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EXUMER’s Mem Von Stein: “It Doesn’t Matter How Much of a Extreme Metal Fan You Are, You Will Always Like DIO or Early AC/DC”
April 10, 2019 12:00 - 36 minutes - 84.5 MBRecently released Exumer‘s fifth full-length album entitled Hostile Defiance, is exactly what its title suggests: A 42-minute full on attack, the thrash faction hold nothing back as they unleash hell as only they can, yet with more variety and dynamics than ever before. While the album’s title is overtly belligerent, the lyrical content is far [...] The post EXUMER’s Mem Von Stein: “It Doesn’t Matter How Much of a Extreme Metal Fan You Are, You Will Always Like DIO or Early AC/DC” appeared ...
QUEENSRŸCHE and FATES WARNING @ The Aztec Theater – San Antonio, TX (March 22nd, 2019)
April 02, 2019 15:37 - 39 minutes - 89.7 MBQueensrÿche is a name that had long been synonymous with innovation and excellence before egos and power struggles derailed them from their once-trailblazing path. Now in their seventh year of the post-Tate era, the Seattle natives are bringing their revitalized sound to fans who, after nearly a quarter-century, at last feel like they can trust [...] The post QUEENSRŸCHE and FATES WARNING @ The Aztec Theater – San Antonio, TX (March 22nd, 2019) appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.
L.A. GUNS’s Phil Lewis Talks New Album ‘The Devil You Know’: “I Wanted Get Away from the Typical Musical Vocabulary and Make an Angry, Pissed-Off Record”
March 29, 2019 15:20 - 32 minutes - 74.9 MBOne of the greatest American hard rock band of the last 30 years, LA Guns have always delivered a solid show. Having found a new breath of air with the reunion of Phil Lewis and Tracii Guns after years being apart, they released the widely praised The Mising Peace in 2017, and are now back [...] The post L.A. GUNS’s Phil Lewis Talks New Album ‘The Devil You Know’: “I Wanted Get Away from the Typical Musical Vocabulary and Make an Angry, Pissed-Off Record” appeared first on Sonic Perspective...
RPWL’s Yogi Lang Talks New Album: “This Album Was a Liberation; We Look at It as an “Intermission” Between Our Other Concept Albums”
March 29, 2019 12:00 - 46 minutes - 107 MBRPWL has long been one of progressive rock’s best kept secrets. Their 8th studio album, Tales From Outer Space, has just been released and it continues their long tradition of soaring guitar, emotional melodies and keyboard-drenched arrangements. With their four-man crew, they have dedicated themselves entirely to science fiction on the new LP. Singer and [...] The post RPWL’s Yogi Lang Talks New Album: “This Album Was a Liberation; We Look at It as an “Intermission” Between Our Other Conce...
DOUG ALDRICH Talks New BURNING RAIN Album, DEAD DAISIES, Working with DIO and WHITESNAKE
March 22, 2019 12:00 - 32 minutes - 75.1 MBOne would he hard pressed to find a guitar player with a more diverse and exciting output than Doug Aldrich. He started his career in the mid 80’s with hard rock bands such as Lion, House of Lords and Bad Moon Rising, and became more prominent after joining Ronnie James Dio’s solo act. Doug later [...] The post DOUG ALDRICH Talks New BURNING RAIN Album, DEAD DAISIES, Working with DIO and WHITESNAKE appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.
NICK BEGGS Talks THE MUTE GODS Album: “In Concert I’d Love to Have Giant Tardigrades Come Down Over the Stage, It Would Rival Roger Waters!”
March 18, 2019 12:00 - 38 minutes - 87.4 MBNick Beggs has come into prominence in the progressive rock world through his constant touring with Steven Wilson and Steve Hackett in the past 10 years, along with his bass playing having graced albums from Lifesigns, Fish on Fridays and many more. He originally made his mark in the 80’s with Kajagoogoo and continues his [...] The post NICK BEGGS Talks THE MUTE GODS Album: “In Concert I’d Love to Have Giant Tardigrades Come Down Over the Stage, It Would Rival Roger Waters!” appeared first ...
