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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 [...]

DC4 offers great American hard rock on Electric Ministry

29 August 2011 American Culture

DC4 resurrects and reinvigorates their roots by preaching the gospel of hard rock on their third release Electric Ministry. Wanting to get the Nineties out their system, DC4 chose to focus on guitar rock, add some serious metal attitude, and essentially turn the knobs to eleven. (You may not have heard of DC4, so here’s [...]

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 [...]

In Waves: Trivium stays the course on this unusually entertaining, somewhat predictable, album of modern metal

15 August 2011 American Culture

Honestly, I expected more from Trivium on their new album In Waves. They still offer a mystifying blend of death metal, thrash metal, and metalcore within a sometimes melodic wrapper, including harmonious vocal arrangements against death growls and screams. So then this is essentially the state of modern metal, same old same old, nothing ventured, [...]

41Point9 offers floating feline theory and some great melodic prog rock on Still Looking for the Answers

9 August 2011 American Culture

41Point9 are three clever fellows attempting to discover the meaning of life by proving, if you tie a piece of buttered toast, which always hits the floor butter side down, to the back of cat, which always lands on all four, the feline will float through the air. They also make progressive rock. 41Point9 is [...]

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 [...]

With Iconoclast, Symphony X returns with a monumental piece of American progressive metal

30 May 2011 Entertainment

Heavier might be a good word to describe Symphony X’s return on Iconoclast. But being Symphony X that would be too simplistic of a description. Founder and guitarist Michael Romeo states, in the press material, “This record will only become accessible to the listener after several runs. That was our purpose … to create a [...]

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