Emusic sent me a note and offered 75 free downloads if I resubscribed. 

(I had cancelled during those months I was pregnant and couldn’t get on the computer and hadn’t ever got around to going back)

Now I am gleefully downloading all sorts of music but I don’t like the genre tags they use.   I find this band, Serenity,  designated as metal (not that I listen to much metal anymore…I was in a mood) but when I listen they sound alot more progressive to me. 

So I go to the band’s site and they tag themselves as ‘progressive metal’.  Kind of like a Reeses peanut butter cup.  I hear the ad in my head. 

“You got progressive in my metal!”  “Well you got metal in my progressive!”  “Ohhhhhh” “Hey, two great sounds that…..”

Aghhhh…why does no one stop me?  

(You know, blogs are cool ’cause there is no one to block the creative flow, but at the same time there is no one to keep you from driving off a cliff…metaphorically speaking.)

Anyway, so I found this band from Austria called Serenity and d/led an advance copy of their new CD, Fallen Sanctuary.  (‘advance copy’ is a little misleading since it is out in Europe and debuts here tomorrow, but hey)  My favorites are Rust of Coming Ages and All Lights Reversed. 

Although this is not die-hard progressive (there are no tracks over about 6 minutes) you probably need to at least apprecite prog to enjoy the CD.  This is normally the part in a review where the cd is deconstructed song by song, bit by bit.  But then you -still- have to hear the music.  We’ll save time and skip right to the music part.   Pop over to their Myspace Page to download some of their stuff.

You can find free mp3s on the Myspace page  and the new CD on Emusic , Amazon.com  (you can listen to clips from the cd there as well) or on the band’s website.

- Kit