All posts tagged "review special"

  • UNIVERS ZERO In Studio, Recording New Album

    By on July 9, 2013

    News are coming from the Univers Zero camp, saying that the new album is in the works scheduled to be released in December 2013. The...

  • Review Special: Helloween – Helloween EP (1985)

    By on March 29, 2013

    Even before there was “Keeper of the Seven Keys”, the German power metal titans Helloween were flying high. Although they hadn’t yet redefined the genre...

  • Miles Davis – Aura

    By on November 11, 2012

    If ‘Kind Of Blue’ was Miles Davis’ ode to cultured urbania, then ‘Aura’ shows the civil setting come crashing down around him. Well into the...

  • Kraftwerk – Radio-Aktivität

    By on October 22, 2012

    Following their seminal record ‘Autobahn’, Kraftwerk were now under the stress to release something that faithfully continued the band’s legacy of electronic music. Some bands...

  • Arcturus – The Sham Mirrors

    By on October 22, 2012

    With another album, there are new developments for the avant-garde metal act known as Arcturus. This now-legendary band is something of a Norwegian black metal...

  • Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye

    By on October 7, 2012

    For one reason or another, multi-instrumentalist and composer Toby Driver’s flagship band maudlin of the Well fell apart, and from its ashes came its new...

  • Miles Davis – Bitches Brew

    By on September 13, 2012

    Held as one of the most celebrated works of one of the most celebrated artists of our time, Miles Davis’ ‘Bitches Brew’ is a work...

  • Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden

    By on September 11, 2012

    I once spoke with another Iron Maiden fan who told me that he counted 1982′s “Number of the Beast” as the band’s ‘true’ debut. To...

  • Univers Zero – Heatwave

    By on September 8, 2012

    This may just be the greatest prog album released in the 1980s. It is certainly a highpoint for this Belgian band. For 1986, there wasn’t...

  • Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

    By on August 28, 2012

    Iron Maiden’s career is a perfect example of one that managed to not only achieve greatness, but maintain it with a relative consistency. Sure, there...