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Step In Fluid (they don’t specify what type of fluid) is an instrumental metal band. Their debut album, One Step Beyond, contains eight tracks of some of the most interesting metal I’ve heard recently. Now you might think, “Interesting, is that like saying the music has a nice personality?” No, it means I found...
We’re taking a look at some Brazilian Progressive Metal today that was a very pleasant surprise for this often cynical reviewer. The album we are looking at is “Ivory Gate’s” third studio album. “The Devil’s Dance” has a variety of themes, but they hold the consistency of being very dark and heavy in nature....
I’ve been sitting, virtual pen posed over virtual paper, for an hour now and I still can’t figure out how to describe ENTHRALL’s latest album, Throes Of Fire. Oh, there are plenty of adjectives to be applied: smooth, powerful, captivating, varied. And it’s that last one, varied, which is giving me the trouble. For...
Melodic, gothic, thrash, symphonic, death, growls, cleans, screams, technical, theatrical – times two! All of these words can easily be used to describe the cornucopia of sound that makes up Wykked Wytch. Over the years I have listened off and on to the band, but have not really taken a lot of notice in...
Today we have a little Progressive Metal from one of my favorite labels Frontiers Records. Beyond the Bridge is a band that founded in 1999 under the name Fallout, but members went their different ways throughout Germany until some of them decided 2005 was a good time to get back together and build the...
It’s remarkable what a single musician can do in their own home/garage/recording studio these days, isn’t it? It wasn’t all that long ago to put out an album an artist would need a band, a recording studio and either backing or the resources to cut their own records. (In case any of you young...
The hardest thing in metal for me to review is technical progressive metal. Or let me correct that to modern technical progressive metal. What I define as old would be one of my favorite Canadian metallers in Rush. To me they exemplify everything that is progressive and at the same time incredibly technical. The...
According to the write-up I received along with Serious Beak’s new creation, Huxwhukw, the album is “an eccentric amalgamation of mind-melting, toe-tapping, psychedelic, progressive and poly-rhythmic discordant music.” Which, after listening to the disc, I would say is true, if overly wordy. It is certainly eccentric and psychedelic and toe-tapping, no argument. What the...
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Review: The Firstborn – Lions Among Men
As regular readers will know I am always on the lookout for music which steps outside of the box. I like artists who experiment, who push the boundaries, who direct their passions in new directions. As you might imagine, I was thrilled when I received a copy of The Firstbord’s fifth CD Lions Among...
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