by Nikiforos Skoumas Staff Writer Live Look at Eden is an audio-visual documentation of Europe’s 2010-2011 world tour in support of their latest studio album Last Look at Eden. It seems that since their reformation in 2004, the Swedish melodic hard rock pioneers have steadily regained their [...]
by Marc C. Staff Writer Formed in 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia the comedy/metal band known as Dick Delicious and The Tasty Testicles released three albums between 1995 and 2003. Their shining moment up to that point was winning the Howard Stern Award for Musical Excellence in 2003 and subsequently [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer A real treat for progressive metal fans in on the way. Prog metal pioneers John Arch and Jim Matheos, both founding members of the groundbreaking band Fates Warning, have reunited and will be releasing a new album as Arch/Matheos entitled Sympathetic Resonance. Far more than [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer It’s been five years since we last heard from American doom metal legends Solitude Aeturnus, and with singer Robert Lowe busy in Candlemass it may be even longer till a proper follow up to 2006’s very underrated Alone is released. In the meantime, the band has [...]
by Nikiforos Skoumas Staff Writer Dream is the brand new debut album by UK-based hot-shot guitarist Greg X. Within the music industry, Greg is quick to position himself as is an independent artist, though producing an album of major-label proportions. It has to be clear that Dream is not an [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer It wasn’t all that long ago that the term “progressive metal” essentially meant “bands that sound like Dream Theater.” In recent years, however, a variety of innovative bands have taken the progressive metal genre and, well…progressed. As a result you have [...]
by Franco Cerchiari Staff Writer As painful as it is to admit, progressive metal bands like Cynthesis, Creation’s End, Hourglass, Myrath and Anubis Gate — until American radio gets its act together — will never be heard to a wider audience. But, be that as it may, as long as Anubis [...]
by Mark Allen Staff Writer Before listening to this album, you should probably make an appointment with a dentist to have your mouth wired shut, because there are moments on Mercury’s Down that will drop your jaw to the floor unless you take prior preventative precautions. The album as a whole is [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer If you’ve been following the career of progressive metal band Symphony X, there are two trends that have emerged in recent years. The first is that the band is taking longer to record new albums. Their eighth (and latest) offering, Iconoclast, comes four years [...]
by Trevor Portz Staff Writer The name Discharge may not be as familiar to as many metalheads as, say, the Misfits or the Damned, but one spin of either the War Is Hell compilation of [newly recorded] old material, or newer album Disensitise, will immediately illustrate the major influence these [...]
