TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Career Retrospective with JOHN MACALUSO (Episode No. 20)
Drummer virtuoso John Macaluso is a name that will be familiar to anyone following the melodic metal scene for the last 20 years. One of…
Drummer virtuoso John Macaluso is a name that will be familiar to anyone following the melodic metal scene for the last 20 years. One of…
I have a love/hate relationship with concept albums. One one hand, a set of thematically unified songs appeals to my love of storytelling, particularly when…
In 2001, I wrote the following about Evergrey: “… This band may very well save Progressive Metal from dwindling into mediocrity. This band has taken…
Can one compose music while unable to move? Could anything go wrong when a group of Bostonians drive across the country during a snowstorm? Can…
California’s Witherfall has been on a hell of a ride. This stellar progressive-metal collective came into being when former members of White Wizzard, Jag Panzer,…
An amalgamation of influences and various explorations of the Deep South, Henry Derek Elis origins are about as strange as his career in the music business.…
What do you get when you send a metalhead and a prog-nerd with a camera to a Good Charlotte show? You get a set of…
Every now and then, you come across a band whose inspirations are immediately evident, but somehow manage to maintain their own identity. Sometimes, you can…
Blotted Science proved with their debut album, “The Machinations of Dementia,” that the single most distinctive element of death metal, the obligatory death growl, was…
It seems Henry Derek Elis has as many pseudonyms as he does musical directions. His twenty-year long career has seen him use such variants as…