Alpha Rev – Cas.e Sessions – Volume 1 (Album Review)
Friends and fans of the progressive rock community might have gotten to know Casey McPherson as the front-man for the art-pop/retro-prog band Flying Colors. This…
UMÆ – Lost In The View (Album Review)
Go on a cruise, form a band. Yes, it can happen to you, it can happen to me. And it happened to UMÆ. The annual…
Raven – Screaming Murder Death From Above: Live In Aalborg (Album Review)
This old raven still cries the loudest. Heavy metal, like a fine wine, tends to get better with age, or at least that’s what the…
Dream Theater – Distance Over Time (Album Review)
If there is one artist near to the Sonic Perspectives readership wheelhouse, requiring little if any introduction, it would be prog-metal reigning monarchs Dream Theater,…
Aenimus – Dreamcatcher (Album Review)
It’s kind of unbelievable, but it dawned on me recently that The Dillinger Escape Plan’s monumental mission statement Calculating Infinity will turn 20 in the…
Hecate Enthroned – Embrace Of The Godless Aeon (Album Review)
Macbeth’s downfall dons the black crown again. It is both a blessing and a curse to be relegated to the shadow of another, but that…
Inglorious – Ride to Nowhere (Album Review)
Since their inception in 2014, British classic hard rockers Inglorious have seen almost as many lineup changes as role-model Whitesnake in its first ten years.…
Onkel Tom – Bier Ernst (Album Review)
Beer is a crazy uncle’s best friend. To the uninitiated into the world of Germany’s grand thrash metal tradition, ergo anyone who has been living…
Within Temptation – Resist (Album Review)
There are a handful of bands, such as AC/DC, who have successfully built a lengthy career making the same record over and over again. Sometimes…
Mörglbl – The Story of Scott Rötti (Album Review)
While the world loves to compartmentalize and genrefy, there’s something gleeful about finding a musical experience that makes one scratch one’s head and wonder where…
Herman Frank – Fight the Fear (Album Review)
As the modern metal world continues to evolve, and fracture into all of its component sub-genres, an argument can reasonably made that much of metal…
Soen – Lotus (Album Review)
This February 2nd unveils another chapter in Soen’s victorious and vertiginous career: their new album Lotus hits the shelves (or will be made available in…
Pavlov’s Dog – Prodigal Dreamer (Album Review)
It was 1975, and a band came out of St. Louis with, well, a unique sound. They called themselves Pavlov’s Dog, but they were not…
Starbreaker – Dysphoria (Album Review)
Tony Harnell (ex-TNT) has a signature voice and stratospheric range that is both distinctive and dominating on the material he appears on. A case could…
Malevolent Creation – The 13th Beast (Album Review)
Unlucky are they whom challenge this beast. Death metal is an art form that is undaunted by incidents of the former half of its name…
