T-shirt #72 - The Pineapple Thief

 The Pineapple Thief is a British progressive rock band, started by Bruce Soord in 1999.
2017 was a great moment when Gavin Harrison join the band on drums 

VIDEOS:

Final Thing On My Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeq4HktLg2M

The Pineapple Thief - Our Mire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXK3bTcUDOs

Drum playthrough by Gavin Harrison - "White Mist" by The Pineapple Thief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7scYYsLdcM&list=RDn7scYYsLdcM&start_radio=1&rv=n7scYYsLdcM&t=49

Drum playthrough by Gavin Harrison - "Threatening War" by The Pineapple Thief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENF9wth4kwM&list=RDn7scYYsLdcM&index=2

T-shirt #71 - Fractal Universe

 Fractal Universe is a Progressive Death Metal Band from eastern France.
Just an amazing band!

support the bands!

VIDEOS:

Black Sails of Melancholia (LIVE)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49uQWSDyaP0

A Clockwork Expectation 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBqQMCazAVw

Interfering Spherical Scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpH-2qEQ1tk

LIVE from Slay at Home!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQATrXDQA9w

Fractal Universe på Bandcamp!
https://fractaluniverseband.bandcamp.com/

T-shirt #70 - Mental Cruelty

 One of the best bands I discovered in 2020. 
They are based in Karlsruhe, Germany and founded back in 2016.

The Genre is of course Blackened Deathcore!

The singer Lucca Schmerler is just awesome!

VIDEOS: 

A Hill To Die Upon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo1pNYZ71-I

King Ov Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE7gnzVzbXk

T-shirt #69 - IMMINENCE

 Metal Core från Skåne med fiol!  

IMMINENCE grundades 2010 och består av sångaren Eddie Berg (som även skriver bandets texter), gitarristerna Alex Arnoldsson och Harald Barrett, basisten Max Holmberg samt trummisen Peter Hanström.

support the bands!

VIDEO: 

Temptation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0LeILiafiA 

Infectious 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91DhUliQk7o

To The Light 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFxubq3y2LM

T-shirt #68 - OBSCURA

 Obscura is a German technical death metal band from Landshut,
founded by guitarist and vocalist Steffen Kummerer in 2002. 

The music is a dream (AND challange) for a tech metal drummer ...and both Hannes Grossman and Sebastian Lanser did a great job...BUT i am personally soooo excited for the new drummer David Diepold, which is one of my fav drummers of all time which I have been following since his first cover on youtube... David is fantastic!  AND sits with a great posture!



VIDEOS:

Diluvium 

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

Vortex Omnivium Drum Playthrough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5tLh_LvkMU

"Akroasis" - Full Album Stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssAdP4PaCQ4

T-shirt #67 - EVERGREY

 Evergrey has a special place in my heart as Tom lived at the same appartment building as us 20 years ago ... in a lovely Gothenburg "Landshödingehus"..

his daughter and my eldest son played in the sandbox and we talked about metal... 

Funny story: I found a big stack of Metal magizines thrown in the garbage and wondered who was that metal guy living here.... then I saw Tom with his log black hair and immediately started to talk music ...

every time I have the opportunity I go to ther gigs 

and the latest record is just AMAZING!

and The Beholder feat. James LaBrie is a gem!

VIDEOS:

The Beholder feat. James LaBrie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pri2xexyTB0

In the Absence of Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYuV5xqtSDI

Where August Mourns (2021) // Official Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBAQO8Oao3w

T-shirt #66 - Miosis

Miosis är ett progressivt hårdrocksband från Göteborg. Bandet grundades 2002 av Mattias Axelsson och Fabian Ericson i Hjo och kallade sig då Soma Soul Transfusion, ett namn som sedermera byttes till Miosis
de låter lite som TOOL så när jag såg dem så köpte jag en T-shirt...givet!

Our Floods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NElBqGYGCXw

the Lucid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-cCMWkX830

T-shirt #65 - MESHUGGAH

 Meshuggah is a Swedish extreme metal band formed in Umeå in 1987. Meshuggah's current lineup consists of founding members lead vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake since 1990, rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström since 1993 and bassist Dick Lövgren since 2004.

just BLEED!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAJ1WTGNISk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQl4GiChZg

T-shirt #64 - DEATH METAL!

