Album Review: Dyed In Grey
One of the newer bands on the scene, Dyed In Grey is just one of those groups that, pretty much from the get-go, you know these guys should be/need to be huge. At least huge in this rarefied style of...
View ArticleSpotify Friday Review #82: Nick Hellfort–The Mask Within
Nick Hellfort is the band formed in 2007 by Nicolaj Ruhnow, the current lead singer of the long-running British metal band Tokyo Blade as well as the (also long-running) German power metal band Domain...
View ArticleSpotify Friday Review #83: Witherscape
Damn am I excited to be writing this review! As many of you are probably aware, Sweden’s Dan Swanö has been creating all kinds of music from prog rock to extreme metal since pretty much the beginning...
View ArticleHaken – The Mountain; Album Review
Well they say that the third album from a band is where they often hit their stride and show the world what they’re really all about. Think Genesis’ Nursery Cryme, Yes’ The Yes Album, or hell even...
View ArticleSpotify Friday Review #85: Headless: Growing Apart
Headless is an Italian metal band from the 90’s that put out the well-received album Inside You in ’98 before disbanding. Now, after 13 years, guitarists Walter Cianciusi and Dario Parente have...
View ArticleSpotify Friday Review #87: Liquorworks – Muscle Injection
To me one of the most exciting developments in the last few years has been the proliferation of highly adventurous musicians adding metal elements to all manner of jazz and fusion. Back in the 70’s...
View ArticleSpotify Friday Review #88: Lalu – Atomic Ark
Vivien Lalu is a French keyboardist who’s been making some serious waves on the prog metal scene for the last 10 years or so but he’s not exactly a household name yet (okay, in most houses, even Dream...
View ArticleSpotify Friday Review #89: Atma Weapon
Atma Weapon is a young North Carolina band that released their debut album, Dark Tower earlier this year. Their style is a modern, heavy progressive rock with the occasional death growl to spice it up...
View ArticleSpotify Friday Review #90: Sage’s Recital
We haven’t reviewed a lot of neoclassical and symphonic metal here and, honestly that’s not a genre that I’m too conversant in. I never cared for uber-shredders like Yngwie Malmsteen or the fantasy...
View ArticleSpotify Friday Review #91: Withem – The Point Of You
Earlier this year we heard a demo by the new Norwegian progressive metal band Withem which we thought showed great promise and the last we heard from them until recently was that they were looking for...
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