Tag Archives: Tom Englund
Silent Skies – Dormant – Album Review
Artist: Silent Skies Album Title: Dormant Label: Napalm Records Date of Release: 1 September 2023 “Are you prepared…” These are, fittingly, the first three words that are sung by Tom Englund at the beginning of ‘Construct’. It is the opening composition of ‘Dormant’, the third album from Silent Skies, the collaboration between Englund and Vikram Continue Reading »
Silent Skies – Nectar – Album Review
Artist: Silent Skies Album Title: Nectar Label: Napalm Records Date of Release: 2022 I desperately wanted to dislike this album. This might sound like an odd revelation with which to commence an album review, but it’s true. Ever since I started manofmuchmetal.com, I have made no secret of my love for Evergrey, happily stating that Continue Reading »
Silent Skies – Satellites – Album Review
Artist: Silent Skies Album Title: Satellites Label: AFM Records Date of Release: 11 December 2020 A review of this album was about as inevitable as death and taxes quite frankly, so I suspect none of you are surprised to be reading this. Silent Skies is the new project between Evergrey’s Tom S. Englund and pianist Continue Reading »
Evergrey – The Atlantic – Album Review
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 »
Redemption – Interview 2018 – “…there is a lot of good material on here and the best is up there with the best we’ve ever written”
Picture the scene: It’s a Saturday night and I’m sitting in the back of a plush Mercedes, being driven to the O2 to catch the final night of Iron Maiden’s ‘Legacy Of The Beast’ European tour. And who happens to be sitting next to me? That’s right, none other than Nick Van Dyk, the founder, Continue Reading »
Album of the Year 2016 – Number 1
Here we are. I’ve done it, and I have finished earlier than ever before. I never doubted it, even for a second! What was also never in doubt was the support that I have received from all of you over the last month or so. The likes, the hits, the comments, the shares…it all comes Continue Reading »
Live gig review: Delain, Evergrey, Kobra And The Lotus – Norwich Waterfront 15/11/16
It might have been a cold and wet autumn evening, but it isn’t every day that my favourite band tours within an hour’s drive of my house, not when I live in what feels like the middle of nowhere. It felt like a lifetime of watching clips and seeing photographs from the preceding five weeks Continue Reading »
DGM – The Passage – Album Review
Artist: DGM Album Title: The Passage Label: Frontiers Records Date Of Release: 26 August 2016 This review comes a little after the release date but under the circumstances, I make no apologies for this. The reason for my tardiness is that I was not initially very struck by this, the ninth album from Italian melodic Continue Reading »
Evergrey – Interview 2016 Part 2 – ‘We’d make fools of ourselves if we tried to write ‘Hymns For The Broken 2’
Evergrey interview 2016 – Part 1 Evergrey – The Storm Within – Album Review It is a relatively uneventful journey to Camden and the restaurant of choice of Tom and Jonas, albeit frequently punctuated by the loud and amusing strains of ‘oooh, it’s gorgeous’, the latest quote from UK comedy show ‘Little Britain’ to tickle Continue Reading »
Evergrey – Interview 2016 – “We’re getting stronger and stronger, every day”
Read my review here: Evergrey – The Storm Within When you have a job and a young family, it can be tough to get out of the house sometimes, even if it is to just nip to the shops briefly. So you can imagine that it is almost impossible to get an entire evening off. Continue Reading »
