Artist to Artist, Confluence of music, freedom of expression“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” ― Kahlil Gibran Artist to Artist (A2A) is a quarterly musical event at Singapore meant … Continue reading Singapore Music Scene: A2A (Artist to Artist) Newsletter
Do you know Metallica feature in Guinness Book of world records as the only band ever to have played on all seven continents? In their 2013 whirlwind tour they performed concerts in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and … Continue reading Music Review: Brilliant ‘Confusion’ as Metallica create history with Hardwired… To Self Destruct
Progressive Rock king Steven Wilson’s much acclaimed Hand Cannot Erase album is inspired by a massively tragic incident of death, solitude and human ignorance. British young lady Joyce Carol Vincent’s was lying dead for more than two years, in her one … Continue reading Music Review: Steven Wilson’s ‘Happy returns’ with yet another haunting melody
My music listening is limited to rock, hard rock, progressive rock, nu metal (rap metal), heavy metal and few ‘new generation’ chart busters which my kids hum. My only other source of exposure to good music are couple of Facebook Groups, … Continue reading Album Review: The Pineapple Thief’s ‘Your Wilderness’ is album of year 2016
Thanks to Facebook groups – specifically this fledgling, but high quality, group called ‘Rock/Metal Appreciation Society’, I have been introduced to Gojira very recently. Again, specifically by this Australian gentleman named Colin Flaherty. That prompted me to listen to Gojira’s … Continue reading Music Review: Gojira’s ‘The shooting star’ video is fascinating visuals with matured metal
First the good news; Rage against the Machine are back. With Zack de la Rocha out solo, the rest of the band members – Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk – have formed a new group called ‘Prophets of Rage’. … Continue reading Music Review: Prophets of Rage is ‘Rage against the Machine’ back in USA election year
Vocalist, guitarist, musician, film director, producer, screen writer and actor (huff!) Rob Zombie has just released his latest video “The Hideous Exhibitions of a Dedicated Gore Whore” and his new horror on-demand movie 31. The song video is from his sixth … Continue reading Music Review: Rob Zombie’s latest ‘Gore Whore’ video is classic Rob and classic Zombie!
In short, Big Big Train’s latest release ‘Telling the bees’ is a progressive rock version of Phil Collins era. Vocalist David Longdon sounds a lot like the legendary Englishman singer, songwriter, actor and producer. The song has depth, pleasant lyrics, … Continue reading Music Review: Big Big Train ‘Telling the Bees’ is big big reminder of Phil Collins era
First things first, I couldn’t watch Slayer’s just released video beyond first couple of minutes. I removed display screen away from my eyes and only concentrated on the audio. Pride in Prejudice, from Slayer’s 2015 released album Repentless is good … Continue reading Music Review: Slayer’s Pride In Prejudice is good music with utterly repulsive gore video
Swedish progressive metal rockers Opeth have released their second official video ‘Will O The Wisp’ from their upcoming (30 Sep 2016 release date) album Sorceress. This is the band’s twelfth album and in my review of their first song, the … Continue reading Music Review: Opeth’s latest Will O the Wisp is great, promises a diverse Sorceress album
