2019 has been an incredible year for metal releases, and as we enter the chilly autumn months, we fittingly see a wave of new and exciting music emerge from Scandinavia. With albums from Sweden’s Sabaton, HammerFall, and Entombed A.D. already out, [...]
2012 was a year of headlines and superstition, riddled with space exploration, gun violence, and our favourite Marvel superheroes. And while we waited with bated breath for the end of the world that never came, the beginning of a new chapter in [...]
Since the announcement of a Haken/Leprous co-headlining North American tour, myself and the rest of Toronto’s progressive community have been counting down the days until Halloween night at the Opera House. Over the last few years in particular, [...]
‘Lamentations’, ‘The Roundhouse Tapes’, ‘Royal Albert Hall’, and now ‘Garden of the Titans’. If anyone knows how to do a live album, it’s Opeth. As any member of the cult of Opeth will know, [...]
For almost twenty years, Norway’s Shining has made its mark upon the face of experimental music, with frontman and multi-instrumentalist Jørgen Munkeby coining his own genre, “blackjazz”. Shining’s eclectic fusion of jazz [...]
Five-thirty on a Sunday afternoon isn’t usually associated with technical death metal – unless, of course, you are standing in line awaiting a killer lineup put together by the German innovators of Obscura. Indeed, these guys not only brought [...]
When one typically thinks of female-fronted heavy music, it is often the powerful operatic pipes of symphonic metal. However, as folk metal grows in popularity worldwide, one of the most talked about and revered ladies of the scene is ex-Eluveitie singer [...]
Sometimes, going to a quaint, dingy place for an emotionally heavy show is just what the doctor ordered. I have been to The Garrison in Toronto a couple of times, and it’s always the same: a memorable and personal experience with good sound (as long [...]
