Marty Friedman may stand alone in rock and heavy metal with the singular distinction as the foremost bridge between western metal and Japanese culture. While…
Old and new converge to recapture the original punk spirit. Super-groups have become a dime a dozen of late, which is quite impressive when considering…
Some four years in the making, Infinite & Divine’s “Silver Lining” is a promising debut offering listeners an infectious blend of synth-tinged metal and soaring…
For some years now, there has been something exciting going on in Australia in terms of prog music. Several Aussie bands have managed to cement…
Shortly after releasing his “Unifaun” album in 2008, Nad Sylvan found himself rising to the next level as Roine Stolt invited him to join forces…
It doesn’t get much more metal than this. Some of the best kept secrets in the metal world have had a peculiar habit of being…
Archaic tricks enter the modern age. Metal is arguably the least conducive medium for a songwriter to rely upon other musicians entirely for the performance…
Sorrow and bombast unite. After several decades of being put at the forefront of the European power metal movement by the success of Stratovarius, there…
Silence breaks by a primal scream. Though among the younger sub-genres of metal, deathcore has arguably seen the quickest expansion of specialized niches within its…
John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess and Tony Levin must have heard the question over a million times: will Liquid Tension Experiment ever reunite for…
