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Ayreon Universe – Best of Ayreon Live to be released on CD/DVD/Blu-Ray
Ayreon Universe is the Best of Ayreon Live – A unique performance featuring 16 singers, 28 songs, 2+ hour performance, 9000+ fans and a special appearance by Arjen Lucassen. All of this captured by 30 cameras! It’s proof that you should never say ‘never’. After...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: Gerald Peter’s Project – Incremental Changes, Pt. 1
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. Vienna, Austria-based keyboardist, composer, producer, and technology...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: Möbius Strip’s – Self Titled Album
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. So this is definitely not an album for me, as its too jazzy for me. I can't...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: Echo Us – To Wake a Dream in Moving Water
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. Very nice mellow album. The perfect antidote after watching a really crazy...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: Existence’s – Origins
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. Origins is a double album from the band Existence. There are some really good...
KAYAK launch animated video for ‘La Peregrina’
Legendary Dutch progressive rock band KAYAK will release their seventeenth studio album entitled “Seventeen” next Friday on January 12th, 2018. Today they have launched an animated video for the track ‘La Peregrina’, the second single to be taken from the album, and...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: RTFact – Life is Good
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. Holy Gentle Giant. This album sure sounds like the a fore mentioned band...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: Novatia’s – Flow
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. So this album had my attention right away I thought it started out decent. But...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: From Grotto’s – Self Titled Album
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. So, I have to say I was struggling with this album at first but I thought it...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: Gaillion’s – Renewal and Release
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. So this is my first time listening to Gaillion a self described power trio,...
Mark’s Quick Review: Jon Durant’s – Is Parting
Solo guitar's Jon Durant sent us his album, Parting Is last month and we gave it a few spins. After checking it out I don't believe that I can recommend this album. I typically like polyphonic huge sounds and this is really just soundscapes and pleasant guitar sounds....
Mark’s Quick Review: Royal Architects’ – Et in Arcadia Ego
Royal Architects sent me a vinyl edition of their album to review. Which is a real attention getter I will say. Their debut album comes to us from Baltimore home of the often visited Orion Studios. This album is a great debut. Its a bit uneven in quality possibly, but...
Jethro Tull to release 50th Anniversary compilation
To celebrate their 50th anniversary, Jethro Tull will be releasing a new compilation, 50 for 50, with songs selected exclusively by Jethro Tull’s founder, singer and flautist, Ian Anderson. The three-disc set is loosely arranged in chronological order to capture the...
Sons of Apollo release spanish single version of “Alive/Tengo Vida”
Former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses), Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force), known collectively as Sons of Apollo...
Mark’s Quick Review: shob’s – Karma Obscur
France's Shob has released an album called Karma Obscur. This is a tough album for me to review in some respects. I find that albums featuring bass players are appreciated more by people that play the bass or any instrument rather than a simple consumer of music. This...
See “And the Druids Turned to Stone” from the upcoming Ayreon Universe live release
Prog visionary Arjen Lucassen’s massive ‘Ayreon Universe’ live DVD/blu-ray release, which documents his first-ever life shows, will be released this Friday, March 30th. In anticipation of the release, Arjen has just posted a final sneak peek from the performance,...