PERIPHERY and SLAVES Members Join to Form KING MOTHERSHIP with New Single “Cosmic Meltdown”
KING MOTHERSHIP, the new band featuring PERIPHERY’s Spencer Sotelo and Matt Halpern with SLAVES’ bass player Tai Wright, will release its debut album, “The Ritual”, on October 2 via 3DOT Recordings. The first taste of the driving, melody-laden collection…
EphemeraL – VII (Album Review)
The birthplace of melodic death metal may have been in the metal-rich cradle of Scandinavia, but in the years since its origin the genre has spread its wings and inspired…
ANDY TILLISON of THE TANGENT Discusses “Auto Reconnaissance” Upcoming Album: “I Am Really Writing Musical Questions and Hoping They Will Reach People Who Might Begin to Have Some of the Answers.”
The Tangent, the progressive group, led by Andy Tillison, is set to release their 11th studio album called “Auto Reconnaissance” on August 21st, 2020 through Inside Out. With their new record, the band continues…
OVERKILL at House of Blues, Orlando, Florida (March 10th, 2020)
On the eve of a cancellation crisis that would devastate the live music scene for the foreseeable future, a crowd was gathering in the heart of a Floridian music venue, only aware that a storm of high-octane thrills waited just moments away. Overkill was back on tour, riding the indomitable wave of victory for their latest success “The Wings of…
GEOFF TATE’s “Empire 30th Anniversary Tour: Empire and Rage For Order” at Center Stage, Atlanta (March 13th, 2020)
Looking back on the history of the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, there are two or three milestones that immediately stand out in their very successful career. The first and most obvious is their 1988 release “Operation: Mindcrime”, which is widely considered to be one of the best rock “concept albums” ever produced. But there were others, namely “Rage For Order”…
VIDEO PREMIERE: Watch Canadian Prog-Metallers ILLUMINATED MINERVA Question the Existence of Extraterrestrial Life In New Single “Sightings”
Illuminated Minerva is a technical, progressive metal band, from Calgary, Canada. With a captivating and visceral live show, the seasoned musicians of Illuminated Minerva have played with a host of bands locally including Tesseract, Intronaut, and Cloudkicker. In 2014, the band released their debut EP “The Immaculate Deception” and are following it up in 2020 with a full length “Enigma Adamantine” due out Sept 25th, and from that album we present you today the single “Sightings”. “Sightings” is the track for those who ‘want to believe’… Odd time signatures, throbbing bass and first hand accounts of unknown aircraft frame the…
SONG PREMIERE: Listen to RED CAIN Ear-worm New Single “Demons” From Upcoming Album “Kindred: Act II”
Canada’s Red Cain is finishing their “Kindred” saga with the release of “Kindred: Act II” this coming October; and to whet palettes in anticipation, the single “Demons” debuts here today, July 24th. The new song explores a demon summoning gone horribly right – lick your lips and embrace your inner beast with this banger of a track. Watch the video below. Red Cain explains the track: “In what is becoming a tradition, we remember our roots and continue our romp through “Kindred: Act II” with this goth rock anthem evocative of the delicious, bloody melancholy of Charon, 69 Eyes, Lord of the Lost, with a…