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Bands That Constantly Revamp Their Identity / Queensrÿche – The Verdict / Randy McStine’s Career Highlights (Episode No. 22)
March 15, 2019 15:00 - 2 hours - 299 MBIs constant artistic evolution a virtue? Is it necessary to maintain a group’s integrity? When is it okay for a band rely on the fruits of past labors? Can a teenager recruit members of King’s X and Spock’s Beard to perform on his debut release? Riding on the heels of Episode 21’s discussion of artists [...] The post TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Bands That Constantly Revamp Their Identity / Queensrÿche – The Verdict / Randy McStine’s Career Highlights (Episode No. 22) appeared first on Sonic Persp...
Metal Queen DORO PESCH Talks New EP and MOTÖRHEAD’s Cover: “I Love The Aggressiveness of “Ace Of Spades”, But I Also Love The Soulful Side of Lemmy”
March 06, 2019 16:42 - 26 minutes - 60 MBGerman metal queen Doro Pesch will release a four-song vinyl EP, Backstage To Heaven, in two days (March 8th) to coincide with the start of the second leg of her world tour. The EP will feature two previously released album tracks as well as two new live recordings. The title track, “Backstage To Heaven”, is a [...] The post Metal Queen DORO PESCH Talks New EP and MOTÖRHEAD’s Cover: “I Love The Aggressiveness of “Ace Of Spades”, But I Also Love The Soulful Side of Lemmy” appeared first on S...
MIKE PORTNOY Talks THE NEAL MORSE BAND Musical Approach: “This Is a Band that Doesn’t Follow Any Commercial Trends, We Make Music that We Feel is Going to Move People and Their Emotions”
March 01, 2019 17:30 - 32 minutes - 75.4 MBLast January 2019 saw The Neal Morse Band perhaps making the boldest artistic statement in all its members’ collective pasts combined: The Great Adventure, another double concept album following their previous lauded magnum opus The Similitude of a Dream. Yet another mammoth release of epic proportions, The Great Adventure was received by rave reviews and [...] The post MIKE PORTNOY Talks THE NEAL MORSE BAND Musical Approach: “This Is a Band that Doesn’t Follow Any Commercial Trends, We Mak...
HAKEN Keyboardist DIEGO TEJEIDA: “I’d Love to Put Together a Band with ERIC GILLETTE on Guitars and BAARD KOLSTAD on Drums”
February 27, 2019 13:47 - 20 minutes - 47.6 MBHAKEN, one of progressive music’s most exciting bands, released their much-anticipated fifth studio album titled Vector at the end of 2018, and the band has been touring actively in support of the record. The album was produced by the band themselves, and recorded & mixed by Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood (Periphery, Devin Townsend Project), with the [...] The post HAKEN Keyboardist DIEGO TEJEIDA: “I’d Love to Put Together a Band with ERIC GILLETTE on Guitars and BAARD KOLSTAD on Drums” appeared firs...
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Genre Mixing in Metal and Prog-Rock / Most Anticipated Albums of 2019 / Dream Theater New Album (Episode No. 21)
February 26, 2019 16:25 - 1 hour - 172 MBWhat happens when you record a bunch of know-it-all prog nerds on a conference call? You get yet another episode of Talking Perspectives, back for the second edition of the new year. On Episode 21, regular panelist Jordan Blum and Talking Perspectives founder Nick Andreas join host Gonzalo Pozo to discuss the virtues of mixing [...] The post TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Genre Mixing in Metal and Prog-Rock / Most Anticipated Albums of 2019 / Dream Theater New Album (Episode No. 21) appeared first o...
CHRIS CAFFERY Talks New Band SPIRITS OF FIRE: “Working with Roy Z was Entertaining, Creative and Very Metal”
February 22, 2019 15:00 - 37 minutes - 86 MBFrontiers Music SLR is known for building new bands/projects featuring musicians of outstanding quality and who come from unique backgrounds. After an intense brainstorming session, a dream team of renowned metal musicians including Tim “Ripper” Owens (ex-Judas Priest, Iced Earth), Chris Caffery (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Steve DiGiorgio (Testament, Death etc.) and Mark Zonder (ex-Fates Warning, [...] The post CHRIS CAFFERY Talks New Band SPIRITS OF FIRE: “Working with Roy Z was ...
