There is a tragic beauty in sorrow and grief, and all stories ultimately end in both. Neither can be avoided, all that can be done is to come to grips with them and find your way through life. There is beauty because there is beauty in life and its [...]
Sweden’s The Flower Kings have been one of the forerunners, and among the most active bands in the modern progressive rock scene since the mid-90s. Lead by guitarist/vocalist and primary composer and lyricist Roine Stolt, they are one of the bands [...]
I’ll admit up front that I am in general not a huge fan of the technical death metal sub genre. Yes it is fast, and highly complex, all of which I appreciate. Inevitably I get bored with it after about three songs. There is, however, a monumental [...]
In a year already full of excellent progressive rock and metal releases, it is almost startling to know that we still have several months left in the year, and more than a few releases from some of the most well-respected artists of the genre still [...]
It has now been nearly a month since I’ve had a new album featuring either Mike Portnoy (drums/vocals) or Neal Morse (keyboards/vocals) to talk about. Thankfully just before I had to write them off for being total slackers I received the new Flying [...]
By all reasonable definitions, 2019 has been an exceptional year for progressive metal and rock. With little effort, I can think of a half dozen or so albums that, during any given year, would make a best-of year-end list, and we’re only in August. [...]
One of the things that progressive rock and metal have seen a glut of over the past decade is instrumental prog/post-rock/metal bands. They seem to be everywhere, and all trying to make their music more sprawling, or more emotional, heavier, jazzier than [...]
Richard Henshall has long been known as one of the guitarists and main music composers of prog metallers Haken. And his writing and playing style is a large part of the immediately recognizable sound of any Haken album. In early August he released his [...]
