Tag Archives: Mike Portnoy

Artist: Sons Of Apollo Album title: Psychotic Symphony Label: InsideOut Music Date of Release: 20 October 2017 It’s a new day. Therefore, it is almost inevitable that we have a new project from renowned drummer Mike Portnoy. Of course, I’m being a little ridiculous and prone to exaggeration but given how prolific and obviously inspired  Continue Reading »

Welcome to my latest round-up of anticipated rock and metal releases on their way in the near future. It’s a big one today, so no big introduction from me. Let’s just get straight on with it. Enslaved release more details about their new album… Enslaved – E Date of release: 13 October 2017 Label: Nuclear  Continue Reading »

Another day arrives and with it, comes another album in my ‘Album of the Year 2016’ top 30 countdown. For a change, I’m going to go straight into the main body of this post without any delay other than to remind readers that you can get links to all of the other posts in this  Continue Reading »

Artist: The Neal Morse Band Album Title: The Similitude Of A Dream Label: Radiant Records Date Of Release: 11 November 2016 Is it just well-calculated hype or is it a genuine belief? That was my first thought when Mike Portnoy declared that the new Neal Morse Band album, ‘The Similitude Of A Dream’ to be  Continue Reading »

**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 »

Welcome to the third and final part (unless I realise I’ve missed someone off my list) of my round-up of the best albums released in 2015 at the half-way mark of the year. As I have said before, 2015 has been exceptionally strong so far and, as such, my list is quite extensive; more so  Continue Reading »

Artist: The Neal Morse Band Album Title: The Grand Experiment Label: InsideOut Music Year of Release: 2015 There are some musicians that can be referred to as a ‘safe pair of hands’ and Neal Morse is most definitely one of those. Whether it’s as a solo artist or as part of a band such as  Continue Reading »

Artist: Haken Album Title: Restoration Label: Inside Out Music Year Of Release: 2014 It has been an eventful year or so in the world of Haken. In September 2013, the sextet released what can only be described as a masterpiece of progressive music in the form of their third album, the magnificent ‘The Mountain’. This  Continue Reading »

As with many of my blog posts, I hadn’t intended on adding a third part to my series of posts looking at those albums still to come in the latter half of 2014 that I’m really looking forward to. However, with a few announcements and confirmations in the past couple of weeks, I again felt  Continue Reading »

And so here we are. It has been an epic journey I’m sure you’ll agree but we’ve made it. With your support, I have once again made some tough choices, worked long and hard and have finally completed my ‘Album of the Year 2013’ countdown. The past 20 posts have hopefully given you a better  Continue Reading »