Krokofant were originally formed as a duo when Tom Hasslan (guitars) and Axel Skalstad (drums) met in a guitar shop in Kongsberg, a town in southern Norway well known for its annual jazz festival. Saxophonist Jørgen Mathisen was invited to…
View More Krokofant with Storløkken & Håker Flaten – Fifth
It’s not often that I would give an EP a full-length review, but Germany’s Maladie have a history of stretching the concept of what an EP might be. This year sees the third chapter in their Symptoms series of EPs.…
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In many ways, James Bond has a lot in common with progressive rock. Both have been around a long time, both have gone in and out of fashion, both try to reinvent themselves while sticking to a tried and tested…
View More Hans Zimmer – No Time to Die
This year has been a bit of a roller coaster for Dream Theater fans, bringing us a new Transatlantic album, Liquid Tension Experiment 3, and now Dream Theater themselves with their fifteenth studio album, A View from the Top of…
View More Dream Theater – A View from the Top of the World
What happens when love dies? The heady thrill of romantic entanglement may well incline us to embrace the belief that love lasts forever, yet the realities of everyday life often expose it for the wilful illusion it really is. Love…
View More Three Colours Dark – Love’s Lost Property
Phil Lively’s The Fall was the kind of album I shouldn’t have wanted to listen to last year, full of misery, and wallowing in self-pity. Did I enjoy listening to it, just because it made me feel better, that I…
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Dyanne Potter Voegtlin and Jan Christiana of Potter’s Daughter have teamed up with Simon Phillips on drums to form a new band, Octarine Sky. Their debut album, Close to Nearby, featuring Guthrie Gowan (of The Aristocrats) and Amit Chatterjee on…
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Fractal Mirror have released their fifth album, blending styles and influences into an original whole, with keyboards that have a Tony Banks wall of sound that wraps up the composition and keeps them warm. They do this without dominating, drums…
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Featured artists: Chassm | Nate Collins | Kinkajous | Kælan Mikla | Lustmord & Karin Park ||: In this Halloween ADA (shorter reviews) update Nick Hudson takes a look at recent releases from: • Chassm – Falling Forever • Nate…
View More A Different Aspect #68
Every now and then you come across a band that have somehow passed you by over the years, and then you hear an album by them which frankly stops you dead in your tracks and overwhelms you with its musical…
View More Drifting Sun – Forsaken Innocence