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Artist: Darkwater Album Title: Human Label: Ulterium Records Date of Release: 1 March 2019 The wait has, at times, felt interminable and I did begin to wonder if Darkwater would ever return to grace our ears with a new record to follow-up the majestic ‘Where Stories End’. However, the better part of nine years later,  Continue Reading »

Artist: Rendezvous Point Album Title: Universal Chaos Label: Long Branch Records Date of Release: 24 May 2019 Blimey, talk about a slow burner of a record. I downloaded the promo of ‘Univeral Chaos’, the sophomore release from Norwegian metal band Rendezvous Point way back, weeks or months before the release and almost immediately it popped  Continue Reading »

What can I say? I am overwhelmed by the comments, the love and the support shown to me following the publication of my first blog post in over eight months, a somewhat incoherent gathering of thoughts about the atmosphere, the fun, the friendship and the magic of ProgPower Europe 2019. But I must put all  Continue Reading »

Where do I begin? It has been the better part of a year since I last posted anything on this website. It seemed fitting that my final act was to review the new Evergrey record, ‘The Atlantic’ back in January because I can’t really see it being beaten as the year’s best. But the ensuing  Continue Reading »

Artist: Evergrey Album Title: The Atlantic Label: AFM Records Date of Release: 25 January 2019 Many of you will be aware that since the beginning of 2019, I haven’t written a single review up to this point. I apologise for that. However, there are a few reasons. Firstly, my head has not really been in  Continue Reading »

Ever since I discovered Evergrey around the turn of the Millennium, I have seen them live on stage countless times. They have released seven or eight new records of original material and I have interviewed Tom on perhaps five or six occasions. But Evergrey, as we all know, are my number one band, and it  Continue Reading »

Welcome to the final chapter in my 2018 ‘album of the year’ top 30 countdown. I have made it. Despite what has been a supremely hideous last two months at the Mansion of Much Metal, I have managed to keep to tradition and bring you my usual in-depth dissection of the best music to meet  Continue Reading »

Welcome to the penultimate chapter of my Album of the Year 2018 top 30 countdown. I had hoped to complete the countdown ahead of Christmas day but the fates conspired to ensure that it wasn’t to be. But never mind, it just means that now the turkey has been consumed, the presents opened and the  Continue Reading »

Welcome to another chapter of my Album of the Year 2018 top 30 countdown. And, if the quality on offer throughout the past few weeks has been extremely high, prepare for more of the same in the coming days. It is no exaggeration to state that this has been the most difficult top 10 to  Continue Reading »

Welcome to the latest chapter of my Album of the Year 2018 top 30 countdown. It seems like it was only yesterday that I started this series but it has been three weeks since I began and since then, around 17,000 words has been dedicated to the best music that 2018 has had to offer.  Continue Reading »