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Threshold Announce London as part of their Legends Of The Shires album tour!
UK progressive metal quintet THRESHOLD released their colossal double concept album Legends Of The Shires on September 8th, 2017 through Nuclear Blast. It’s the band’s most successful album to date and was followed by a hugely successful 2-week European headline run with several sold out shows. Reasons enough, then, for the band to announce a…
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Review – Fractal Mirror – Close to Vapour – by Jez Denton
Pop music often gets a bad press; often because it is thought of as being bland, uninspiring and repetitive, and often with good cause. However, pop music can be anything but those criticisms with brilliant melodies, lush production and funny and quirky lyrics. Right from the moment Brian Wilson created ‘Pet Sounds’ in 1967, through…
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Progradar Recommends (Episode 2) – PENNA, Soul Enema, Jim Griffin & Obscura
Welcome to another edition of Progradar Recommends, today I’ll talk to you about music from PENNA, Soul Enema, Jim Griffin & Obscura in this selection of bite-size reviews… PENNA – SubLevels Multi-instrumentalist Dave Penna first came to notariety in the early 90’s as the drummer with Long Island tech-thrashers Kronin.? Since then he has worked…
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Amorphis Release first single from Queen Of Time? & launch album pre-orders!
Melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS are due to unleash their latest offering entitled Queen Of Time on May 18th via Nuclear Blast. Today the band is teasing fans with a taster of what to expect from their 13th studio album. Listen to opening track ‘The Bee’: Of this first offering, guitarist Esa Holopainen comments: “This song…
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Progradar Recommends (Episode 1) – Marco Ragni, M’Z, Siiilk & Wilson and Wakeman
The long form review is becoming defunct in this day of instant gratification and bombardment of new musical exploits. Welcome to the new Progradar review section – ‘Progradar Recommends’ – where you’ll get more reviews (only with less words or some may say less twaddle!). Starting this new feature will be Marco Ragni, M’Z, Siiilk…
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Review – The Fierce And The Dead – The Euphoric – by Jez Denton
Just recently I have picked up on the Channel Four series of Philip K.Dick stories, Electric Dreams, in which dystopian nightmares are played out in mainly normal humdrum situations with a fear of foreboding dread building to a crescendo. Likewise, the third studio album from instrumental band The Fierce and The Dead, titled ‘The Euphoric’,…
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Review – Mothertongue – Where The Moonlight Snows by Tom Slatter
Mothertongue Mothertongue Mothertongue Mothertongue Mothertongue Mothertongue! This is great. A big dollop of proper pop. A slice of singalong hooks, followed by the rest of the cake. The earworms you didn’t know you needed until they wiggled down your eustachian tube and wrapped their little bodies round your cochlea. Your new favourite album. Bad Elephant…
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Review – Downriver Dead Men Go – Departures – by Kevin Thompson
The man called Gerrit rounded the corner, his earphones mingling the noises from the factory to his left with the music on his mp3 player, whilst the lost and lonesome dragged through another evening shift on minimum wage to keep the corporate wolf from the council house door. Under-appreciated he mused, he couldn’t, wouldn’t want…
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Tangerine Dream release soundtrack album to the film ‘Cargo’ – Out 4th May
Invisible Hands Music is delighted to announce the release on 4 May 2018 of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the film Cargo as created by Thorsten Quaeschning of Tangerine Dream. Cargo is a taut thriller written and directed by James Dylan, that stars actor Ron Thompson in the lead role.? Cargo tells the bleak…
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TESSERACT PREMIERE VIDEO FOR THE NEW SINGLE KING?
Ahead of the release of TesseracT’s highly anticipated new studio album Sonder the band have revealed their first official video, for their new single King. The emotive and viscerally challenging clip, was directed by Kyle Kadow & Steven Cleavland and shot in a snowy Wisconsin following a brutal storm, which all added to the atmospheric…