Eventim Apollo, London Friday, 17th March 2017 The Devin Townsend Project arrives in London after eight weeks on the road supporting his latest studio album, Transcendence. Prior to tonight’s concert, however, Townsend has created an eager sense of expectation by…
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It has been over four years since the relentlessly foreboding Decline and Fall, and Colorado state’s favourite avant rock collective, the marvellously uncompromising Thinking Plague, are back, this time dredging optimism from the depths of black despair at the perverse…
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“Alfred J. Prufrock would be proud of me”, declared Welsh Indie rockers Manic Street Preachers in 2001 on their song My Guernica. Musical adaptations or references to the works of T.S. Eliot in modern music have an interesting and sometimes…
View More Heresy – Prufrock: A Musical Adaptation of the Poem by T.S. Eliot
I have had this album a while, and it was only thanks to a Facebook friend raving about it that I remembered it, and it was a darn good thing I did, I can tell you. Formed in Rome in…
View More La Bocca della Verità – Avenoth
Tom Slatter has made another album. Where, in the past, his music has prompted reviewers to describe him as a “quintessentially British eccentric with a quirky imagination” – and he has never failed to live up to that – this…
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This was an album that I liked the sound of and took a chance on, and I am rather glad that I did as it is a rather wonderful double CD with some epic and majestic music running through its…
View More Eternal Wanderers – The Mystery of the Cosmic Sorrow
I found this band from the Bremerton/Tacoma area of Washington state on CD Baby one night while searching for some new music and, so far, it has been the best discovery I have made in 2017 – they are excellent!…
View More Odd Logic – Effigy
In a career that has so far spanned over twenty years, from their debut Ingis Fatuus in 1995 through to 2011’s acclaimed Terminal Twilight we are now ready to receive the seventh offering from White Willow, Future Hopes. From prog/folk…
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RIVIẼRE’s debut album, Heal, is one whose sounds bring to life its name and that of the band. It cradles and heals, it flows like a river. It is very solid post prog metal (in that order) and well worth…
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HERE’S how we roll at TPA – our editor offers up tasty morsels of all the new releases and we fall upon them like ravenous prog vultures, before deciding whether to scoff the entire meal. On this occasion, he dangled…
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