ALBUM REVIEWS
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September is quite a month, featuring solo releases from The Pineapple Thief’s & Porcupine Tree’s front men within a week of each other. The careers…
Multi-instrumentalists are blessed when it comes to solo albums – they have so much to work with. In Randy George’s case this is even more…
By his own count, Marek Arnold has contributed to more than 60 albums, either as a member or hired hand, providing indelible sax and keyboard…
In 2011, Tesseract exploded onto the metal scene with their debut release, “One.” The darlings of the djent underground blended the brutality of Meshuggah with…
Grammy-award nominated Baroness are back with a new album, “Stone”. Their sixth record overall and third released via Abraxan Hymns, “Stone”finds the Philadelphia-based quartet of…
There was a time when getting a new album from The Flower Kings every year or two wasn’t a sure thing. But that time is…
Part of the joy of being around during the current wave of prog metal bands has been discovering new acts. Prior to this album review,…
Swedish prog metal band Soen has been extremely busy in the last years, creating diverse and fantastic sonic experiences that have taken the band to tour extensively…
Winter is alive. Its landscapes may appear desolate, and its boundless silence may put on the façade of death, but there is the undeniable thrum…
Side project, spinoff group, extracurricular association. There’s many ways to view a musician’s primary musical vehicle versus what else they do on the side. While…
30 years to come full circle. In the days when grunge ruled the airwaves and all roads led to Seattle, the latter-day adherent to the…
It’s been five long years since Southern Empire’s second album “Civilisation” hit the streets, an album which eventually brought them to great acclaim as fans…
Singing multi-instrumentalist songwriter Nate Garrett has much to say. Or so it would seem, given his industrious nature while evolving his mixed-metal project Spirit Adrift.…
Slashing metal and frosty melodies abound. Good things can and often do come in small packages, or at least that’s the conclusion one might reach…
I’m not sure what it is with prog metallers who bear the initials “D.T.” but they really do love flooding the market. That’s not necessarily…
Having released Neal Morse’s rock opera “Jesus Christ The Exorcist” a few years ago, Frontiers Music came knocking again for a new concept album. They…
It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. Often side-projects that function as de facto super groups can have a tendency of either sounding too…
Haunting odes pierce the evening gloom. Horror-themed sitcoms The Munsters and The Addams Family might amuse the typical spectator when projected from the television screen,…
Fourteen times is definitely a charm. When a band has come within a stone’s throw of crossing the 30 year threshold of a career marked…
What would you do to celebrate your band’s 40th anniversary? A live album? Maybe release a compilation? Well, Voivod are not known for taking the…
The integrity of their sonic bloodline remains. Now more than 20 years into their career, it can be safely said that Denmark-born power metal meets…
Since exploding onto the LA rock scene in 2014, and immediately becoming a significant chapter in the Book of Alice Cooper, Nita Strauss (yes, like…
No quarter offered, none given. Conflict and schism have been frequent companions to rock and metal bands since time immemorial, but such occasions often present…
Hey, they weren’t kidding with this title! There are many versions of extreme that have cropped up in the metal realm over the decades, but…
Storms, rivers and the promise of peace drive the lyrical themes on Gov’t Mule’s 12th album. Just as the ocean is comprised of water from…
Man and beast unite to overcome all. The mystique of heavy metal’s early days has enjoyed a rather massive renaissance over the past decade or…
Negativity distilled to its fundamental form. The tail end of the 2010s saw some interesting developments in the metal world, perhaps most notably in the…
Coming hot off the heels of playing to packed arenas opening for Journey, Steve Lukather continues to wrestle with the legal and perceptual problems that…
A new, more impressive mountain of sound emerges. The 2020s may well be remembered as the decade that was put on hold for a couple…
Considering that drummer Martin Utby and guitarist/bassist/vocalist Simon Bergseth vowed to start a band over two decades ago (when they were children), it’s surprising that…
Looking for a fresh new discovery in the world of prog? Although “Helix” is their fourth album, chances are good that the vast majority of…
Because four T’s would be excessive. As the prime movers that brought the metal genre into prominence approach their golden years, the inevitable question of…
As the leader of one of the most progressive bands out today, Einar Solberg has long held the potential for an impactful solo album. Indeed,…
The union of fantasy and comedy prevail once again. Sudden and drastic changes in membership have been the death of many a band, and those…
I love so much of Ray Alder’s work that I sometimes doubt I’m qualified to critique it. But a quick listen of damn near anything…
A new pastor leads the metal masses to salvation. When it comes to longevity, few can boast the degree of tenacity and dedication that has…
