Release a new album, tour said album, film and release a new DVD of said tour. Repeat. This has been the pattern as of late for Neal Morse and The Neal Morse Band. And it is something I most certainly am not complaining about. I am perhaps making light of [...]
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 schedule and prodigious output, it is no surprise that yet another of his [...]
I’ve been a fan of King Diamond (and Mercyful Fate) for as long as I’ve been a fan of heavy metal, which is close to 20 years. As a kid and living in Brazil, I couldn’t attend King Diamond’s or Mercyful Fate’s concerts in the [...]
‘I have an idea, let’s start a band centered around Vikings and tour the world for 25 years’. It sounds like a drunken idea you’d have one night with your mates. But that’s exactly what Amon Amarth have [...]
To have been present at the Lacuna Coil 119 Show in London‘s o2 Forum, Kentishtown, was to have been part of something spectacular and momentous. Celebrating twenty years of music on a stage remoulded into a tainted circus tent, the [...]
One of the things I really love is live DVDs. And one thing that Steven Wilson has demonstrated many times is that he puts out excellent live DVDs. Whether it be with Porcupine Tree or as a solo artist, his live mixes sound every bit as good as the [...]
‘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, [...]
Some nights are just pure magic, and music lovers know this. Years and lives can be enriched by what may very well be a once in a lifetime event. Alter Bridge Live at The Royal Albert Hall featuring The Parallax Orchestra was indeed one of these [...]
