Protest The Hero: Fortress. So I’ve had a chance to listen to the Protest The Hero Fortress album that has been the big rave of just about every other Metal Blog that posts news with personality.
I first downloaded Sequoia Throne from iTunes and it still wasn’t enough for me to really get a good fix on them. The song didn’t do a lot for me; though it was good. It wasn’t until Christmas eve that I got a copy from a friend to listen to. I heard a few songs in the car and didn’t really listen again until …read more

Perhaps I didn’t give this more of a chance but I have heard so much good things about it, I went and sampled the new Protest The Hero cd today. I’ve heard it described as emo/prog/thrash and it the music sounded great when I was listening, but I couldn’t get into the clean vocals.
Normally I don’t have a problem with the clean/growl vocal transition but from the little bit that I heard I really wasn’t feeling it. I’ve done this before though with The Black Dahlia Murder and Amon Amarth. I first sampled both of these bands and didn’t …read more