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Progradar Best Of 2016 – Shawn Dudley’s Top 10
Let’s face it, 2016 has not been the best year in human history, but it has been an exceptionally good year for music.? Seemingly every week something new would capture my imagination and become indispensible.? Due to the magnitude of choices putting together a year-end list became a daunting exercise. What follows is not necessarily…
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Review – Seven Impale – Contrapasso – by Shawn Dudley
The opening lurching guitar/organ riff sounds like the amplified machinery of a giant steamship; bellowing, relentless, ominous power.? Then it morphs into a straight, almost funky propulsive groove with some very tasty organ comping while various synth and vocals effects weave in out of the background like a swirling mist. The vocals of Stian Okland…
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SEVEN IMPALE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM & SHARE NEW TRACK
Seven Impale‘s debut album, “City of the Sun”, was very well received by the prog audience over the world, and in the year poll of 2014 at Progarchives.com, the album got ranked as the 7th best that year. So, in spring 2016, Seven Impale teamed up again with producer Iver Sand?y (produced Enslaved, Krakow etc.)…