Review: Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events
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Sebastian
Update: I’ll raise my score to 8,5 of 10. Why? I have been listening constantly and liking most songs more and more. Still no 10, because I still think that you can hear that writing took place without Mangini. But the album has definitely entered my top 5 DT album list. After the first listen, […]
Review: Symphony X – Iconoclast
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Sebastian
Four long years of wait are over as New Jersey progressive rockers Symphony X have released their new studio album Iconoclast. After a couple of run-throughs it feels like it was worth the wait, Iconoclast delivers the key ingredients of Symphony X’s music at its best: A great hook line that haunts you after two […]
Review: Protest the Hero – Scurrilous
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Sebastian
I just love it when a piece of music just totally grabs your attention in way that makes you ignore the other 15,3 GB of music and podcasts on you iPod. If memory serves correctly Protest the Hero‘s first album was on a Best albums of the year-entry by Mike Portnoy. And I loved that […]
Dream Theater took their time to announce their new drummer. But it was good.
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Sebastian
As you may or may not know, US prog rock/metal band Dream Theater recently announced that their drummer of 25 years, Mike Portnoy, had left the band. If you’ve never heard of Dream Theater, they have a huge fan base that fills venues with very little advertising needed, and have sold more than 10m records.1 […]
Review: Times of Grace – The Hymn of a Broken Man
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Sebastian
Killswitch Engage mastermind Adam D. grouped together with former KSE singer Jesse Leach to record this album which will also be supported by a small tour, incidentally with KSE guitarist Joel Stroetzel. This comes of course on the heels of KSE vocalist Howard Jones leaving the tour last year due to undisclosed problems and KSE […]
R.I.P. Gary Moore
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Sebastian
Ein paar Erinnerungen… R.I.P. Gary Moore on Monday evening by planetsab Und hier ist The Messiah in voller (10 minütiger! Länge.