AMANDA SOMERVILLE’S TRILLIUM – TECTONIC – FRONTIERS MUSIC
Somerville has written and recorded with bands such as After Forever, Edguy, Kamelot, Epica, Avantasia, and Mayan, and this is her second release as Trillium. ‘Alloy’ was released in 2011 when it was credited to just Trillium, so it appears that there are views...
MEKA NISM – THE WAR INSIDE E.P. – INDEPENDENT
According to the EPK I am looking at, these guys were formed in 2006, but surely that can’t be correct as not only have they not yet released an album (there have various EP’s over the years), but they’re not signed either, and that definitely doesn’t make any sense...
MOTHER BASS – MOTHER BASS – FREYA RECORDS
I decided to go over to the band site to get some more information, only to discover that the site itself is incredibly poor, but I did learn something, namely that they call their style neo-grunge. Now, I thought I was pretty up on the sub-sub-genres, but I must...
OVRFWRD – OCCUPATIONS OF UNINHABITED SPACE – INEPENDENT
When keyboard player Chris Malmgren contacted me to let him know that Ovrfwrd were releasing a new album, recorded live in the studio, I was definitely interested. Recorded and filmed live at Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, MN (Nirvana, Live, PJ Harvey, Soul...
PERFECT PLAN – ALL RISE – FRONTIERS MUSIC
Formed in late 2014 in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, these guys came to the attention of Frontiers Music in 2017 who immediately signed them up, and now here they are with their debut album. The band features singer Kent Hilli together with Rolf Nordström on guitar, P-O...
ROZ VITALIS – THE HIDDEN MAN OF THE HEART – LIZARD
So, composer and keyboard player Ivan Rozmainsky is back with the same line-up as last time, except where he has extended his musical traveling even further. The album consists of 14 tracks and lasts 63 minutes. Various keyboards, guitars, bass, drums, flute, and...
DAN WEISS – STAREBABY – PI RECORDINGS
‘Starebaby’ is the new release by drummer/composer Dan Weiss, and is an attempt to combined improvised jazz with heavy metal and electronic music. Weiss is well-known as a jazz drummer, performing with musicians as disparate as Rudresh Mahanthappa, Chris Potter, John...
EPOS NEMO LATROCINIUM – ITER ITINERIS III – SCRY RECORDINGS
‘Iter Itineris III’ is the third in a series of albums by experimental ensemble Epos Nemo Latrocinium (according to Google translate it means ‘Epic No Privacy’), and was recorded live in the studio. It features Noisepoetnobody on metal objects and stringboard, Tatsuya...
THE FIERCE AND THE DEAD – THE EUPHORIC – BAD ELEPHANT MUSIC
And so, the accidental band are back. Originally destined to be Matt Stevens’ second solo album, TFATD have morphed into possibly the most important instrumental rock act in the UK today. Comprising Matt (guitar, synth, piano), Kev Feazey (bass, programming, synth,...
FREQUENCY DRIFT – LETTERS TO MARO – GENTLE ART OF MUSIC
Only two years since their album, and there have yet again been some fairly significant changes in the Frequency Drift line-up. Lead singer Melanie Mau and guitarist Martin Schnella have both departed (they can be found in Gray Matters together, as well as other...
