T-shirt #043 - Depravity

Depravity is from Perth, Western Australia.
And their logo is difficult to read...ergo...it is a death metal band ;-)

Death metal was meant to be an assault on the senses but somewhere along the way bands started taking it easy, getting complacent. Enter DEPRAVITY from Australia. They show us how it's to be done, to play devastating death metal without straying from the genre's roots. This is what MORBID ANGEL should've sounded like today. There's no going back or forth. This is it. This is the fiercest expression of death metal while remaining relevant. Vile, twisted and deafeningly heavy, 'Evil Upheaval' is one of the most powerful albums you'll bear witness to this year!

 

Despondency 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrQZt4boNPk

 Manic Onslaught

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-p5lc-zalo&list=RDqx_Q5PvraeM&index=2

T-shirt #042 - Tesseract

Wow what a band! 

TesseracT is a British progressive metal band from Milton Keynes.

I started following them when they released stuff on youtube back in 2011. they released their debut album in march 2011.

this is the first video I watched : Lament

youtube.com/watch?v=9C99SU-IjYQ

...and I immeditaly fell in love with Jay Postone's drumming
...and the basslines and the singing!

and this one just made headbang for hours!!

Eden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGCn6g95PBY

and this one:

Acceptance (Concealing Fate Part One)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL3AqbaFhT0

POLARIS (full album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkl7CiCghVI

ALTERED STATE (full album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5lyVRLsFBk&list=PLZ9DoO2uX9wWxAi3Zv5NNwpxdCQ4-rKEQ

SONDER (full album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJKsmaGtrjo&list=PLgpZnR_gaGVOo6MEsB8W-UC8ALBXXyk6x

I have seen them live 4 times ...

T-shirt #041 - OPETH

Opeth is a Stockholm-based progressive metal band

I LOVE opeth and I have seen them many times. Some of the records are just pure gold and magic ....but still, I have not really listened to them for at least 5 years now

a bit like Dream Theatre... you know the goodness, but it also a bit "booringly good"...

Deliverance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0T-TPXS1M0

Still Life and Blackwater Park are my favourite albums..

Blackwater Park 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1KPqet74EI

Still Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VMU8Vu083A

and Ghost Reveries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a267gFmAxTw

and of course Mikael Åkerfeldt himself ... a bit like Devin Townsend 

a real entertainer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7QItJBo5jM

T-shirt #040 - Pain of Salvation_2

another T-shirt with PoS!

one of my best prog metal bands from Sweden!

The Perfect Element, Part I from 2000 is just awesome 

and Remedy Lane from 2002, and back with In the passing light of day 2017

"Meaningless"

"Reasons"

T-shirt #039 - NEED

NEED is a prog metal/rock band from Athens. 

I saw them at Sticky Fingers in Goteborg and they made a fantastic live show as an opening act ...

Just love when I have not heard a band before and just get swept away

VIDEOS

Need - Alltribe (Official Audio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHaLLtbuBU

Need - Rememory (official video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEt3O3vMogI

T-shirt #038 - Port Noir

ett grymt rockband från Södertälje!

Enastående "rough" och avksalat med mycket dist på basen, härlig sång och rakt och heavy trumspel

Love Andersson - gitarr, basgitarr, sång

Andreas Hollstrand - gitarr

Andreas Wiberg - trummor

  ... det svänger fett!!!

  

VIDEOS:

Old Fashioned (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ6BiRnTol8

Young Bloods (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57iP20jBEh8

Flawless (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96g3rOAjf8Y

konserten på Pustervik 26 nov 2019 som förband till Leprous var riktigt riktigt bra!

T-shirt #037 -MAGMA

Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander,Lyrics are sung in a constructed language, Kobaïan.

MAGMA covers the genres: Zeuhl, progressive rock, avant-rock and art rock

Yhe concert at Brewhouse in Göteborg 191102, was like a recursive mass of hypnotic incantations ...awesome!

there has been a lot of members coming an going ...but the charismatic drummer Christian Vander has been on the ride since the start

VIDEOS:

Magma - Nebëhr Gudahtt - 1973, Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh

good intro with nice photos of the group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1RK2XioUHA

Magma feat. Jannick Top & Klaus Blasquiz - Mekanik Kommandoh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlJKKtgreqw

Magma - Zombies - Live @ Jazz à Vienne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3dxUNH6JEM

Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh : Trianon 2000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoZIXPvHPoY

Magma - Epok I - Kobaia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAGsCGvYClY

MAGMA - K.A. I - live France 2 - 23.11.2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BywH7rjawM

T-shirt #036 - IHSAHN

This was sooo unexpected... I was going with a friend (thanx Brill!) to Ne Obliviscaris, which I thought was the main act ...and my igonrance of IHSAHN made this the best concert 2018!

it was just amazing ... the energy and the delivery was flawless in all its rawness...

really really loved it!

just listen to this one!!

Sámr

and this one

PULSE

and

Celestial Violence

Lend Me The Eyes Of Millennia

T-shirt #035 - Animals as Leaders

Tosin Abasi is one of my heroes, s well as the drummer Matt Garstka

Animals as Leaders are an American instrumental progressive metal band from Washington, D.C. It currently consists of guitarists Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes and drummer Matt Garstka,

I saw them at Pustervik 190618... and what a live session!
the drumming just blew my mind!

Dunlop Sessions: Animals As Leaders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=429CnpmOSBk

Animals As Leaders - "CAFO" Prosthetic Records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmfzWpp0hMc

Animals As Leaders - The Brain Dance (Dunlop Sessions)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrbt14uej08

T-shirt #034 - IQ

IQ is a British "neo-progressive" rock band founded in 1981.

IQ were one of a small number of British bands formed during the early 1980s, including Marillion, Pendragon, Twelfth Night, Pallas, Quasar, LaHost and Solstice that continued with the progressive rock style forsaken by 1970s bands such as Genesis and Yes.[2] The music press coined the phrase neo-progressive to describe these bands

The band's musical style, especially earlier in their career, was reminiscent of Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett era Genesis because of singer Peter Nicholls' vocal and stage-presence similarities to Gabriel 

Mike Holmes guitar playing and solos are progressive diamonds (e.g. the solo from Shallow Bay on the 2019 album Resistance)

Neil Durant is doing some grandiose keyboarding to get every prog-fan in a good mood!

I asaw them in Copenhagen Sept 2019...great concert!

IQ - The Wake (Album 1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sEGn6D__IQ

the great great solo by Mike Holmes in Shallow Bay from the latest Album Resistance