Meer’s Wheels Within Wheels displays creativity and cleverness
The sophomore album by Norwegian orchestral pop proggers Meer titled Playing House garnered the band a lot of praise and numerous glowing reviews, and...
Dream Theater present The Astonishing live at London Palladium
London's West End is full of prog-hunters on this cold and chilling February weekday evening. Jeff Wayne's “Musical Version of The War of the...
Mike Oldfield – Crises and Five Miles Out – Collectors Edition
When Mike Oldfield played live at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics Games in London, the obvious assumption was that canny businessmen would...
Anette Olzon unleashes the melodic Rapture
Anette Olzon and Tarja Turunen have a shared history as former vocalists for Nightwish, with both alleging their dismissals from the band—a claim that...
Kenny Wayne Shepherd delivers Dirt On My Diamonds Vol. 2
Following on from last year’s Dirt On My Diamonds Vol 1, Kenny Wayne Shepherd delivers on the promise of Vol 2. I said of...
Melodic rock band TWO OF A KIND release ‘Rise’
Two Of A Kind is a melodic rock band from Holland, whose self-titled debut album was released in 2007. Fred Hendrix, from Terra Nova...
Black Shapes ‘Sleep, Sleep, Sleep’
A lot of people have been making a lot of noise about London hardcore outfit Black Shapes of recent and rightly so. Their previously released EP...
The Rods invite you into the ‘Brotherhood of Metal’
It might be thirty-odd years since Dave ‘Rock’ Feinstein and the power trio that was -and is - The Rods first came to the notice of...
Review: Children Of Bodom – I Worship Chaos
There was a time where I, like many of my peers, would go to the music store and buy new albums based solely on...
Reviews: Beyond the Black – Lost in Forever
Stirring and ambient this begins with 'Lost in Forever', its ravishing melodies and up-tempo lilting vocal encounters. The beat is electric and the riffs are...