ROTTING CHRIST’s Main-man SAKIS TOLIS Talks New Album: “Metal Has No Borders”
February 20, 2019 15:00 - 26 minutes - 61.1 MBROTTING CHRIST were the first Greek band to break out from the underground and make their impact felt worldwide. In a signature style honed by 30 years of toil and triumph, the quartet has delivered heavy metal thunder so epic that it could have been forged by the gods themselves. Band’s front-man Sakis Tolis proved [...] The post ROTTING CHRIST’s Main-man SAKIS TOLIS Talks New Album: “Metal Has No Borders” appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM’s Drummer KEN MARY: “Metal is Where the Envelope is Being Pushed Drumming-Wise More Than in Any Other Genre”
February 07, 2019 14:00 - 40 minutes - 94 MBIt’s no secret that we at Sonic Perspectives love FLOTSAM AND JETSAM – we recently published an interview with their guitar player Michael Gilbert, and a glowing review of their upcoming album, The End of Chaos, which is promising to be one of the greatest metal releases of 2019. And now, expanding even more our [...] The post FLOTSAM AND JETSAM’s Drummer KEN MARY: “Metal is Where the Envelope is Being Pushed Drumming-Wise More Than in Any Other Genre” appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.
TÝR Frontman HERI JOENSEN on Nazi Fans: “If You Know How to Read, You Know We Do Not Support to the Right Extremists”
February 04, 2019 15:00 - 32 minutes - 74.4 MBSince their formation in the late 90s, the Faroese band Tyr has faced a number of obstacles, not the least of which include finding personnel in their sparsely populated country. From their early days as a pagan-hearted progressive metal band to their current seafaring savagery, Heri Joensen and his horde of heathens have held their [...] The post TÝR Frontman HERI JOENSEN on Nazi Fans: “If You Know How to Read, You Know We Do Not Support to the Right Extremists” appeared first on Sonic Per...
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Career Retrospective with JOHN MACALUSO (Episode No. 20)
February 01, 2019 13:30 - 1 hour - 140 MBDrummer virtuoso John Macaluso is a name that will be familiar to anyone following the melodic metal scene for the last 20 years. One of the most in demand and hard working drummers to ever grace a stage – with a catalogue of over 200 albums spread across numerous different genres – Macaluso is a [...] The post TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Career Retrospective with JOHN MACALUSO (Episode No. 20) appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.
Interview with Songwriter and Multi-instrumentalist RANDY MCSTINE: “If You Want to Keep People’s Attention, This Idea of Making Music Clickbait is Really Painful”
January 30, 2019 15:53 - 2 hours - 165 MBTalented singer, songwriter, guitarist / multi-instrumentalist Randy McStine is probably best known as the nucleus of his band Lo-Fi Resistance, but in more recent years has played extensively with Dave Kerzner in Kerzner’s live band, and now Kerzner’s new project, In Continuum, which debuted at ProgStock 2018, just released its debut album, and will perform [...] The post Interview with Songwriter and Multi-instrumentalist RANDY MCSTINE: “If You Want to Keep People’s Attention, This Idea o...
CASEY MCPHERSON Talks New Album: “It’s a Dream of Mine to Record My Own Prog-Rock Album, Because I Want to See What My Version is of The Scene”
January 24, 2019 18:30 - 37 minutes - 87.2 MBCasey McPherson established his name on the more pop end of the spectrum with his band Alpha Rev, but as his career developed he has found greater freedom of expression with bands like Flying Colors and The Sea Within. A couple of years ago he wanted to do something outside the box, a more in-depth [...] The post CASEY MCPHERSON Talks New Album: “It’s a Dream of Mine to Record My Own Prog-Rock Album, Because I Want to See What My Version is of The Scene” appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.
