With winter creeping in and darkness arriving ever earlier, Boston Manor’s Saudade EP is pretty timely. Taking up residence at the centre of a three-pronged junction between pop-punk, emo, and indie, Boston Manor’s latest is packed with melancholic anthems.
Gone‘s gritty arpeggios and ten-Red-Bull intensity, the ruminative Trapped Nerve, and the bouncy maturity of Asleep At The Wheel are all consistently Read more…
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Outside his day job as Dream Theater’s resident keyboard wizard, Jordan Rudess has long been a prolific solo artist in his own right. From out-there electronica (frequently enabled by Rudess’s own range of personalized apps) to the most delicate of solo piano performances, Jordan Rudess has journeyed from the depths of tradition to the ever-expanding outer limits of musical possibility, inviting listeners along for the ride.
The results are, unsurprisingly, consistently beyond world-class. The Unforgotten Path is a collection of improvisations based on timeless melodies that Rudess has repeatedly Read more…
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My God.
If you’re looking for the cream of the math-rock crop, you’ve found it. Black Peaks have always been fueled by ferocity, laying waste to ears and venues and festivals in the process of carving out a niche of their own. But now, they’ve hit a new…well…peak.
Saviour – the lead single from Black Peaks’ upcoming debut album Statues – sees Black Peaks employ a Read more…
Just when you thought you’d heard it all.
Before you press play on the player below, make sure you have headphones to hand. T H I S C L O S E absolutely demands it; there are too many deep-mix details that you won’t want to miss.
Janet Feder’s name is synonymous with prepared guitar, a forward-thinking style that requires a six-string to be augmented by placing assorted objects on or under its strings. Add in a fully immersive production job and exotic additional instrumentation, from plucked piano to shattering glass and thrown buckets, and you have something that sits decisively in the realm of the avant-garde.
Don’t let that hyphenated term put you off, Read more…
Calling Intervals’ history complicated would be a serious understatement. Aaron Marshall’s brainchild has switched from instrumental to vocal-led prog metal and back again amid multiple lineup changes. Throw in an extended struggle with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, and you have the kind of situation that pretty much anyone would find difficult to deal with.
The Shape Of Colour is the end result of Aaron Marshall’s fight to make something good out of something bad. The results are not Read more…
Although everyone has the right to express themselves however they like, the world needs more musicians willing to stand up for a positive cause and draw attention to serious issues. Maxi Curnow is one of those musicians.
The video below is fucking harsh. It’s not easy viewing, not by a long shot. But it also only hints at the brutal reality the assorted emergency services deal with every day.
Maxi Curnow isn’t just an insanely talented multi-instrumentalist with Read more…
Imagine lying on a wide, warm waterbed, quietly letting go of the world. Literally lying In A Low Light. First tracks Give In and Here Is What Is, fuelled by soft synths and Skye Edwards’ sparse vocal, provide precisely this feeling.
Sometimes, you need a quality detox from the chaos of modern life – and once it’s over, you’ll want to get moving again. Slinky and seductive single Said And Done provides all you need, as does Read more…
Through Mestis, Animals As Leaders guitar maestro Javier Reyes has set out to challenge himself, setting the following self-described standards:
1) “Create a style of music that focusses on being emotionally exploitive and technically sound…
2) …yet simple enough for the average music listener to appreciate…
3) …using the eight-string guitar in a form that is unconventional to the “trends” or independent of characteristics that are found in music styles/genres that have popularized it, [and]…
4) …create music that [expresses] my personality, upbringing, emotions and musical taste.”
While the results are unlikely to immediately appeal to 1D fans or your gran, Polysemy is definitely a far less cognitively overwhelming prospect than the average instrumental guitar-driven offering. What really sets it apart, though, is Javier Reyes’ ability to Read more…
Heavy music is often dismissed as bring brutish and blockheaded. Sometimes, that’s fair enough. A Dark Orbit, however, are fiercely intelligent.
That extra cognitive capacity lends a sense of near-bottomlessness to Inverted. It’s the sonic equivalent of doing this:
I’m about to sound like Yoda, but for the faint-hearted, this is not. Weighing in at 15 tracks totalling well over an hour of sludgy subterranean grooves, bleak and Read more…
The masters of tech-metal are back, and just as fiercely original as ever.
It’s been almost a decade since what once seemed like SikTh’s swan-song, 2006’s Death Of A Dead Day. In that time, SikTh have inspired countless metal-oriented musicians across the world – but nobody has ever managed to incorporate more than a sliver of SikTh’s signature sound into their own work. These guys are simply inimitable.
Frantic, fierce, insatiably voracious…Philistine Philosophies is all of the above and more. This is no nostalgia trip. SikTh made a name for themselves by Read more…