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Knight Area’s Nine Paths: simply great melodic progressive rock!

10 October 2011 American Culture

Knight Area’s fourth release, Nine Paths, is simply a great sounding album of melodic progressive rock. Earlier works were likely gathered under the symphonic rock genre also. But Nine Paths seems to find Knight Area upping the rock ante just a bit. With that said, don’t think that founder, composer, and keyboardist Gerben Klazinga is [...]

On Comm, The Tangent explores the impact of communication technology on our world

20 September 2011 American Culture

Never to be underestimated, The Tangent arrives with another prog rock tour-de-force, perhaps their best to date, in Comm. The concept of the album is both enigmatically simple and profound: to consider the advancement of communication (comm) technology in the last hundred years and it’s effect upon us. The Tangent visits early significance with the [...]

A Dramatic Turn of Events is classic Dream Theater, so forget the controversy of Portnoy leaving the band

11 September 2011 American Culture

One would think that the hype of drummer Mike Portnoy leaving Dream Theater would have subsided by now. But on the eve of the release of their eleventh album, A Dramatic Turn of Events, remaining members are still taking swipes at him. It’s a shame really as the title of this album declares this simple [...]

The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra’s All Out of Peaches is a delightful twist on prog rock fusion

7 September 2011 American Culture

Defining The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra sound may prove problematic for some. Calling them progressive rock would be too general, but also too restrictive. You will hear elements of classical, rock, jazz, pop and even variations of country music in their compositions. Working with guitar, violin (fiddle), bass and drums, an amalgamation or fusion of things [...]

Edguy returns with Age of the Joker, another platter of great melodic metal

22 August 2011 Entertainment

Coming to a new Edguy is always a good thing. Ten years ago this German melodic heavy metal band single-handedly brought me back to metal in the 21st century (helping to revive me from a decade lost to grunge in nu-metal). Age of the Joker is their ninth studio album, with the band offering both [...]

Firewolfe delivers terrific American made melodic heavy metal on debut

1 August 2011 American Culture

Here’s the bottom line at the start: if you dig classic American melodic heavy/power metal, then you should stop reading now and buy Firewolfe’s debut album. Here’ the long review, if you’d like to stick around. Firewolfe is a collaborative effort of love by five dudes making music that they love and would listen to [...]

Guitarist Glenn Bridger delivers a AOR melodic rock gem on self-titled debut

25 July 2011 Entertainment

Bridger is the namesake solo album from guitarist Glen Bridger. Glen steps out of his role as the current lead guitarist for classic rock band Head East to offer ten original songs of AOR and melodic rock, and one tribute song. Vocals are handled by Terry Ilous (XYZ, Great White), bass by fellow Head East [...]

ZombieShakerBox’s debut Encrypted offers both timeless and modern American melodic hard rock

18 July 2011 American Culture

I’m not sure where the name came from, or what it means. Zombies have been a big deal as of late: perhaps due to the coming zombie apocalypse. (You know it’s going to happen.) This I do know: ZombieShakerBox rocks. They rock big time on their debut work Encrypted. Coming out of Las Vegas, founded [...]

Rob Moratti channels pure Eighties melodic AOR through his solo album ‘Victory’

16 June 2011 American Culture

No sooner had he joined Canada’s melodic progressive rock band Saga, Rob Moratti left after one album. He resurfaces with a new solo album, Victory, on England’s Escape Music label. It’s Eighties AOR deja vu all over again. This album could have been the soundtrack for a John Hughes teenage angst film. Victory is less [...]

Eight great new music reviews added at Dangerdog Music Reviews including the latest from Artizan: Curse of the Artizan

25 April 2011 American Culture

Eight new music reviews have been added to Dangerdog Music Reviews including the brand new full-length recording for the awesome American traditional metal band Artizan. The Curse of the Artizan is an epic work of classic melodic heavy metal. Also reviewed are Lost in Thought, prog metal from the UK and more classic metal from [...]

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