Ulver is a Norwegian band that has gone through one of the most severe evolutions of any band in memory. Beginning as a black metal combo in the mid-90s, they’ve since eschewed that style in a shift towards a blend of programming, pop, and orchestrated progressive rock. Their explanation of the abandonment of black metal [...]
by TW on January 26, 2010
The Jupiter Society is a loose collective of musicians from Sweden led by keyboardist/composer Carl Westholm. Westhom’s direction brings a revolving cast of characters to interpret the concept behind 2009’s Terraform on ProgRock Records. While the record will be lumped into the same stylistic category as other prog-metal releases, Terraform heartily embraces music of other [...]
by TW on January 28, 2009
Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons, the musical genius duo behind the pop symphonic progressive Alan Parsons Project, once referred to the creative journey of producing an album as “not unlike throwing a lump of clay on a potter’s wheel and then shaping and reshaping the material in an infinite number of times until the potter [...]