RELEASE YEAR: 2025BAND URL: https://tarjaturunen.com/circus-life/ The talented Tarja Turunen recently released this 18-track live offering via earMUSIC titled Circus Life in the shape of a great-looking 2CD/Blu Ray set, and this is a rather interesting symphonic metal release for a number of different reasons. Recorded in Bucharest just a couple of months shy of the Covid-19…
RELEASE YEAR: 2023 BAND URL: https://www.hexvessel.com/ Hexvessel is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating and musically adventurous entities that I have had the great pleasure of listening to since the debut offering entitled Dawnbringer from 2011. There is an enigmatic aura to every single output of theirs, and with the gifted Mathew “Kvohst” McNerney in charge…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022BAND URL: https://www.lacrimas.com/ “Recall the past when you were strong Those distant days it seems are now forever gone You’ll increase desire to wander and retire But you’ll know escape is to run” (Paradise Lost “Disappear”, from “One Second”¹⁹⁹⁷) Kurt Donald Cobain (Nirvana, 1994), Michael Kelland John Hutchence (INXS, 1997), Chester Charles Bennington…
