Despite being a relatively new band, Redemption have managed to pave their way into the highly competitive prog metal scene with skilled, yet melodic instrumental and competent songwriting, as well as always having a heavy-hitter singer. Weirdly enough, [...]
My first experience with Kamelot was with ‘Dominion’ in 1996, when Mark Vanderbilt was still their frontman. Having been a fan since then, and knowing that it’s practically impossible for the Americans (now an international act, [...]
Greece based extreme dark symphonic metal group Septicflesh have been one of my personal favourites for years. Septicflesh is one of those rare bands that get exponentially better at what they do with every new release. The band is well renowned for their [...]
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 [...]
