Sepand Samzadeh (guitars) and Oscar Fuentes Bills (keyboards) met in 2003 and have been making music under the Days Between Stations project name since 2007 (based on the title of Steve Erikson’s debut novel). However, it was only with the…
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I first came across Russian band Grey Mouse last year, with the release of the single Better Than Me, from the (then) upcoming album A Moment of Weakness. I admit that I knew nothing about the band, and from wherever…
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This lot are new to me, a Swiss band who were formed in 2019 by multi-instrumentalist Can Yildirim, and Without Notice is their second album, I believe. Bend The Future are an interesting blend of progressive rock and jazz with…
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Geometry of Chaos is the new prog metal project of Fabio La Manna (guitars, bass, songwriter) and Davide Cardella (drums), born from the ashes of their previous band, Alchemy Room. The album was released late last year, but as I…
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Six years after Home, Hamburg-based neo-prog outfit Sylvan return with their tenth studio album, entitled One To Zero. The band have said that this latest, clocking in around 65 minutes, is another concept album – this time an autobiography of…
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Hungary has really been pulling above its weight in recent years when it comes to original and highly enjoyable music. I’ve added Sauropoda and their debut release Pangaea to my growing list of absolutely magical Hungarian albums. I’m not sure,…
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Named after a Rush song, Different Strings is a band put together by Maltese multi-instrumentalist Chris Mallia. The band has released four albums and an EP, with the two parts of The Sounds of Silence from 2012 and 2015 originally…
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Let’s cut to the chase: Track 3, City Lights and Desert Dark – at the 7:16 mark comes one of *those* soul-rending, emotion churning guitar solos of such sublime existential intensity where exquisite ecstasy mingles simultaneously with an agony bordering…
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Well well, this is a very welcome musical grenade tossed into my isolation bunker! The return of Tomahawk is something to be grateful for. I mean, anything from Mike Patton is going to be crazy, dangerous and entertaining, right? Whist…
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In the real world, most good things come to an end. Fortunately, many of those good things are replaced by better things, or at least as good as they were previously. A couple of years back, Nad Sylvan released the…
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