 

T-shirt #63 - MIROIST

 

Miroist is a one-man metal project since 2011.

Miroist matches the intense grooves of instrumental djent and progressive metal
with the deep ambient washes of post-rock, post-metal and electronica.

His albums are self-recorded, produced and released, and proceeds go directly to the artist.

I have supported his project by buying the music and T-shirts

Music:

are we leaden yet

https://miroist.com/track/are-we-leaden-yet

CURVE (full album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQGT3D8uEA 

and the artist for the curve album is KAITLIN BECKETT

she is originally from New Zealand, currently living and working as an artist in Melbourne, Australia. Visit her full site here: www.a-curious-bestiary.com

T-shirt #62 - the WATCH

 

The Watch is an Italian progressive rock band from Milan formed in 1997, led by vocalist, principal songwriter Simone Rossetti. They are doing a great job of playing entire albums from the good old era of Genesis with peter Gabriel. Their own music is classic progressive rock of the 1970s.

I hsve seen them 4 times and loved it every time! 

VIDEOS:

The Watch plays Genesis - The Knife 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5NuuThm3ic

The Watch plays Genesis - The Musical Box (Studio Session)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ix98b77zl4

THE WATCH - DEVIL'S BRIDGE - OFFICIAL VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4tgqos56_0

T-shirt #61 - INTERVALS

 Intervals is a progressive metal band from Canada. the concert at Sticky Fingers in 2019 was great!

The guitarist Aaron Marshall delivers very interesting stuff very close to Animals as Leaders,
Protest the Hero, Between the Buried and Me and The Contortionist.

VIDEOS:

I'M AWAKE // THE SHAPE OF COLOUR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHvMYUR8SuE&list=PLuj-WzKNCr7-QfPCi5VEkvFErx2oCwxof

 A VOICE WITHIN // FULL ALBUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8fM3pO7i0I

LUNA[R]TIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZhbWey7Po&list=PLuj-WzKNCr78Sd2An0pXeH6k48zB7wDkA&index=3

2020 | Studio Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRlN2_ytFWA&list=PLuj-WzKNCr78Sd2An0pXeH6k48zB7wDkA&index=9

T-shirt #60 - Defamed

 Italian Deathcore band Defamed was formed by three ex-members of Drown in Sulphur after some conflict. I like defamed much better!
in fact one of the best bands in 2020 for me!

support the bands you love!

VIDEO:

Circles 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsFEx7vv9SQ

Doves 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk3kjp6VtbI

Aeon 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aPlnulW_SQ

In Tenebris (Official Guitar and Drum Playthrough)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6gR-6azXY0

T-shirt #59 - Agent Fresco

 Agent Fresco are an Icelandic band that combines pop, alternative, art, metal, and math rock.
The lead singer Arnór Dan Arnarson is very charismatic
and I really love the drummer Hrafnkell Örn Guðjónsson

VIDEOS:

Dark Water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VmNTl6JvDY

Wait For Me

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

Implosions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgb0wqW28oU

T-shirt #58 - IGORRR

Igorrr (Gautier Serre) is a French musician. Under the Igorrr alias, he combines a variety of disparate genres, including black metal, baroque music, breakcore, and trip hop, into a singular sound.

Since 2017 Igorrr band consisits of Gautier Serre, drummer Sylvain Bouvier and singers Laurent Lunoir and Laure Le Prunenec.

Laure Le Prunenec also sings in Corpo-Mente. She is just AMAZING!

VIDEOS:

most famous is probably the Cheval video!

Igorrr - Cheval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZzYxGZ7Hmc

Igorrr - ieuD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zRU-VU87HI

IGORRR - DOWNGRADE DESERT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCqG9B8j-cI&pbjreload=101

T-shirt #57 - Uneven Structures ....(again!)

 Uneven Structure is a progressive metal band based in Metz, France. They play a style of post-metal which is heavily influenced by the Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah

I have mostly listened to the Feebrus album 

but I will link to some newer stuff below:

Funambule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQzhZ0-amu4&list=RDCjXAVTCkK_w&index=21

Outlaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7KDQWlRDIU&list=RDCjXAVTCkK_w&index=50

Alkaline Throat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3HyKUIfqJ8&list=RDCjXAVTCkK_w&index=50

but compared to the old stuff from 2011 they are sadly not as good :-(
compare with for example 

Quittance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSdwQj6qxzU