Category: 💿 Album Reviews
After a somewhat tumultuous recent history when it’s come to lineup changes, Between the Buried and Me (BTBAM) have returned with another studio record The Blue Nowhere. Poised to be “their most eclectic record yet”,...
It’s that time of the year again where I review a King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard album. Their 27th(!) album to be exact. While recording last year’s venture into classic rock with Flight...
The concept of “Eras” perennially finds itself at risk of being overused within the music world, with nary a soul immune to mentioning which “Era” they are in regarding shifts in overall tone, musical...
To describe Mike Portnoy’s return to Dream Theater as a dream come true might be a bit of a cheesy cliché but nonetheless it reflects the feelings of many of their long-time fans. I...
Thy Catafalque (or Thy Catflap in very specific and limited circles), the brainchild of Hungarian musical prodigy Tamás Kátai and an increasing cast of friends and lovers has set upon the world another particularly bespoke...
If you’ve listened to metal for more than five seconds, you’re at least fleetingly aware of the name Devin Townsend. The man, the myth, the legend, has had one of the most storied careers in...
Swallow the Sun have long been a shining beacon of high-intensity gloom among the dirging, droning ranks of death-doom metal bands, but never so literally as with their latest record Shining – the ninth in their extensive...
Oranssi Pazuzu, man. The name might evoke in you, as it does me, images of The Lion King’s famous parrot, but they certainly don’t parrot any other band here. This is the Finnish stalwarts’...
A combination of scarcity and quality means that each new Frost* album feels like an event in the progressive scene, even for listeners like myself who are familiar with the band’s work but are...
The disbandment of a group can be a tough pill to swallow, especially if their time is short-lived. Such is the case with black midi. Hailing from London, they put out three incredible albums...