“Maybe not that big mainstream, but within progressive metal circles these guys (The Ocean Collective) have near cult following. The sheer energy this band produces on stage and passes on to the crowd is unbelievable”. Enjoy the gig review for Herod, Downfall of Gaia and The Ocean Collective at Mama Roux, Birmingham from our UK based contributor Arta Gailuma!
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Polyphia is a group of incredibly talented musicians; by blending different genres these guys have created a sound that is truly and unmistakably theirs. And they’re a treat to see live!
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A perfect evening – goosebumps, wet eyes and tears everywhere. As Einar Selvik quotes between two songs: “The old songs are dead, so we have to write new ones.” Please, never stop!
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Live concert review for the show by Amorphis, Soilwork, Jinjer and Nailed to Obscurity at the Backstage Werk in Munich on January 30, 2019
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Concert review of TesseracT, Between The Buried And Me & Plini in Munich, September 26 2018
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Held in Effenaar in Eindhoven, The Progressive Alliance was a full day of progressive and avant garde music with a great bill including Ihsahn, Ne Obliviscaris, The Ocean, Vuur, Rosetta, Årabrot and Astrosaur.
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“All in all it was a great concert evening filled with quality live music from both LizZard and The Pineapple Thief. And I am happy I finally checked out The Pineapple Thief…” Concert review The Pineapple Thief and LizZard live at Backstage, Munich September 26. 2018
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Haken, Leprous, Steven Wilson – three big names to headline the Romanian Festival ArtMania, held in the beautiful city of Sibiu. Quite a line up, and the rest of the bill was excellently picked as well. /Dario
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Day 3 and last of Euroblast 2018. It was all in all an excellent festival, very well organized but with a couple of hiccups here and there. Other than that this is a well-oiled machine of a festival.
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Day 2 at Euroblast 2018. It was a day of excellent shows and great surprises, albeit a bit monotonous during the middle.
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Euroblast 2018 was my chance to visit the festival during all 3 days. This festival attracts a very diverse crowd of music enthusiasts and musicians, ranging from pop-tinged progressive rock all the way to brutal technical death metal. The important thing is that the musicians involved are on the top of the class, both musically and personally. Read more to follow my full chronicle of these 3 days full of progressive awesomeness.
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The prospect of witnessing again the magic that means Leprous and Agent Fresco live, joined by the unknown (for me) quartet 22, was an easy decision for me, I love this live package so much, as I knew we, the lucky ones there, were going to be gifted with such a massive energy and love for well made music flowing back and forth from the stage to the audience. And so it was!
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A show that could have gone on forever, and that left a deeply pleased and satisfied audience. Pain of Salvation are back to their old strength, I might even say better than ever!
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Monuments, Vola, Kadinja & Atlas Northcore in Munich Live Review
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Be Prog! My Friend, was once again a perfectly organized festival, where you never felt that it was too full, the breaks had the perfect length and, most importantly, the musical selection was spot on.
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The festival runs over four days with more than fifty bands performing. In addition there are industry workshops. For the two of us, who were Tech Fest virgins, the festival was a very pleasant experience. The audience is lively, but very friendly and easy-going. The festival is extremely well run, bands being on time, and changeovers going smoothly and quickly. The staff is generally pleasant, smiling and helpful, something that rubs of on the audience, making it easy to meet new friends.
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For those of you who have been leaving under a rock, or refuse to consider other plans for that...
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On Saturday 23rd of June, we headed to Valkenburg Openlucht Amphitheater in South Holland for the...
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Persefone are one of the best live bands out there these days. Their unique combination of mind-blowing complexity, a sheer abundance of energy and power mixed with melodies from outer space and some philosophical spirituality is highly contagious.
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Poem has the professionalism, stage presence, talent, and songwriting skills of a much bigger act, and I can only hope that festival organizers and the progressive community will give them the attention they deserve in the future. On the way out of the venue there were a lot of smiling faces and happy audience members, all in all, a night to remember.
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