Seventh Wonder
Seventh Wonder, the Swedish progressive metal band with Mattias Olofsson on vocals since 2026, following Tommy Karevik (Kamelot).
Metal
Les novetats, cròniques i concerts de metal que segueix Tótum Revolútum Press: del metal extrem als projectes que aposten per la producció més elaborada i ambiciosa, sense oblidar els clàssics que van fundar el gènere. Cobertura en català, amb crítica de discos i reportatge fotogràfic des de la primera fila.
Evergrey
Evergrey, one of the leading Swedish progressive metal bands, led by Tom S. Englund.
Circus Maximus
Circus Maximus, the Norwegian technical progressive metal band with the voice of Michael Eriksen.
Redemption
Redemption, the American progressive metal band with Tom S. Englund (Evergrey) on vocals.
Threshold
Threshold, one of the pioneering bands of British progressive metal in the nineties.
TesseracT
TesseracT, one of the founding and leading bands of the British djent scene.
Animals as Leaders
Animals as Leaders, Tosin Abasi’s instrumental trio and one of the founding bands of the djent scene.
Leprous
Leprous, the Norwegian band that grew in the shadow of Ihsahn (Emperor) to become one of the big names in today’s progressive metal.
Between the Buried and Me
Between the Buried and Me, one of the key American progressive metal and mathcore bands of the 21st century.
Death
Death, Chuck Schuldiner’s band, regarded as the founder of death metal, with a second, progressive phase from “Human” onwards.
Atheist
Atheist, one of the founding bands of progressive death metal, pioneers in blending jazz fusion into it.
Cynic
Cynic, the pioneers of progressive death metal, known for fusing robotic vocals and jazz-fusion technique on “Focus”.
Watchtower
Watchtower, the Texan pioneers of progressive thrash, with Jason McMaster (Dangerous Toys) on vocals.
Psychotic Waltz
Psychotic Waltz, one of the cult bands of American progressive metal in the 1990s.
Fates Warning
Fates Warning, one of the pioneering American progressive metal bands of the 1980s.
Anathema
Anathema, the Liverpool band that evolved from doom metal towards atmospheric progressive rock.
Katatonia
Katatonia, the Swedish band that evolved from doom-death towards a dark, melancholic progressive rock.
Pain of Salvation
Pain of Salvation, the Swedish band of Daniel Gildenlöw, a leading name in conceptual progressive metal.
Haken
Haken, one of the reference bands of the most recent British progressive metal.
Ayreon
Ayreon, Arjen Anthony Lucassen’s conceptual progressive rock project, with dozens of guest singers on each album.
Meshuggah
Meshuggah, the creators of djent: extreme polyrhythms and eight-string guitars from Sweden.
Mastodon
Mastodon, the Atlanta band that took conceptual progressive metal to “Crack the Skye” and “Leviathan”.
Queensrÿche
Queensrÿche, the authors of “Operation: Mindcrime”, one of the reference concept albums of progressive metal.
Symphony X
Symphony X, one of the reference bands of North American progressive metal since the nineties.
Riverside
Riverside, Mariusz Duda’s Polish band, which carried on after the death of its founding guitarist.
Tool
Tool, the most hermetic band in progressive metal: thirteen years between albums, structures inspired by the Fibonacci sequence and a public image that avoids almost any exposure.
Opeth
Opeth, from the death metal with acoustic passages of “Blackwater Park” to the total turn towards seventies progressive rock beginning with “Heritage”: Mikael Åkerfeldt has never stopped changing the band’s sound.
Dream Theater
Dream Theater, the band that took progressive-metal technique to the extreme at the Berklee College of Music, with an unexpected radio hit, “Pull Me Under”, and a drummer’s exit and return that marked two decades of the band.
Devin Shidaker of The Acacia Strain opens Spirit Wound with a ten-minute doom piece
“The Light Refuses Me” is on Bandcamp already and reaches the other platforms next week. He wrote, recorded, produced and played it alone, in one afternoon this summer.
Hardcore Superstar sign to Frontiers and release “Halo” days before the tour opens in Malmö
Their first single for the Italian label lands just before the Dirty Halo Tour, which starts on 2 October. The follow-up to “Abrakadabra” is already in the studio.
Wolf Hoffmann says no former Accept member wanted to take part in the fiftieth-anniversary album
The guitarist confirms every original member, Udo Dirkschneider included, was invited onto “Teutonic Titans 1976–2026”. None accepted.
DragonForce release their self-titled tenth album on 19 March and play twenty-two European dates with none in Spain
Napalm releases it on 19 March 2027, produced by Jens Bogren. The European tour runs from Paris to Manchester and skips the Iberian peninsula.
Slipknot announce the “(sic)est Stadium Tour” for summer 2027: nineteen dates and a single European stop, at Wembley
They open on 3 July at Wembley, the only European date, with Marilyn Manson, Lorna Shore and Hatebreed. General on-sale is 2 October.
Altarage – Cogwheel
Seventy-four minutes across seven tracks: the seventh album by Basque band Altarage is the longest of their career and the first to use drone as building material rather than effect.
Jason Newsted on Cliff Burton, forty years after the crash in Sweden
The bassist who replaced him in Metallica remembers seeing him play in 1985 and what it made him think. Burton died on 27 September 1986.
Vanishing Point return with “Eremition” on 20 November, six years after “Dead Elysium”
Nine tracks produced by guitarist Chris Porcianko and drummer Damien Hall, with “Bring Me The Night” already out. No label has been announced.
Bullet For My Valentine release “Social Apocalypse” on 19 March 2027, two months after playing Barcelona
Ten tracks on Spinefarm, produced by Carl Bown, with Will Ramos and Chrissy Costanza guesting. It’s the eighth album, six years after the last.
Tom Rice – Laws & Triangles
Four tracks and twenty-three minutes of instrumental prog metal written from behind the kit. The first solo EP by the drummer of Konom, who covered for Dave Lombardo in Empire State Bastard.
Leng Tch’e break nine years of silence with “Hammered Into Collapse”, a two-track EP out on Season of Mist on 23 October
It is the first material from the Ghent grindcore band since “Razorgrind” (2017). A video comes with it, and the other EP track is called “Voided”.
Butcher Babies release “Nightbloom” on 2 October, their first album without Carla Harvey
Ten tracks produced by Howard Benson, the band’s first record since co-vocalist Carla Harvey left in 2024. Heidi Shepherd explains its origin.