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“A celebration of legendary bass tone”: Geezer Butler gets a limited-edition combo and Dingwall honors a modern metal great in July’s biggest bass releases

From classic heavy-metal thunder to the soulful tones of reggae, these are the bass releases putting some serious weight behind July’s gear calendar

Guitar World · Jul 31

“Having ADHD isn’t a superpower. But we can turn pain into poetry, and this album does that’’: TesseracT and Chimp Spanner friends team up for Prince Of Failure debut

Daniel Tompkins and Paul Ortiz smash prog together with nu metal on their cathartic self-titled record

Louder · Jun 29

Cool new proggy sounds from Haken, Devin Townsend, Temic, Prince Of Failure and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Top new prog you need to hear from Chantelle Smith and Richard Wileman, Revealing Chaos, Seven Eyed Crow and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

Louder · May 22

“You tour for so long. You’ve got a family, a mortgage, and you come home from America after eight weeks with £100. That’s unsustainable”: Dan Tompkins had to leave Tesseract – so what brought him back for third album Polaris?

2015 album saw the djent pioneers continue their move away from frenzied metal to thought-provoking prog, meaning the singer had to embrace a new way of creative thinking

Metal Hammer · Oct 1, 2025

“It’s pretty progressive, but it’s not Rush, is it? It’s not Dream Theater. The virtuosity comes in the details and subtlety”: When TesseracT introduced themselves and explained the djent movement

At a time when online musicianship was still regarded as a bit geeky, the quintet were preparing to launch debut album One and embark on their first US tour – and they had plenty to say about filesharing, stats and haircuts

Metal Hammer · Aug 21, 2025

“They use notes out of sequence – they’re more experimental than bands like Dream Theater, who are very respectful of tonalities”: Novelists’ Florestan Durand is passionate about Periphery (or at least their early albums)

Misha Mansoor’s work was the catalyst for Durand’s discovery of djent, as he moved on from the “simpler music” of Steve Vai and Joe Satriani

Louder · Jul 22, 2025

“Social media was aroused, then curious, then hooked on the rest of Sleep Token’s material”: How The Summoning turned a faceless cult into metal’s most surprising breakout band

Sleep Token seemed to be too weird for mainstream success – then The Summoning turned them into overnight sensations

Metal Hammer · Jul 17, 2025

“It showed us that a rock band can still bring the house down on such a mainstream platform”: Indian band Girish and the Chronicles deliver searing riffs on America's Got Talent with their hard rock take on an Adele classic

With sixteen years and a solid repertoire under their belt, the hard-hitting band have also shared stages with Guns N' Roses and TesseracT

Guitar World · Jun 6, 2025

"The music’s pretty progressive, but it’s not Rush is it? It’s not exactly Dream Theater." TesseracT's journey to debut album One

How young UK prog metal quintet TesseracT introduced themselves to the world back in 2010...

Metal Hammer · Mar 22, 2025

The Pineapple Thief and TesseracT to headline this year's Be Prog! My Friend festival in Barcelona

Be Prog ! My Friend takes place on September 27 and 28 and will also feature The Dear Hunter, Threshold, Von Hertzen Brothers and more...

Louder · Mar 15, 2025