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…
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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…
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…
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…
A-Z – A-Z (Album Review)
Full disclosure: I am not a fan of 80s AOR, 80s hard rock, or the 80s retro pastiche that briefly birthed the unwelcome return of…
MARK ZONDER and RAY ALDER Talk Chemistry During Creation of A-Z Debut Album: “This Album Was an Open Palette, Yet We Stuck with the Mentality of Focusing on the Hooks and the Songs”
“Beer commercials, car commercials, and Cobra Kai.” I straight up thought that legendary drummer Mark Zonder’s reference point for his new band would have been…
Oceans of Slumber – Starlight and Ash (Album Review)
Houston’s Oceans of Slumber have carefully broadened their sound with each record and have reliably crafted some of the most exciting and forward thinking extreme…
STRATOVARIUS Singer TIMO KOTIPELTO on Upcoming “Survive” Studio Album: “The Biggest Difference Is That We Composed This Album Together, In the Same Room”
“This whole trip was chaos,” confides a visibly exhausted Timo Kotipelto. The reserved but charismatic Stratovarius front-man and I are tucked away in a corner…
