Track Of The Day - The Infinite Edition

Progressive deathcore from Indiana, USA.

So I've reviewed albums from technical death metal bands like Atheist, Death, and Pestilence, but what about the one band that's obviously not tech-death but would inspire those bands and many more to mix tech-death with pieces of progressive jazz? Watchtower is that perfect spark of influence, including this 8-minute epic:

High quality progressive metal from Atlanta, USA.

A beautifully crafted & highly atmospheric post-rock piece from these Swedish post-sludge metallers.

A solid mix of funk, djent, and progressive rock, cooked up by this amazing Australian prog-metal guitarist:

One of the more metal focused tracks from Sydney-based guitar virtuoso Plini's 2016 debut album "Handmade Cities".

French progressive metal.

Post-blackgaze from San Francisco, USA.

Avant-garde progressive metal from Oslo, Norway.

Chunky progressive sludge metal from Atlanta, USA.

Deconstruction is what I think is the true start of the 4-part metal saga of the Devin Townsend Project (the other 3 parts being Epicloud, Z², and Transcendence), spawning brilliant (often humorous) masterpieces like this 16-minute epic with a strange title:

Still not forgetting this strange yet brilliant epic!

Once again the least popular track on an album appeals to me the most. Avant-garde progressive metal from Canada.

Once again the least popular track on an album appeals to me the most. Avant-garde progressive metal from Canada.

A stomping highlight reminding me of the pandemic we were all stuck in. I like the operatic vocals by Floor Jansen (ex-After Forever, Nightwish), though barely working here.

Loving this beast of a post-sludge B-side from Converge's "I Can Tell You About Pain" single from 2017. Why in the actual fuck wasn't this track on the "The Dusk in Us" album??

Neo-classical-influenced progressive metalcore, kinda like a mix of Avenged Sevenfold, Protest the Hero, and Symphony X:

Part of an energetic mind-blowing beginning for thrashy technical progressive metal:

After finding a recent comment for one of my videos, talking about a Ne Obliviscaris song giving the commenter Caligula's Horse vibes, I remembered a review I've made for one of the Caligula's Horse albums as part of The Infinite Progressive Metal Modern Era clan challenge nearly 3 years ago and decided to check out one of its highlights. This is a song for anyone who's into progressive rock/metal, and I might just find a bit of melodic light from this band that I want more of, while focusing on more extreme bands.

A couple grand highlights from an album that made me remember the more melodic progressive fan I used to be:

Epic progressive/symphonic black metal to please the extreme progressive metal masses:

A monster of an epic Canadian progressive metal piece featuring truck loads of spacey Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd psychedelia.

Wild fantastic progressive metal/mathcore that should appeal to fans of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Protest the Hero, and early 2000s Between the Buried and Me:

A wonderful progressive metal outing with stunning vocal hooks & sophisticated riffage.

An amazing highlight of oriental extreme progressive metal from Japan: