Track Of The Day - The Infinite Edition

An instrumental standout featuring some soloing by Jeff Loomis (ex-Nevermore), reminding me of his later supergroup Conquering Dystopia:

RIP ex-Textures vocalist Pieter Verpaalen. This epic shows the best of his vocal talent in his sole album with the band, Polars:

A fun spooky progressive interlude fueled up with horror-filled synths:

An 8-minute epic of the band's unique sound that has allowed them reach different places:

Perhaps the best of Textures' hard-hitting and melodic sides in the music and vocals:

A marvelous highlight showing that the talented power of Dualism has never died out:

This and "Conscious Descent" are the only tracks in this Hemotoxin album I find progressive, but technicality and aggression continue to reign:

An amazing progressive track with clean/unclean vocals and lyrics of depression:

This brilliant highlight might just go down as one of my favorite songs in all of progressive metal:

Many ideas are extracted from the 1990/1991 albums of Believer and Coroner, as well as Opeth in the more mellow sections:

The perfect starting track of Extol's self-titled 2013 album, with a sense of danger and chaos to give you motivation in life:

A couple bands I enjoy now are the experimental jazz-metal of Norwegian band Shining (not to be confused with the Swedish DSBM band):

And the progressive groove-ish metalcore of Jinjer:

Post-sludge/metalcore from a band formed by Jimmy Ryan, ex-vocalist of Haste the Day:

Motorhead-infused energetic prog-metal from this prolific Canadian mastermind:

A couple bands I enjoy now are the progressive/power metal of Almah, side-project of ex-Angra vocalist Edu Falaschi:

And the modern ambient progressive rock/metal of VOLA:

An early demo of the experimental title track of Jar of Kingdom:

Welcome back to the realms of deathly heaviness, Opeth!

Although Novembre's 1994 debut suffers from poor production and execution, this track isn't all that bad, in fact having some of the best moments of this ill-fated album:

Calm acoustics aside, this is a vast improvement compared to the two tracks originally in the debut:

This progressive thrash instrumental journey can be considered the Quadra Crusade:

One of the greatest standouts of this progressive death-doom offering, unleashing guitar aggression in contrast with the string tranquility:

Once again getting into more of the progressive metal zone, here are a few bands I enjoy now including the progressive tech-death of these two bands:

These two more melodic progressive metal/rock bands:

And the epic symphonic in-between of Xerath:

The most haunting and heaviest part of a dark mini-saga:

Apocalyptica's Aquarela EP is probably the most metal Nat Geo-ish documentary soundtrack I've heard, like half the amount of songs in the EP qualify as symphonic metal, including this 7 and a half minute highlight that borders into extreme progressive metal enough to also qualify for The Infinite as a sole track: