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Experimental, progressive, psychedelic, instrumental these are just a few of the words you can use to describe this two piece from the UK. A band since 2007, the current line up of Tom Brooke and Steve Myles have been together since 2009. After the release of their debut album, Palingenesia, [...]

Alternative Matters’ own Stephen Fallows was pretty impressed with the latest album by Blackwolfgoat. Reason enough to send a couple of questions to Darryl Sheppard, the project’s creative mastermind and sole member. He was more than happy to answer question about the album’s concept, the origins of Blackwolfgoat and the [...]

Ian Parry is a well-known figure within the progressive rock and metal sphere, due to his involvement with Elegy, Ayreon and Vengeance. Under the Consortium Project moniker he produced a series of albums, mainly based around science fiction themes. His musical approach is comparable to Arjen Lucassen and his Ayreon [...]

The Rott Child is an Belgian rock band featuring members from the now defunct El Guapo Stunt Team. This rock and roll outfit named themselves after the Rothschildts, a famous family of Jewish bankers. Their debut album, entitled Riches Will Come Thy Way, is one of the most entertaining rock [...]

Three months after the release of EP Stenka na Senku, Arkona have released Slovo, the full-length banquet to the EP’s amuse bouche. The folk element is unquestionably the crux of the album, and this leads to an extremely interesting approach to sound construction. Because the folk instruments and traditional songs [...]

Garden of Fainting Stars is the third album in a trilogy by experimental rock band Book of Knots, preceded by Book of Knots (2004) and Traineater (2007). It’s hard to confine this band to a genre beyond the vague category of “experimental,” as their music is something organic, eclectic and [...]

Southern California-based hardcore band Retox have released their debut full-length, Ugly Animals, as a joint venture between Ipecac Recordings and Three One G. The group share members Justin Person and Gabe Serbian with the Locust, and Person is also the founder of Three One G. Ugly Animals is painted with [...]

Nightrage. Insidious. Fitting names, because the sun is down and listening to them is infuriating me. The album is getting under my skin. Never before have I struggled so hard to pick out what I specifically hated about an album because I just didn’t give a shit. Seriously, I maintained [...]

One of the finest releases in the progressive rock and metal spere so far this, is Bilateral by Norwegian avant-garde/prog rock outfit Leprous. It’s incredibly free spirited and dauntless musical experience which gives bigger and more established bands a run for their money. Guitarist Oddmund Suhrke was more than happy [...]

The thing about having a bit of potential is, well, at some point you either have to demonstrate that you can fulfil that potential or you might just find that fans move on to the next new thing pretty quickly. It was with no little sense of anticipation therefore that [...]

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