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  • Review – Glass Hammer – ‘Rogue’

    Review – Glass Hammer – ‘Rogue’

    Glass Hammer’s ‘Rogue’ spins the tale of one man’s fateful, final journey. He leaves everything he knows behind,? explains composer Steve Babb. And thinks he’s returning to a place where he once knew happiness, but in reality, his odyssey will sweep him away to somewhere completely unexpected.?  Babb explains that the ten-song album explores themes…

  • Review – Glass Hammer – Arise

    Review – Glass Hammer – Arise

    No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. – Lewis Carrol, ‘Alices Adventures in Wonderland’. In music, most albums contain individual stories, the songs, and then some albums have a thematic link: concept albums. So, when one of my favourite bands tells me they are releasing a space-based concept album, trust me,…

  • GLASS HAMMER PREMIERS NEW VIDEO WITH FANS ON BOARD – All Alone Video Includes Cameos and Fan Reactions

    GLASS HAMMER PREMIERS NEW VIDEO WITH FANS ON BOARD – All Alone Video Includes Cameos and Fan Reactions

    Glass Hammer’s Steve Babb put out the call two weeks ago for fans that would like to video their first reactions to All Alone, track number four from the band’s new album, At The Gate.  Our fans are very loyal,? says Babb. It seemed like a fun idea to include them this time! There are…

  • Review – Glass Hammer – At The Gate

    Review – Glass Hammer – At The Gate

    “Time crawls when we are very young; the older we grow, the more it hastens. If you’re living out a normal span of years, you know this to be true. “Where did the years go,” remarks the elder for whom the long night draws near. “It seems like just yesterday…” “But what of the man…

  • Glass Hammer Release Video for At The Gate

    Glass Hammer Release Video for At The Gate

    ‘The Years Roll By’ is the first of two music videos from the band’s new concept album. The Years Roll By is the opening track on Glass Hammer’s At The Gate concept album set for release on October 7th, 2022. Bandleader Steve Babb said the following about the new album: “At The Gate completes our…

  • Glass Hammer Announces New Album For October

    Glass Hammer Announces New Album For October

    Glass Hammer Completes The Skallagrim Trilogy with ‘AT THE GATE’ ‘At The Gate’, the third album of the Skallagrim trilogy, is set for release on October 7th. The new album follows ‘Dreaming City’ (2020) and ‘Skallagrim – Into The Breach’ (2021), bringing the story of the thief with the screaming sword? to its conclusion. Vocalist…

  • Review – Glass Hammer – Skallagrim – Into The Breach

    Review – Glass Hammer – Skallagrim – Into The Breach

    Glass Hammer return with ‘Skallagrim – Into The Breach’, Part Two of last year’s ‘Dreaming City’ which found lyricist, bassist and co-producer, Steve Babb, drawing inspiration from sword & sorcery novels of the seventies. Now the album has inspired an actual four-hundred page novel, Skallagrim – In The Vales Of Pagarna, which Babb plans to…

  • US Proggers Glass Hammer release a two-song video to celebrate their October 15th release of Skallagrim – Into The Breach

    US Proggers Glass Hammer release a two-song video to celebrate their October 15th release of Skallagrim – Into The Breach

    Glass Hammer have just released a video of He’s Got A Girl and Anthem To Andorath, two tracks from their upcoming Skallagrim – Into The Breach album. Skallagrim – Into The Breach is Part Two of last year’s Dreaming City which found lyricist, bassist and co-producer, Steve Babb, drawing inspiration from sword & sorcery novels…

  • Glass Hammer Tease Fall Release With New Trailer – “SKALLAGRIM – INTO THE BREACH” Releasing October 15th, 2021

    Glass Hammer Tease Fall Release With New Trailer – “SKALLAGRIM – INTO THE BREACH” Releasing October 15th, 2021

    Glass Hammer returns to the world of the Dreaming City with the follow-up album, “SKALLAGRIM – INTO THE BREACH.? The album continues the tale of the thief with the screaming sword, a desperate man who lost his lover and his memory. It’s over the top and meant to be,? comments Glass Hammer’s Steve Babb. But…

  • Glass Hammer Unveil New Vocalist And Become First Prog Act To Announce NFT Drop

    Veteran US prog band Glass Hammer  have announced their new vocalist and their debut NFT drop. The band are working on the follow-up to 2020’s well received ‘Dreaming City’  which will follow on from the previous release’s concept. Steve Babb and Fred Schendel have divulged that singer Hannah Pyror, who first featured on last December’s digital release,…