Spock’s Beard is a band that has seen a big resurgence in the last few years. To the more casual prog listener (if indeed there is such a thing), they were…
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Rich Sullivan-Jones
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A Light in the Dark, the debut LP from teenage metallers Next to None, can best be summed up by the word “potential”. The band is best known for drummer Max…
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It’s not often an album comes along that I have absolutely no idea how to define. Not that I mind, personally, about genre definitions, but when you’re trying to explain to…
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Mark Tremonti, best known as the guitarist and primary song-writer for Alter Bridge, released his second solo album Cauterize this month. It follows his debut solo effort All I Was, which…
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Having recently reviewed Karnataka’s excellent new album, Secrets of Angels, I had the pleasure earlier this month of getting to see them live at Islington Assembly Hall. The pleasure was greater…
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The progressive metal genre is so big, so broad and so diverse that it can often be hard for bands to stand out. Some do so simply by being really bloody…
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“Girl power” was a much-uttered phrase back in the 90s, mostly in relation to a Spice Girls-led surge in popular girl groups filling the charts. Problem was, as much the idea…
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Finnish family band Von Hertzen Brothers have always toed the line between prog rock and more straightforward hard rock. There’s not usually anything inherently progressive about their music, but they’ve always…
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Secrets of Angels is the latest album from London-based, pan-European, originally-Welsh band Karnataka. Before I was sent the promo of the album, I wasn’t all that familiar with their music. And…
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Voodoo Moonshine is the latest EP from absolutely bonkers French metallers Trepalium. When an album’s promo material describes it as being “for fans of Meshuggah, Pantera, and jazz with attitude”, you…