FRANKIE BELLO Talks New Band ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE: “It’s Very Cathartic For Dave and Myself to Release This Album at This Point in Our Careers”
January 23, 2019 14:40 - 22 minutes - 50.8 MBOn paper, Get It Out, the new full-length debut from Altitudes & Attitude, might imply something other than a collection of smartly crafted melodic hard-rock songs. After all, Altitudes & Attitude is a collaboration between Anthrax’s Frank Bello and Megadeth’s David Ellefson – two virtuosic bass players who’ve anchored some of the fiercest thrash records of [...] The post FRANKIE BELLO Talks New Band ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE: “It’s Very Cathartic For Dave and Myself to Release This Album at Thi...
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM’s Guitarist MIKE GILBERT: “There’s Something Unique About How We’re Writing Up Music Now, Some of Our Older Albums Wouldn’t Hold a Candle Against THE END OF CHAOS”
January 10, 2019 13:00 - 35 minutes - 80.8 MBWhat do you do when you unleashed arguably the finest hour in your 30-plus year career and you are ready to record its follow-up? You head back to the dark n’ dusty garage to keep that momentum going. Flotsam and Jetsam – the album – saw the Arizona veteran band firing on all cylinders, writing/performing [...] The post FLOTSAM AND JETSAM’s Guitarist MIKE GILBERT: “There’s Something Unique About How We’re Writing Up Music Now, Some of Our Older Albums Wouldn’t Hold a Candle Against THE END ...
SOEN’s Drummer MARTIN LOPEZ: “We Wanted the Guitars on LOTUS to Sound Louder, Heavier and Crispier”
January 09, 2019 13:00 - 29 minutes - 67.5 MBProg metal fans can expect a great 2019, and evidence of that can already be found in one of the first releases of the year – Soen’s new album Lotus. Formed in Sweden in 2004, Soen released their debut album Cognitive in 2012, to critic and fans’ acclaim. Since then two more albums followed, and [...] The post SOEN’s Drummer MARTIN LOPEZ: “We Wanted the Guitars on LOTUS to Sound Louder, Heavier and Crispier” appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.
Indonesian Guitar Phenomenon DEWA BUDJANA Discuss New Album ‘Mahandini’, Featuring MARCO MINNEMANN and JORDAN RUDESS
January 02, 2019 14:25 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBWhen an artist takes an unexpected turn into new musical directions, it may cause stirring among fans. This is not the case of the increasingly global fanbase of Indonesian progressive fusion maestro Dewa Budjana, who always come prepared to the perennial journeys through the world of their favored guitarist. For his 11th solo recording, Mahandini, [...]
SOILWORK’s Singer BJÖRN “Speed” STRID Talks New Album: “Our Sound Has Become Gradually More Extreme Again and More Melancholic and Darker”
December 21, 2018 14:00 - 29 minutes - 49.2 MBSOILWORK is a band that has been through a lot. They has been around, in one form or another, for twenty years now. Some people say that they haven’t made anything worth listening to after »Steelbath Suicide«. Some have only heard Stabbing The Drama. Some think The Living Infinite was quite epic. It’s all good. At this [...]
Former ICED EARTH Member and ASHES OF ARES Frontman MATT BARLOW Discuss Second Album: “Each Song We Write Deserves Our Time and Passion”
December 19, 2018 19:20 - 42 minutes - 97.2 MBMatt Barlow is back! His band Ashes of Ares recently released the long-awaited follow-up to their self-titled debut album. “Well of Souls” presents an increased intensity and more wide-ranging sound which builds upon the foundation laid down by the first album and further solidifies Matt Barlow and Freddie Vidales’ partnership in writing. Former Ashes Of [...]
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: 2018 – A Year In Review (Episode No. 19)
December 14, 2018 12:50 - 1 hour - 164 MBThat dreaded moment when you have to look back and choose the album releases you liked the most for the year. Uff! Let’s get it done! For this episode of Talking Perspectives regular host Nick Andreas returned with an extended cast of Sonic Perspectives contributors for a hindsight analysis of the music we have dealt [...]
