I’m learning to never underestimate Elder. In my review of their last studio album, the masterful Reflections Of A Floating World, I spent a fair amount of time detailing how quickly and impressively their music has developed over the past decade. Yet despite this knowledge, I still found myself properly flabbergasted upon hearing The Gold [&am […]

Anyone already familiar with Californian instrumentalists Djam Karet (pronounced Jam Care-Ray), will know what to expect from this, their latest release. There is a welcome familiarity about the way they go about creating music. It will be fundamentally guitar-based, with three guitarists in Mike Henderson, Mike Murray and main-man Gayle Ellett, a dexterous rhythm section [&am […]

My introduction to Queensrÿche was Operation: Mindcrime, a stellar progressive metal album, and an amazing experience. Following the creation of that album, in 1988, the band went on to write significantly more accessible music, and even had some success in the 1990s. When delving into The Verdict, I was quite happy to find that this [&am […]

Last year’s studio concert Ocean Sounds felt like a line drawn under Iamthemorning’s first three albums and, on its release, the band announced that 2019 would see the arrival of their fourth full studio album. That brief wait is over and the album, entitled The Bell, is now with us. Iamthemorning are one of the [&am […]

Aula Magna, Lisbon, Portugal Friday, 31st May – Sunday, 2nd June 2019 Around 2 years before this event  Marillion’s go getting manager Lucy Jordache visited Lisbon to gauge whether it was an appropriate City for one of the band’s bi annual weekend conventions. Presumably she liked what she saw. A beautiful  exotic city, full of [&am […]

With The Clockwork Prologue companion piece to 2016’s The Clockwork Fable now available, TPA’s Tony Colvill spoke to the band about (almost) all things Fist… Dean, in your role as Cogtopolis Eccentric Overlord (that is what CEO stands for, is it not?) where can your lost soul progressive rock/steampunk/story reader fit the continuing tale within [&am […]

Every now and then the lunatics have an away day from the asylum; the Gandalf’s Fist collective are such a bunch of lunatics. The Prologue is really a tale within a tale, that fits somewhere, though where is a complete mystery to me. A number of songs that could have made the cut for A [&am […]

Musical legend that is Jon Anderson releases a new album which has been thirty years in the making. There will be a lot of debate regarding this album, comments like, ‘well it’s not Yes’, ‘all his solo albums bar two have been poor’, ‘you would be a fool to review it’, etc. Now perhaps some [&am […]

An Initiation (2010 – 2017) is a new compilation from Fish on Friday and serves as a fine introduction for those unfamiliar with the band. For the ‘uninitiated’, the most well-known member of this international band based in Belgium is Rock bassist extraordinaire, Nick Beggs, whom has played with Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson and the [&am […]

Los Angeles, 1989… A 19 year old me went out with some friends to see some bands playing on the strip in Hollywood, a somewhat regular occurrence. On this particular night there was a band from the town I was … Continue reading &rarr […]