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Tag Archives: Progressive Rock

Tilt – Hinterland – Album Review

Artist: Tilt Album Title: Hinterland Label: Tilt Music Date of Release: 30 June 2016 Out of the shadows of a progressive rock great, comes a brand new band that will, without any doubt at all, capture the attention of the prog rock genre. Their collective name is Tilt but individually, they number five talented musicians.  Continue Reading »

Half-Way Through 2016 – The Best So Far – Part 3

Welcome to my third and final post summarising the best releases during the first half of 2016. If you’ve missed parts 1 and 2, here are the links: Half-Way Through 2016 – The Best So Far – Part 1 Half-Way Through 2016 – The Best So Far – Part 2 But onto the main event  Continue Reading »

Half-Way Through 2016 – The Best So Far – Part 2

Welcome to the second instalment of my half-year round-up where I summarise my favourite albums that have been released during the first half of 2016. As I stated in Part 1, this year has been tremendously strong and so the candidates that feature in this list are all of the highest possible quality. So here  Continue Reading »

Cosmograf – The Unreasonable Silence – Album Review

Artist: Cosmograf Album Title: The Unreasonable Silence Label: Cosmograf Music Date Of Release: 13 June 2016 Cosmograf is another musical name that I have discovered this year thanks to the power and persuasion of social media, not to mention the increased time that I have now that I am only writing for my own blog.  Continue Reading »

Live gig review: Haken, Special Providence, Arkentype – Highbury Garage 26/05/16

**please forgive the quality of the photography that accompanies this live review. Thanks to a very kind and polite security team, I wasn’t able to take my SLR into the venue and my brand new HTC 10 decided that it wasn’t going to play nicely with me, refusing to focus in anything but long range  Continue Reading »

Big Big Train – Folklore – Album Review

Artist: Big Big Train Album Title: Folklore Label: English Electric Recordings Date Of Release: 27 May 2016 Albums like this need to be consumed for some time before any thoughts are committed to paper or PC. However, I was desperate to review ‘Folklore’ by Big Big Train before it was officially released and so, after  Continue Reading »

Airbag – Disconnected – Album Review

Artist: Airbag Album Title: Disconnected Label: Karisma Records Date Of Release: 10 June 2016 I may be the Man Of Much Metal but occasionally, there’s nothing I like more than to dial down the extremity and indulge in something altogether more relaxed. The scratching post for this particular itch comes in the form of Norwegian  Continue Reading »

Frost* – Falling Satellites – Album Review

Artist: Frost* Album Title: Falling Satellites Label: InsideOut Music Date Of Release: 27 May 2016 I’m a late convert to the Frost* cause, but better late than never as the old saying goes. Last year, I had the pleasure of reviewing Lonely Robot, the debut album under that moniker from John Mitchell, he of Arena  Continue Reading »

Earthside – Interview – “we don’t write something with the idea of making it easy to play live”

‘A Dream In Static’, the debut album from US progressive metal band Earthside ended up as my favourite album of 2015. I wasn’t expecting this to be the case at the start of the year but if you’ve heard it, you’ll not be surprised as to why it attained such a lofty place in my  Continue Reading »

Habu – Infinite – Album Review

Artist: Habu Album Title: Infinite Label: Independent Release Date Of Release: 29 April 2016 It’s a rare thing for a decent band to come from my own personal neck of the woods. Aside from Cradle Of Filth, the pickings from Suffolk are pretty slim. But then, given our rural surroundings and relaxed pace of life,  Continue Reading »


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