Progressive Savage

Since this is the last day of 2008, I thought about writing some kind of a “favorite releases of 2008″ post. Unfortunately, I didn’t came across any really groundbreaking albums this year. DT haven’t released anything except a live footage, and what’s groundbreaking about that? Long-awaited TSR is quite nice, but that’s all one can say about it, and frankly Ayreon’s 01011001 disappointed me. I never liked Marillion, so their recent album didn’t impress me at all. Neither did Pendragon.

On the other hand, I think Perihellium’s debut album is quite nice, and I heard that Opeth’s Watershed is pretty cool, too… though nothing can beat Blackwater Park.

Nonetheless, I thought about sharing with you my two recent revelations. Although these albums were released two years ago (2006), I got to know about them from my boss shortly before Christmas so I didn’t manage to include them in my letter to Santa.

Let me introduce myself.

As it is also stated elsewhere on this site, I’ve been listening to rock and derivative types of music (mostly metal) ever since I can remember. It’s all because of my older sister: she’s been listening to all of that stuff when I was young and under her influence and so I became to love it myself… Unfortunately, she doesn’t like that kind of music anymore, and I’m stuck with it for good.

In my ventures through many heavy sounds I’ve gone from heavy metal through black/death metal, grind core/gore, and back to some lighter tunes, like progressive rock/metal, jazz rock, fusion jazz and so on. Hence the name of this blog Progressive Savage.

I used to play bass guitar for a couple of bands ranging in style from Doom Metal, through good-old Hard Rock, up to a Christian Rock. At some point I desperately wanted to play in a Death Metal band, later on in a technical-kick-ass-rocking Progressive band. It turned out haven’t played anything for couple of years now, though a passion for music still burns in my heart.

What I’ll be covering here is all kind of progressive–by my own definition–or otherwise interesting–once again from a subjective point of view–music. To put it briefly: what I find interesting. Though I mostly listen to progressive stuff right now I still like to put on some kind of old, good heavy metal tunes from time to time.

I hope you’ll stay tuned!

PS. The guy on the photo is me back in 2003. I used to have some hair back then, though obviously not so much…