Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-’60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with … Continued
After leaving Ceremonial Oath to form In Flames, founding member and guitarist Jesper Strömblad saw this … Continued
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After he left Metallica in 1983, guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine formed the thrash metal quartet Megadeth. Though … Continued
Black Sabbath has been so influential in the development of heavy metal rock music as to … Continued
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Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1969. The core line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, … Continued
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John Michael “Ozzy“ Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer-songwriter and occasional actor, whose career … Continued
AC/DC are an Australian hard rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. The band is … Continued
Savatage formed in Florida in 1978 as Avatar, led by brothers Jon (vocals) and Criss (guitar) Oliva. They changed … Continued
Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, … Continued
After recording two solo albums, former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale formed Whitesnake around 1977. In … Continued
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Commissioned as a soundtrack to the seldom-seen French hippie movie of the same name, More was a Pink Floyd album in its own right, reaching…
Atom Heart Mother, for all its glories, was an acquired taste, and Pink Floyd wisely decided to trim back its orchestral excesses for its…
Obscured by Clouds is the soundtrack to the Barbet Schroeder film La Vallée, and it plays that way. Of course, it’s possible to make the argument…
By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental…
Pink Floyd followed the commercial breakthrough of Dark Side of the Moon with Wish You Were Here, a loose concept album about and…
Appearing after the sprawling, unfocused double-album set Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother may boast more focus, even a concept, yet…
Of all of the classic-era Pink Floyd albums, Animals is the strangest and darkest, a record that’s hard to initially embrace yet winds up yielding as…
Roger Waters constructed The Wall, a narcissistic, double-album rock opera about an emotionally crippled rock star who spits on an audience…
For many years, this double LP/CD was one of the most popular albums in Pink Floyd’s pre-Dark Side of the Moon output, containing a live disc and a…
The Final Cut extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Waters’ pain when his father died in World War II. Waters spins…
The second post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd album is less forced and more of a group effort than A Momentary Lapse of Reason — keyboard player…
Pink Floyd claim they had no intention of recording another live album when they began the Division Bell tour, but performing The…
A Momentary Lapse of Reason is the thirteenth studio album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd. It was released in the UK…
In one respect, it’s hard to fault David Gilmour for retooling Pink Floyd as a neo-oldies act with Momentary Lapse of Reason, since Roger Waters…
The title of Pink Floyd’s debut album is taken from a chapter in Syd Barrett’s favorite children’s book, The Wind in the Willows, and the lyrical…
A transitional album on which the band moved from Syd Barrett’s relatively concise and vivid songs to spacy, ethereal material with lengthy…
In Flames’ most recent LPs, 2002′s Reroute to Remain and 2004′s Soundtrack to Your Escape, made them poster boys for the dreaded “evolve or…
Frantic metal band In Flames can deliver a good melody around the militaristic, precision drumming of Daniel Svensson and the occasionally guttural…
In Flames was certainly under the extreme-metal microscope upon the release of Soundtrack to Your Escape and its predecessor, Reroute to Remain. The band…
Subterranean is an MCD released by the Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames in 1995. This is the only release with vocalist…
Of the three albums that make up Gothenburg’s holy trinity, Dark Tranquillity’s The Gallery was the least immediate, with unorthodox song structures that took…
A master of progressive death metal or the “Gothenberg sound” practiced by many a Swedish band, In Flames delivers one of its best…
Like their countrymen Entombed, In Flames add the familiar influence (and sense of groove) of classic heavy metal to their extreme…
The production value on Clayman is instantly apparent; the album’s initial sounds jump right out and pull the listener in, conveying a power and…
