Interview With Ray Alder (Fates Warning, Redemption, Engine)
Ray Alder has been singing his heart out for prog metal giants Fates Warning since 1987. Over those three decades, he has inspired generations of…
Author Gonzalo Pozo
Kataklysm – Meditations (Album Review)
You know a band is evolving if you write them off only to discover nearly two decades later that they got really f**king good somewhere…
Týr, Orphaned Land, Ghost Ship Octavius And Aeternam @ Come and Take It Live, Austin, TX (May 25th, 2018)
Central Texas has sadly hosted few editions of Paganfest, Heathenfest, and other folk metal packages over the years, so the announcement that the Faroese vikings…
Dimmu Borgir – Eonian (Album Review)
My instincts direct to slag on this most recent offering from the Norwegian band with an Icelandic name. “It’s Rhapsody’s evil twin”, my mind tells…
Susperia – The Lyricist (Album Review)
Susperia is a band with whom I had a fleeting relationship when their debut album Predominance was released in early 2001. The band’s blackened approach…
Light The Torch – Revival (Album Review)
Despite the movement’s promise, only one band truly remained after the dust around the New England scene of the early 2000s finally settled. That band…
Don’t Messer With Texas: A Chat With Maddox Messer
Full disclosure: I don’t like radio rock. Only twice since System of a Down’s heyday have I heard a radio rock tune I actually enjoyed…
Oceans Of Slumber – The Banished Heart (Album Review)
Rarely does a band come down the pike that’s worthy of the adulation that surrounds it. With Oceans of Slumber, we may finally have been…
Act Of Defiance at The Rock Box, San Antonio, Texas (March 8th, 2018)
Act of Defiance frontman Henry Derek and I go way back. I was a literature student back in the Fall of 2001, still getting my…
