22nd January 2010
The beauty of exploring a ProgRock Records’ releases is not so much the fact that you are basically guarantied quality music, but rather the fact that you don’t know in what shape or form it […]
1st January 2010
Imagine a kaleidoscope, a huge kaleidoscope with a bright specter of colors. Now imagine this kaleidoscope transforming into a sonic experience rather than visual one. This is perhaps a decent way to try to explain […]
2nd November 2009
Just like the Metal Mind Productions’ re-release of Therapy?’s Never Apologize, Never Explain, this re-release doesn’t offer any bonus material, extended artwork or any highly noticeable improvements in remastered sound. Booklet is printed on a […]
2nd November 2009
Therapy?’s twelve album career is filled with interesting and unexpected twists and turns, both when it comes to music, success, creativity and balls. These Irishman’s career is have also been filled with ups and downs […]
12th October 2009
W.A.S.P. is the band that needs no longer introduction – as I believe it is enough to mention that the band has been playing what is now known as glam/horror/shock metal since 1982. ‘Crimson Idol’ […]
7th October 2009
There are many similarities between Baroness and Mastodon. Not so much because of the music they are playing, but mainly because these bands are some rare examples of the bands who from the start found […]
7th October 2009
Empyrean’s self-released EP consists of six songs that for some reason had a very nostalgic effect on me even though I cannot put a finger on it as to why. The Orlando based quartet presents […]
28th September 2009
One of the most important rock bands of the nineties is back with their first release in 14 years. Not many saw this happening after the band’s singer Layne Staley died of an overdose back […]
23rd September 2009
Twenty years after the band was formed, they have just released one of the best albums of their carrier. Now that’s a sentence you don’t hear often. For two decades Therapy? have tried it all; […]
20th September 2009
After celebrating twenty years in business last year with release of live CD/DVD The Anatomy Of Melancholy, Goth metal pioneers from England are ready with their twelfth studio album. Following an interesting trip into the […]
7th September 2009
Europe is not just the oldest continent on earth but also a name of a legendary Swedish band which has just released their eight studio album Last Look at Eden, the first album since 2006’s […]
1st August 2009
Thirty years after the release of the first Accept record, the man is still going strong. I guess everybody knows story about this highly influential metal band from Germany – the bake-ups, reunions and the […]
1st July 2009
Indukti is a Polish band, an instrumental band with singing, an band that is heavily inspired by others, yet sounds mostly like … well Indukti. The band is instrumental, but they have guest vocal performances […]
7th June 2009
Undisputed kings of progressive metal keep to their new-album-every-two-years routine, which is once again produced by the band’s own John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy. And this is where one of the problems of Dream Theater’s […]
7th June 2009
It’s a tricky business being inspired by likes of Tool, Pink Floyd and Radiohead. On one hand the greatness of these bands is endless inspiration and it can affect the band’s music positively, but on […]
6th September 2018
As many of you know, Michael Romeo is an internationally acclaimed axe slinging, guitar virtuoso of progressive kings, Symphony X. Now he has released his eagerly anticipated first official solo album entitled War Of The […]
6th September 2018
It might not seem so, but The Pineapple Thief have been around for almost two decades and in course of that time the band has displayed constant evolving. If their previous release Your Wilderness signaled the band […]
4th September 2018
Avast is a rather unique creation – Even more so the more I delve into it. From what I have been able to gather so far, we are dealing with a Norwegian quartet that has […]
3rd September 2018
It seems surreal that more than three decades have passed since Udo Dirkschneider left Accept and released the first album with his own band U.D.O. Still to this day it’s hard to find a review, […]
30th August 2018
Greybeards is an alternative rock quartet from Gävle, Sweden. For The Wilder Minds is their second full length 10-tracker album where the band come across with a good personality and own musical identity. In a […]
27th August 2018
In 2007 Norwegian band Manes released How The World Came To An End, which ended up being the finest release of that year. Since then the band has taken their sweet time when it comes […]
27th August 2018
Five years since the release of their previous album Alice In Chains are ready with the third album of their William DuVall-era. Since the outstanding return in form of 2009’s Black Gives Light to Blue, […]
26th August 2018
Lithuanian Au-Dessus (who still confuses me a bit with their French name), was founded four years ago as as Post-Black Metal quartet and cemented their status as a worthy addition to the genre a year […]
23rd August 2018
With the release of their latest offering Deprevador, the Spanish (based in Madrid) noise-mongers VOR bring to the table one of the most corrosive releases of the year. The album contains only 7 tracks, but […]
17th August 2018
Paganland is a Ukranian-based Black Metal band with strong roots and other connections to their history and past as part of the Slavic countries. The five musicians take great pride in both their nationality and […]