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Episode No. 18 (Jason Becker / Haken, Leprous and Bent Knee recent tour / Surprising albums of the year)
December 03, 2018 18:31 - 1 hour - 164 MBCan one compose music while unable to move? Could anything go wrong when a group of Bostonians drive across the country during a snowstorm? Can any music really surprise you when your constantly inundated in new music? Talking Perspectives host Nick Andreas hands over hosting duties to regular panelist Gonzalo Pozo as they shoot the [...]
JOHNNY GIOELI Talks Solo Album “One Voice”: ‘I Wanted to Make a Feel Good, Turn-this-thing-up-in-your-car Kind of Album’
November 29, 2018 15:34 - 32 minutes - 74.2 MBIf you are unfamiliar with the name Johnny Gioeli and the bands he is/has been involved in, Hardline, Crush 40, and Axel Rudi Pell, then you have simply missed out on one of the most gifted voices to grace the hard rock genre in the past 25 years! Not too long ago, the man responsible [...]
WITHERFALL Talks Scattering Deceased Drummer’s Ashes on Stage: “That Moment Was Super Powerful, Eerie and Beautiful. It Was Our First Show and Adam Was There”
November 28, 2018 12:45 - 57 minutes - 132 MBCalifornia’s Witherfall has been on a hell of a ride. This stellar progressive-metal collective came into being when former members of White Wizzard, Jag Panzer, and Circle II Circle decided to do something interesting together. The resulting record, Nocturnes and Requiems, boasted music and songcraft some bands well into their third decade could never dream [...]
CHROME DIVISION’s Guitarist MISTER DAMAGE: “I Think People Deserve to See Us Live and to Celebrate With Us”
November 21, 2018 22:03 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBNorway’s Chrome Division is known for many things, but most notably having a good time while playing adrenaline-fueled classic rock ‘n roll, and for being a musical outlet for Dimmu Borgir‘s Shagrath. Sadly, after 15 years or so, the band is finally calling it quits. But do not weep for them, as they are masters [...]
ACT OF DEFIANCE’s Front-man HENRY DEREK ELIS Talks Solo Album: “The Magic of Bluegrass and Old Country Music is That It’s Loose In a Very Real Way”
November 20, 2018 12:00 - 31 minutes - 72.4 MBAn amalgamation of influences and various explorations of the Deep South, Henry Derek Elis origins are about as strange as his career in the music business. Henry grew up next to Central State Hospital, once known as the largest psychiatric facility in the world, the town being one of many surrounding areas nearly destroyed & badly [...]
GOOD CHARLOTE @ The Aztek Theater – San Antonio, TX (November 10th, 2018)
November 15, 2018 13:45 - 14 minutes - 33.7 MBWhat do you get when you send a metalhead and a prog-nerd with a camera to a Good Charlotte show? You get a set of photos and a thirteen-minute audio piece. Sonic Perspectives Texas Bureau Chief Gonzalo Pozo and longtime friend Melissa Cagle leave their comfort zones to live among fans of more radio-friendly rock [...]
ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN Talks Her New Album ‘Symphonized’: “The Most Important Thing Is to Share Energy, and I Do It with My Voice”
November 05, 2018 13:00 - 43 minutes - 98.8 MBAnneke van Giersbergen burst onto the scene in the mid 90s when the Dutch progressive death metal band The Gathering decided to start doing things a little differently. Since then, this siren of the lowlands has led a varied and busy enough career to exhaust musicians half her age, transitioning into and out of metal, [...]
ROINE STOLT Talks New Album “Manifesto of an Alchemist”: “For Me, This Is a New Album but Also an Old Album. Around 60% of the Material Is Up to 25 Years Old”
November 02, 2018 12:00 - 58 minutes - 135 MBHaving released collaboration albums with The Sea Within, Jon Anderson and being out on tour with Steve Hackett, the leader of The Flower Kings is now focusing on his own music by releasing a brand new album called “Manifesto of an Alchemist”. Under the moniker ROINE STOLT’S THE FLOWER KING, “Manifesto Of An Alchemist” offers [...]
