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Sylvan – Home

Ever since the release of the heartbreaking Posthumous Silence in 2006 I have repeatedly argued that Sylvan are perhaps one of the most exciting and important progressive bands to be presently creating music in Europe. With the release of Home,…

Unit Wail – Beyond Space Edges

Back in 2012 I reviewed Pangaea Proxima, the first album from French avant-rock band Unit Wail, formed by a founder member of and by then ex-Shub Niggurath guitarist Franck Fromy. Shub Niggurath were a seminal band in the progression of…

Billy Sherwood – Citizen

Billy Sherwood is currently a high profile figure in the progressive rock world, Chris Squire himself asking him to deputise on bass whilst the great man was receiving treatment for his last illness. Now that Chris has passed, Billy continues…

The Blessed Beat – M I V

This improvised dark fear-fest of a record is inspired by Charles Bukowski’s text A Copulating Mermaid In Venice. Ah, that explains those track titles then! The names David Kollar and Paolo Raineri may be familiar to you, as the duo…

A Triple Bill of Bills – Bill Botting, Bill Pritchard & William D. Drake

Union Chapel, Islington, London Saturday, 17th October 2015 I have never attended one of the ‘Daylight Music’ concerts held at the Union Chapel before, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from these rather unique Saturday performances, held between…

Arcade Messiah – II

The outlook for today is heavy with patches of melodic subtlety sweeping across your Auditory Cortex. Heavy guitars across the frontal gyrus of the cerebellum will sometimes clear to leave feelings of layered heaviness. It will be heavier further into…

Necromonkey – Show Me Where It Hertz

Necromonkey, the project of ex-Änglagård drummer Mattias Olsson and Gösta Berlings Saga keyboard wizard David Lundberg, are a band I have followed since their crazy debut Necroplex was unleashed on an uncaring world in 2013. This was followed last year…