Review: Comets Ov Cupid - 'Seraphim' (released November 11, 2020)
Jason Kesselring returns with his Comets Ov Cupid project and this tasty little EP, released last year on the intriguing Civic Duty Records label. There are two tracks the 6-minute title track and the 9 1/2-minute Vampire's Castle. How to broadly describe this? Imagine your favourite heavy metal band as, well, metal. Now imagine that someone has melted that metal down into a gloppy, molten mess and you may get an idea. The music's not rhythmless, but the real focus here is on
Review: Steven Wilson - 'The Future Bites' (released January 29, 2021)
I know a lot of old fans of Steven Wilson, especially the ones who were with him back in the Porcupine Tree daze, after having listened to some of the pre-release tracks available for The Future Bites, are distressed at his seeming abandonment of progressive rock...and they're not wrong. Fortunately for me, my own musical tastes extend far out beyond progressive rock (and that’s not meant to be a diss to prog rock fans…you guys know what you love and you stick to it…nothing w
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