Ethereal Metal

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There are certain voices in heavy music that become so closely connected to a band that separating the two almost feels impossible. For DragonForce, Marc Hudson has been that voice for the better part of fifteen years, helping define the band’s sound through…

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There’s a moment on Mass Hysteria when you realize PLUSH has entered a different room entirely. It isn’t subtle. It isn’t gradual. And for anyone who has followed the band’s evolution, it may even prompt the immediate reaction of, Wait… is this PLUSH?…

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Some musical partnerships make sense on paper. Others make sense the moment you hear them. Fallen Sanctuary belongs firmly in the second category. What began with an unlikely friendship between Serenity vocalist Georg Neuhauser and Temperance guitarist Marco Pastorino on a tour bus…

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Three voices. One stage. One very long-awaited moment. Evanescence, Poppy, and Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante finally brought the full force of “End Of You” to the stage together tonight at London’s The O2, marking the first time all three artists have performed the explosive…

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There are bands whose legacy lives comfortably in the past, preserved in the memories of the fans who were there the first time around. Then there are bands that manage to take everything that made them matter in the first place and drag…

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There was no warning. No lengthy rollout. Just “Mourning” — and wow, Spiritbox know how to make an entrance. Released just hours ago, Mourning is an emotionally explosive and hauntingly beautiful new chapter for one of modern metal’s fastest-rising forces. The track arrives…