Dream Theater – James LaBrie Pro touring acts often have little say in where they play, the scheduling and make-up of their tours and so on, as this is mostly handled by managers, booking agents, promoters and...

Make Them Suffer – Sean Harmanis Almost a decade into their career, Perth extreme outfit Make them Suffer have produced their masterwork. Whilst their sound on their previous releases was extremely well developed and deeply compelling in...

Many bands are juxtaposing orchestral stylings with heaviness in this day-and-age, and virtually all of them do it extremely well. These Greek gods do it as well as anyone on the planet, however, and it’s in this...

The term ‘maturing’ gets bandied around a lot in musical circles. In the case of Perth’s Make them Suffer, it is absolutely appropriate. Approaching the decade mark in their career, and set to release their third long-player,...

These Perth lads slam out pissed-off, impactful groove-based thrash metal. Whilst purist thrash metal is kinda tired and passé these days, bands still farming this type of musical field must inject some progressiveness into their thrash to...

Starset – Dustin Bates American rock act Starset released one of 2017’s best albums earlier in the year, an epic cinematic rock experience called Vessels. However, they are more than ‘just’ a band. The career and the...

It’s nigh on impossible to fathom, but one of the most revered figures in progressive and rock music, former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, a man with an illustrious, virtually half-century long career behind him, has never plucked...

Sometimes you just have to persist. My first impressions of this album were that it was very good, excellent in fact, but possibly a little too much on the ‘accessible’ side of the tracks for my more...

Haken – Diego Tejeida Many bands have an ambition to make a living from pursuing their art, and this a good and worthy goal. It’s an extremely difficult place to get to in this era, an era...

Two of the bigger sub-genres within heavy music right now are melodic metalcore and the djent movement. Bands that combine the two are onto winners. Especially when a band does it as well as this Connecticut-based five...