REVIEW: FLYING COLORS – “Third Degree”
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…
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Jonathon Rose
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Jonathon Rose is a full-time wrangler of small children, occasional writer, bibliophile, and a frequent unapologetic obsessor over progressive/experimental/avante garde music. He frankly dislikes much of the metal scene's endless coma inducing blast beats, repetitive riffs, and stereotypical lyrics.
REVIEW: BORKNAGAR – “True North”
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…
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REVIEW: PSOTY – “Sunless”
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…
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REVIEW: RICHARD HENSHALL – “Cocoon”
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…
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DVD REVIEW: SONS OF APOLLO – “Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony”
If there is anything prog fans are familiar with, it’s musicians doing side projects and supergroups. And there are none more well known for this than Mike Portnoy. Given his…
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REVIEW: IAMTHEMORNING – “The Bell”
One of the more unique and unexpected bands to make a splash in the progressive rock world in recent years is the Russian duo Iamthemorning. Combining the strong classical piano…
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REVIEW: PATTERN SEEKING ANIMALS – “Pattern Seeking Animals”
Side projects for prog bands are common, to say the least. And yet, they usually still manage to create a buzz, and more often than not are well worth exploring.…
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REVIEW: NAD SYLVAN – “The Regal B*stard”
A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of reviewing ‘The Bride Said No’ by Nad Sylvan. It was the second part of a classic progressive rock trilogy; based…
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REVIEW: HEILUNG – “Futha”
One of the more unexpected, and surprising bands to emerge in recent years is Heilung, a multinational entity who play within a neo-folk style, but have their own definition which…
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REVIEW: LONELY ROBOT – “Under Stars”
Late April marks the return of prog rock/metal band Lonely Robot, and the conclusion of a trilogy of albums with ‘Under Stars.’ Until recently I was unaware of the band,…
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