Black Cube "Silencing the Sun"

Country: France
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Label: Brennus Music
Format: CD, digital
Release date: January 11, 2019
Tracklist: 
1. Building The Machine (1:18)
2. Silencing The Sun (5:18)
3. Cartographers Of Your Mind (8:47)
4. Enter The Night (7:19)
5. Giants (8:50)
6. Zombies Inc. (5:02)
7. Thy Flesh Consumed (12:29)
8. Ruins Of Dawn (2:40)
9. A Fortress On The Moon (6:14)

Total Time 57:57

Line-up: 
Mathieu Strulovici - Bass
Victor Allais - Guitars
Paul Allais - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Tani Avvenia - Vocals

Description/Reviews: 

In this opus, the band explores the human psyche, its torments and the means of coping with them. The tracks follow the circumvolutions of human soul, exploring willingful submission, authoritarianarism, fantasy, resignation and abandon.
The music is a blend of hard rock and progressive rock, with a twist of heavy metal, resulting in a more personnal and accomplished album. The keyboards enhance the personnality of the tracks, growing them into landscapes that can be dark and gloomy or dreamy and epic. Backing vocals are used to add a more human element to the ensemble.
As the final track closes, one finds oneself wanting to start the album all over again to discover and appreciate more of its nuances.

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Cartographers Of Your Mind

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Continuum "Speculative Thoughts"

Country: France
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Label: Brennus Music
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 29, 2016 
Tracklist: 
1. Mind'Design _ Observation (10:35)
2. Waves Collapsing (6:01)
3. How Many - Movements (7:23)
4. I Am (3:24)
5. Speculative Thoughts (1:56)
6. MAL (5:36)
7. More Than Flesh (3:31)
8. Relativist (4:39)
9. Constant Genocide (7:56)

Total time 51:01

Line-up: 
Nicolas De Renty - vocals
Anthony Malaussena - electric & acoustic guitars
Xavier Boscher - solo guitars
Alexandre Ardisson - bass
Guillaume Morero - drums

Description/Reviews: 

Continuum is a band playing its own "Dark Cosmic Progressive Metal" which offers a dense and singular music: it plunges the listener with fluidity in rhythmic waves of Progressive Metal, where catchy melodies with non-Euclidean accents to capture the dark depths of a singular universe ... or aspire to the majesty of the heavenly spheres!
Continuum is back with  "Speculative Thoughts", a concept album dealing boldly what the world and the universe could be if it corresponded, to our level, to the descriptions that modern physics made, and shows how we would perceive it.
A journey beyond science as the greatest (or craziest) science fiction writers can imagine ... and speculate!

Media/Samples 
Stream

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Inepsys "The Chaos Engine"

Country: France
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Label: Brennus Music (CD)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: August 18, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Prelude to chaos - 3'10 
2. King of the hill - 5'25
3. Wake up and shine - 7'58
4. Virtual feelings - 5'03
5. The eye of horus - 6'56 
6. A void between us - 6'37
7. Mother earth - 3'17 
8. The die is cast - 30'02 
9. Pull me under (Dream Theater Cover) - 8'13

Line-up: 
Romain Castel
Benoît Castel
Ludovic Mercier
Jérôme Rollat
Richard Carlon

Media/Samples 
Bandcamp (2 tracks)

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Parallel Minds "Headlong Disaster"

Country: France
Genre(s): Progressive Metal, Power Metal
Label: Brennus Music
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 1, 2015
Tracklist: 
01. I Am 5’16
02. Into the Void 5’26
03. Reborn Through Hate 4’39
04. Migdal Bavel 8’28
05. Headlong Disaster 5’03
06. Ghost of Sparta 5’37
07. A1000 Minds Away 4’25
08. Hyperion 19’46
09. Coming Home 4’39
10. Only the Good Die Young 4’40

Line-up: 
Stéphane Fradet - Vocals
Grégory Giraudo - Guitars & Bass
Franky Costanza - Drums

Media/Samples 
Bandcamp

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Awacks "Resilience"

Country: France
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal
Label: Brennus Music
Release date: September 16, 2013
Tracklist: 
01. System Crash (06:21)
02. Edge Of Solitude (05:19)
03. Field Of Roses (07:11)
04. Disappear (05:59)
05. Mirror Mirror (06:25)
06. Madness (04:19)
07. Hey You (07:41)
08. Millenium Ghosts (06:00)
09. Ashes Of Life (09:53)
10. Mama (07:16)

