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7.8
Archaic Decapitator – The Apothecary (EP Review)
I’ve long maintained that certain genres of popular music exclude bad musicianship by their very nature. These include jazz, country, classical, and metal. There are…
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Album Reviews 
8.5
Cosmograf – Mind Over Depth (Album Review)
What turns a prog band to go to the dark side? Sooner or later most of them succumb for at least one album. They may…
Album Reviews 
8.0
Ceremony Of Silence – Oútis (Album Review)
Contemplating the unsilent blackness. One does not normally associate a meditative state with the dissonant rage normally tied to the violent fury of central European…
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9.1
United Progressive Fraternity – Planetary Overload Part 1: Loss (Album Review)
In rock music, rare are the occasions when a band offers thoughtful lyrics or a message to go along with their music. In the case…
Album Reviews 
8.6
Eluveitie – Ategnatos (Album Review)
Celtic lore and mighty mountain heights. Over the past couple decades there has been a fair degree of tribute paid to Celtic culture among various…
Album Reviews 
8.0
Shallow Side – Saints & Sinners (Album Review)
If you were born no later than 1985, you might remember a time when there was still intelligent life in rock-pop music. Bands like The…
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8.5
Mägo De Oz – Ira Dei (Album Review)
Once more down the yellow brick road. There is a fine line between genius and insanity, or so the old adage goes, and few names…
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7.3
Jordan Rudess – Wired For Madness (Album Review)
To anyone in the progressive music community, Jordan Rudess needs no introduction. Having joined Dream Theater as a full-time keyboard player in 1999, he’s spent…
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8.9
Jon Anderson – 1000 Hands: Chapter One (Album Review)
Jon Anderson’s solo career has been reborn and reborn again throughout his career. From mystic prog to folk to rock to pop to new age…
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7.8
Musket Hawk – Upside Of Sick (Album Review)
Nola comes to Maryland. The outer fringes of metal’s extremities are noted for their pungent aroma of mental and physical decay, like a marshy moat…
