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Review – The Mute Gods – Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me – By Shawn Dudley
One of the many benefits of living within the era of Steven Wilson is in addition to his seemingly bottomless pit of musical projects and his excellent remixing work he also has quite a knack for surrounding himself with top-drawer musicians. The multi-talented Nick Beggs immediately made his presence felt in Steven’s solo band, not…
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Review – Osta Love – The Isle of Dogs
(Featured image of the band courtesy of Chris Noltekuhlmann) “Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” – Martin Luther. I have oft mentioned how I see myself as a modern day treasure hunter, searching the jewels of musical endeavor that would otherwise lay hidden…
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Details of New Magnum album, ‘Sacred Blood, Divine Lies’, and tour released
Mighty British melodic hard rock group Magnum are set to release their magnificent new studio album Sacred Blood Divine? Lies, on Steamhammer / SPV on February 26th, as a limited edition DigiPak CD (with bonus DVD), standard Jewel Case CD, double gatefold vinyl with printed inner sleeves + CD (in paper sleeve), and download. Sacred…
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Gandalf’s Fist announce The Clockwork Fable Pre-Order
Progressive Rock innovators Gandalf’s Fist are delighted to announce The Clockwork Fable, a Prog-Rock Mind Movie in three oscillations. As a follow-up to the acclaimed ?A Forest of Fey, they’ve?gone all-out, creating a truly epic *TRIPLE* concept album. Set in the fictional world of Cogtopolis, each CD of the record serves as a different act…
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Progradar’s New Year Wallet Emptier – 12th January 2016
Happy New Year my friends, after the bumper musical cornucopia of 2015, it is quite difficult to see how 2016 could top it but, you never know! To get this year started with a bang, here’s a super-duper edition of Wallet Emptier featuring some great albums from last year that didn’t get to feature due…
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Live Review – The Prog Before Christmas – CCA Glasgow 18/12/15 – by Progradar
(Your intrepid correspondent and Jon Hunt, aka jh) No matter how long and arduous the journey, if the destination deserves it, it was a worthy one. Trust me, the trip up to Glasgow and back for The Prog Before Christmas was decidedly long and, at times, extremely arduous. However, what transpired and unfolded before me…
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Review – Teramaze – Her Halo – by Kevin Thompson
WARNING! IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOUR PROG ON THE METAL SIDE, LOOK AWAY NOW. An endless list: Muse, Queen, Joe Satriani, Pallas, Evergrey, Symphony X, Dream Theater, Anathema, Threshold, and on and on……… I think I have found a new sub-genre, Alloy Prog, as this band combine so many different styles of prog metal and…
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Review – Malady (self-titled) by Emma Roebuck
I don’t really like to have half the review written for me.However, the guys from Malady kindly translated their website information from the Finnish as their English makes my total absence of Finnish look very embarrassing. So for those of you looking at the website, you can now see what some of the words mean…
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Combination review – Panzerballet – Breaking Brain & Special Providence – Essence of Change by Shawn Dudley
fusion (noun) – a merging of diverse, distinct, or separate elements into a unified whole. When venturing into conversations about experimental or hard-to-define musical styles I often find it beneficial to go back to the original literal definition of the genre name. Fusion (the musical style) conjures a particular sound and a particular era, mostly…
