Oathbreaker, Rolo Tomassi and Amenra bolster ArcTanGent 2021 line-up
Oathbreaker, Rolo Tomassi and Amenra head up the Friday night entertainment at ArcTanGent 2021
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Oathbreaker, Rolo Tomassi and Amenra bolster ArcTanGent 2021 line-up
Oathbreaker, Rolo Tomassi and Amenra head up the Friday night entertainment at ArcTanGent 2021
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Kilimanjaro Live boss Stuart Galbraith targets April 8 for the full resumption of live shows
James LaBrie announces he's working on a new solo album
Dream Theater singer James LaBrie is working on first new solo album for seven years
Hear Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman’s ferocious unreleased demos for Reign In Blood
Jeff Hanneman’s instrumental demos for Reign In Blood offer new perspectives on a thrash metal masterpiece
Bill Bailey returns to UK arenas in December 2021
Bill Bailey will tour his new En Route To Normal show in December 2021
AC/DC teaser ads appear in local UK newspapers
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Linkin Park recall ‘crying for joy’ hearing Chester Bennington’s voice for the first time
Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson recall their first impressions of future bandmate Chester Bennington
Elbow singer Guy Garvey releases solo single
Elbow singer Guy Garvey releases theme title song from new BBC drama Life
Cult Of Luna, Alcest, Mono and A.A. Williams to play ArcTanGent 2021
Sweden’s Cult Of Luna will headline the opening night of the 2021 ArcTanGent festival
Goat Girl announce new album, address disillusionment on Sad Cowboy single
Goat Girl premiere Sad Cowboy as preview of new album On All Fours
Daily prog show launches on Internet Radio station Radio Albatross
Games Without Frontiers show will be repeated twice daily "exploring the broad canvas of the progressive music and art rock world"
David Draiman joins rapper Hyro The Hero to rage against ‘social media soldiers’ on We Believe
Disturbed frontman David Draiman guests on Houston rapper Hyro The Hero’s new single, We Believe
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Enslaved’s Utgard: more fearless expeditions from prog-metal’s Viking visionaries
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John Petrucci’s Terminal Velocity: prog metal defiance in the face of COVID
John Petrucci reunites with ex-Dream Theatre bandmate Mike Portnoy on pandemic-busting new album Terminal Velocity
Tallah’s Matriphagy: the sound of nu metal being reinvented for 2020
Philadelphia nu-core heroes Tallah ramp up the twisted, sadistic sounds on their debut album Matriphagy
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Not yet ratedDream Theater man John Petrucci shows his range on belated second solo album
Amaranthe’s Manifest: rippling riffs meet gleaming razzmatazz on genre-mashing new album
Power metal, pop, EDM – Amaranthe leave no genre unturned on new album Manifest
Uada’s Djinn album: kvlt-baiting black metal polished to a technicolour gleam
Boundary-pushing Portland black metallers Uada provoke the faithful’s ire on new album Djinn
Svalbard’s When I Die, Will I Get Better? is the most important British metal record of 2020
Post-hardcore dissidents Svalbard cement themselves as an essential voice with new album When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Fish - Weltschmerz review
Not yet ratedTime gentlemen, please: prog’s great warrior-poet Fish bows out with a career-capping masterpiece
The Ocean’s Phanerozoic II: the conclusion to an epic journey four billion years in the making
Prog metal doesn’t get any more ambitious than the final part of The Ocean’s history of the Earth
