Yearn to Burn: Shred Guitar Insanity What is shred, anyway? It’s a stringed instrument (primarily guitar) playing style that evolved naturally, morphing into it’s own niche. Fast, ostentatious, virtuoso playing, using a variety of techniques, was not invented in the 1980s nor by Eddie Van Halen. That decade and that particular …
Read More »Between the Buried and Me Release New Album ‘Coma Ecliptic’
Between the Buried and Me Release New Album ‘Coma Ecliptic’ Progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me released their new album, Coma Ecliptic, on 10th July 2015 via Metal Blade Records. Fans can purchase the album, which Rolling Stone calls “a 68-minute cosmic opera” on iTunes here: http://apple.co/1KU1C66, or purchase a physical copy here: metalblade.com/btbam Coma Ecliptic is …
Read More »Tesseract / Animals as Leaders – The Talking Heads, Southampton – 03/11/2014
Crammed as tight as canned sardines, people forgot about the cold and miserable weather outside. They intended to generate a lot of heat and energy at tonight’s sell-out show in Southampton’s 260 capacity venue ‘The Talking Heads’. The night kicked off to an impressive start as Navene Koperweis – the …
Read More »Animals As Leaders – The Joy of Motion
The Joy of Motion is the third album by instrumental progressive metal group Animals As Leaders, released through Sumerian Records. This 12-song release seems like a quirky collection of hundreds of freely associated aural ideas, abruptly or tangentially assembled. First the ideas congeal in to riffs, then verses, then “heads” …
Read More »Meshuggah/Animals as Leaders/We are Knuckle Dragger – Live Review
When you see the names Meshuggah and Animals as Leaders you know you’re in for an evening of intense, mind-blowing music. Tonight’s show took place at the Concorde 2 in Brighton and with a 600 capacity the show was sold out and filled with people in which I can only …
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