It is mid December and I must admit defeat over keeping up with metal. Spending 4 months a year in Brazil turned out to impact my purchases of new music, especially when unreliable long distance postage gets involved. Anyway here are five more albums that I want to share a few words on and than somewhere next week I hope to present my top 25 of 2025.
An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City
I was blown away by Woe a few years back. They came toProgpower, where sound issues made them not meet that level on stage. Now they are back with The Sleeping City and I so far only played it some five times, which is not enough. Yes it is a great album again and the mix prog death black metal is great again. The CD arrived home after I left, so I will read along with lyrics in 2026 and get the better picture.
Born Divided - Chronicle of a Shipwreck
I bumped into this band on Youtube and l like their blend of djenty prog emo with extreme metal. Accessible songs and a beautiful cover. Got it on bandcamp and liking what I hear there.
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem part I
Green Carnation releasing a trilogy within the next year. Part I is called The Shores of Melancholia. It arived two days before I flew out, so playing it once on CD and now on bandcamp who ask me to open my heart and my wallet, which I already did. Musically it is Green Carnation, so moody melancholic progressive metal of the slow kind. And that is good I will get parts II and III as well.
The Reticent - Please
The Reticent I called the band who write possible the best progmetal concept albums of this century when I discovered On The Eve of a Goodbye. The Oubliette confirmed my statement and now Please is securing their spot same again. Never a band for happy themes or music. Still when you take your time for please you must like lots of it too. OK the spoken word intermezzo's only work when reading along and getting into the full story. Musically they or more he Chris Hathcock mixes progmetal again with a few more aggressive or desperate outbursts. Announced for Progpower 2026 the band I am already looking out for most. Now I own it on bandcamp, the CD should follow in Baarlo.
Wings of Steel - Winds of Time
Looking for a young and upcoming US metal band? Wings of steel are the band to go to. At KIT I got their debut Gates of Twilight and now Winds of Time arrived after many weeks stuck in the post. So I only listened on whatsapp again and how good is it to hear new bands giving us a voice to die for and than musically playing that heavy metal, which made us all fall in love with the genre. Still sorry I was not around to see them in Breda end September, but they tour a lot so I hope catching them in 2026.
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