Tag Archives: Porcupine Tree

New & Noteworthy, April 28th, 2017: Keep Calm and Ayreon

Posted by on April 28, 2017

New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week is a big one, featuring new studio releases by Aryeon and All That Remains, live albums from Fates Warning and Between The Buried And Me, as well as a whole bunch […]

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New & Noteworthy, April 7th 2017

Posted by on April 7, 2017

New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week features new releases by Deep Purple, Falling in Reverse, and Royal Thunder, as well as a Krokus cover album, and a few vinyl reissues. If you would like to check out […]

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Spotify playlist: Invidia’s Matt Snell’s music to drive to

Posted by on February 27, 2017

Invidia is a new supergroup featuring current and former members of Five Finger Death Punch, In This Moment and Skinlab. Currently working on their debut album with Logan Mader. it will be released on SPV later this year. Bassist Matt Snell, who’s logged time in Five Finger Death Punch, gave us a playlist of stuff […]

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Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth to come out with solo album?

Posted by on June 11, 2015

[youtube]https://youtu.be/LuRO_ARLa_Y[/youtube] Opeth have slowed down a bit with their two most recent albums, taking the foot off the gas and getting a lot more melodic. While a lot of that has to do with singer Mikael Akerfeldt’s desire to sing more and growl less, he’s never put out a full-on solo album before. There have […]

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Metal Power Rankings: We caught the throne

Posted by on March 14, 2015

Welcome to Metal Power Rankings: Our weekly rankings take a number of factors into account: newsworthiness, record sales, internet buzz, word of mouth and overall importance in the genre. Ultimately, it’s subjective, but if a band generates enough buzz, they’ll wind up on the list. This week, Mastodon, buoyed by the surprise release of their […]

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Steven Wilson to possibly resume Porcupine Tree in 2016

Posted by on November 14, 2014

According to Portal Schizophrenia, Progressive Rock in Spanish, Steven Wilson of internationally acclaimed prog rock act Porcupine Tree intends on reforming the project sometime in the foreseeable future. Wilson is to spend the rest of 2014 finishing up recording his fourth studio album, which is due for release in February 2015, tour in support of […]

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Listen to a stunning new Opeth track, ‘Eternal Rains’

Posted by on August 1, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/p0B26wv22ao[/youtube] After a delay that bummed out many of its fans, Opeth will finally release Pale Communion. And while you’ve already gotten a chance to hear “Cusp of Eternity,” today, the band released “Eternal Rains,” another track from the album, which will be released on August 26th. Old-school Opeth fans that would like the death/black metal […]

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Metal Insider’s top 5: bands that got heavier as they went on

Posted by on May 12, 2014

Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. You know the deal: Band has whole career to write first album, band gets signed, band releases album, band has “Metallica moment” where they decide to become mass appeal, and the rest is history. There’s nothing wrong with […]

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New & Noteworthy, August 27th: Natural Born Killer

Posted by on August 27, 2013

To say that Avenged Sevenfold has blown up in popularity is a huge understatement. 2010’s Nightmare debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts, a phenomenal achievement for a band that was barely even recognized when they began in 1999. Now we can see if lightning will strike twice for the pride and joy of Huntington […]

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Roadrunner Records to release 30th anniversary box set

Posted by on August 15, 2013

Roadrunner is celebrating more than 30 years of music with the release of a box set, XXX: Three Decades of Roadrunner Records, hitting the market October 1. The set, to be released in America and abroad, is a pretty good summation of the label’s beginnings as an underground label, their rise to one of America’s premier […]

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