It’s been a while since the world at large has heard from A Life Once Lost. There was a time when the Philadelphia and South Jersey-based heavy metal collective made their living turning smiles into grimaces with face-contorting grooves, punishing riffs and flashing lights.

Fueled by their aspirations and driven…

As guitarist for one of the biggest hard rock bands of the 1990s, Mark Tremonti has been drinking freely from the fountain of success for over a decade. With Creed, he charted number one singles, multiple gold and platinum selling albums and reached heights of success that few of today’s…

From the shimmering first strains of Audio Insight’s debut EP, Dimensions, it’s clear that this is a promising band with a great future, and a pretty respectable present.

The prog-heads among us will love the two-part title track that first appears after the intro track and dramatically concludes as…

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Simply having a room big enough to play in is one of the first dreams any musician has, let alone a place to record a legitimate-sounding record. So when a couple of Morris County-based 23-year-olds open up their own state-of-the-art recording studio/130-capacity live venue/conservatory in the year…

Instrumentalism has long been a haven for progressive and experimental musics. By casting off the confines of vocally-driven styles, guitar virtuosos like Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson have long used the genre as a palette on which to test their physical limits, the constraints of their…

World-renown performer and innovative drum instructor Joe Nevolo has been at large in the New Jersey music scene for over three decades. Having played with luminaries like Bruce Kulick, Garry Tallent, Frank Marino, Pat Travers, Greg Howe and Richie Sambora, Nevolo has long been sought after for his brilliant technique…

BROOKLYN, NY—The last time I saw A Life Once Lost was a year and a half ago at Asbury Lanes. It was their last show in New Jersey before an extensive European tour, after which they had plans to record another album. After that show, guitarist Doug Sabolick assured me…

As mainman for progressive death metal architects Atheist, Kelly Shaefer is well aware of his place in the genre’s history. Now that technical playing is all the rage in metal bands from Russia to France to Kansas, whether they know it yet or not, the new crop of leaders of…

Paying tribute to heavy metal is not something many bands have attempted since the likes of AC/DC, Manowar and the immortal Ronnie James Dio were in their heyday. There’s no telling why that is, but if Howl’s debut record, Full Of Hell, is any indication, heavy metal is as important…

It’s been three years since Australia’s Karnivool released their debut album, Themata in the United States. After touring our great country several times over, the whispers about them have reached a deafening crescendo. It’s really not enough to say that Karnivool are good. They are the present and future of…