Prog

Featured Streams 

Premiere: TORSO ‘A Crash Course In Terror’ – Debut Album Drops This Friday via APF Records

25th January 202325th January 2023 Lee Edwards APF Records, Heavy Rock, Metal, Prog, TORSO

When your current band calls it a day, what’s a man supposed to do? Gather your instruments of torture and

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Streams 

Video Premiere: Sergeant Thunderhoof ‘Absolute Blue’ – From ‘This Sceptred Veil’ That’s Out Now

1st December 20226th January 2023 Lee Edwards Heavy Rock, Pale Wizard Records, Prog, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Stoner

Back in June of this year Sergeant Thunderhoof released This Sceptred Veil, an album which well and truly put the

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Review: Elder ‘Innate Passage’

29th November 20223rd January 2023 Josh Schneider Armageddon Label, Elder, Heavy Rock, Prog, Stickman Records

There are A LOT of bands that I’m seriously excited for new releases. There are a few however that I

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A Album & EP Reviews 

Review: Anima Morte ‘Serpents In The Fields Of Sleep’

18th November 202226th December 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Anima Morte, Cadabra Records, Cinematic, Prog

This music reviewing gig is an easy lark right? A bit of background about the band, briefly talk through the

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Streams 

Premiere: Godzilla In The Kitchen ‘Exodus’ – Releases This Friday via Argonauta Records

26th October 20226th January 2023 Lee Edwards Argonauta Records, Godzilla In The Kitchen, Heavy Rock, Instrumental, Post-Rock, Prog

‘Is The Future Of Mankind Forced By The King Of Monsters Because Everything That Has Been Given Will Be Taken

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Review: Titan To Tachyons ‘Vonals’

9th October 20229th December 2022 Jamie Grimes Jazz, Metal, Prog, Titan To Tachyons, Tzadik Records

An intriguing ensemble helmed by the singular guitarist Sally Gates (formerly of space death mongers Orbweaver) and joined here on

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Streams 

Premiere: DEAD ‘Riding Shadows’ – Taken From New Album ‘The Laughing Shadow’

7th October 20229th December 2022 Lee Edwards DEAD, Doom, Forbidden Place Records, Noise-Rock, Prog, Wantage USA, WeEmptyRooms

DEAD, the Australian doom and noise-rockers, who we first covered on The Shaman back in 2013 with a review of

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Review: Caustic Casanova ‘Glass Enclosed Nerve Center’

5th October 20229th December 2022 Josh Schneider Alternative, Caustic Casanova, Magnetic Eye Records, Prog

I love when you randomly discover a band and it just clicks right away. Then you have to explore everything

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Review: Mythic Sunship ‘Light/Flux’

3rd October 20229th December 2022 Martin Williams Jazz, Mythic Sunship, Prog, Psych, Tee Pee Records

As if overstating the idea of striking while the iron’s hot, prolific, Danish, psychedelic, free-jazz-explorers Mythic Sunship return from a

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Review: Robot God ‘Worlds Collide’

20th September 20229th December 2022 El Jefe Kozmik ArtIfactz, Prog, Robot God, Space Rock

Australian psych, prog, and space rock trio Robot God’s resume reads like a who’s who of Aussie stoner and heavy

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Live Reviews 

Through The Lens: Crippled Black Phoenix / MØL / Impure Wilhelmina @ Rebellion, Manchester, 9th September 2022

16th September 20229th December 2022 Lee Edwards Black Metal, Crippled Black Phoenix, Impure Wilhelmina, MØL, Post-Metal, Prog, Rebellion, Through The Lens

I took a trip to the Rebellion venue in Manchester last Friday to photograph the triple header of prog overlords

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