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Eclecticism in Prog is usually heralded as a favourable quality however can there ever be too much of a good thing? Returning from their I Am Anonymous beginnings, Headspace return once again to challenge this idiom. With an all star cast featuring Threshold’s own Damian Wilson and many others we enter the next stage of the quest for understanding.
It’s been a huge week for prog spectacles in London. With Dream Theater playing on the other side of town, Symphony X roll into the east bring their hyper-technical metal to the table, and they have set their lasers to stun.
The Finnish power metallers have announced round two of their ‘Pariah’s Child‘ tour in Europe!
The band on the tip of everybody’s tongue will at other be releasing new material with their debut album this April.
Despite being one of the cornerstones in the Progressive Metal genre, Dream Theater relentlessly strive for innovation. Having moved on without drummer Portnoy the band have indeed understood their identity. Handing the reins over to guitarist and beard grower extraordinaire John Petrucci, the band’s creativity has seldom dulled in their thirty year plus career. Quite no one would anticipate their sheer level of attention to detail on their brand new release, The Astonishing. Not only one of the biggest undertakings in the band’s career but potentially in the genre all together. Putting together a live performance the likes most bands will never see, tonight we are at the mercy of The Astonishing : Live at London’s Palladium.
We know it’s been a while since this has actually happened know, but we still can’t get over how obnoxious it was. For a game that takes on the spiritual attributes of metal…why can’t we have some metal performers? Let us suggest a few bands we think could take the stand.
The man behind some of the most epic power metal of the modern day brings his crew to London to showcase that ‘cinematic’ over the top performances that the whole of the European continent has come to love. It’s a small venue the group are performing in tonight, but that doesn’t make the slightest bit of different! We review an evening of power metal spectacles.
At last we can confirm that the brand new Gojira album has entered the final stages.