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DragonForce folks, what can I say. It’s metal time. And there’s guitars, lot’s and lot’s and lot’s of guitars. I have been listening to “Through the Fire and Flames” and it is just fabulous.
DragonForce’s music is just full of yummy, fast (blindingly fast), twin-guitar harmonies, songs that leave you feeling pretty up (as opposed to […]

A friend I work with and I were discussing music ( big surprise there) and she commented about northern Europe’s taste in metal bands… she wasn’t a fan. I pointed out that the ones she was seeing on Eurovision were the “publicly acceptable” ones and that she really should check out some of the more […]

I first heard this band as the soundtrack to a video about a paper character and Escher like optical illusions by Eugen Erhan. The featured song is the most memorable part of the video - atmospheric, melodic and quite hypnotic and at the same time sharp and experimental.
The singer has a trace of an […]

Be warned - this is a screamo band and you won’t want to miss their overwhelming sound if you are into serious rock.
“Forgiven Rival” lack the hair but they have the moves, head banging and guitar slamming. They are a bunch of local lads from Melbourne. They’ve been playing together since late 2004 or early […]

Jools is currently hard at work on another project so I get to do today’s piece. And we are going to talk about guitars and a guitarist by the name of Rhys Chatham and the recently re-released “Guitar Trio“.
It comes in at around eight minutes long, and helped to establish Chatham’s manifesto of […]

Artist: Rodrigo y Gabriela
Website: http://www.myspace.com/rodrigoygabriela or www.rodgab.com/index.html
Track Name: Orion (or Tamacun or just about anything really)
Playback: flash
Download?: No

Sometimes it takes awhile but eventually the gods (and Google) smile on you. About 18 months back I heard an amazing guitar tune coming from the radio one morning and by the time I woke up enough to […]

Artist: Powers That Be
Website:www.powersthatbe.net/
Track Name: Storybook
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes

PTB are an indie band, three of the members are from the western suburbs of Melbourne, working their metal magic on the live music scene (such as it is) for over 10 years.
The lead vocalist Ivan Duzel is a talented bloke not content to merely prowl the […]