1st April 2014
Members of few lesser known bands decided to join forces in a brand new band in order to create something fresh – we’ve heard that before. Results are often not that different from their original […]
15th October 2013
It’s been almost a quarter of a century since foundation of Monster Magnet and after band’s guitarist Ed Mundell left the band in 2010, shortly after the release of their previous album Mastermind, band’s main […]
1st October 2013
Another one of those Mike Portnoy led super-groups released their debut album in 2012 and while this in many ways might be typical prog-rock super-group, there is more to Flying Colors then so. The project […]
6th September 2013
It’s a debut, but it’s most definitely a debut that bears a mark of big experience and expertise. Ashes of Ares is a band consisting of former Iced Earth and Nevemore members and as such […]
2nd September 2013
Prog has become something of an in-label during the past decade. Not in in YouTube mainstream matter, but more as a label that was pinned to almost any guitar-bas-drums band that had at least one […]
23rd June 2013
The bizarre split between the band and the singer Geoff Tate was extremely well publicized so going into details is basically unnecessary. What’s important to mention is that as of now Tate is on one […]
10th June 2013
Let’s start with the facts; it’s been almost two decades since the last studio album from Black Sabbath and it has been 35 years since the last Sabbath record to feature Ozzy Osbourne on vocals. […]
10th May 2013
Whether jamming alongside Ihsahn (both on stage and in studio) or performing their own off-kilter brand of playfully progressive metal, the Norwegian foursome known as Leprous have been steadily turning heads, increasing their fanbase, and […]
23rd April 2013
It has been over three decades since the formation of Queensrÿche and next year it will be just as long since the release of their debut album. That’s a long time and a lot has […]
15th April 2013
Half a year ago Stone Sour released first part of the conceptual double release entitled House of Gold & Bones. Now the second part is ready and much like they always do, the band has […]
7th April 2013
With release of each new album, Danish metal rollers Volbeat have been getting bigger and bigger, nonetheless thanks to Metallica who embraced them and took them out on tour. Couple of guitarists later, the band […]
1st April 2013
Third album from the French quartet is one of those rock records that at the same time feel like raw garage rock records, but just as much as well-produced records with a very professional approach. […]
1st April 2013
I was 16 years old when Skid Row’s debut came out. Straight away songs like “Youth Gone Wild” and “18 and Life” became my new anthems. When the band followed it with Slave to the […]
22nd March 2013
One glance at third album from the Norwegian band and first thing that comes to mind is Baroness meets Tool. But the artwork was not created by John Baizley (but rather Robert Høyem) and the […]
25th February 2013
Two years ago to the very day, I was reviewing Longs Distance Calling’s self-titled album and remember being impressed by the songs which despite their complexity, possessed a flow, which comes across as simple, because […]
12th May 2019
Lucide, despite being the name of the Cepheide half of this Split release, is actually a collaboration between two fairly new, but very talented Frenchm shall we say, ‘minimalist’ bands – This is in the […]
6th May 2019
Mormânt De Snagov is a Finnish Black Metal quartet that has been active since 2008. In that time, they have produced a significant amount of musical material, culminating in their third Full-length album early last […]
6th May 2019
Five years have passed since the release of Band Religion’s previous album True North and since then the band’s drummer Brooks Wackerman has left the band in order to join Avenged Sevenfold. He has been […]
3rd May 2019
A Skáld is an old Scandinavian and Icelandic poet, performer and singer dating back to the Viking Age and early Middle Ages, performing at the court of chieftains and kings alike. As such, they often […]
3rd May 2019
Back in 2010 another supergroup emerged. Consisting of members from Anthrax, Every Time I Die, and Fall Out Boy, the somewhat unlikely union delivered on a hell of a debut in the form of Ironiclast […]
25th April 2019
Sworn Enemy is a US-based Hardcore quintet, originally founded back in 1997 in New York under the name Mindset. Two years later, they changed their name (but not their tune) to the one their use […]
24th April 2019
The most media attention Scottish band Holocaust received during the course of their over four decades long career was Metallica covered their “The Small Hours” on the 1987 EP The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited. […]
20th April 2019
Necandi Homines is an Italian quartet that has specialized in an sound that is excessively slow, simple and somewhat laden with detached melancholy. Not something I would claim is easy to do, yet Black Hole, […]
17th April 2019
Present Days, Future Days might be IX – The Hermit’s debut, but band’s members have released numerous releases as part of other bands. This is quite evident after one spin of the album, because band’s […]
9th April 2019
Brahdr’uhz is a Swiss one-man band, one that seems to be on a mission: To bring back the original, raw Black Metal sound as it was back in the early nineties. He seems almost single-mindedly […]
