Firewind – Apotheosis Live 2012.

June 24th 2013 was a very important day for the Greek melodic power metal band Firewind as their earthshaking live album Apotheosis was released via Century Media Records. It contains 17 songs (19 on the digital format) taken from their 7 studio albums to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Apotheosis was …

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HRH Prog 2 Festival announces first bands

HRH Prog 2 Festival

Running from March 20-232014 the second edition of the Prog weekender will continue to embrace both the classic and new artists of the prog scene. Our first wave of acts features ex-Marillion frontman and all-round prog legend Fish, Dutch progressive rock overlords Focus, Prog magazine favourites The Pineapple Thief, the …

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Autopsy interview with Chris Reifert – July 2013

I recently had the opportunity to ask Chris Reifert,frontman and drummer with Autopsy a few questions about the band and their new album The Headless Ritual. Throughout your career you have remained with Peaceville Records. I assume they are happy with you and vice versa. Yeah, 25 years later here …

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Pat Travers Band – Can Do

Pat Travers has long been known as a guitar force to be reckoned with. With an illustrious career spanning back at least 37 years, the Canadian-born six-string slinger has more pure life experience to draw on then most. His records Heat In The Street and Makin’ Magic are considered influential …

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Tesseract – Altered State

Having heard a lot of buzz & chatter on various music websites and guitar magazines, I was eager to get a listen to latest release from this 5-piece and find out what all the fuss is about. Although Tesseract have been around with various personnel since 2003 this is only …

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The Poodles – Tour de Force

  Since forming back in 2005, The Poodles have built a substancial following in their home country of Sweden even going on to represent their nation in the Eurovision Song contest. Through extensive touring throughout mainland Europe and growing record sales on their first 4 studio albums, their brand of …

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Clutch interview

Shortly before their gig at the Forum in Kentish Town, I spoke with Clutch bassist Dan Maines to talk about their album, their tour and more.  Listen to what he had to say using the player below. Clutch interview

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