T-shirt #046 - Caligula's Horse

Caligula's Horse is an Australian progressive metal band from Brisbane.
Not really my favourites but still like some of the tunes and the concert was not bad at all ...

VIDEOS:

Turntail (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Firelight (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

T-shirt #045 - RUSH

Rush was a Canadian rock band consisting of Geddy Lee (bass, vocals, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitars), and Neil Peart (drums, percussion). Formed in 1968

RUSH played complex compositions and were great great musicians. When touring with KISS in the early days they did not participate in the rocjk and Roll myths of sex, drug etc... they just played... respect!

Great great guys from Canada!

Time Machine Tour 2011

VIDEOS:

Rush - Limelight (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRuj2_czzw&list=RDZXH-DyjsBd0&index=7

Rush - Tom Sawyer (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4ibAk&list=RDZXH-DyjsBd0&index=5

Moving Pictures remains Rush's highest selling album in the United States after it was certified quadruple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for over 4 million copies sold. "Limelight", "Tom Sawyer" and "Vital Signs" were released as singles across 1981, and the instrumental "YYZ" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. 

Rush - Moving Pictures (Full Album HQ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ4-9tAf9UQ&list=PL3PhWT10BW3U0iK61Ajt0YeiWeq3_wFfQ

Neil pert died January 7, 2020 in Glioblastoma, also known as glioblastoma multiforme. 

GBM is the most aggressive cancer that begins within the brain.

Not only was he an excellent drummer but also open to getting better even late in his carrier as he started to take drum lessons studying jazz, with Freddy Gruber in 1994. Respect!

T-shirt #044 - Textures

Textures were a Dutch metalcore band 2001-2017. 

I started to listen to them after their Awake video.

Textures had a complex and innovative style, influenced by progressive metal and metalcore. They also incorporated melodic interludes and experimented with a wide variety of electronic atmospherics. On their first release, Polars, they also experimented with ambient soundscapes, before fusing the ambient and riffs together more closely on later releases.

VIDEOS:

Awake

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

Reaching home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcIliX_z_7M

To Erase a Lifetime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJAnCi95ts

ALBUM:
Drawing Circles 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqcggCkn7Z4

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"