Album Reviews

Arkentype – Disorientated

26th November 2015 Thomas Nielsen

I’m not necessarily a fan of every little detail this young Norwegian band does on their debut full-length, but that does not take away the fact that ‘Disorientated’ is a very, very special album. In [Read »]

Album Reviews

Threshold – European Journey

14th November 2015 Kenn Jensen

New live album from one of progressive music’s premier bands: Threshold. And even with their impressive back catalogue, this is not a best of played live. No, this double album has focus on their two [Read »]

Album Reviews

Eldritch – Underlying Issues

7th November 2015 Reinier de Vries

This is the tenth album of this Italian band. Eldritch is a progressive metal band, although I have to say that the term progressive isn’t always easy to describe. What is progressive? Must the music [Read »]

Album Reviews

Ivanhoe – 7 Days

17th October 2015 Kenn Jensen

While Ivanhoe might be one of Germany’s longest serving progressive metal bands, they’ve never really managed to get their career off … and this new album, their seventh, probably won’t change that either. Their dark, [Read »]

Album Reviews

Elegacy – The Binding Sequence

11th October 2015 Reinier de Vries

Elegacy is a prog-power metal band/project formed by Constantin Terzago (keyboards) and Massimo La Russa (guitars). After their first album ‘Impressions’ in 2005, things were put on a hold, but they continued writing new songs. In 2011, new [Read »]

Album Reviews

The Great Discord – Echoes (EP)

11th September 2015 Cristina

Reaching beyond the limits of traditional metal has been popular since quite some time and there are a couple of great examples that prove how fresh metal can sound if you dare to try to [Read »]

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Amorphis – Under The Red Cloud

30th August 2015 Sophie Ruhnke

After more than 25 years of extolling finnish myths musically, Amorphis once again read through the Kalevala to find new topics which could be turned into music. It’s already the 12th time that Amorphis are hitting the studio, [Read »]