Tag Devin Townsend
Hot take, some Ihsahn solo material is better than Emperor, there I said it. Of course being a most notable and prominent figure of the Black Metal scene Ihsahn can be seen as a bit of a dividing force amongst… Continue Reading →
Collaborations between members of different bands are not unusual, but this is a particularly interesting one. The idea of the band came about in 2017 when two of the band members were together in Mike Portnoy’s Shattered Fortress, so clearly… Continue Reading →
A new band but some recognisable old hands here, turning over the soil and growing new things. Formed by Atheist vocalist Kelly Shaefer and including a couple of band members from the Floridian heavyweights along with players from acts such… Continue Reading →
Aussie prog 5 piece Voyager hail from Perth in the western reaches of Australia and have been kicking about since 1999. They’ve got 7 full length releases under their belt and ‘Fearless In Love’ is their 8th which includes the… Continue Reading →
First off, let’s quickly get the Oliphant out the long barn. After Linus Klausenitzer (bass), Rafael Trujillo (guitars), and Sebastian Lanser (drums) moved on from Obscura in 2020, they formed Obsidious and recruited Javi Perera to take care of vocals…. Continue Reading →
Our esteemed Devy has been rather self-indulgent of late. Whilst last years “The Puzzle/Snuggles” duo explored cinematic noise-scapes, 2019s “Empath” was a crazy progressive pinball through everything in his repertoire including the kitchen sink. Sandwiched between these musical oddities during… Continue Reading →
On the face of it, this album oozes eccentric humour and playfulness. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that this band is French and this country has a delightful record of eccentric bands: Akphaezya, Carnival in Coal, Edredo… Continue Reading →
We face a musical crisis in this world, and that crisis is atmospheric music, whether it be the ambient works of Brian Eno or the Post-Rock mastery of Godspeed You! Black Emperor it’s something which is a massive part of… Continue Reading →
Wilderun are a Symphonic Progressive Folk Metal band from Boston, Massachusetts and I’ll be honest, those are three sub-genres of metal I had not actually thought existed as a combined entity. Sure, there’s Symphonic Folk Metal, Progressive Metal, Folk Metal,… Continue Reading →
I missed the “full-blown cosmic and uniquely baroque” “Ex Cathedra” (2020) and indeed the two previous albums by this band. This album now “strives to bring attention to the beauty in the Ugly, the Sad and the Bizarre”. With Creature… Continue Reading →
I first came across Rivers Of Nihil in 2013, initially intrigued by the brightly coloured yet unmistakable artwork of Dan Seagrave that adorned their debut album “The Conscious Seed Of Light”, then utterly blown away by what I heard (in… Continue Reading →
In 2013, I took part in the tongue-in-cheek promotional video for ProgPower Europe the following year, and remember promoting Aeon Zen. The irony was that I then couldn’t make that ProgPower so never actually saw the band I’d helped to… Continue Reading →