Hi and thank you for sparing time to chat with us. Hi Pete! Thanks for having me! Could you first introduce yourself and tell us how you made music your life? I’m Geoff Tyson and I grew up in Berkeley… Read More ›
A Perfect Circle
Altitudes and Attitude – Get It Out
Just the thought of two of metal’s finest most influential bassists linking up whets the appetite; indeed a potential pleasure which pretty much inflamed said optimism with the release of an EP five years back. That teaser though has just… Read More ›
Haster – The Current Sea
As explosive and dynamically striking as it is creatively imaginative, the new album from Californian metallers Haster is one of those offerings that bring the day, body and emotions alive. The Current Sea is anthemically huge and inventively bold yet… Read More ›
Jarboe and Helen Money – Self Titled
It is almost frightening how spellbinding the collaboration between Jarboe and Helen Money is on their self-titled album, how immersed into its dark inviting depths and ravenously siren-esque shadows ears, imagination, and simply reality becomes. The release is quite extraordinary,… Read More ›
Casting reflections and dispersing shadows: talking Johnny Wore Black with band founder Jay
2014 has been a big and flavoursome year for British melodic and alternative rock, and in no small part thanks to UK band Johnny Wore Black. The brainchild of London based songwriter/producer and stuntman (Les Miserables, The Dark Knight… Read More ›
Forcing dreams with realisation: talking ESCAPETHECULT with founder Peter G. Shallmin
A proposition which increasingly impresses and continually reshapes thoughts and emotions the more time shared with it, All You Want To is one of the year’s most intriguing, ingenious, and exciting progressive metal explorations. It comes from ESCAPETHECULT, a band… Read More ›
Escapethecult – All You Want To
All You Want To is a persistent little temptation, an album which admittedly did not really blow thoughts and senses away initially but did engage them in a pleasing and intriguing proposition. Away from its aural embrace though hooks and… Read More ›
MIRE – Inward/Outward
Photo – Carl Lessard Embracing the constant comparison to Tool placed around them and infusing it into their own imaginative canvas of progressive metal, Canadian band MIRE unleash their debut album Inward/Outward upon the world, a release you can… Read More ›
Johnny Wore Black – Walking Underwater
Having richly impressed with a quartet of singles which were as emotively potent as they were compellingly crafted, UK rock band Johnny Wore Black finally release debut album Walking Underwater to complete the seduction and seal the long term… Read More ›
Resin – Embrace The Fall
Not to be confused with the excellent US alternative rock band of the same name (though they may not be going anymore), rockers Resin are stepping forward to find their place in UK rock with new album Embrace The Fall…. Read More ›
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