Savatage - Edge Of Thorns (1993)

USA
Heavy / Progressive Metal / Hard Rock
RYM rate: 3.90
The Crypts View: 4.37
128 KB

1. Edge Of Thorns
2. He Carves His Stone
3. Lights Out
4. Skraggy's Tomb
5. Labyrinths
6. Follow Me
7. Exit Music
8. Degrees Of Sanity
9. Conversation Piece
10. All That I Bleed
11. Damien
12. Miles Away
13. Sleep

Another great album by Savatage, this time with a more progressive touch.

Savatage - Gutter Ballet (1989)

USA
Heavy/ Progressive Metal
RYM rate: 3.92
The Crypts View: 4.61
192 KB

1. Of Rage And War
2. Gutter Ballet
3. Temptation Revelation
4. When The Crowds Are Gone
5. Silk And Steel
6. She's In Love
7. Hounds
8. The Unholy
9. Mentally Yours
10. Summer's Rain

And the brilliance continues.

Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King (1987)

USA
Heavy/ Progressive Metal
RYM rate: 3.92
The Crypts View: 4.68
192 KB

1. 24 Hrs. Ago
2. Beyond The Doors Of The Dark
3. Legions
4. Strange Wings
5. Prelude To Madness
6. Hall Of The Mountain King
7. The Price You Pay
8. White Witch
9. Last Dawn
10. Devestation


This masterpiece will never be forgotten. Mark my words. Brilliance all the way through.

The Crypts Chosen Few Of 2011 Part I (2011)

CD 2
192-320 KB

1. Beardfish - The Platform
2. Devil - At The Blacksmith's
3. The Living Fields - Running Out Of Daylight
4. Falconer - O, Tysta Ensamhet
5. Hellbringer - Hellbringer
6. Lord Vicar - Sign Of Osiris Risen
7. Opeth - Häxprocess
8. Portrait - Darkness Forever
9. Shining - I Nattens Timma
10. Vanhelgd - Mänsklighetens Finala Ruin
11. Blood Ceremony - The Great God Pan
12. In Solitude - Serpents Are Rising
13. While Heaven Wept - Finality
14. Vallenfyre - My Black Siberia
15. High Spirits - Another Night In The City
16. Argus - Pieces Of Your Smile

The Crypts own compilation with the best rock and metal songs from 2011.

Dark Suns - Orange (2011)

Germany
Progressive Rock/Metal/ Psychadelic Rock
RYM rate: 3.60 (21 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.80
320 KB

1. Toy
2. Eight Quiet Minutes
3. Elephant
4. Diamond
5. Not Enough Fingers
6. Ghost
7. That Is Why They All Hate You In Hell
8. Vesperine
9. Scaleman
10. Antipole

Great new album by Dark Suns, this seem to be their strongest album yet, with alot of positive changes to the music. They seem to have find their niche.

Frequency - Compassion Denied (2008)

Sweden
Heavy/Progressive Metal
RYM rate: 3.26 (10 Ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.40
320 KB

1. Compassion Denied
2. Agony Is My Name
3. Beginning Is My Name
4. Life After Hell
5. Your Pain Is My Guide
6. Act Of God
7. Spirit In Black
8. Alive
9. New World Ers

The Chasm - Procession Of The Infraworld (1999)

Mexico
Old School Death/Progressive Metal
RYM rate: 3.85
The Crypts View: 4.25
128 KB

1. Spectral Sons Of The Mictlan
2. The Scars Of My Journey
3. At the Edge of the Nebula Mortis
4. Fading...
5. Return Of The Banished
6. Cosmic Landscapes Of Sorrow
7. Architects of Melancholic Apocalypse
8. Storm Of Revelations

The Chasm - Deathcult For Eternity: The Triumph (1998)

Mexico
Old School Death/Progressive Metal
RYM rate: 3.79
The Crypts View: 4.28
192 KB

1. Revenge Rises / Drowned in the Mournful Blood
2. No Mercy (Our Time Is Near)
3. I'm The Hateful Raven
4. A Portal To Nowhere
5. Chanelling the Bleeding Over the Dream's Remains
6. Possessed by Past Tragedies (Tragic Shadows)
7. Apocalypse
8. In Superior Torment...
9. The Triumph (Of My Loss...)

Dan Swanö - Moontower (1998)

Sweden
Progressive Death Metal
RYM rate: 3.78
The Crypts View: 4.00
128 KB

1. Sun of The Night
2. Patchworks
3. Uncreation
4. Add Reality
5. Creating Illusions
6. The Big Sleep
7. Encounterparts
8. In Empty Phrases

Ophthalamia - Via Dolorosa (1995)

Sweden
Melodic Black/Progressive Metal
RYM rate: 3.25 (66 ratings)
The Crypts View: 4.27
128 KB

1. Under Opthalamian Skies / To The Benighted
2. Black As Sin, Pale As Death / Autumn Whispers
3. After A Releasing Death / Castle Of No Repair (Part II)
4. Slowly Passing The Frostlands / A Winterlands Tear
5 Via Dolorosa / My Springnight's Sacrifice
6. Ophthalamia / The Eternal Walk (Part III)
7. Nightfall of Mother Earth / Summer Distress
8. Outro; Message to Those After Me / Death Embrace Me (Part II)
9. A Lonely Ceremony / The Eternal Walk
10. Deathcrush (Mayhem cover)

How Like A Winter - Beyond My Grey Wake (2003)

Italy
Doom/Gothic/Progressive Metal
RYM rate: 3.55 (47 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.73
192 KB

1. A Flower That Sears In Silence
2. All The Season Of Madness
3. Laying Together Again
4. Bescreen'd
5. Who Is Hiding
6. Crucifige
7. XCVII
8. The Night, The Him
9. So Death Would Be Just A Bad Dream

Slow mournful doomy metal. You can hear a quite big My Dying Bride influence in their music and lyrics.

