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  • Review – Glass Hammer – Black Light

    Review – Glass Hammer – Black Light

    It’s good to be back, I’ve spent nearly eighteen months in the wilderness, unable to focus on anything to do with music, apart from listening to it. The previous Progradar site was no more and I didn’t have the energy to do anything about it! Thankfully, music saved the day. New albums from The Tangent…

  • 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…

  • New Release Round Up – Glass Hammer, IQ, Bj?rn Riis, Oak

    Due to some technical issues, we’ve been offline for a while but we are back with four fabulous new releases from Glass Hammer, IQ, Bj?rn Riis and Oak. So, without any further ado, let’s dig in! Glass Hammer – ‘Rogue‘ GLASS HAMMER GOES ROGUE WITH April 11th RELEASE Glass Hammer’s Rogue spins the tale of…

  • Glass Hammer Release Video For ‘The Return Of Daedalus’ On Halloween To Celebrate Release Of New Album ‘Arise’

    Glass Hammer Release Video For ‘The Return Of Daedalus’ On Halloween To Celebrate Release Of New Album ‘Arise’

    Glass Hammer Release “The Return Of Daedalus” Official Video Glass Hammer’s Steve Babb will release the nearly 17-minute-long epic, “The Return Of Daedalus,” in video form on Halloween to celebrate their ARISE release. “Books have always been a big influence on the concepts behind our albums,” says Babb. “Besides fantasy and historical fiction, I’ve been…

  • 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…