There are a lot of different types of styles that make up and fall under the moniker of progressive rock. Some bands focus more on technical pyrotechnics, others multi-part epics, and many somewhere in between. Others focus more on atmosphere and [...]
When The Halo Effect announced their arrival on the scene, there was elation amongst the melodic death metal community. Here was an act boasting not only long-time friends, but luminaries of two titan bands from the genre who had joined forces to become a [...]
Derek Sherinian is a Californian Progressive Metal keyboardist, best known for his work with DREAM THEATER and SONS OF APOLLO. This is his second solo album in two years, after 2020’s ‘’The Phoenix’’. He has been quite busy [...]
The Swedish melodeath giants, Soilwork are back in 2022 with Övergivenheten (Swedish for “Abandonment”), as a thematic follow-up to pre-pandemic 2019’s Veklighheten (Swedish for “Reality). Truth be told, I was a megafan of [...]
England’s doom metal barbarians CONAN are back with a new album called Evidence of Immortality. Scheduled for release on August 19 by Napalm Records, this album is sonically dense, diverse, and impressive. Conan is Jon Davis (guitar/vocals), Chris [...]
Full disclosure, Arch Enemy is on a long list of bands that I jammed the heck out of when I was in high school, and have not revisited since, as my tastes have changed in later decades. In particular, Arch Enemy lost a severe amount of stock when they [...]
The vast majority of metal bands in all genres that achieve legendary status do so without getting a big break in the mainstream, so it’s normal to see the casual big 4 fan blowing their minds when listening to 80’s masterpieces like Coroner, [...]
If you look up Viking-themed metal, you get slapped with pages upon pages of content related to the Swedes in Amon Amarth. A twenty-five-year and twelve-album career later, they remain the poster children of the subgenre, and the standard against every [...]