Heir Apparent - One Small Voice (1989)

USA
Heavy/Power/Progressive Metal
RYM rate: 3.72
The Crypts View: 4.36
320 KB

1. Just Imagine
2. Crossing The Border
3. Screaming
4. Alone Again
5. Cacophony Of Anger
6. The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel Cover)
7. The Haunting
8. Two Hearts
9. We, The People
10. Young Forever
11. One Small Voice
12. Decorated
13. The Fifth Season

Featuring a live video of "Just Imagine"
US Power/Heavy metal that shows some progressive elements as well.

Arena - The Seventh Degree Of Seperation (2011)

UK
Neo Progressive Rock/Metal
RYM rate: 4.06 (14 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.76
320 KB

1. The Great Escape
2. Rapture
3. One Last Au Revoir
4. The Ghost Walks
5. Theif Of Souls
6. Close Your Eyes
7. Echoes Of The Fall
8. Bed Of Nails
9. What If?
10. Trebuchet
11. Burning Down
12. Catching The Bullet
13. The Tinder Box

This was a big suprise for me, Arena have been around for sixteen years and have put out eleven albums and yet i haven't heard of them until i came around this album. Some real good reviews got me curious. So i check it out and it truly delivers some really good well writen, soft progressive metal/rock. Worth for any prog fans.

Hammers Of Misfortune - 17th Street (2011)

USA
Progressive/Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.40 (40 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.28
320 KB

1. 317
2. 17th Street
3. The Grain
4. Staring (The 31th Floor)
5. The Day The City Died
6. Romance Valley
7. Summer Tears
8. Grey Wednesday
9. Going Somewhere

Latest full length by Hammers Of Misfortune. Highlights are the beautiful "Summer Tears" and the closing track "Going Somwhere". The album as a whole is okay but i gets boring quickly.

Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry (1989)

USA
Progressive/ Heavy Metal
RYM rating: 3.67
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.21

1. Part Of The Machine
2. Through Different Eyes
3. Static Acts
4. A World Apart
5. At Fates Hand
6. The Arena
7. Chasing Time
8. Nothing Left To Say


Another wonderful album by Fates Warning. Together with No Exit the album feels a bit underrated. Strong, emotional and musicianship.

Subsignal - Beautiful & Monstrous (2009)

Germany
Progressive Rock/Metal
RYM rating: 3.81
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.08

1. Where Angels Fear To Tread
2. Paradigm
3. The Sea
4. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
5. Walking With Ghosts
6. I Go With The Wind
7. To Hope The Road Is Long
8. Beautiful & Monstrous
9. The Last Light Of Summer


Amazing debut album. Keep these guys in mind, if they will keep delivering album like this and their latest "Touchstones" they are going for the book my friends.

Subsignal - Touchstones (2011)

Country: Germany
Genre: Progressive Rock/Metal
RYM rating: 3.90
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.01
Bit Rate: 320 KB

1. Feeding Utopia
2. My Sanctuary
3. Echoes In Eternity
4. The Size Of Light On Earth
5. As Dreams Are Made On
6. Wingsless
7. Finisterre
8. The Essence Called Mind
9. The Lifespan Of A Glimpse
10. Embers - Part 1: Your Secret Is Safe With Me
11. Touchstones
12. Con todas las palabras


Second full length album by Subsignal that is more and more seems like that could be one of these bands that we will remember in about 20 years from today. Classy Progressive music.

Anubis Gate - Anubis Gate (2011)

Country: Denmark
Genre: Progressive Metal
RYM rating: 3.58
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.66

1. Hold Back Tomorrow
2. The Re-Formation Show
3. Facing Down
4. World In A Dome
5. Desiderio Omnibus
6. Oh My Precious Life
7. Golden Days
8. Telltale Eyes
9. River
10. Circumstanced


Anubis Gate's fifth and latest album. This is highly recommended for fans of Communic and simmilar bands. A well crafted album from beggining to end.

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime (1988)

Country: USA
Genre: Progressive Metal
RYM rating: 3.99
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.80

1. I Remember Now
2. Anarchy-X
3. Revolution Calling
4. Operation: Mindcrime
5. Speak
6. Spreading The Disease
7. The Mission
8. Suite Sister Mary
9. The Needle Lies
10. Electric Requiem
11. Breaking The Silence
12. I Don't Believe In Love
13. Waiting For 22
14. My Empty Room
15. Eyes Of A Stranger


Queensryche masterpiece. A truly magical concept album. Greatness from the beginning to the end.

Queensryche - The Warning (1984)

Country: USA
Genre: Heavy/Progressive Metal
RYM rating: 3.67
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.30

1. Warning
2. En Force
3. Deliverance
4. No Sanctuary
5. N M 156
6. Take Hold Of The Flame
7. Before The Storm
8. Child of Fire
9. Roads To Madness


Queensryche's debut album.
Highlights from this album are the beatiful "No Sanctuary" and the closing track "Roads To Madness".