What do you do when your vocalist departs the band mid-way through recording your new album? Do you just abandon the whole project and start again after recruiting a new vocalist or do you get creative? Well Ecuador’s Black Sun opted for the latter and got their producer to recruit some of Finland’s finest metal vocalists to finish off their EP ‘Silent Enemy’ with some fantastic guest slots.
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It’s been a long time since we’ve heard from Oxford art rockers Young Knives – seven years to be exact since their last album ‘Sick Octave’. Now they’re back with a new album ‘Barbarians‘, their fifth full length opus. So, what do the former indie darlings and Mercury Prize nominees sound like in 2020?
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Just like there’s more than one way to skin a cat (apparently), there’s also more than one way to record an album as a group of well-established musicians proved when they came together as Intercepting Pattern and began to work on their debut album ‘The Encounter’. Instead of following a traditional structured approach to recording, these progressive metal anomalies opted for a more improvisational approach to form an album that promises to get the old grey matter functioning.
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As part of the highly talented new wave of prog rockers, alongside such luminaries such as Steven Wilson, Rickard Sjöblom is one of the more familiar names to emerge into the spotlight in the mid-90s to mid-Noughties. Taking his lead from some of the first major wave of UK prog acts such as YES, Genesis and Marillion, he has consistently put out some highly capable work over almost 20 years, through Beardfish into his own Gungfly project, with this latest opus a continuation of the sterling work he has created previously.
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After some pretty out-there curveballs in his recent reviews, it was nice for Jonny B to get back well within his comfort zone with some good solid power metal. Anyone who knows our man knows all too well that he has a massive soft spot for the genre, as it never fails to lift his spirits, so he was quite happy to be getting stuck into the latest release from Italy’s From the Depth.
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