AMORPHIS – Queen Of Time: Live At Tavastia 2021 (Album Review)
To state that Amorphis is one of metal’s finest acts is to state the obvious, and apart from a few rather tepid moments late in…
Author Gonzalo Pozo
DEVIN TOWNSEND – Devolution Series #3: Empath Live in America (Album Review)
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…
CONCERT REVIEW: DREAMSONIC 2023 Takes Flights in Texas (June 16th, 2023)
Words by Gonzalo Pozo & Ann-Jinette Hess | Photos by Gonzalo Pozo The Dreamsonic tour, a prog metal tour package anchored by none other than…
RAY ALDER – II (Album Review)
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…
NE OBLIVISCARIS – Exul (Album Review)
Twenty years. It’s been twenty goddamn years since I’ve anticipated an album as much as I’ve anticipated “Exul.” And like “Exul,” that last one was…
CONCERT REVIEW: POWERWOLF Unleashed In Times Square For First-Ever US Performance (February 23rd, 2023)
Long-running German metal band Powerwolf have long maintained that they had no plans to tour the United States. It’s a reasonable position to take for…
METAL CRUISE RECAP: Our Audio Diaries and Photos Documenting the 2023 Edition of 70,000 Tons Of Metal
The looming sunset of my annual gift to myself has been threatening to rob me of the one week of youth I get to relive…
DEVIN TOWNSEND – Lightwork (Album Review)
The curse of crafting monuments is having to outdo them. I suppose we can’t blame Devin Townsend for following the career-defining “Empath” (and let’s be…
Stratovarius – Survive (Album Review)
I had a torrid but brief love affair with power metal in the late 90s. Like most flings one has in their late teens and…
CONCERT REVIEW: SCORPIONS Prove to Houston They Still Have Tons of “Gas In The Tank” (September 17th, 2022)
Words by Samantha Buckman There are numerous indomitable musical giants staring down the beast of aging and giving a firm middle finger to any talk…