With Vinland Saga, vocalist Liv Kristine Espenæs Krull (Theatre Of Tragedy), once again supported by the band Atrocity, creates a concept album with ties to ancient Nordic history. The CD explores […]

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It’s been well over five years since this band’s last outing, Test For Echo (1996), but the Canadian trio of Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart have made a […]

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Absent from the rock scene for about 10 years (while he worked on various film scores, and also contributed a musical piece to the Millennium Dome), Peter Gabriel […]

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Italian outfit Lacuna Coil broke into the music scene in 1998 with a self-titled EP that mirrored to some degree bands such as The Gathering and Switchblade Symphony. […]

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There are times when you stumble across something that makes you take stock of the world around you. Armed only with an acoustic guitar and voice that is […]

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Well known to be an unlucky band, one of the Carpenters’ bad breaks was to become successful in the 1970s. If they had broke during the previous decade, […]

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King Bruce has done it again. In the midst of an Iron Maiden renaissance he released what is easily one of the best heavy metal records of the […]

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After stints in bands such as Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 and Murderdolls, vocalist Wednesday 13 strikes out on his own with the aptly named Transylvania 90210: Songs […]

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Channeling power through simplicity can be a hazardous affair. For example, Gary Numan’s 1979 effort The Pleasure Principle, aside from the pop aesthetics found on the track Cars, aptly demonstrated […]

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On the cover, they’re silhouetted like three guitar-totin’ Charlie’s Angels. Inside, they form a Blues Caravan of performers, each with their own solo back-catalogues, playing together live in the […]

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