DAMANEK’s mainman GUY MANNING: “I Don’t Want DAMANEK to Be a Rock Band. It’s Got To Be Something Else. Not Quite Sure What, But Slightly Quirky.”
November 01, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 155 MBFor many people, Guy Manning flies under the radar. That’s despite a 30-plus-year career that’s included more than a dozen albums under his own name, Manning, a stint in The Tangent, work with The United Progressive Fraternity, and too many guest spots to count. His current band is Damanek, an intercontinental collaborative effort with Southern [...]
TESTAMENT’s Guitarist ALEX SKOLNICK: “At Some Point I Needed to Get Away From the Bay Area. It Suddenly Felt Like a Small Town”
October 31, 2018 12:30 - 45 minutes - 105 MBAlex Skolnick first gained attention as the teenage wizkid whippersnapper super-shredder in the legendary thrash band Testament. But his musical passions have always had a broader scope; he experimented with funk with Stu Hamm in the early 90s, formed a number of bands who played everything from fusion to cop-show music, pursued a degree in [...]
ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO @ Fitzgerald’s Bar & Live Music Venue – San Antonio, TX (October 20th, 2018)
October 24, 2018 13:00 - 24 minutes - 55.7 MBLive Perspectives is back, once again brought to you by Gonzalo Pozo. This time around he witnessed the Alex Skolnick Trio show @ Fitzgerald’s Bar & Live Music Venue in San Antonio, TX, as part of the “Conundrum Tour”. Listen to Gonzo’s thoughts about the night in the audio below, and enjoy some pictures of the [...]
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Episode No. 17 (The Timing of Fandom)
October 19, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 145 MBDo you remember when you first got into your favorite band? How you quickly ran through everything they had done up to that point and then anxiously awaited their next release? On this episode of Talking Perspectives we talk about how the point in which that happens with a band affects how you perceive their [...]
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Episode No. 16 (ProgStock 2018 Festival Recap)
October 12, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour - 208 MBTalking Perspectives road trip! We head to the land of ProgStock, a progressive rock festival that was held over the weekend of October 6th in Rahway, New Jersey. Joel Barrios, Austin Kokel, Scott Medina, Nick Andreas and Bruce Allen give a day-by-day wrap up of the highlights of the festival, which featured over a dozen [...]
NOTHGARD’s Guitarist and Singer DOM R. CREY: “We Define Ourselves as Epic Melodic Death Metal and I Like to Write Songs that Touch Me”
October 12, 2018 11:00 - 32 minutes - 74 MBDom R Crey made a splash when he joined the German bier-loving metalheads Equilibrium, but his own band Nothgard had been making some damn fine metal in the vein of Dark Tranquillity for several years already. Nothgard are set to hit the European road with Wolfheart and Omnium Gatherum to support their new album, Malady [...]
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Episode No. 15 (Use of Click and Backing Tracks in Music / Haken’s New Album “Vector” / Musical Sequels)
October 11, 2018 10:30 - 1 hour - 156 MBOn this week’s episode Nick, Jordan, and Gonzo were joined once again by Edge of Reality and Kyros axeman Joey Frevola. The quartet discussed the use of, and the pros and cons of click and backing tracks in live performances and how Joey’s bands use them as part of their creative process. The second topic [...]
THE ROAD TO PROGSTOCK 2018: Interview with FERNANDO PERDOMO
October 02, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBFernando Perdomo is best known in progressive rock circles as the right-hand man and guitar gunslinger for Dave Kerzner and his live band, recently rubbing shoulders with the likes of Steve Hackett, but as a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer/songwriter in his own right, Perdomo has a staggering body of work to his own name. Recently [...]
NORTHWARD And PAGAN’S MIND’s Guitarist JØRN VIGGO LOFSTAD: “No Matter What the Genre Is, If You Are Able to Write Really Good Music, People Are Listening to It.”
October 01, 2018 12:00 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBMuch-beloved Pagan’s Mind guitarist and songwriter Jørn Viggo Lofstad is on the cusp of releasing the first album of a new (and yet not so new) project with Floor Jansen of Nightwish. The band and album, both entitled Northward, will be released October 19th, 2018, on Nuclear Blast; but strangely enough, this new album, for [...]
