Archaic Decapitator – The Apothecary (EP Review)
I’ve long maintained that certain genres of popular music exclude bad musicianship by their very nature. These include jazz, country, classical, and metal. There are…
Cosmograf – Mind Over Depth (Album Review)
What turns a prog band to go to the dark side? Sooner or later most of them succumb for at least one album. They may…
Ceremony Of Silence – Oútis (Album Review)
Contemplating the unsilent blackness. One does not normally associate a meditative state with the dissonant rage normally tied to the violent fury of central European…
United Progressive Fraternity – Planetary Overload Part 1: Loss (Album Review)
In rock music, rare are the occasions when a band offers thoughtful lyrics or a message to go along with their music. In the case…
Eluveitie – Ategnatos (Album Review)
Celtic lore and mighty mountain heights. Over the past couple decades there has been a fair degree of tribute paid to Celtic culture among various…
Shallow Side – Saints & Sinners (Album Review)
If you were born no later than 1985, you might remember a time when there was still intelligent life in rock-pop music. Bands like The…
Mägo De Oz – Ira Dei (Album Review)
Once more down the yellow brick road. There is a fine line between genius and insanity, or so the old adage goes, and few names…
Jordan Rudess – Wired For Madness (Album Review)
To anyone in the progressive music community, Jordan Rudess needs no introduction. Having joined Dream Theater as a full-time keyboard player in 1999, he’s spent…
Jon Anderson – 1000 Hands: Chapter One (Album Review)
Jon Anderson’s solo career has been reborn and reborn again throughout his career. From mystic prog to folk to rock to pop to new age…
Musket Hawk – Upside Of Sick (Album Review)
Nola comes to Maryland. The outer fringes of metal’s extremities are noted for their pungent aroma of mental and physical decay, like a marshy moat…
West Of Hell – Blood Of The Infidel (Album Review)
Holy war for the modern age. Though the metal world has been an ever-expanding one since the year of its inception, in recent years it…
Battle Beast – No More Hollywood Endings (Album Review)
From rivalry, improvement is born. Music is not something that you can just quit, according to the 1992 Beethoven Lives Upstairs depiction of said legendary…
Lance King – ReProgram (Album Review)
When a musician likens their spiritual beliefs and world outlook to “Jedi,” they are welcome to my attention straightaway. Prog and power metal vocalist extraordinaire…
Bloodbound – Rise Of The Dragon Empire (Album Review)
A dragon’s evolution is a gradual one. Undaunted by changing lineups and grand strides of stylistic evolution that border on subgenre-hopping at times, the Swedish…
Contrarian – Their Worm Never Dies (Album Review)
Schuldiner’s dragon still lives. When the topic of the good old days is brought up, the question that naturally arises is “which good old days”?…
