Tag Archives: prog
Album of the Year 2014 – Number 9
We’re into single figures now in the Blog Of Much Metal Album of the Year 2014 countdown. It has been a real challenge this year due to increasing pressures on my time but I feel compelled to continue so that I can offer my thoughts on the best music that the rock and metal worlds Continue Reading »
Album Of The Year 2014 – Number 13
We’ve reached the number 13 spot which might be considered to be an unlucky position. Not so here, because hopefully the band at the centre of this post will enjoy a little more time in the spotlight. I hope so anyway. Before I launch into today’s pick, just a reminder that you can read any Continue Reading »
Heavy Metal is not just shouty music
I have just about had enough of people indiscriminately pre-judging and discarding heavy metal as ‘shouty’ or ‘just noise’. I admit that some of it is exactly both of these things and I love it. I mean, you’d have to be a brave person to argue that the noise subgenre is not noise. And you’d Continue Reading »
An Interview with Bruce Soord & Jonas Renkse – Wisdom Of Crowds
The collaboration between The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord and Katatonia’s vocalist Jonas Renkse is an intriguing one. It brings together two relatively unlikely bedfellows, one from the world of English prog rock, the other from a Swedish dark metal band. That said, the response from almost all quarters to the project known as Wisdom Of Continue Reading »
An Evening with Haken – A Live Review
An Evening with Haken – A Live Review. For this blog post, I thought I’d combine a couple of things, kill two birds with one stone, so to speak: offer readers my first ever live review for this blog and at the same time, offer a personal insight into my gig-going experience, from start to Continue Reading »
The Excitement Of The New Album Release
Hands up how many of you still get that excitement from a new album release? You know the feeling – that eager anticipation which begins the moment you find out a particular band is going to be releasing a new album. The eager anticipation that begins to turn into barely controlled impatience so that, on Continue Reading »
Big Big Train – English Electric (Part 1) – Full Album Review
The older I get, the more interested I become in prog music. Generally, that statement would require further clarification via the addition of the word ‘metal’. However, more recently, this has become less and less necessary as I have found myself taking great delight in some of the more laid back forms of the genre, Continue Reading »
Unknown & Underrated – Part 5
This is the fifth installment of my ‘Unknown & Underrated’ series. In Part 5, I take a look at three very different bands yet again. First up are a progressive rock band that have a flair for the dramatic. Then I choose a melodic doom metal band that are perhaps bigger than many I have Continue Reading »
Progpower Europe – the greatest festival ever?
The 2012 edition of Progpower Europe is right around the corner but, as a brand new Dad, I cannot attend for the third year in a row. I’m disappointed, but the adventure I have embarked upon at home makes up for the disappointment no end. Nevertheless, I shall not be travelling to Baarlo in the Continue Reading »
The Man Of Much Metal – the post-Uni days
The search for even more new music continued as I left University and put my foot on the first rung of the career ladder. Saddled with the ubiquitous student debt but with more money in my back pocket, I was able to buy more music than ever before. The Internet was also a great help Continue Reading »
