Swedish prog rock collective The Flower Kings launched their new album ‘By Royal Degree’ today. Their newest release contains 18 songs and provides more than one and a half hours of well-forged soundscapes. The tracklist of this comprehensive release looks like this: The Great PretenderWorld Gone CrazyBlindedA Million StarsThe SoldierThe Darkness in YouWe Can Make... Continue Reading →
SYBERIA launched a new song
Spanish rockers Syberia unveiled with ‘Nothing Inside’ a new song, taken from the upcoming album ‘Statement of Death’. Release date will be May 6th, and the album comes through Metal Blade Records. "On each album we try not to repeat ourselves and look for things that we haven't done so far," states the band. "When... Continue Reading →
TESSERACT announce the release of ‘ P O R T A L S’
TesseracT streamed a cinematic live event called 'P O R T A L S' in Dec 12th last year. Bass player Amos Williams reflects on the show and its forthcoming release “It is only with hindsight and some time to appreciate it that we realise what this show meant to us. 'P O R T A... Continue Reading →
Review FROST* ‘Day and Age’
Progressive rock outfit Frost* finished work on their newest release 'Day and Age', an album that in the meantime arrived at the record stores. 'Day and Age' is the forth longplayer, Jem Godfrey and bandmates release over the span of 15 years. The outfit is the brainchild of the keyboarder and singer, that started the... Continue Reading →
CD review KATATONIA ‘Dead Air’
Katatonia, formed in 1991 as a band with passion for death- and black metal, slowly transformed into an outlet that delights musical gourmets with stellar progressive rock and metal. Their latest studio album 'City Burials' has seen the light of day in April this year and brought a bit of positivism into the days of... Continue Reading →
CD review THE OCEAN ‘Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic’
The collective is back. Nearly two years after 'Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic' entered the German album charts, The Ocean return with their eighth album. 'Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic' features eight songs, being the announced second part of the conceptual approach the band started in 2018. Both records are supposed to close the gap between 'Precambrian'... Continue Reading →