Reviews

Fates Warning – ‘Theories Of Flight’ [Review]

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Progressive metal is, by definition, all about forward movement, change, and intensity. With Theories Of Flight, Fates Warning – ranked as prog-metal pioneers alongside the likes of Queensrÿche and Dream Theater and standing tall today as twelve-album veterans – are currently sitting on a release based around those same core themes.

Theories Of Flight is as progressive as it gets Read more…

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Posted on 08 June 2016

Live Reviews

Camden Rocks Festival 2016 [Festival Review]

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Camden High Street is a busy place at the best of times. Bargain hunters crowd its world-famous market; tourists take selfies in front of outlandish shopfronts; alternative fashionistas strut around in their latest cutting-edge purchases.

Add in Camden Rocks, a twenty-venue, two-hundred-band music festival stretching from the vicinity of the Roundhouse down to Mornington Crescent, and you’re talking the coolest kind of chaos imaginable Read more…

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Posted on 06 June 2016

Reviews

Haken – ‘Affinity’ [Review]

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Authentic originality is hard to come by in music. Every style comes complete with its own formula, and countless bands follow their respective recipes in lockstep with each other. The result? Bland, beige sameness.

Even in the prog world, copycat clone bands abound. One band brings a unique style to the table, and scores of followers follow it down to the last EQ notch on a guitar amp. Finding something fresh, new, and interesting can be a tough slog at times.

If you’re bored of soundalikes, Haken are here to save your day – and possibly Read more…

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Posted on 21 April 2016

Interviews

Good Tiger [Interview]

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Who says interviews have to be super serious? Behold these beautiful answers from Good Tiger’s own Morgan Sinclair…

You successfully crowdfunded your album A Head Full Of Moonlight seriously quickly – and now you’re working with Blacklight Media and Metal Blade Records. What thoughts and feelings are floating around the Good Tiger camp right now?

There’s a lot of ambiguity surrounding how much the human mind thinks. Some scientists argue that we process somewhere between 60,000 and 80,000 thoughts a day – so honestly, we’re Read more…

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Posted on 11 April 2016

Live Reviews

Black Peaks / Palm Reader / Toska [Live Review – The Haunt, Brighton, 9/4/2016]

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You never know what’s going to happen in Brighton on a Saturday night.

When Toska (97%) are on a lineup, though, you can always expect to be blown away. Time and time again, I’ve watched these guys tear venues apart – and with an extended tour behind them, Toska are now capable of pulling off next-next level performances. Holy hell.

Opening their opening set with two new tunes (A Tall Order and Congress), Toska wasted no time getting stuck into an unrelenting barrage of ultra-complex instrumetal moments. Eschewing Read more…

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Posted on 10 April 2016

Interviews

Visions [Interview]

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Tech-metal fans have nine tracks of auditory win to look forward to come the end of this May, in the form of Visions’ sophomore effort, Shake The Earth. With that ear-watering fact in mind, I got talking to Visions bass-wrangler Dave Evans about all things Shake The Earth-related – and why not giving a fuck is the best policy…

Your new album Shake The Earth is coming out on May 30. What thoughts and feelings are going through your mind right now?

Excitement! It’s been so long since we’ve had new music out.

Our first album came out in 2011, but some of those songs were written way back in 2006, so this feels similar in the sense that we’ve been sitting on some of this material for so long without Read more…

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Posted on 04 April 2016

Interviews

Aliases [The Derangeable Interview]

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Aliases are sitting on a one-of-a-kind album right now. Derangeable – due out on April 15 – is everything existing Aliases fans could possibly hope for, and more. It’s also guaranteed to bend the ears of many a future follower, provided they’re enamored of prime-cut techy metallic goodness.

Click here to read about how blown my mind was on first hearing Derangeable, and read on for a short but appropriately intense chat with Aliases guitarist Leah Woodward… Read more…

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Posted on 31 March 2016

Reviews

Good Tiger – ‘A Head Full Of Moonlight’ [Review]

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The Safety Fire, Tesseract, Architects, and The Faceless would have made a great co-headlining tour a few years ago. Fast-forward many moons, an assortment of splits, and an Avengers-style assembly later, and Good Tiger have not merely emerged, but exploded into the metal world’s consciousness. Made up of former The Safety Fire guitarists Derya “Dez” Nagle and Joaquin “Jo” Ardiles; ex-Tesseract vocalist Elliot Coleman; drummer Alex Rüdinger, previously of The Faceless; and one-time Architects touring guitarist Morgan Sinclair on bass, Good Tiger crowdfunded A Head Full Of Moonlight to the tune of almost $48,000 last year.

Listening to A Head Full Of Moonlight, it’s clear that Good Tiger’s fans were Read more…

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Posted on 27 March 2016

Reviews

Visions – ‘Shake The Earth’ [Review]

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It may be almost April, but with Visions’ new album wrapped up in my inbox, it feels like Christmas again.

Listening to Shake The Earth unpack itself is an absolute pleasure. It may be covered in scalpel-sharp spikes on the surface, but there’s plenty of substantive, tasty, bass-flavoured cake under the none-more-black icing and razor-edged tech-metal decorations. Modern metal bands often forget that there’s more to a mix than just a knob marked “TREBLE,” a fader marked “VOLUME,” and an onscreen icon labelled “COMPRESSION,” but Visions avoid that particular pitfall.

The probably-Home–Alone­-inspired Wet Bandits Read more…

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Posted on 24 March 2016

Interviews

Rémi Gallego – The Algorithm [Interview]

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There isn’t another musician on Earth like Rémi Gallego. With The Algorithm’s new album (try saying that ten times really quickly) Brute Force dropping on April 1 after scoring 91% on TMMP here, and many ears awaiting its onslaught of labyrinthine synth lines and cortex-crunching grooves, TMMP caught up with Rémi Gallego via email to talk Brute Force, influences, creativity, and thoughtful neighbourly feedback…

Your new album Brute Force is out on April 1. How’re you feeling about it? 

I can’t wait to finally unveil this album. It’s my proudest achievement so far and I’m excited that people can finally hear it!  

What’s your earliest music-related memory? 

Listening to my dad playing Read more…

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Posted on 22 March 2016

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