Big Big Train – Grand Tour (Album Review)
For the past decade, English ensemble Big Big Train has been at the forefront of culturally resonant progressive rock. Sure, their earlier material was certainly…
Allegaeon – Apoptosis (Album Review)
Few bands have earned the respect of their elders while garnering fanatical appeal amongst the younguns like Allegaeon has. Some two-and-a-half years following their breakthrough…
Arch / Matheos – Winter Ethereal (Album Review)
One of the first albums I remember becoming a fan of, was Fates Warning’s A Pleasant Shade of Gray. That record would be an early…
Restless Spirits – Restless Spirits (Album Review)
There are few guitarists who have had more impact on the Euro metal scene in recent years than six-string Spaniard Tony Hernando, most notably for…
Myrath – Shehili (Album Review)
One of the great pleasures of jumping on the Myrath wagon early in their career (I started following them with their 2007 debut) is watching…
Månegarm – Fornaldarsagor (Album Review)
Few can forget the Power Metal resurgence that truly great records like Visions, Return to Heaven Denied, and Glory to the Brave sparked in the…
Lonely Robot – Under Stars (Album Review)
First, the good news: John Mitchell is incredibly prolific, and right on schedule (every other year since 2015,) we are due for another Lonely Robot…
Zonder / Wehrkamp – If It’s Real (Album Review)
If ZW was in grade school, they’d be at the end of the line, based on initials. Or sitting in the back of the classroom. …
Whitesnake – Flesh And Blood (Album Review)
“Ooh my my, you look so fine…I’ll show you mine if you show me yours, c’mon baby shimmer and shake.” So goes another daintily veiled…
Avandra – Descender (Album Review)
Often in life, the greatest works of art are born out of tragedy. The loss of love, the loss of a loved one, acts of…
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…