Line-up: 
Steve Rives - Guitars
Crock - Vocals
François Briançon - Drums
Stan Decker - Bass
Nach - Keyboards

Description/Reviews: 

All you have to know is that they play a mix of melodic Heavy, smooth Prog with some savory FM touches, coming from a past not so long gone. Pagan’s Mind, Marillion and Pretty Maids could belong to the shortlist of their influences, but their personality is too strong to be compared to another band. With their sophisticated lyrics and polished sound, the ten tracks of “Resilience” are to be listened to with no restraint.

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Madness

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Imperial Gates "The Sound of Human Fate"

Country: France
Sub Genre: Instrumental Progressive Metal
Label: Brennus Music
Release date: September 8, 2013
Tracklist: 
01. Morning Universe (3:56)
02. Beneath the Sand (4:38)
03. Emergent Behavior (5:08)
04. My Destiny (5:07)
05. Awake in Space (3:59)
06. Lightfull Journey (3:49)
07. Forgotten Legacy (4:06)
08. Nocturnal Prayer (2:50)

Line-up: 
Seddik - Guitar
Moh - Bass
Aurel - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

Imperial Gates is a modern cutting-edge instrumental Progressive Rock band. Originally formed in France during the summer of 2011 as an experiment project, the band started their journey by redefining the genre’s boundaries. September 8, 2013 will see the release of their first album “The Sound of Human Fate”, made of the most melodic and technical elements of Rock to offer you something cinematic and ultimately epic beyond comparison. With the stunning centerpiece “Emergent Behavior” showing off their immense talent for gripping creative arrangements, the result is 8 breathtaking tracks of well-considered yet truly organic Progressive Rock. Imperial Gates emerge as their own distinct entity, instantly standing head and shoulders from the Rock scene with their incalculably catchy song-craft and melodic structures. From the cinematic introduction of “Morning Universe” to the brazenly epic “Beneath the Sand”, images of human destiny are created by major key guitar melodies, massive rhythms and euphoric solos. The journey concludes with the triumphant “Awake in Space” and mellowing closer “Nocturnal Prayer”.

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Emergent Behavior

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Lux Aeterna "Echoes From Silence"

Country: France
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal
Label: Brennus Music
Release date: September 2, 2013
Tracklist: 
1.  Echoes From Silence 02:04
2. Your Saving Hand 08:25
3. Beyond Horizons 07:07
4. From Thought to Act 06:05
5. Lights in the Arena 06:06
6. In the Web of My Lies (Pt. 1) 05:39
7. In the Web of My Lies (Pt. 2) 02:43
8. In the Web of My Lies (Pt. 3) 03:58
9. The Universal Sight of Evil 06:34
10. Revelation 05:12
11. Live Where I Die 06:20

Line-up: 
Benoît Toquet - Guitars
Maela Revolt - Vocals, violin
Olivier Le Pech - Bass
Walter Français - Drums
   With
Laurent Grellier

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The Universal Sight Of Evil

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Black Cube "Last Exile"

Country: France
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal
Label: Brennus Music
Release date: June, 2013
Tracklist: 
01. Last Exile 1’22
02. Heading for Nowhere 6’00
03. Theatre of Shadows 5’05
04. Inspiration 5’51
05. After the End 9’05
06. Forgotten Skies 6’19
07. ASeed of Sandstorms 6’02
08. Dots on Dust 5’36
09. Colours of Time 8’45

Line-up: 
Mathieu Strulovici : bass
Julien Jura : drums
Nicolas Jura : guitar
Victor Allais : guitar
Paul Allais : keyboards/backing vocals
Tani Avvenia : lead vocals

Description/Reviews: 

Amongst their main influences are Symphony X, Queen, Dream Theater and Deep Purple, but they take pride in building their own musical identity, which ranges from psychedelic and relaxing moments to sections of catchy heavy-prog. Exploring many changes in time signature and arrangement, the band strives to present different moods within single tracks while preserving its substance beyond the soulessness of mere technical exhibition.

Media/Samples 
Dots On Dust

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