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A couple of years ago, this little art-y metal band from France called Hypno5e came along with an album entitled Des Deux L’une Est L’autr...

You can call it art rock or prog rock and it all means the same to me.  I’m sure there are those dear readers out there who would argue ...

I had a dream. Not quite what the good Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had in mind, I’m sure . . . but a dream nonetheless. This one, in particu...

“I’ll take Metal Bands for one thousand,”  The card slipped away and there it was, “Daily Double!”  Alex Trebek said, “You have $5,100,  Fra...

For some reason unknown to most of us, this is the kind of power/prog metal that causes European audiences to lose their minds, but most Ame...

Everyone keeps telling me, “Alex, listen to Tesseract , listen to TESSERACT !”  So I listened to their MySpace awhile back, and honestly it ...

Hi Doug, this is Francisco from This Is Rock Magazine Spain. First of all, I must congratulate you for Trails Out Of Gloom . Given that the...

You ever get  really  drunk and order a pizza? And even though you were so bloated you couldn't breath, let alone sleep, it was the grea...

Can you hear it?  The sounds of familiar 8-bit noises and metallic riffs ring through the air. “What is this sound.”, you ask yourself. This...

No matter how hard I try, how many fancy words I string together, to try and describe Opeth ’s In Live Concert at The Royal Albert Hall , I ...

WOW!! Every now and then you roll across a CD that just affects your soul in a way that is both disturbing and pleasing. You find yourself l...

In recent weeks, I’ve been holed up in the Ripple Offices concentrating on getting this label up, running, re-charged so that it could run s...

In the last days of 2009, we touched on a number of bands hailing from France that were doing some amazing stuff with sound. One of those ba...