LEPROUS: “Those Who Try To Fit In Will Never Get Anywhere.” [Interview]
Their latest album, Coal, is a musical adventure through darkness and beautiful sounds. It was dubbed by our reviewer, Jack, as a stand out album of this year and a unique one. What is unique about...
View ArticleLive Report: Haken/Maschine @The Borderline, London (UK) – 24th November 2013
On this special night, attendees were reminded why Inside Out Music are perhaps the most consistently impressive record label in prog rock/prog metal circles. Two of their fine roster were on display...
View ArticlePROGRESSIVE NATION AT SEA 2014 Launch Exclusive Stream of Transatlantic’s...
Next year will see the inaugural Progressive Nation At Sea cruise, presented by Sixthman, Del Fuvio Brothers and InsideOutMusic, running from the 18th -22nd February 2014. Progressive-rock super-group...
View ArticleLEPROUS: To Tour US and Canada in September
Norway’s Leprous have announced a tour of the US/Canada for September. The band stated on their Facebook page: “We’re over excited to announce that we’ll finally do some shows in the USA and Canada in...
View ArticleTESSERACT: Announce UK Tour with Animals as Leaders
Tech metallers TesseracT have announced a UK Tour following their appearance at Sonisphere, and they will bring instrumental prog metallers Animals as Leaders as support. The tour begins in early...
View ArticleThe Polish Gene: 4 Examples of New Polish Black and Death Metal
If Poland could bring us Behemoth, Vader and Decapitated among other established names, then we would be correct in determining that it is a breeding ground for metal which is of the viciously heavy...
View ArticleRelease Review: Escapethecult – All You Want To
Rock and metal super groups don’t come to fruition very often these days. But when they do, their albums possess those traits that separate them from their members’ regular bands, but also by bringing...
View ArticleRelease Review: Empty Yard Experiment – Kallisti
Having recently reviewed Escapethecult’s All You Want To (found here), I was very much in a mood for progressive metal. Normally this would result in finding some new material reminiscent of any...
View ArticleOHHMS – Cold
OHHMs are something of a phenomenon in the British music scene. In a few months they’ve gone from relative obscurity to airplay on BBC Radio 1 and supporting bands like The Skull at The Underworld,...
View ArticleBETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME’s Dan Briggs: “It’s Inherently so Engraved in Us...
Having recently reviewed the new album from progressive metal shamans Between the Buried and Me, it seemed only fitting that my closing thought was; “How the hell do they do that?” Because Coma...
View ArticleBetween the Buried and Me & Haken @Southampton Talking Heads – 16th September...
Last time North Carolinian prog-metallers Between the Buried and Me played Southampton, they left this delightful out-of-town venue called The Brook and within what felt like mere moments were looking...
View ArticleTesseracT – Errai
Following the release of the critically-appraised Polaris last year, TesseracT have been engulfed in an ocean of opportunistic endeavours this year. Since September 2015, the release of Polaris on the...
View ArticleTardive Dyskinesia – Harmonic Confusion
I’m not a medical expert, nor am I a linguistic aficionado, but if there was an appropriate metaphor to aptly describe two oxymoronic things then we need look no further. Tardive dyskinesia by...
View ArticleVOYAGER: “We Are All Very Hands on When It Comes to This and Know How We Want...
Voyager, from Australia, are about to embark on the biggest tour of their career so far, opening for the mighty Deftones, alongside Karnivool across their native homeland. For anyone who knows the...
View ArticleTELEPATHY: “We’re a Touring Band, We Thrive on Playing Live and Travelling to...
In the UK there is a little band called Telepathy who hail from Colchester. Telepathy are one of those bands who are easy to fall in love with, they bring something new to the table with a sound that...
View ArticleRIVIẼRE – Heal
In the world of heavy metal, I really feel France have some of the most forward thinking and creatively unique bands out there and Toulouse’s own RIVIẼRE are no exception to this at all. With their...
View ArticleSümer, Brutai, For The Oracle, Agent @ Islington Academy 2, London (UK) –...
Sümer are one of the country’s best bands. A confident, mesmerising live act as shown by their live performance at Bloodstock. As soon as this tour was announced, I jumped at the chance and four months...
View ArticleBlack Sites – In Monochrome
Formed out of the ashes of underground heroes Trials, Chicago’s Black Sites have been making waves with their debut album In Monochrome. The four piece have been hard at work and have made a...
View ArticleTELEPATHY: “Sonically and Thematically, I Would Say Tempest Is the Darker of...
One of the smartest British bands of recent years, Telepathy are ready to unleash their second album, the long awaited Tempest. Before the post-metal four piece from Essex headed off on their Euro tour...
View ArticleONI’s Chase Bryant Talks Japanese Influence, Touring with Children of Bodom &...
Oni are a bright young band that are going places. They are relentlessly touring and working hard towards their dream. Before their tour with Children of Bodom, I spoke to bassist Chase Bryant about...
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