Alternative Matter

Djent is becoming increasingly popular within the metal community given the ravenous enthusiasm about the latest albums by TesseracT and Periphery and the rise of technical metal in general. One [...]

So what do you do after you have pushed every conceivable musical envelope with your two previous records? In a nutshell that’s what Between The Buried And Me has done [...]

Cynthesis is the new band founded by the Tipton brothers of Zero Hour fame.  Together with former Zero Hour singer Erik Rosveld and drummer Sean Flanagan they recorded DeEvolution, the [...]

The music of King Crimson, one of the main progressive rock bands of the 70s, has never been “easy listening”. In fact, it has always been more complex than the [...]

Artistic visions and commercial opportunities often collide with each other. Musicians want to put out their music as they intended it to be, while record labels are striving to make [...]

Metal with Arabian and Oriental flourishes is pretty hot nowadays. The last albums by Orphaned Land and Melechesh made quite an impact on the greater metal community. Arkan, from France, [...]

It’s often said that the best art originates from suffering. That’s certainly the case with Swedish progressive rock band Wolverine and their Communication Lost album. It’s a really dark effort [...]

Communication Lost is the fourth full length album by the Swedish progsters of Wolverine. It’s the successor to the Still album, which was released back in 2006. It has been [...]

For the first time since the departure of founding member and lead vocalist Petri Lindroos (now of Ensiferum), the guys of Norther have blessed their fans with another studio release, [...]

It’s fair to say I wasn’t particularly impressed with the previous two Illdisposed albums, namely The Prestige (2008) and To Those Who Walk Behind Us (2009). The offered material was [...]