracklist:

1. Of Matter - Proxy
2. Of Matter - Retrospect
3. Of Matter - Resist
4. Of Mind - Nocturne
5. Of Mind - Exile
6. Of Reality - Eclipse
7. Of Reality - Palingenisis
8. Of Reality - Calabi-Yau
9. Of Energy - Singularity
10. Of Energy - Embers

Released records:
Concealing Fate (ep), 2010
One, 2011
Perspective (ep), 2012

Hacride - Back To Where You've Never Been

Band: Hacride

Album: Back To Where You've Never Been

Country: France

Release date: April 19, 2013

Label: Indie Recordings

Genre: Progressive Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Metalcore, Grunge

Existed since: 2001

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Hacride has made a varied, strong mini album of about 40 mintues for their 4th release.
I would put them in the harder parts of the prog metal scene, like early Pain Of Salvation. There is also metalcore influences in the music.
The melodies in each song have been well developed, and there r some really good choir sections here, w some influence from Alice In Chains.

Recommended.

Album musicians:

Adrien Grousset - guitars
Benoist Danneville - bass
Florent Marcadet - drums
Luiss Roux - vocals 

Tracklist:

1. Introversion
2. Strive Ever To More
3. Synesthesia
4. Overcome
5. Edification Of The Fall
6. To Numb The Pain
7. Ghosts Of The Modern World
8. Requiem For A Lullaby

Released records:
Deviant Current Signal, 2005
Amoeba, 2007
Lazarus, 2009

Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep

Band: Spock's Beard

Album: Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep

Country: USA

Release date: March 1, 2013

Label: InsideOut

Genre: Progressive Rock, Neo Prog

Existed since: 1992

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Veteran prog rock group Spock's Beard is out with their 11th album. Its a double album where they have put enough time n effort into each song, that they all stand on their own. Musically they draw much inspiration from the 70's mainly english prog scene, while still sounding like neo-prog.

Highly recommended.

Album musicians:

Ted Leonard - vocals
Ryo Okumoto - keyboards, vocals
Alan Morse - guitars, vocals
Jimmy Keegan - drums
Dave Meros - bass, vocals

Tracklist:

Disc 1

1. Hiding Out
2. I Know Your Secret
3. A Treasure Abandoned
4. Submerged
5. Afterthoughts
6. Something Very Strange
7. Waiting For Me

Disc 2

1. The Man You're Afraid You Are
2. Down A Burning Road
3. Wish I Were Here
4. Something Very Strange (Sanctified Remix)
5. Postcards From Perdition

Released records:
The Light, 1995
Beware Of Darkness, 1996
The Kindness Of Strangers, 1998
Day For Night, 1999
V, 2000
Snow, 2002
Feel Euphoria, 2003
Octane, 2005
Spock's Beard, 2006
X, 2010

Oddland - The Treachery Of Senses

Band: Oddland

Album: The Treachery Of Senses

Country: Finland

Release date: April 12, 2012

Label: Century Media Records

Genre: Progressive Metal

Existed since: 2002

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With their debut, these fins place themselves in the harder parts of the general progressive metal scene, with influences from bands like Opeth, Tool, Fates Warning n Queensrÿche. Vocalist Sakari Ojanens voice serves the music well. Overall an album filled with rly good melodies n musicianship.

Recommended.

Album musicians:

Sakari Ojanen - guitar, vocals
Joni Palmroth - bass
Ville Viitanen - drums, percussion
Jussi Poikonen - guitar

Guest musicians:
Mikko Viitanen - saxophone
Kati Vanhanen - vocals
Akta Buli - vocals

Tracklist:

1. Above And Beyond
2. Flooding Light
3. In The Eyes Of The Mourning
4. Aisle Of Array
5. Past The Gates
6. Still The Spirit Stays
7. In Endless Endeavour
8. Sewers
9. Lines Of Silver Blood
10. Ire

Octopus - Into The Void Of Fear

Band: Octopus

Album: Into The Void Of Fear

Country: Chile

Release date: January 17

Label: Mylodon Records

Genre: Jazz/Metal, Instrumental Progressive Metal, Fusion

Existed since: 2001

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This is a short album of around 26 minutes. Musically they sounds like a mix between Blotted Science n Shining, with the 3. song resembling It's The End n the 7th Faceless. The title song is more in the quiet fusion jazz soundscape.
All in all a good album, though i think they should focus on finding their own sound, cause the talent is certainly there.

Recommended.

Album musicians:

Braulio Aspe - bass
Cristobal Orozco - drums
Jorge Benavides - guitars
Fernando Daza - guitars

Tracklist:

1. Ethereal Mind
2. Confront The Fear Beyond
3. Fearless 1
4. Off Limits
5. Fall
6. Fearless 2
7. Faceless Source
8. Into The Void Of Fear

Released records:
Octopus, 2004
Bonsaï, 2006
Coda (ep), 2008