#MetalMonday: “Go To Hell” by Megadeth
Really, it’s the perfect soundtrack contribution. The track ostensibly complements the film’s theme, albeit at a darker, almost humourless level, and stands on its own as a bridge between the…
The MusicTAP Interview: Courtney Swain of Bent Knee
Courtney Swain talks "Sweet Snow," fostering creativity, and yetis.
#MetalMonday: “Time—Rotterdam” by VUUR
The album’s second track, “Time—Rotterdam,” encapsulates the progression embedded in this return to van Giersbergen’s “old” metal roots. The song is heavy, yes, but playful.
Members of ReVamp & Stream of Passion Prepare New Metal Project: Dark Horse White Horse
Dark Horse│White Horse is coming soon! Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion, MaYaN) has been teasing a new metal project for months via her Patreon page, while producer Joost van den…
#MetalMonday: “Might As Well Be On Mars” by Alice Cooper
Too long for radio, the wrong fit to feature in Cooper’s conceptual concert setlists, two parts glam metal but one part Frank Sinatra’s Only The Lonely—it’s a “deep cut” if…
#MetalMonday: “The Battle of Tyr/Odin’s Court/Valhalla” by Black Sabbath
If you’re not gonna write your umpteenth song about the devil, might as well do a suite about Thor & Odin instead, amirite?
Weekend Music Matinee: “The Celluloid Road” by The Tangent
"The Celluloid Road" is the Prog Epic equivalent of a Crosby/Hope Road Picture and features a similar free-flowing, jaunty restlessness.
#MetalMonday: “From the Dead” by Vengeance Rising
From the brutal to the sludgy to the experimental to the symphonic, we raise our horns in welcome and warning to the coming week: we are here to ROCK. What…
Graphic Novel On The Way For Rush’s A Farewell To Kings
As the title suggests, the new graphic novel serves as an illustrated version of the classic approach to music documentaries, wherein narration and location shots are interspersed with staged interview…
#MetalMonday: “Demons on the Wall” by Andromeda Anarchia
And with “Demons on the Wall,” what heavy does is to twist common metal language about fallen angels and hellfire into a progressive panorama of the interior of a terrified…
Album Review: Through Your Eyes by Marcela Bovio
Bovio has long since established her status as a vocalist in progressive metal with Stream of Passion, Ayreon, and MaYaN. On Through Your Eyes, she welds the bombast of a…
The Darkness Cometh, And Easter Is Cancelled
What to do following a Top 10 UK album the likes of Pinewood Smile? You save the world, of course. The Darkness have taken upon themselves the challenge of heroism…