Soilwork have been a consistent operator throughout their career. From their inception they took the powerful Swedish melodic sound that their peers created, and fused it into their own style, which quickly saw the bands star rise amid their commitment [...]
The beginning of 2019 marks the release of a new record from American prog-metal/djent frontrunners Born of Osiris entitled ‘The Simulation’. With the group’s previous full-length studio album ‘Soul Sphere’ having been [...]
First and foremost, “flying witch puppet” vocals abound! The aptly applied phrase coined by my wife to describe falsetto metal shrieks (derived from the vampire puppet musical in the Judd Apatow comedy ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’) [...]
Death and thrash metal go together like peanut butter and jelly. Few bands capture the essence of a riff-driven thrash sound with sheer death-like anger so well like Dutch masters Legion of the Damned, who managed to successfully make a name for [...]
Altarage, a blackened death metal band, or chaotic death metal band, or kind of death-doom? Who knows? But that does not matter. Altarage did some ritualistic, dark stuff in the past and this was always a matter of taste. I like their unique style of [...]
The great Stephen Hawking said “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” Stephen Hawking and Jason Becker share many things in common. They are incredibly intelligent and gifted individuals who when presented with a debilitating [...]
Metal Church is one of the most revered and classic heavy metal acts of the 1980’s, when they put out arguably some of the best traditional metal albums to date, the homonym juggernaut in 1984 and the orgasmic follow-up ‘The Dark’ [...]
I first became aware of Swedish prog titan Roine Stolt in late 2000 when I bought the Flower Kings classic ‘Stardust We Are’ and I’ve been listening to him ever since. I’ve enjoyed and purchased further FK albums, as well as those [...]
