Tag Archives: Vanishing Point

Artist: Neverworld Album Title: Dreamsnatcher Label: Dream Demon Recordings Date of Release: 4 March 2016 It is fair to say that the name Neverworld has been on my radar for some time but I’d never taken the plunge for one reason or another until now, upon the release of their second album, ‘Dreamsnatcher’. Over the  Continue Reading »

Welcome to Part 3 of my most anticipated album releases of 2016. Missed Parts 1 and 2? Click the links below and find out why I’m thinking that 2016 could be one of the strongest years for rock and metal for a long time: Most Anticipated Metal Releases of 2016 – Part 1 Most Anticipated  Continue Reading »

Artist: Kamelot Album Title: Haven Label: Napalm Records Year Of Release: 2015 If I look back around 10-15 years, I had one go-to band for melodic metal: Kamelot. Their albums ‘Karma’ (2001) and ‘Epica’ (2003) remain firm favourites in my collection. The former was actually discovered via a trip to my favourite record store many  Continue Reading »

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 »

A while back, I wrote a blog post entitled ‘heavy metal is not just shouty music’ wherein I discussed the fact that metal vocalists don’t just growl, shout and swear. This was underlined by focusing on a handful of vocalists within the genre who can really sing. And when I say that they can sing,  Continue Reading »

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 »

I hadn’t planned on writing this post but all of a sudden, I felt compelled to do so. In recent months, I have been completely blown away by the quality of music being produced by some Australian artists and I wanted to bring this to people’s attention more. As a brief aside from an English  Continue Reading »

It is hardly believable, but here we are, half-way through 2014. Where does the time go? The older I get, the faster it seems to fly by. But enough of all that. The reason you’re here is because you want to discover some of the best rock and metal that the first half of 2014  Continue Reading »

Recently, a group of fellow rock and metal fans made a new musical discovery and it got me thinking. The discovery was not of a particularly underground band. In fact, the name Soilwork is known quite extensively throughout the metal world. Contemporaries and compatriots of In Flames, Dark Tranquillity and a whole host of other  Continue Reading »