All posts tagged "review"

  • X-TG – Desertshore/Final Report

    By on January 23, 2013

    This final statement from most of the remaining members of Throbbing Gristle (the “TG” of X-TG) is a tribute to founder member Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson...

  • Yowie – Damning With Faint Praise

    By on January 16, 2013

    Yowie achieved a measure of underground notoriety with “Cryptooology”, an album that turned rock conventions on their side, having more in common with the aesthetic...

  • Herd of Instinct – Conjure

    By on January 9, 2013

    In the late spring of 2011, the self-titled debut album by Herd of Instinct  – a hitherto unknown outfit named after the only album by Talk...

  • Therion – Les Fleurs Du Mal

    By on January 9, 2013

    There aren’t too many bands out there that can say they have been around for a decade, let alone a quarter of a century. For...

  • David Lazar Galić Of Draconic: 2012 Year In Review

    By on January 5, 2013

    David Lazar Galić is the bassist of Belgrade’s modern metal outfit Draconic, who occasionally works as Prog Sphere’s columnist. This article is David’s look on...

  • The Former Life – Electric Stillness

    By on December 26, 2012

    The Former Life is a band fuelled by the musical partnership and chemistryof Matteo Ballarin and Andrea De Nardi, two young proggers with a vested...

  • Metaphysics – Beyond the Nightfall

    By on December 25, 2012

    Progressive metal may be a something of a stagnant genre nowadays, but there’s still great quality to be found. Metaphysics is an Italian group that...

  • Alphataurus – AttosecondO

    By on December 24, 2012

    Almost forty years ago, a little-known band called Alphataurus released their self-titled debut to the world. Although they are still arguably little-known (largely due to...

  • Nine Stones Close – One Eye On The Sunrise

    By on December 24, 2012

    Although there was never point where I found myself outright disliking it, I found myself less enthusiastic about Nine Stones Close’s first album “Traces” (second...

  • Yugen – Mirrors

    By on December 23, 2012

    Founded in 2004 in Milan (Italy) by guitarist/composer Francesco Zago and AltrOck Productions mainman Marcello Marinone, Yugen (a core concept of  Japanese aesthetics that can...