Another 2017 headbanger arises this week from the Land of a Thousand Metal Bands in the form of Noumena’s fifth album, Myrrys. The album title (meaning “ruckus” or “uproar” in old Finnish), paired with the striking cover art, portend a collection of punishers tinged by the savagery and ferociousness that …

Naka-Kon is an annual 3-day convention held in the Kansas City area which celebrates anime, video games, and Japanese culture. Each year, the convention hosts a variety of influential Japanese musicians who perform, host informative panels, and sign autographs for fans. This year’s main musical guest was Japanese rock band …

Naka-Kon is an annual 3-day convention held in the Kansas City area which celebrates anime, video games, and Japanese culture. Each year, the convention hosts a variety of influential Japanese musicians who perform, host informative panels, and sign autographs for fans. Line-up This year, the convention will be hosting the …

Persefone is a progressive metal band that you may not know of, hailing from a country that you’d be hard-pressed to locate on a map. So, why should you care? Well, for those with a proclivity for razor sharp musicianship, masterful progressive songwriting, or crystal clear production, Persefone’s upcoming album, …

Though originally a Finland-born group, Mors Principium Est has been one of the last few decades’ foremost carriers of the Swedish “Gothenburg sound” of melodic death metal. Though in more recent years the band’s lineup has seen the addition of a few non-Scandinavian members, the pulse-pounding rhythms and razorblade pedal-note …

Respected Euro-power quintet Sonata Arctica have made their way across the pond to tour the states in support of their recently released ninth studio album, appropriately titled The Ninth Hour. Promising a night of headbanging with a touch of epic fantasy, the Finns have brought along melodic metal powerhouse Omnium …

Gothenburg metal pioneers Dark Tranquillity are bringing the Swedish fire across the pond for a headlining tour of North America in support of their much-praised eleventh album, Atoma. Tagging along are American metallers Starkill, speed metal revivalists Enforcer, and beloved death/doom heroes Swallow the Sun – all but guaranteeing an …

Eleven albums deep into their storied, 27-year career, Swedish metal legends Dark Tranquillity are set to release their latest offering, Atoma, this week. After the darker, more melancholic shift in tone found on the band’s previous album, Construct, fans have been anxious to find out whether that style will prevail …

Masked Swedish occult rock sextet Ghost are currently touring the United States fresh off of the release of the Popestar EP, a new offering featuring a single original song and a handful of covers. Not content with taking it easy after their wildly successful album Meliora and its equally successful …

“Filling a double release with consistently high-quality material is no easy feat, and albums of this type frequently add up to one album’s worth of worthwhile music, with the other half of the music proving to be bland, uninspired filler…On occasion, a band may promise a two-part album, and end …

Delain began as an alternate project of Martijn Westerholt, former keyboardist for the pioneering symphonic metal band Within Temptation. With their first album released in 2006, Delain has been steadily gaining widespread popularity and carving their own name into the sphere of symphonic metal as a more pop/rock oriented alternative …

In the realm of progressive rock, “strange” is often synonymous with “great”. In a genre defined by pushing boundaries, defying expectations, and mixing genres like liquors at a nightclub, it’s true that stranger heads usually prevail. Obviously taking this mantra to heart, New Jersey’s Thank You Scientist emerged onto the …