Album Reviews
Promethee – Unrest
It is arguable that innovation has become a key word when it comes to metal music these days. If your band doesn’t happen to be among the big, successful and worshipped acts of metal, you [Read »]
Album Reviews
Trials – This Ruined World
We all get into bands in very different ways and have experienced the “love at first listen” or the bands we gradually learned to love. But actually, very few bands blew my mind right away [Read »]
Album Reviews
Symphony X – Underworld
I’ve always had very mixed feelings about Symphony X in general. I was really into V: The New Mythology and The Odyssey, but some of their other albums didn’t sit so well with me, so I was definitely [Read »]
Album Reviews
My Hollow – On Borrowed Time
Surprises can be surprisingly good and surprisingly bad. I always prefer a “Surprise! You won!” versus a “Surprise! You’re fired!” The other day when I was looking through the list of promos to check out, [Read »]
Interviews
Interview with Next To None’s Max Portnoy
How did you guys meet each other and when did you decide to form a band? I knew Kris and Ryland since first grade and we used to jam all the time. I had many [Read »]
Album Reviews
Between the Buried and Me – Coma Ecliptic
In 2002, North Carolina based progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me released their first self-titled album. Now here we are thirteen years later looking at their seventh studio release Coma Ecliptic, and I [Read »]
News
ABNORMAL THOUGHT PATTERNS release new video for “Distortions Of Perception”
After having released the single for ‘Nocturnal Haven’ (feat. Tommy Rogers of BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME), Californian riff wizard ABNORMAL THOUGHT PATTERNS now revealed the video for ‘Distortions Of Perception’ off their new album [Read »]
Album Reviews
Next To None – A Light In The Dark
Being young and wanting to be taken seriously as an aspiring musician is a tough task to accomplish and I see friends, either playing in local bands or in orchestra, trying to reach this goal [Read »]
Interviews
Interview with Jasun Tipton of Abnormal Thought Patterns
Q: What made you decide to move on from Zero Hour? Jasun: Troy had the ulnar nerve entrapment-sub-muscular surgery performed on his left arm in December of 2007. Troy has had a very difficult time [Read »]
Album Reviews
Abnormal Thought Patterns – Altered States Of Consciousness
The Tipton twins (Jasun and Troy) have been around the prog metal world for quite a while now. Zero Hour always seemed like they would be the next big thing but it just never happened. [Read »]