THE ROAD TO PROGSTOCK 2018: Interview with IQ’s Guitarist Mike Holmes
September 27, 2018 17:19 - 30 minutes - 69.2 MBProgStock 2018 is happening in two weeks time! The sophomore edition of the three-day Progressive Rock music Festival will take place Oct 5-7, 2018 at the Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway, New Jersey, USA and tickets are already on sale at this location. ProgStock will be three days of fun, food, merriment, photos, recalling [...]
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Episode No. 14 (Special Morsefest 2018 Recap)
September 26, 2018 12:00 - 52 minutes - 119 MBFor Neal Morse fans, the annual two-day Morsefest festical is a “must be there” musical event. The 2018 edition was held on the weekend of September 14-15—the fifth time the festival has taken flight, in Cross Plains, TN – and it was perhaps the most ambitious in the series. Attendees were entertained by a “Voices [...]
HAKEN Bassist CONNER GREEN: “You Grow As Musicians As Time Goes On, And Naturally The Music Changes”
September 24, 2018 10:00 - 46 minutes - 107 MBWith the fifth Haken album, Vector, around the corner, appearing to the world on October 26, and the next Haken tour starting on October 30, Nick Andreas had the pleasure of having a chat with the band’s bassist Conner Green. The two naturally talked about Haken‘s evolving sound and what to expect from the forthcoming [...]
SPOCK’S BEARD / ENCHANT Singer TED LEONARD About His LEGACY MUSIC FOUNDATION: “We’re Not Trying to Churn Out the Next Yngwie Malmsteen. We Are Trying to Foster an Interest that Hopefully Becomes Therapy For Them”
September 22, 2018 19:46 - 39 minutes - 91.6 MBTed Leonard stands in front of his audience—and he’s nervous. These folks don’t know him. They’ve never heard of his bands, Enchant and Spock’s Beard. They’re expecting something great to happen, so the pressure is on. Ted takes his guitar and slowly picks out notes and chords—and the audience smiles in recognition. Lynyrd Skynyrd! The [...]
TALKING PERSPECTIVES: Episode No. 13 (Riverside / Internet Radio / Phideaux)
September 21, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 153 MBThis week on Talking Perspectives regulars Nick and Jordan were joined by Mark and Rayna Monforti, co-owners of the ProgRock.com internet radio station and show runners of Music in Widescreen, which has now aired over 750 episodes. Our middle segment focused on the topic of internet radio, their history in it, exploration of it, and how [...]
A DYING PLANET’s Guitarist Jasun Tipton: “As Much As I Loved ZERO HOUR, I Wasn’t Going to Continue Without My Brother Troy”
September 13, 2018 13:00 - 49 minutes - 114 MBDuring a career that’s spanned over two decades, Bay Area guitarist Jasun Tipton has gained notoriety for his frightening approach to shred and his minimalist approach to prog-rock songwriting. First gaining notice with Zero Hour in the late 1990s, Jasun soon began releasing solo albums as well starting and a number of side bands such [...]
OBSCURA’s Guitarist STEFFEN KUMMERER: “Our Way to Record Our Albums Is Very Nerdy and Technical, Somehow We Confine to Our Own Bubble”
September 12, 2018 13:00 - 35 minutes - 82 MBOne of the most exciting and technical bands in the death metal scene, Obscura has recently released their new album Diluvium. This marks the end of a four part story, which began on 2009’s Cosmogenesis, and deals with existential and philosophical themes, such as the origins of humanity, evolution and our ultimate demise. Musically, the [...]
THE ROAD TO PROGSTOCK 2018: Interview with TOM BRISLIN
September 12, 2018 12:00 - 49 minutes - 113 MBProgStock 2018 is coming! The sophomore edition of the three-day Progressive Rock music Festival will take place Oct 5-7, 2018 at the Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway, New Jersey, USA and tickets are already on sale at this location. ProgStock will be three days of fun, food, merriment, photos, recalling stories, hanging out with [...]