Monthly Archives:

June 2014

  • Q&A With LOMM

    Black Crown Initiate

    Black Crown Initiate Bio: Jesse: We all played together in a band for a couple years, it was a local group. We did a lot of small clubs and short weekend tours. Not…

  • Album Reviews

    Froskull- Froskull

    I like to think my music taste is quite wide ranging. Yes, I major on progressive rock and metal but I have a love of all music that is good. When…

  • Album Reviews

    Signum Regis – Exodus

    Signum Regis (Latin for “Signature of the King”) is a melodic metal band out of Slovakia, founded in 2007, and Exodus is their third studio album.  The follow up to their…

  • Specials

    IR – No Country for Old Men

    My formative years and the decade I attained puberty (if not maturity) were the 1980’s. My important school years, my first drink, my first girlfriend (and first kiss, but that’s for…

  • Album Reviews

    Preacher – Signals

    Crowning yourselves as ‘Ayrshire’s Melodic Rock Band’ might seem like not exactly setting your targets too high or even of a propensity to prefer being a big fish in a small…

  • Q&A With LOMM

    Hyperborean

    Bio: The members of Swedish band Hyperborean are Magnus on vocals and Andreas on guitars and bass and then there is Fredrik Widigs who played session drums on both of our albums.…

  • Specials

    New supergroup ESCAPETHECULT

    PRIMUS, KING DIAMOND, UNEVEN STRUCTURE and KAMLATH members form prog supergroup ESCAPETHECULT ESCAPETHECULT began life in 2008 as the brainchild of ambitious bassist PETER G. SHALLMIN of Siberian band KAMLATH, whose…

  • Album Reviews

    Mike Kershaw – Ice Age

    No one can deny that there has been a recent revival in Progressive music. In my opinion, I think the last couple of years have signalled another golden age for this…

  • Music News

    MARCO MINNEMANN – EEPS CD – Available July 9th, 2014

    Marco Minnemann is looked upon by his peers and fans as one of the most innovative drummers on the international music scene today.  As a solo artist, Marco proves he’s not just about drums:  on this album he composed all the songs, lyrics and plays every instrument on the album (along with engineering and recording the record and mixing a number of the tracks). Marco has performed and/or recorded with The Aristocrats, Steven Wilson, Joe Satriani, Buddy Rich Big Band, Necrophagist, Nina Hagen, Kreator, Terry Bozzio, Mike Keneally and last year’s critically…