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Live Gallery: Opeth at The Sydney Opera House – Eora Land, 18.11.25
Yesterday was night two of Opeth‘s sold-out run at the Sydney Opera House. The crowd was attentive, devoted and full of fans who’ve been riding this band’s evolution album by album, era by era. It felt like a truly special opportunity to absorb the weight of that history in a venue literally designed to make …
News: Bernth and Charles Berthoud Begin Australian Tour Next Week
The Escape the Internet tour kicks off next week, with guitar virtuoso Bernth and bass innovator Charles Berthoud performing three Australian shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney alongside prog trio The Omnific.
Album Review: Richard Wileman – The Forked Road
There’s a moment in Woodstock the Movie, during the Country Joe and the Fish tune, ‘Section 43’, where the camera zooms in on a soft-focus blurred psychedelic lightwheel slowly turning. The blissful gentle guitar melody starts turning also, towards a more sinister realm. Richard Wileman lives in that moment. Similar moments occur during the movie …
Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Magna Zero
For many of us who grew up playing in garage bands, we daydream about what life could’ve been like if we continued jamming and made it to the big-time. That very well could’ve been the case for progressive rock outfit Magna Zero, but after a ten year hiatus from growing up playing music together, they …
Live Review and gallery: The Butterfly Effect, Caligula’s Horse and Thornhill at Hobart Uni Bar 09/10/2022.
Hobart heavy metal fans were treated when Vandemonium Touring, in conjunction with Destroy All Lines, secured this fabulous triple bill of melodic, prog metal bands to play at Hobart Uni Bar on Sunday, 9th October. Headliners, The Butterfly Effect, were on the road to promote the release of their long-awaited fourth album, the aptly titled …
Moses Mikheyev Shares Atmospheric & Haunting New Single ‘Hollywood Hills’
Los Angeles alt-rock solo artist Moses Mikheyev shares his excellent new single ‘Hollywood Hills’, a track which is at once haunting and yet also musically vibrant. Awash with warm reverb coated guitars and atmospheric vocals, the track manages to reflect a vintage feel whilst still retaining a striking freshness. Making extensive use of tape machines, …
Track: The Amorphous Androgynous Looks Both Ways At Once On Collaboration With Peter Hammill
Futurism and progressive rock go together like peanut butter and jelly, and the new offering from The Amorphous Androgynous has given listeners the same hearty feeling of nostalgia. In collaboration with Van der Graaf Generator frontman Peter Hammill, Amorphous Androgynous (AKA The Future Sound of London) marks their return to new music with a clip …
SEE: Danny Elfman – ‘Sorry’: high, scouring prog-industrial from soundtrack giant
IT WAS quite a thing when ANTI- secured the signature of globe-straddling modern soundtrack composer extraordinaire Danny Elfman last year; yep, the Sunset Boulevard-based label which brings us Andy Shauf, Yves Jarvis, M. Ward, Jolie Holland, Fleet Foxes et al, teaming up with the man behind the theme from The Simpsons and soundtracks to such …
Track: Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe
TRANSATLANTIC – the Prog Supergroup of Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Roine Stolt & Pete Trewavas – are set to release their fifth studio album ‘The Absolute Universe’, on the 5th February 2021 (see here). Before that the band have, so far, released two singles. First being Overture/Reaching For The Sky, the second single called ‘The Absolute Universe’. Mike …
Track: Transatlantic – Overture/Reaching For The Sky
Transatlantic, the prog supergroup of Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Roine Stolt & Pete Trewavas have shared the video for new single ‘Overture / Reaching For The Sky’, which is taken from their new album ‘The Absolute Universe’, set for release on the 5th February 2021 (InsideOutMusic). Its also the first piece of music from these guys since 2014. Mike Portnoy comments: …